MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tecleandor | 2025-09-02 18:16:15+00:00
You don't care until the corporation is big enough or starts crossing information with enough companies. Amazon already owns healthcare companies. Facebook has shared more information than we can think about with all sort of parties.

One day you'll be denied care or your insurance premiums will quadruple because you buy too much sweets in Amazon, or because you once said you fell off a chair while drunk in a party in Instagram. Then you'll care.
by em-bee | 2025-09-02 18:16:42+00:00
it's something nonstandard, so there are no approved apps, but it is only the app provided by the bank and nothing else. there used to be two, one for auth only and one for onlinebanking itself, which was optional because you could use auth to log into the web. as i understand it they merged the two apps and now only support the all-in-one app. apparently the banking features of the app can be turned off, but i could not see if that can be locked too.
by Chinjut | 2025-09-02 18:17:09+00:00
Why do you say it's practically impossible to motivate matrix multiplication? The motivation is that this represents composition of linear functions, exactly as you follow up by mentioning.

It's a disservice to anyone to tell them "Well, that's the way it is" instead of telling them from the start "Look, these represent linear functions. And look, this is how they compose".
by IshKebab | 2025-09-02 18:17:49+00:00
Sure but at scale the downsides of Ruby become even more significant - performance is more of an issue at scale, as is the lack of static typing.

I don't think Typescript or Go have a worse developer experience or learning curve than Ruby. You can learn Go in a week. They both have better tooling and higher developer satisfaction (admired/desired) scores than Ruby according to Stackoverflow's survey.
by tsunamifury | 2025-09-02 18:17:52+00:00
The end of westworld basically put forth that the only way we could stabilize the world is if we just destroyed it and moved it all to a parallel simulation. Since early attempts at world Modeling failed due to complexity of Outliers the only way ai could handle a world model was to just get rid of the real one.

People didn’t give the later seasons enough credit even if they didn’t rise tot he same dramatic effect as the first.
by ahazred8ta | 2025-09-02 18:17:56+00:00
There were some premodern societies where land possession was very fluid. But. There were plenty of others where land ownership worked almost exactly like today's systems. The oldest clay tablets talk about buying and selling land, systems of laws protecting land ownership, court cases involving land disputes, and surveyors laying out stone boundary markers that were meant to stay put for centuries. Incan quipu cords were records of who owned which piece of land. Asian rice terraces have been individually owned for thousands of years. This urban legend that private property is not an ancient concept is really wonky.
by PleasureBot | 2025-09-02 18:18:06+00:00
I fully agree. I think will be debated for a very long time what allowed the USA to get to this point where half the country has talked itself into authoritarianism as a solution to imaginary immigration problems.

For my money I'd say a combination of

1) Poor economic conditions & extreme wealth inequality provides fertile ground for political extremes on all sides.

2) Gerrymandering producing political candidates that are more extreme and more likely to agree with Trump.

3) Over representation of unpopulated rural states in Congress further tipping the balance of Congress towards Trump.

4) The decades long effect of propaganda networks like Fox, Newsmax, etc. producing a media bubble for half the country such that we no longer have a shared reality.

And some interactions between all those factors that exacerbate the problem.
by smokel | 2025-09-02 18:19:02+00:00
You probably know this, but things heavily depend on the type of board game you are trying to solve.

In Go, for instance, it does not help much to look 50 moves ahead. The complexity is way too high for this to be feasible, and determining who's ahead is far from trivial. It's in these situations where modern AI (reinforcement learning, deep neural networks) helps tremendously.

Also note that nobody said that using AI is easy.
by spwa4 | 2025-09-02 18:19:11+00:00
No they are members of the "PA", formally the PLO who you may remember from such hits as "black september", "bombing the olympics", they have an offshoot killing hundreds of thousands of people in Syria.

They recently announced in Arabic that they will keep paying pensions to people who kill Jews, for any reason. If those people died killing Jews, their family members. Oh and in English they denied it [1]. Obviously western press is reporting only ONE of those statements [2].

Remember them? You know, they are generally described as the Palestinian faction who wants peace.

Oh, and they're billionnaires (well, the leaders are), which they weren't before getting their government positions.

[1] for example: https://jewishinsider.com/2025/02/pas-abbas-payments-to-terr...

[2] Just look at Google news: https://www.google.com/search?q=We+Will+Not+Stop+The+Payment... (note where the Reuters and Aljazeera links go)
by mandevil | 2025-09-02 18:19:17+00:00
I mean, this is how semiconductors have worked forever. Every new generation of fab costs ~2x what the previous generation did, and you need to build a new fab ever couple of years. But (if you could keep the order book full for the fab) it would make a lot of money over its lifetime, and you still needed to borrow/raise even more to build the next generation of fab. And if you were wrong about demand .... you got into a really big bust, which is also characteristic of the semiconductor industry.

This was the power of Moore's Law, it gave the semiconductor engineers an argument they could use to convince the money-guys to let them raise the capital to build the next fab- see, it's right here in this chart, it says that if we don't do it our competitors will, because this chart shows that it is inevitable. Moore's Law had more of a financial impact than a technological one.

And now we're down to a point where only TSMC is for sure going through with the next fab (as a rough estimate of cost, think 40 billion dollars)- Samsung and Intel are both hemming and hawing and trying to get others to go in with them, because that is an awful lot of money to get the next frontier node. Is Apple (and Nvidia, AMZ, Google, etc.) willing to pay the costs (in delivery delays, higher costs, etc.) to continue to have a second potential supplier around or just bite the bullet and commit to TSMC being the only company that can build a frontier node?

And even if they can make it to the next node (1.4nm/14A), can they get to the one after that?

The implication for AI models is that they can end up like Intel (or AMD, selling off their fab) if they misstep badly enough on one or two nodes in a row. This was the real threat of Deepseek: if they could get frontier models for an order of magnitude cheaper, then the entire economics of this doesn't work. If they can't keep up, then the economics of it might, so long as people are willing to pay more for the value produced by the new models.
by gruez | 2025-09-02 18:19:27+00:00
I don't think there's any jurisdiction that puts the identity theft victim on the hook for fraud. Yes, you might get threatening letters or dings on your credit report/score while the issue gets sorted out, but that's not the same as being "blamed" for the identity theft, any more than someone wrongly accused of a crime is "blamed" for the mistaken identity.
by bilbo0s | 2025-09-02 18:19:29+00:00
I was gonna say.

Of all companies, the systems at Uber and Amazon definitely know it's you starting the new account. They just don't openly mention it, and quietly link your old accounts via monitoring and analytics. As soon as the FBI comes knocking, they're able to provide your current account and all linked accounts. Even the ones they previously closed.

(Not that the FBI has to come knocking nowadays to get that information, but Uber and Amazon are able to provide comprehensive help to law enforcement if it's required.)
by lysace | 2025-09-02 18:19:43+00:00
Okay, half a point.

However, Twitter wasn't instrumental in getting Erdogan elected in 2003.

TV/Radio has been his thing:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-13746679

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/30/turkey-closes-...
by ericmcer | 2025-09-02 18:19:53+00:00
Maybe this is a roundabout weird benefit to income inequality... Like the banks and private equity have so much cash burning that they start taking increasingly risky moonshots that result in actual innovative projects. Normally projects like this would require the government to spearhead, but now there is so much cash floating around they can just throw 13B at a totally unprofitable high risk company.
by robwwilliams | 2025-09-02 18:19:56+00:00
This! Today I asked Claude Sonnet to read the Wikipedia article on “inference” and answer a few of my questions.

Sonnet responded: “Sorry, I have no access.” Then I asked it why and it was flummoxed and confused. I asked why Anthropic did not simply maintain mirrors of Wikipedia in XX different languages and run a cron job every week.

Still no cogent answer. Pathetic. Very much an Anthropic blindspot—to the point of being at least amoral and even immoral.

Do the big AI corporation that have profited greatly from Wikimedia Foundation give anything back? Or are they just large internet blood suckers without ethics?

Dario and Sam et al.: Contribute to the welfare of your own blood donors.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-09-02 18:20:05+00:00
Free speech Twitter was the result of a company that had a single business: moving Tweets to people. Musk and Zuckerberg have many interests globally, and picking fights with governments doesn’t serve those interests. Don’t cheer when a billionaire with global business interests buys a (relatively) independent media property and claims he’s bringing “free speech” because (even if he wasn’t defining the term in a distorted way to benefit his interests) he literally could not do that in a meaningful way, he’s too entangled elsewhere.
by themafia | 2025-09-02 18:20:21+00:00
> such as if amazon gave you a bad customer credit score for your excessive returns?

Is amazon going to tell me that up front? In the restaurant case the manager can explain the issue to the customer and ask them not to come in again. It becomes immediately resolvable whereas in your example I have no idea what just happened to me.

> Word travels around, does it not?

The difference between the analog word and the digital word is extreme.

> compared to some vibes sitting in some guy's head?

I live in a town of 2 million people. These vibes have zero impact. Add them to a database that can be tied to my credit card number? Now they have real impact. I don't think that's a reasonable or desirable outcome.

The problem with these systems isn't their mere existence it's their draconian implementations.
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by dragonwriter | 2025-09-02 18:21:01+00:00
> A majority of the House and 60 Senators could pass trade laws at any time, but there aren't 60 Republican senators. Otherwise they can pass trade laws once a year as part of an omnibus bill, definitely not "at any time".

The 60-vote requirement for cloture only exists because it is readopted every Senate on a simple majority basis, so while not quite “at any time”, the only reason it is not at any time is because the majority of the Senate continues to choose not to allow itself to do that, it is not a Constitutionally, or otherwise externally, imposed limit.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-02 18:21:08+00:00
Fair enough.. that, or hosting a LamerNews (HN Clone) instance... you get so many drive by spam posts, even just text, it isn't funny. Hard to imagine how bad it can get with images.

On the flip side, it's a real shame so many sites/pages removed comment sections... I had hope for a while that a browser extension for some sort of social media could fill the gap. There was a "free speech" one that had the feature, but the community itself was pretty bad, and there was no comments/shares on the rather technical sites I tend to visit.

Need some sort of cohesion to fill the gap in some way. I saw a bluesky implementation for comments, that used the social media itself in a shared post's replies as comments, which was interesting.
by pklausler | 2025-09-02 18:21:27+00:00
Every programming language has a practical definition: it is the intersection of the sets of features that are accepted by the various relevant production compilers and interpreted identically enough to be portable to all of them.

Formal language definitions, standards, and books are great, but you can't compile with them. Abstract language specs that don't have reference implementations or conformance test suites are not particularly useful to either implementors or users.
by bityard | 2025-09-02 18:21:38+00:00
I didn't have an account at the time, but I tried to like Reddit when it was one of the new link aggregators on the block. The minimalist functionality appealed to me and there were no subreddits at the time. Unfortunately I give up on it after a few weeks because most of the links/discussions were usually about evenly split between Emacs, Ruby and magic mushrooms. None of which I ever got around to trying.
by drak0n1c | 2025-09-02 18:21:46+00:00
Keep in mind that Pre-2016 Twitter was markedly looser in enforcement than 2016-2022 Twitter which was increasingly run by legal and moral busybodies sensitive to the fallout of the Arab Spring, and habituated to government pressure (see Twitter Files). If anything, Twitter under Musk is a continuation of that trajectory for Rest-Of-World, but with special exemptions and protections for English language countries and issues in which he and the firm has personal awareness of and popular capital - for example, see how it stands up to the governments of Brazil and UK.
by nakamoto_damacy | 2025-09-02 18:21:57+00:00
LLMs have no embodied sense of the world. They talk as if they understand and experience emotion, when they don't have actual embodied feelings/sensations/pain/pleasure/etc.

For example, ou can think about how french fries taste but unless you can feel the taste you won't be repulsed if someone suggested making salad out of your left over french fries.

Here is an actual chat with GPT5, that replays a experiment from the most recent South Park episode:

Me: I want to build and market a contraption that turns left over french fries into salad

ChatGPT said:

That’s a creative idea! Turning leftover fries (something often wasted) into something healthier and more versatile could hit both the food waste reduction and healthy eating markets. Let’s break it down:

1. Concept Feasibility

Core Problem Solved: Leftover fries usually go soggy, stale, and unappealing. You want to “upcycle” them.

Potential Process:

A kitchen gadget that breaks fries down into smaller bits (like croutons, or a potato base).

Mixing with fresh greens, herbs, dressing, or flavor infusions.

Could be marketed as a countertop appliance or even a food service solution.

2. Target Markets

Households: Especially families, students, or anyone who regularly orders fries and hates waste.

Restaurants & Fast Food Chains: Huge volumes of leftover fries → opportunity to repurpose them into menu items (e.g., “French Fry Salad Bowls”).

Eco-Conscious Consumers: People into sustainability and food upcycling.

3. Product Format Ideas

Appliance: Like a mini food processor that’s specialized for fries → chops, seasons, mixes into salad.

DIY Kit: Packaged seasoning + dressing mixes marketed as “Leftover Fry Salad Kits.”

B2B Solution: Larger-scale machines for restaurants.

4. Challenges

Texture: Fries lose crunch; you’ll need to re-crisp or season to make them appealing in a salad.

Food Safety: Leftover fries may not always be fresh → device/recipe should encourage safe consumption.

Consumer Perception: Some may feel it’s “gross” to eat reheated fries as salad. Marketing needs to make it fun, eco-friendly, and tasty.

5. Marketing Angles

Sustainability: “Save your fries, save the planet.”

Health Twist: “Turn guilty pleasure into a healthy bite.”

Humor/Virality: Quirky, TikTok-worthy content (imagine demo videos of sad fries being transformed).

Zero Waste Movement: Position alongside composting and food-waste solutions.

6. Next Steps

Prototype: Could start small by testing recipes (turn fries into croutons, hash-style toppings, etc.).

Research: Do people actually want this? Surveys or small focus groups can test appetite.

Branding: Quirky, fun name (e.g., “FrieFresh,” “SpudCycle,” “Fry2Fit”).

Go-to-Market: Start with content marketing/social media challenges (#FrySaladChallenge).

Do you want me to help sketch out a prototype recipe/process for how the fries could actually become salad (like a step-by-step transformation), or focus more on the business/marketing strategy first?
by deepsun | 2025-09-02 18:22:22+00:00
> As of 2024, there's still no nationwide social credit score in China.

> The gap between Western perception and Chinese reality is enormous

They inserted "nationwide".

The social credit score in one China region (khm Xinj... khm) is truly dystopian, and I bet people there don't care whether it's "nationwide" or not, if they can literally be sterilized or get sent to concentration camps because of that.

But they said it's not nationwide! As of 2024.
by gowld | 2025-09-02 18:22:33+00:00
You are conflating "social credit score", which hasn't been built out in China (although blacklisting, imprisonment, and torture for wrongthink has been built out), with "financial credit score" which exists in USA via private companies working togther, and "credit reports" which exist in both USA and China. China's is run by the unelected, dictatorial government.
by srean | 2025-09-02 18:22:43+00:00
> Even the "why does matrix multiplication look that way" is incredibly deep but practically impossible to motivate from other considerations. You just start with "well that's the way it is" and grind away

In my experience it need not be like that at all.

One can start by defining and demonstrating linear transformations. Perhaps from graphics -- translation, rotation, reflection etc. Show the students that these follow the definition of a linear transformation. That rotating a sum is same as summing the rotated(s).

[One may also mention that all differentiable functions (from vector to vector) are locally linear.]

Then you define adding two linear transformations using vector addition. Next you can define scaling a linear transformation. The point being that the combination can be expressed as linear transformations themself. No need to represent the vectors as R^d, geometric arrows and parallelogram rule would suffice.

Finally, one demonstrates composition of linear transformations and the fact that the result itself is a linear transformation.

The beautiful reveal is that this addition and composition of linear transformations behave almost the same as addition and multiplication of real numbers.

The addition asociates and commutes. The multiplication associates but doesn't necessarily commute. Most strikingly, the operations distributes. It's almost like algebra of real numbers !

Now, when you impose a coordinate system or choose a basis, the students can discover that matrix multiplication rule for themselves over a couple of days of playing with it -- Look, rather than maintaining this long list of linear transformations, I can store it as a single linear transformation in the chosen basis.
by feoren | 2025-09-02 18:22:46+00:00
This is ignoring the fact that there are very few opportunities for the best engineers to thrive. I guarantee you there are thousands of John Carmacks laboring away at mid-tier companies with mid-tier managers, inventing paradigm-shifting technologies that get underutilized and shelved behind IP protection by their clueless leadership, living in a B-tier tech city with kids in school and a wife with a job, not able to move, looking at job postings every few weeks and seeing the same dumb-as-bricks derivative adtech vibe-coding middleman companies looking for someone to fill a seat, not developing a network because the few good engineers they know are all in the same situation as them. If you define the best engineers as those that are already incredibly successful, you're doing a terrible job of recruiting for your company. Even a little effort to recognize under-appreciated talent would skyrocket your team's ability, but instead you're salivating over some over-hyped over-paid Silicon Valley rockstars? What a waste. But it doesn't really matter, because your company is also dumb-as-bricks derivative adtech vibe-coding middleware, so why are you even trying to recruit talented engineers at all? Just fill your seats with someone who knows how to type a prompt into an LLM and make your exit before everyone realizes you're a sham.
by TomasBM | 2025-09-02 18:23:56+00:00
Cyc is hardly [1] mentioned in modern work under the knowledge representation and reasoning umbrella, because most [2] of it was/is unavailable or unknown to most researchers. It's hard to build on something that's primarily marketing material.

[1] I could be wrong, but even those that mention Cyc use it only as a historical example of early work in KRR / symbolic AI. [2] OpenCyc being the small subset which is available, tho I haven't met anyone who worked with it.
by KyleBerezin | 2025-09-02 18:24:00+00:00
Apple people always complain about this. It takes like 1 day to get used to. I will never understand how so many people mistake familiar with 'better'. I have always preferred a numpad, and it drives me crazy when people act like my preference is 'wrong', and that the fact the fw-16 supports it somehow devalues it.
by francisofascii | 2025-09-02 18:24:37+00:00
We’re a small team, but we recently brought on a junior hire primarily because of the lower cost. For certain client contracts, a lower billable rate is preferable. They had the job opening open for a day, and had to shut it down due to so many applicants. Rather than sift through them all, they picked a friend of a current employee, sigh.