MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by m463 | 2025-09-30 23:31:47+00:00
I think there's one big "information asymmetry" I REALLY wish could get addressed.

basically - products spy on you, create a detailed dossier, and then sell or share your information.

And this information is basically unavailable, for many reasons.

So you cannot find out if a product is not only bad, but evil.

You only hear about stuff like this

1) tangentially

2) long after the fact

Like how the pentagon says DJI is basically the chinese military.

or how XYZ corp was compromised and leaked lots of people's data (and the people don't know who they are, where the data came from, and how long it has been happening)
by nurumaik | 2025-09-30 23:31:57+00:00
"Destructiveness" property is undecidable in general. If you ban rm from history, you'll just get false sense of security before you accidentally run some "aws bla bla drop production cluster"

Behavior of any system should be just one of: 1. Fully determinate 2. Have enough latency before confirmation (for example, block input for 1 second after displaying a command)

This should apply to history, any fuzzy searching, autocomplete etc
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-30 23:32:05+00:00
I wish we could get something other than Geekbench for these things, since Geekbench seems to be trash. For example, it has the Ryzen 7 7700X with a higher multi-core score than the Epyc 9534 even though they're both Zen4 and the latter has 8 times as many cores and is significantly faster on threaded workloads in real life.
by florkbork | 2025-09-30 23:32:07+00:00
The examples are deliberately chosen as extremes, where they have an ethical standpoint.

I suggest the examples work even better with the context you add - you do not have to agree with the ethics or like them!

On the "funding terrorism" insinuation...

Did PETA publish an ethical statement about: - Protecting university infrastructure - Obeying authorities - Agreeing with negative media coverage about them

I sincerely doubt it.

Their misdeed in your view is donating $45k for a guy's legal defense, who was the spokesman of the ALF, not PETA. By that logic, any government funded public defender is the taxpayer condoning murder, robbery, etc. We can both agree objectively that isn't true - guilt by association is the fallacy there; funding a legal defense is separate from the act requiring the legal defense.

I would argue you have this talking point because of a concerted media effort to brand things as "Eco-Terrorism" - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Scare - and that is a coordinated effort to change the focus.

BUT, let's assume PETA are exactly as you say.

Scenario 1: they publish no standpoint, pretending to be a local book club who have simply enjoyed the prose of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation.

Scenario 2: as above, but they publish their ethical standpoint upfront and it is easy to access.

After you have gone a few times, one day a chap stands up, say he's the Lorax; has been a member for years; is head of the Once-ler Action Committee demands everyone hijacks a plane to fly it into the nearest highrise, because he's for the trees; buildings use timber and the North American Squirrel is suffering.

In which scenario are you more surprised? In which scenario were you given the most choice about how you can interact with the group; apply your own standards of behavior or what to expect? In which scenario are you better equipped to object ("we care about the wellbeing of squirrels, but your case is driven by a flimsy ideological argument that has little to do with the shared values!") In which scenario are you more likely to seek external help from an authority; because it is trivial to identify the extremism is out of place?

This is my point - having no stated ethics or CoC is objectively worse when radical/extremist viewpoints creep in due to malicious actors; vs at least publishing a basic standard.
by lovich | 2025-09-30 23:32:11+00:00
It is not a mischaracterization. Him and his people organized false slates of electors who tried to fraudulently claim that they were the official slate of electors for their state.

You are factually mischaracterizing what happened. It wasn’t just backup slates in case their case went through.

It’s actually the more legally damning set of actions he took compared to J6
by csvance | 2025-09-30 23:32:11+00:00
I've found that I'm most productive in Julia when minimizing the number of third party dependencies for this reason, even more so than other languages. That's not to say there are not many high quality packages available but rather the benefits of the type system align better when I have a strong understanding or control over the most pertinent interfaces. As a language Julia definitely rewards you heavily for this type of thing. Coming from Python my first instinct was to try to solve as many problems as possible with third party packages and filling in between the lines. Unsurprisingly this was the worst of both worlds.

If there was one thing I could change about Julia it most certainly wouldn't be correctness issues in my own experience. Filling in the ecosystem in terms of boring glue type stuff like a production grade gRPC client would be amazing. This was the type of problem that almost got me to give up on the language.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-30 23:32:37+00:00
> End users don't buy CPUs and buy filesystems. They buy entire systems. [...] Possibly true, but still totally irrelevant if the rest of the system can't keep up.

At least historically for hardware components of PCs, this was not irrelevant, but the state of things:

You basically bought some PC as a starting basis. Because of the high speed of improvements, everybody knew that you would soon replace parts as you deemed feasible. If some component was not suitable anymore, you swapped it (upgrade the PC). You bought a new PC if things got insanely outdated, and updating was not worth the money anymore. With this new PC, the cycle of updating components started back from the beginning.
by majorchord | 2025-09-30 23:33:10+00:00
Where would their definition of 'verify' be documented?

In the US, the recent federal bill aimed at age verification is more of an 'honor system', where just a yes/no box would suffice. Their position seems to be that it's not the government's job to try to prove you're not lying.

Japan does the same thing when you buy beer or cigarettes, you just tap "I'm at least 20" on the screen and off you go.
by xenobeb | 2025-09-30 23:33:42+00:00
You obviously never actually used Sora.

These are hand selected from thousands of prompts. The person who doesn't use these tools thinks that you prompt the video like you are Scorsese directing a film. That is exactly what AI video is not.

More like you write a prompt and then try try try to get something that vaguely does what you wanted it to do. Most of the time though it doesn't even get close. The best video is usually stuff you didn't even intend. It is great for demo reals but that is about it.

They already made such a big deal about Sora 1 for months before it came out then what have you seen from it after it actually released? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Honestly, Midjourney blows away what I seen in this video as far as being pretty but Midjourney video is the same problem. Your imagination is filling in all these AI video features that don't exist.
by bluGill | 2025-09-30 23:33:50+00:00
Not the news I need. I need local news. I care about my local mayer race. I care what my school board does. I care about the local art studio events. unless you are my neighbor you don't care about my community (you have your own).

If you live in big city beware that your newspaper probably is lacking your neighborhood coverage which is what you need.
by hodgehog11 | 2025-09-30 23:33:57+00:00
Interesting, this was the big 'a-ha' moment in the grad course I took on the subject. Surgery was clearly important too, but this seemed to be more apparent from Hamilton's work. The W functional was what provided the control needed. Also, calling it 'easy' feels like it dismisses the insights necessary to have developed the functional in the first place.

Happy to be corrected on this; I wasn't an active mathematician at the time, so everything I know comes from other accounts.
by mtlynch | 2025-09-30 23:34:23+00:00
>The "Parse, don't validate" paper is classic IMHO.

Yeah, I find it so baffling that 90% of programmers I talk to have never heard of it. My circle is more Go/Python/C++ folks, so maybe it's more well-known in functional programming circles.

>I disagree with "Don't put logic in tests", with the example provided being a problem with using strings where a URI type is needed instead. Perhaps the source of my disagreement is I hold that test code is production code due to test suite failure(s) during an automated build stops desired deployment.

Yeah, I think that's a fair criticism. I think the specifics of the example could be better, but I think the important underlying message is that even something that seems simple like a string concatenation is added complexity that can mask a bug in a test.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-09-30 23:35:13+00:00
If not for Nazi Germany, would the behavior of the current admin, especially with respect to ICE, be labeled “fascist”? My impression is that the optics of vanning people is reminiscent of the optics of what happened in Germany, and so the label comes out. This is bolstered by Nazi Germany being probably the most covered topic in American history class for the past many decades, as well as similar coverage in Hollywood, to the point where “bad guy” and Nazi/fascist are basically synonyms.

Are you coming from somewhere else?
by sema4hacker | 2025-09-30 23:35:21+00:00
From what I understand, Wiz basically finds flaws that allows systems to be compromised, as listed on the "Wiz (company)" Wikipedia page. As more and more AI-generated code is released into the wild, I imagine Wiz is going to have an endless growing supply of clients.

Is there a need for a kind of "Underwriter Labs" organization that would test brands and versions of software and put their "approved for consumption because we think it's exploit-free" label on those products so users could feel like they could trust those products to some degree? (Although I'm not sure you could prevent configuration errors by admins.)

Instead of paying penetration testers, would it be cheaper to pay insurance companies to cover loses that "exploit-free" labeled software failed to prevent?
by mijoharas | 2025-09-30 23:35:46+00:00
For me, most people that are involved (e.g. simi, a, now former, maintainer[0]) seem to point to this post by Joel drapper as a canonical and accurate accounting of events, and I have no reason to doubt them[1]. Most of the article says it's due to pressure from Shopify.

[0] https://gist.github.com/simi/349d881d16d3d86947945615a47c60c...

[1] https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/
by paulcole | 2025-09-30 23:36:22+00:00
I have used Sora many times! If you need to see a Scorcese movie as output in order to be impressed then you will be incredibly disappointed.

> It is great for demo reals but that is about it.

This is what is amazing! Imagine you go back to 2020 and say, “Hey I’ve got this website where you can type and it’ll return back a little computer generated video that looks pretty real.”

The only thing lamer than people talking about how unimpressive AI is are the people talking about AI’s environmental impact.
by llm_nerd | 2025-09-30 23:36:55+00:00
>Lowering LDL doesn't actually do anything on its own

Is this some sort of weird philosophical statement? Because, of course, it's completely nonsensical, and completely at odds with all data on this file.

Lowering LDL reduces CVD incident rates, with no other interventions. People with genetically low LDL also have lower CVD incident rates. This is extraordinarily well proven.

So it sure seems -- you know, 100% of medical science -- that lowering LDL does "something".

The human body is a complex machine, however, and CVD is multifactorial, and for CVD to develop the current thinking is that you need inflammation and high cholesterol over decades. Inflammation can be caused by things like high blood pressure and the like. But everyone has inflammation to some degree as a facet of living, and the easiest component of that to treat (not just measure) is LDL.

And yes, there is an industry of cholesterol denialists, among whom there are just loads and loads of chiropractors. These clowns have built armies of poorly informed disciples that run to HN to tell us that cholesterol doesn't matter and lowering LDL doesn't do anything.
by astrange | 2025-09-30 23:36:58+00:00
Luckily it doesn't actually copy the style at all.

No matter what text you put in the prompt you'll get /something/. Just because you put "studio ghibli anime" in the prompt doesn't mean you're going to actually get that out of it. It'll just be kind of yellow and blobby.

(Also, the style isn't from "people" but a specific guy named Yoshifumi Kondo who isn't around anymore.)
by throw0101c | 2025-09-30 23:37:22+00:00
> Has the surge in immigration since 1970 led to slower wage growth for native-born workers? Academic research does not provide much support for this claim. The evidence suggests that when immigration increases the supply of labor, firms increase investment to offset any reduction in capital per worker, thereby keeping average wages from falling over the long term. Moreover, immigrants are often imperfect substitutes for native-born workers in U.S. labor markets. That means they do not compete for the same jobs and put minimal downward pressure on natives’ wages. This might explain why competition from new immigrants has mostly affected earlier immigrants, who experienced significant reductions in wages from the surge in immigration. In contrast, studies find that immigration has actually raised average wages of native-born workers during the last few decades.

* https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2016/1/27/the-e...
by Shank | 2025-09-30 23:37:52+00:00
I find Kagi somewhat perplexing with this release. On one hand, the search engine is clearly good at surfacing content that isn't AI slop, and it has initiatives like the "small web" that endeavor to surface smaller websites. Instead of doing something similar, it's just an AI summary engine. I find it not only contradictory of many of their other efforts, but also unasked for. I would love to see something similar to "small web" for news.
by koreth1 | 2025-09-30 23:39:11+00:00
I'd sort of roughly approached this technique with my own channel organization over time without thinking about it systematically, but this is a helpful crystallization of what I'd been trying to achieve. I'm glad this was posted.

Definitely agree with others that Slack needs a richer selection of notification mechanisms, both for new content in channels and for mentions. For mentions, there's no level between "I demand immediate attention from this person" and "the characters that make up this person's name happen to be in the text of my message."
by Someone | 2025-09-30 23:39:26+00:00
> I get the impression that they were storing everything sequentially in memory, rather than having a linked list of instructions. Why? I can only speculate.

I expect that’s because that is how ‘every’ homecomputer basic did it. Yes, that makes it slow to insert or remove a line close to the start of a long program, but it allow those offsets to be 8 bits, gaining a precious byte over a 16-bit absolute address.

Now, why they initially chose to waste those bytes? I wouldn’t know, but I guess that, because (FTA) “The CP1610 processor cannot address directly the internal memory in byte terms, instead everything is handled by full word”, they didn’t think of using a single byte.
by Barbing | 2025-09-30 23:39:47+00:00
Looks like WSJ broke the news:

“OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out”

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-new-sora-video-generator...

And Reuters covered their coverage minus the paywall:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openais-new-sora-video-ge...
by SeanAnderson | 2025-09-30 23:40:23+00:00
I didn't claim to have made anything with AI video. I'm just commenting on how rapidly things appear to be improving from an external viewpoint. We used to give AI crap for failing to generate an appropriate number of fingers on still imagery. Now we're watching multiple minutes of video to find handfuls of discontinuities. The goalposts have shifted pretty far in an exceptionally short amount of time.

I have no idea why you're so intent on coming across bitter about a fledgling technology. A few years ago this demo video would've been indistinguishable from magic. It will continue to improve.
by komali2 | 2025-09-30 23:40:33+00:00
Better example: you press the ok button, and sometimes, only sometimes, it triggers twice.

You tell your lead, they say "I know." You ask why they haven't fixed it, and they lead you down a deep rabbit hole of fundamental, unsolved issues with event bubbling, and show you the 20 different workarounds they've tried over the years. "In the end," they say, "nobody's figured out how to not get it to sometimes fire twice."

Thus hiring. Sure it looks not right to you, but, come join us in hiring and you'll see, a better way has yet to be found. At least when I run interviews it's an actual real problem rather than a leetcode thing - I always just grab something reasonably difficult I recently did for the company and convert it to an interview problem.

Your guess that ~24/200 will be "good enough" is unfortunately wrong in my experience. In my last go, only 10/200 were able to demonstrate sufficient knowledge of the required skills to be hireable, and by that I mean fulfill the needs of the role in a way that justifies their salary, rather than be so inexperienced as to be a drain on resources rather than net gain. Of that 10, 2 were the best. Criticizing not wanting to work with the best doesn't make sense to me. Lemme put my capitalism hat on, there: we have competitors, we need to code faster than them to get clients before them. If we don't, we lose revenue and don't get another funding round, and the company dies. Also all hiring is reported back to the investors who have an expectation we get good people. Also we give equity - why wouldn't I want the best possible people on my team so that I have the highest chance of my equity paying out big?

Capitalism hat off, yup, this system is dehumanizing and not configured to deliver the greatest societal good. Alienated labor detached from the true value of the goods produced, absolutely. What can I do about that at my job? On the side I run a co-op that operates under literally the opposite principles: anyone can join, we will train you to get the skills you need to get better jobs, and no margin of the rate is siphoned away for a capitalist class.
by throw0101c | 2025-09-30 23:41:20+00:00
> I'm more worried about the height of these newer trucks and SUVs, which create massive front blindspots.

There's a bit of meme that an M1 Abrams tank has better forward visibility than many SUVs/pickups:

* https://old.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/140dgn8/many_popu...
by morleytj | 2025-09-30 23:41:58+00:00
You're right that the societal cost is very different. I hadn't thought about people doing the stupid things on video, I think personally I focus on the effects of the consumption moreso.

Personally I think the problem with TikTok is largely based in hyperoptimized content specialized to your interest shaping your worldview and isolating your perspective of the world from others, as well as probably being pretty bad for the ability to maintain attention and engage with long form narratives and ideas. I don't really think TikTok is unique here, other than that it's the best in the game at doing it and keeping people's attention.

But overall I suppose I just see something like this as potentially worse in those regards, but maybe I'm overly pessimistic.
by rainsford | 2025-09-30 23:43:16+00:00
The problem is that the whole point of the 737 Max was that airlines didn't have to treat it as a new airplane. If they did, it would have lost a lot of the value proposition and there would have been more support for an entirely new replacement instead. It would be a fascinating case study in perverse incentives and unintended consequences if it wasn't for the loss of life that resulted.
by bnop | 2025-09-30 23:43:48+00:00
If I run an AI business, then people using more AI means more business. If noone uses my AI then I go out of business

Increasing shareholder value can be done in the broadest sense by just increasing business

If I fund my own business, I can control growth and _choose_ ethics over profits, in the hope that stunting growth is acceptable if my customers value ethics too, and that whomever I someday pass my company to shares these values

If I take capital investment, I now have a contractual agreement to provide returns on that investment. Yes failure to adhere can result in lawsuits or legal penalties. Or I can be fired/voted out for failing to bring high enough returns. I now _cannot_ choose ethics over profits, due to the conflict of interest of self-preservation

So you are correct - there is no legal or moral contract to behave unethically, but there is instead a strong systemic and self-preserving incentive to do so

I think we almost agree here, but you make it sound as if the exec can simply stand up and do the right thing here. I argue the exec will simply be pushed aside for another

This is what people refer to when they talk about the binds that hold modern day mega-corps

If you yourself are an exec, I personally think you can understand these truths and work with them as best you can, and still be a good human being of course, but that there are lines that should not be crossed to keep a job

It is a collective issue we need to solve that of course starts with each individual seeing the true situation with kindness and compassion
by GeekyBear | 2025-09-30 23:45:07+00:00
> if Apple suddenly took gaming seriously, like extending Rosetta to act as a translation layer for Windows games a la Proton

Apple already provides the translation layer to convert from DirectX 11 or 12 to Metal that Wine uses on Macs.

https://wccftech.com/apple-game-porting-toolkit-2-supports-a...

Proton does the exact same thing, only it translates DirectX into the Graphics API that Wine on Linux uses.

The new thing is that the M5 versions of the GPU cores picked up a 40% performance boost, on the version that just shipped on the new iPhones.
by Retric | 2025-09-30 23:46:27+00:00
> Google is a huge conglomerate

The point of comparison was simple a large company here, the current size of say OpenAI when the technology is still fairly shitty is a poor benchmark for where the industry is going. LLM’s may even get superseded by something else, but whatever form AI takes training it is going to require work from other people outside the company in question.

Attribution is solvable both at a technical and legal level. There’s a reasonable argument a romance novelist isn’t contributing much value, but that’s not an argument nobody should be getting anything. Presumably the best solution for finding value is let the open market decide the rough negotiations.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-09-30 23:47:06+00:00
Statins are generally administered after decades of exposure to high cholesterol/ApoB.

Decades of plaque accumulation doesn't just go away when you lower your cholesterol.

The question is if people who keep their cholesterol/ApoB low (e.g. Mendellian randomization) have better health outcomes, and the evidence is clear. Lifelong exposure to cholesterol/ApoB mediates atherosclerosis.