MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kruffalon | 2025-09-05 07:01:22+00:00
I enjoyed the article, well written and engaging.

(It gave me a small sense of reading a recipe blog where the meta is to tell an enormous backstory)

I kind of sympathise with the premise of trying to somewhat soften the economic-worldview (and language) that we are so used to and to extrapolate into our day to day life.

But in the end it still talks about investing in my friends, and that just isn't for me.
by listenallyall | 2025-09-05 07:02:01+00:00
Disagree, it is the most compelling American sport on a lot of levels - some people simply like the pure violence, but it also has the most diverse types of athlete (runners, throwers, catchers, kickers, blockers), the most diverse and interesting scoring plays, the largest rosters (so more personalities), the most types of scoring which then leads to most strategic decisions, most intense clock management, most debatable referee calls, most complex plays (22 individuals), a natural scarcity (only 17 games), possibility of the defense scoring on any play, and a few more reasons. Even college football is more popular than most professional sports. Football is a unique sport that actually is really, really interesting to watch.
by raincole | 2025-09-05 07:02:43+00:00
I honestly believe the problem of books of our time is that they're still too long. By at least a factor of 2.

Books are 200 pages long not because they have 200 pages of content to say, but because there is no business model for publishing physical books of 50 to 100 pages long.

We see the more is better mentality everywhere in marketing. On Udemy, instructors flaunt how many hours of videos their courses have. On Steam, we see "X levels, Y different enemies, Z characters" all the time. In OP article:

> Open the Victorian bestseller “Modern Painters” by John Ruskin and you will find that its first sentence is 153 words long

As if this is a good thing.
by measurablefunc | 2025-09-05 07:03:34+00:00
I recently asked some of the SOTA models to generate a webGL application for the Hopf fibration. Most of them did ok but it wasn't clear to me if the code was actually correct or not & lacking any sensible structure there was no way for me to modify it to generate other kinds of visualization by basic geometric operations. The main reason stuff like this continues to be problematic even though all the mathematics & programming infrastructure is readily available & formally specified is that LLMs do not have any real understanding of basic logical & inductive constructions. Trying to "predict" the most plausible sequence of tokens given some context is not sufficient for logical understanding of what is involved in constructing the Hopf fibration & whether it can be deformed & mapped into a different space by base changes, surgeries, & homotopies.

So the shovelware won't happen until LLMs are combined w/ algorithms that deal w/ logical structures like abstract syntax trees & abstract interpreters for verifying & validating logical constraints & specifications.
by supernova87a | 2025-09-05 07:04:07+00:00
I don't really care if you think people don't understand details of the job you do, or the system in which you operate. Your name is on the article and it's my expectation at this point that someone telling a story give me the original source when it's easily available. I don't need to know the complications or reasons why it isn't done, I want the right outcome.

If anything, you should be helping to cut through the BS layers and insisting that the original source link (or, even just the full name of the court case) be included with your reporting.
by Animats | 2025-09-05 07:05:06+00:00
Right. I was thinking "RDF - vaguely remember that as some XML thing from Semantic Web era".

Yup, it's still that RDF. Inevitably, it had to be converted to new JSON-like syntaxes.

It reminds me of the "is-a" predicate era of AI. That turned out to be not too useful for formal reasoning about the real world. As as a representation for SQL database output going into a LLM, though, it might go somewhere. Maybe.

Probably because the output of an SQL query is positional, and LLMs suck at positional representations.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-05 07:05:08+00:00
Nah, Trump is literally doing god's work here. In fact I'm cheering for him.

Latin America is almost completely dominated by violent drug trafficking borderline terrorist organized crime gangs.

Over 26% of my country's territory is directly ruled by these gangs. They have infiltrated and corrupted every part of society. It's become impossible to so much as pump gas into our cars without contributing to their finances and continued success.

My country is a narcostate pretending to be a democracy and I have no doubt many if not all of my neighbours are just as bad if not worse. Trump should refuse to even recognize the legitimacy of these nations. Especially that of "democracies" ruled by drug cartel-backed communist dictators such as Venezuela.

Blow up a fucking boat? You really should see what these people do to each other and to the people subjected to their rule on a daily basis. Trump was actually quite humane.
by vitro | 2025-09-05 07:05:12+00:00
True. But you can also be smart about it, and it doesn't have to be something that takes your whole afternoon. 15 minutes of home exercise instead of media scrolling, and at the end of the week, it is 1:45, at the end of the month 7:45 that you've done something. Or just a simple door frame exercise bar where you do a pushup or two now and then. These small things add up. Or to go with friends to play football or my friend started to run, they made a Sunday morning running group. To end with what you've begun, regularity is the key.
by nomilk | 2025-09-05 07:06:01+00:00
The choice citizens have now is between an 'internet licence' (submit ID's to myriad sites), or an 'internet tax' (VPN).

Super annoying!

Given Australia doesn't even require Age Verification on porn sites (only on social media sites), the incentives hint this was strongly supported by legacy media (90% of Aussie media is owned by two companies, Newscorp and Nine Entertainment).

The internet licence will make it difficult for both authors and readers on alternative media platforms. And it will outright prohibit young people from getting information from non-permitted sources (of course, legacy sources are not affected - incidentally, they're probably more harmful than the prohibited sources). (I've long said, to try to think clearly after watching 'the news' is akin to trying to operate heavy machinery after consuming alcohol).
by simonw | 2025-09-05 07:06:12+00:00
There are two common misconceptions in this post.

The first isn't worth arguing against: it's the idea that LLM vendors ignore your robots.txt file even when they clearly state that they'll obey it: https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots

Since LLM skeptics frequently characterize all LLM vendors as dishonest mustache-twirling cartoon villains there's little point trying to convince them that companies sometimes actually do what they say they are doing.

The bigger misconception though is the idea that LLM training involves indiscriminately hoovering up every inch of text that the lab can get hold of, quality be damned. As far as I can tell that hasn't been true since the GPT-3 era.

Building a great LLM is entirely about building a high quality training set. That's the whole game! Filtering out garbage articles full of spelling mistakes is one of many steps a vendor will take in curating that training data.
by aspenmayer | 2025-09-05 07:06:21+00:00
I ditched Spotify for Montreal’s own CKUT and its best known (to me) program, WEFUNK Radio. No problems for over 20 years now. Oh yeah, none of these have ads! Listener supported radio and streaming is where it’s at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKUT-FM

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

https://www.wefunkradio.com/

DJ Static and Professor Groove are too legit to quit. They’re the second DJs to ever podcast, apparently, as they’ve been on air since 1996 and streaming online since 1999.

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

https://somafm.com/

If you don’t know about SomaFM, now you know. A true SF original.

https://www.bagelradio.com/

Also a special shout-out to BAGeL Radio, formerly rebroadcast by SomaFM. A one-man project that is amazing and unique, also from San Francisco. If you like indie stuff, it’s as good as Indie Pop Rocks of SomaFM, with a bit wider range in genres played.
by ckbkr10 | 2025-09-05 07:07:31+00:00
I wish there was a honest discussion, I am with them about parents not giving a shit and pushing away responsibility. The idea of supervision in education institutions is good as well.

The kids in my family were well protected and supervised, they got into contact with hardcore porn at the age of 6 when other kids had access to smartphones and exposed them to it.

I would like to see a honest discussion about the impact of porn on kids, I cannot really imagine that it doesn't distort the view and expectations on sex.

In my 20s I was promiscious and lived what I saw in pornography, only later in life I learned about normal sex.

In germany we had a state sponsored porn flick once produced by ZDF Neo, maybe that is the approach to expose the kids to material that shows sex as a respectable flow rather than an extreme fantasy.
by elktown | 2025-09-05 07:07:42+00:00
> You need to learn to talk with basic courtesy. It’s not an assumption when I say this: you have issues.

Talk about projection. Sorry, but this kind of gaslighting just pisses me off. You're entire comment history is that of being incredible obnoxious to everyone and and its screaming "I have issues". Then you write that? What an arse.
by staticelf | 2025-09-05 07:08:54+00:00
Modern politicians only goal seems to be how to make peoples lives worse. I don't understand how this did happen. I think the people simply got too lazy and let them run loose instead of resisting like we used to.

Now the EU is slowly turning into a oligarchy where very few control the majority. For every stupid law they make, the more I wish for it's destruction.
by jraph | 2025-09-05 07:09:09+00:00
I'm not expert on OpenGraph, and it's been a while I've actually manipulated RDF other than the automatically generated og meta tags.

I'd say defining this as linked data was quite idiomatic / elegant. It's possibly mainly because OpenGraph was inspired of Dublin Core [1], which was RDF-based. They didn't reinvent everything with OpenGraph, but kept the spirit, I suppose.

In the end it's probably quite equivalent.

And in this end, why not both? Apparently we defined an RDF ontology for JSON schemas! [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Core

[2] https://www.w3.org/2019/wot/json-schema
by verisimi | 2025-09-05 07:10:08+00:00
> And it will outright prohibit young people from getting information from non-permitted sources (of course, legacy sources are not affected - incidentally, they're probably more harmful than the prohibited sources).

Verification is the stick, AI is the carrot.

More than one answer is a bug - Eric Schmidt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeIIpLqsOe4
by rapnie | 2025-09-05 07:10:17+00:00
Tim Berners-Lee, now co-founder of Inrupt [0], has launched Solid Project [1] where he kept working on semantic web concepts and linked data specs. Looks like Inrupt went full AI today. What ailed Solid was I think the academic approach mentioned in other comments, the heavy-weight specification process (inspired by W3C), and overlooking the fact that you better get your dev community on board and excited as a good road to adoption. Inrupt didn't spend much attention to their Solid community, except for the active followers in their chat channels, and were directly targeting commercial customers. I don't know the health of Solid project today, but there are a couple of interesting projects around social networking and the fediverse.

[0] https://www.inrupt.com/about

[1] https://solidproject.org/
by ricksunny | 2025-09-05 07:12:55+00:00
Five times in that article he says some version of “Accuracy triples”.

What does that even mean? Suppose something 97% accurate became 99.5% accurate? How can we talk of accuracy doubling or tripling in that context? The only way I could see that working is if the accuracy of something went from say 1% to 3% or 33% to 99%. Which are not realistic values in the LLM case. (And I’m writing as a fan of knowledge graphs).
by nemanja_codes | 2025-09-05 07:13:15+00:00
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by chmod775 | 2025-09-05 07:14:12+00:00
While I'll immediately believe their complaints about political shenanigans and publicity stunts going on in the EU commission, this post very obviously intentionally ignores good-faith efforts at building out privacy-preserving age verification using ZKP. They're laying into a strawman - with gusto - when they attack age verification methods that are objectively worse than the commission's best proposal.

It's hurting their own case by giving the EU commission the easiest retort imaginable. If you really don't want age verification, that's bad, because they usually get the last word in.

Better to respond in good faith to the commission's strongest possible argument, rather than do this, which is going to get brushed aside while handing them a win.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-05 07:14:29+00:00
Salesforce just gave weak guidance. "Company that doesn't expect to do so well lays people off" is a pretty standard story, and one might be forgiven for thinking that "Company that expects magic robots to do everything lays people off" is, in this case, more marketing than anything else.

I wouldn't necessarily pay that much attention to what the CEO _says_.
by Aeolun | 2025-09-05 07:15:18+00:00
> I would like to see a honest discussion about the impact of porn on kids, I cannot really imagine that it doesn't distort the view and expectations on sex.

Only if they have no other exposure to this pretty damn normal thing. If all the adults in their life refuse to talk about because of some misplaced idea it is shameful, where are they going to get that info?

Not saying that’s the case for you, just that it’s the impression I get from many people.
by globular-toast | 2025-09-05 07:15:31+00:00
Do you pay every busker you pass by? Or do you block your ears when you pass to ensure you don't "steal" the music?

I think a combination of UBI, abolishment of copyright and a busking model with 100% of the proceeds going directly to artists would improve things no end. We have the technology to do this and have no need for leeches like Spotify.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-05 07:15:33+00:00
> you get paid once a month

I've never worked anywhere that didn't do this (in the UK). Are you suggesting they should pay more often? Is that normal in the US?

> AND the base salary was below 200K

Oh no! You guys are in for a shock if developer wages ever become more "normal" there (i.e. closer to the rest of the world).
by knorker | 2025-09-05 07:16:04+00:00
> How are you doing it for free

How do you mean? Some banks and bank accounts don't charge.

> how long does it take

It depends. Some transfer types are bank opening hours only, though then it's seconds. Some are batch overnight ones. For some use cases you can do an "internal" transfer internationally instantly, with an international bank. And then on both sides it's domestic instant. With others you don't need that trick, and it's just instant by default.

While this has greatly improved (part of what I meant by stablecoin supposedly being more relevant in the last few years being nonsense), yes the overnight thing is something that's not perfected yet.

Compare this to stock sales. We're down to T+1 settlement now, depending on the market. Imagine someone saying we need to replace the whole idea of money in order to reduce from T+5. We don't.

> without chargebacks

Cryptocurrency advocates talk about chargebacks as if it's a law of nature they managed to find a loophole in.

What exact use case are you thinking of? Customer payments to a business? If you want to reduce (though not eliminate) chargebacks and risk, those businesses are already declining CC, and only accept debit card and bank transfers as payment?

There's a reason most companies don't want to do that, because there's a good reason customers choose to just go elsewhere if they do.

Chargebacks were not an accident, just like "being stuck in KYC" was a deliberate design choice.

"If we do this then we can't get stuck in KYC" is not clever, it's just indistinguishible from crime, and quite possibly is crime. (structuring)
by nine_k | 2025-09-05 07:16:17+00:00
How about the scam of lawmaking disconnected from reality :(

Introducing laws that are going to be relatively trivially circumvented, which do not provide the protection they purport to provide, and which burden citizens with rather useless but onerous duties, should be called out as a failure at lawmaking. I think the best defense against such laws is to show thoroughly why and how bad and useless such laws are, so that large enough political constituencies (that is, us, citizens) would become interested in fixing or repealing them, and would vote accordingly.
by grey-area | 2025-09-05 07:17:03+00:00
If the state is a bad actor good luck with using cryptocurrencies to avoid that. You will be retrospectively controlled if necessary.

The state as a bad actor is controlled by democracy, not technology.

Aside from that, in payments the bad actors you need to actually worry about are malicious vendors and customers and hackers stealing your details and your money. None of which Cryptocurrencies make better, mostly they make that worse, because they were designed as digital cash.
by Retric | 2025-09-05 07:17:10+00:00
> I would like to see a honest discussion about the impact of porn on kids, I cannot really imagine that it doesn't distort the view and expectations on sex.

There’s a bunch of studies on this and at the individual level it seems to do a bunch of stuff, but at the population level it has at most an effect so small it can’t be measured. Which IMO suggests causation goes in the other direction. IE if you’re entering puberty early you may seek both porn and sex at a younger age.

That said, I’m not an expert and have only briefly looked through the literature.
by jakobnissen | 2025-09-05 07:20:18+00:00
But kids (and adults) are exposed to all kinds of fantasies. War is not like Call of Duty. The Mafia is not like GTA. Monarchy is not like in the fairy tales. Romance is not like Twilight. BDSM is not like 50 Shades of Grey.

For all these things, we rely on people's world experience and common sense to figure it out. I think it's pretty obvious that sex is not like porn, and I don't understand why so many people are convinced that people can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality in this domain specifically.
by philjohn | 2025-09-05 07:20:45+00:00
Yes and no.

I worked for a company that went hard into "Semantic Web" tech for libraries (as in, the places with books), using an RDF Quad Store for data storage (OpenLink Virtuoso) and structuring all data as triples - which is a better fit for the Heirarchical MARC21 format than a relational database.

There are a few libraries (the software kind) out there that follow the W3 spec correctly, Redland being one of them.
by dawnerd | 2025-09-05 07:20:55+00:00
I've started buying cds cheap and ripping them. It's kind of incredible how much music you can stockpile legally for the same amount you're paying for a monthly sub. I have a pretty similar stack to yours and with tailscale makes it very convenient to have my own streaming platform anywhere. Plus I have many albums that simply don't exist on streaming. Downside is there are some albums that are streaming only, mostly soundtracks from Disney. I get those from Qobuz since they let you download flac.
by yorwba | 2025-09-05 07:20:58+00:00
I asked "Which country has the most subway stations?" and got the query

SELECT ?country (COUNT(*) AS ?stationCount) WHERE { ?station wdt:P31 wd:Q928830. ?station wdt:P17 ?country. } GROUP BY ?country ORDER BY DESC(?stationCount) LIMIT 1

https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%28COUNT%2...

which is not unreasonable as a quick first attempt, but doesn't account for the fact that many things on Wikidata aren't tagged directly with a country (P17) and instead you first need to walk up a chain of "located in the administrative territorial entity" (P131) to find it, i.e. I would write

SELECT ?country (COUNT(DISTINCT ?station) AS ?stationCount) WHERE { ?station wdt:P31 wd:Q928830. ?station wdt:P131*/wdt:P17 ?country. } GROUP BY ?country ORDER BY DESC(?stationCount) LIMIT 1

https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%28COUNT%2...

In this case it doesn't change the answer (it only finds 3 more subway stations in China), but sometimes it does.
by IanCal | 2025-09-05 07:21:17+00:00
This seems to miss the other side of why all this failed before.

Rdf has the same problems as the sql schemas with information scattered. What fields mean requires documentation.

There - they have a name on a person. What name? Given? Legal? Chosen? Preferred for this use case?

You only have one id for apple eh? Companies are complex to model, do you mean apple just as someone would talk about it? The legal structure of entities that underpins all major companies, what part of it is referred to?

I spent a long time building identifiers for universities and companies (which was taken for ROR later) and it was a nightmare to say what a university even was. What’s the name of Cambridge? It’s not “Cambridge University” or “The university of Cambridge” legally. But it also is the actual name as people use it. The university of Paris went from something like 13 institutes to maybe one to then a bunch more. Are companies locations at their headquarters? Which headquarters?

Someone will suggest modelling to solve this but here lies the biggest problem:

The correct modelling depends on the questions you want to answer.

Our modelling had good tradeoffs for mapping academic citation tracking. It had bad modelling for legal ownership. There isn’t one modelling that solves both well.

And this is all for the simplest of questions about an organisation - what is it called and is it one or two things?