MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cyberax | 2025-09-02 03:47:41+00:00
> You'd have to build totally separate datacenters with totally different hardware than what they have today.

No? You can reset GPUs with regular PCI-e commands.

> You can't really enforce limits, either. Even if you're able to tolerate that and sell customers on it, the security side is worse

Welp. AWS is already a totally insecure trash, it seems: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/g6e/ Good to know.

Not having GPUs on Fargate/Lambda is, at this point, just a sign of corporate impotence. They can't marshal internal teams to work together, so all they can do is a wrapper/router for AI models that a student can vibe-code in a month.

We're doing AI models for aerial imagery analysis, so we need to train and host very custom code. Right now, we have to use third-parties for that because AWS is way more expensive than the competition (e.g. https://lambda.ai/pricing ), _and_ it's harder to use. And yes, we spoke with the sales reps about private pricing offers.
by the_af | 2025-09-02 03:48:07+00:00
Oh no, I'm not advocating ditching em-dahses. I love them -- the form I use, anyway.

I was just curious why you've decided paying attention to them is a bad heuristic. Sure, it can change once people instruct their LLMs not to use them, but still, for now, they sure seem to overuse them!

That and "let's unpack this". I swear, I'll forbid ChatGPT from using "unpack" ever again, in any context!
by JCM9 | 2025-09-02 03:48:52+00:00
Amazon, and AWS specially, just don’t have recognized leaders in this space at the helm. I think that’s OK as they should focus on the more boring but important infrastructure stuff.

Jassy’s long rambling answer on the last earnings call though does suggest that being way behind on AI is a sore spot for leadership.

Attracting top talent though is a challenge for Amazon beyond just AI. Their reputation has become a real issue and the top folks simply have better options.
by buu700 | 2025-09-02 03:49:14+00:00
Citation needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash

Humans can adapt faster than LLM companies

No one said anything about LLM companies. If I were a spammer today, I'd just have my code replace dashes in LLM output with hyphens before posting it. As a human, I'm not going to suddenly stop using dashes because a handful of people are treating a silly meme as if it were a genuinely useful heuristic.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-09-02 03:50:59+00:00
I believe it was the Apple fee monopoly that was the central thrust of the anti-trust case, not open distribution of apps themselves. The goal was to allow storefronts to compete on fees.

If Apple was banning apps from alt stores but keeping them listed in their own store, then it would be a legal issue.

I personally I think it defeats the purpose as well, but I'm more concerned with the right for people to do what they wish with their own device. These antitrust court cases can get pretty specific with what they are addressing.
by abustamam | 2025-09-02 03:51:28+00:00
Whenever I use AI in social settings to fact check or do research or get advice, I always trust but verify, but also disclaim it so that people know to trust but verify.

I think this is a good habit to get people into, even in casual conversations. Even if someone didn't directly get their info from AI and got it online, the content could have still been generated by AI. Like you said, the trust part of trust but verify is quickly dwindling.
by thisislife2 | 2025-09-02 03:52:32+00:00
I am an Indian and I disagree with the whole premise of the article - for the west, India was never the alternative to China. China was a unique capitalist experiment that failed as it was never meant to make it a rival to the west. They will not make the same mistake with India, and that is why you see the west diversifying their supply chain throughout Asia (and not just India). Then there is Trump (and perhaps the Republicans) who does perhaps believe that if American labour becomes a bit cheaper (i.e. the US has more poor people), it could be possible to somewhat move back some production to the US too. That is why his economic policies will temporarily make life harder for the poor and maybe even the middle-class, as his government seeks to create this cheaper American labour pool. It's going to be interesting times for the world, especially for democracies, as they try to figure out how to make manufacturing more viable in democracies without labour exploitation or sacrificing labour rights at the altar of capitalism. Trump's tariff policies are also directed towards this effort (if imported products become costlier, it makes domestic products more competitive in the market).
by Fade_Dance | 2025-09-02 03:56:01+00:00
I like to think someone had to review this: "I tricked ChatGPT into believing I surgically transformed a person into a walrus and now it's crashing out."

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1ltv9g7/i_tricked_...

(Updated convo link - dead link in source - https://imgur.com/a/HznenTv)
by lolc | 2025-09-02 03:57:09+00:00
If we want a separate female category in sports we have to draw the line somewhere. This test seems to be quite a good line, even having allowances for women that cross it.

I don't think people should be challenging these rules on human rights grounds. Of course it is devastating to individuals when they get barred. They got to where they are through a mix of genes and hard work. Now one thing about them that they might not even have known about is going to end their career. But elite sports is for entertainment. It is full of arbitrary rules, and there's plenty of life outside. Most people don't get to assert their womanhood at olympics.
by blahedo | 2025-09-02 03:57:24+00:00
On at least some Macs well into the 2000s, I remember that if you had a dialog with a text field in it, Return would add a new line in the text field, but Enter would _always_ choose the button with the thick black bar around it (typically "OK"). There were also some websites where OmniWeb (remember OmniWeb?) would interpret the Enter key (but not Return) as "click the 'next' link on this page", which was great for paging through webcomic archives and the like.
by ggm | 2025-09-02 03:57:35+00:00
Not wanting to tell on them, my intel SBC super lightweight cigarette-box board has non-PWM risers. you can add a fan, it's always-on. The BIOS doesn't do anything smart it just volts the fan.

I think it's not that unusual for people to delete things they hoped they didn't need, the device targets passive cooling deployments: Turns out a lot of us run them in hot locations.
by throwawayq3423 | 2025-09-02 03:57:51+00:00
I directly engaged and refuted everything you said. You can keep repeating what you want to be true over and over, it won't make it so.

That's the point. You cannot will reality to fit your worldview.

It doesn't work that way.

> Disinformation is a frame. The fact that some people consider it to be an objective category of information is dangerous.

Yes, information cannot be verified as true or false. No one can know anything for sure, because then your feelings and opinions can become facts without having pesky things like evidence or proof.

Why let a small thing like the truth get in the way of a good story? Especially one you've invested so much time into, maybe even a good chunk of your identity as well.

Given all that, I might as well be talking to a wall.
by KPGv2 | 2025-09-02 03:59:36+00:00
Do you agree or disagree with this?

1. there's a significant population of men in tech who make the environment actively hostile for women,

2. women know about this,

3. many women do not want to work in environments actively hostile to them, and

4. women who choose to work at them underperform because dealing with hostility directed at you does take a cognitive toll

(I am only responding to this very weird straw man: "With a gender-diverse staff they will be able to crush their peers by streamlining against horrible things such as toxic masculinity where the bourgeois men keep down honest and hardworking proleteriat women")
by oc-max | 2025-09-02 04:00:11+00:00
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by hopelite | 2025-09-02 04:00:24+00:00
Then you don't use the 24 time? What are you even saying. America uses the 24 time too, but it's a large country with many different nations and cultures among it that all do various different things, but I don't get all presumptions and condescending about it like the zealots that demand everyone use metric and 24 hour time and then don't even practice what they preach.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-09-02 04:00:48+00:00
I bet it just happened organically. Started as an A…Z list but then someone had to implement it so that it cycled.

And the simplest solution at the UI level is to make it a finite list that cycles multiple times. And that simple impl required no updates over the years despite changes to the UI toolkit.

e.g. compare the HTML solution to one that is a virtualized JS infinite list. The HTML finite list solution is trivial while the infinite cycling one probably needs to be ported when you change frameworks (like move to SwiftUI).
by necovek | 2025-09-02 04:02:23+00:00
Would you wear an original swastika[1] on your baseball hat?

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

Which is to say, we all compromise.

I'd hate to lose my em- and en-dashes, but the original post seems to misuse en-dashes where hyphens belong (it could just be a font issue, but no matter).
by agastalver | 2025-09-02 04:02:34+00:00
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by torstenvl | 2025-09-02 04:02:50+00:00
It is objectively true. AGPL does not meet the definition of free software, because it restricts the use of the software when modified.

The FSF pretends this isn't true by pretending that some uses are actually redistribution. However, this is too clever by half. Redistribution has a well-settled meaning, and allowing interaction over a network—unless it involves downloading the software itself—does not meet that definition.
by snoman | 2025-09-02 04:04:10+00:00
RSU grants assume a growth rate (15%? I forget) so if they stay flat, go down, or grow slower than the baked-in growth rate, then you make less each year. If you do well enough, they’ll give you some RSUs to “make you whole” (as they used to say) but that doesn’t really happen anymore (or not much).
by rcleveng | 2025-09-02 04:04:36+00:00
I found the episode very enlightening, and learned a lot as well as unlearned a few things that I thought I had known.

I never realized how much of azure was him early on.' I didn't realize the tension between him and Bill, always assumed those two were thick as thieves, all the time. I super respect him for stepping down so that the company can change in the way it needs to, and also so wall street would realize a change has happened (which was around spending discipline vs. investments, and giving forward guidance, etc)

I left this episode with a lot more respect for him as a person and saw him much more introspective and up front that I would have imagined based on what I thought I knew before.

Also, a formerly favorite phrase of saying "we're in the Ballmer era at X company" is struck from my vocabularly, since in most places I've used it, it's meant to be an insult to the company, however it's really just an insult to Ballmer. He was way more intuned than many others.
by laserbeam | 2025-09-02 04:04:40+00:00
I imagine it would be straightforward to support this for codebases which already define multiple allocators (game engines, programs written in zig, bunch of other examples I’m less familiar with). If you’re already in memory management land you already you already have multiple implementations of malloc and free. Adding more of them is trivial.

If you’re not in manual memory management land, then you probably don’t care about this optimization just like you barely think of stack vs heap. Maybe the compiler could guess something for you, but I wouldn’t be worrying about it in that problem space.
by hopelite | 2025-09-02 04:06:02+00:00
What do leading zeros have to do with whether people use 12 hour time instead of 24 hour time?

Why is this stuff challenging, it feels like reddit over here. My point is that saying "we will meet at 4" is more human scale than "we will meet at 16" because it segments the context window into morning and afternoon for which most humans and situations do not require additional external context to put meaning to.
by buu700 | 2025-09-02 04:06:04+00:00
No, I'm not wrong. Someone could easily write in the default output style of ChatGPT by hand (which will probably become increasingly common the longer that style remains in place), and someone could easily collaborate with ChatGPT on writing that looks nothing like what you're thinking.

If organizations like schools are going to rely on tools that claim to detect AI-generated text with a useful level of reliability, they better have zero false positives. But of course they can't, because unless the tool involves time travel that isn't possible. At best, such tools can detect non-ASCII punctuation marks and overly cliched/formulaic writing, neither of which is academic dishonesty.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-09-02 04:06:33+00:00
I had quite a number of procedures starting in early childhood and through my teen years.

Pretty much my first memory was going into surgery. It'll probably be my last as well, being born with multiple heart defects doesn't really go away.

You start looking forward to going under and start being disappointed when you wake back up.

It's odd confronting mortality from your first conscious memory but it's also odd being afraid of death.

It's so clear that we are evolved beings, we have self doubt and existential doubt and all these things that are clearly just evolved processes to keep us out of local maximums.

It's sad to see people latch on to convoluted views, tortured logic, force themselves to justify strongly held but unevidenced beliefs just because they are afraid.

It's such a waste of time, people can use their imaginations to believe whatever they like, they can theorize or speculate, but the absolute waste of time trying to ground what can't be grounded, the tortured logic, the semantic games is a tragedy.

We use our brains to generate unique meaning, each one of us is a generating node in an uncomputable casual chain that stretches into the unknown future, and we are part of our collective planets random meaning walk... and then we get to stop.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-02 04:06:52+00:00
Peter Norvig, Fabrice Bellard, etc. The list of ultra smart people is quite long. A friend of mine thought he was pretty smart (and I would have happily agreed with him). Then he went to work for Google (early days). It didn't take long for him to realize that the only reason he seemed very smart was that he simply wasn't seeing a large enough slice of humanity.
by duskwuff | 2025-09-02 04:07:39+00:00
> Many Adafruit boards come with micropython which could also be seen as a waste of resources. Yet for low volume semi pro applications, the ease of development warrants the overhead.

As a reality check: MicroPython can run in 16 KB of RAM; a typical development board has 192 KB. µCLinux requires at least 4 - 8 MB of RAM just to boot up, and recommends 32 MB for a "serious product" [1].

> Linux has solid network, WiFi, Bluetooth stacks and a rich box of tools that might be very nice to tap into without requiring something as big as an RPi.

I would absolutely not count on any of those tools being available and functional in a µCLinux environment.

[1]: https://www.emcraft.com/imxrt1050-evk-board/what-is-minimal-...
by cmpalmer52 | 2025-09-02 04:08:04+00:00
With me, it has been story/novel ideas. The AI is a genuinely useful tool for brainstorming through ideas and giving historical and scientific background. I don’t let it write the stories, but I throw ideas at it and it riffs on the ideas which gives me new ideas and so on. Useful, but you realize it’s 4AM and you’re obsessively plot outlining a trilogy and sketching out characters and inventing a new economy when you connected to ask a personal finance question.

I’ve found it useful, but I recommend a “give me an honest critical evaluation as if you were an editor/agent/publisher” and “Is this derivative of anything?”
by isodev | 2025-09-02 04:08:26+00:00
And 3, Apple asking for a photo of the ID instead of using eID so the entire process can be tap > Face ID (in your country’s eID app) > done.

Also for some reason on App Store Connect, Apple is asking for a country of birth, not citizenship so with that alone, it’s unclear to me how can they make a determination at all.

Once again, our random spawn point (of which we have no control) is interfering with what we can and can’t do in life. Oh and Apple totally not getting how people live and move in the EU.
by littlestymaar | 2025-09-02 04:08:31+00:00
> You assume and don't research.

Oh god, the typical “do your own research”. Is it HN or a random Facebook group? I thought people had a scientific background here, but apparently not everyone has one…

> There are studies that show that the more your trust kids to be on their own, the lesser the injuries

Trusting your kids != don't wear helmets. Note that it doesn't mean you shouldn't give medications to your kids either.

Yes there are overprotective parents that are toxic to their children, but that doesn't mean we need to go full new-age bullshit like you are.

> Yes, the first Pfizer booster was never tested on humans - it's a known fact!

I don't know who “knows” it, but it's completely made up…
by 827a | 2025-09-02 04:08:35+00:00
When it comes to your personal data, Apple loves (correctly) to say "all of our user's data is encrypted, we can't access it even if we wanted to, so we cannot respond to this government request for data"

When it comes to application distribution, all of Apple's courage immediately disappears. They could say "We don't sign or control apps distributed through third party app stores, that's out of our hands, so we cannot respond to this government request". But, they chose not to. It was a choice, and Tim Cook chose an ugly, dishonorable, cowardly path.
by whatever1 | 2025-09-02 04:10:12+00:00
The evidence shows that there is no methodological moat for LLMS. The moat of the frontier folks is just compute. xAI went in months from nothing to competing with the top dogs. DeepSeek too. So why bother with splurging billions in talent when you can buy GPUs and energy instead and serve the compute needs of everyone?

Also Amazon is in another capital intensive business. Retail. Spending billions on dubious AWS moonshots vs just buying more widgets and placing them across the houses of US customers for even faster deliveries does not make sense.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-02 04:10:23+00:00
> Just like in speech, people also have accents in writing. For example, despite having used English on daily basis for years, I can't tell when to use "a" and "the" even if my life depended on it.

"A" and "an" are indefinite articles[0] used to identify a single entity (noun) without specificity. "The" is a definite article[1] used to identify a single entity (noun) specifically. For example:

A car is parked on the street. The car is parked on the street.

The former sentence indicates a vehicle of unknown origin exists "on the street", whereas the latter indicates a vehicle known to the speaker exists "on the street."

Now, to the topic at hand. Part of the original post to which I replied is:

> The piece was deeply thought-provoking, but I struggled to get through it sensing how much AI was used to write it.

> I’ve been drafting a manuscript for a novel lately, trying to see how well llms can help.

> I recognize this prose immediately as OpenAI gpt 5.

To the best of my knowledge, this was not posted by the person who wrote the article nor someone with direct interaction with same. Additionally, the quoted text self-identifies as being intimate with LLM generated content in work important to the poster as well as unequivocally identifying the article as "OpenAI gpt 5."

My premise is only that having this level of intimacy with LLM generated text may create a bias toward "this was made by a LLM" when reading prose published by an unknown person.

0 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-it-a-or-an

1 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the
by everyone | 2025-09-02 04:11:39+00:00
google seem to have the multi-pronged attack on android devs going on atm. They are seemingly trying to take down as many apps and dev accounts as possible.. Anyone know why?

1. doxx yourself of they kill your account

2. re-build every app with pointless newer api version literally every year or it gets taken down.

3. Push an update or a new app or they kill your account.

..

My guess is enshittification, some random exec is trying to save a few pennies in server and storage costs.

..

I'd also say that google makes so much money from ads and data-brokering that everything else they do is not vital for their survival and thus undergoes a sort of "genetic drift" where they just make random decisions.
by cnst | 2025-09-02 04:12:09+00:00
You can use the majority of the banking apps without a Google Account on an Android through the Aurora Store:

* https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.store/

I've tried it, it works.

With Apple, it's all far worse. On iOS, I've discovered that even some preinstalled premium apps, like Pages, Numbers, Keynote, GarageBand, iMovie, don't work unless you add an Apple Account to the system.

But with Android, it's relatively easy to set it up without any accounts, through Chrome, F-Droid, Aurora Store. (And I usually uninstall Chrome after installing F-Droid, too.)