MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by netule | 2025-09-30 19:34:33+00:00
Duolingo was helpful for me to expand my Spanish vocabulary, but it definitely did not teach me the language itself. Some of the most critical linguistic concepts are buried at the top of stages and not brought up in the gamified lessons themselves. I'm in a privileged position since my wife is a native Spanish speaker, so I quickly began to grasp how much Duolingo wasn't teaching me and how much speaking Spanish with my wife (and watching Spanish-language shows without subtitles) _was_ teaching me.
by xmprt | 2025-09-30 19:34:43+00:00
> We just think THOSE rules were bad but THESE rules are good

That's kind of how society evolves isn't it? Rules are always changing and that's generally a good thing. Some rules are pretty set in stone throughout history - eg. murder and fraud are generally bad. Other rules around free speech, slavery, energy usage/production, social safety nets, etc., have changed for the better.

You could argue that Uber and Airbnb are worse but I think the fact that they've stuck around despite allegedly breaking rules means that most people prefer the new state of affairs that they resulted in. If something else comes up that breaks rules set by Uber and results in something better (eg. autonomous vehicles?) then I'm sure people will gravitate to that new thing as well.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-30 19:34:55+00:00
It's more likely than not that they will, in my opinion. As an owner of both an AVP and Quest 2, the former is a lot nicer to use than the latter with the exception of VR games, and my hunch is that Valve is going to eat Meta's lunch for gaming with Deckard (which will be at least as good as the Quest 3, but much more open, paired with a vastly more populated and popular marketplace, probably won't treat PCVR as an afterthought, and won't be saddled with the Quest's somewhat painful sideloading experience).

The main hurdle Apple faces is bringing costs down and improving the AVP's form factor, both of which are well within their capabilities.
by gizmo686 | 2025-09-30 19:35:02+00:00
Writing an OS doesn't really do that though. At the end of the day, an OS is still just software that is run by the magic machine elves living in the hardware.

Setting aside the fact that modern CPUs essentially JIT your machine code and their real execution model is completely foreign to their instruction set; a lot of OS development is still poke at a memory address to cause hardware to do something that is decidedly not setting bits in ram.

Sure, writing the page table management logic will demystify how shared memory works. But you are still just writing a new page table, invoking a particular processor opcode, then trusting the elves living in the processor to tell the elves living in the MMU to update how they translate memory addresses from the processor to memory addresses on the bus.
by tra3 | 2025-09-30 19:35:10+00:00
On one hand, folks are complaining that even basic tasks are impossible with LLMs.

On the other hand we have cursed language [0] which was fully driven by AI and seems to be functional. Btw, how much did that cost?

I feel like I've been hugely successful tools like Claude Code, aider, open code. Especially when I can define custom tools. "You" have to be a part of the loop, in some capacity. To provide guidance and/or direction. I'm puzzled by the fact that people are surprised by this. When I'm working with other entities (people) who are not artificially intelligent, the majority of the time is spent clarifying requirements and aligning on goals. Why would it be different with LLMs?

0: https://ghuntley.com/cursed/
by x0x0 | 2025-09-30 19:36:08+00:00
It's a hiring pipeline. You're growing modestly underpriced internal talent that, in the upside case, has skills that front-run their salary by a bit. NB: I'm obviously not advocating for underpaying people; just noting that that good junior eng will grow fast and their salary will take time to catch up.

It's stupidly expensive though if you look at the opportunity cost of that already-onboarded senior/lead/staff eng time. And this was obviously more compelling when it was super hard to hire senior talent.
by yurivish | 2025-09-30 19:36:16+00:00
I'm the author of the original post. I still like and miss my friends in the Julia community, but the technical and cultural issues persist.

I may refresh the post with more recent information at some point. In the meantime, those curious can find a short story of one newer correctness bug here: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-it-reliable-to-use-...

The person who eventually fixed the issue, mkitti, had to push through a lot of "institutional" friction to do so, and the eventual fix is the result of his determined efforts.

While his part of the story mostly played out in venues outside of the Discourse forum some of it is on display in this thread: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/csv-jl-findmax-and-argmax-...
by SXX | 2025-09-30 19:36:35+00:00
Just a few months ago games built by US-based developers, sold on US-based platform with payments processors also US-based were censored by actions of Australian christian activist group.

Simply by sending some threating letters to payment processor management. It was done by few hundred fanatics who want to censor what content everyone is allowed to access.

Since this is possible, there not enough resistance and UK government have much more resources we'll all have to live with this.
by the__alchemist | 2025-09-30 19:36:40+00:00
Is this analogy valid: Writing PTX is like writing assembly instead of a higher-level language (C, C++, rust etc) for CPU code? E.g. normally the higher level code compiles to it, but you can do optimizations by going lower?

For context, like the opening paragraph in the article goes into, I generate PTX code regularly, but have no idea what the actual code in the PTX file means!

I'm curious about the forward compatibility the article goes into. I only experience that to a point: Code compiled on Cuda 12 does not seem to work on machines with Cuda 13.
by the_duke | 2025-09-30 19:37:24+00:00
I haven't seen comments regarding a big factor here:

It seems like OpenAI is trying to turn Sora into a social network - TikTok but AI.

The webapp is heavily geared towards consumption, with a feed as the entry point, liking and commenting for posts, and user profiles having a prominent role.

The creation aspect seems about as important as on Instagram, TikTok etc - easily available, but not the primary focus.

Generated videos are very short, with minimal controls. The only selectable option is picking between landscape and portrait mode.

There is no mention or attempt to move towards long form videos, storylines, advanced editing/controls/etc, like others in this space (eg Google Flow).

Seems like they want to turn this into AITok.

Edit: regarding accurate physics ... check out these two videos below...

To be fair, Veo fails miserably with those prompts also.

https://sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_68dc32c7ddb081919e0f38d8e006163...

https://sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_68dc3339c26881918e45f61d9312e95...

Veo:

https://veo-balldrop.wasmer.app/ballroll.mp4

https://veo-balldrop.wasmer.app/balldrop.mp4

Couldn't help but mock them a little, here is a bit of fun... the prompt adherence is pretty good, at least.

NOTE: there are plenty of quite impressive videos being posted, and a lot of horrible ones also.
by xpe | 2025-09-30 19:37:34+00:00
> It's just impossible to summarize any text without imparting some sort of value judgement on it, therefore "biasing" the text

Unfortunately, the above is nearly a cliché at this point. The phrase "value judgment" is insufficient because it occludes some important differences. To name just two that matter; there is a key difference between (1) a moral value judgment; (2) selection & summarization (often intended to improve information density for the intended audience).

For instance, imagine two non-partisan medical newsletters. Even if they have the same moral values (e.g. rooted in the Hippocratic Oath), they might have different assessments of what is more relevant for their audience. One could say both are "biased", but does doing so impart any functional information? I would rather say something like "Newsletter A is compromised of Editorial Board X with such-and-such a track record and is known for careful, long-form articles" or "Newsletter B is a one-person operation known for a prolific stream of hourly coverage." In this example, saying the newsletters differ in framing and intended audience is useful, but calling each "biased in different ways" is a throwaway comment (having low informational content in the Shannonian sense).

Personally, instead of saying "biased" I tend to ask questions like: (a) Who is their intended audience; (b) What attributes and qualities consistently shine through?; (c) How do they make money? (d) Is the publication/source transparent about their approach? (e) What is their track record about accuracy, separating commentary from factual claims, professional integrity, disclosure of conflicts of interest, level of intellectual honesty, epistemic standards, and corrections?
by jrop | 2025-09-30 19:37:41+00:00
Agree - leaps and bounds beyond anything I would have dreamed possible a few years ago...but... IDK, if I'm honest, the sound was way off too, not just the visuals. The music sounded detuned slightly, and the crowd noise was "crackly" etc. etc. It had a low-fidelity "quality" to it.

Personally, I feel mixed feelings. I'm impressed, but I'm not looking forward to the new "movies" that are going to litter YouTube et al generated from this.
by hinkley | 2025-09-30 19:38:38+00:00
Indeed. A fully new airframe likely won’t try to avoid training and certification overhead. Ripping that bandaid off will cut a lot of bullshit. But, there’s only so much engine you can shove under a narrow body aircraft. Landing gear is limited by physics and just making it taller won’t fix everything.

I just looked and from what I can find on Wikipedia this may warrant a new model from P&W or CFM because I’m not seeing a documented turbofan family with similar thrust and smaller diameter except ones with much lower bypass ratios and thus garbage fuel efficiency.

RR seems to be concentrating on bigger engines. They have a demonstrator that’s 2x the diameter of the Max’s engines. JFC.
by cestith | 2025-09-30 19:38:53+00:00
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL28332948M/Hands-on_Booting may not be the very best resource, but it covers the process for multiple operating systems.

For individual hardware stacks, there are processor and system documentation that explain exactly the memory addresses, the state of registers, the location on a drive where the firmware tries to find your bootloader, and all that.
by hagbard_c | 2025-09-30 19:39:09+00:00
Can you not just say 'right' without the need to add 'far' in front of it?

Do you consider the left wing to be intellectually honest in your country? If so, why? Could you explain in your own words why the right wing is not intellectually honest while the left wing supposedly is? It all sounds rather strange to me considering the way left-wing politics is so often driven by feelings instead of facts.
by masklinn | 2025-09-30 19:39:33+00:00
The A220 is unrelated to the Neo. The Neos are re-engining of the 320 and 330 series (neo stands for "new engine option"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A320neo_family

And while a plane with good bones, the A220 has not been all positives for Airbus: AFAIK they still loses money on the thing, ramping up has been hell as it's not part of any of Airbus's existing lines of procurement, and it's contributed to the already awkward 319neo being DOA.
by jandrese | 2025-09-30 19:40:15+00:00
I think the days of Boeing being able to make the plane with a small focused team is probably in the past. Way too much engineering talent has been outsourced and the R&D just isn't there. It requires a level of vertical integration that was long since divested for cost saving reasons. That's why it is so beathtakingly expensive to develop a new plane. coordination between literally thousands of contractors is a nightmarishly complex task that requires an enormous team of middle managers and lawyers. It may even be the case that modern planes are just plain too complex to realistically do the majority of the work in-house.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-09-30 19:40:47+00:00
You've really hit the nail on the head on how I feel. Especially with this line:

> This place used to make stories, not just Digg them.

I've started to dread most conversations about FOSS on this site because they just turn into the same tired old high-energy, low-quality conversation repeated over and over again. There's little incentive for anyone of influence or expertise to contribute because, well, all of these conversations end up the same way.

I guess I disagree on your view of the moderation of this site. While it's true that pg used to do a lot of guidance and tastemaking on HN, the scale of the site was small enough where he could. At this point the site is massive and only growing and this new userbase expects a Digg or Reddit like norm, not one that drives tastemaking. I think the site would require a fundamental rehaul to offer an individual or a group the tastemaking that pg could do when the site was a fraction of the size.

I also think, for better or for worse, that HN has "accepted" not being the tastemaker anymore and becoming another tech news aggregator. It's because the eyeballs of folks new to these issues doesn't really fall onto this site anymore. For a while that had been Twitter but now that Twitter is under Musk, it's lost that distinction and now tech discussions don't seem to have a good home.
by layman51 | 2025-09-30 19:40:49+00:00
I have no clue if the reactions are real, but there are some videos online of people showing their grandparents gameplay from Grand Theft Auto games trying to convince them that it is real footage. The point of the videos is to laugh at their reactions where they question if it really happened, etc.

Maybe this will result in something similar, but it can affect more people who aren’t as wary.
by qwoppos | 2025-09-30 19:40:58+00:00
The value of imgur isn’t really in being able to upload images there, it’s access to all the images uploaded from the rest of the world. Especially historical uploads, say, a turorial or a travel log using imgur as reliable image host. Locally created and operated british website aimed at brits makes sense when it’s local news or local services or whatever. Local image hosting site that serves only (primarily?) brits seems of very questionable utility unless you somehow become a big hub for outsiders… at least until $other_country demands UK stop tracking their children or whatever excuse they’ll use.
by panstromek | 2025-09-30 19:41:17+00:00
I don't understand the point of that first nitpick, this is an algorithm, at least in the normie sense of the word as a ranking system for list of posts.

> A small amount of early activity (upvotes, flags, comments) tends to have an outsized effect

This is exactly the problem.

> what you're seeing is simple mass-media power-law effects

I would challenge that point. Power law comes from some feedback loop, which is partially from network effects but it can be massively amplified by the system, which is exactly what HN does. Not only it bakes the power law directly into the score eqaution, but it also shows the list sorted by score by default, which creates a positive feedback loop on votes.

Actually I'm a bit perplexed that it works this well, HN algorithm was one of the first that I implemented on our site and it was quite terrible even after a lot of tuning. I feel like it must be tuned for some volume of posts and people, otherwise it doesn't make much sense to me.
by Havoc | 2025-09-30 19:41:21+00:00
Has there been any sign of change in their corporate culture?

Last I heard they're pushing hard to ramp up production and FAA is back to letting them self-certify stuff. And they're under worse financial pressure now than when they made the last round of questionable decisions.

...I'm all for competition & avoiding a monopoly but colour me unconvinced that the root cause has been fixed.
by pyuser583 | 2025-09-30 19:41:25+00:00
> some young people are so hopelessly immersed in the alternate reality that they see in social media that it's hard to shake them free.

One of my favorite staff/principal engineers always begins Monday's by asking people what they did on the weekend. He always talks about the things he did - farmers market, local parade, etc.

It's shocking to many of the junior engineers. They generally do "nothing".
by fluoridation | 2025-09-30 19:41:38+00:00
>this is why you sometimes have sign language interpreters at events, rather than just captions.

No, the reason is because a) it's in real time, and b) there's no screen to put the subtitles on. If it was possible to simply display subtitles on people's vision, that would be much more preferable, because writing is a form of communication more people are familiar with than sign language. For example, someone might not be deaf, but might still not be able to hear the audio, so a sign language interpreter would not help them at all, while closed captions would.
by gamegoblin | 2025-09-30 19:41:51+00:00
Searched around and found it. It was actually Ashton Kutcher's interview with Eric Schmidt.

Kutcher mentions the establishing shots, and I'd forgotten also points out the utility for relatively short stunt sequences.

> Why would you go out and shoot an establishing shot of a house in a television show when you could just create the establishing shot for $100? To go out and shoot it would cost you thousands of dollars.

> Action scenes of me jumping off of this building, you don’t have to have a stunt person go do it, you could just go do it [with AI].
by lexicality | 2025-09-30 19:42:06+00:00
In my opinion the sheer volume of "close enough" choices is what ruins Python's type system.

It's "close enough" to a usable type system that it's worth using, but it's full of so many edge cases and so many situations where they decided that it would be easier if they forced programmers to try and make reality match the type system rather than the type system match reality.

No wonder a lot of people in the comments here say they don't use it...
by epistasis | 2025-09-30 19:42:07+00:00
The biggest problem with Duo are the extremely limited exercises and educational materials. Gamification is great.

But you're not going to learn declension and cases from repeating the same few stilted examples that don't even exhibit enough variety to pick up the underlying rules, especially as an adult.

Duolingo is trying to do implicit language learning but the language input is far too narrow.

I used Duolingo to start learning a language with a different alphabet, and it taught me the alphabet, the sounds, and some basic vocabulary. But it couldn't teach me verb conjugation, noun declension, plurals, ownership, etc. etc. etc. That I needed a teacher for.

With the teacher, I then used Anki cards to help with remembering more vocab and with keeping things fresh everyday in between lessons. Duolingo could be that, if they had enough examples, perhaps. I would prefer Duolingo type exercises over my Anki cards, as well as the streak and friendship network effects, but there's simply not enough content.
by prmph | 2025-09-30 19:42:44+00:00
That's not obvious.

- they are material objects

- they are concepts I understand

- they are sequences of letters

- they are English words

- ...

Not sure why oneness is privileged as what they have in common, and their oneness is meaningless by itself. Oneness is a property that is only meaningful in relation to other concepts of objects.
by btilly | 2025-09-30 19:42:49+00:00
Your guesses at what I seem to think are completely off base and insulting.

When I say "modern math courses", I mean like the standard courses that most future mathematicians take on their way to various degrees. For all that we mumble ZFC, it is darned easy to get a PhD in mathematics without actually learning the axioms of ZFC. And without learning anything about the historical debates in the foundations of mathematics.
by sktrdie | 2025-09-30 19:42:57+00:00
Cool but how does it compare to something like subreddits? There are still biased moderators behind the scene just like subreddits. Seems to not have the upvoting/downvoting side of it which imo is crucial to democratize the entire thing.

I think upvoting/downvoting is a crucial aspect to news/information/knowledge. But we've been doing it with just numbers all along. Why not experiment with weights or more complex voting methods? Ex: my reputation is divided in categories - I'm more an expert in history then politics hence my vote towards historical subjects have more weights. Feels like that's the next big step for news. Instead of just another centralized aggregator?

No offense to the cool system and website though
by cess11 | 2025-09-30 19:43:21+00:00
I mean, sure? Yeah? Who wouldn't be after studying US and other world powers over the last five hundred years or so?

Here's a shot: https://history.wisc.edu/publications/the-politics-of-heroin...

And a chaser: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730414/the-fort-bra...

If you only read or listen to one of them, go for Harp's book, it's more like a thriller and less of an academic treatise, and quite a bit more visceral in its delivery.
by whstl | 2025-09-30 19:43:25+00:00
I think it's way worse now with barely any upside but salary, compared to 10, 15 or 20 years ago.

It’s 100x worse with the tech bro chest thumping and the competitive toxic behaviors inside teams.

And autonomy/ownership is now rock bottom with multidisciplinary teams. Even things made supposedly to empower devs like Agile/Scrum became tools of a managerial class that wants to decide where each pixel goes.
by dang | 2025-09-30 19:43:42+00:00
"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
by ideashower | 2025-09-30 19:44:08+00:00
A side project that takes legal documents and uses TTS models to create a narrated read out of the whole document.

Part of the reason I'm building my own solution is that legal documents are often distributed in PDFs which can have all kinds of formatting issues when converted to plain text. There's also specific jargon and formatting that may or may not need to be included, or spoken, or even spoken differently, that I am finding no commercial TTS platform like ElevenLabs really accounts for well. It's all about the pre-processing and chunking.

Also, the commercial models are expensive when you're routinely throwing dozens of pages of text at it.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-09-30 19:44:19+00:00
I'm sorry but that's a gross exageration. If any of this was real film then I'd start a gofundme page for OpenAI to get better video production equipment and team because that would be laughably bad.

If anything, it looks a lot worse than a lot of AI-generated videos I've seen in the past, despite being a tech demo with carefully curated shots. Veo 3 just blows this out of the water for example.
by rectang | 2025-09-30 19:44:45+00:00
I disagree. The tendency towards self justification is a universal human trait. Even if some may overcome that tendency, it is still qualifies as “human nature”.

This is germane because while labor and capital may perceive each other as the “enemy” and may in fact act counter to each other’s interests, nearly everyone perceives their own actions as justified.

To the extent that there is “social programming” involved which could conceivably change (unlike “human nature”), it has to do with the acts themselves, not the strong impulse to believe that your own acts are justified.