MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by animal_spirits | 2025-09-05 23:56:36+00:00
Yes there are "bad" things children can be exposed to. But the difference is the lifelong real trauma caused by sexual abuse. Yes kids can learn lying from the internet, or see people smoking, etc. But if you are a pre-teen that sexually abuses another pre-teen (which happens _very_ common surprisingly) it has an enormous capacity for harm compared to other "bad" things. With this and that it's much easier to regulate, I think it is worth the trade-offs.
by tharkun__ | 2025-09-05 23:57:55+00:00
I really wanted to use Aider. But it's impossible. How do people actually use it?

Like, I gave it access to our code base, wanted to try a very simple bug fix. I only told it to look at one service I knew needed changes, because it says it works better in smaller code bases. It wanted to send so many tokens to sonnet that I hit the limits before it even started actually doing any coding.

Instant fail.

Then I just ran Claude Code, gave it the same instructions and I had a mostly working fix in a few minutes (never mind the other fails with Claude I've had - see other comment), but Aider was a huge disappointment for me.
by novok | 2025-09-06 00:00:34+00:00
Thats a spam problem and solvable by different means. FWIW I never get such experiences and made internet friends even on reddit via the DM system.

For people to develop friendships with each other, they need to be able to have 1:1 or 1:small time with a ton of back and forth, and public comment sections don't lend themselves to 100 deep message threads. Chat rooms do, chat threads do, and DMs do. In real life it happens naturally as people split off into side conversations.
by PhantomHour | 2025-09-06 00:01:11+00:00
To be slightly rude, there is just a wikipedia article by the name "Dumping"; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)

The actual legal mechanics are complicated; "Illegal under international law" here specifically entails "WTO agreements allow retaliation in response to dumping".

> and why I couldn't do it for cars or commodity goods.

Specifically, it's more enforced. Governments care about their conventional industry. The way this'd look is say, China providing state subsidy to certain industries in order to artificially lower the price of those goods, making them cheaper than US-based industry could produce, with the specific intent of driving US industry out of business.

Just googling "predatory pricing" and "dumping" will get you examples.

> Also I think that I doubt how enforceable this is in tech industry as for the most part, they are selling a service and each service is different and thus have different price points and therefore the company should have the ability to decide prices technically.

The problem for tech is this difficulty in assessing "real value" and the assumption that running at a loss for extended periods is "normal" for tech companies.

For a clear-cut example, consider Uber, who paid drivers more than they charged the passenger(s). This is obviously predatory. Uber has tricks like moving insurance/maintenance to the driver's wallet, but a taxi can't be cheaper than what they pay the driver.

> why does the govt. interfere b/w them? Does this not impact their rights/freedom?

It does impact their freedom, but the reason why the government intervenes is long-term health of the market.

Things like a 'firesale' because you're going out of business, or moving to a new warehouse, etc, are fine. A single store (even a big-box one) going out of business won't crush the entire market and it's only of short duration.

The problem is that dumping/predatory pricing is a strategy to maintain a monopoly. (Or in the cases of extensive investment funding, build one)

Again, consider something like Uber (but the same applies to any "rental"/gig-economy company). They sell rides below cost paid for by their huge pile of investment money, no other taxi company can compete. All the competing taxis go out of business. Uber can now raise the prices to obscene levels and cash in.

Whenever someone tries to start a new taxi company, it'll be small and local, so Uber just lowers their ride prices in that region again until they go out of business. And because they're small they don't have as much money as Uber so they'll go bankrupt first. Uber keeps the monopoly.

Such monopolies are long-term bad for the entire economy.

On an international level, it's China and steel again. China subsidizes their industry, industry in other countries can't compete and goes bankrupt, China can now raise their prices.
by asdff | 2025-09-06 00:01:34+00:00
I shied away from wyze when they killed some features in some wifi cams I had years ago. It used to work like most others where it would detect movement and record a 30 second clip. Somewhere along the way that became a paid subscription only feature. Should have never updated that firmware...

I'm using reolink now for doorbell and will probably stick to them and other such brands going forward. poe of course too since all battery based cams suck in comparison (no live streaming capability or preroll recording before detection, needing regular charging). Wifi units are kind of crappy too compared to poe. Running cable is kind of satisfying in a strange way imo.
by hodgehog11 | 2025-09-06 00:02:08+00:00
Ugh, did they really have to continue on with that ridiculous title meme? For those that don't know, it's inspired by this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02178

This may all seem in good fun, but it makes a real difference when you have to introduce this paper to students and other academics getting into the discipline. It's just embarrassing, and always garners a reaction from a facepalm to disgust. This is especially true now that Rowling is a controversial figure.

As for the paper itself, this provides a good source for referencing, but the conclusions drawn here seem to be pretty commonly known in the folklore. I think we're finally starting to see a healthy and meaningful shift in tone from the optimization community that has been obsessed with early convergence rates for years. It's good to have options in optimizers, but the decision on which optimizer to use is rarely so straightforward and comes from prior experience. Most will stick with AdamW.
by nostrademons | 2025-09-06 00:02:20+00:00
Interestingly Kent Beck (the originator of Extreme Programming) has been doing a lot with AI coding and figuring out how it could be useful:

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/augmented-coding-beyond-the...

I remember he first posted 2+ years ago, back when people first realized ChatGPT might be useful for coding, that "90% of my skills are now worthless and the remaining 10% are worth 1000x"

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/90-of-my-skills-are-now-wor...
by runsWphotons | 2025-09-06 00:02:44+00:00
I think whatever the surveys said, the egg prices/inflation actually had little to do with Trump victory and the left shouldn't be misled by this. People vote now for emotional reasons, reasons of identity, and these rational reasons are mostly cover--something you tell a pollster but not the real truth. Take note of anyone you know who gave this reason and see what they say about 6 months of manufacturing decline, slowing job growth, or about the inevitable inflation from tariffs...I bet most defend it in some way.

The right is now split into a faction that rejects foreign interventions and wants to withdraw, if not total isolationist then something in that direction, and another faction. At the elite level this other faction is ascendant. The lesson they have drawn from US military failures from Vietnam to GWOT is different from the former faction. In their view the problem is that we were not aggressive enough, we were too constrained by overly legalistic and conservative rules of engagement and various ideological goals which polluted the prosecution of the wars and prevented us from "winning". They DO want a more cruel, more aggressive force posture. They admire and defend Israel in large part because they see it as a model of a force which really believes in "winning". A substantial portion of the voter base is attracted to this, enthused by the prospect of aggressive campaigns in Latin America with relaxed rules of engagement, and sees the renaming to Department of War as a "based" declaration of this doctrine. The country is moving more in this direction and the more isolationist (kind of "Buchananite") wing is getting purged again, but with some concessions made to them.

I am not sure the left has any answer to this right now because it has discredited itself with so many, especially losing a lot of younger men (those under 21 heavily favor Republicans), and generally the country may simply be moving in this direction. I think be clear eyed what you are facing.
by anonfordays | 2025-09-06 00:04:43+00:00
>You believe a state propaganda feed? In 2025??

"Trust the experts!"

>Much more likely? 450 koreans working here legally but not carrying papers on them because american is supposed to be a free country.

The facts will inevitably be: hundreds of Korean nationals were illegally working in the US. The correction will be a small blurb somewhere, posted months from now, after the next fake new outrage comes about.
by freerobby | 2025-09-06 00:06:15+00:00
This is clickbait from a publication that's had it out for Tesla for nearly a decade.

Tesla is pivoting messaging toward what the car can do today. You can believe that FSD will deliver L4 autonomy to owners or not -- I'm not wading into that -- but this updated web site copy does not change the promises they've made prior owners, and Tesla has not walked back those promises.

The most obvious tell of this is the unsupervised program in operation right now in Austin.
by lazide | 2025-09-06 00:06:19+00:00
Nah, Amazon got big WHILE all the other retailers were huge. Amazon was nothing, and the other retailers sucked so bad (consistently) that Amazon was able to eat their lunch and crush them.

Amazon didn’t win because they were huge. They got huge by winning.

Now, they can afford to be shitty (unfortunately), which is actually helping local retail near as I can tell.
by mkl | 2025-09-06 00:06:47+00:00
Waymo is very restricted on the locations it drives (limit parts of limited cities, I think no freeways still), and uses remote operators to make decisions in unusual situations and when it gets stuck. This article from last year has quite a bit of information: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/on-self-driving-waymo-i...
by nikolay | 2025-09-06 00:06:55+00:00
The technology is the same, but not the vaccine. We test drugs, not drug technologies! Others, then all classic vaccines should not be tested as there are just a couple of vaccine technologies in use before mRNA vaccines.

This was all over the news that before releasing to the public, it was ONLY tested on mice. And then there was a public uproar. And then people stop using these untested toxic substances.
by summerlight | 2025-09-06 00:08:12+00:00
> would’ve been a “nature is healing” moment for the web.

A more likely scenario is that some other big techs like MSFT or Meta would acquire Chrome and replace the monopolist position. This is the sad truth that many people try to underplay; Nature won't heal by itself. The market is already structured to incentivize monopolist behaviors, thanks to the scaling nature of big techs. You need correction to the market itself, which can only be done by an extremely competent legislative body but we won't have that anytime soon. But at least the EU has done something with DMA so there are still some hopes.
by anonymars | 2025-09-06 00:08:13+00:00
You might find this an interesting piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/realestate/switzerland-re...

> The details will seem foreign to many in the West, where building home equity is baked into the system. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains?
by utyop22 | 2025-09-06 00:08:35+00:00
Heres another way to think about it.

How has humanity organised itself to maximize productivity throughout time? By means of slavery.

What really is h1b at the core? Its a modern form of slavery - it appears to be voluntary in nature (to a degree it is) but the key point is that it creates lock in. That lock in enables a slave-like culture to thrive. And this is what we see.

And btw just install Sundar and Satya as CEOs to voluntarily attract more Indian software engineers and so on...

Lmao its so easy to see whats been going on. These guys arent all that smart, even though they are worshipped.
by calmbell | 2025-09-06 00:09:11+00:00
The Palma 2 doesn't have stylus support. I seriously considered the Supernote Nomad, the modular design is neat, but went with the Palma 2 for the backlight and the Boox software, which seems to be superior to Supernote for everything but writing and notes. If my primary use case were note-taking rather than reading, I would have gone with the Supernote Nomad.
by gxs | 2025-09-06 00:09:48+00:00
This is not a humble brag by any means, just sharing my experience

I type 121 wpm and I simply can’t concentrate when writing by hand

It’s too slow and instead of focusing on formulating my thoughts or capturing what’s being said I get super fidgety

Not to mention my handwriting stinks

For me it’s a lot easier to remember when I’m fully immersed and processing ideas vs tediously writing

I do think this is probably just lack of handwriting skill - I definitely learned all this in school and took handwritten notes most of my life, but I suspect I never did it right back then
by wahern | 2025-09-06 00:10:14+00:00
For the curious,

> When a 100G NIC is fully utilized with 64B packets and 20B Ethernet overhead, a new packet arrives every 6.72 nanoseconds on average. If any component on the packet path takes longer than this time to process the individual packet, a packet loss occurs. For a core running at 3GHz, 6.72 nanoseconds only accounts for 20 clock cycles, while the DRAM latency is 5-10 times higher, on average. This is the main bottleneck of the traditional DMA approach.

> The Intel® DDIO technology in Intel® Xeon® processors eliminates this bottleneck. Intel® DDIO technology allows PCIe devices to perform read and write operations directly to and from the L3 cache, or the last level cache (LLC).

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/vtune-profiler/...
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-09-06 00:10:36+00:00
Very interesting observation on SQLite vs Pola.rs. Also, how could I forget that Torch was originally a Lua library when I used it forever ago.

I also wonder how much of the ossification comes from the embodied logic in the HLL. SQLite wrappers tend to be very simple and let the C core do most of the work. Something like PyTorch on the other hand layers on a lot of logic onto underlying CUDA/BLAS that is essential complexity living solely in Python the HLL. This is also probably why libcurl has so many great wrappers in HLLs because libcurl does the heavy lifting.

The pain point I see repeatedly in putting most of the logic into the performant core is asynchrony. Every HLL seems to have its own way to do async execution (Python with asyncio, Node with its async runtime, Go with lightweight green threads (goroutines), Common Lisp with native threads, etc.) This means that the C core needs to be careful as to what to expose and how to accommodate various asynchrony patterns.
by Aachen | 2025-09-06 00:10:54+00:00
It's dirt cheap to host text contributed by volunteers compared to audiovisual media or newspapers written by paid people

Which is not to say free and without challenges, definitely not at Wikipedia's scale, but compared to how much donation money they get it's peanuts, not even the same ballpark (the vast majority of the money they get via Wikipedian beg banners goes to projects other than Wikipedia)

Also, personal opinion but

> I haven’t opened Wikipedia in years.

sounded like someone proudly telling a group of supposedly cool friends how they don't read stuffy books anymore now that they've discovered one-page summaries online. This might fall on deaf ears but there's value in reading the actual thing including following references where relevant
by dave333 | 2025-09-06 00:11:11+00:00
To SPOIL my own question now my brain has had time to work on it, the answer may be that the first digit is larger than the second digit for liked numbers and less for not liked, with the 0 digits irrelevant. So 9 > 6 and 4 < 5 and 5 > 4 and 2 < 5.
by _heimdall | 2025-09-06 00:11:43+00:00
What you describe is in fact what Waymo has had, of chosen to, deal with. They didn't go for an end run around regulations related to vehicles on public roads. They committed to driverless vehicles and worked with local governments to roll it out as quickly as regulators were willing to allow.

Uber could have made the same decision and worked with regulators to be allowed into markets one at a time. It was an intentional choice to lean on the fact that Uber drivers blended into traffic and could hide in plain sight until Uber had enough market share and customer base to give them leverage.
by addaon | 2025-09-06 00:11:48+00:00
Am I missing something, or does this article spend hundreds of words pushing a "pro-excellence" plan without ever defining what they mean by excellence? It's hard to see how a dictionary definition ("the quality of being outstanding or extremely good") is useful for differentiating their success metrics from those of other stakeholders; so taking the steel man reading that this is a term of art and not just a meaningless label, a domain-specific definition for those of us less familiar in the art would be appreciated.
by thangalin | 2025-09-06 00:12:17+00:00
https://www.sinopetech.com/en/collections/temperature-contro...

I replaced all my thermostats for both of my homes with Sinopé products. Smart, allows integration with locally hosted home automation, and compatible with ZigBee networks. Purchased my first batch in late 2021 and haven't had any issues. Physical temperature controls if the LAN goes offline. Highly recommend.

Here's the hardware installed for on-prem home automation using the open-source Home Assistant software:

* Raspberry Pi[1] CPU, heatsink, A/C adapter, and case

* ConBee II Zigbee USB gateway[2]

* USB ADATA Micro SD card reader and USB cable

* Micro SD card (for operating system and Home Assistant)

* Ethernet cable (optional if using onboard WiFi)

There's a tutorial walking through the setup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJEwrSSFe9s

It takes a little more labour to make it remotely accessible via smart phone, but once you have it locally hosted, that world is your oyster.

[1]: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/

[2]: https://phoscon.de/en/conbee2
by webdevver | 2025-09-06 00:12:24+00:00
its entirely possible. clearly we have all the input signals that we need in electronic form:

inertia (IMU), vision (CCD), skin pressure (not sure?), absolute offset/absolute rotation (optical encoders)

so now the question is: how do we convert this bag of signals into mimicking a human. this question has been asked for text already, and the answer is LLMs which can, at the very least, mimick humans pretty well.

if a humanoid can be made to mimick a cook, or a cleaner, or manual labor, be able to navigate human geometry (stairs, ramps, etc.) that is already huge.

i agree that it would be the most advanced consumer grade product - the only thing that might beat it, is a domestic nuclear reactor.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-09-06 00:12:24+00:00
Some time ~11 years ago, I needed to take a bus trip in SF. There was nowhere nearby to reload a Clipper card, so I was happy when I found out I could do it online. I was less happy when the web site said it would take 24-48 hours for the newly-loaded funds to be available on my Clipper card.
by daxfohl | 2025-09-06 00:12:28+00:00
I could see it happening in a year or two. Especially in backend. There's only so many different architecture patterns we use, and an LLM will have access to every one that has ever been deployed, every document, every gripe, every research paper, etc.

I mean, I think ultimately the state space in designing a feature is way smaller than, say, go (the game). Maybe a few hundred common patterns and maybe a billion reasonable ways to combine them. I think it's only a matter of time before we ask it to design a feature, and it produces five options that are all better than what we'd have come up with.
by panarky | 2025-09-06 00:13:42+00:00
Waymo never allows a remote human to drive the car. If it gets stuck, a remote operator can assess the situation and tell the car where it should go, but all driving is always handled locally by the onboard system in the vehicle.

Interesting that Waymo now operates just fine in SF fog, and is expanding to Seattle (rain) and Denver (snow and ice).
by cryptoz | 2025-09-06 00:14:00+00:00
Oh gosh sorry, I do try to contribute positively to HN and write quality comments. I'll expand: I've been in circumstances where I've been rented a company car in a foreign country, felt that I was a good driver, but struggled. The road signs are different and can be confusing, the local patterns and habits of drivers can be totally different from what you're accustomed to. I don't doubt that lots of humans could drive most roads - but I think the average driver would struggle, and have a much higher rate of accidents than a local.

Germany, Italy, India all stand out as examples to me. The roads and driving culture is very different, and can be dangerous to someone who is used to driving on American suburban streets.

I really do stand by my comment, and apologize for the 'low quality' nature of it. I meant to suggest that we set the bar far higher for AI than we do for people, which is in general a good thing. But still - I would say that by this definition of 'full self driving', it wouldn't be met very well by many or most human drivers.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-06 00:14:20+00:00
I don't know what's to be gained by pushing back against it.

There is the stereotype that leftists have a "language police" and there is something to it. If you go around mindlessly using words like "LatinX" before asking Latinos what they think about it they really do vote for the other side.

I think you don't want to be seen as one of "them" you know.
by crote | 2025-09-06 00:15:06+00:00
Option 1: $183B valuation, $1.5B settlement.

Option 2: near-$0 valuation, $15M purchasing cost.

To an investor, that just looks like a pretty good deal, I reckon. It's just the cost of doing business - which in my opionion is exactly what is wrong with practices like these.
by starchild3001 | 2025-09-06 00:15:30+00:00
Feels like Musk should step down from the CEO role. The company hasn’t really delivered on its big promises: no real self-driving, Cybertruck turned into a flop, the affordable Tesla never materialized. Model S was revolutionary, but Model 3 is basically a cheaper version of that design, and in the last decade there hasn’t been a comparable breakthrough. Innovation seems stalled.

At this point, Tesla looks less like a disruptive startup and more like a large-cap company struggling to find its next act. Musk still runs it like a scrappy startup, but you can’t operate a trillion-dollar business with the same playbook. He’d probably be better off going back to building something new from scratch and letting someone else run Tesla like the large company it already is.
by seemaze | 2025-09-06 00:16:11+00:00
Lee Hutchinson of arstechnica.com did a great rundown of setting up bind with dhcpd as a self hosted CA a while back.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/doing...

I never took the plunge - dnsmasq, adguardhome, and let's encrypt for me..