MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnisgood | 2025-09-03 13:54:23+00:00
It is just crazy that people still believe in the "think of the children" narratives, or "it is for your own safety". I think these seemingly good intentions (which are not actually good intentions, just seem so) are a huge problem, and lack of resistance because if you resist, their rebuttal is "you don't want our kids to be safe?!" and so forth, appealing to emotions and shame.
by markus_zhang | 2025-09-03 13:54:53+00:00
TBF it took China decades to centralize the data. Back in the 2010s you can technically marry two persons in different provinces because the system was fragmented along the provinces. I think they finally solved the problem 10 years ago.

China is actually far more fragmented than some people thought. The central government isn’t that all powerful. I mean even today, let alone 20 years ago. It is actually the big businesses like Ali/Tencent that are centralizing the data they collected — exactly like what US corporations are doing.
by tomrod | 2025-09-03 13:55:04+00:00
> The problem is that a headline that people want to believe is a very powerful force that can override replication and sample size and methodology problems. AI rots your brain follows behind social media rots your brain, which came after video games rot your brain, which preceded TV rots your brain. I’m sure TV wasn’t even the first. There’s a long tradition of publicly worrying about machines making us stupider.

Your comment reminded me of this (possibly spurious) quote:

>> An Assyrian clay tablet dating to around 2800 B.C. bears the inscription: “Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching.”[0]

Same as it ever was. [1]

[0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/22/world-end/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsSpAOD6K8
by TYPE_FASTER | 2025-09-03 13:55:23+00:00
I used to know a bunch of phone numbers by heart. I haven't done that since I got a cellphone. Has that had an impact on my ability to memorize things? I have no idea.

I have recently been finding it noticeably more difficult to come up with the word I'm thinking of. Is this because I've been spending more time scrolling than reading? I have no idea.
by tchantchov | 2025-09-03 13:55:44+00:00
Major win for Google as federal judge rules against forcing Chrome divestiture in landmark antitrust case. Stock jumped 8% overnight, adding $170B+ in market value.

Key outcomes:

Google keeps Chrome browser and Android OS

Can continue $20B annual payments to Apple for default search

Must share search data with competitors but avoids breakup

Wall Street raising price targets - Oppenheimer ups to $270 (+28% upside)

Why this matters: Judge called Chrome divestiture a "poor fit" and noted AI competition changing the landscape. This removes the biggest regulatory overhang that's been weighing on the stock.

Market reaction: GOOGL hit $224 - a yearly high. Analysts calling it a "monster win" and "home run ruling". Even Apple benefited (+3%) as their lucrative search deal continues.

Looking ahead: With regulatory uncertainty cleared and strong fundamentals (13.9% revenue growth, 8 buy ratings vs 1 sell), GOOGL appears positioned for further gains. Some analysts project $316 by 2030.

Deep dive analysis: For comprehensive GOOGL stock analysis including price targets, risk assessment, and investment thesis → https://dashboard-finance.com/stock/googl

What's your take on Google's antitrust victory? Game-changer for Big Tech regulation?
by raesene9 | 2025-09-03 13:55:53+00:00
One point that's important on the "entertain" front is that it doesn't need to mean humour/jokes. More likely it's things like well designed slides, interactive elements like demos or anecdotes to break up technical content.

Humour can work in presentations but it's really hard to pull off well. A lot of jokes rely on things like shared background/experience/cultural touchstones, so tricky to do in a conference where you might not know those things about your audience.

If you do use humour, I'd recommend not making it core to the talk, so if people don't get the jokes, it doesn't ruin the talk for them. Also generally use it sparingly, the odd meme can be funny, one on every slide probably not a great idea.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-03 13:55:59+00:00
The list is so long. My favorite is the internal intervalometer + ETTR. Canon has always been laughed at for not having an internal intervalometer, and ML proves how lame it is to not have one. ETTR (Expose To The Right) is an auto metering mode that allows the camera to keep the histogram pushed as far to the right (better exposure) automagically by increasing shutter time and/or increasing ISO. This is essential for doing holy grail timelapse of sunset/sunrise where the exposure is constantly changing. This feature alone is worth it's weight in gold.

However, a lot of the features exposed are more video oriented. The Canon bodies were primarily photo cameras that could shoot video in a cumbersome way. ML brings features a video shooter would need without diving into the menus like audio metering. The older bodies also have hardware limitations on write speed, so people use the HDMI out to external recorders to record a larger framesize/bitrate/codec than natively possible. Also, that feed normally has the camera UI overlay which prevents clean recordings. ML allows turning that off.

There are just too many features that ML unlocks. You'd really just need to find the camera body you are interested in using on their site, and see what it does for that body. Different bodies have different features. So some effort is required on your part to know exactly what it can do for you.
by Bender | 2025-09-03 13:56:06+00:00
I would also add, how often are peer reviews the same group of buddy-bro back-scratchers that know if they help that person with a positive peer review that person will return the favor. How many peer reviewers actually reproduce the results? How many peer reviewers would approve a paper if their credentials were on the line?

Ironically, I am waiting for AI to start automating the process of teasing apart obvious pencil whipping, back scratching, buddy-bro behavior. Some believe its in the 1% range of falsified papers and pencil whipped reviews. I expect it to be significantly higher based on reading NIH papers for a long time in the attempt to actually learn things. I've reported the obvious shenanigans and sometimes papers are taken down but there are so many bad incentives in this process I predict it will only get worse.
by names_r_hard | 2025-09-03 13:56:15+00:00
Strange, it certainly can do sub 5s on some bodies. But I don't have a 5d2 to test with.

Could this be a conflict with long exposures? Conceivably AF, too. The intervalometer will attempt to trigger capture every 5s wall time. If the combined time to AF seek, expose, and finish saving to card (etc) is >5s, you will skip a shot.

When the time comes, compare the price of a used 5d3 vs a shutter replacement on the 5d2, maybe you'll get a "free" upgrade :) Thanks for the kind words!
by adrian_b | 2025-09-03 13:56:21+00:00
It is a different story but which is without any doubt derived from the Enkidu story and modified to suit different conceptions about the role of women in society and about what is valuable for mankind.

While in the Enkidu story the role of the woman was positive, because she has taught Enkidu about the advantages of civilized life, making him leave the wilderness where he lived since being created by God, in the Genesis story Eve was despised for the same thing, i.e. for teaching Adam more than his creator did.

I certainly side with the anonymous author of the Old Babylonian story about Enkidu and not with the editor of the Genesis book who has transformed it.
by dysoco | 2025-09-03 13:57:12+00:00
Well as far as I'm aware and also from my little experience, Claude Code is quite better and it seems simpler to use than Cursor, it's also IDE/editor agnostic. So it's not about using CLI applications it's about the fact that these last batch of tools happen to be CLI applications.

Me personally I'm not a fan of CLI applications and would rather have a nice but simple UI with nicer text rendering, pusheable buttons, etc. but probably these companies wanted something quick to get running. However for this use-case it's not that bad, it works just fine.

Also I can run it via SSH which is very helpful.
by yuehhangalt | 2025-09-03 13:57:15+00:00
My concern is more attributed to the tasks that can't or won't be outsourced.

People who maintain a high level of curiosity or a have drive to create things will most assuredly benefit from using AI to outsource work that doesn't support those drives. It has the potential to free up more time for creative endeavors or those that require more deep thinking. Few would argue the benefit there.

Unfortunately, anti-intellectualism is rampant, media literacy is in decline, and a lot of people are content to consume content and not think unless they absolutely have to. Dopamine is a helluva drug.

If LLMs reduce the cognitive effort at work, and the people go home to doom scroll on social media or veg out in front of their streaming media of choice, it seems that we're heading down the path of creating a society of mindless automatons. Idiocracy is cited so often today that I hate to do so myself, but it seems increasingly prescient.

Edit: I also don't think that AI will enable a greater work-life harmony. The pandemic showed that a large number of jobs could effectively be done remotely. However, after the pandemic, there was significant "Return to Office" movement that almost seemed like retribution for believing we could achieve a better balance. Corporations won't pass on the time savings to their employees and enable things like 4-day work weeks. They'll simply expect more productivity from the employees they have.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-03 13:57:17+00:00
It is not my code, but since I want to know what is wrong with it, might as well ask around.

> it only happens to other people?

What I am talking about did happen to someone else, not me.

In any case, I will take your advice and ask around despite it not being my code, but I genuinely want to know what is wrong with it because I took a look at the code and I could not spot any issues with it, and I tested it, it works, so I wonder what really is wrong with the code despite its test cases passing, and the code seemingly being organized and seems to be Odin-style. He mentioned something about the person not knowing what "distinct" is, but he also said "many things are wrong, so many that he would rather just rewrite it himself" (which I doubt he has any intentions of doing). These issues surely cannot be such deal-breakers considering the code does run (without any memory leaks). I will ask around when I can be bothered.
by mym1990 | 2025-09-03 13:57:17+00:00
I would argue that intellectual laziness can and will lead to cognitive decline as much as physical laziness can and will lead to muscle atrophy. It’s akin to using a maps app to get from point a to b but not ever remembering the route, even though someone has done it 100 times.

I don’t know the percentage of people who are still critically thinking while using AI tools, but I can first hand see many students just copy pasting content to their school work.
by goalieca | 2025-09-03 13:57:28+00:00
Anecdote here, but when I was in grad school, I was talking to a PhD student i respected a lot. Whenever he read a paper, he would try to write the code out and get it working. I would take a couple of months but he could whip it up in a few days. He explained to me that it was just practice and the more you practice the better you become. He not only coded things quickly, he started analyzing papers quicker too and became really good at synthesizing ideas, knowing what worked and didn't, and built up a phenomenal intuition.

These days, I'm fairly senior and don't touch code much anymore but I find it really really instructive to get my hands dirty and struggle through new code and ideas. I think the "just tweak the prompts bro" people are missing out on learning.
by jbstack | 2025-09-03 13:57:28+00:00
I agree with this in principle, but the problem is what happens to the in-between generation that cheats their way towards getting the piece of paper before the world moves on to a better way? At least for previous generations you got the piece of paper and you acquired some skills/knowledge.

For this reason, I don't feel as optimistic as you do. I worry instead that equality gaps will widen significantly: there will be the majority which abuses AI and graduates with empty brains, and there will be the minority who somehow manage to avoid doing that (e.g. lucky enough to have parents with sufficient foresight to take preventative measures with their children).
by MangoToupe | 2025-09-03 13:58:07+00:00
> I think this also explains how dismissive you are of experts who have actually worked with Musk and don't seem to share your low opinion of his expertise in certain areas.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

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I think there's also something of a "gell-mann amnesia" effect going on here. I could buy him being a manufacturing genius or whatever for a while because I know nothing about car or rocket manufacturing. But as soon as he bought twitter, I realized he was an absolute moron who had never built or successfully software himself in his life (or perhaps his brain had simply severely atrophied since his time at PayPal to the point he should be aware), but wanted to sling buzzwords as if he were a coder.
by vincent_builds | 2025-09-03 13:58:20+00:00
Author here. I think that's a great idea.

I've considered live-streaming my work a few times, but all my work is on closed-source backend applications with sensitive code and data. If I ever get to work on an open-source product, I'll ask about live-streaming it. I think it would be a fun experience.

Although I cannot show the live stream or the code, I am writing and deploying production code for a brownfield project.

Two recent production features:

1. Quota crossing detection system for billable metrics - Complex business logic for billing infrastructure - Detects when usage crosses configurable thresholds across multiple metric types - Time: 4 days while working on other smaller tasks in parallel work vs probably 10 days focused without AI

2. Sentry monitoring wrapper for metering cron jobs - Reusable component wrapping all cron jobs with Sentry monitoring capabilities - Time: 1 day parallelled with other tasks vs 2 days focused

As you can probably tell, my work is not glamorous :D. It's all the head-scratching backend work, extending the existing system with more capabilities or to make it more robust.

I agree there is a lot of hand-holding required, but I'm betting on the systems getting better as time goes on. We are only two years into this AI journey, and the capabilities will most likely improve over the next few years.
by Mountain_Skies | 2025-09-03 13:59:18+00:00
Often there's some kind of event that starts the pop, like when Elon Musk slashed the headcount at Twitter and everyone else saw that as a signal that the hiring frenzy was over and it was safe to start cutting staff. There was lots of discussion before that day about how out of control tech hiring had become but the money was flowing and everyone wanted to look like a great place to park it.

My guess as to what happens here is one of the big players showing that they're cutting back on capacity in a significant manner, which will spook the investors who know a bubble pop is coming but want to time their exit as near the top as possible. By the time the pebbles notice, the avalanche will be in full roll.
by xtiansimon | 2025-09-03 13:59:42+00:00
I’m passively auditing articles and IG reports on federal arrest, indictment, protests, and military action on US citizens.

In this mode I’m asking myself, What’s being reported here. Is it same as previous stories or different?

This story features a citizen, participating in a protest. That’s not unusual. What is unusual is a federal arrest 30 days after the event.

I’m not saying this as fact of arrests (could be happening a lot for all I know), but only in terms of what is reported. And when you watch the videos of someone who gets in the face of law enforcement (I can’t see the video on the gift link, so I’m going by descriptions) invariably they are pulled offline and taken down by 4-6 police. Police are taking any physical interaction as assault and arresting people on the spot. (Maybe the police were overwhelmed or afraid this veteran would hurt them compared to the women I see shoved and dragged in IG videos).

Also, why 30 days later? The person who would have had the responsibility to arrest and charge resigned, and their replacement is reportedly unqualified?

As a citizen who has the right to protest (1st amendment), I’m not thinking that the government is taking names. Now I am, which is possibly the point.

AND! The president is calling for the end of No-Cash Bail. Do you see the chilling effect potential?

Not to mention the hypocrisy/asymmetry of January 6th as an event of obvious violent obstruction of federal procedure (every accusation is a confession). This arrest is notable in comparison to other reported arrests.
by SkyBelow | 2025-09-03 14:00:04+00:00
Such as system does exist, but it is filled with issues. Halo effect and other biases impact memories, in ways that we would not tolerate being made explicit. We are more forgiving of some people than others, we tolerate some forms of stress as a possible excuse (not a complete removal, but to allow for much quicker redemption) than other forms of stress. Rules are selectively applied, and this all gets fed into confirmation biases where we overlook the bad done by people labeled as good and the good done by people labeled as bad (often with the labels themselves being unjustified in their application).

The larger the social network grows, the worse this system performs. Stereotypes develop because we don't have capacity to judge each individual, confirmation biases reinforce stereotypes until individuals cease to exist, as the stereotype prevents them from becoming close enough to ever overcome it.

So while this system has always existed (well at least as long as recorded history), it continuously worsens and is increasingly at odds with a globalized world.
by btbuildem | 2025-09-03 14:00:21+00:00
I had the same question!

I will have to try this, I have a super edge use case: incomplete bathymetric depth map (lidar boat could not access some areas), coincidentally the most interesting areas are not in the data. My second piece of data is from flyover video (areas of interest where water is also clear enough to see the bottom). With enough video I can mostly remove the water-borne artifacts (ripples, reflections etc) and enhance the river bottom imagery enough to attempt photogrammetric reconstruction. The bottleneck here is that it takes multiple angles to do that, and the visibility through water is highly dependent on the angle of sunlight vs angle of camera.

Instead of doing multiple flyovers at different times of day to try and get enough angles for a mesh reconstruction, maybe this can do it relatively well from one angle!
by pmanu | 2025-09-03 14:00:27+00:00
Never had issues with the HTML. Templates sometimes showed comments in dev mode, but in production builds they were stripped and everything minified. I never used Webpack or other bundlers, only the "dumber.js" from their CLI, so maybe was something related to that?

And yeah, probably they monkey-patched arrays and such, but that was just the way of the world before proxies and native signals. The cool part is Aurelia stuck to web standards, and those “weird mechanisms” were basically polyfills, so even old versions still run solid today, sometimes even faster by leveraging native features.
by quotemstr | 2025-09-03 14:00:51+00:00
> And, why the scare quotes?

N=54, students and academics only (mostly undergrad), impossible to blind, and, worst of all, the conclusion of the study supports a certain kind of anti-technology moralizing want to do anyway. I'd be shocked if it replicated, and even if it did, it wouldn't mean much concretely.

You could run the same experiment comparing paper maps versus Google Maps in a simulated navigation scenario. I'd bet the paper map group would score higher on various comprehension metrics. So what? Does that make digital maps bad for us? That's the implication of the article, and I don't think the inference is warranted.
by jemiluv8 | 2025-09-03 14:00:52+00:00
My Two Cents

You moved from a typed - super object oriented/functional language/platform to a dynamic/untyped mostly procedural/functional language

Dynamic and untyped languages always had this issue - coherence, structure in large projects (without enforcing project wide conventions). Without strong conventions, the codebase will naturally grow in weird unrestrained ways. Whereas with the Java/Kotlin ecosystem, even things like naming of class files has conventions enforced by the compiler so you won't open a file like Person.class and find a People class defined within. Without enforcing conventions, that's what you get in python.
by NiloCK | 2025-09-03 14:00:56+00:00
Every augmentation is also an amputation.

Calculators reduced our capabilities in mental and pencil-paper arithmetic. Graphing calculators later reduced our capacity to sketch curves, and in turn, our intuition in working directly with equations themselves. Power tools and electric mixers reduced our grip strength. Cheap long distance plans and electronic messaging reduced our collective abilities in long-form letter writing. The written word decimated the population of bards who could recite Homer from memory.

It's not that there aren't pitfalls and failure modes to watch out for, but the framing as a "general decline" is tired, moralizing, motivated, clickbait.
by hellojesus | 2025-09-03 14:01:01+00:00
He's not just selling for the fun of it. He sold his own shitcoin in a scheme where the highest bidder got direct access to him at a dinner.

It's textbook corruption in plain sight for all to see. As Schiff said when this went down, approximately around the doge peak: the only thing he's doing more efficiently than biden is facilitating corrpution.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-03 14:01:10+00:00
I should give this a shot. I used to use CHDK so I could use my old crappy Canon into something that would take good time-lapse videos by snapping a photo every X seconds; I miss doing that, though now it's harder because I live in the 'burbs, and there's no particularly spots for that nearby, and anywhere that is a good spot likely doesn't have a power outlet for me to use. I wonder how long I could power my camera from a portable charger?
by lapcat | 2025-09-03 14:01:19+00:00
> Both Apple and Google can be guilty of anti-competitive and anti-freedom behavior.

I said as much. I mentioned twice that I wasn't trying to defend Apple.

The article is nominally about web standards, but the WHATWG—whose steering committee includes Google and Microsoft—hijacked web standards. The article is painting a picture where Apple is largely acting alone, but that's not even remotely true.

> Android is caving to the pressure to follow suit more and more every day.

Pressure? What pressure? Are you claiming that Apple is somehow pressuring Google into locking down Android?