MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gchamonlive | 2025-08-22 00:43:57+00:00
There is wisdom in knowing when -- and how -- to break standards. Don't know if this is the case, but I think it is. If introducing fmt powers to UV meant it had to consider tradeoffs elsewhere where it might hurt its quality somehow then maybe, but in this case UV is more like an umbrella, unifying the interface for pip, venv, builds... And now fmt. All keeping each separate domain isolated without details leaking to one another.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-22 00:44:08+00:00
>I’m not sure how you got that 2.2% of 18.5 trillion in GDP attributed to labor is 61 billion

The number I googled for 2024 US GDP was 29.18 trillion, so thats part of it. I'm flexibke enough to adjust that if wrong.

>Additionally, you seemed to have pulled the cherry-picked quote and compared with the “current” impact and ignored the immediately following text on latent automation exposure

There's no time scale presented in that section thst I can find for the "latent" exposure, so its not very useful as presented. That's why I compared it to now.

Over 5 years; I'm not sure but it can be realistic. Over 20 years, If the US GDP doesn't absolutely tank, that's not necessary as impressive a number as it sounds. You see my confusion here?

>that explains how it could have a greater impact that results in their 2.3t/39m estimate numbers.

Maybe I need to read more of the article, but I need a lot more numbers to be convinced of a 40x efficiency boost (predicted returns divided by current gdp value times their 2.2% labor value) for anything. Even the 20x number if I used your gpd number is a hefty claim.

>Or presented a better metric than my formula above on interpreting "impact". I'm open to a better model here than my napkin math.
by sn9 | 2025-08-22 00:44:21+00:00
When anyone mentions the Rust book, they're talking about the recommended place to start in the Rust community: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

To find a shared deck, I usually go here: https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks

Search for "rust".

You'll find two decks with 550-560 cards.

The older one was the original and whoever created it did most of the work and should be blessed by the heavens.

The newer one took the older one, and replaced the screenshots of code with markdown equivalents so they could be rendered by Anki while saving memory. You can see this in the difference in the number of images between the two decks. This is the one I'd download and use.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-22 00:44:34+00:00
whew, "alternative" is doing a lot of work there.

Contrast:

ansible -i server1,server2,server3 deploy_fake_pods.yaml ssh server1 sudo shutdown -h now # aww, too bad, now your pods on server1 are no longer

With

kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml for i in $(kubectl get nodes -o jsonpath='{.status.hostIP}'); do ssh $i sudo shutdown -h now sleep 120 done # nothing has changed except you have fresh Nodes

If you don't happen to have a cluster autoscaler available, feel free to replace the for loop with |head -1 or a break, but I mean to point out that the overall health and availability of the system is managed by kubernetes, but ansible is not that
by cbsmith | 2025-08-22 00:45:08+00:00
I think there are lots of advantages to running a model locally. Saving money is one of them, but that's only if you can keep the thing busy. You wisely put the "free" in quotes for a reason: you paid money for the hardware the model is running on, and you're paying for the electrical bill to power it too. Even if you pay a 100% markup to the cloud, unless you're keeping it busy 50% of the time, it's cheaper to rent.
by shkkmo | 2025-08-22 00:45:24+00:00
> Courts (at least in the US) have already ruled that use of ingested data for training is transformative

Yes, the training of the model itself is (or should be) a transformative act so you can train a model on whatever you have legal access to view.

However, that doesn't mean that the output of the model is automatically not infringing. If the model is prompted to create a copy of some copyrighted work, that is (or should be) still a violation.

Just like memorizing a book isn't infringment but reproducing a book from memory is.
by programd | 2025-08-22 00:45:36+00:00
The styles of Cyberpunk 2077 and Red Dead Redemption 2 are also dead givaways about their training data. There might also be a whiff of the Witcher 4 demo in one sequence.

The interesting possibility is that all you may need for the setting of a future AAA game is just a small bit of the environment to nail down the art direction. Then you can dispense with the army of workers to place 3D models on the map in just the right arrangment to create a level. The AI model can extrapolate it all for you.

Clearly the days of fiddly level creation with a million inscrutable options and checkboxes in something like Unreal, or Unity, or Godot editors are numbered. You just say what you want and how you want to tweak it, and all those checkboxes and menus are disposable. As a bonus that's a huge barrier to entry torn down for amateur game makers.
by dcre | 2025-08-22 00:46:01+00:00
This is not a good analogy because reasoning models are not choosing the best from a set of attempts based on knowledge of the correct answer. It really is more like what it sounds like: “did you think about it longer until you ruled out various doubts and became more confident?” Of course nobody knows quite why directing more computation in this way makes them better, and nobody seems to take the reasoning trace too seriously as a record of what is happening. But it is clear that it works!
by ksec | 2025-08-22 00:46:03+00:00
That is correct. Even when we are only left with three DRAM foundry, all three were watching out whether one of them will build a new Fab. That has created an environment where no one wants to build it first unless they are absolutely sure, and when one will be built all other follows.

And that is the reason why TSMC said they will never go into the DRAM business.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-08-22 00:46:34+00:00
From wikipedia

> United States – BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad (UP) regularly operate intermodal container trains exceeding 5,000 metres (16,500 ft) in length on main lines in the western United States. On the UP, these trains can stretch to over 6,100 metres (20,000 ft) with 5 locomotives and 280 well cars.

Those are incredible figures. It would almost be a shame to ban such amazing monuments to engineering. Not to mention that it's probably the most efficent and enviromentally friendly way to do things.
by VoidWhisperer | 2025-08-22 00:47:25+00:00
I'm a little confused here from the explanation and examples - how is this anonymous exactly? The examples require that you pass their 'changefly user id' and ip address. Both of these are fairly unique identifiers (especially when combined). The mention in the developer documentation that you may prompt them for the user's changefly PIN in the case of an IP address mismatch implies that you are storing the user's IP in some form or another - so basically users are having to trust that you aren't storing information about these 'changefly connections'. This is just one further hop from having the government provide this service themselves, since if they really wanted to, what is stopping them from coming to you and saying 'I want a list of all websites that user at X ip address did age verification on'?
by Cogito | 2025-08-22 00:48:54+00:00
I anticipate this will make it much easier for me to get my little team of actuaries formatting their code.

The impact of uv on our onboarding and utilisation of python has already been huge, and any way I can easily improve their code hygiene is a good one. Yes, I could get them to use ruff standalone, or set up pre-commit hooks etc for them, but the simple mental model that comes from `uv <do something>` is really beneficial.

Will have a play around with this and see how it goes. Would love to be able to hook into other formatters too, but not sure if that's easy or even possible already. For example, I would love it if `uv format` also formatted our SQL/dbt models.
by azemetre | 2025-08-22 00:48:57+00:00
I'm not understanding the logic. You want to add more population to the city? That doesn't seem fair but I'll concede I may not understand the point you're trying to make.

Assuming that the population is the same in the city and you just move residents into an apartment complex. I don't understand how you would get the same water consumption, am I missing something? Evaporative cooling is extremely water heavy and these facilities also have the normal HVAC you'd expect. Everything just seems to point to more water usage not less.
by promiseofbeans | 2025-08-22 00:49:25+00:00
Why not just get a regular monitor? That does everything you want, and is not smart. Plus you aren't locked in to a particular brand.

If you do want streaming apps, Bluetooth, wireless sharing, etc, you can buy a plugin box/dongle. E.g. a Chromecast, Google TV, or a full-blown AVR.
by yogorenapan | 2025-08-22 00:49:52+00:00
I've had this exact problem before, though not with such high amounts. To make it worse, it was Monero rather than Bitcoin, which made tracing impossible. In the end, I just had to produce emails/documents proving I was paid in crypto a couple years back & the associated increase in value since then. I got the crypto into my bank via a sketchy non-kyc exchange and somehow they didn't care about that at all.
by lmm | 2025-08-22 00:50:17+00:00
If you want to hitch your steam train to the back of an Amtrak train and have it towed then you can follow the same rules as a private car.

If you want to actually drive your steam train then you'd need to negotiate with the track owner, which may be hard, particularly if they run on PTC (there's literally one ERTMS-compliant steam train in the world, for example). There's no public right of way on railway tracks for randoms, only for Amtrak (and even they have limits).
by delhanty | 2025-08-22 00:51:19+00:00
> They introduced a feature that took me hours and hours to disable (the file not downloaded until you try to open it thing). One bit of documentation pretty much lied about turning it off. Turned out it had to be disabled in more than one place.

Are you able to say what the relevant settings are? (I would like to be able to do that too ...)
by onecommentman | 2025-08-22 00:51:32+00:00
On my fairly driver-assist-maxed-out 2025 hybrid in city traffic, I intervene the most at every red stoplight where I’m the first car thus requiring manual breaking, then next most intervene if I wait long enough at any red stoplight to enter waiting mode, which shuts down the car and requires restart.

The most dangerous situation is if a car enters my lane (maybe cutting me off) and then immediately moves to the next lane over, all while traveling at speed. The safety systems sees the new car entry at speed, but doesn’t look past to see the line of stopped cars the new car’s action shielded from view until it requires an emergency stop when discovering the stopped cars too late. Or manual braking by the driver since you know that’s going to happen.

Entering into a turning lane can be as bad when there are stopped cars, since the car sensor isn’t pointed at the turning lane until it is too late to detect stopped cars in that lane. Again requiring preemptive manual breaking.

Still quite useful when you get the hang of it. Makes long trips much less exhausting.
by OscarCunningham | 2025-08-22 00:51:49+00:00
Over on Mastodon we've just recently been having some fun with these techniques:

Dithering: https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/115035614385265413

Mondrian: https://mathstodon.xyz/@OscarCunningham/115049490241833844

Hand Drawn: https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/115056697540191327

Bad Apple: https://pony.social/@luna/115057532794342459

White Noise: https://pony.social/@luna/115058126613306302
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-22 00:53:07+00:00
I would say that is a pretty dumb painter. Definitely wildly talented at painting, but incredibly unintelligent. Just paint the house like you were paid to.

You might think I was making an analogy, and hence tried to break it, but it wasn't an analogy. Its the same thing. You own something, you pay people to work on it, it's still all yours afterwards.
by autoexec | 2025-08-22 00:53:28+00:00
They might not sell "your" data outright, but it doesn't mean they won't sell inferences/assumptions that they make about you using your data.

The reality is that no matter how ethical the company you trust with that data is, you're still one hack or pissed off employee away from having that data leaked, and all of that data is freely up for grabs to the state (whose 3 letter agencies are likely collecting it wholesale) and open to subpoena in a lawsuit.
by 1659447091 | 2025-08-22 00:54:42+00:00
Except citizens are free to renounce citizenship -- thus tax duty -- and leave of their own accord. The US makes this very easy, unlike other countries. I have no slack for tax dodgers, especially when they are given the resources to fulfill their financial duty to their country that is providing them the life they live. If immigrants can move to a new country and are even willing to pay more in taxes by using ID they can not get refunds for in order to be here, then citizens that don't want to pay their taxes and cry about it wasnt their choice to be here should leave such a hostile environment and make room for those that want to be here and are willing to pay their due.

Lucky for you there is a solution to your gripe, allow work authorization so immigrants can pay their taxes without fear of deportation to a 3rd country prison. Not much to do about my gripe with freeloading citizens who the rest of us end up paying more for. Even undocumented workers pay a higher percent of taxes than citizens in some 40 states, so I guess good thing they are here to help making up for those free loading citizens as well. See [0] above
by w10-1 | 2025-08-22 00:55:07+00:00
It's nice to observe in detail this system's behavior, but asking how _well_ it works might be asking an unanswerable question.

This system is the result of compromise among the biggest financial and governance systems. It's basically a melange of the possible and desirable (for many reasons), in service of multiple goals.

It's not its own thing. It's not owned, no one controls it, it's not subject to market forces, it's pretty much required for those who agree and avoided by others, and its benefits are almost exclusively hidden outside the justice and security services.

Even the simplest measures of accuracy seem inapt. False positives are clearly wrong (but so numerous now they are ignored and thus harmless?), but it's not clear that false negatives aren't intentional as a matter of investigational and prosecutorial discretion.

To me it's like asking the EPA to prove health benefits: since it's largely impossible, you end up with a reason to disable the regulatory system as ineffective.

Targeting these controls while the Genius act loads up trillions in stablecoin for a run on treasuries is fomenting a financial crisis.
by Avshalom | 2025-08-22 00:55:35+00:00
Really? I had a subscription to GI for a year or so because it came free with the GameCube I bought from Gamestop. I assumed it was just GS' in house ad rag. It's cool to know it still exists...

Oh wait what's that, I just went to wikipedia and I was correct in my assessment but also now it's independent? Shit I might just subscribe for the sake of it.
by miki123211 | 2025-08-22 00:57:46+00:00
> If you wouldn't trust its medical advice without review from an actual doctor, why would you trust its advice on anything else?

When an LLM gives you medical advice, it's right x% of the time. When a doctor gives you medical advice, it's right y% of the time. During the last few years, x has gone from 0 to wherever it is now, while y has mostly stayed constant. It is not unimaginable to me that x might (and notice I said might, not will) cross y at some point in the future.

The real problem with LLM advice is that it is harder to find a "scapegoat" (particularly for legal purposes) when something goes wrong.
by Coeur | 2025-08-22 00:57:49+00:00
This is definitely something that is needed. But I don't know if you're doing the privacy bit right and I can trust you. What I'd like to see next is a technical paper where you explain all your claims.

You're in the trust business. You haven't earned it yet.

If you can't really do the privacy bit with 100% absolute guaranteed certainty using technical means, you could also do a third party audit you daily. Yep, daily. That would be fine by me too.
by hnterk | 2025-08-22 00:58:19+00:00
> Taiwan doesn't have the world's best educational resources - what language do you think they're written in?

That’s not what they were saying. They were saying that in order to compete globally, the U.S. should ramp up education, which is valid, because Asians have dominated in higher education, which is needed to have first-class R&D, which is needed to lead in manufacturing and product development. The reason the U.S. excels is that they both outsource that to China and other countries as well as import top talent from China and other countries, but that has slowed and will slow.

> Btw, when they did try to do this, they ended up with a national epidemic of myopia and had to make the kids go outside.

You’re arguing for and against yourself. What point are you trying to make?
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-22 00:58:54+00:00
> The main decision on Amazon's side seems to be if they want you to bother sending the item back or not.

Hah. I had to argue with a chatbot and representatives when a bottle of shampoo arrived shattered and the Amazon package was filled with shampoo.

They literally said "put what remains of the product into a bag and return to UPS Store". I explained the absurdity, but no. So I duly show up at UPS who, to no-one's surprise but Amazon's, didn't particularly want a zip lock bag with 16 oz of shampoo in it.

And then they sent me a replacement bottle that broke similarly.

They didn't try that route again, but similarly, explaining that the "free replacement we sent you" was also delivered damaged, and I was still out money with no shampoo to show for it, also took a lot of effort. "But I see we sent you a replacement item, so you can't also get a refund." "Your replacement is also broken." "Oh, I thought that was the first bottle." "It was, too."
by pyman | 2025-08-22 00:59:04+00:00
I think the role of Product Manager should be renamed Customer Manager to avoid confusion and conflicts of interest. Some companies like Airbnb tried switching to Program Manager, but that only adds to the confusion.

Right now, the Product Manager is seen as the CEO's delegate, making sure the product follows business strategy, while the Engineering Manager is the CTO's delegate, making sure the product follows technical strategy. One represents business the other represents technology. But IMO since both are building the product together, the title Product Manager creates competition instead of collaboration.

The software needs the customer just as much as the customer needs the software. That's why I think the roles of Engineering Manager and Customer Manager make more sense, working together to build the best product possible. The product isn't managed by one side, it's managed by both.

However, the real problem isn't the role title, it's the qualifications of the person in the role. Companies don't hire lawyers as Engineering Managers, so why do they hire musicians as Product Managers?
by cauthon | 2025-08-22 00:59:39+00:00
You _can_ write pathological code like the Everything example, but I can see this feature being helpful if used responsibly.

It essentially allows the user to check if a class implements an interface, without explicitly inheriting ABC or Protocol. It’s up to the user to ensure the body of the case doesn’t reference any methods or attributes not guaranteed by the subclass hook, but that’s not necessarily bad, just less safe.

All things have a place and time.
by DanHulton | 2025-08-22 01:00:17+00:00
Don't forget gaming back in the day! Facebook games started taking off, then Facebook decided that the _only_ way you could get paid on the Facebook platform was with Facebook Credits, and to incentivize Facebook as the gaming platform of choice, Facebook would give out free Credits to players to spend on Facebook games. Of course, if your game was the one they chose to spend those Credits on, you wouldn't actually get paid, not with promotional credits, what, are you crazy?

No, I'm not still bitter from that era, why do you ask?
by IAmGraydon | 2025-08-22 01:00:44+00:00
While I think LLMs are not the pathway to AGI, this bubble narrative appears to be a concerted propaganda campaign intended to get people to sell, and it all started with Altman, the guy who was responsible for always pumping up the bubble. I don't know who else is behind this, but the Telegraph appears to be a major outlet of these stories. Just today alone:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/20/ai-report-tr... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/21/we-may-be-fa... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/21/zuckerberg-f...

Other media outlets are also making a massive push of this narrative. If they get their way, they may actually cause a massive selloff, letting everyone who profited from the giant bubble they created buy everything up cheap.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-22 01:01:03+00:00
Well that's even stupider. What do you do when your juniors get better at using your tools?

The 2010's tech boom happened because big tech knew a good engineer is worth their weight in gold, and not paying them well meant they'd be headhunted after as little as a year of work. What's gonna happen when this repeats) if we're assuming AI makes things much more efficient)?

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And that's my kindest interpretation. One that assumes that a junior and senior using a prompt will have a very close gap to begin with. Even seniors seem to struggle right now with current models working at scale on Legacy code.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-22 01:01:13+00:00
Reminds me of an interview with one of its founders who said it's becoming increasingly difficult to parody Kafkaesque insanity. They said something like humor is a temporary salve from the awfulness of reality, even in the face of terrible, repetitive occurrences like mass shootings that aren't themselves funny at all.

And, meanwhile, South Park hasn't really evolved and misses the opportunity for satirical social commentary with less offensive, cheap shots rather than brutally criticizing and challenging the core flaws like idiocy, meanness, and selfishness of corrupt, hypocritical, and criminal political personalities.
by shkkmo | 2025-08-22 01:02:02+00:00
Learning isn't stealing, but learning can absolutely lead to stealing. (Edit: This is why bring able to demostrate that you did not learn from a copyrighted work when trying to replicate and compete with it can be an important defense.)

The amount of IP risk caused by USING (not training) AI models to produce code, especially wholesale commercial code that competes with code that was contained in the training data, is poorly understood.
by adriand | 2025-08-22 01:05:20+00:00
I truly don't understand the appeal. What is enjoyable about this experience? I like risky and athletic stuff and have done a bit of climbing (nothing technical) and the appeal there seems quite obvious - in addition to the adrenaline rush, you've got clean air, beautiful vistas and scenery, etc. A pitch-black, dank hole in the ground - ugh. The thought of getting lost, especially getting lost and losing illumination, seems like the ultimate nightmare. On the plus side, those big caverns with various mineral formations do look quite spectacular. But you tell me, what's fun about this?