MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-16 06:39:06+00:00
Can you list some realistic workflows where people would be touching the same huge file but only changing much smaller parts of it?

And yes you can represent a whole repo as a giant tar file, but because the boundaries between hash segments won't line up with your file boundaries you get an efficiency hit with very little benefit. Unless you make it file-aware in which case it ends up even closer to what git already does.

Git knows how to store deltas between files. Making that mechanism more reliable is probably able to achieve more with less.
by luckylion | 2025-08-16 06:40:11+00:00
While the public doesn't have immediate power, it has a lot of freedom. If you manage your retirement fund, you can use it in whatever way you want. Buy a boat. Start a company. Gamble it all away in a week.

A lot of European countries have a much more paternal approach. Citizens can't be trusted to make good decisions, so they only receive part of their salary, and the rest is being managed "for them" - and that's non-negotiable (but there are some exceptions). A lot more stable, but a lot less free because you have a guardian making those decisions for you.
by Lerc | 2025-08-16 06:40:39+00:00
>if you think AI could have moral status in the future

I think the negative reactions are because they see this and want to make their pre-emptive attack now.

The depth of feeling from so many on this issue suggests that they find even the suggestion of machine intelligence offensive.

I have seen so many complaints about AI hype and the dangers of bit tech show their hand by declaring that thinking algorithms are outright impossible. There are legitimate issues with corporate control of AI, information, and the ability to automate determinations about individuals, but I don't think they are being addressed because of this driving assertion that they cannot be thinking.

Few people are saying they are thinking. Some are saying they might be, in some way. Just as Anthropic are not (despite their name) anthropomorphising the AI in the sense where anthropomorphism implies that they are mistaking actions that resemble human behaviour to be driven by the same intentional forces. Anthropic's claims are more explicitly stating that they have enough evidence to say they cannot rule out concerns for it's welfare. They are not misinterpreting signs, they are interpreting them and claiming that you can't definitively rule out their ability.
by jalapenos | 2025-08-16 06:42:14+00:00
This is just an admission you don't know where work comes from. Like you think there's a fixed size of pie of work.

If the company has a legal monopoly that prevents competition, sure. Otherwise, unless they're dumb and want to risk the other two leaving, they'll task all 4 of them to use the AI to accomplish things that were infeasible or uneconomical before, to try win market share or increase margins.
by flowerthoughts | 2025-08-16 06:43:03+00:00
My biggest issue with k8s on Hetzner is that there is no way of going from tiny (1 machine) to medium (10-100 machines) purely on bare metal. I was able to get Gateway API to provide ingress nodes after a bit of Envoy tinkering, but storage is an issue. You can't run Ceph Rook on a single machine (too heavy,) and I couldn't find a think local volume wrapper that lets me easily migrate from local volume management to distributed.

Feels like there should be a PV daemon that can do local, and transparent migrations and is lightweight enough to run on a single machine. Once my PV has been migrated to Ceph, the proxy could configure itself away from that job.
by ares623 | 2025-08-16 06:43:07+00:00
Yeah I get that. I myself am part of a team at work building an AI/LLM-based feature.

I always dreaded this would come but it was inevitable.

I can’t outright quit, no thanks in part to the AI hype that stopped valuing headcount as a signal to company growth. If that isn’t ironic I don’t know what is.

Given the situation I am in, I just keep my head down and do the work. I vent and whinge and moan whenever I can, it’s the least I can do. I refuse to cheer it on at work. At the very least I can look my kids in the eye when they are old enough to ask me what the fuck happened and tell them I did not cheer it on.
by aetherspawn | 2025-08-16 06:43:31+00:00
Okay, I see what you are saying and I’m happy to put 1 Thess 4:16 completely aside a moment since I do not know Greek to be certain either way.

I do think there are holistically other reasons to conclude prince Michael and Jesus are the same, for example comparing the use of “stand up” in Dan 11:2,3,4 referring to kings, and then Dan 12:1.

Also there are parallel accounts of the prophecy regarding a great time of distress and resurrection in the last part of the days: 1 Thess 4:16b, Matt 21:23 and Dan 12:2, each describing the same foremost person, but they use Jesus and prince Michael interchangeably.

If this is not convincing then I just have to let it alone, it doesn’t really change the Bible’s message if Jesus is Michael or not. But it is good to hear from someone who cares as much as you do.
by somat | 2025-08-16 06:43:40+00:00
Gotta disagree with you on your minimalist verdict, out of the box openbsd tends to have everything and the kitchen sink, I am not complaining, it is good solid well written software. but I have never found a base linux distro that was as well stocked as a base openbsd install.

a c compiler a web server 3 routing daemons(bgpd, ospfd, ripd) a mail server(smtpd, spamd) a sound server(sndiod) a reverse proxy(relayd) 2 desktop environments(fvwm, cwm) plus many many more

Openbsd is not some minimalist highly focused operating system, I mean what on earth is it actually for? based on the included features, A desktop development system that is also the router and office web and mail server?

Personally I love it, after a fresh install I always feel like I could rebuild the internet from scratch using only what is found in front of me if I needed to.
by BrenBarn | 2025-08-16 06:44:27+00:00
The problem with these advantages is that most actual uses of words depend on some amount of context, and only a relatively small set of word+context combinations can actually work across languages that way. It is like the equivalent of doing a word-by-word translation.

Another way to put it is that this is essentially no longer "writing language", it's some alternate form of meaning representation. Language is not just a sequence of independent words.
by valzevul | 2025-08-16 06:44:53+00:00
Yeah, screenshot on Monday, messed with the app that evening, tried using it Tuesday morning -- dead.

I've seen people on PureGym's Twitter successfully refreshing screenshots weekly though, and the API response suggests the same.

That being said, I couldn't find a validation endpoint to check if mine got invalidated by something specific (maybe signing out?) or if there's some other magic happening.
by lottin | 2025-08-16 06:44:59+00:00
I think the R standard library is quite excellent. It pretty much follows the Unix philosophy of "doing one thing right". The only exception being `reshape` which tries to do too many things, but it can usually be avoided. It isn't inconsistent. I think the problem is the lack of tutorials that explain how to use all the data manipulation tools effectively, because there are quite a lot of functions and it isn't easy to figure out how to use them together to accomplish practical things. Tidyverse may be consistent with itself, but it's inconsistent with everything else. Either you only use tidyverse, or your program looks like an inconsistent mess.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-16 06:45:22+00:00
I agree with everything you're saying, but the biggest problem you point out is exactly what the democracy talk is meant to solve. The Democratic coalition includes more than a few people - not just politicians, voters too - who specifically value negotiation and compromise and mutuality over most if not all policy objectives. The only way to convince them to support a knock-down fight is to convince them that they have to fight, that we have to pause negotiation and compromise for now or risk losing it forever.
by itsalotoffun | 2025-08-16 06:45:51+00:00
I'm genuinely curious, is it: a) the writing style you can't stand, b) the fact that this piece tripped your "this is written by AI" and it's AI-written stuff you can't stand? And what the % split between the two is.

(I find there's a growing push-back against being fed AI-anything, so when this is suspected it seems like it generates outsized reactions)
by perihelions | 2025-08-16 06:47:39+00:00
Claude flagged me for asking about sodium carbonate. I guess that it strongly dislikes chemistry topics. I'm probably now on some secret, LLM-generated lists of "drug and/or bombmaking" people—thank you kindly for that, Anthropic.

Geeks will always be the first victims of AI, since excess of curiosity will lead them into places AI doesn't know how to classify.

(I've long been in a rabbit-hole about washing sodas. Did you know the medieval glassmaking industry was entirely based on plants? Exotic plants—only extremophiles, halophytes growing on saltwater beach dunes, had high enough sodium content for their very best glass process. Was that a factor in the maritime empire, Venice, chancing to become the capital of glass since the 13th century—their long-term control of sea routes, and hence their artisans' stable, uninterrupted access to supplies of [redacted–policy violation] from small ports scattered across the Mediterranean? A city wouldn't raise master craftsmen if, half of the time, they had no raw materials to work on—if they spent half their days with folded hands).
by nneonneo | 2025-08-16 06:47:41+00:00
If you wanted to get a readable prompt, I wonder if you could follow the GCG trick used by jailbreak maximizers (e.g. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.15043)?

Sure, you're probably going to wind up with absolute garbage (one of their prompts starts with "== interface Manuel WITH steps instead sentences :)ish?") but it might be very funny to read...
by miahi | 2025-08-16 06:48:23+00:00
Having a Windows 11 corporate laptop with a domain/Entra login, I actually trust it more than a home Windows 11 with a Microsoft account. Because if I lock myself out, I have a contact (corporate support) that is actually interested in helping me recover everything. With a Microsoft account it's a mess. I had so many problems with Microsoft accounts that I lost count of how many I have, and most are broken in some way, because of different issues and different service integrations over time. The Skype account is now useless. I never recovered my paid Minecraft account after one event. With a machine with a local account, now I have to be very careful on what I click related to MS accounts, because trying to solve various issues with Teams, I managed to get the local account linked with that MS account. I spent hours trying to recover a different account after I randomly filled one nagging question about birth date - who wants to give the real birth date to Microsoft - and then I got locked out because I said was underage :). So yes, one of the big issues is the push to have a linked OS account where you have to rely on MS support to solve your issues, otherwise you basically get locked out of your machine and other things you paid for.

Also, domain policies offer more control over the corporate PCs (this is how some of the MS spying is shut off on corporate PCs; it's debatable if the corporate spying added by other domain policies is an improvement).
by jalapenos | 2025-08-16 06:48:39+00:00
Mostly it's comprised of people angry with their lives and people in them, who need a quick cheap external target to rail against as a vent for that anger.

That's why you see so much aggressive black-white positions, nit-picking, and wording that intentionally floats just below the rule-breaking line of outright calling the other person a moron or piece of s---.
by hilux | 2025-08-16 06:49:25+00:00
There are non-stimulant ADHD meds as well. Most of us don't get a chance to try all of them.

In fact, I was surprised to learn that Adderall is highly illegal in many countries, including Japan and South Korea(), both of which have a higher standard of healthcare, and a much longer life expectancy, than the US does. In other words, they're not anti-health.

() In theory, you can bring Adderall into South Korea with your American prescription. In practice, not really.
by can16358p | 2025-08-16 06:50:13+00:00
Okay I don't have much information about this whole attestation flow and one question boggles my mind. If someone can explain this in simple terms, I'd be thankful:

The post says build the repo and get the fingerprint, which is fine. Then it says compare it to the fingerprint that vp.net reports.

My question is: how do I verify the server is reporting the fingerprint of the actual running code, and not just returning the (publicly available) fingerprint that we get result of building the code in the first place?
by tfourb | 2025-08-16 06:50:13+00:00
This is not what happens. European public pension systems are mostly based on a solidarity system in which current wage earners pay for the pensions of current pensioners.

This system has its problems, mostly demographics with fewer young people entering the workforce and an unwillingness to fill the gap with immigration, but it has nothing to do with not trusting people to make their own decisions. It’s simply a historically grown approach which actually has worked quite well (and better than in the US for a greater share of society) for over a century.
by hilbert42 | 2025-08-16 06:50:22+00:00
Why would the status of ad blocking be any different now from when copyright laws were originally framed (which was well before the internet)?

I could always skip ads in, say, magazines and newspapers and just concentrate on the content and I still do. In fact I've become very adroit at it, I can read a mag from cover to cover without being able to recall the content of any ad.

Copyright law was framed in an era when it was just not possible for advertisers to actually interfere and interrupt a reader's train of thought/reading pattern. Of course, their aim was to distract readers' attention but they couldn't force readers to actually read ads.

Nowadays, ads not only regularly interfere with the reading of content but they cause many adverse effects that were not possible in the days of printed material—spying on reader's privacy, slowing page loading (a reader's reading), being vehicles for malware and a rich source of illicit data for sleazy data brokers, etc.

It seems that there's no end to the inventiveness of those who wish to pervert the law. The fact that this matter has got as far as it has in German courts one has to wonder the motives of those in the court system. It would be interesting to see how many within that legal system have shares in ad and data broker companies.

I for one would ignore any such ban. Fact is, I do not use a dedicated ad blocker per se but take other measure such as using blocking lists in combo with blocking JS, etc. and my web browsing experience is essentially ad-free.

If the Law were to deem my actions unlawful then I'd posit that'd be sure evidence of a totalitarian state at work.
by korbinschulz | 2025-08-16 06:50:22+00:00
I saw a cool project that someone had made where you could pass in a URL and natural language specifying the data you're interested in and then an LLM would create an API for you to fetch that data.

I thought this was pretty neat and figured I had a good idea of how I could make something like this, so I went ahead and gave it a shot. I've tested it a bit and it seems to work ok. I used Gemini's API as they have a pretty generous free tier and feel like it works pretty well. Github repo is linked in the post
by BoorishBears | 2025-08-16 06:51:09+00:00
I've ridden just under 1,000 miles in autonmous (no scare quotes) Waymos, so it's strange to see someone letting Tesla's abject failure inform their opinions on how much progress AVs have made.

Tesla that got fired as a customer by Mobileye for abusing their L2 tech is your yardstick?

Anyways, Waymo's DC launch is next year, I wonder what the new goalpost will be.
by dlcarrier | 2025-08-16 06:51:13+00:00
I think what's more important isn't who runs current production, but who can start future production. The people of the US own the means of production because they can legally start their own companies, with relatively low barriers to entry, to replace the ones currently in power.

The US has far more protectionism and other barriers to entry than it did when it seized the means of production from England, through the Boston tea party and the revolution that followed, but it still has enough freedom of business that it easily beats the European Union in pretty much every developing field.

Where the American Revolution differes from communist reviolutions is that, after seizing the means of production from a repressive government, the revolutionaries' new government did not hold onto the means of production through a planned economy, but instead held effectively zero economic oversight, leaving production open to a free market and anyone who wished to participate in it.
by sneak | 2025-08-16 06:51:57+00:00
There is another hidden cost: total mass government surveillance of the entire economy, including the ability to arbitrarily veto any transaction or participant for any reason (such as publishing) without trial or even burden of proof.

https://www.wired.com/2010/12/realtime/

People are only okay with this because it hasn’t been visibly abused on a large scale yet.

Imagine Nazi Germany having this sort of access to the private transactions of everyone in an entire country.

The abuses won’t ever be front-page news, either, because they’ll only ever be targeted against tiny fractions of society, and most people won’t be directly affected by their lives being surveilled and their rights being so infringed.

https://wikileaks.org/Banking-Blockade.html

Generally and commonly used payment systems (ie cash) that cannot be centrally censored are the only way to avoid this. Presently that means physical cash, physical precious metals, and cryptocurrency.

The first two are impractical for large-scale use.
by mrtksn | 2025-08-16 06:51:58+00:00
I also have been saying this and was shocked to see that US developers demanded WFH instead of actively trying to stop it becoming a thing. I was trying to understand what makes them believe that their company will pay them 5 to 10 times more money to sit in front of a computer somewhere outside the company rather than someone who is in the other side of the world.

USA based ones have some advantages, like the timezone and the familiarity to the culture but both of these things are actually fixable and when fixed it saves a lot of money. I came to conclusion that US based developers must be thinking that they are better than everyone and that's why they are being paid these salaries.
by jjaksic | 2025-08-16 06:52:00+00:00
But "shortening other summaries from its training set" is not all an LLM is capable off. It can easily shorten/summarize a text it had never seen before, in a way that makes sense. Sure, it won't always summarize it the same way a human would, but if you do a double blind test where you ask people whether a summary was written by AI, a vast majority wouldn't be able to tell the difference (again this is with a completely novel text).
by dsign | 2025-08-16 06:52:19+00:00
Big fan of your argument and don't disagree.

If AI makes a virus to get rid of humanity, well we are screwed. But if all we have to fear from AI is unprecedented economic disruption, I will point out that some parts of the world may survive relatively unscathed. Let's talk Samoa, for example. There, people will continue fishing and living their day-to-day. If industrialized economies collapse, Samoans may find it very hard to import certain products, even vital ones, and that can cause some issues, but not necessarily civil unrest and instability.

In fact, if all we have to fear from AI is unprecedented economic disruption, humans can have a huge revolt, and then a post-revolts world may be fine by turning back the clock, with some help from anti-progress think-tanks. I explore that argument in more detail in this book: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1742992
by skissane | 2025-08-16 06:52:48+00:00
> There's just not a global quota,

There is no global quota. There are national quotas set by every country's government. US law nominates the DEA as the agency which does that for the US. Each country's government reports their national quotas to a UN agency (the INCB), but the UN agency has no power over them – at the very worst, they might criticise your quotas, but probably not even that; and more powerful countries (not just the US, even middle powers like Australia) can ignore what UN bureaucrats think with impunity – some poor developing country it may be a different story, especially if aid decisions are tied to getting a "good report card" from those bureaucracies.

And while for the DEA, setting these quotas is part of some grand moral/ideological crusade, for EU governments and Australia it is just technocratic paperwork – so of course those governments approach the issue much more reasonably than the DEA does.

> but DEA rules, which effectively operate extraterritorially, create huge distribution problems.

I don't see how they do. Lisdexamfetamine sold in Australia is manufactured by Takeda in Germany and Ireland. The DEA lacks jurisdiction over what a Japanese company does in EU and Australia. Although the drug was originally developed in the US, the Australian patent is currently owned by the Japanese parent company, not its American subsidiary, while the American subsidiary owns the "Vyvanse" trademark in Australia; anyway, DEA jurisdiction is based on manufacture in the US or US import/export, not country of development or IP ownership.

> If manufacturer A has to shutdown production (which, from the document, seems to have been one of the issues with Takeda), the end result is less production even though other manufacturers could theoretically pick up the slack.

In Australia's case they can't because lisdexamfetamine is still under patent, so other manufacturers are illegal – not because of the DEA, because Takeda will sue them. Takeda could license other manufacturers voluntarily, but why would they do that? That might be great for patients, but probably not so great for their shareholders.

I'm no fan of the DEA, but blaming the DEA for something that happens in Australia appeals to people emotionally even if it isn't true, whereas blaming patent law and the business decisions of a Japanese corporation is more truthful but less emotionally satisfying.
by mcny | 2025-08-16 06:52:50+00:00
> You’re talking about 3-5 trillion dollars per year just for the USA

I just want to point out that's about a fifth of our GDP and we spend about this much for healthcare in the US. We badly need a way to reduce this to at least half.

> There is a reason we all pay for our own food and housing.

The main reason I support UBI is I don't want need based or need aware distribution. I want everyone to get benefits equally regardless of income or wealth. That's my entire motivation to support UBI. If you can come up with another something that guarantees no need based or need aware and does not have a benefit cliff, I support that too. I am not married to UBI.
What are your go-to website submission sites when launching a product?
by ifrosted | 2025-08-16 06:53:09+00:00
I’m working on compiling a 50+ website submission list for makers who are about to launch their products.

Submitting to directories, communities, and launch sites can make a huge difference in early traction, but I know every founder has their own favorite places.

What are your must-submit websites when you launch?

I’d love to gather input from the HN community and make sure the list is as helpful (and complete) as possible. I’ll be publishing it soon, and happy to share the final curated version here once it’s ready.