MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by js8 | 2025-08-26 23:28:52+00:00
Well, I think it was both. He saw the problem (of capital accumulation in capitalism), and predicted a failure of it (due to people wisening up and taking action to fix the problem). Of course he wanted corrective action to happen - he didn't want people to suffer.

And the people did rise up and successfully tried to fix the problem - there was a big socialdemocratic movement that culminated between the world wars.

What he underestimated was the ingenuity with which the capitalism reinvents itself (and creates new forms of private property to gobble up - free computing in RMS's sense just one example). He also overestimated ability of most people to understand the problem (it's lot more lack of emotional rather than intellectual capacity). I would say alienation is central to Marx, unfortunately alienated people can be so indoctrinated to fail to consider the alternatives. Most people seem to prefer to suffer through hardship rather than demand an alternative solution.
by sarreph | 2025-08-26 23:29:25+00:00
Funny timing. On the weekend I built something that provides screenshots only (no KBAM controls) from Chrome to Claude Code, so that it has visual context on what you're building. Keen to see how the two way control works out with Claude-in-Chrome though!

For anyone interested it's called MagicEyes (https://github.com/rorz/MagicEyes) and it's in alpha!
by ec109685 | 2025-08-26 23:30:08+00:00
Turned out my prediction was wrong that the big lab’s wouldn’t release a browser with cross-site access before it was safe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45004846

> Anthropic says it hopes to use this research preview as a chance to catch and address novel safety risks; however, the company has already introduced several defenses against prompt injection attacks. The company says its interventions reduced the success rate of prompt injection attacks from 23.6% to 11.2%.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-08-26 23:30:10+00:00
A friend, who also has a background in NLP, was asking me the other day "Is there still even a need for traditional NLP in the age of LLMs?"

This is one of the under-discussed areas of LLMs imho.

For anything that would have have required either word2vec embeddings of a tf-idf representation (classification tasks, sentiment analysis, etc) there are rare exceptions where it wouldn't just be better to start with a semantic embedding from an LLM.

For NER and similar data extraction tasks, the only advantage of traditional approaches is going to be speed, but my experience in practice is that accuracy is often much more important than speed. Again, I'm not sure why not start with an LLM in these cases.

There are still a few remaining use cases (PoS tagging comes to mind), but honestly, if I have a traditional NLP task today, I'm pretty sure I'm going to start with an LLM as my baseline.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-08-26 23:30:26+00:00
No, I don't think the lens of them trying to destroy the economy of the country they live in and rule over makes any sense at all. One small example is Trump rolling back or easing tariffs when the market reacts. There's no secret intent behind it - they state their intent and reasoning quite clearly. They want a strong and insular US that prioritizes white citizens with minimal reliance on foreign imports or allies. They view the US as a superpower that can strongarm everyone else to get what they want.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-26 23:30:28+00:00
If we're already into the realm of the US government taking huge equity stakes and forming state corporations, maybe they could help form a new JV after a theoretical Intel failure. That's no less major a step to take.

In the scenario where Intel fails (which would primarily be centered around defaulting on the 50 billion of debt that they built up and can barely service), the US gov could offer strong tax incentives to players who want to form up a new national fab company. Give it favored status essentially (again, if the US is already crossing fairly extreme lines of having US state owned corporations, this doesn't seem so extreme in comparison).

You already have Private Equity interests that are starting to consume Intel. Ex: some of the new fabs are funded by Brookstone, and they have sold off a portion of the profit from the venture, and then collateralized the transaction with the hard assets and put Private Equity at the top of the bankruptcy cap stack.

I think that if the US gave some incentives, the pieces would fall into place extremely quickly. PE would do the actual capital funding in a heartbeat if they had sweetheart tax incentives, and Japan/SK/TSMC would also get involved. Presumably - given the style of the current admin - the "deal" would be "you get favored status by taking part in this project. We will give strong tax benefits to also drive profit. If you turn it down, expect to see tariffs and calls go unanswered while your competition has a direct line."
by this_user | 2025-08-26 23:31:18+00:00
Any species that is advanced enough for interstellar communication will almost certainly be a highly aggressive apex species. You don't get to the top of the food chain by being nice, you get there by murdering all of the competition and plundering all of the resources. And if you were trying to be nice, someone else would have just wiped you out.

The big question is if a species can eventually reach some point of collective enlightenment where they leave these primitive impulses behind. But based on the current state of humanity, I'm not to optimistic.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-26 23:31:26+00:00
> If they have a warrant to the phone, what is poisoned fruit?

Litigation over the process, claims, and ultimately validity of the warrant happens after it is executed, where the product is used in a criminal case (one of the commonly argued problems with the FISA warrant process is that, because the products are not used in criminal cases, this never occurs, and because it is known that it will never occur, the constraints that the possibility of challenge places on both the conduct of executive agents seeking warrants and judges granting them also is missing.)
by kazinator | 2025-08-26 23:32:03+00:00
The definition doesn't mention that there are any other kinds of registers other than special register groups: it asserts either that there exist groups of nothing but special registers, or else that there exist nothing but special groups of registers.

"special" is meaningless without a the presence of contrasting subjects that are "ordinary" or "regular".

E.g, "The human hands have two special finger groups".
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-26 23:32:10+00:00
Altman needed to convince companies these things were on the verge of becoming a machine god, and their companies risked being left permanently behind if they didn’t dive in head-first now. That’s what all the “safety” stuff was and why he sold that out as soon as convenient (it was never serious, not for him, it was a sales tactic to play up how powerful his product might be) so he could get richer. He’s a flim-flam artist. That’s his history, and it’s the role he’s playing now.

And a lot of people who should have known better, bought it. Others less well-positioned to know better, also bought it.

Hell they bought it so hard that the “vibe” re: AI hype on this site has only shifted definitely against it in the last few weeks.
by furyofantares | 2025-08-26 23:32:23+00:00
It's right in CLAUDE.md

For take #1 I said what tech to use and a high level description of the game and it's features. I guess I failed to mention this part, but when I threw take #1 away, I first used Claude + hand editing to update it to have a detailed description of each screen and feature in the game. So take #2 had a much more detailed description of exactly what was going to be built, but still, right in CLAUDE.md

I did also create a DEVELOPMENT-PLAN.md first with Claude and have been having it update it with what's been done before every commit. I don't know yet have a good idea of how impactful that part has been.
by adinhitlore | 2025-08-26 23:32:30+00:00
sizeable minority maybe like 10%-30%, i've seen many posts about Python/ML, i'm very convinced most of the people who focus greatly on Python to do ML are under 30. No source to back it up, just logic - python exploded in the past 5 years and it's hand-in-hand with ml...college kids must be loving it.
by ggm | 2025-08-26 23:33:04+00:00
This energy is not free. Solar cells and wind embody the cost of production of the device as the input cost along with cost of construction, and transmission, but the primary energy input is predicated on a real externality: Wind and Sun.

This system depends on using a LOT of energy to maintain an osmotic pressure gradient. That it turn depends on pumping water across a boundary. Energy has to be expended. Now, if you run a de-salination plant and/or waste water treatment you have to expend MOST of this cost anyway, so you are scavenging energy back from an unavoidable, non-externality cost.

This is a big difference. Wind and Solar bring energy in from the Sun and weather, outside human expenditure. This brings BACK some expended energy, doing another job.

I suppose hypothetically, given immensely saline water CLOSE to less saline water you could expend significantly less energy to arrive at the boundary condition but its for kilowatts, not gigawatts or even megawatts. The places which have these conditions might also have high sunlight or wind conditions no?
by zahlman | 2025-08-26 23:33:21+00:00
The argument was not "the Van Halen one is false".

The argument was "The Gr thing is bogus (that isn't the symbol for germanium) and its presence in articles is analogous to the Van Halen contract specifications".

Much like the presence of brown M&Ms, the presence of "Gr" points to someone not paying attention.
by garbthetill | 2025-08-26 23:33:28+00:00
Thanks for the great read, so much to unpack from that article the click fraud stuff is to be expected, keeping track of everything that goes through their proxy is also expected, but copying files is crazy and this could unravel to a class action

but with that being said, if you are doing something shady/grey area to get ahead you best give everyone a cut of the pie, especially your blood brother
by ath3nd | 2025-08-26 23:33:38+00:00
Zuck has aligned himself quickly (like the spineless ass kisser he is) , ideologically and in action, to the Republican party. Of course Meta is gonna use fossil fuels and not woke solar.

While they are at it, I am pretty sure they will enable a couple of extra genocides like they did in Myanmar with the extra capacities from that data center.
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-26 23:34:15+00:00
Yeah, the US (mis)uses the plea deal to an appalling extent. It's amazingly fucked.

Most other countries don't have the concept, or if they do, its use is generally fairly minimal, and heavily regulated - oftentimes, it might be "plead guilty to this one murder" in the case of a multiple homicide, to avoid having three separate costly trials.
by sevensor | 2025-08-26 23:34:23+00:00
Same boat. The pay was mediocre, the hours were bad and far too many, and the company used cyclical demand to keep us in perpetual fear of layoffs. Mandatory pager carry 24/7/365 unless I was on vacation out of town. Rotating weekend coverage. Rotating holiday coverage. First couple of years were 12 hour shifts on my feet, then I went to process integration and did endless meetings instead.

I loved, still love, the actual technology of semiconductor fabrication, but you’d have to pay me 8x what I was making for me to go back to the business of semiconductor fabrication.
by homefree | 2025-08-26 23:35:07+00:00
> The issue at hand isn't perceived bias in universities, it's voting tendencies of people who have higher education.

Arguably they go hand in hand, take young people and immerse them in a political/ideological monoculture for four formative years and it's not surprising many come out saying the same things and voting the same way all of their professors did, there's a lack of viewpoint diversity. Most people are mimetic, exposure to the best arguments from an intellectually diverse curriculum would be great but that's not what universities (broadly) are today. It's very hard to think for yourself, even harder when immersed in a place where ideological conformity is rigidly enforced.

FWIW I thought your comment was in good faith, we just don't agree.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-26 23:35:22+00:00
> You said the government had no leverage, I am pointing out they have tremendous leverage.

That’s a fair point. I agree that my phrasing glosses over a bit of nuance. The political capital needed to reform the insurance companies would be hard to wrangle for anyone else but Trump, was my point. The government in many states regulates the insurance industry as far as rate increases and so on, so I’m sure they can apply pressure in many ways. I just don’t think that the government would do so, but they could in theory. I’m not sure they would in practice, but you were right to call me out.
by filoeleven | 2025-08-26 23:35:49+00:00
> My parents 2017 Macbook pro can only upgrade to Ventura, which is a 2022 release. 5 years and that $2.5k baby was obselete.

Meanwhile, in [Windows land], > Microsoft has provided the minimum and feature-specific device specifications required for upgrading to Windows 11. A number of devices will meet these requirements, however devices with legacy BIOS or without a Trusted Platform Module (TPM 2.0) are not compatible for the upgrade.

> Microsoft also provided a full list of supported Intel processors; however this loosely translates to compatibility with Intel's 8th-generation processors and newer, meaning devices produced within the last 6-7 years have a high chance of being compatible.

Sure looks like Apple's support of old machines is in line with Windows here.

[Windows land] https://www.rm.com/blog/2024/may/a-surprising-number-of-pcs-...
by serf | 2025-08-26 23:36:00+00:00
>How can my feedback improve you as a software developer if you don't understand your own code?

Just say that you don't want my code, better yet just silently reject it.

I don't want a moral referendum about how my code shall be the mana by which all future reviewers and practitioners of the art shall sup and become enlightened. Group education isn't my job as someone submitting a PR to fix some trivial shit. Sometimes it doesn't need to be smart, sometimes it doesn't need to be a learning experience by which we all grow.

Throw out the garbage, keep the good stuff, and appreciate the attention to the project. Be happy that someone wants to help.
by jeberle | 2025-08-26 23:36:38+00:00
Likewise, I would kill for gaps between Esc/F1, F4/F5, and F8/F9. ThinkPads do this although it is very subtle.

The gaps let you use the the function keys by feel rather than looking at them. They tend to be mapped in debuggers so hitting the wrong key is a big deal.

I actually don't mind the smaller arrow keys as again, they make it easier to drive by feel rather than by looking.
by cubefox | 2025-08-26 23:36:46+00:00
What's interesting is that Imagen 4 and Gemini 2.5 Flash Image look suspiciously similar in several of these tests cases. Maybe Gemini 2.5 Flash first calls Imagen in the background to get a detailed baseline image (diffusion models are good at this) and then Gemini edits the resulting image for better prompt adherence.
by binarymax | 2025-08-26 23:36:54+00:00
I’ve had success with fine tuning their transformer model. The issue was that there was only one of them per language, compared to huggingface where you have a choice of many of quality variants that best align with your domain and data.

The SpaCy API is just so nice. I love the ease of iterating over sentences, spans, and tokens and having the enrichment right there. Pipelines are super easy, and patterns are fantastic. It’s just a different use case than BERT.
by Frotag | 2025-08-26 23:37:04+00:00
> And where's the PgUp PgDn Home End Insert Delete cluster?

I'm typing this comment on a first gen framework 16 keyboard. It's the same layout as the second gen in OP, where PgUp/PgDown are bound to fn+KeyUp fn+KeyDown and Home/End are bound to fn+KeyLeft fn+KeyRight.

I actually prefer the bindings over dedicated buttons since if I need to use home/end, I'm probably also going to need to go to the previous/next line with the up/down keys.
by Ukv | 2025-08-26 23:38:18+00:00
> a spokesman said that the department never relied on it alone to make an arrest, and that the victim’s identification of Mr. Williams provided the evidence to charge him.

As a layman, it looks to me like the legal system is unprepared for the unintuitive issue that if you run a facial recognition search with a 0.000001 false positive rate on a database 10 million people, you get someone who:

1. Likely looks extremely close to the target

2. Has a 99% chance of not actually being the target

Eyewitness confirmation does little to shift that 99% because it'll be based largely on the same factors, rather than being independent evidence.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-08-26 23:38:51+00:00
Why waste your time on unserious people? If Graham and Vance are going to flip from never Trump to sycophants, why listen to their press conferences? If the normal guy at the bar was talking about how great it'll be when Trump releases the client list and suddenly decides Epstein was a nothingburger, do you think you are going to change his reality? Hint: he never cared about "the pedos", it was just motivated reasoning.

It is time 60% of the country decided to stop wasting effort on people who do not participate honestly.

And please stop with the "oh no, Reddit" garbage.
by modeless | 2025-08-26 23:38:56+00:00
Classic HN middlebrow dismissal, only upvoted because people dislike Musk. Word error rate of 25% is unusable. Also it needs extensive retraining every few days. They used four fixed electrode arrays, like pushing a miniature bed of nails into your brain, which is far more invasive and less advanced than Neuralink's one device with threads individually implanted by robot. Neuralink is not exclusively for speech, focusing more on general computer use. This is mostly about where the device is implanted, not the device's capabilities.

As for FSD, it leads by far for systems you can own, and while it is not as good as Waymo it is much cheaper and still rapidly improving. It is too early to say which approach will ultimately win.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-08-26 23:39:21+00:00
But in other phishing attempts the user actually gives out their password (unintentionally) to an unscrupulous actor. In this case there's a middle-man (the AI extension) doing that for you, sometimes without even confirming with you what you want.

I think this is more akin to say a theoretical browser not implementing HTTPS properly so people's credentials/sessions can be stolen with MiTM attacks or something. Clearly the bad behavior is in the toolchain and not the user here, and I'm not sure how much you can wave away claiming "We told you it's not fully safe." You can't sell tomatoes that have a 10% chance of giving you food poisoning, even if you declare that chance on the label, you know?
by sundarurfriend | 2025-08-26 23:39:25+00:00
But people do. Psychology courses do, with a similar "tool to help standardize communication" line recited robotically and then practically ignored. Most practicing psychologists do as well, to only a somewhat lesser degree.

You cannot have an authoritative textbook proscribing definitions, and then expect people to treat them as just "a self-described ontology" with all the nuances and caveats around that just because it says so somewhere in the introduction. Psychology of all fields should know that.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-08-26 23:39:34+00:00
I found for me that when I unpacked it, a surprising amount of it was actually fear / anxiety. I know this isn't a post seeking answers but it's a thing I've battled a lot of my life.

It's trite but I've gotten a lot of value out of LLMs for getting past the "blank page effect". It doesn't matter if it generates complete garbage, something in my brain goes "this is garbage!" and before I know it I'm working on the thing. The general technique is "just do the smallest possible thing".

Another one is narrowing focus to just 1 thing to reduce overwhelm. Ideally on the most important thing! Otherwise your background fear will actually go up while you are working on the "filler task".

Finally, trying my best to communicate well and greatly reduce expectations. For me an important piece of the puzzle was that I expected more from myself than anyone else actually did (or even needed). So I have been consistently trying to scope down every commitment and promise WAY less. I actually feel like my execution has improved a lot as a result.

Am I great? Not really. Am I able to keep functioning day to day and slog through a soul crushing corpo job? Yeah, for now at least.

Also certain teams / situations will trigger this more than others. Teams with great task tracking, clear expectations and a culture of discussion tend to reduce anxiety for me. While it's risky to recommend changing jobs or teams to "fix things", sometimes that's really all that's needed.
by zahlman | 2025-08-26 23:40:21+00:00
It also sounds like an episode of some televised sci-fi series where someone was exhibiting remarkable immunity to all sorts of diseases (including some nasty ones deliberately added for testing); but it turned out that this was no super-cure but instead the limited natural resources of the immune system being used up all at once, leading to a horrific death when they ran out.

I can't remember which series it was, though.
by nullc | 2025-08-26 23:41:03+00:00
I dunno that we disagree. My point was just that its easier to put a finger on the scale when any improvement, non-improvement, or even the existence of a disease itself is more subjective.

Like, we can't sell treatment's for people's sixth thumbs because virtually no people have a sixth thumb and it's unambiguous that they don't-- and even among any who do it'll probably be clear if it needs treating or not. But I can sell a treatment for your hyper-meta-ego because who is to say if a person has one of those or not or if my treatment of it is successful or not?
by kstrauser | 2025-08-26 23:41:03+00:00
In my albeit limited experience around lawyers and the legal system in general, judges are not amused by clever wordplay. Sometimes they'll entertain specific challenges to specific wordings, but in general the plain, obvious definition of something is the one they'll go with.

A text message is something in Messages.app or the Google equivalent. It may include a message in Signal or WhatsApp, but I suspect they'd want to see some case precedence supporting that. It almost certainly isn't a screenshot in their photos app, or a message written in text in the notes app, or Aretha Franklin spelling out R-E-S-P-E-C-T in the music app.

It's a message in the phone's commonly used messaging app. Anything much beyond that is likely to earn a scolding from an unimpressed judge.