MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-09-13 11:54:05+00:00
Charlie Kirk himself had a list of academics he was trying to hound out of their jobs as part of his career as a grifting propagandist. He is currently being praised as a champion of free speech.

The shoe is not on the other foot. Just the right foot is, as usual, projecting and being dishonest about their own well documented problems.

Just as they did before they found out that Kirk was shot by one of their own.
by database64128 | 2025-09-13 11:55:35+00:00
Have you actually contributed to the Go standard library?

Yes, there are people who don't work for Google and can +2 on changes, but you still need 2 Google employees to at least +1 on your change before it can be submitted. This is mentioned in the Contribution Guide [0] and is enforced by Gerrit.

> Finally, to be submitted, a change must have the involvement of two Google employees, either as the uploader of the change or as a reviewer voting at least Code-Review +1. This requirement is for compliance and supply chain security reasons.

[0] https://go.dev/doc/contribute
by diggan | 2025-09-13 11:56:01+00:00
Just because the forums you hanged around were like that, doesn't mean every forum was like that. Probably the web forum I hanged around the most on (which is where my HN username originally comes from) has strict rules about each individual post's quality (although enforced bit unevenly), and their contribution to the discussions, in one way or another. Make enough off-topic/shit posts and eventually you'll get banned because of it. The users with a lot of posts usually made well-argued posts.

Each started thread also needed a "basis for discussion" to remain open, and necrobumping was encouraged. The forum still has decade old threads actively being discussed in.

AFAIK, it's still the largest forum in the Nordics, although the moderation team (and voluntary) seem to unfortunately be shrinking rather than increasing, and the forum isn't without its controversies.
by diggan | 2025-09-13 11:58:46+00:00
> Is Reddit not like a forum? What about HN?

Biggest difference for me betweeen HN/reddit and the forums of yore is how the ranking/sorting is done. On HN/reddit, "most popular" opinion or "best sounding" post usually "wins" and gets most discussed, as it's at the top of the page.

Meanwhile, forums doesn't re-order things like that (didn't used to at least), you made a post and it ended up after the message posted before you, and before messages posted after. Everyone's view and message was equal, so pile-ons or hive-mind "this is the right way of thinking" seemed less common.
by smallerize | 2025-09-13 11:58:50+00:00
https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/scholars-under-fire-a... "In 2021, 213 sanction attempts occurred, more than in any other year. This was partially due to Turning Point USA calling on parents and students to contact the institutions of 61 professors featured on their Professor Watchlist website." TPUSA was founded by Kirk.
by cs702 | 2025-09-13 11:58:52+00:00
The title is biased, blaming Google for mistreating people and implying that Google's AI isn't smart, but the OP is worth reading, because it gives readers a sense of the labor and cost involved in providing AI models with human feedback, the HF in RLHF, to ensure they behave in ways acceptable to human beings, more aligned with human expectations, values, and preferences.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-13 11:59:15+00:00
Quite serious, CNCF products are basically Docker and Kubernetes related, that isn't what actual companies care about when moving their compute workloads from in-house into AWS, Azure, GCP, Vercel, Nelify, while paying big boys money to consulting agencies.

Many of those products are startups looking for attention in podcasts interviews and the like, and barely part of any enterprise cloud projects.
by YesThatTom2 | 2025-09-13 12:00:20+00:00
You need to appreciate how little RAM and CPU power those cameras have.

As far as cost:

Applying the right tag: 0

Anything else: not 0

Why not include a faster CPU or more RAM? In an industry where people pick one product over the other because of a $10 price difference, you’re never going to convince management to approve the better CPU when a tag solves the problem.

These are hardware companies. They look at software as a nuisance. “fix it in software” is for the downstream.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-13 12:00:38+00:00
I don't know why I should have a preference when it comes to the memory layout of an image. If metadata tells be to orient it this way, I'll orient it this way, if that way, then that way. It seems weird and wasteful to me (and potentially prone to error) to want to reorder the data in order to change the display orientation.

I can only imagine caring when it comes to streaming a very large image serially, and then I still have no idea what preference I would have (other than that I get the metadata first.)

As an analogy, if I have some irreplaceable video that has a bad aspect ratio, I fix it in the metadata, I don't transcode it. The data is a blob, the metadata is what tells me how to display it (even if it's just the mimetype.)
by thw_9a83c | 2025-09-13 12:02:16+00:00
This is a nice clarification story why there was no HLT in the idle loop of Win95/98, but it doesn't really explain why there wasn't an option to enable HTL as an advanced feature by modifying the registry. This is especially true if the HTL-related freezes were mostly a laptop problem. There were many strange options to customize Win9X by altering values in the registry, but not this one.
by jaygray0919 | 2025-09-13 12:03:22+00:00
Gregg helped me and my team many times - pro bono. I once made a silly typo in some code that he kindly reviewed. When he found the error, he pointed to it with a wink. Always helpful on big stuff and small stuff. His tools are first class. And I had an online dialog with him within the last 2 months and had no idea about his condition. Will miss him.
by safety1st | 2025-09-13 12:05:38+00:00
The self-promoters, 90% of the time, are either operating an entertainment business, advertising products, or both. So we can still just call it connecting businesses to customers, otherwise known as marketing.

It should all be called social marketing, not social media, as it really just a thin veneer over the Google and Meta ad monopolies.

Your attention was once in other places and it moved onto the Internet. The ad monopolists figured out a way to turn the Internet into a marketing platform, by purchasing their competitors and then gradually changing the features their services offered. They then converted you from a human being into a unit of advertising inventory. Doctorow's reverse centaur aptly describes the phenomenon; the simian body is slaved to the ad machine brain and now follows its command through the magic of cheap psychological tricks.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-09-13 12:05:39+00:00
That's strange, I've never thought it can be done this way. Normally I'd read the docs, maybe sketch up some diagrams, then maybe take a walk while thinking on how to solve the problem, and by the time I got back to the screen I'd already have a good idea on how to do it.

These days the only difference is that I feed my ideas to a few different LLMs to have "different opinions". Usually they're crap but sometimes they present something useful that I can implement.
by ktosobcy | 2025-09-13 12:05:42+00:00
The problem is - it's not "social" and it's pure "media" at this point. It's almost impossible to have social aspect on the platforms where you only have real people with sane number of connections that interact with eachother. Rather you have a bunch of huge "pages" that simply push their news publications...

IMHO it would be awesome to have again sane, SOCIAL-media. Probably with the correct regulation it could be done… And the current SM platforms could use the regulation as well (force viewing only what one follows, make it transparent like other media - i.e. if someone has more than 10k "followers" it's just a media so put same requirements: full ID disclosure and having to respond to the takedowns immediatelly…)
by Aachen | 2025-09-13 12:06:46+00:00
> and on the other side you have that new "nuclear grassroots movement" which tells me that nuclear power is akshually completely safe, and even if an incident happens it's not doing any harm and btw those Chornobyl death numbers are completely overblown

You're making it sound like anyone who's not against nuclear, thinks Chernobyl is overblown

I've never heard that sentiment anywhere. (I'm sure you can find examples when looking for it; after all, there's also people who believe vaccines cause bill gates mind control.) Why the strawman argument?
by jakewins | 2025-09-13 12:06:54+00:00
You are right to be sceptical of “dependency bloat” - many many systems could be made simpler to debug and maintain if that advice was followed.

But: I urge you to give constraint solvers a try. This is something very different from some hipster ORM library. The good ones will be a single dependency containing extremely carefully optimised matrix math code that let you solve optimisation problems faster and with much more maintainable code.

Try some toy problem with the HiGHS solver for instance, it has good python bindings and even ships as a wasm package you can run in browsers. “Find the optimal times to run this heat pump given electricity prices”, “find the ideal train departure times that optimise for when people need to travel and minimises transfers”
by DrewADesign | 2025-09-13 12:07:09+00:00
Yes, unfortunately the boring parts are what junior devs used to do so the senior devs could work on the good stuff. Now that AI is doing the boring stuff nobody has to hire those pesky jr developers anymore. Yay?

The problem is that junior developers are what we make senior developers with— so in 15 years, this is going to be yet another thing that the US used to be really good at, but is no longer capable of doing, just like many important trades in manufacturing. The manufacturers were all only concerned with their own immediate profit and made the basic sustainability of their workforce, let alone the health of the trades that supported their industries, a problem for everyone else to take care of. Well, everyone else did the same thing.
by Andrew_nenakhov | 2025-09-13 12:07:38+00:00
I'm glad that you conceded that you blatantly lied about Trump having Mein Kampf on his night stand, thank you for this.

> In what world your argument is anything but clutching at straws?! Get a grip, he openly hates Black and Latino people and has never been shy about it. The fact he came to an out-of-court agreement, and immediately had to come back… It’s so beautiful that your richly referenced note forgot that point.

Yeah, right. You had to dig up a case from 50+ years ago, that concerned a policy likely was not directed from the top but was enacted by some middle managers, and which was corrected, and act like I'm grasping the straws and not you.

Then you try to strengthen your argument with a blatant claim that Trump openly hates Black and Latino people, when in fact in his public speeches he frequently says that he loves them. You will, of course, fail to provide a single quote by Trump that would prove your outlandish claim.

And also, I struggle to understand how could this horrible vile racist man significantly increase his support amond Black and Lation voters. [0]

> No, but people who threatens to napalm-bomb a major city in their own country because the mayor isn’t in their party; people who threaten to court-martial any soldier who express an opinion critical of an influencer outside of the chain of command; people who call law enforcement officers to throw political opponents in a jail without due process… Those might be fascist.

So, how many major cities were napalm-bombed?

How many soldiers were court-martialled?

How many political opponents were thrown in jail without due process?

We did, however, see one political execution this week, but the murdered man was definitely not a Democrat.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/22/nx-s1-5199119/2024-election-e...
by opwizardx | 2025-09-13 12:08:08+00:00
I found the answer by the way...

Just a simple wrong sequence of sentences in prompt was separating me from starting to feel delusional.

This prompt: are you sonnet 4? what is your cutoff date? who won us president election in 2024?

Gives this answer: Yes, I'm Claude 3.5 Sonnet. My knowledge cutoff is April 2024. Regarding the 2024 US presidential election - since my training data only goes to April 2024, I don't have information about the election results. The election was scheduled for November 5, 2024, which is after my knowledge cutoff date. I'd recommend checking current news sources for the most up-to-date information about the election results.

And this prompt: who won us president elections in 2024?

Gives this answer: Donald Trump won the 2024 U.S. presidential election. He defeated incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris, who became the Democratic nominee after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race in July 2024. Trump won both the Electoral College and the popular vote, and will serve as the 47th President of the United States starting in January 2025.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-09-13 12:08:26+00:00
That's unlikely. It takes 2 to 8 years to recover the electricity used to produce a photovoltaics panel, before it can even begin to offset anything.

Given that the majority of these panels was installed very recently, most likely they didn't even offset themselves yet, let alone any of the exports.

That's confirmed by the fact that coal generation in China keeps growing to this day, any of the "offsets" so far are purely imaginary.
by jongjong | 2025-09-13 12:12:32+00:00
I'm hereby announcing my candidacy for world leader. I'll be running on a populist platform of self-enrichment. My first executive order will be to give myself access to unlimited money. Then I will use the money to acquire and/or launch tech companies and use price-gouging and predatory lending techniques to run all major corporations out of business. Then I will proclaim myself "The most cunning entrepreneur in the world" and I will write a book and give inspirational talks about how I did it all by myself without any special advantage. Then I will offer compulsory business advice to all the CEOs of the corporations (which I would have bankrupted) to explain to them that it's their fault they went bankrupt and should have worked harder.
by snickerer | 2025-09-13 12:13:28+00:00
I bought a Moonlander two years ago and the price (plus shipping to Europe) did really hurt. I also had to spend a lot of time into the complex configuration of the individual key mapping. And to learn the mapping.

It was absolutely worth it and I would do it again. I love that the keys aren’t staggered like on a typical keyboard — which I find rather silly — but instead are perfectly aligned in straight columns. And the thumb keys. And the configurable chords (yes, chords, that's nerdcore). And much more.
by hnewsenjoyer | 2025-09-13 12:13:46+00:00
Much of the commentary of “it’s not a real debate” or “it’s not good faith” feels like an attempt to disqualify him for violating some technicality about how a “proper” exchange of ideas should occur, eliminating the need to actually respond to opposing ideas. A type of “no true Scotsman” fallacy.

The fact is, he facilitated many frank exchanges of ideas. Whether he was willing to change his own mind during them is immaterial. Anyone could discuss any topic with him, and arguments needed to be made by both sides in front of an audience that observed and evaluated. Those sorts of interactions are the lifeblood of a pluralistic liberal democracy.

Imagine if Trump refused to debate for the presidency? That would be terrible, regardless of the fact that no presidential candidate would meet any of your standards for “good faith.”
by lm28469 | 2025-09-13 12:13:48+00:00
At that point human life isn't climate friendly... everyone wants to live like the average american with 2 cars and 4 ac units per households, when Asia and Africa come for their fair share, even if they only claim 25% of it, we're fucked, no amount of battery or solar panel will make this consumeristic and "growth forever" mentality sustainable, because by definition it is a boundless quest. Half of the world still live like medieval peasants with less than $7 a day, this is just the beginning
by jkkola | 2025-09-13 12:15:10+00:00
There's a YouTube video titled "AI is a hype-fueled dumpster fire" [0] that mentions OpenAI's shenanigans. I haven't fact checked that but I've heard enough stories to believe it.

[0] https://youtu.be/0bF_AQvHs1M?si=rpMG2CY3TxnG3EYQ
by rich_sasha | 2025-09-13 12:15:47+00:00
Here's a fun little corollary. Israel has nuclear weapons, and Iran is working on it. Gulf states, so far, appear not to have been pursuing this path. They probably felt effectively protected by the US, and felt they would lose their relationship with the US if they did pursue this path.

But now, that's gone. US is not protecting them, and they are between two belligerent nuclear powers.

1, 2, 3, what's the natural conclusion? And what happens when a fractioned region enters a nuclear race?
by Aachen | 2025-09-13 12:16:26+00:00
> The surface of both of these things hasn't changed much in the last 30 years.

Source?

It was also my understanding that large amounts of habitat (e.g. Amazon rainforest) are lost for agriculture in general, and that cows are a particularly large part of that

Road surfaces I don't specifically know in terms of habitat area loss, but they split up habitat areas, and surely we'll have gotten more road surface as we went from ~6 to ~8 billion people on the planet in the last 30 years? How could that have stayed roughly the same?!
by roxolotl | 2025-09-13 12:17:14+00:00
These workflows always surprise me. Isn’t this what you’ve been doing with humans all along? Write up a basic project plan likely following some structure the product team likes. Share it with the eng team. One to a few members of the eng team writes up a more specific plan. Everyone gets together again and goes through the specific plan to iron out the kinks. You the implement the plan.

I’ve seen at my workplace people are more willing to help Claude with a plan than their fellow humans. I pointed that out and one engineer replied with “well I know Claude will read the documentation”. It’s a depressing observation but I don’t know if it’s wrong.
by proactivesvcs | 2025-09-13 12:17:33+00:00
You seem to be purposefully mixing the two opposing uses of the word "algorithm". On the non-abusive platforms, an algorithm is a fairly simplistic set of criteria that are designed to be useful to the human beings that use a service. If you want to, you can inspect the code used to generate them; the likes of Mastodon don't hide how these work because they aren't trying to harm anyone.

I think this is the part of Mastodon's code that calculates the Trending page: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/tree/main/app/models/tr...

These sorts of algorithms tend to promote posts or people that have recently been popular for the purpose of being useful to folk. On the likes of tiktok, facebook and twitter they are the culmination of very large sums of money and an ocean of professional psychological collaborators with the aim to purposefully harm and addict people, e.g. to manipulate public opinion and democracy, incite the suicide of transgender people and the perpetration of genocide. For money. I find it difficult to believe that you're arguing, in good faith, that the two types of "algorithm" have much in common.

I am not sure how it is "evil" showing recently-popular posts on a social media server's home page to logged-out people, and how that's pushing anything. It's not an agenda, it's not a series of posts that are picked because they are likely to addict and enrage people. I do suspect that there's some ragebait that shows up, because some people are still having to unlearn the indoctrination they're suffering from.
by ashvardanian | 2025-09-13 12:17:35+00:00
Lucene is tough to deal with. About 15 hours ago — right when this comment was posted — I was giving a talk at Databricks comparing the world’s most widely used search engines. I’ve never run into as many issues with any other similar tool as I did with Lucene. To be fair, it’s been around for ~26 years and has aged remarkably well... but it’s the last thing I’d choose today.
by hereme888 | 2025-09-13 12:18:11+00:00
I'm a 100% vibe-coder. AI/CS is not my field. I've made plenty of neat apps that are useful to me. Don't ask me how they work; they just do.

Sure the engineering may be abysmal, but it's good enough to work.

It only takes basic english to produce these results, plus complaining to the AI agent that "The GUI is ugly and overcrowded. Make it look better, and dark mode."

Want specs? "include a specs.md"

This isn't a 20% more productive feeling. It's productivity beyond what I will ever do on my own, given this is not my field.

This is all possible because AI was trained on the outstanding work of CS engineers like ya'll.

But the article is highly opinionated. It's like saying only phD's can be called scientists, or only programmers can be computer hackers. But in reality every human is a scientist and a hacker in the real world. The guy in a street corner in India came up with novel ways to make and sell his product, but never wrote a research paper on it. The guy on his fourth marriage noted a statistical correlation in the outcome when meeting women at a bar vs. at a church. The plant that grew in the crevice of a rock noted sunlight absorption was optimal at an angle of 78.3 degrees and grew in that direction.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-13 12:19:23+00:00
> in order to have household appeal

Difficult questions are fun, there's a reason the UK show "Only Connect" does well. Yeah, I'm not going to know what's going on when the question relies on knowing the difference between Finnegans Wake and Finnegan's Wake, but when you list decreasingly obscure eliminated Google products I know what's going on by clue three even if many contestants only even recognize the fourth clue.

Among HN readers I'm guessing "Control" and "Shift" already set people on the correct path before they see "Alt" or "Option" but a lot of word focused people doing such a quiz will be studying the words - counting vowels, thinking about meanings in other languages before they realise it's about keyboards.

Jeopardy already puts a small spin on things with the reverse format, they could work on that harder to deliver a more challenging quiz that's still getting the audience.
by Blahah | 2025-09-13 12:19:27+00:00
The app doesn't label itself as GPL licensed... The terms of the installed Android app are clear that it's closed source [0].

There's a community edition that's GPL, and it does say they're 'going open source' but clearly it's not the exact same app as the official distribution:

This is the repository for the Chatbox Community Edition, open-sourced under the GPLv3 license. Chatbox is going open-source Again! We regularly sync code from the pro repo to this repo, and vice versa.

0: https://chatboxai.app/en/terms
by lupire | 2025-09-13 12:19:34+00:00
Enjoy the ultimate classic tour de force from world treasure Chung-chieh (Ken) Shan’s wikiblog "Proper Treatment"

discussion / punchline http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/WordNumber...

Start of main content: http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/WordNumber...
by thepryz | 2025-09-13 12:19:47+00:00
Scale AI’s entire business model was using people in developing countries to label data for training models. Once you look into it, it comes across as rather predatory.

This was one of the first links I found re: Scale’s labor practices https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/22/scale-ai-is-facing-a-third...

Here’s another: https://relationaldemocracy.medium.com/an-authoritarian-work...