MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by finaard | 2025-08-17 11:21:30+00:00
The person before was explicitly referring to mass transit.

For taxi service it indeed could make limited sense - but that alone is not a big enough market to justify the development cost. From over here in Europe it looks like US tech companies are trying to compensate for that by making the market bigger through pushing taxi rides as replacement for bus or other mass transport rides - which is a horrible idea. I'm aware that the US has a bit more messed up public transport in general as we do over here (and taxi is considered part of public transport) - but even there, the right thing would be fixing mass transport, not introducing mass single person transport in cars.

In many countries over here taxi rates set by the state for individual regions to make it a reliable part of public transport. They're taking into account the cost of running the car, and other factors - the goal is to keep it affordable during peak times, while still being profitable for companies outside of those. Quite a few people rely on taxi service for things like going to the doctor or even just to the shop. In those cases a driver is not just a cost factor, but also a vital component of the provided service by providing assistance.

If we ever get fully automated taxis over here I'd expect them to be charged at the same taxi rates - otherwise it'd incentivize taxi companies to only run the cheapest option, which might cut off some person groups from the service, which - again - is public transport, and should not be discriminatory.
by ponector | 2025-08-17 11:22:40+00:00
But why? Locks are working. They perfectly fulfill requirements for the lock. Open/close with a key, stay closed if tried to be opened without a key.

There is no such thing as secure lock. Any lock could be open without original key. The difference is in the amount of effort.

Still baffles me that KIA sold cars which can be driven away using screwdriver and USB cable.
by frankohn | 2025-08-17 11:22:46+00:00
I found the questioning of love very interesting. I myself thought about whether the LLM can have emotions. Based on the book I am reading, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky, I think the LLM, as they are now with the architecture they have, cannot have emotions. They just verbalize things like they sort-of-have emotions but these are just verbal patterns or responses they learned.

I have come to think they cannot have emotions because emotions are generated in parts of our brain that are not logical/rational. They emerge based on environmental solicitations, mediated by hormones and other complex neuro-physical systems, not from a reasoning or verbalization. So they don't come up from the logical or reasoning capabilities. However, these emotions are raised and are integrated by the rest of our brain, including the logical/rational one like the dlPFC (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the real center of our rationality). Once the emotions are raised, they are therefore integrated in our inner reasoning and they affect our behavior.

What I have come to understand is that love is one of such emotions that is generated by our nature to push us to take care of some people close to us like our children or our partners, our parents, etc. More specifically, it seems that love is mediated a lot by hormones like oxytocin and vasopressin, so it has a biochemical basis. The LLM cannot have love because it doesn't have the "hardware" to generate these emotions and integrate them in its verbal inner reasoning. It was just trained by human reinforcement learning to behave well. That works up to some extent, but in reality, from its learning corpora it also learned to behave badly and on occasions can express these behaviors, but still it has no emotions.
by adidoit | 2025-08-17 11:23:18+00:00
Because LinkedIn makes your employment front and center it encourages status games .

The way to understand LinkedIn is no one is actually trying to engage in good faith. Everyone is seeking status points in a game they're playing. And that status depends on their endowment (people they know, institutions they are part of)

Status conferred from their boss, their peers, their underlings, people in similar roles - It's why LinkedIn feels like a lot of thought-leadering, because the only way to get status is to post something that gets likes within the status game you are playing

Forums like this one and even to some extent Twitter are more evolutionary in that you will likely see higher quality ideas get conferred status.

I use LinkedIn (getting traction for my product). I don't enjoy it but I do understand the game being played.
by nicbou | 2025-08-17 11:23:19+00:00
LLMs use the work of other people without payment or attribution, and uses the models they train to compete against the people whose work they stole. It's a parasitic relationship, an invasive species destroying an ecosystem.

Farmers still get paid for the food they grow, and restaurants still get paid to prepare it, and supermarkets to sell it. They are alternatives serving different needs. Their presence is the result of market demand, not of massive capital investment. There is balance and symbiosis.
by immibis | 2025-08-17 11:23:30+00:00
Democrats lose because they keep telling the truth that people don't want to hear.

Democracy was on the ballot, at least the second time. People voted against democracy, and now there isn't democracy. The regime is invading its own cities to purge them of dissidents.

But everyone thought this was alarmist and voted against the guys who said it would happen. They have no charisma.
by cubefox | 2025-08-17 11:24:19+00:00
Arguably most interesting facts about the new Wan 2.2 model:

- they are now using a 27B MoE architecture (with two 14B experts, for low level and high level detail), which were usually only used for autoregressive LLMs rather than diffusion models

- the smaller 5B model supports up to 720p24 video and runs on 24 GB of VRAM, e.g. an RTX 4090, a consumer graphics card

- if their benchmarks are reliable, the model performance is SOTA even compared to closed source models
by alphazard | 2025-08-17 11:24:19+00:00
This is misleading. Anyone who wants to learn about IQ should Google it. It's the most replicated finding in psychology, and any questions you have about twins or groups with similar or different genes have probably been investigated. There is a lot of noise online in the form of commentary about IQ, so it's important to look at actual data if you are skeptical/curious.
by tombh | 2025-08-17 11:25:40+00:00
Hopefully Oliver, the creator of the project, is here to better answer, but something worth bearing in mind is that a significant part of conventional JS engines are all JIT tricks. And Porffor is AOT, so can lean on WASM and the C compiler for compilation optimisations. The author did a quick comparison of lines of code for some of the popular JS engines: https://goose.icu/js-engine-sizes
by l0b0 | 2025-08-17 11:26:10+00:00
Just about every week I find "new" GitLab bugs which, after a quick search, turn out to be 5+ years old, with lots of community engagement, but seemingly zero movement from GitLab itself. I wonder what GitLab devs actually work on, because none of the new features in the last couple of years seem as impactful as fixing one of those bugs would be. (I still prefer it to GitHub, especially the CI model.)
by akk0 | 2025-08-17 11:26:11+00:00
I don't feel you're right? I'm pretty sure that Germany experienced the same 80s anime boom that was felt in other parts of Europe too, and DoKomi (German anime convention) pulls ~180,000 people, very close to overtaking Comic Con. I'm actively involved in the European anime-adjacent DJ scene so I know Germany is not some low spot within Europe at all.

I think perhaps you might be overestimating how popular anime is with Americans because of how popular it is on the Internet.
by thristian | 2025-08-17 11:26:42+00:00
Brøderbund was the publisher of "Stunts", but not the developer. The developer was Distinctive Software Inc. who had previously developed the hit games Test Drive and Test Drive II: The Duel for Accolade. For whatever reason, Accolade developed Test Drive III in-house, and DSI developed Stunts on their own.

After Stunts, DSI got bought by Electronic Arts. They were briefly "Pioneer Productions" (or at least, people from DSI were part of that group within EA) and made the original Need For Speed, but eventually became just a part of EA Canada.
by d4rkn0d3z | 2025-08-17 11:26:51+00:00
Human beings' IQ test results can vary significantly based on how much money is in their pockets. For example, if a farmer takes an IQ test before crops are harvested and sold they score lower than after crops are sold, in the same year.

It seems fairly obvious to me that an LLM is the projection intelligence in the language domain. In other words, if you killed Intelligence and gave it a push in direction of language, the chalk outline you could draw around its dead body on the ground would be an LLM.

Full disclosure: I have taken 2 IQ tests, both online and timed. First was in late 90's after graduated electonics eng. was free, scored 149. After 4 years and obtaining theoretical physics degree, I did another scoring 169. The second test was not free, but I did not pay. I got the second test results because the test site owner personally emailed me my results for free with congrads, because they were the highest ever recorded on the site to date. I did both for fun just see the questions, I think both results are meaningless, the same variability occurs on farmers studied as mentioned above.
The bet against AI was quite safe, until it wasn't
by aniijbod | 2025-08-17 11:29:06+00:00
There was a firm, implicit conviction in business that things that AI would decimate still had a future because AI was still a long way off.

Like the time traveler who went back in time but never bet on things that actually happened, those that had the most faith in the developments we see today before they took off never shorted the things AI would undermine, at least as far as we know, but maybe the reason we don't know is because AI hasn't properly undermined them yet?
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by Disposal8433 | 2025-08-17 11:31:00+00:00
Even self-hosted web sites (that people call "applications") are annoying to me because I don't have the time to take care of a personal server, and most applications only use local data.

But... it's written in JS, it's easier to write than a C++/CMake application that you must package, and it's cross-platform by default.
by alberto-m | 2025-08-17 11:32:15+00:00
> Brøderbund was the publisher of "Stunts", but not the developer. The developer was Distinctive Software Inc.

This is literally the first thing I write in the article :-) I also link to a video about DSI's story which in my opinion deserves more views.

Test Drive III being developed by a different company explains why that game is visionary but fundamentally broken, while DSI's creations are still fun to play.
by xpe | 2025-08-17 11:32:15+00:00
Let’s get specific.

If we’re talking about DARPA’s research agenda or the US military’s priorities, I would say they are quite capable at planning for speculative scenarios and long-term effects - for various reasons, including decision making structure and funding.

If we’re talking about shifting people’s mindsets about AI risks and building a movement, the time is now. Luckily we’ve got foundations to build on. We don’t need to practice something else first. We have examples of trying to prime the public to pay attention to other long-term risks, such as global warming, pandemic readiness, and nuclear proliferation. Now we should to add long-term AI risk to the menu.

And I would not say that I’m anything close to “optimistic” in the probabilistic sense about building the coalition we need, but we must try anyway. And motivation can be found without naïve optimism. A sense of acting with purpose can be a useful state of mind that is not coupled to one’s guesses about most likely outcomes.
by graemep | 2025-08-17 11:32:29+00:00
I would say it is a lot older. For example:

‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and most important commandment. The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.

I think you can find significantly older version of the same idea ("compassion" in Buddhism, maybe?), but that is an actual quote I can call to mind
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-17 11:32:40+00:00
> This reads like it was written by a developer 'who doesn't get marketing'.

That's spot on.

And it will be a very common sentiment regarding marketing. Many devs don't like "bullshitting", it's the exact opposite of how we're supposed to do our job. And while it's understood marketing has a huge impact on sales, one can still take a healthy distance from it.

I think this post is about linkedin moving from a generic work focused SNS to a business/marketing eldorado, and how the author isn't happy about it.

We'd see probably see the same kind of rant if Salesforce pivoted to become a Github competitor.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-17 11:33:53+00:00
> That's a shame then

No, you want to dismantle the judicial branch, because of their failures, but you also say you're an anarchist, so people hear you and think you are against every kind of judiciary and will oppose you.

Violence will never lead to a better regime. Public opinion does. There might be violence while public opinion reveals itself. Denacification didn't happened by convicting them. It happened by temporarily forcing others into power and THEN raising children, who think differently.

> you still need to be aware of the system's rot to cut it out

Yes. There is a difference between "The system sucks fundamentally and has for 250 years, so screw it" and "The system is just and should be protected, there just happened to be a lot of idiots in there for the merely 250 years. That's why need to bring back it's glory." The latter might improve things, the former will only cause self-enforcing violence.
by b112 | 2025-08-17 11:34:55+00:00
Sometimes I want this, other times I prefer random sizes.

For example, with tomato based sauces, I often have left overs. For those, sometimes it is not enough so I might add extra crushed tomato to the left overs.

Yet I won't cook that as long as the original dish. So I effectively end up with crushed tomatoes cooked to different amounts.

And you can taste it. It widens the flavour. Gives more depth. Since I noticed this, I often hold back a tablespoon or two of crushed tomatoes, giving long, short, and fresh tomato flavour. The fresh amount added is tiny, like adding spice!

For some dishes, I add fresh garlic but a tiny bit of garlic powder. Just a subtle hint of a slightly different garlic flavour.

Back to onions, different sized pieces cook more/less, and create more variance in flavour, as long as the cook isn't so long to completely cook them all.

I also like adding more than one type of onion to a dish.

Anyhow. Widen those flavours!
by verisimi | 2025-08-17 11:35:01+00:00
> The first and most famous Pfeilstorch was a white stork found in 1822 near the German village of Klütz, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It was carrying a 75-centimetre (30 in) spear from central Africa in its neck.[2][3] The specimen was subsequently stuffed and can be seen today in the zoological collection of the University of Rostock.

So, where Africans tried and failed, Germans succeeded.
by oinfoalgo | 2025-08-17 11:35:09+00:00
I use AI as a tool to make digital art but I don't make "AI Art".

Imperfection is not the problem with "AI Art". The problem is that it is really hard to not get the models to produce the same visual motifs and cliches. People can spot AI art so easy because of the motifs.

I think midjourney took this to another level with their human feedback. It became harder and harder to not produce the same visual motifs in the images to the point it is basically useless for me now.
by netsharc | 2025-08-17 11:35:19+00:00
There's a story of the Saudi embassy in the US (correction: it was the Canada-based embassy of this "great" nation) issuing fake identities to suspects of crime (sexual assault) to allow them to flee. A quick search of "saudi arabian rapist fake passport" gives me a lot of hits that Jeffrey Epstein also had a Saudi Arabian passport... huh.

But since the Israelis are noble and are the only free democracy of that region, I can't imagine they would do something like that... /S

https://www.vice.com/en/article/saudi-arabia-may-have-helped...
by merksittich | 2025-08-17 11:35:39+00:00
What annoys me the most in my LinkedIn feed is low-effort visual AI slop, in particular based on fads such as the bland 4o comic style with text bubbles.

As a "visual animal", I find it very hard to tune out this kind of noise. I consequently try to hide such content from my feed, but the LinkedIn algorithm will not budge.

I did an Ask HN a while ago trying to find browser add-ons which will hide (or blur) such images (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43833961), which turned out fruitless.
by austin-cheney | 2025-08-17 11:35:44+00:00
I really find it annoying when JavaScript people complain about performance. If you think something is slow then make it faster and open a pull request.

It’s great when those PRs do come, but most of the time there is just empty whining while a developer contributes nothing. This is because most JavaScript developers are deathly afraid to write original software, as that would be reinventing a wheel.

Most JavaScript developers are absolutely incapable of measuring things, so they have no idea when something else is actually faster until else runs the numbers for them. Let’s take your Bun example. Bun is great but Bun is also written in Zig which is faster than C++. Bun claims to be 3x faster at WebSockets than Nodes popular WS package, because Bun can achieve a send rate of 700,000 messages per second (numbers from 5 years ago). Bun is good at measuring things. What they don’t say is that WS is just slow. I wrote my own WebSocket library for Node in TypeScript about 5 years ago that can achieve a send rate of just under 500,000 messages per second. What they also don’t tell you is that WebSockets are 11x faster to send than to receive due to frame header interpretation. I say not to disparage Bun but to show your empty worship is misplaced if you aren’t part of the solution.
by svantana | 2025-08-17 11:35:53+00:00
> why it's so easy to underestimate long-term progress and overestimate short-term progress

I dunno, I think that's mostly post-hoc rationalization. There are equally many cases where long-term progress has been overestimated after some early breakthroughs: think space travel after the moon landing, supersonic flight after the concorde, fusion energy after the H-bomb, and AI after the ENIAC. Turing himself guesstimated that human-level AI would arrive in the year 2000. The only constant is that the further into the future you go, the harder it is to predict.
by htfu | 2025-08-17 11:36:47+00:00
Which is why the foundation players must soon take on the additional role of being an ad buyer.

Interactive stuff, within content. A mini game in a game, school homework of course, or "whichever text box the viewer looks at longest by WorldCoin Eyeball Tracker for Democracy x Samsung" for an interstitial turned captcha.

Better hope your taste isn't too bland and derivative!

Amazon and Ali soon lap the field by allowing coupon farming, but somehow eventually end up where they started.
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-17 11:36:48+00:00
> if what they give you is defective they will replace it without question once you bring it to their attention

Go there and request a rare steak or idk steak with kimchi, let is know how it goes!

This is a Korean car and probably secure enough in korea where you usually don't lock your bike and/or house. If it not secure if you park it on the street in SF/London/Magadan/Capetown/Kabul are you sure they owe you a free "fix" for everything that may occur
by magicalhippo | 2025-08-17 11:36:51+00:00
> one friend can't leave the house without checking multiple times that the stove is off (I would consider that a mild case of ocd but not autistic)

Friend of the family was the same. One day they were very late for the a opera, and for once his wife managed to convince him he didn't need to check so they didn't get even more delayed.

Once out of the opera, he sees countless missed calls. Turned out they had left the stove on with a pot on it, and the massive amounts of smoke had triggered the alarm. The alarm company had alerted the fire brigade which had resolved it.

According to the firemen their house was saved by the fact that lid was on. Otherwise the flames would have gotten to the fat in the range hood and since their home was mostly made of wood that would have been real bad.

So, the one time he skips his check, their house almost burns down. Guess what he kept on doing...
by enadzan | 2025-08-17 11:37:27+00:00
Yes, but (as far as I understand) LISTEN/NOTIFY would require adding triggers to the tables I need to track. Also, if the PgHook container is down, NOTIFY events would be lost — for UI updates that’s not critical, but it’s a limitation.

I’ve been experimenting with logical replication [1] for a while, and it felt like a simpler fit here.

[1] https://github.com/PgOutput2Json/PgOutput2Json