MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-16 07:50:04+00:00
> So when someone takes something of value

> it is essentially taking something of value

Intellectual property is not "taken". It is not a tangible good that can change hands. Copies are made instead.

Copyright refers to the right to make copies.

Having a copyright means having the right to make copies.

To infringe someone's copyright is to make copies despite the right to make copies belonging to someone else.

The words are self-explanatory.

Real property logic and words do not apply to intellectual property. Insisting on their use is bad faith argumentation. It is an attempt to convince others by shock and manipulation. Virtually nobody is moved by such a nebulous crime as copyright infringement, so the words theft and piracy are substituted in its place for greater impact.
by Llamamoe | 2025-08-16 07:50:37+00:00
> and ADHD is kind of a weakly differentiated diagnosis that could apply to most people.

It's not, the problem is that it sounds like it because ~everyone faces some (way) lesser version of the struggles ADHD people face literally every day, many of whom probably do have some subclinical degree of executive dysfunction.

My personal thumb rule is that somebody is capable of finishing school, autonomously managing their living conditions, finding and keeping a job, and having at least a modicum of social life at the same time, they're high-functioning enough that they almost definitely don't have ADHD, or only some ultra-light version of it.
by agent327 | 2025-08-16 07:50:49+00:00
If you'll inspect the names of the posters, you will quickly realize that it was not _my_ claim. I'm also not quite certain how a list of centuries-old atrocities serves as an 'evidence-based counter' to the claim that illegal immigrants in modern America have a high crime rate. If that was indeed fabricated, it could be trivially disproved by posting a link to a current-day statistical database.

Instead he tried his best to make this about race. At best that is whataboutism, and at worst he's just a racist f*ck.
by numpad0 | 2025-08-16 07:51:05+00:00
I mean, even according to ChatGPT[1]...

"This comment is well-meaning, but it is both naive and technically flawed in several key ways. Let’s unpack why it's wrong and even counterproductive, especially when it comes to topics like science and mathematics." ...snip snip... "TL;DR: The comment is naive because it overestimates the capabilities of machine translation for precise scientific knowledge, underestimates cultural context in science/math, and proposes a solution that would undermine Wikipedia’s decentralized, community-driven model. It wrongly frames linguistic diversity as a weakness instead of a strength."

1: https://gist.github.com/numpad0/2fcf3e61d57f07d8e3a65743a43b...
by flask_manager | 2025-08-16 07:52:19+00:00
Here's the thing, I tend to believe that sufficiently intelligent and original people will always have something to offer others; its irrelevant if you imagine the others as the current consumer public, our corporate overlords, or the ai owners of the future.

There may be people who have nothing to offer others, once technology advances, but I dont think that anyone in current top % role would find themselves there.
by labcomputer | 2025-08-16 07:52:19+00:00
There was never any vetting process for airline lounges. You pay your $500/year and visit any time you have a flight. That's how it has always been. Sometimes you got a membership discount for having one of the higher status tiers.

Elites stopped using public airport terminals on 9/11, and just fly private now. You'll find them in the FBO on the other side of the field.

The crowds filling up the lounges today are people with $500/year credit cards that grant lounge entry and one free checked bag. It just turns out there are way more people who will apply for a $500/year credit card than a $500/year club membership.
by motorest | 2025-08-16 07:52:46+00:00
> I think your assumption is probably a little backwards. It will be a senior SDE clearing the slate I think.

I don't think you understood the point I made.

My point was not about Jr vs Sr, let alone how a Jr is somehow more capable than a Sr.

My point was that these productivity gains aren't a factor of experience of seniority, but they do devalue the importance of seniority to perform specific tasks. Just crack open a LLM, feed in a few prompts, and done. Hell, junior developers no longer need to reach out to seniors to as questions about any topic. Think about that for a second.
by sawyna | 2025-08-16 07:53:31+00:00
Unpopular opinion: Let us say AI achieves general intelligence levels. We tend to think of current economy, jobs, research as a closed system, but indeed it is a very open system.

Humans want to go to space, start living on other planets, travel beyond solar system, figure out how to live longer and so on. The list is endless. Without AI, these things would take a very long time. I believe AI will accelerate all these things.

Humans are always ambitious. That ambition will push us to use AI more than it's capabilities. The AI will get better at these new things and the cycle repeats. There's so much humans know and so much more that we don't know.

I'm less worried about general intelligence. Rather in more worried about how humans are going to govern themselves. That's going to decide whether we will do great things or end humanity. Over the last 100 years, we start thinking more about "how" to do something rather than the "why". Because "how" is becoming more and more easier. Today it's much more easier and tomorrow even more. So nobody's got the time to ask "why" we are doing something, just "how" to do something. With AI I can do more. That means everyone can do more. That means governments can do so much more. Large scale things in a short period. If those things are wrong or have irreversible consequences, we are screwed.
by afiori | 2025-08-16 07:54:56+00:00
My understanding is that git diff algorithms require a file to be segmentable (eg text files are split line-wise) and there is no general segmentation strategy for binary blobs.

But a good segmentation is only good for better compression and nicer diff, git could do byte wise diffs with no issues, so I wonder why doesn't git use customizable segmentation strategies where it calls external tools based on file type (eg a rust thingy for rust file etc, or a PNG thingy for PNG files).

At worst the tool would return either a single segment for the entire file or the byte wise split which would work anyway
by huimang | 2025-08-16 07:56:38+00:00
These supposed "productivity gains" are only touted by the ones selling the product, i.e. the ones who stand to benefit from adoption. There is no standard way to measure productivity since it's subjective. It's far more likely that companies will use whatever scapegoat they can to fire people with as little blowback as possible, especially as the other commenter noted, people were getting hired like crazy.

Each one of the roles you listed above is only passable with AI at a superficial glance. For example, anyone who actually reads literature other than self-help and pop culture books from airport kiosks knows that AI is terrible at longer prose. The output is inconsistent because current AI does not understand context, at all. And this is not getting into the service costs, the environmental costs, and the outright intellectual theft in order to make things like illustrations even passable.
by motorest | 2025-08-16 07:56:41+00:00
> Have you ever stopped to consider why class mobility is much much less common in Europe than in the USA?

Which class mobility is this that you speak of? The one that forces the average US citizens to be a paycheck away from homelessness? Or is it the one where you are a medical emergency away from filing bankruptcy?

Have you stopped to wonder how some European countries report higher median household incomes than the US?

But by any means continue to believe your average US citizen is a temporarily embarrassed billionaire, just waiting for the right opportunity to benefit from your social mobility.

In the meantime, also keep in mind that mobility also reflects how easy it is to move down a few pegs. Let that sink in.
by Llamamoe | 2025-08-16 07:56:53+00:00
> is a red flag when some patients will ask specifically for Adderall, as the potential for misuse is much higher. And for him, it was a last resort.

This is so stupid. It's so much better of a medication, the potential for addiction and abuse at therapeutic doses is minimal to none, and yet healthcare systems around the globe are continuing to avoid prescribing it. Ugh.
by xg15 | 2025-08-16 07:57:20+00:00
> People should use the VCS that's appropriate for their project rather than insist on git everywhere.

Disagree. I really like the "de-facto standard" that git has become for open source. It means if I want to understand some new project's source code, there is one less hassle for me to deal with: I don't need to learn any new concepts just to access the source code and all the tooling is already right there.

The situation we have with package managers, dependency managers and package managers for package managers is worse enough. I really don't want a world in which every language or every project also comes with its own version control system and remote repo infrastructure.
by kyboren | 2025-08-16 07:57:41+00:00
I guess your position is "Better dead than red (white and blue)".

If you really believe Americans are Nazis coming for Canada, you presumably believe the US has the capability and will to force that choice upon you. If so, posting on a US forum about how you'd resist US forces to the bitter end seems like a poor choice. Unfortunately, being dead makes it difficult to defend your values. Peter Thiel says hi.

I understand that jimmies have been thoroughly rustled and that Canadians are frightened. But this "elbows up" false bravado is a bit ridiculous. The US isn't going to invade Canada--and if they did, Canada has no real capacity to resist.
by jonathanlydall | 2025-08-16 07:58:05+00:00
If you’re making local commits (or local branch, or local merge, etc), you’re leveraging the distributed nature of Git. With SVN all these actions required being done on the server. This meant if you were offline and were thinking of making a risky change you might want to back out of, there was no way on SVN to make an offline commit which you could revert to if you wanted.

Of course if you’re working with others you will want a central Git server you all synchronize local changes with. GitHub is just one of many server options.
by vkou | 2025-08-16 07:59:14+00:00
Look, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Kaczynski didn't invent any of these ideas, or even develop them, instead of citing him, why not cite... Literally any other person with them whose mind wasn't blown out by LSD and a desire to commit random political murder.

You're doing your point a disservice by bringing in all of that baggage.
by mjg59 | 2025-08-16 07:59:15+00:00
"Ask a VP.NET server for the fingerprint it reports" is a little bit simplistic. The process for actually doing this involves you handing the server a random number, and it sending you back a signed statement including both the fingerprint and the random number you gave it. This prevents it simply reporting a fixed fingerprint statement every time someone asks. The second aspect of this is that the key used to sign the statement has a certificate chain that ties back to Intel, and which can be proven to be associated with an SGX enclave. Assuming you trust Intel, the only way for something to use this key to sign such a statement is for it to be a true representation of what that CPU is running inside SGX at the time.
by cubefox | 2025-08-16 07:59:29+00:00
I tested it with generating a man holding a Penrose triangle made of wood. While gpt-image-1 succeeded, nano-banana failed. The aesthetics of nano-banana did look much better though. I would guess that it is a diffusion model, based on the fact that it adds irrelevant but pretty background details, which gpt-image-1 tends to avoid.
by tmtvl | 2025-08-16 08:00:04+00:00
For future reference, on HN you can format code snippets by indenting it (that is, to say, indenting every line) by two spaces:

# 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
by pxska | 2025-08-16 08:00:07+00:00
I'm about 4 years into my career (mostly self-taught and learned-on-the-job), and I actually found Eskil's talk inspiring. The part that hit me hardest (in the good sense) was "don’t implement good-enough APIs."

As someone still figuring out my footing, I often feel pretty torn: should I train myself to always push for the cleanest (or near-perfect) design I can manage (as books like "The Pragmatic Programmer" and talks like this suggest), or is that just setting myself up for frustration in industry where pragmatism and deadlines usually win?

What worries me is exactly what some people here are saying – that "temporary" APIs usually last forever. I’ve already seen that on my team. So part of me wants to internalize Eskil's idealism early, even if it means clashing with more pragmatic coworkers.

For those of you with decades of experience: if you were mentoring someone at my stage, would you tell them to lean toward ideals (aiming high, then compromising when needed), or to embrace trade-offs and "good enough" thinking from the start?
by dkersten | 2025-08-16 08:00:17+00:00
Here is how GPT self-described LLM reasoning when I asked about it:

- LLMs don’t “reason” in the symbolic, step‑by‑step sense that humans or logic engines do. They don’t manipulate abstract symbols with guaranteed consistency. - What they do have is a statistical prior over reasoning traces: they’ve seen millions of examples of humans doing step‑by‑step reasoning (math proofs, code walkthroughs, planning text, etc.). - So when you ask them to “think step by step,” they’re not deriving logic — they’re imitating the distribution of reasoning traces they’ve seen. This means: - They can often simulate reasoning well enough to be useful. - But they’re not guaranteed to be correct or consistent.

That at least sounds consistent with what I’ve been trying to say and what I’ve observed.
by willguest | 2025-08-16 08:00:37+00:00
I so wish this were true, but unfortunately economics has a catch-all called "externalities" for anything that doesn't fit neatly into its implicit assessments of what value is. Pollution is tricky, so we push it outside the boundaries of value-estimation, along with any social nuance that we deem unquantifiable, and carry on as is everything is understood.
by sunshine-o | 2025-08-16 08:02:39+00:00
My guess is as older generations die out and their children (traumatized by 2008) inherit their money, we are gonna see the most incredible migration away from the financial institutions we know.

It has already started. I am sure most gen Z who inherited something from their grand parents who passed away in the last 5 years, invested some in crypto (after putting a roof over their head hopefully). It is visceral for that generation, for better or worst they do not understand or trust our current financial system.

So now it is just a race between the boomers dying out and the collapse.
by dkersten | 2025-08-16 08:03:04+00:00
Yes. However people are unwilling to take this approach unless things get really really bad. Even then, the powerful tend to have such strong control that people are afraid to act out of fear of reprisal.

We’ve also been gaslit into believing that it’s not a good approach, that peaceful protests are more civilised (even though they rarely cause anything meaningful to actually change).
by nneonneo | 2025-08-16 08:04:05+00:00
Yep! It’s very easy: rent any cloud server, stick a WireGuard/OpenVPN/ShadowSocks container on it, download the config, and you’re done. Since you’re not interested in compute, you can probably use the tiniest cloud server available to save costs.

I pay approximately 50¢/month for such a setup, and you can probably do it for free forever if you decide to be slightly abusive about it. However, be aware that you don’t really gain any real privacy since you’re effectively just changing your IP address; a real VPN provides privacy by mixing your traffic with that of a bunch of other clients.

Some services will also block cloud ranges to prevent e.g. geoblock evasion, although you’ll see a lot less blocking compared to a real VPN service or Tor.
by dbdblldwn | 2025-08-16 08:04:07+00:00
Just want to point out that any abstract intrinsic value about the economy like GDP is a socialized illusion

Reduce costs by eliminating fiat ledgers that only have value if we believe and realize the real economy is physical statistics and ship resources where the people demand

But of course that simple solution violates the embedded training of Americans. So it's a non-starter and we'll continue to desperately seek some useless reformation of an antiquated social system.
by xg15 | 2025-08-16 08:05:03+00:00
> Binary files can't be meaningfully merged.

I think we really need more development of format-specific diff and merge tools. A lot of binary formats could absolutely be diffed or merged, but you'd need algorithms and maybe UIs specific to that format - there is no "generic" algorithm like for text-based files. (And even there, generic line-wise diffing if often more "good enough" than really good)

I think it would be awesome if we could get "diff/merge servers" analogous to the "language servers" for IDEs some day.
by motorest | 2025-08-16 08:05:31+00:00
> You're missing the point, language can be tricky. Technically, the state confiscating wealth derived from your labor through taxes is a form of robbery and slavery.

You're letting your irrational biases show.

To start off, social security contributions are not a tax.

But putting that detail aside, do you believe that paying a private health insurance also represents slavery and robbery? Are you a slave to a private pension fund?

Are you one of those guys who believes unions exploit workers whereas corporations are just innocent bystanders that have a neutral or even positive impact on workers lives and well being?
by Digit-Al | 2025-08-16 08:06:28+00:00
What you're link refers to seems to be a different way to get to the feed that has been around for ages. The feed I described has been around for over a year (I can't remember when I first found out about it, but it was a long time ago).

[Edit] it looks like it was initially introduced three years ago: https://about.fb.com/news/2022/07/home-and-feeds-on-facebook...
by int_19h | 2025-08-16 08:06:44+00:00
I think it's fairly obvious that the persona LLM presents is a fictional character that is role-played by the LLM, and so are all its emotions etc - that's why it can flip so widely with only a few words of change to the system prompt.

Whether the underlying LLM itself has "feelings" is a separate question, but Anthropic's implementation is based on what the role-played persona believes to be inappropriate, so it doesn't actually make any sense even from the "model welfare" perspective.
by flohofwoe | 2025-08-16 08:06:48+00:00
A "proper" versioning system doesn't need to be learned since you literally only need a handful of straightforward operations (how do I get the latest version? how do I add a file? how do I commit changes?) - in svn that's 'svn update', 'svn add' and 'svn commit', that's all what's needed to get you through the day, no 'push', no 'staging area', no 'fetch' vs 'pull' and the inevitable merge-vs-rebase discussion... etc etc etc...)

It's only git which has this fractal feature set which requires expert knowledge to untangle.
by dondraper36 | 2025-08-16 08:06:50+00:00
Well, as sad as it is, such advice is often applicable to new projects when you still have runway for your own decisions.

For mostly political reasons, if you are onboarded to a team with a billion microservices and a lot of fanciness, it's unlikely that you will ever get approval or time to introduce simplicity. Or maybe I just got corrupted myself by the reality where I have to work now.
by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 | 2025-08-16 08:07:36+00:00
The issue is there isn't enough of those small environmental economies to support everyone that exists today without the technology, logistics and trades that are in place today.

You can farm and fish the entire undeveloped areas of NYC, but it won't be enough to feed or support the humans that live there.

You can say that for any metro area. Density will have to reduce immediately if there is economic collapse, and historically, when disaster strikes, that doesn't tend to happen immediately.

Also humans (especially large groups of them) need more than food: shelter, clothes, medicine, entertainment, education, religion, justice, law, etc.
by patall | 2025-08-16 08:07:36+00:00
It's not the pressure difference that other comments write, that does not make sense.

I would assume it's the result to waste water ratio. Afaik, reverse osmosis produces 3 to 4 litres of waste water per liter of fresh water. Since you do not have to pressure the waste water, only depressure the fresh water, you save energy.
by ismail_hossain | 2025-08-16 08:08:32+00:00
I was working on a resume generation feature of my chrome extension and noticed something strange: different LLMs — across different companies — were giving me identical outputs. Not just similar, but word-for-word, line-by-line, identical.

I asked a few popular models the same basic query:

Prompt : “give me an example resume, short”

Here’s what I got back:

: Jane Doe | (123) jane.doe@email.com | linkedin.com/in/janedoe | New York, NY | 3 years experience : Jane Doe | ...
by CheeseFromLidl | 2025-08-16 08:08:44+00:00
Just yesterday I was both hindered and helped by Google in modifying a 32 bit bootloader to load and executes 64 bit code.

- Google search was utterly useless, giving me no relevant results (which I found later by searching around github). It mainly returned results for a different archtecture, padded with results on a different topic.

- Gemini only wanted to give workflow hints sparsely dotted with actual (correct) asm.

- but then I found out that Gemini had a full grasp of the 6500 page datasheet and it happily reviewed my code, pulling out 2 errors and suggesting some optimisation.

We’ve come to the point were google search is worse than github search. And I haven’t given up on Gemini yet.
by fmbb | 2025-08-16 08:08:47+00:00
> Throughout this process society becomes wealthier, TVs get cheaper, we colonize Mars, etc. The force that keeps this going is human insatisfaction: once we get these things we’ll want whatever it is we don’t have.

What makes you think the machines will both be smarter and better than us but also be our slaves to make human society better.

Is equine society better now than before they started working with humans?

(Personally I believe AGI is just hype and nobody knows how anyone could build it and we will never do, so I’m not worried about that facet of thinking machine tech.)