MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by refulgentis | 2025-08-12 20:23:06+00:00
You should revisit this in a year, I think you'll understand how you came off a bit better. TL;DR: horrible idea to show up gossiping to cast aspersions, then disclaim responsibility because it's by proxy and you didn't understand, on a professional specialist site.

Your rationale for your choices doesn't really matter, you made the choice to cast aspersions, repeatedly, on multiple stories in multiple comments.

Handwaving about how the truth will come out through discussion, even when you repeatedly cast aspersions you disclaim understanding of, while also expressing surprise you got a reply, while also always making up more stuff in service of justifying the initial aspersions is indicative of how coherent your approach seems to the rest of us.

In general, I understand why you feel patronized. Between the general incoherence, this thread, and the previous thread where you're applying not-even-wrong, in the Pauli sense, concepts like LTS and Linux kernel dev to this situation, the only real choice that lets anyone assume the best of you is you're 15-25 and don't have a great grasp of tech yet.

Otherwise, you're just some guy gossiping, getting smarmy about it, with enough of an IQ to explain back to yourself why you didn't mean to do it. 0 idea why someone older and technical would do all that on behalf of software they don't use and don't understand.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-08-12 20:23:08+00:00
Just because you can run it over the network doesn't mean you have to. Like, yeah, you can run Linux with root on NFS and yes it can make you vulnerable to latency problems, but you can also run Plan 9 completely on a single machine with all the myriad filesystems coming from from the local system (mostly virtual, but some actually hitting disk).

If you mean that microkernels ping-ponging between kernel and user space can impact perf: Maybe? I'd really want to see benchmarks.
by lysace | 2025-08-12 20:23:09+00:00
The Parallax P8X32A Propeller (2006) did multi-core processing in a very beginner friendly way.

It can be done - if you take a holistic approach to hardware + runtime + development environment.

The Propeller probably failed because of the custom language, the custom assembly syntax, the custom ISA, the custom IDE font (!) etc. It was a very neat system though.
by anakaine | 2025-08-12 20:23:16+00:00
Do remember, however, that the judge is viewing this purely through a legal lens. That interpretation is probably quite an easy one to get to where if you have built a product and never allowed a competitors product in, and nor have you taken over someone else's by using unfair business practices then you're not a monopoly given the legal definition, not the dictionary definition.

From the point of defence of the dictionary definition, Android is huge in Australia, and outside the US generally.
by logicprog | 2025-08-12 20:23:35+00:00
Here's an in depth analysis and critique of that study by someone whose job is literally to study programmers psychologically and has experience in sociology studies: https://www.fightforthehuman.com/are-developers-slowed-down-...

Basically, the study has a fuckton of methodological problems that seriously undercut the quality of its findings, and even assuming its findings are correct, if you look closer at the data, it doesn't show what it claims to show regarding developer estimations, and the story of whether it speeds up or slows down developers is actually much more nuanced and precisely mirrors what the developers themselves say in the qualitative quote questionaire, and relatively closely mirrors what the more nuanced people will say here — that it helps with things you're less familiar with, that have scope creep, etc a lot more, but is less or even negatively useful for the opposite scenarios — even in the worst case setting.

Not to mention this is studying a highly specific and rare subset of developers, and they even admit it's a subset that isn't applicable to the whole.
by lesuorac | 2025-08-12 20:24:01+00:00
> they need to be paid at least the prevailing wage in their location/job level.

I mean if you follow the law sure.

It's easy to either just pay them below market or hire them at a lower title than the role actually requires.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/09/h1b_visa_fraud/

https://www.epi.org/publication/new-evidence-widespread-wage...
by kwillets | 2025-08-12 20:24:31+00:00
Another chapter of the slowly-reimplementing-Vertica saga.

It's becoming clear that merge trees and compaction need to be addressed next, after delete vectors brought them onstage.

Vertica will actually look up the equality keys in a relevant projection if it exists, and then use the column values in the matching rows to equality-delete from the other projections; it's fairly good at avoiding table scans.
by crouan | 2025-08-12 20:25:16+00:00
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by wlamartin | 2025-08-12 20:25:35+00:00
I don't think people in this thread aren't really confused about MCP. They are confused that you claimed, or at least insinuated that an LLM might skip the schema validation portion of an MCP tool call request/response, which was originally demonstrated via Claude Code. Hopefully you can understand why everyone seems so confused, since that claim doesn't make any sense when the LLM doesn't really have anything to do with schema validation at all.
by fruitworks | 2025-08-12 20:26:07+00:00
I will have to read these papers then. My intuition is that it's impossible to usefully use PoW to train neural networks because you have to rely on user-submitted training data in order to work which allows you to cheat by pre-determining the solution to your own work.

It's not a terrible idea, but I've yet to see it be inplemented. Gridcoin is one typical example where it's just PoS with "useful PoW" tacked on for token distribution, and doesn't actually use PoW for security.
by standardly | 2025-08-12 20:26:12+00:00
LLMs work really well for open-ended role-playing sessions, but not so much games with strict rules.

They just can't seem to grasp what would make a choice a "wrong" choice in a text-based adventure game, so they end up having no ending. You have to hard-code failure events, or you just never get anything like "you chose to attack the wizard, but he's level 99, dummy, so you died - game over!". It just accepts whatever choice you make, ad infinitum.

My best session was one in which I had the AI give me 4 dialogue options to choose from. I never "beat" the game, and we never solved the mystery - it just kept going further down the rabbit hole.. But it was surprisingly enjoyable, and repayable! A larger framework just needs written for it to keep the tires between the lines and to hard-code certain game rules - what's under the hood is already quite good for narratives imo.
by const_cast | 2025-08-12 20:26:30+00:00
There were constitutional arguments for abortion in Roe. And, coincidently, those constitutional arguments are extremely similar to the ones used in Obergefel.

Meaning, if this court was willing to overturn Roe on those grounds, they could easily overtune Obergefel.

Its a matter of if they have the political will. Which, the answer should theoretically be yes - the supreme Court doesn't care about politics. But this court isn't like other courts, so it might be no. Overturning Obergefel would be very politically unpopular for virtually no gain, even for the Republicans. So, personally, I doubt it's going to happen.
by philwelch | 2025-08-12 20:26:38+00:00
> fatness is not an illness, so fat people by default still count as just plain healthy

No, not even this is true. The Mayo Clinic describes obesity as a “complex disease” and “medical problem”[1], which is synonymous with “illness” or, at a bare minimum, short of what one could reasonably call “healthy”. The Cleveland Clinic calls it “a chronic…and complex disease”. [2] Wikipedia describes it as “a medical condition, considered by multiple organizations to be a disease”.

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/obesity/sympt...

[2] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/11209-weight-...
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-12 20:27:00+00:00
The real link is to a video which is hosted on YouTube and probably needs Javascript to work.

It's a long story but renewables are coming on strong, storage is also coming on stronger but there are questions about how reliable you can get the grid with them at reasonable cost, nuclear can be part of the problem but has awful economics with current LWRs, I'm skeptical that small LWRs will really be better though GE is making a stab at it with BWRX, Gen 4 reactors might be better but they're 15-20 years out from serious commercialization.

Certainly "no nukes" and "red tape" are not the main thing holding us back, nobody in the west wants to put up $10B to build a reactor, really spend $20-$30B and wait 10-20 years for it to come online. Maybe red tape and opposition are responsible for 20% of the delay but good old fashioned bungling seems part of it and if you want to say "next time will be better" the burden is on you is to convince the money people.
by jeremywho | 2025-08-12 20:27:11+00:00
My workflow is to use Claude desktop with the filesystem mcp server.

I give claude the full path to a couple of relevant files related to the task at hand, ie where the new code should hook into or where the current problem is.

Then I ask it to solve the task.

Claude will read the files, determine what should be done and it will edit/add relevant files. There's typically a couple of build errors I will paste back in and have it correct.

Current code patterns & style will be maintained in the new code. It's been quite impressive.

This has been with Typescript and C#.

I don't agree that what it has produced for me is hobby-grade only...
by pessimizer | 2025-08-12 20:27:26+00:00
Who cares about semantics? Define what thinking means in a human. I did computer engineering, I know how a computer works, and I also know how an LLM works. Call it what you want if calling it "thinking" makes you emotional.

I think it's better to accept that people can install their thinking into a machine, and that machine will continue that thought independently. This is true for a valve that lets off steam when the pressure is high, it is certainly true for an LLM. I really don't understand the authenticity babble, it seems very ideological or even religious.

But I'm not friends with a valve or an LLM. They're thinking tools, like calculators and thermostats. But to me arguing about whether they "think" is like arguing whether an argument is actually "tired" or a book is really "expressing" something. Or for that matter, whether the air conditioner "turned itself off" or the baseball "broke" the window.

Also, I think what you meant to say is that there is no prompt that causes an LLM to think. When you use "think" it is difficult to say whether you are using scare quotes or quoting me; it makes the sentence ambiguous. I understand the ambiguity. Call it what you want.
by treetalker | 2025-08-12 20:27:28+00:00
> The British economist Guy Standing

Oh man. Related to Guy Noir, perhaps?

Earlier today another article on HN discussed an executive named Ben Jealous.

Some parents are either oblivious or have sick senses of humor.

Obligatory link to Johnny Cash's A Boy Named Sue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_Named_Sue
by Terr_ | 2025-08-12 20:27:44+00:00
I often like to point out that Earth was already consumed by Grey Goo, and today we are hive-minds in titanic mobile megastructure-swarms of trillions of the most complex nanobots in existence (that we know of), inheritors of tactics and capabilities from a zillion years of physical and algorithmic warfare.

As we imagine the ascension of AI/robots, it may seem like we're being humble about ourselves... But I think it's actually the reverse: It's a kind of hubris elevating our ability to create over the vast amount we've inherited.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-08-12 20:28:26+00:00
What do you think the long-term support looks like for these devices? Are the people who get these implants just fucked once the company drops support or do they make any kind of long-term promises? Ideally they would have some clause that if the company shuts down or stops supporting the product you can retain a license to all the IP + source code access in order to be able to hire someone in case maintenance is required... Current law guarantees don't seem adequate for this level of implant. You really should have full source code access to anything that gets implanted in your body.
by tracker1 | 2025-08-12 20:28:43+00:00
Only in so much as "healthy" might be defined as "lacking observed disease".

Once you use a CGM or have glucose tolerance tests, resting insulin, etc. You'll find levels outside the norm, including inflammation. All indications of Metabolic Syndrome/Disease.

If you can't run a mile, or make it up a couple flights of stairs without exhaustion, I'm not sure that I would consider someone healthy. Including myself.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-12 20:28:47+00:00
> I really desperately need LLMs to maintain extremely effective context

The context is in the repo. An LLM will never have the context you need to solve all problems. Large enough repos don't fit on a single machine.

There's a tradeoff just like in humans where getting a specific task done requires removing distractions. A context window that contains everything makes focus harder.

For a long time context windows were too small, and they probably still are. But they have to get better at understanding the repo by asking the right questions.
by WillPostForFood | 2025-08-12 20:29:14+00:00
Your LLM output seems abnormally bad, like you are using old models, bad models, or intentionally poor prompting. I just copied and pasted your Krita example into ChatGPT, and reasonable answer, nothing like what you paraphrased in your post.

https://imgur.com/a/O9CjiJY
Show HN: I accidentally built a startup idea validation tool
by kptbarbarossa | 2025-08-12 20:29:23+00:00
I was working on validating some of my own project ideas. While trying to find how to validate my idea, I realized the process itself could be turned into a tool.

A few late nights later, I had something that takes any startup idea, fetches discussions, summarizes sentiment, and gives a quick “validation score.”

It’s very rough, but it works, and it’s already making me rethink a few of my own ideas.

It's still a work in progress. I don't actually know what I'm doing, but I know it's worth it. Honest feedback welcomed! Live demo here: https://validationly.com/
by MrAlex94 | 2025-08-12 20:29:37+00:00
When I rebased all of Waterfox’s changes onto the latest ESR branch, disabling AI features was my top priority. I only kept translations, and even that’s opt-in. I think most Firefox features, especially anything AI-related, should be opt-in by default. This feels like part of a broader shift in software expectations - when applications start acting autonomously, users should know exactly what’s happening and explicitly consent to that behavior.
by bobvanluijt | 2025-08-12 20:29:48+00:00
Meet Elysia - a decision tree based agentic system that dynamically displays data, learns from user feedback, and chunks documents on-demand.

Most AI chatbots are stuck in a text-in, text-out world. But what if your AI could dynamically decide not just what to say, but ? Elysia is designed to completely rethink how we interact with data through AI.

From: https://x.com/weaviate_io/status/1955283683717369970
by freeopinion | 2025-08-12 20:29:58+00:00
What if you could submit a PR by pasting the url of a repo commit?

The forge could automatically figure out if the submitted repo was a fork, figure out the sequence of commits in the foreign repo that diverged from itself, analyze the commit comments and commit diffs to see if they jived, and add the PR if it passed the spam filter.

Then you could submit PRs without an account or even having the contact information of a maintainer.
by WorldMaker | 2025-08-12 20:30:44+00:00
A Mastodon post I saw recently hit upon all the "Agentic" stuff is a rerun of the "Semantic Web" era, including its mistakes such as drastically overusing the word "agent" and also expecting Companies to build APIs with free or cheap access that bypass their ads and dark pattern-enhanced (er, "revenue-generating") websites.

After another MCP discussion today got into "Neo4j is the best database for almost every MCP agent, because…" I realized I may have "Semantic Web PTSD" and finally have a name for some of the less than excited gut reactions to "Agentic" I've been having for a while now. (Beyond also the terrible gut reaction to both the "word" "agentic" itself and also naming a key protocol after the villain from Tron.)
by gen220 | 2025-08-12 20:30:50+00:00
Strongly recommend this profile in the NYer on Curtis Yarvin (who also uses "rationalism" to justify their beliefs) [0]. The section towards the end that reports on his meeting one of his supposed ideological heroes for an extended period of time is particularly illuminating.

I feel like the internet has led to an explosion of these such groups because it abstracts the "ideas" away from the "people". I suspect if most people were in a room or spent an extended amount of time around any of these self-professed, hyper-online rationalists, they would immediately disregard any theories they were able to cook up, no matter how clever or persuasively-argued they might be in their written down form.

[0]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-...
by godelski | 2025-08-12 20:31:09+00:00
Some of those things did happen though.

I think there's an incorrect valuation by looking at where things are today. I mean Black Monday, the 2009 housing crash, DotCom Bubble, and others were times the market did tank yet we've since recovered.

So how are we measuring the accuracy of those predictions? From Jan to April the Trump admin was announcing tariffs. VOO's (S&P500) lowest price this year was on April 8th at $456.74 and on Feb 19th it was $563.67. We see similar patterns with covid and invasion of Ukraine. Do we consider a 25% reduction "tanking"?

I agree that with enough time that everything will work itself out. But I do not think that this means we should ignore or downplay damage done in the short term.
by flowerthoughts | 2025-08-12 20:31:52+00:00
Totally agree.

This was a debugging tool for Zigbee/Thread.

The web project is Nuxt v4, which was just released, so Claude keeps wanting to use v3 semantics, and you have to keep repeating the known differences, even if you use CLAUDE.md. (They moved client files under a app/ subdirectory.)

All of these are greenfield prototypes. I haven't used it in large systems, and I can totally see how that would be context overload for it. This is why I was asking GP about the circumstances.
by hyp0thetical | 2025-08-12 20:31:54+00:00
We're happy to provide AI research and engineering teams access to our PyTorch framework for applying quantization algorithms that are tightly aligned with NVIDIA's compiler for efficient inference. The framework also enables convenient research of new algorithms!

We hold several patents and have published articles, including a CVPR oral presentation on DNNs compression. We've built tools we enjoy using ourselves and hope they can benefit others too!

The framework supports various quantization setups:

- Integer and Float quantization

- Symmetric and Asymmetric quantization

- Dynamic and Static quantization

- Multiple granularity options: per-tensor, per-channel, per-token, etc

- Pre-defined configuration schemas compatible with NVIDIA GPUs that are easy to set up and use
by kazinator | 2025-08-12 20:32:00+00:00
No, that is false; a neural net trained on a decent set of handwritten digits will recognize a newly handwritten digit.

I'm saying that this is a strawman version of "not in the training data". The newly handwritten digit is squarely the same sort of stuff that is in the training data: an interpolation.

We are not surprised when we fit a curve to a bunch of points and then find points on the curve that are not exactly any of those points, but are located among the points.

Go too far outside of the cluster of points though and the curve is a hallucination.

This is the intuition behind interpolate vs extrapolate.
by leptons | 2025-08-12 20:32:08+00:00
You get it. It's expensive to develop for iOS (or multiple native apps), and on top of that, once you do get into their app store, you pay Apple a significant percentage of any purchases made through the app, as well as the possibility that Apple will steal your idea and add it to their OS as they have done in the past. Fuck all that noise, when web apps are perfectly capable, secure, and the only thing stopping them is Apple's greed.
by worik | 2025-08-12 20:32:30+00:00
Totally and utterly wrong, a complete misunderstanding of capitalism

Let me explain.

Access to capital is key. If you have it you can do business, if you do not you cannot, in general terms

There is more than one way to access capital, debt is very common.

And to get rich you have to do business

So if you are already rich getting more money, in a free market, is easier than getting started, in a free market

That is the point, and one small example,e. This pattern repeates o er and over. Once you have money getting more money is much easier than getting the first money

So in free markets the wealth divides tend to increase.

This is very elementary, stage II economics
by lesuorac | 2025-08-12 20:32:33+00:00
Is it that skilled when it gets taught in 4 years in college while an Electrician has to apprenticeship for 7?

That said, whether software is high-skill or not is tangential to the point I'm making. Which is, H1-B is being used to depress wages and that reworking it shouldn't affect jobs that actually have few people that can do it because O-1 allows them to work that job.
by sounds | 2025-08-12 20:33:04+00:00
Agree. Most computers that are a joy to learn have a handful of controllers that operate in parallel. That is, multiple cores

The Apple II had a really cool disk drive because of how it did what it did with so little hardware. By relying on the single CPU for everything it was elegant, advanced, interesting... but perhaps not so easy to program.

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2021/11/12/the-amazing-disk-ii...