MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mallowdram | 2025-09-15 03:39:16+00:00
This is just decontextualized science as engineering. Levin as well. Logic demands simple rules, objectivity that was always derived from subjectivity. That's how engineering infects interdependent biology for independent, individual hacks. Beware. We didn't learn rules, really, we spotted regularities and convinced ourselves these were rules. Hack life and develop automata and watch the pain begin. And it will come from chaos.
by simianwords | 2025-09-15 03:39:53+00:00
>That does not matter. What matters is if the outcome is improved in the way they predict. This is actually measurable.

Ok lets discuss facts.

>It's not a binary. Sometimes it fully reproduces works in violation of copyright and other times it modifies it just enough to avoid claims against it's output. Using AI and just _assuming_ it would never lead you to a copyright violation is foolish.

In the Anthropic case the Judge ruled that AI training is transformative. It is not binary as you said but I'm criticising what appears as binary from the original policy. When the court ruling itself has shown that it is not violation of copyright, it is reasonable to criticise it now although I acknowledge the post was written before the ruling.

>Are you including training costs or just query costs?

The training costs are very very small because they are amortised over all the queries. I think training accounts around .001% to .1% of each query depending on how many training runs are done over a year.
by SamBam | 2025-09-15 03:39:58+00:00
Totally false, in large part because a real cake recipe is not usually just a collection of dry ingredients and an egg, the way Betty Crocker usually is.

Box mixes use powdered milks. Powdered vanilla flavor. They use the cheapest powdered chocolate. Sometimes they don't even both making you throw in an egg because they use powdered egg.

I don't care how precisely that's measured, it's not going to be as good as my recipe with fresh eggs, fresh milk, real vanilla, and good quality bars of baking chocolate.

And that's even setting aside techniques. My favorite chocolate cake involves pouring boiling water into the ingredients, because of the way it melts the chocolate. Show me a Betty Crocker mix that does that.

Obviously if the only recipe you've seen from scratch is just a replica of the things in the box (and you use similarly low-quality ingredients) then sure, having the precise measurements is nice, I guess.
by musicale | 2025-09-15 03:40:04+00:00
> A company like Digital could have made the PDP-11 into 'the PC'

They did! I kind of want one of these PDP-11 based PCs:

1977: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathkit_H11

1982: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Professional
by amluto | 2025-09-15 03:40:06+00:00
> My original plan had been to use their standard 1U folded sheet metal design, but I discovered too late, after boards were ordered, that it wasn’t going to work due to the 5mm corner mounting holes being inside the keepout area for the rear bend.

I wonder if a less annoying solution would have been to omit the mounting holes and then drill and tap them after the fact, possibly at a slight angle if the metal is out of plane there.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-15 03:40:26+00:00
> You're missing a very important reason

> 4 - There is a very active anti-LLM activist movement ...

All I can say to this is that my position is Large Language Models (LLM's) are a combination of algorithms and data.

As as such, for me they do not qualify as anything to be either "pro" or "anti", let alone a participant of an activist movement.
by necovek | 2025-09-15 03:41:57+00:00
Isn't that also what the OP is doing? They are comparing renters to owners who are usually in a different life situations (with the basic being kids vs no kids).

There are a lot of compounding factors OP is ignoring, likely out of not being in a set of life situations yet.

Thus commenters are bringing counter-exampled to dispute the OP claim, not as the 100% truth either.
by kalleboo | 2025-09-15 03:42:11+00:00
They also kind of did it with the Mac. For 4 years after the Mac was introduced, it was still the Apple II that was paying the bills, the Mac was flopping. It took stubborn management to keep investing in the Mac and not give up on it and try to evolve the Apple II instead (imagining a future based on the IIgs here)
by eru | 2025-09-15 03:42:15+00:00
Morally, Uber should be allowed to charge whatever they want to. No one is forced to take an Uber.

But in practice Uber does face at least public scrutiny. Eg when there was a hostage situation in the Sydney city centre a few years ago, everyone wanted to leave and Uber's surge pricing kicked in automatically (no human at Uber even knew about the hostage situation, at least there was no human in the loop).

Of course, this was exactly working as intended, but it was a bad look, so Uber retroactively made all the fares out of the city centre free that day.
by Tostino | 2025-09-15 03:43:58+00:00
When I need to access an instance I do a local port forward for that instance using kubectl and connect to it with pgadmin like any other database. If I need to access another instance, I close that port forward and open another to the instance I want to connect to. If I need multiple at once for some reason I could choose different local ports and have them pre-configured in pgadmin...but I don't generally need that.
by loeg | 2025-09-15 03:44:02+00:00
This comment is a two sentence summary of the six sentence Abstract at the very top of the linked article. (Though the paper claims 9%, not 10% -- to three sig figs, so rounding up to 10% is inappropriate.)

Also -- 9% is huge! I am kind of skeptical of this result (haven't yet read the paper). E.g., is it possible ARM's TSO order isn't optimal, providing a weaker relative performance than a TSO native platform like x86?

> An application can benefit from weak MCMs if it distributes its workload across multiple threads which then access the same memory. Less-optimal access patterns might result in heavy cache-line bouncing between cores. In a weak MCM, cores can reschedule their instructions more effectively to hide cache misses while stronger MCMs might have to stall more frequently.

So to some extent, this is avoidable overhead with better design (reduced mutable sharing between threads). The impact of TSO vs WO is greater for programs with more sharing.

> The 644.nab_s benchmark consists of parallel floating point calculations for molecular modeling. ... If not properly aligned, two cores still share the same cache-line as these chunks span over two instead of one cache-line. As shown in Fig. 5, the consequence is an enormous cache-line pressure where one cache-line is permanently bouncing between two cores. This high pressure can enforce stalls on architectures with stronger MCMs like TSO, that wait until a core can exclusively claim a cache-line for writing, while weaker memory models are able to reschedule instructions more effectively. Consequently, 644.nab_s performs 24 percent better under WO compared to TSO.

Yeah, ok, so the huge magnitude observed is due to some really poor program design.

> The primary performance advantage applications might gain from running under weaker memory ordering models like WO is due to greater instruction reordering capabilities. Therefore, the performance benefit vanishes if the hardware architecture cannot sufficiently reorder the instructions (e.g., due to data dependencies).

Read the thing all the way through. It's interesting and maybe useful for thinking about WO vs TSO mode on Apple M1 Ultra chips specifically, but I don't know how much it generalizes.
by bruce511 | 2025-09-15 03:44:13+00:00
Yeah, "Standard" will vary a lot from one place to another.

For what it's worth, flour is used almost daily here. (We keep several kinds to hand.) We make pizza (ie make the dough) at least once a week. Bread on occasion. Batters for fried fish. As a thickener in sauces and gravys. For making fresh pasta, and so on.

All this of course is very cultural. We cook at home. If we eat out once a month it's a lot. We don't get take-aways or fast food. Because (frankly) they're just not that good.

So yes, our "standard" leans towards a well-stocked, varied, pantry.

And I completely get that this is weird by US standards (although common outside the US).
by analog31 | 2025-09-15 03:44:43+00:00
I'm not pushing back at all, especially since I made two pancakes from Krusteaz this morning. What I like about Krusteaz is scaling down to 2 small pancakes without thinking about the proportions.

But when I'm on the ball, pancakes from scratch are really not much more trouble. My trick is that precise measurements don't matter. I eyeball all of the measurements into a big measuring cup, and it works just fine. From what I've read, precisely measured ingredients are a modern invention anyway. How would humanity have spread to all corners of the world, if they had to weigh the ingredients for their pancakes?

Yogurt instead of buttermilk.
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-15 03:45:51+00:00
From what I read it was in the 70s in a phase of anti globalisation and growth. Of course in those days car traffic was much lower than now. I bet Zürich residents would be really happy to have had one now. Where I live we have both metro and tram and the metro is so much more efficient due to longer trains, more frequent departures, never being held up by traffic etc.
by mastazi | 2025-09-15 03:46:38+00:00
I feel like me and the author of this piece have different opinions about where to put the line that separates orange from yellow.

If you showed me many of the posters shown here in isolation, and asked me to describe the palette, I would have said "that's a yellow poster": https://stephenfollows.com/i/171004131/orange-the-mvp-of-the... - with some exceptions such as Lorax and Unbelievers that I would have said are orange.

EDIT: I changed from "most of the posters" to "many of the posters" as there are some that feel to me decidedly orange.
by yowlingcat | 2025-09-15 03:49:29+00:00
I know this is such a controversial livewire of a topic and borderline taboo, but the evidence is pretty substantial. That being said, the intra-group variation is also extremely substantial (IE the variation between genius/median in any particular group is simultaneously a) far more than median in one group and median in another group and b) far less than genius in one group vs genius in another group). All that being said, I think this contributes to rather than detracts from GP's comment. These "studies" (as with much of modern psychological "research") are so poorly designed so as to be meaningless, hence the replication crisis. I think they're actually worse than meaningless because they're misleading and create infohazards.
by sothatsit | 2025-09-15 03:51:16+00:00
Marketing people say this every month, but that doesn't mean there haven't also been actual step-changes in AI-assisted coding in the last year.

The policy is dated to 2024-04-14. After they approved this, there were all of these releases that were all pretty dramatic advancements for coding: 3.5 Sonnet (for taste + agentic coding), o1-preview (for reasoning), Claude Code (for developer experience), o3 (for debugging), Claude 4 Opus (for reliability), and now GPT-5 Pro (for code review).

We have advanced from AI that can unreliably help you look up documentation for tools like matplotlib, to AI tools that can write and review large complex programs in the last year alone. Sure, these tools still have a lot of deficiencies. But that doesn't negate the fact that the change in AI for coding in the last year has been dramatic.
by jedimastert | 2025-09-15 03:51:20+00:00
> (with a load of other garbage you probably don't need)

That stuff isn't just "preservatives" or whatever, it's the big difference in texture and flavor. I highly recommend actually trying a box-mix cake and a made-from-scratch mix side-by-side. It's incredible how different it is, especially with how little actual technique goes into the box-mix.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-15 03:52:32+00:00
> I provided analysis supporting my position that the project maintainers most likely did not make this policy based on "literally just 'thoughts and feelings'" and, instead, made an informed policy based on experience and rational discourse.

That position would look better if they hadn't relied so heavily on feelings to justify the announcement:

>> Their operations are causing concerns about the huge use of energy and water.

>> The advertising and use of AI models has caused a significant harm to employees [which ones?] and reduction of service quality.

>> LLMs have been empowering all kinds of spam and scam efforts.

There is no experience or rational discourse involved there.
by skrlet13 | 2025-09-15 03:52:38+00:00
I like the stability and peace of not being homeless. I'm glad I have a place to live. I am lucky I don't need to pay rent, or else I'd have to choose between rent or groceries.

When you pay rent you are dependent of a landlord, who has a lot of power over you when you are vulnerable. Being homeless is a cruel situation, and they know it.

Problem is most people can't afford owning a home nowadays. Power imbalances increase even more...
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-15 03:52:52+00:00
It's a bit crazy though that the stations aren't connected. If you want to go from Galway to Belfast you have to go across the city from Heuston station to Connolly. Very annoying with baggage even though these days there's the Luas. And there is actually a rail connection between the two stations (going up to the north from just before Heuston). They could have a quick service between the two. A bit like the dart in the east.

Dublin would be so much better off with a real metro. The bus service is terrible, the Luas only has two lines and focuses a lot on the suburbs.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-15 03:53:09+00:00
News narratives are neither random, nor specific, they are arbitrary. There is nothing really accurate about any narrative. The idea we rely on the news for things other than immediate survival is somewhat bizarre. In effect, AI's role is make narratives even more arbitrary and force us to develop a format that replaces them, and by nature, is unable to be automated at the same time.

We should welcome AI into the system in order to destroy it and then recognize AI is purely for entertainment purposes.

“Flawed stories of the past shape our views of the world and our expectations for the future. Narrative fallacies arise inevitably from our continuous attempt to make sense of the world. The explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple; are concrete rather than abstract; assign a larger role to talent, stupidity, and intentions than to luck; and focus on a few striking events that happened rather than on the countless events that failed to happen. Any recent salient event is a candidate to become the kernel of a causal narrative.” Daniel Kahnemann Thinking Fast and Slow

“The same science that reveals why we view the world through the lens of narrative also shows that the lens not only distorts what we see but is the source of illusions we can neither shake nor even correct for…all narratives are wrong, uncovering what bedevils all narrative is crucial for the future of humanity.” Alex Rosenberg How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories 2018
by instagraham | 2025-09-15 03:53:31+00:00
Why is it that we read about so many inventions like this - once - and then never hear of them again?

Most countries have to import plastic along with their oil. Surely the economics of this gets worse every time oil or shipping prices rise. And more so if you account the cost of waste disposal.

There are economic incentives to scaling up these biodegradable alternatives. Are they not big enough to result in a push?
by alexey-salmin | 2025-09-15 03:53:39+00:00
Ok, so you refuse to answer even the most straightforward question. I guess you can reflect in your free time why it feels like people are attacking straw men while talking to you.

In this case this happened because after many messages I'm still completely lost as to what is your point exactly, and you refuse to answer simple questions to clarify it. All I know is you're angry and apparently disagreeing something I said.

Good day then.
by xp84 | 2025-09-15 03:53:45+00:00
This is why to me it’s so damn disappointing to me that vaping is targeted so forcefully by the various scolds in the “regulate everything” camp when smoking isn’t yet eradicated. Things like banning flavor and stuff. They want it to be as unpleasant as tobacco, which reduces the likelihood of people switching from tobacco to vaping, killing many of those smokers as a way to “save” teens from taking up an overall not-very-dangerous habit.
by scheeseman486 | 2025-09-15 03:54:02+00:00
Strcat gets harassed based on frivolties, manufactured outrage. There have been repeated accusations of mental health issues without any substantive evidence, including from the person I was just replying to. The evidence they do give is usually of the developer expressing frustration at dealing with those accusations, which is ironic given that those accusations are self evidently true given that the people making those posts are usually accusing them!

All I see in Rossman's video is someone frustrated by a influential person giving a platform to an organisation that, to be frank, has shown themselves to be considerably less trustworthy than GrapheneOS. I believe strcat has been the target of harassment, I believe them because I've seen it happen and given the sensitive nature of GrapheneOS I also think it's not terribly unlikely there was an organized disinfo effort.

That I've seen "This is informative and unfortunate." come up over and over again as if it were some mantra, I guess is sorta telling. People aren't thinking for themselves, they're just uncritically absorbing the opinions of the charming people they're watching on youtube.
by excalibur | 2025-09-15 03:58:08+00:00
Not strictly related, but the one that really grinds my gears is Hamburger Helper. They discontinued their "Twin Pack" that made a double batch with 2 lb of hamburger, and replaced it with "Value Size 60% more!" So now we're all supposed to buy 1.6 lb of hamburger so we can use your crappy inconvenient product? How about no.
by MKuykendall | 2025-09-15 03:58:19+00:00
ou were absolutely right about WebRTC complexity! Since that feedback, we've refocused CrabCamera on its core mission - desktop camera access for Tauri apps. Changes made based on your feedback: Removed WebRTC from core scope Focused on clean camera capture API Left streaming protocols to dedicated libraries Current CrabCamera v0.3.0: 45/45 tests passing Production-ready in Budsy plant identification app Clean separation of concerns Thanks for steering us toward better architecture!
by xp84 | 2025-09-15 03:58:48+00:00
Theoretically a high enough deposit could probably “fix the problem.” Like, if the empty was worth a $25 deposit most people would 100% take them back to the store. It would be annoying for people to have the high deposit, but it’s really a one-time expense.

On the other hand at least in the US, a deposit of a buck or two wouldn’t do much. California has that for cans and bottles, yet only maybe 10% of people turn them in. Most end up in curbside recycling (which doesn’t refund) or the garbage, indicating people don’t care about getting their nickel or dime back.
by MKuykendall | 2025-09-15 03:58:53+00:00
Good point about explaining Tauri better! For context: Tauri = Rust + Web frontend (like Electron but smaller/faster) Problem: Desktop apps need camera access, but web APIs are limited CrabCamera: Provides native camera control for Tauri desktop apps Real example: Our Budsy plant identification app uses CrabCamera to capture photos for botanical analysis - something web camera APIs can't do effectively. Thanks for the feedback on clarity!
by perching_aix | 2025-09-15 03:59:00+00:00
An informed opinion is still an opinion. Voting itself is an expression of opinion, which they participated in - if it merely followed logically, it wouldn't have needed to be voted upon. Mind you, the "experience and rational discourse" is not presented, not in the policy, not in the excerpts and link you just provided.

In order to "refute" their entire position, if we accept that to even make sense (I do not), I'd need to either prove them wrong about what their opinions are (nonsense), or show evidence they were actually holding a different opinion that ran contrary to what they shared (impossible, their actual opinion is known only to them, if that). There's very little "logical payload" to their published policy, if any. It's a series of opinions, and then a conclusion. Hence my example with the person not liking a given TV show, but stating their distaste as a fact of the world.

> I doubt it, but if you have evidence refuting possibility #3, please share so we may all learn.

Why am I being rhetorically coerced into engaging with something from a false set of options of your imagination, exactly?
by burch45 | 2025-09-15 03:59:14+00:00
The main issue with a premix is like the article. It’s fit for a single purpose. I only make pancakes from scratch, admittedly I use baking powder and regular whole milk instead of buttermilk and baking soda. But the benefit is those staple ingredients can be used for all sorts of other recipes. I’m not going to bread chicken with Krusteaz. A premix can’t be adjusted either such as for altitude. Premixes and single use kitchen gadgets are areas where corporations really seem to have done a good job marketing that their products are more convenient than the readily available alternatives.
by MKuykendall | 2025-09-15 03:59:34+00:00
Great alternatives list! Each serves different use cases: QtMultimedia: Excellent for C++/Qt developers, but requires Qt framework react-native-vision-camera: Perfect for mobile, but CrabCamera targets desktop OpenCV: Great for computer vision, but heavy for simple camera access CrabCamera's niche: Rust developers building Tauri desktop apps who want: Zero Qt dependencies Native Rust integration Minimal bundle size Cross-platform camera control Different tools for different ecosystems! Currently powering our Budsy plant identification app.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-15 03:59:34+00:00
Russia freed Griner because they got Viktor Bout in exchange. He's a polyglot international arms dealers with connections to weapons and smuggling around the world, who was known not only as the "Merchant of Death" but also as "Sanctions Buster". And as mentioned he is now literally serving as a Russian politician. Them giving away some drug addled ball player in exchange, undoubtedly had them laughing their assess off in private. And I don't mean that hyperbolically, it's difficult to imagine a more ridiculous exchange.

Had Biden tried, he could have gotten vastly more for Bout. In terms of thinking about US interests, and not his election campaign, he probably should not have even been releasing Bout anyhow - since that guy is very much the real deal. Thanks for the correction on the timeline! I was probably conflating the story of Whelan with that of Marc Fogel. Though it's funny reading the details of the Ankara exchange exchange as well:

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Freed as part of a prisoner swap between Russia and the West, the opposition figures, Andrei Pivovarov, Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya Yashin, had mixed feelings about the deal.[63] Kara-Murza stated that article 61 of the Constitution of Russia forbids to deport citizens if they do not approve. None of them did so or was even asked to do so. Yashin added that he is Russian, a Russian politician, and sees himself as a patriot, whose place is in Russia.[63]

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Russia gets to deport activists who don't want to be deported, and that they couldn't otherwise constitutionally deport, and gets back, amongst others, a global FSB assassin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Ankara_prisoner_exchange#...