MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mikepurvis | 2025-08-15 19:11:50+00:00
I've found this is an interesting balance with Copilot specifically. Like, on the one hand I'm glad it aims for the bare minimum and doesn't try to refactor my whole codebase on every shot... at the same time, there's certain obvious things where I wish it was able to think a bit bigger picture, or even engage me interactively, like "hey, I can do a self-contained implementation here, but it's a bit gross; it looks like adding dependency X to the project keeps this a one liner— which way should it go?"
by scheintag | 2025-08-15 19:12:04+00:00
Didn't chatGPT come out around the time Oumuamua made its appearance? All the rendered images of Oumuamua make the asteroid appear like a GiantPetrifiedTurd, no doubt expelled by a GIANT ancient alien. This makes the acronym portion of AI technology become Chat Giant Petrified Turd, a perfect analogy for the bad odor attached to human conversing mouths. So common sense dictates that a good programming language name could be Fee-C.
by mindcrash | 2025-08-15 19:12:29+00:00
They should at least provide a meta tag or response header with noindex on those pages to prevent shit like this:

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...

If they didn't BB did create a privacy leak, because in that case all those pages could be potentially indexed by GoogleBot or anyone else, and you should create some more noise in their direction.
by ameliaquining | 2025-08-15 19:13:13+00:00
These sound to me like they are mostly problems with protocol maturity rather than with its fundamental design. If hypothetically the whole world decided to move to HTTP/2, there'd be bumps in the road, but eventually at steady state there'd be a number of battle-tested implementations available with the defect rates you'd expect of mature widely used open-source protocol implementations. And programming language standard libraries, etc., would include bindings to them.
by originalcopy | 2025-08-15 19:14:01+00:00
I'd like to see some examples of when it struggles to do summaries. There were no real examples in the text, besides one hypothetical which ChatGPT made up.

I think LLMs do great summaries. I am not able to come up with anything where I could criticize it and say "any human would come up with a better summary". Are my tasks not "truly novel"? Well, then I am not able, as a human, to come up with anything novel either.
by Macha | 2025-08-15 19:14:30+00:00
It will take a lot of time for your Japanese language skills to get up to par with robot translation, that is true. It was also arguably true with google translate many years ago too.

But isn't this true for most things? It will take a complete beginner years to draw as technically proficiently as an image generation model, or to code as well as Claude. Even before AI, most Japanese media has been available in English translations for years now, and there aren't that many other interests where you could find Japanese speaking peers but not English speaking ones.

If your goal in life is to generate the most economic value per unit of time input, maybe then learning to draw, code, or speak Japanese no longer makes sense. And if that's your priority, you won't choose to do these things. But that's not why people take up these pursuits. So I don't think AI will have a huge impact on how many people start them.
by adidoit | 2025-08-15 19:14:46+00:00
Contrary to popular belief, you won’t need a machine learning degree or other highly technical skills to succeed in the near future, according to Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman.

As more artificial intelligence-powered tools get integrated into the workplace, employers will prioritize hiring workers with “soft skills” like creativity and adaptability, Garman told CNBC’s “Closing Bell Overtime” on Friday. His advice to his own child, a rising high school senior, he said: Develop your critical thinking skills in college, no matter what subject you study.

“I think part of going to college is building [your] critical thinking,” Garman said. “It’s less about the development of skills and it really is [about] how do you become a critical thinker? In some ways, I think that’s actually going to be the most important skill going forward.”

Critical thinking skills will be most people’s No. 1 biggest key to success in the age of AI, he added.

“You’re going to want to be creative. You’re going to want to be [good at] critical thinking. And you’re going to want to be flexible,” said Garman. “I think the ability to learn new things and adapt is going to be just as important as any particular skill that you learn.”
by zoogeny | 2025-08-15 19:15:39+00:00
I was considering your explicit "material -> conscious -> ideas -> material" description. It feels more correct when you say he considers a range of possibilities that connect these, not explicit causality.

My take away was that he sees a mystery in the connections between these things (physical world, consciousness, ideas) that hints at some missing ideas in our conceptions of these things. But he clearly wants to avoid that mystery allowing what he calls out as "vague" answers to the question (mostly religious dogmatic certainties).
by lazide | 2025-08-15 19:15:52+00:00
Have you seen this? [https://x.com/sigsauerinc/status/1898099442172989921?lang=en] or this? [https://www.instagram.com/p/DG6RkWCpkdw/?img_index=1]

That was less than a year ago, and well after these issues have been escalating for years.

The co-ordinated gaslighting, projection, denial, etc. are also a clear pattern going back years as well.

The employees clearly being aware there are issues and being afraid to speak up due to internal retaliation, the lawsuits against entities merely trying to protect themselves from preventing people from carrying P320’s into their facilities until this gets figured out, etc. as well.

No one goes to this amount of effort to deny they have a problem (and control others to prevent them from acknowledging there is a problem) without an impetus like that.

I’m not saying the underlying engineering problem is a result of a mental health problem with someone in leadership. Though it likely doesn’t help!

I’m saying the market problem SIG is having (and the serious consequences of it) are due to the mishandled response to a real issue in engineering/manufacturing in a way which stinks clearly to me of NPD.

It’s the doubling down, attacking anyone who notices a real issue, gaslighting everyone, etc.

Hell, when even Brandon Herrera is telling them to fuck off due to the gaslighting?

It’s epic in this case. And NPD folks have a nasty habit of ‘taking down the ship’ as they escalate. It’s damn near the defining consequence that makes it a personality disorder.

Which SIG is definitely heading in that direction.

But hey, it looks like Gun Jesus has an opinion on it too [https://youtu.be/rjEhgXAALL8].
by simoncion | 2025-08-15 19:16:55+00:00
Are you also in favor of prohibiting most booksellers from selling books which either contain scenes of or are exclusively about rape and/or incest? If not, why not?

In addition:

> (and that should've not been on Steam to begin with)

Where do you believe that they should have been sold? Are you proposing a separate "Steam: After Dark" store that only adult humans are permitted to browse and purchase from?
by yesfitz | 2025-08-15 19:17:00+00:00
You have to get to the 6th paragraph from the bottom before the real conflict is revealed.

"[the homeowners] do fault their real-estate agent and [the seller], who signed a purchase-and-sale agreement, a copy of which was viewed by The Wall Street Journal, stating that [the seller] did not know of any future public use of the land."

Should be pretty cut-and-dry, especially given the seller's statements earlier in the article.

"Louis Gallo, who sold the Hendels the vacant, 0.64-acre parcel of land for $165,000 in December 2023, said there is no way the couple didn’t know the bridge relocation was a possibility. 'They’ve been talking about this bridge for 40 years, at least,' said Louis, who lives across the street in a house that will also be taken by eminent domain."

So, Gallo's claiming everyone knew the bridge was coming. The buyers have a signed document stating that Gallo didn't know that. Gallo's claiming he never signed such a document.

They'll get something from the state for the house, and probably either a settlement or damages from Gallo, assuming the document isn't an elaborate hoax.
by dkarl | 2025-08-15 19:17:39+00:00
Someone graduating with a BFA intending to teach art or music at the K-12 level might be very satisfied with their job prospects and the life it leads to. There are at the very least tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of art and music teachers in the United States.

A bachelor's degree is required to be a K-12 teacher, so if it's impossible for teachers to pay undergraduate student loans, the problem is not with the teacher or the degree they chose to get.
by teamonkey | 2025-08-15 19:17:44+00:00
Honestly I find “they give away free games so I won’t use them” to be a weird take.

In any case, often with these free deals the developer is compensated according to how many installs the game gets. Number of installs during sales is also a metric that helps gain funding for future titles.

So if Epic/GOG give away a game you already have and like, taking the time to add it to your collection, installing and running it briefly may help the developer out.
by camil | 2025-08-15 19:17:58+00:00
Thanks for your questions! 1) The platform provides a control plane to help you deploy the cluster on your own Hetzner account, so you are in control of resources and pay direct usage costs to Hetzner. 2) Because you have full access to kubernetes cluster and it runs on your own Hetzner account, the security of the cluster is a shared responsibility and you can fine tune the configuration according to your requirements. The platform security is totally our responsibility. We try to follow best practices and internal penetration tests were conducted, but we're still in beta and try to see if there's interest for such product before launching the stable version.
by yogorenapan | 2025-08-15 19:18:02+00:00
I've seen a lot of traffic from Huawei bypassing Anubis on some of the things I host as well. The funny thing is, I work for Huawei... Asking around, it seems most of it is coming from Huawei Cloud (like AWS) but their artifactory cache also shows a few other captcha bypassing libraries for Arkose/funcaptcha so they're definitely doing it themselves too.

Anonymous account for obvious reasons.
by NoImmatureAdHom | 2025-08-15 19:18:10+00:00
Thanks for the info. I was imagining the whole world. I look a little above, and maybe it's Washington State really?

In any event:

1) Guns don't kill people. They don't even make the people-killing appreciably more likely.

2) Washington has about 1,000 gun murders per year

3) About 2/3 of U.S. gun deaths are suicides, so we might expect about 333 gun murders in WA in a year.

I'm really glad U.S. HIV deaths have fallen off a cliff!
by adangert | 2025-08-15 19:19:29+00:00
Throwing my two cents in, the problem with all of this, is that we're dealing with artificially created scarcity, for content that can be easily duplicated. Artificial scarcity is a terrible thing to exist, and if got rid of it as a whole in society, we might end up with less high production content, but at least we would own all digital content that would be created. Services where consumers are paying for or perhaps even have sway over the creation of content, not the distribution, i.e. like patreon, are much more in line with nature of digital things.
by kleiba | 2025-08-15 19:19:52+00:00
Make no mistake, just because I like to put in my 2cts, whether someone asks about it or not, does not mean that I cannot live without the internet. If yc had to close shop tomorrow, I'd survive. I also enjoy watching stuff on youtube, but if that was to go away, don't worry, I'd be fine. I'm not addicted, and already had a life before the web came along, so I'm sure I'd have one if it were to go away.
by Macha | 2025-08-15 19:20:35+00:00
I learned how to write cursively in school, but as soon as it was no longer mandatory I switched back to print capital letters and some years later to print letters entirely, as it was just much easier for me to make legible.

At this point, it's fair to say I _have_ forgotten how to properly write cursive capitals, if I tried I'd just end up with print capitals with random tails for most of them.
by comprev | 2025-08-15 19:21:08+00:00
My father once lent someone money in good faith towards education, who then later informed him they had no intention to repay. We're talking £8,000 here.

It took 4 years of legal process before he saw a penny as the other party tried to wriggle out of everything... even so far as fake lawyers and wrongly claiming to have moved out (which the judge did not look to kindly upon).

Recently he received a cheque for the remaining balance - 8yrs after he sent his first letter by registered post which is the first step in a small claims court.
by cess11 | 2025-08-15 19:21:24+00:00
There's a fair bit of defecation in the Bible. Saul shitting in a cave, I forgot where, or Paul calling all material things 'skubala', i.e. waste, as in junk, poop, refuse, basically what we'd call shit today:

https://www.greekbible.com/philippians/3/8

Edit: This also seems like a decent opportunity to bring up the scatological Luther.

https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/summer-2012-americ...
by bruckie | 2025-08-15 19:21:27+00:00
You could get that for $75 to $150 (depending on lead time and whether you want 5052 or 6061) from SendCutSend or OshCut (both US-based), as long as you're willing to use 3/16 inch (4.7 mm) plate instead of 5 mm. They'll also bend it for you if you want.

But at a higher level you're right: availability of fabrication services in the U.S. is pretty poor, and most shops are optimized for a few larger orders, not small mix orders like yours.
by ben_w | 2025-08-15 19:22:02+00:00
Be more impressed if you said you were a civil engineer. Living in a house didn't tell me what makes them expensive.

So, Zürich: you remember the tunnel that comes out half way to Adliswil, under Uetliberg?

What did it cost as a tunnel, what would that have cost as a surface road in reality, and what would it have cost as a surface road if the area had been flat? *That* is why you're being called out by loads of people for "a smaller geographic footprint".

Tunnels are expensive: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220621-what-if-roads-we...
by Bender | 2025-08-15 19:22:25+00:00
But in the real world corporations don't have skilled infosec/cyber people and they wouldn't even know how to find them

That was not my experience at the last employer. We had some incredibly talented security architects, engineers and developers. The issue we ran into was that some of the early hires were a bit over-zealous and created a layer of fear in management that the security teams would induce too much friction, some that was indeed needed. The result was the head of software development put a development manager in charge of the entire security org. Their standing order was to never say "no" and never get in the way. It's still a more secure company than most but it's a constant battle with management and leads to burnout and that is one of the many reasons myself and many others retired early. Most other reasons for me were unrelated to the company.
by DonHopkins | 2025-08-15 19:22:31+00:00
I got a used 1950's era Erector Set from a garage sale as a kid, which had diabolical plans for building the "ERECTOR ELECTRIC THRILLER", that used the un-plugged-in AC electric motor's coil with flashlight batteries and a crank that turned a gear to break the contact and zap pulses of electricity to the handles.

Of course I built it and attached the handle to the inside door knob of my room, then tricked my brother into holding one handle then grabbing the outside doorknob, then I turned the crank, to condition him to stay out of my room!

I found the instructions on page 51 here:

https://www.constructiontoys.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/E...

INSTRUCTIONS FOR BUILDING THE ERECTOR ELECTRIC THRILLER

This amazing little device will provide lots of fun for yourself and many thrills for your friends. This thriiler is actually a device for giving your friends a slight shock. It is absolutely harmless in every respect.

OPERATION OF MODEL

If someone holds the handles, one in each hand, and you crank, they will get a thrilling shock. This happens because the three-volt circuit from the flashlight cells passes through the motor coils to magnetize the iron in the motor. As the crank is turned, the gear leaves the contact spring, the current flow through the coils is stopped, and the magnetism in the iron suddenly breaks down, generating a high voltage in the opposite direction to that of the battery. As the battery circuit is momentarily broken, this current cannot flow through the batteries, so it flows through the handles and then through the person holding the handles. The intensity of the shock may be changed by turning the crank fast or slow.

Here are two suggestions for having fun with your Erector Electric Thriller. Have a group of boys and girls form a circle, holding hands. Each person at the end of the circle should hold one handle of the Thriller. When the crank is turned, the current will pass through everyone, but with a lower intensity. Another trick you can have a lot of fun with is to place a tin pan of water on one of the handles or connect it to one of the handles and place a coin in this tin pan of water. Have a person hold one handle and, with the other hand, try to pick the coin out of the water while you turn the crank.

Edit: OMFG I found the plans for my very first robot on page 89, "The Mysterious Walking Robot Model", with tank tread feet, motorized walk, and glowing lightbulb eyes!

https://www.constructiontoys.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/E...
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-08-15 19:23:00+00:00
> There is no such thing as trade imbalance

Well, hope i can educate you with some marx here ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unequal_exchange

Marx theory of equivalence of exchange is the foundation with which he defines exploitation. With a universal comparison unit (value of labor), you can define unbalanced trades.

Dont ask me though, how a balanced trade would look like. Maybe we can only approximate it via outcome.
by camil | 2025-08-15 19:24:58+00:00
Hello there! Fair enough. As I mentioned in the original post, I built this as a side project, by myself, and I run it as a freelancer registered in Spain. It is not hard to find my public profile. You can check my Spanish VAT number, ESY1848661G. This is still in beta and currently looking to collect feedback and see if there is any interest in the market, before scaling it to a company. Thank you!
by fragmede | 2025-08-15 19:25:02+00:00
Coming up with a list of things to buy isn't an interesting use of the money. Starting companies, using that money to pay people to do things, for, say, 10 years, for all industries you want to get involved in. A billion dollars, over ten years, for 1,000 people, is 100k. Which is fairly decent salary.

Make it 500 people and give them housing.

What to use those people for is left as an exercise for the reader.
by codethief | 2025-08-15 19:25:07+00:00
> The GNOME devs seem to think that GNOME should only behave how they want.

For many years I followed this whole outrage but wasn't really sure whom to believe because I didn't have any stakes in the matter. Then the GNOME/GTK devs removed support for key themes[0,1] and I still have no idea why. The arguments they brought forward make absolutely no sense to me.

Now I get where people were coming from.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/c22ff1/gtk_4_support...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35702303
by cloverich | 2025-08-15 19:25:58+00:00
Its also how wealth is transferred up. Because the investor pays gains rates, can do like for like transactions, etc, and effectively grows their wealth faster than the non investor. This means non investors need to continuously compete with investors but where investors are capturing an ever larger share of the wealth.

Eventually if supply keeps up that will change, and longer still the wealth may trickle back down. But imho it would be faster to focus on avoiding the concentration in the first place through SFH as investments, via simple tax policy that discourages mom and pop investors from purchasing extra homes.
by CafeRacer | 2025-08-15 19:26:39+00:00
Its like if I want to watch Alien, all four of those older movies they want me to have two subscriptions?

And then most of streaming services actually stream stuff, so if my internet is bad im gonna sit there annoyed. I have a small samsung projector and its literally freezing all the time (something to do with wifi and qos, i have other things in my life more interesting that sysadmining a router).

Then up until last year, i could not even watch Dr. House legally.

And then the content changes over time. I remember seeing a scene, that i no longer see. Like wtf?

Its 98% (made up number) that its the service fault.
by lupusreal | 2025-08-15 19:27:07+00:00
> circumvents the law/courts

That phrasing makes it sound somehow illegal, but all the activists did was exercise their right to engage in political speech. I don't particularly agree with their cause, but there's nothing untoward about their methods.

The real problem for society isn't the fact that political groups can raise a ruckus about things we personally don't agree with, but rather the fact that payment processors are such a narrow choke point, ideal for putting up gates and thereby giving a small group of people way too much control. The solution is to address the choke point, not to play wack-a-mole trying to slap down activist groups whenever they vie for control of the choke point (which will inevitably continue to happen as long as the choke point exists.)
by kolme | 2025-08-15 19:27:10+00:00
> I’d say it’s more spreading knowledge around

How is it spreading knowledge around? A lot of times it gives half backed answers and a lot of beginners are using it while learning. That's not a good mix in my opinion.

I've been helping someone who's learning programming and I've had a look at their code. All of it is vibe coded. And the vibes are nightmarish, I don't think the AI is helping at all.

The only thing it's useful for is sparing expert programmers some tedious work, that's my perception as a programmer.
by thayne | 2025-08-15 19:27:19+00:00
> You can't put a NDA on a Patent.

On the patent itself, no. But on design docs, CAD files, source code, circuit diagrams, etc. you can, and it is common practice to require NDAs for anyone who has access to them. And in some cases copyright law is also used to protect them.

> Imagine a world where absolutely everything about your job is kept under a strict NDA. This is true of startups, but it doesn't scale, especially once you start actually selling product and need to make customers happy to get the sale.

This is already a reality at many companies, including large ones.