MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ehnto | 2025-09-10 04:44:30+00:00
I would say local LLMs are already good enough for this. It might be an issue that the GPU is already quite busy at the time it's needed for LLM inference, but not an insurmountable issue.

I wouldn't ever want a game to use it for the core story writing, because it's pretty important that it is consistent and unable to be derailed. But for less serious NPC interactions or like an RPG scenario it is such a great fit.

I also wouldn't want a single player game to rely on remote inference, because that will get turned off eventually and then your game doesn't work.
by lordhumphrey | 2025-09-10 04:45:14+00:00
The "spirit" of FOSS licences the various sorts of ideas that lead to the GNU project and the FSF in the 80s, and all that user-freedom-fighting heritage.

I think even critics of the GNU project and the FSF would have to admit that as historically accurate. I can only presume, then, that your comment is based on a lack of awareness of the history of FOSS licencing.

Perhaps a read of this would be a good start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-10 04:45:22+00:00
RTO mandates are about many things, but actual business value of being in the office to the business doing the mandate is low on the list. Among the things it is about:

(1) Executives with emotional attachment to certain leadership styles that are enabled by physical presence,

(2) Interest in the investor class for the commercial real estate market. The business impacted may not be invested in it, but the businesses’ shareholders in sufficient numbers probably are, and so are the influential constituents of the politicians they want favors from, in a time of increasingly naked political corruption and cronyism.

(3) Backdoor layoffs. RTO is unpopular with large swathes of the work force, and people will quit because of it. That’s good for a firm likely to be cutting positions anyway; there’s no need for severance, regardles of scale there’s no WARN Act notice requirement, and if you still have to cut more positions afterwards, it makes it less likely that those cuts will hit WARN Act thresholds. And while the people that quit may not be the ones it would be your first choice to cut, they are the ones that would be most likely to quit in the kind of less-employee-friendly and financially leaner (in real terms) times likely to exist for a while after cuts.
by phil21 | 2025-09-10 04:45:38+00:00
The only reason I became anything today is because my parents who were poor but cared very much were able to "opt out" of the shit-tier local public school that pandered to the kids who would rather not learn before it was too late for me.

Just a couple disruptive kids per class can ruin an entire generation of students for a grade level. And there were far more than just a couple. Not to mention kids who had no business being in those classes - when the class is half full of low-performers they drag the rest of the kids down with them as the environment completely changes.

The focus these public school districts have put on the low performing and low achievers at the expense of those there to learn is astounding and perhaps civilization-ending if it continues. More resources should be spent on those there to help themselves vs. trying to shovel ever-more resources at people that will never provide a return on that investment.

At this point the local district here spends magnitudes more on special education and catering to IEP students than they do any AP level classes or other high performer programs. In fact they continue to destroy any advanced track segmentation in the favor of equity, and the teachers union nearly killed public magnet schools off entirely recently. They will try again until they are successful.

It's an obviously bad strategy, and apparently results don't matter. Dragging everyone down is not a plan for success.

This is the single political hill I will die on. Removing the ability for poor but high functioning families to give their kids a chance to get out of their circumstances because it raises uncomfortable questions is downright evil.

Other western countries everyone loves to champion so much have this figured out. Student tracks are a good thing. Put high achievers on an advanced track earlier than later and get them out of the general population of students before it's too late for them.

And yes, it's obvious to anyone who's ever been to a decent number of different types of schools that the only thing that truly matters is the other students (read: parents) that go there. Anything else is a rounding error.

As bad as it was 30 years ago when I was going to school, it's infinitely worse now from watching nieces and nephews attending their local public schools. Until they were able to transfer out to magnets at least.
by daveidol | 2025-09-10 04:45:55+00:00
For what she’s charging you could easily afford an apartment somewhere that isn’t Palo Alto.

I get what you’re saying but I think you’re going too far in the other direction. Some people are okay with a “bohemian” lifestyle and want to live on the beach in Venice or Palo Alto or whatever and will use exploitative means to do so.
by bap | 2025-09-10 04:46:10+00:00
Because I'm.. not young.. all throughout my education we were 'awarded' 4 points for an A, 3 for B and so forth to calculate Grade Point Average (GPA.)

Due to this system I have always considered A > B > C, etc.

Some of my children lived under a different regime in elementary school, which common core and non-letter grading assessments. Target, Near Target and Below Target.

A = 1, B = 2 reminds me of cryptography for some reason. That's probably due to reading Neal Stephenson.
by togetheragainor | 2025-09-10 04:46:17+00:00
The cultural shift is secondary to the demographic shift. Young Americans have been squeezed at one end by mass immigration from countries with lower educational performance and literacy rates, higher crime rates, higher gang participation rates, etc., which accelerated to such an extreme that native English speakers are now a minority in our local school district. And they’re squeezed at the other end, forced to compete for college admissions, jobs, and housing against a hungry and ambitious global population vying for H-1Bs and student visas. We sold out the younger generation, our own children and grandchildren, and it wasn’t at all driven by political and corporate machinations. No, it was for some greater good, and if you dare question that you’re a fascist.
by gabriel666smith | 2025-09-10 04:46:51+00:00
Thanks! That's really helpful.

> What contradictions do you see? I don't see any.

I guess us seeing very different things is also what a settlement might be for :-).

But I think I was wrong.

I think others in the thread are debating the contradictions I saw. I tried typing them out when I made my earlier comment, but couldn't get them to fix to any kind of logic that made sense to me. They just seemed contradictory, at the time.

I think the same arguments have now been made much more clearly by others - specifically around whether a corporation downloading this work is the same as a human downloading it - and the responses have been very clear also.

The settlement figure was tied implicitly to Anthropic's valuation in the Ars article [0] where I think I originally posted my comment. Those comments were moved here, so I've linked below.

Specifically linking the settlement sum to the valuation of a corporation is what caught me in a loop - that valuation assumes that Anthropic will do certain things in the future. I was thinking too much, maybe, about things like:

"Would a teenager get the same treatment? What about a teenager with a private company? What about a teenager who seemed dumber than that teenager to the person deciding their company's valuation? What about a teenager who had not opened the files themselves, but had spun up a model from them? What about a teenager who had done both?"

Etc. I think I was getting fixated on the idea that the valuation assumes future performance, and downloading the files was possibly necessary for that performance, but I was missing the obvious answers to some of my questions because of that.

I do think that some of the more anthropomorphising language - "training data" is an example - trips people up a lot in the same way. And I think that if the settlement sum reflects anything to do with the valuation of that corporation, that does create some interesting questions, but maybe not contradictions.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/judge-anthropics...
by zdragnar | 2025-09-10 04:46:53+00:00
Skin color isn't it, actually.

I knew (second hand) a teacher in a rural area of a low population state. All white kids, she'd have kindergartners cussing her out. Very little hope for any academic future for the other grades as things didn't get better with the older kids.

I knew a white kid who lived in a trailer park whose mom was upset he was getting tutoring after school for his dyslexia because she told him he'd never amount to anything.

My mixed race friend mentioned he was accused of "acting white" in school because he actually tried to get good grades.

What do all of those things have in common? Poverty, yes, but blended with hopelessness. The kids were surrounded by people who didn't have much, didn't think they'd get anywhere, and didn't believe the kids would ever have a chance at a better life.

That last part is what separates them from kids in third world countries who still manage to achieve academic success. Hope and optimism aren't guarantees; they aren't a replacement for social support. They are, however, a necessary ingredient for the intrinsic motivation necessary for personal growth.
by mdaniel | 2025-09-10 04:47:57+00:00
No, it's much closer to an ArgoCD replacement, if Argo could run Terraform plan+apply loops, too

There's quite a bit of documents out on their public site[1], although the Mission Manager that represents the other half of the story has its docs gated by authentication

1: https://www.palantir.com/docs/apollo/core/release-channels/ et al, plus one can get a sense of how apollo-cli works from their OpenAPI spec https://github.com/palantir/apollo-openapi/blob/develop/open...
by Glyptodon | 2025-09-10 04:48:06+00:00
Your entire comment is basically an asinine way of talking around the fact that employers want people to go to work in places that they can't actually afford to live or must otherwise waste vast portions of their lives and pocketbooks commuting to work. Perhaps I'd be more sympathetic if employers were taxed on their employees' commute distance and time, or had to pay overtime rates for employees commutes, even for salaried workers, or something, but as it stands people don't "feel like they must live in Manhattan." Instead, they feel like they have to work for whatever company that's got good vibes, aligns with their career (because network effects are very real), and locates their office or coworking space in SF or Manhattan, and then don't want to spend all their salary on rent or commute 2 hours each way.
by godelski | 2025-09-10 04:48:15+00:00
> the legal fees are almost certainly being paid on contingency and not out of pocket.

The legal fees for this lawsuit. Not the legal feels for anyone who went and talked to a lawyer suspecting their material was illegitimately used.

You're treating the system as isolated when it is not.

> no opportunity cost or lost future income here because this is piracy not theft.

I think you are confused. Yes, it is piracy but not like the typical piracy most of us do. There's no loss in pirating a movie if you would never have paid to see the movie in the first place.

But there's future costs here as people will use LLMs to generate books, which is competition. The cost of generating such a book is much cheaper, allowing for a much cheaper product.

> They only lost the revenue from the sale of a single copy.

In your effort to simplify things you have only complicated them.
by kentm | 2025-09-10 04:48:19+00:00
> where one moment of inattention by one person

I'll get a lot of pushback for this, but the main problem are ecosystems that encourage using packages published by one person. I call these "some person with a github" packages, and I typically go through codebases to try to remove these dependencies specifically because of this threat vector.

Packages that are developed by a team with code multiple code reviewers and a process are still at risk, don't get me wrong. But the risk is much less if one person does not have the power to unilaterally merge a PR, and more-so if its backed by an organization that has multiple active devs and processes for reviews.

If you do need to depend on these one-person packages, I'd recommend forking and carefully merging in changes, or pinning versions and manually reviewing all commits before upgrading versions. Thats probably intractable for a lot of projects, but thats honestly something that we as developers need to fix by raising the bar for what dependencies we include.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-10 04:48:35+00:00
I prefer Vimeo, as a content publisher, but I don’t monetize, nor have I posted many vids. I’ve simply used the “pro” option, which I have recently let lapse.

I just feel that Vimeo’s video quality is better, and it gives more direct control of the content.

But I do so little video work, that it hasn’t been worth it to maintain the subscription.
by beeflet | 2025-09-10 04:49:06+00:00
I am subscribed to ~270 channels through newpipe and I get "failed to fetch subscription" like maybe once a month only to see the channel is dead (usually temporarily). If you are just using youtube's app directly you won't notice when they get delisted.

I just scrolled through my subscriptions and it's mostly music, comedy, gaming, entertainment, and science channels.

I always assume it is for DMCA or for saying curse words. Every once and a while it will be because they said something politically incorrect or used the wrong chemicals or showed a gun or something.

I think that pretty much anything except for porn and gore should be allowed. I am just scrolling and I think that this video is a good example of a vid that only lasts about a month on the site, even though it should be allowed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1B_EdVnKFg

It has "guns", it has "drugs", it has political figures, and it has minecraft so therefore it must qualify as a children's video. This channel is basically a magnet for getting wrongfully demonetized and banned by AI or some guy working in an indian call center. But 12 years ago this would be a normal video.

Another example I can think of is "youtube poops" which are unconventional mashups of copyrighted content. They constantly get taken down and need to be reuploaded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwgPraTb_64
by hdjrudni | 2025-09-10 04:49:12+00:00
I don't know how it is in Slack, but in other apps if someone already thumb'd something up you have the option of just clicking their thumb to +1 it or you can go into the emoji picker and pick your favorite shade of thumb. Sometimes you do just want to +1 so you just click whatever is already there and that's when this awkward dance begins.
by lttlrck | 2025-09-10 04:49:44+00:00
They are surprisingly durable. I have a tape I made in 1990, it's followed me across continents and been in cardboard boxes, basements and attics. It still plays flawlessly.

Not wanting to push my luck, I archived it. On Minidisc.

I have quite a large CD collection. Two albums from the same era are unplayable due to oxidization, same band Banco De Gaia, pressed at the same plant in the UK too.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-10 04:50:23+00:00
You should be able to run Cheat Engine on your emul*tor of choice to tweak New Leaf "and newer" titles.

And if you're a stickler for pissing Nintendo off in very specific ways, LayeredFS + Atmosphere opens up some modding opportunities right on the console itself. Not sure how easy it would be to pull something like this off though...
by pempem | 2025-09-10 04:51:48+00:00
Hi Jesus

According to a quick google and the census: || Approximately 3 in 4 Americans (or about 86%) live in a metropolitan statistical area (MSA), with the percentage of the U.S. population in these areas reaching an all-time high. As of 2024, nearly 294 million people—or about 86% of the total population—resided in a metro area, a trend that continues to grow.

If we think the wage differential will keep up in less populated areas, that is no longer occurring either. We do not live in a perfect capitalist system and many trades, activities and services are given benefits and protections for a variety of reasons.

There are other places - outside of the US - that have provided this tax credit. Its not shameful to learn from other countries and adopt things that are going well and are beneficial both to the freedom of people and the economy.
by hdjrudni | 2025-09-10 04:51:55+00:00
> any two emojis should be combinable

That's literally what emoji kitchen is.

> They should support the "color combining code" with a 3 byte sequence so you can specify ANY of the 16,777,216 color variations.

Why stop there... we have 10-bit color and beyond now. Give me display-p3 (https://webkit.org/blog/10042/wide-gamut-color-in-css-with-d...)
by physicles | 2025-09-10 04:54:19+00:00
Love seeing meaningful stdlib improvements.

I just ran our full suite of a few thousand unit tests with GOEXPERIMENT=jsonv2 and they all passed. (well, one test failed because an error message was changed, but that's on us)

I'm especially a fan of breaking out the syntactic part into into its own jsontext package. It makes a ton of sense, and I could see us implementing a couple parsers on top of that to get better performance where it really matters.

I wish they would take this chance to ditch omitempty in favor of just the newly-added omitzero (which is customizable with IsZero()), to which we'll be switching all our code over Real Soon Now. The two tags are so similar that it takes effort to decide between them.
by gxonatano | 2025-09-10 04:54:46+00:00
So let me get this straight: HTML was originally built to have markup and style both in the same containers, and it was clunky and hard to maintain, so CSS was invented, to abstract away the styles so that content and style could be separate. And that worked pretty well. And then someone came along and said: you know what would be great? Removing all the useful abstractions and going back to the HTML 1.0 way of putting it all in one container. And rewriting HTML in JavaScript to make it less maintainable. And so on. Am I getting this right? Correct me if I'm wrong.
by strcat | 2025-09-10 04:55:30+00:00
MTE is not about typed memory. It's for detecting invalid memory accesses outside of an object or outside of the lifetime of the object in general. hardened_malloc is the main place GrapheneOS implements MTE for userspace. In the kernel, it's implemented in various allocators and in Chromium in PartitionAlloc. The kernel and PartitionAlloc allocators have typed allocator designed unlike malloc. It's still possible to do partitioning for malloc via size classes and call locations.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-10 04:55:51+00:00
Fussell was such a fun read, and so useful in little (also fun) ways.

I distinctly remember seeing, several years ago, a photo of one of (I swear this is going to be basically apolitical) Trump's kids with their family, including one or more kids with toys, sitting in some kind of living-space with this perfectly spotless mirrored-on-all-sides table, and I was like "FUSSELL!!!!". Or all the gold in photos of that family in their home environments (a signal aimed squarely at Fussell's "Middle", which thinks "gold shit everywhere" is an "upper" signal, which it is not—unlike the mirrored table, which is Upper, because nobody who ever does their own cleaning would willingly deal with a fingerprint-magnet like that)
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-10 04:56:00+00:00
The simulator gives you a lot of screen resolution choices, but sometimes, you need to run on-device (like for Bluetooth).

I have an old original SE, that I used to use for low-end testing, but it tops out at iOS15.

Currently, my Mini13 is my low-end test, but I’ll probably need to get a new phone, sooner or later (“later” works for me).
by bri3d | 2025-09-10 04:56:14+00:00
> To anything interacting with the memory subsystem, there is one bus, and the tags flow with the data on it.

To the architecture, there is one access mechanism with the tag bit set and one separate mechanism with the tag bit unset, no?

I thought this was the whole difference: in MTE, there is a secret tag hidden in a “normal” pointer by the allocator, and in CHERI, there is a separate architectural route for tag=0 (normal memory) and tag=1 (capabilities memory), whether that separate route eventually goes to some partition of main memory, a separate store entirely, ECC bit stuffing, or whatever?
by nine_zeros | 2025-09-10 04:56:41+00:00
Well no shit. We had already seen this rodeo 4 years ago. At that time, low interest rates papered over the loss of manufacturing jobs. And tariffs were only imposed on China.

Today, the economy and unilateral tariff situation is so unstable that there is no way any business can make any investment in jobs.

Trump supporters were warned before the election but they chose to damage America - twice by now.
by famahar | 2025-09-10 04:57:39+00:00
Extremely interesting use case. LLMs as a modding tool to recontexualize virtual spaces. I can see this being a tool used for artistic intervention in the same vein as plunderludic tools like Unity Hawk which allows you to run emulator save states in Unity3D. https://plunderludics.github.io/tools/unityhawk.html
by margalabargala | 2025-09-10 04:59:13+00:00
I mean, if that's how we're going to talk to each other, I can engage on your level...

You are soooo right! There's no such thing as a network effect or a first mover advantage! If something exists and is self sustaining (my original point), therefore creating that thing is trivial and anyone can do it (your invaluble contribution)! Your logic is flawless. Have you considered going into freelance consulting? Someone with such good and original ideas should be charging money for them.
by winkeltripel | 2025-09-10 05:00:13+00:00
> demanding the government build you a house

You're the only one saying that. Be honest in your posts. Everyone else is saying that Palo alto doesn't permit nearly enough housing to be built. I can't build an ADU because my city won't permit structures within 7.5m of my rear property line. I have the skills and the cash and the need, but not the permission.

It's an economic drag, making housing scarce. All the businesses that need service workers have a much harder time operating in a housing desert like palo alto. More of them will close, and not be replaced. The surviving restaurants will be so busy and understaffed that it's less pleasant to visit than the better restaurants in Fresno. Same for all the other services, like a hotel, or a mechanic, grocery store, pharmacy, parcel delivery. It's also difficult for the b2b suppliers to survive. Suddenly your mechanic has to order parts from farther afield, and your car takes an extra day to fix.
by nananana9 | 2025-09-10 05:00:33+00:00
With native languages you'll almost always be using a compiler that can output debug symbols, and you can use the output of any compiler with (mostly) any debugger you want.

For JS in the browser, there's a often chain of transformations - TypeScript, Babel, template compilation, a bundler, a minifier - and each of these makes the browser debugger work worse -- and it's not that great to begin with, even on plain JS.

Add that to the fact that console.log actually prints objects in a structured form that you can click through and can call functions on them from the console, and you start to see why console.log() is the default choice.