MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by owenversteeg | 2025-09-01 22:24:23+00:00
I completely agree. On any other issue this would be considered a catastrophic failure beyond failure. This is an op-ed from a series of old army generals who lost the war because they were in bed with the enemy every step of the way. The CDC, FDA, and other regulators have a revolving door open to the same industries that profit from the demise of public health.

Take, for example, myopia in children (which has grown from zero to nearly half of children today) or vitamin D deficiency (34.5% of Americans _sufficient_!) The cost is colossal - both myopia and vitamin D deficiency have huge knock-on effects. The intervention in this case is easy and free. And yet, because there is no profit to be made, approximately nothing was done. This is a completely insane state of affairs.
by bschne | 2025-09-01 22:24:31+00:00
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by jopicornell | 2025-09-01 22:25:06+00:00
It's not a sponsored content but a happy user sharing with its community.

> You want me to pay to search the internet?

Yes. Or you pay and get privacy and good results or you don't pay and they decide which results are better for their profits. That's not how it should work. Companies should build good software so that users use them, not because they have the monopoly and can do dark patterns that result in good profits for them at the expense of the user privacy. Google is not a good software company anymore, their products are abandoned and UX is in extreme decadence in favour of AI.

On the other hand, Kagi uses AI to provide good results and give the best UX to its users. You see? The other way around.
by runjake | 2025-09-01 22:26:46+00:00
Azure began adopting and offering Linux while Ballmer was CEO.

Microsoft already began the process of open sourcing stuff while Ballmer was CEO. Eg. What would become DotNet Core.

There are a number of other errors in your points. Some public, some not. I encourage you to re-examine what you think to be true.

Look, I agree it was time for Ballmer to retire and I’m glad Satya is CEO, but while he made some miscalculations, he wasn’t the zero some try to make him to be.
by andreyvit | 2025-09-01 22:27:25+00:00
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by baud147258 | 2025-09-01 22:28:32+00:00
Burning cars and rioting after the last three referendums (which had excluded 100k people who had arrived after 1998) didn't go your way is sure a way to get ahead in politics.

Also what would be your proposed solution? Make the island be independent and let the Kanak expulse anyone who isn't like them? Because such blood and soil were usually spouted by people wearing brown shirts in Europe in the 30s.
by protocolture | 2025-09-01 22:28:38+00:00
>You frame this in fallacy, false dichotomy circularly. For a refutation, is treating poisoning with something that masks the symptoms of poisoning without resolving the cause a good thing?

"Masks" is the problem here. If poisoning causes symptoms, like vomiting, you want to treat the symptom. Depends on various factors. Just like every woo purveyor you have a simple black/white mindset.

>Ad Hominem, and lacking in facts.

You didnt make arguments, you just spouted a toxic opinion. You dont get shielded behind proper argumentation. The issue is you as a human are toxic. You specifically.

>Ancedotal.

Not really, not for Adult sufferers. Its a very common story.

>these people found that they actually had low-level poisoning

Lmao. "Low level Poisoning" you are cooked. Also right after complaining about anecdotal evidence. You literally stand for nothing.

>Blind trust in centralized systems

No ones advocating for blind trust. Just informed trust. Instead of the blind trust in kooks you are peddling.

>What makes you blind is you assume the diagnostic label is automatically the disease

What makes you blind is that you assume that anything anti authority is automatically true.
by dreambuffer | 2025-09-01 22:29:07+00:00
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Python, C, LLMs I suppose

Résumé/CV: bugcatching.github.io

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I have a few years of experience building software of all kinds, primarily games with highly advanced backends (protobuf-based communication systems, concurrent multiplayer systems, among others). I have some experience with data science and an old certificate for it, mostly in reinforcement learning. Right now I'm building an RL-based fuzzer for security analysis and evolutionary programming based on a hypervisor architecture, which would be a first of its kind if I can get it done.

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by fsckboy | 2025-09-01 22:29:13+00:00
>a perfect example of how AI hallucinations/lack of accuracy could significantly impact our lives going forward.

how about stop forming judgments of people based on their stance on Israel/Hamas, and stop hanging around people who do, and you'll be fine. if somebody misstates your opinion, it won't matter.

probably you'll have to drop bluesky and parts of HN (like this political discussion that you urge be left up) but that's necessary because all legitimate opinions about Israel/Hamas are very misinformed/cherry picked, and AI is just flipping a coin which is just as good as an illegitimate opinion.

(if anybody would like to convince me that they are well informed on these topics, i'm all ears, but doing it here is imho a bad idea so it's on you if you try)
by tavavex | 2025-09-01 22:29:15+00:00
YYYY-MM-DD is also the official date format in Canada, though it's not officially enforced, so outside of government documents you end up seeing a bit of all three formats all over the place. I've always used ISO 8601 and no one bats an eye, and it's convenient since YYYY-DD-MM isn't really a thing, so it can't be confused for anything else, unlike the other two formats.
by justicz | 2025-09-01 22:31:58+00:00
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by Muromec | 2025-09-01 22:32:25+00:00
> Half of them are min-maxing their effort to resume appeal ratio with every decision.

If it’s good for the company to operate like that, it can’t be bad for an employee, right?

Moral corruption started from the top and once it reaches bottom, it’s all about proverbal catalytic converters off the company truck.

Then the whole thing collapses of course
by kenjackson | 2025-09-01 22:32:40+00:00
This take seems bad top to bottom.

And the Satya revisionist history on his quote is absurd since it’s well documented. He didn’t just say it at a women’s conference. He was asked “For women who aren’t comfortable asking for a raise, what’s your advice for them?”. And part of response included “That might be one of the initial ‘super powers’ that, quite frankly, women don’t ask for a raise have. It’s good karma. It will come back.”

He has since sufficiently walked this back, so it’s odd the need to lie about what he said.
by dibrale | 2025-09-01 22:33:27+00:00
Existing agentic LLM frameworks didn't quite give me the mix of parallelization, modularity and control I wanted, so I decided to write my own. The structure I came up with is good for having many small LLM runners and more deterministic components interact with one another in a deliberate, resource-managed way using concurrency groups.

I ended up adding a lot of docstrings in case I have to step away from my hobbies and dust this code off at a later point, but maybe the framework can be useful for someone else in the meantime? I've added demos and put it up under the MIT license should you wish to try it out.

I apologize in advance if the framework is difficult to get running - my testing options are limited. The GUI works, but is basically vibecoded because I don't know React, so forgive me if that component is particularly temperamental. Ideally, I would like to continue servicing this code and improving my own skills, so any comments on this project - both positive and excoriating- are greatly appreciated.
by elvongray | 2025-09-01 22:33:33+00:00
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

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by sellmesoap | 2025-09-01 22:33:33+00:00
I also associate this with Chrysler/Dodge brands, unreliable cars with a higher then usual number of hotheads behind the wheel. I've seen shady finance stuff from a dealer around here, making numbers work for people who in no way can sustain payments (and later had the car repoed) it's all insured so the dealer laughs all the way... with the bank!?!
by benjiro | 2025-09-01 22:33:49+00:00
> For storage, Hetzner does offer Volumes, which you can attach to your VM

The argument was about dedicated hardware. But it still holds for VPS.

Have you seen the price of Cloud Storage? ARM VPS 40GB is 4.51 (inc tax), for 40GB storage, your paying 2.10 Euro. So my argument still holds as your paying almost 50% more, just to go from 40GB to 80GB. And that ratio gets worse if your renting higher end VPS, and double your storage on them.

Lets be honest, 53.62 Euro for 1TB of SSD storage in 2025, is ridiculous.

Netcup is at 12 Euro/TB for SSD storage (same speed as the VMS as its just localized storage on the server, not network storage). Fyi: A ARM 6 Core 256GB, at netcup is 6.26 Euro.

Hetzner used to be the market leader and pushed others, but you barely see any new products or upgraded from them anymore. I said it before, if Netcup actually invested into a more modern/scalable VPS solution (instead of their 2010 VPS panels), they will eat a lots of Hetzners clients.
by sophia01 | 2025-09-01 22:34:47+00:00
> The back-loaded vesting schedule is such blatantly cynical bullshit.

I don't understand this. A friend was recently offered an insane pay package from Amazon (compared to another big-tech). The way I saw it, the Amazon pay package was more attractive than the alternative because of the back-loaded vesting schedule.

Basically they pay you out in cash for the first two years, then after that you have an option to keep working there. If the stock price goes down in the first two years, you got your guaranteed cash -- no risk (and it would be a good time to interview again). If the stock price goes up, you now have basically an option on extra exposure in the form of staying longer with highly valued RSUs, and now getting some high proportion of your pay in RSUs.

It just seems straight up better? If you want the stock instead of fungible cash, just buy it on the open market?
by HDThoreaun | 2025-09-01 22:35:36+00:00
What is the point of acting like Hamas has not constantly, from its inception, called for the utter destruction of israel? You are not tricking anyone here, they werent trying to hide it or anything. I agree the palestinians have been horribly oppressed by the Israelis, but sometimes people deserve to be oppressed. Sucks for all the kids born in gaza but its not israels fault their society has called for genocide of jews for like 80 years now. I feel way worse for Palestinians in the west bank than those in gaza. The west bankers truly got fucked by israel, the gazans largely deserve what they got. You dont get to constantly launch rockets at their biggest city and then claim you want peace.
by phantompeace | 2025-09-01 22:36:07+00:00
Thank you for reading!

Cost is a big factor - i really want to make models that can run on average CPU only machines so most of the world can benefit, rather than needing expensive GPUs or an internet connection + subscriptions. Another big factor is privacy (you don't need to trust a 3rd party with your inputs).

As for the hyperparameters, pure bruteforce trial and error. It feels more like a dark art than a science. You roll the dice and then start tweaking things until the loss looks like it's dropping nicely and consistently, and the checkpoints are starting to output things resembling what we want. I sometimes do inference using checkpoints just to get a feel of if the model is learning (regardless of loss)
by fluoridation | 2025-09-01 22:37:20+00:00
>A more useful framework is to see what people support, reject, and tolerate.

It's certainly more useful for those who want to take what's yours.

>I'm definitely not rejecting the concept of private companies making hardware that runs their proprietary software and taking control over decisions about what software should run on their hardware.

What "their" hardware? It's not their hardware, it's your hardware! You didn't lease it, you didn't borrow it; you bought it outright. On top of that, it's running on your electricity. If you let someone else tell your hardware what it is or isn't allowed to do, you're just a fool. Congratulations, you paid money to give a conglomerate of corporations permission to run software on your premises, on your dime. What a deal! Hey, wanna buy my game console? Just put it in your home with access to the Internet and once in a while I'll let you play a game on it, provided it's been "idling" enough for my tastes.

>but you're totally rejecting the idea of hardware that runs proprietary software

No I'm not. I'm not even arguing that we should be able to change the OS. Honestly, I don't think that's that important. But we shouldn't accept not being able to even install any application software we want. What's even the point of it being a computer at that point?
by ishaanbhagwat | 2025-09-01 22:37:30+00:00
Location: Austin, TX

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Email: a[dot]ishaanbhagwat[at]gmail.com

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Looking for: engineering @ early/growth stage startup, AI Infrastructure/ Distributed (compute + storage)/ startups working on enterprise or consumer AI products.

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edit: added spacing
by downrightmike | 2025-09-01 22:37:34+00:00
I blame managers that get all giddy about reducing head count. Sure this year, you get a -1% on developer time (seniors believe they get a 20% increase when its really a decrease for using AI)

But then next year and the year after, the technical debt will be to the point where they just need to throw out the code and start fresh.

Then the head count must go up. Typical short term gains for long term losses/bankruptcy
by kbolino | 2025-09-01 22:38:02+00:00
True, you don't have to go full microkernel just to have messages passed though a buffer. However, if the buffer is shared by all processes, it does need to have some protection. I guess you could assign one buffer per process (which might end up using a lot of physical RAM), and then just crash the process if it corrupts its own buffer. The bigger issue with this approach might be adapting to asynchrony though.
by syncsynchalt | 2025-09-01 22:38:29+00:00
Of the two UTF-16 is much less of a problem, it's trivially[1] and losslessly convertible.

[1] Ok I admit, not trivially when it comes to unpaired surrogates, BOMs, endian detection, and probably a dozen other edge and corner cases I don't even know about. But you can offload the work to pretty well-understood and trouble-free library calls.
by RA2lover | 2025-09-01 22:39:28+00:00
I don't find it to be a problem as planning a route from A to B isn't done by looking directly for it, but by subconsciously referring to and plotting a path through landmarks along the way that aren't close to antipodal.

One of the worlds i played on had road planning from the start and a set of roadways covering the entire world in a 4x4 square grid. Pathing to point D was just a matter of going 2 blocks in one direction, and 2 blocks in an orthogonal to it.

In a world without such roadways, you'd look for landmarks such as oceans and continents instead.

Ultimately, you don't care if somewhere is antipodal or not because you never see the antipodes to where the globe is currently looking at without rotating the globe.
by markus_zhang | 2025-09-01 22:40:06+00:00
Thanks for the awesome reply. Do you work as a car electronics engineer or in some neighbouring positions? I’m curious how did you validate whatever “hacks” or tools you learned/obtained because, as you said, car crash is different from phone crash.

I have a Hyundai Tucson and I don’t really dare to touch anything except plugging in a cheap scanner for error codes.

BTW do you know any technical car hacking forums, in WWW or Onion?

Thanks a bunch!
by madrox | 2025-09-01 22:41:02+00:00
Software engineering in general is pretty famous for unironically being disdainful of anything old while simultaneously reinventing the past. This new wave is nothing new in that regard.

I'm not sure that means the people who do this aren't good engineers, though. If someone rediscovers something in practice rather than through learning theory, does that make them bad at something, or simply inexperienced? I think it's one of the strengths of the profession that there isn't a singular path to reach the height of the field.
by spindump8930 | 2025-09-01 22:41:42+00:00
The title makes it sound nice but the reported results are worse than random baselines on several benchmarks, including ones to claim superiority over BERT. At a glance, Hellaswag, boolq, winogrande are all at or below random guessing. At best this is a fun model with broken evaluation. At worst this is medium spam for clout farming - which won't work on anyone who can read the tables.
by lizknope | 2025-09-01 22:42:37+00:00
Does Amazon want to be an AI innovator or an AI enabler?

AWS enables thousands of other companies to run their business. Amazon has designed their own Graviton ARM CPUS and their own Trainium AI chips. You can access these through AWS for your business.

I think Amazon sees AI being used in AWS as a bigger money generator than designing new AI algorithms.
by sokoloff | 2025-09-01 22:45:19+00:00
Right, the incentive just has the opposite sign now. Find a way to take basement storage and turn it into just barely legally qualifying as bedrooms and bathrooms, even though every human would immediately classify and value it as if it was ordinary basement storage. Same with the living room/den/family room. In a lot of places you’d just need to make a small back-to-back closet and ensure egress is met (or grandfathered as-built) and they’d legally be able to called bedrooms. My 4 BR, 2.5 bath house becomes a 7 BR, 3.5 bath place, saving the new buyer (or me) on land taxes forever, making them (or me) willing to pay more to do that pointless remodeling.

“Why does this basement hallway have 4 half-baths and 4 tiny bedrooms full of shelves, 2 bedrooms right off the main entry, and no living room? Taxes.”

I just can’t see how to eliminate human judgment from the valuation process of the parts when humans are unavoidably the ones valuing the combination.