MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-10 10:07:33+00:00
>I do agree with you that corporate accountability is often quite poor, but I think the notion that every serious incident should conclude with someone going to prison is simply wrong.

If someone puts a shopping cart filled with lead-acid batteries on the train tracks causing a derailment and toxic chemicals spill all over the area, poisoning and endangering the people nearby, the person responsible should not go to prison?

Or if someone takes an action knowing that it could crash an airliner with hundreds of people aboard, they should not be imprisoned?

By that logic, if I beat you over the head with a tire iron, I should just walk away. Possibly paying an inconsequential fine?

What's that? The individuals involved in poisoning hundreds/thousands or killing hundreds of airline passengers or beating you to death should be prosecuted and made accountable for their actions?

If that's the case, why should folks who knowingly take steps that create the same results not be treated exactly the same way? Because they were "just following orders" from management? Because their only responsibility is to maximize shareholder value?

Having a limited liability corporation is a privilege, not a right. As such, whether it be knowingly risking the lives and/or environments of others or making the cost/benefit analysis that paying fines/settlements will cost less than operating safely and putting others at risk is acceptable is behavior that should not be acceptable in a civilized society.

As I mentioned in another comment, businesses are strongly motivated by the incentives in their marketplace. If we make knowingly and/or negligently putting others at risk of harm both a death sentence for the corporation and criminal liability for those responsible (which includes management, the board and shareholders), we create the appropriate incentives for corporations to do the right thing.

As it stands now, willful, knowing negligence will usually only result in fines/lawsuits that are a pittance and not much of a drag on earnings. Those are not the right incentives.
by motbus3 | 2025-09-10 10:07:34+00:00
Who am I to say anything.

It is just another opinion.

It is not about 9k for your knowledge in that book. Is 9k for taking you out. The faster they are able to grab data and process the less chance you have to make money from your work.

The money is irrelevant if we allow them to break the law. They even might pay you 9k for those books, but you might never get anything again because they would have made copyright useless
by spuz | 2025-09-10 10:08:29+00:00
You need to update your world model. Trump would very much like to officially declare war with Venezuela because it gives him certain wartime authorities (such as the Alien Enemies Act and the Insurrection Act) which he can use to to deport people without due process and deploy the armed forces domestically. This is why he ordered the destruction of a speedboat near Venezuela, has increased the bounty on the arrest of Venezuela's president Maduro and called him the head of the Cartel of the Suns. This is also why he is changing the department of defense to the department of war. He wants to use the pretense of war to subvert any checks against his power.

He likely does not want to actually invade anyone or do anything that brings actual war to the US but he does want the personal benefits that come with being at war.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/09/americas/venezuela-yvan-g...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwywjgynyxo
by tpoacher | 2025-09-10 10:08:59+00:00
There is a very good technical argument for NOT using "semantic" line breaks when editing markup source code, especially of the "hardwrap" variety, and that is the ability to easily diff two versions of the same document, e.g. when comparing latex git commits.

Anything that reorganises the sentence around for the sake of maintaining justification, completely destroys any meaningful diff from taking place.

And ideally your editor should support both hard and soft wrapping, so that aesthetics of wrapping shouldn't be a big issue.

And I say this as a fan of hardwrapping text.
by simoncion | 2025-09-10 10:09:14+00:00
> ...while providing none for your own side.

After an initial few-month adjustment period after the shelter-in-place orders my all-remote team at $DAYJOB performed no worse than they had pre-pandemic [0] through to the period where mandatory RTO started being an active fad. During that multi-year "few or no alternatives" WFH period, we all met or exceeded our goals and milestones. We each received raises and/or promotions each year, demonstrating that the business agreed that we were each individually meeting or exceeding our personal performance goals.

Due to my corporate confidentiality agreements I can't provide you with the documentation to back these claims, but they are a true account of the events.

[0] And often notably better, due in part to our ability to fairly-easily flex our schedule to meet with anyone around the world.
by toyg | 2025-09-10 10:09:15+00:00
I don't know the science, but my experience is that my brain is simply able to process and retain information so much better with eInk than with LCD screens.

I started as a teenager with cathodic tubes, which were killing my eyes and bringing daily headaches; moved on to LCDs which stopped the headaches but still tire my eyes significantly (some of them literally make me cry after a few minutes); and then found eInk and it's so much better, I will definitely move to that once prices of large color monitors at 60hz get into my price range. I honestly don't care about power draw one bit.
by littlestymaar | 2025-09-10 10:09:19+00:00
> That's a strange requirement considering the executive of most EU states is not directly elected by people either

At least, it's usually the leader of the party the people voted for in the legislative elections.

In the EU there was this Spitzenkandidat idea floating around ten years ago, but it was never enacted in texts and died at the first opportunity (naming Von der Leyen back in 2019 when she wasn't the leader of the PPE), because the heads of members states (particularly the French) weren't willing to give up their designation power.

In practice there isn't even European political parties, the European elections are just national elections represented by national parties and most citizens don't even know the names of the European coalition of parties (PSOE, PPE, Renew, etc…).
by varispeed | 2025-09-10 10:11:00+00:00
Not a "conspiracy theory". I've been to board meeting at one of companies, where board member was a real estate investor. They insisted that to obtain more investment company has to lease an office from the investor and ensure the office is occupied as part of the lease. Then they used that company in advertising of their property portfolio as in look who leases from us. It's complex.

You are missing the point that Microsoft might be the loss leader, setting an example or simply ensuring that commercial estate gains in value and the gains are greater than the losses.

It's a fact, you can maintain empty offices only for so long and billions invested can potentially vanish.
by lupusreal | 2025-09-10 10:11:19+00:00
There is no shortage of young naive newly minted teachers who are eager to go into those low performing urban schools and help turn things around. But very few of them last more than a few years in those schools, they get badly burned by reality. The ones who last almost inevitably become callused and bitter, having lost all of the hope they had at the start. The biggest problem with those schools is the students themselves, and the families of those students. They're incredibly dysfunction and stymie all well intentioned efforts to help them.

Insofar as charter schools can help, it's because giving enough of a shit to apply for and go to one weeds out enough of the lost causes that would only disrupt everybody else. In fact, I think the best ways to improve those public schools is even simpler; make attendance optional. Families who give a shit will still attend, while all the trash will voluntarily stay home.
by rl3 | 2025-09-10 10:11:21+00:00
>You pretending that saying "emulator" on a forum qualifies just makes you a extra special snowflake.

Says the person going out of their way to attack another person over a single-character asterisk substitution.

Seems fairly understandable to not want to piss off rabid lawyers, however remote the chances of angering them may be.
by dkh | 2025-09-10 10:11:40+00:00
I think you might be misunderstanding. The semantic line breaks described here are not shown to readers. They are visible only to the person writing/editing the text, as a tool for their own use. If you aren't someone who finds a tool like this useful for your own writing, then no worries! Nobody has been harmed by this existing but not being used. It has no effect on the result.

While I never knew there was a name for this, I naturally do something very similar when writing, keeping thoughts separated by at least a line or two, even if I imagine they'll be in the same paragraph in the end result, just so I have a visual sense of where my different thoughts are and how long they are.
My Workflow Is 70% AI, 20% Copy-Paste, 10% Panic. What's Yours?
by jamessmithe | 2025-09-10 10:11:45+00:00
Being an analyst I need to research about the market and work accordingly. With the help of ChatGPT, perplexity and Gemini, I get done 70% of my research work. The rest of the 30% is just pure brainstorming. Then if I need some graphics then I use Canva for designing them. I get the images from them. Sometimes, I create ppts too using it. If I need any videos then i usually use tool like fliki, Lunabloom Ai or invideo to generate video. These tools give me good quality AI generated videos. Then nowadays, AI is also available on social medias. It makes the job easier for me. So basically, Most of my work is completed by AI. The one thing I need to do properly is to give them proper instructions. How do you go about it?
by altacc | 2025-09-10 10:11:45+00:00
The history justification is moot given that the reason for the name wasn't clarifying an existing role (the US is already very aggressive militarily and happy to attack whenever and wherever it pleases) instead the justification that went with the naming is that the US should be even more aggressive. That, as well as not being necessary or wanted by the world, goes counter to Trump's pre-election promise not to involve the US in more foreign wars.
by seszett | 2025-09-10 10:11:50+00:00
> I don't have a good explanation.

Russians are somewhat shut off from the Internet and HN is blocked there as far as I know. And although polls say they support the war, it seems more like passive support/apathy than an active support of their government.

On the other hand, Israel does not significantly censor the Internet and the Israeli citizens largely support their government, so it makes sense they influence the rankings disproportionately compared to Russians.
by wooger | 2025-09-10 10:11:59+00:00
1. People use these GPS watches for Ironman triathlons, ultra running & cycling events etc. They can't and won't charge before the battery is done - and remember the battery with a daily charge will degrade significantly. If it's borderline on release, it'll be inadequate after a year.

2. Just for general convenience, having to take another special cable for every late night or overnight trip is maddening. I always have a phone anyway for any actual interactions.

I find it hard to believe many people are writing texts on their watches, it's just a nice to have gimmick feature that everyone I know has stopped using.
by bpt3 | 2025-09-10 10:12:01+00:00
I don't think it's a disdain for education, but a disdain for the educational system that currently exists in the US.

If you have kids and experience it first hand, it's extremely underwhelming. If you were an outlier in any way as a student (and I bet a majority of people here are), it's extremely underwhelming.

My wife and I have advanced degrees and place a very high value on education, and I have very little that's positive to say about the state of education in our very highly ranked public schools. They've completely lost the plot. But any criticism is presumed to be hostility to teachers (and their union) or flat out racism by a vocal and increasingly large segment of the population.
by tucnak | 2025-09-10 10:12:12+00:00
AlphaZero is oftentimes dragged out to ridicule the so-called "self-play LLM training" techniques, although I don't think these arguments are terribly convincing. You can think of AlphaZero games as effectively synthetic data in adversarial setting; yes, it's easy to produce and verify as the rules of chess are verifiable, so it doesn't require much data on paper. This is not the case for most texts, with some notable exceptions in verifiable domains, where self-play is coincidentally applied most successfully. Thus, you could make an argument that the pre-existing "trained LLM" is merely functioning as a verifier proxy, analogous to the well-defined chess verifier in AlphaZero.
by arkh | 2025-09-10 10:12:40+00:00
> will do the minimum work that is required of them

So... doing their job?

When I read people wanting to have 100% uptime on their human resources I feel like I'm reading "The goal" again and how machines have to be 100% used in the mind of some managers.

And even when doing chore (or posting on HN), people tend to think about other things. Like their current task. Why do you think people find solutions to problems in the shower or just before sleeping? Because you can think about work (and so for most office jobs, working) even when not on your computer.
by mrweasel | 2025-09-10 10:12:58+00:00
If it's layoffs aren't there a very real risk that the most talented people, who enjoy working from home will simply leave, while the less talented returns to the office because they'll have a harder time finding new jobs?

So you're doing backdoor layoffs, but you're laying off the people you'd most likely want to keep, leaving the company with the less experienced/talented people.
by quectophoton | 2025-09-10 10:13:11+00:00
Right, my bad, seems like I misunderstood the question. Glad you could still find an answer.

For more context on why I thought that link would have been helpful: In Go you download dependencies "straight" from the source[1], while in npm and other languages you download dependencies from a completely unrelated registry that can have any random code (i.e. whether the published artifact was built from the alleged source repository, is a flip of a coin).

So not having this kind of third party registry eliminates the point of failure that caused the issue commented in the article. The issue was caught because of a centralized place, yes, but it was also caused because npm dependencies are downloaded from a centralized place and because this centralized place only hosts artifacts unrelated to the source code itself; package authors can `npm publish` artifacts containing the exact source code from their repos if they want though. If.

With Go, having a mirror of the source code is still third party infra, but is more an optimization than anything else, and checksums are generated based on the source itself[2] (rather than any unrelated artifact). This checksum should match even for people not using any proxy, so if you serve different code to someone, there will be a mismatch between the checksum of the downloaded module and the checksum from the SumDB. This should catch force-pushes done to a git repository version tag, for example.

Also, Go downloads the minimum version that satisfies packages, so it's less likely that you'll download a (semver) "patch" release that someone pushed hours ago.

All this makes me both like and dislike how Go handles dependencies.

[1]: Well, from a mirror, unless you set `GOPROXY=direct`. Reasoning explained in next paragraph.

[2]: The checksum is calculated from a zip file, but it is generated in a deterministic way, and this checksum is also generated and validated locally when you download dependencies. More info at https://go.dev/ref/mod#zip-files and https://go.dev/ref/mod#go-mod-verify
by inglor_cz | 2025-09-10 10:13:27+00:00
I cannot think of any single ethnocultural group in the West that highly values education and, at the same time, has bad outcomes doing so. We have invested a lot of money and effort into our educational systems.

Even traditionally oppressed groups like the Jews or the Chinese (Chinese Exclusion Act anyone?) or descendants of Russian muzhiks or Indian untouchable castes do have good outcomes if they actually motivate their kids to learn.

The groups that are systematically out (in Czechia, the part of the Roma that lives in ghettos - contrary what people tend to think, a lot of the Roma marry into the wider society, mix with it and live quite comfortable self-sufficient lives) tend to be the ones that despise schooling, and it will take a century or so of concerted efforts to change the attitudes.
by hopelite | 2025-09-10 10:13:32+00:00
I do not see that as inherently correct. There have been and are several alternatives to YouTube and every single one has been actively sabotaged for primarily political/ideological reasons that have nothing to do with any of what you are talking about.

There is quite literally a conspiracy to suppress alternatives to YouTube because they do not align with the ideological parameters of the pernicious system. If you let that boot up from humanity’s neck, there would be many competitors to YouTube that would immediately atrophy YouTube. You seem to simply not be aware of what is going on outside of the authorized narrative. You will never be able to see the reality of things if you limit yourself to only the confines of the illusion matrix created for you by the system.

But yes, YouTube has a moat and like all moats it is built and maintained by the tyrannical monarch who believes himself to be chosen by God, but must hide away behind it from reality.
by zurfer | 2025-09-10 10:14:36+00:00
Thanks for sticking the head out ;)

I'm really not sure where 1 to 3 come from? 1 and 2 are about spending time with people. 3 can't also be true, just look at all the innovations that OSS has created (at least 90 perc. remote collaboration).

Number 4 is a real problem and a symptom of the biggest problem imo, which is that it's hard to build trust online/remotely.
by Muromec | 2025-09-10 10:15:12+00:00
Yesterday I asked one LLM about certain provisions of Ukrainian law, where severity threshold for a financial crime was specified indirectly through a certain well known constant. The machine got it wrong and when asked to give sources cited the respective law referencing a similary sounding unit. Amazingly it gave the correct English tranlation but gave me the wrong original in Ukrainian.

I guess it merged two tokens why learning the text.

Amazingly it also knows about difference between two constants, but referrs to the wrong one in both calculations and in hallucinating the quote.

It's tedious to always check for stuff like this.

Then I asked a different LLM and it turned out that actually the constant is monkey patched for specific contexts and both me and the first lying machine were wrong
by someothherguyy | 2025-09-10 10:15:19+00:00
> A good enough microscope can easily tell the difference between life and non-life, especially in the presence of water.

They are still arguing over this one three decades later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg7905

" Inorganic precipitation processes are capable of producing a wide range of morphological outputs. This range includes shapes with both crystallographic and non-crystallographic symmetry elements. Among the latter, morphologies that mimic primitive living organisms are easily obtained under different physico-chemical conditions including those that are geochemically plausible. The application of this information to the problem of deciphering primitive life on the early Earth and Mars is discussed. It is concluded that morphology cannot be used unambiguously as a tool for primitive life detection. "

https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of...
by simoncion | 2025-09-10 10:16:15+00:00
And if a coworker is refusing to speak with you on the system that the company provides you to speak with them, why haven't you complained to your manager (or your manager's manager) about the clear and obvious blocker to getting your work done?

One of the following is true: OP is the biggest doormat in the world, the company OP works for is incredibly dysfunctional and cannot be saved, or OP's story could be found in the "Things That Never Happened" Jeopardy category.
by jeofken | 2025-09-10 10:16:43+00:00
- memorising names and birthdates of relevant people - private life and work life - anything I’m looking up more than ~5 times can go in Anki - spelling of words I often misspell (eg bureaucracy) - when reading anything technical I need for my work or study I have Anki open and type in what I learn in QnA format, and I will never forget it but have it easy within reach for an investment of only a few minutes per QnA over its (and my) life time - just for fun, the cantons of Switzerland, landskap of Sweden, provinces of Canada, and states and capitals of the USA - NATO phonetic alphabet which comes in useful more often that you’d think

Life-changingly useful program for every aspect of my life, when I can finish it every day

My top tips:

- put all decks in a master “daily” deck using the :: syntax in the deck names. Otherwise you feel “done” when having finished one deck, and feel like not starting the next. Have only one goal - finishing today’s Anki - for that master deck (and every other deck) go Study Options > Display Order > New/review order > Show after reviews. Otherwise it’s hard to ever catch up when slipping behind. With this setting, the system becomes somewhat self correcting

My only regret is not being able to pay more than $25 to the developers
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-09-10 10:16:56+00:00
I suppose whatever you send to Spotify will then compress more the tape compression making it sound worse? Also reminded of that recent thing about AI improving YouTube videos. I wonder if Spotify would do that about certain things - small creators, concerts, other live performances.

At any rate I don't think Master - Tape - Spotify would be likely to sound better than just Master - Spotify.
by Razengan | 2025-09-10 10:17:05+00:00
This is what I and I'm sure many other gamers/gamedevs thought when LLMs/ChatGPT first came on the scene:

Dynamically-generated dialogue. Device-local models designed for games could be trained on the game's lore and given a different style for each NPC, and react to the player's random actions instead of blurting out canned responses each time.

I'm sure if the genre-starting veterans like Richard Garriott or Roberta Williams were still active in the industry they'd definitely want to use something like this. Imagine a King's Quest or Monkey Island where you could literally type or try anything and get a relevant response! instead of just "nope"