MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-08 18:03:25+00:00
That's where you're wrong. Corporations were forced to pick a side in a culture war they wanted nothing to do with. Now they are reverting to their normal position. Dei brings no economic benefit for a company so they dumped it. Nor does criticising the president.

Capitalism should be recognised for what it is: an amoral engine for economic growth, and the best one at that. Companies have no business preaching to the public the opinions of whichever political party is in charge.
by goku12 | 2025-09-08 18:03:28+00:00
Adding another resource I use frequently: https://cheats.rs/

One part that I love especially about it is that it represents lifetimes [1] and memory layout [2] of data structures in graphical format. They're as invaluable as API references. I would love to see it included in other documentation as well.

[1] https://cheats.rs/#memory-lifetimes

[2] https://cheats.rs/#memory-layout
by zamadatix | 2025-09-08 18:03:32+00:00
The $1.99/m is not for the up front work of fixing what sucks about current backups though, it's just bundling those fixes in with YACSS (Yet Another Cloud Storage Subscription) is the only way to get people to pay their "reasonable" recurring fee.

People here seem to want to answer the question of how to copy data most directly, but only because that's how the problem was phrased. I'm not convinced "users had no way to sync data on their phone" was/is a real problem worth paying for YACSS for in the first place.
by root_axis | 2025-09-08 18:03:36+00:00
It's true that local LLMs are only going to get better, but it's not clear they will become generally practical for the foreseeable future. There have been huge improvements to the reasoning and coding capabilities of local models, but most of that comes from refinements to training data and training techniques (e.g. RLHF, DPO, CoT etc), while the most important factor by far remains the capability to reduce hallucinations to comfortable margins using the raw statistical power you get with massive full-precision parameter counts. The hardware gap between today's SOTA models and what's available to the consumer are so massive that it'll likely be at least a decade before they become practical.
by narrator | 2025-09-08 18:03:43+00:00
I have tried a lot of different LLMs and Gemma3:27b on a 48gb+ Macbook is probably the best for analyzing diaries and personal stuff you don't want to share with the cloud. The China models are comically bad with life advice. For example, I asked Deepseek to read my diaries and talk to me about my life goals and it told me in a very Confucian manner what the proper relationships in my life were for my stage of life and station in society. Gemma is much more western.
by junga | 2025-09-08 18:03:44+00:00
> Their initial Sound Blasters made them my default choice in the 90’s, but by late 00’s I vowed to never buy them again, their hardware became overpriced, unreliable and they were user hostile.

If I remember correctly it was a SB Live's drivers that kept on crashing playing Quake 3 on my dual Celeron 533 MHz setup (Abit BP6). Had some mails going back and forth with the Creative support about this specific multi CPU setup and they rejected fixing their drivers because it totally was a niche back then. 18 year old me swore to never buy Creative again and I did so. Today I agree with the support's response but it quite upset me back then.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-08 18:03:48+00:00
> Well... ideas are actually encoded (to some degree) in the words in the training data. So when they synthesize new text, they are, to a degree, synthesizing new ideas.

I don't think that follows: Manipulating a (lossy, imperfect) encoding [0] isn't the same as manipulating the thing it was intended to evoke.

If it is true, then... Well, it's not true in the same way anybody is excited about, because it means "synthesizing new ideas" is something we've been able to do for many decades and which you can easily script up right now at home [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encoding_(semiotics)

[1] https://benhoyt.com/writings/markov-chain/
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-08 18:03:51+00:00
Yeah consumer CPUs have been 64-bit since what, the PowerPC G5 (2003), Athlon 64 (2003), and Core 2 (2006)? There were a few 32-bit x86 CPUs that were released afterward, but they were things like Atoms which were quite weak even for the time and would be practically useless on the modern internet.

More generally I feel that Core 2 serves as a pretty good line in the sand across the board. It’s not too hard to make machines of that vintage useful, but becomes progressively challenging with anything older.
by greysonp | 2025-09-08 18:03:56+00:00
Hi there, Signal dev here. You can sort of do this! You can restore on your new device, and while you will be unregistered on your old device, all of the data is still there. So if you see that something is amiss on the new device, you could re-register on your old device and you'd be right back where you started. This is actually one of the ways we test the feature with our own personal data.
by stopachka | 2025-09-08 18:04:00+00:00
> lockdown mode

That's interesting. I didn't know about lockdown mode. Noting!

> I've installed hosted-profiles (.mobileconfig) files without factory-reset, curious why didn't you go for that route?

Afaik the only way to disable the App Store is to go through this schlep of a factory reset and having Configurator prepare the phone for 'supervision'.
by RainyDayTmrw | 2025-09-08 18:04:06+00:00
I evaluated Buildkite at a previous job, and I came to these conclusions.

1. Buildkite is probably the best commercial, off-the-shelf CI system right now, in terms of providing all the correct building blocks at the correct level of abstraction. 2. The impact of your CI system itself being good or bad is tiny in comparison to everything else in your end-to-end CI workflow. Far more important are your own CI scripts and what they run. A distant second is the observability tooling around your CI. 3. It's hard to justify the per-seat pricing of Buildkite, as a separate line item, when whatever CI offering your source control host bundles in will suffice.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-09-08 18:04:11+00:00
Statistics.

A lot of this is marketing bullshit. AFAIK, even "machine learning" was a term made up by AI researchers when the AI winter hit who wanted to keep getting a piece of that sweet grant money.

And "neural network" is just a straight up rubbish name. All it does is obscure what's actually happening and leads the proles to think it has something to do with neurons.
by nativeit | 2025-09-08 18:04:31+00:00
My understanding is that IQ tests can measure a type of intelligence, but fixation on its narrow metrics can lead one to overlook other attributes that are just as likely to be relevant, but aren’t something that necessarily shows up in standardized tests. Add to that the fact that IQ tests can be heavily biased, and leave a lot of ambiguity for the proctors to interpret, it’s not a surprise that they’re so controversial.

I personally would be very suspicious if asked to sit for an IQ test as part of a job evaluation. I have worked for places that blindly worship context-free performance metrics, and it was insufferable.
by koonsolo | 2025-09-08 18:05:06+00:00
You were talking about "people in the West". Belgians are people in the west, and we don't comply to your statements.

Secondly, I don't believe a word you say about Germany. Source please.

Don't generalize what happened once in Canada to the whole "Western world" and all kinds of de-.... And as far as I remember, those truckers were protesting. So they certainly didn't comply to your description of being indoctrinated to trust their government.
by whatever1 | 2025-09-08 18:05:09+00:00
The most useful feature in math programming is the optimality bound estimate it offers.

It is very important to know that every single time your solution is at worst 1% away from the proven optimal one. If it is not, you get a signal and you can invoke mitigations.

This is when pure heuristics fail. They may work 99% of the time giving you near optimal solutions, but that 1% they will fail you and even worse, you will have no idea that they failed you.

Approximation algorithms also offer some bounds, but typically they are very loose, to the point that they are not useful to the bean counters. Nobody is running their fleet using (exclusively) the Christofides algorithm.
by grzracz | 2025-09-08 18:05:18+00:00
I really dislike the title and the article. You are basically stating that AI is not a bubble, but everything around AI is a bubble, which people obviously mean when they say AI is a bubble. Same was the case with dot com crash, where people didn't LITERALLY mean .com domains would crash, but everything around the domains (& Internet) would crash. Does not help that the author is overinvested into the AI space.
by btilly | 2025-09-08 18:05:25+00:00
> It is frustrating how these things are always discussed.

I did not discuss things in the way that you say you are frustrated with.

If I had, then I wouldn't have said that your duty to the company will sometimes meet a higher duty. Or that you have the option of leaving the company if you do not agree with what it is doing. Or that I've actually done so.

Try giving it a closer read. In the end I'm defending capitalism as a lesser evil. And not saying that it justifies doing bad things.
by anbotero | 2025-09-08 18:06:03+00:00
Those that complain:

I've worked with several Development Leads to actually define these. After the initial adjustment period, everybody's local environment setup properly: No one ever spent time reviewing style and formatting on Pull Requests.

Just decide as a team, auto-apply if possible (less than 5 seconds for big changes), enforce, and be done with it. Stop wasting everybody's time because after weeks you cannot make your mind on it and also don't tell your team/Lead about it.
by bjacobel | 2025-09-08 18:06:34+00:00
1. Those are revenue statistics. I am asking for you to provide data to support the claim “users are finding utility from the Metaverse”, not the claim “Meta is generating revenue from the Quest Marketplace.” Those are different claims.

2. Is it your assertion that all content offered on the Quest Marketplace is “the Metaverse?” Is the top paid application “Beat Saber” a Metaverse app?

3. The source of your statistics is Meta, a company famous for repeatedly falsifying platform usage metrics [1].

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/08/21/meta-accused-of-i...
by boogieknite | 2025-09-08 18:06:39+00:00
im considering the possibility that the performance reviewer is harder on the overqualified candidate for any subjective assessment because expectations are greater or the goal of the lukewarm assessment is to motivate or challenge more capable candidates. an underqualified candidate only has to keep up to pass subjective assessment and the motivation is built-in

many people are immune to basic motivation tactics but im surprised how many of my peers i see influenced by reviews which seem mostly motivational, and occasionally political, to me
by danaris | 2025-09-08 18:06:40+00:00
They still are.

Artificial Intelligence is a whole subfield of Computer Science.

Code built of nothing but if/else statements controlling the behavior of game NPCs is AI.

A* search is AI.

NLP is AI.

ML is AI.

Computer vision models are AI.

LLMs are AI.

None of these are AGI, which is what does not yet exist.

One of the big problems underlying the current hype cycle is the overloading of this term, and the hype-men's refusal to clarify that what we have now is not the same type of thing as what Neo fights in the Matrix. (In some cases, because they have genuinely bought into the idea that it is the same thing, and in all cases because they believe they will benefit from other people believing it.)
by stopachka | 2025-09-08 18:06:42+00:00
> 2 extra hours of time he's not using his phone.

Mostly reading. The 2 hours was a win for me, but the thing I appreciated even more was the that I feel less distracted throughout the day.

I remember reading about Ozempic, and how it "turns off the background food noise" that people have. I didn't realize this, but for me I have a "background notifications noise", which this hack has helped reduce.
by adrian_b | 2025-09-08 18:06:46+00:00
That would be a great solution, except that such foods are usually much more expensive than an equivalent amount of omega-3 oil.

Moreover, due to the great human stupidity of dumping everything where "it becomes the problem of others", now it has become the problem of everybody that what were previously among the healthiest foods, i.e. most food items of marine origin, nowadays carry significant health risks, due to possible mercury content.
by giardini | 2025-09-08 18:07:29+00:00
Maybe do an "image" search with Google or DDG instead of searching for text, e.g.,

https://www.google.com/search?q=AI+CLI+TOOL+LOGO+NEWT+SALAMA...

or

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=AI%2BCLI%2BTOOL%2BLOGO%2BNE...

or, as busymom0 suggested below, use the Hacker News search at the bottom of each HN page.
by mindcrime | 2025-09-08 18:08:12+00:00
> People constantly assert that LLMs don't think in some magic way that humans do think,

It doesn't matter anyway. The marquee sign reads "Artificial Intelligence" not "Artificial Human Being". As long as AI displays intelligent behavior, it's "intelligent" in the relevant context. There's no basis for demanding that the mechanism be the same as what humans do.

And of course it should go without saying that Artificial Intelligence exists on a continuum (just like human intelligence as far as that goes) and that we're not "there yet" as far as reaching the extreme high end of the continuum.
by nonameiguess | 2025-09-08 18:09:11+00:00
Especially in the case of Meta when Zuck has set up share structure to give him majority control as long as he's alive and doesn't sell. He's about the only exec out there of a public company that doesn't have to answer to anyone else and can do the more ethical but less profitable thing. It's not like Meta at half its current share value and Zuck with "only" $130 billion net worth instead of his current $260 billion doesn't leave a viable company and perfectly good lifestyle for him and his family and whatever else he cares about.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-09-08 18:09:48+00:00
Sure, but they were there long enough to train and instill culture into the others. And of course, since the acquisition in 2008 they've had access to the top new grads and experienced engineers. If you're coming out top of your class at an Ivy or similar you're going to choose Apple over Intel or AMD both because of rep and the fact that your offer salary is much better.

P.S. hearsay and speculation, not direct experience. I haven't worked at Apple and anybody who has is pretty closed lip. You have to read between the lines.

P.P.S. It's sort of a circular argument. I say Apple has the best team because they have the best chip && they have the best chip because they have the best team.

But having worked (briefly) in the field, I'm very confident that their success is much more likely due to having the best team rather than anything else.
by sugarpimpdorsey | 2025-09-08 18:10:19+00:00
> That said, it remains a perpetual struggle to get people to understand the difference between being connected to the legitimate operator of satan.example

That's because the browser implementers gave up on trying to solve the identity problem. It's too difficult they said, we'd rather push other things.

Google implemented certificate pinning in Chrome for themselves and a few friends, said fuck everyone else, and declared the problem solved. Who cares about everyone else when your own properties are protected and you control the browser?

Meanwhile the average user has no idea what a certificate does, whether it does or doesn't prove identity.

No wonder they removed the lock icon from the browser.
by lispisok | 2025-09-08 18:10:23+00:00
>Do people actually believe that if you just "add AI" to what they have, they'll instantly become millionaires?

Looking at recent YC batches, YC seems to believe so.

He says bubbles are false beliefs about reality that everybody figures out is false. The claim that "[AI] will displace tens or hundreds of millions of knowledge workers in the next 3-10 years" is that false belief inflating the bubble. Big tech and investors are dumping money into AI thinking at least a sizeable portion of the white collar workforce is going to be replaced with $2000-$4000/month subscriptions to AI agents (I am so sick of the term "agent") acting almost autonomously. We're hitting the wall with what's feasible with LLM scaling laws even if you're dumping countries GDP worth of money into making bigger and better models. Is spending $500 billion to $1 trillion dollars to get something that performs marginally better than the best LLM today worth it?
by rglover | 2025-09-08 18:10:35+00:00
> some may argue it’s worth bifurcating the internet into “digitized content” and “bad ideas by people full of sh*t.” but these days they overlap so much i wonder if that’s a distinction without a difference. and labels aside: do you typically feel better or worse after browsing the internet?

This is the key realization: "do I need to feel this bad right now?" Over the last say...5-10 years, the negativity has grown to a point where interacting with anyone via the internet has become a net negative ROI.

That's really sad because I remember the "before" internet. It was much better, far more supportive/encouraging, and the majority of the people were genuinely interested in the topic your circles focused on. That led to real relationships forming both on and off the internet and having some form of support system that actually gives a shit.

Now? It's a lot of antagonistic, empty, directionless noise. The only way to survive psychologically is to avoid it, more or less, and only engage on occasion.
by jimmygrapes | 2025-09-08 18:10:38+00:00
My interpretation based on experience is that the underqualified individuals will often be more prone to volunteering, participation in clubs and committees, and politicking. The overqualified individuals also do this, but will likely be required to do "the real job" more often, leaving a less qualified individual more free to do those things.

Community involvement is a significant factor on both enlisted and officer performance reports. Gotta fill that section in no matter what, and if your section is poor it drags your overall score down.

However, promotion testing is purely knowledge and skill based. A good test taker can overcome the weight of lower performance report scores.

Just my opinion, though.
by swed420 | 2025-09-08 18:10:40+00:00
> Capitalism, as opposed to what economic model?

Let's look at what's currently working, which is China's hybrid model of keeping hard checks and bounds on instances of capitalism coupled with a long term vision that benefits its society instead of its uber wealthy.

China's kicking our asses in energy production, and they leverage AI and tech in general in socially beneficial ways.

It turns out when you set meaningful goals and punish abusers, the goals can be achieved.

Instead in the US we have "but if we raise taxes, the rich will leave" types of nonsense while any reporting on China is through a heavily biased lens, brought to us by bought-and-paid-for capitalist media outlets:

https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1lvoi0x/theres_a...
by seneca | 2025-09-08 18:10:43+00:00
> I think is best described in defence (now WAR) spending

Yes, certainly. Security is actually the point "minimal state" (Nozick) crowd agree we need, which is why I pointed to them as opposed to the Von Mises hard liners. I see your point about the argument against this being harmful.

> I do agree that preppers are hardly the most destructive people out there, however their entirely individualistic attitudes do hold a parallel with those who think robbing the commons is ok.

Sure, I think I see the point you're making. I disagree with it partly, but it's a quibble and not really the point we're discussing, I think.

> I feel like part of the abstract of a more model citizen is accepting that sometimes society will do things that you don't necessarily agree with.

Yes, this is the heart of Social Contract theory. We agree we're going to give up some amount of control of our own lives and freedom in exchange for greater security and prosperity. Maybe that's a good lens to look at the original delineation we painted through. First-order opponents are violating that core Social Contract agreement by looting the commons. Second-order opponents adhere to the SC, but disagree with how we proceed within the agreement.
by stopachka | 2025-09-08 18:10:53+00:00
Author here: It's powered by Instant, the company I helped found.

The counter is pretty easy to set up.

Here's how it works on the blog:

1. You set up a schema:

https://github.com/stopachka/stopaio/blob/main/src/instant.s...

2. And then use `presence` to write an ActiveCounter:

https://github.com/stopachka/stopaio/blob/main/src/app/Activ...
by lillecarl | 2025-09-08 18:11:08+00:00
They might not need Google, but they can't get away from them anyways. Google has entrenched themselves everywhere.

You're arguing against your own interpretation of what I'm saying. People use the defaults, people use YouTube, people use Google, people use Gmail, people use Google Maps.

30% use adblockers which are manifestv2 style, they won't block anything companies want you to see. You can't block ads in apps.
by stopachka | 2025-09-08 18:11:50+00:00
Strangely enough, I found Claude and ChatGPT crucial to making all this work.

In the essay:

> Whenever I need some information, I can just ask my LLM, and it can give me a distraction free summary. It helps the long-tail of weird situations too: for example if someone asks me to take a look at a website, I can ask my LLM to scrape it and summarize the details for me. It’s pretty hard to get distracted this way.
by TheGuyWhoCodes | 2025-09-08 18:12:02+00:00
This is not what the court said, the court ruled 2 to 1, that the food/calorie intake should be monitored, not that it is below what was defined.

It says nothing against the change of menu for the prisoners accused of terrorism after the Oct 7 nor that it's not ok for it to be different from the criminal prisoners menu.

But that won't get the guardian views..
by tremon | 2025-09-08 18:12:37+00:00
You do realize that Android is Google software, right? But if you can name a few vendors that are actually shipping AOSP instead of Google's proprietary tree, I'll be sure to evaluate them.

Of all these generic OEMs you're thinking of, how many do not integrate with Google's Play Store? The only one I know of is Huawei, but that's just another unconstrained megacorp to avoid.