MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drcode | 2025-10-03 19:18:08+00:00
It can't be true because it sounds like science fiction to you?

Everything about every part of AI in 2025 sounds exactly like science fiction in every way. We are essentially living in the exact world described in science fiction books this very moment, even though I wish we didn't.

Have you ever used an ai chatbot? How is that not exactly like something you'd find in science fiction?
by AlexandrB | 2025-10-03 19:18:27+00:00
Platforms like Signal don't really allow one to spread something "in public" since it's mostly 1-on-1 or small group chat. I know similar products like Telegram do have wider-range features though. Moreover, the concept of "hate speech" is fuzzy in a way that's easy to abuse.

At the end of the day, if someone makes a racist joke with their friend in a one-on-one chat app I would say that's neither hate speech, nor the public distribution of said speech, but I don't think Chat Control makes this distinction.
by reissbaker | 2025-10-03 19:19:16+00:00
I think what's happening here is:

1. The Army gave a reasonable analysis of the security issues with the prototype.

2. This is normal.

3. But most people don't have experience in this field.

4. A reporter got access to the report, and published the most salacious-sounding parts — and if you don't know that this is normal, it sounds really bad.

5. Oh no, the sky is falling. Click here to watch our ads, oops I mean, to read all about it.

Generally my read on tech-adjacent reporters is they have very little understanding of what they're reporting on, and mostly try to manufacture outrage to get clicks.
by sedatk | 2025-10-03 19:19:18+00:00
Email was once the user interface for all remote services. Bitnet had nodes that responded to commands and performed operations that sent the results in email. For instance, you could send an email to "TRICKLE@TREARN" on Bitnet with a subject line: "GET ftp.funet.fi /pub/something" and the Trickle service at TREARN node would download the file over Internet, split it in chunks and would send it to you over Bitnet, so you'd effectively have FTP capability on Bitnet just with email.

I had written a user database called "Hitbase" (a very primitive Facebook) on a Fidonet network that responded to Netmail messages to a given node and sent the responses to the requesting address. That was in the 90's before Internet was accessible from homes.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-03 19:19:22+00:00
You're missing that they're pricing the value of models progressing them towards AGI, and their own use of that model for research and development. You can argue the first one, and the second is probably not fully spun up yet (though you can see it's building steam fast), but it's not total fantasy economics, it's just highly optimistic because investors aren't going to buy the story from people who're hedging.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-03 19:19:36+00:00
I've done this. The goal is to first demonstrate and reward them, so they associate good feelings with the whole thing. Step two is to kind of put the toy in their mouth, drag them over to where you wanna place it, then make them release it, and if everything worked, you reward them. Do this a couple of times, associate with some command like "clean up" and after a while they'll understand that if they do that they get an reward. After a while the reward can be switched from candies to head-pats, cuddles or whatever, and they should still be able to do it.

You can apply this to pretty much anything and if they're somewhat clever they can do it. Age doesn't seem to matter either, I've done this with 10 year old dogs too.
by oblio | 2025-10-03 19:20:22+00:00
If you've been around, imgur, basically. All the image hosting solutions before it (imageshack) and all the file hosting solutions before them. Yahoo.

"Crashing" in this context doesn't mean something goes completely away, just that its userbase dwindles to 1-5-10% of what it once was and it's no longer part of the zeitgeist (again, Yahoo).
by antisthenes | 2025-10-03 19:20:29+00:00
Lots of nice guesses that don't make a lot of sense after a more careful analysis.

> - photography and modern printing, making it vastly easier to distribute high-quality copies of reference images to craftsmen

Likely less than 0.1% of actual work to be done

> - thermostats, allowing optimal heat/humidity for amber work at any time of year

If this wasn't necessary during the original construction, why would it speed up reconstruction?

> - electric-driven tools (drills, saws, polishing equipment, etc.)

Given how fine the details are, it's unlikely that anything but manual labor and hand tools were used.

> - better and faster-drying adhesives and paint

One of the features of the room is that it's made from materials that don't require paint, e.g. it is natural amber and gold plating (or solid gold?). Not sure about adhesives, you may have a point there.

> - personal protective equipment (e.g. masks and goggles), allowing craftsmen to work longer continuous hours without risking their health

There's nothing much hazardous about gold or amber.

> - better and vastly more ergonomic optical equipment (jeweler loupes, microscopes, etc.)

The details are fine, but not that fine. We're not making the smallest wrist-watch in the world here. This is evident from wiki pictures.
by reducesuffering | 2025-10-03 19:20:36+00:00
Keynesian Bernanke on famed Austrian Milton Friedman:

"Among economic scholars, Friedman has no peer. His seminal contributions to economics are legion, including his development of the permanent-income theory of consumer spending, his paradigm-shifting research in monetary economics, and his stimulating and original essays on economic history and methodology."

https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2002/20021...
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-03 19:20:51+00:00
The illegal annexation and Sinicization of Tibet and Xinjiang are much larger issues in terms of magnitude, than other conflicts like Gaza or Ukraine. And yet it receives far less attention. Why is that? Is it economic dependency?

For reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinicization_of_Tibet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps
by dpark | 2025-10-03 19:21:00+00:00
> Oh, could I? Well, your entire face is bad." > If they respond with another insult

I seriously doubt they will. “Your entire face is bad” sounds like lashing out from a place of hurt. Typical response would probably be a confused or disgusted look followed by a change of topic.

There are not a lot of people who could pull this kind of response off without coming off extremely weird or like assholes. And none of the people who could pull this off successfully are asking for comeback advice on Hacker News.
by danans | 2025-10-03 19:21:00+00:00
> How does that play out for languages that use characters that are pictorial.

Chinese' pictorial writing completely obfuscates the historical state of the spoken language, to the extent that in order to reconstruct older phases of the spoken Chinese language, scholars have had to inspect old Chinese loan-words in foreign languages that do preserve the old phonetic structure.

An example of this is the discovery that Chinese tones developed from earlier final-consonants, which were lost in Mandarin, but are preserved in Cantonese, Japanese and Korean. i.e: Mandarin "guó" compared with the early borrowing into Japanese : "koku", both meaning "country".
by aerostable_slug | 2025-10-03 19:21:18+00:00
Combat-proven software that helps put warheads on foreheads in compressed timescales. I'm not talking about development projects or what could happen, I'm referring to applications that are being used right now.

There's a massive difference between something in a lab or in a paper presentation and code that is running in production and provably works. There are lots of individuals pushing up daisies that would attest to the effectiveness of Palantir's applications if they could still speak.
by eries | 2025-10-03 19:22:32+00:00
Thanks for the assumption of good faith. We had no intent to astroturf. Some of the students from cohort one were discussing the negativity of the HN thread on the course discord server. It seems that several took it upon themselves to come share their experience. From the comments whose names I recognize, I can assure that these are all real people who have first-hand knowledge of what they're posting about.
by christkv | 2025-10-03 19:22:35+00:00
If it turns out to be a complete waste of time and money there will be a bunch of companies that will go belly up and some that will just see less revenue but still go on.

I don't believe this to be the case.

Worst case it's mostly a bolt-on for most companies not a "core" money maker. It will be mostly be the hardware vendors like Nvidia and the AI as platform that will get hit.
by simonw | 2025-10-03 19:22:42+00:00
Litestream's first release was February 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26103776

SQLite's "buzz" isn't new, type "sqlite" into my https://tools.simonwillison.net/hacker-news-histogram tool and you'll see interest (on HN at least) has been pretty stable since 2021.
by doublerabbit | 2025-10-03 19:23:10+00:00
Start-Ups and Internal positions.

Not old enough for the dotCom (36) but my educated guess is that because the internet was new and exciting, companies were prepared to train and take risks.

Training for AI now requires specialist skills which can be syphoned from within an existing organisation or from those with existing skill sets.

Unlike the latter where anyone can pick up a programming language. Not everyone can do quantum algebra mechanics or whatever AI/ML uses.

Plus the cost of running AI is expensive. SME's don't have the resources to hire those for new jobs; AI kit and training. So it's easier to hire from within then outside.

AI is a rich boys toy.
by senordevnyc | 2025-10-03 19:23:33+00:00
Ah, it’s the old “teleport the goalposts and then change the subject!” strategy.

Just like Waymo, LLMs are already wildly useful to me others, both technical and non-technical, and there’s no reason to think the progress is about to suddenly stop, so I don’t know what you’re even on about at this point.
by supportengineer | 2025-10-03 19:23:47+00:00
Their acceptance rate is in the 25% range. Clearly the demand is there, so why is there a "fiscal situation"?

In the mid 90's I went to a university that had cafeteria-style food, and dorms with no air conditioning. You don't need Waygu beef and massages in order to teach students. There shouldn't be any "fiscal situation" in higher education.

What is a university anyway? It's some buildings and classrooms with professors and students. It should be SUPER CHEAP to run a university.
by wrmsr | 2025-10-03 19:23:52+00:00
If anyone's interested I've implemented a fairly user friendly lazy import mechanism in the form of context managers (auto_proxy_import/init) at https://pypi.org/project/lazyimp/ that I use fairly heavily. Syntactically it's just wrapping otherwise unmodified import statements in a with block, so tools 'just work' and it can be easily disabled or told to import eagerly for debugging. It's powered primarily by swapping out the frame's f_builtins in a cext (as it needs more power than importlib hooks provide), but has a lame attempt at a threadsafe pure python version, and a super dumb global hook version.

I was skeptical and cautious with it at first but I've since moved large chunks of my codebase to it - it's caused surprisingly few problems (honestly none besides forgetting to handle some import-time registration in some modules) and the speed boost is addictive.
by whizzter | 2025-10-03 19:23:52+00:00
I'd say that most lines of business cuts as many or even more corners until they grow large or have other security interests, gamedevs are fairly prideful of their work in comparison to many other industries.

In this case however I'm gathering that this is an engine level issue, in general Unity hasn't been a huge target since most game-code is run under C# (even if people might resort to unsafe for some things) and has basic memory safety from the language. It's a bad oversight in this case though.
by film42 | 2025-10-03 19:23:59+00:00
I'm a fan because it's something you can explicitly turn on and off. For my Docker based app, I really want to verify the completeness of imports. Preferably, at build and test time. In fact, most of the time I will likely disable lazy loading outright. But, I would really appreciate a faster loading CLI tool.

However, there is a pattern in python to raise an error if, say, pandas doesn't have an excel library installed, which is fine. In the future, will maintainers opt to include a bunch of unused libraries since they won't negatively impact startup time? (Think pandas including 3-4 excel parsers by default, since it will only be loaded when called). It's a much better UX, but, now if you opt out of lazy loading, your code will take longer to load than without it.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-10-03 19:24:48+00:00
> At this point, we might be just fine. The academics won't be, but they were the ones telling everyone to wait on having kids in the first place. Demographic trickle down, biting the hand that feeds academia, is a big part of this story.

> At my college, birth control was as free as water. Teaching people to postpone marriage, children, for the sake of career, combined with record-high school debt... might be partly why academia finds themselves in this demographic decline. They told the next generation not to have kids, made it financially impossible to have kids, and lo and behold, there's less kids entering college now.

Hard to tell if this is just parody.

I will say that if feel that providing something equates to mandating it... I don't know how we're going to be able to have logical exchanges
by zackmorris | 2025-10-03 19:24:55+00:00
Well ya, when the richest and most powerful people/corporations/nations in the world actively work against established economic theory.

Trickle down economics, austerity, regressive tax policies, tariffs, appeasement, lax antitrust enforcement, slashing capital gains and inheritance tax, privatization of natural monopolies, quantitative easing instead of holding investment firms accountable, foreign aid for war instead of peace, defunding public universities to manufacture a student loan crisis, public sector layoffs, subsidizing extractive industries instead of renewables, sub-minimum wage in restaurants/farms/prisons, underpaying teachers and healthcare workers, rent seeking, payola, collusion, duopoly, usury, unpaid domestic labor, wage slavery..

And the inevitable aftermath of wishing the worst for others: stagflation, underemployment, civil unrest, eventually recession, depression and a raid on concentrated wealth if/when supply-side economics collapses because nobody has any money to buy anything anymore.

In spite of overwhelming evidence of public and private abuses, nobody cares what the experts think anymore. Because it's obvious to everyone that so much is wrong. People who try to help get blamed, people who participate in the grift get rewarded as things get worse.

Unfortunately as wealth inequality consumes us under self-colonization, all liberal arts degrees trend towards worthless. We're left with declining service work after passing peak wages and peak employment due to the rise of AI. Spending the rest of our lives fighting over scraps after the rug was already pulled out from under us due to the Dot Bomb, Housing Bubble, pandemic, private equity driving housing costs to the point of insanity and a trade war of choice.

Or we could like, follow economic theory and stuff. Do the opposite of everything I just mentioned. Can't have the Econ PhDs telling us that!
by hagbard_c | 2025-10-03 19:25:38+00:00
I've been running Xmonad for about 16 years and, having read the description and watched the video think I will keep on doing so. It looks to me like the cognitive load of the horizontally scrolling strip is higher than that of the paged approach used by e.g. Xmonad just like it is a lot harder to locate a specific section in a vertically scrolling unpaged ream of text than in a paged book. Especially on pages with many windows - 10 terminals on page 1 is more or less standard, 2 large ones stacked in the middle flanked by 4 smaller ones on each side - I keep track of which terminal goes where based on (among others) location. This works because all 10 of them are visible at the same time, it would not work if the display only shows one or two of them at a time. Am I missing something or is this WM/compositor more suitable to smaller displays which can not show all that many windows at the same time?

Of course I also use X11 so this thing would not work for me anyway.
by jtr22 | 2025-10-03 19:25:50+00:00
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by motoxpro | 2025-10-03 19:26:28+00:00
I think most users don't want their data to be used by anyone and everyone. I sure don't. If one user needs access to their own data, they can always export it and take it where they please.

For most people the dangers of openness (see Cambridge Analytica), the lack of upside and the lack of security in small players mean that walled gardens are the best solution for the majority of people.

This lawsuit is exactly why people trust walled gardens to keep their data walled off. Because I trusted LinkedIn, not ProAPI and whatever malicious actors they sell to.
by n4r9 | 2025-10-03 19:26:30+00:00
Why "evil"?

I'm pretty confident they're heavily (if not fully) relying on LLM-generated text. Maybe they're drafting it themselves first and getting an LLM to refine. I found some recent articles by the same author which gave me the same reaction:

https://medium.com/@kanishks772/computer-scientists-just-bro...

and:

https://medium.com/@kanishks772/why-your-next-gps-might-use-...

They seem to have a process for grabbing a research paper, getting an LLM to summarise it, adding AI-generated images and pseudo code, and publishing it. There are lots of parallels in describing fundamental breakthroughs overturning decades of conventional wisdom. And it has the same clipped bullet lists with sound bite phrases, and slideshow style headings. It's extremely reminiscent of what happens when I ask Claude to give me a summary of something.

As a general note, I do think it best to take any article written by AI with a pinch of salt. Much like you should closely review any code they write. It's not at the level of a human expert, but it's trained to convince you that it is one.
by mothballed | 2025-10-03 19:26:55+00:00
What on earth are you talking about? Hayek won a Nobel prize for works in economics but isn't a reputable economist?

Friedrich August von Hayek The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974 Born: 8 May 1899, Vienna, Austria Died: 23 March 1992, Freiburg, Germany Prize motivation: “for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena”

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1974/hay...
by vorpalhex | 2025-10-03 19:26:56+00:00
And YCombinator... is funded by a bunch of venture capitalists. Wealth funds.. are made up of wealthy investors. LLCs and Partnerships are just company structures and typically exist.. to invest the wealth of the proprietors when formed as an investment vehicle.

Government backed funds.. generally don't invest in businesses. There are exceptions - strategic investments for wartime materials and such.

Banks are also.. backed and run by wealthy individuals. This is less "big fish" focused because the bank itself is the owner of the assets and pays a salary to it's executives, but traditionally the person who ran and backed the bank WAS the local wealthy person.

When we look at governments where there aren't really private investors (ie the wealthy) those governments just can't fund things quickly or effectively.

Capitalism is an engine. Liquidity is momentum. Having liquidity leads to more liquidity and wealth, liquidity allows you to get other operations running.

There is no magical government bucket of money. No magical government investors.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-10-03 19:27:26+00:00
Also true of non-tech-adjacent reporters!

The impulse may be stronger in some and weaker in others, and the incentive structure at their outlet may be stronger or weaker, but all of them know, even subconsciously, what type of stories are likelier to capture attention, make $ for the outlet and hopefully return a portion of that to them. Outrage is high the list of qualities that guarantee attention.

Since learning about social media algorithms, I've come to think of all news media, even old timey newspapers, in the same light. IMO The only difference between TikTok's For You page and newspaper headlines from 200 years ago was the precision of the engagement feedback and the latency.
by hluska | 2025-10-03 19:27:48+00:00
The concept of ‘moat’ comes out of marketing - it was a concept in marketing for decades before Warren Buffett coined the term economic moat. Brand moat had been part of marketing for years and is a fully recognized and researched concept. It’s even been researched with fMRIs.

You may not see it, but OpenAI’s brand has value. To a large portion of the less technical world, ChatGPT is AI.
by gmueckl | 2025-10-03 19:27:50+00:00
Early versions of Fortran also had a fixed column layout, although the columns were different. The only commonality thst I can find right now is ignoring columns 73 to 80 to make space for card sequence numbers.

I never wrote a program on punch cards, but I'd definitely drop card stacks accidentally or get them into a jumble somehow. Having numbered cards and a card sorting machine (radix sort in hardware!) would be extremely helpful then.
by marstall | 2025-10-03 19:28:07+00:00
i've hung on for 35 years in this profession by reskilling every 5 years or so. but going through the gauntlet of learning the AI theory/tech sufficiently to be able to contribute meaningfully, and then compete for one of these tiny number of jobs seems unwise particularly at my age.

Fortunately I'm employed but I have limited ideas on how to gain an edge for the next jobsearch, whenever that is.
by duxup | 2025-10-03 19:29:03+00:00
A local school system near me was facing some financial issues a number of years ago.

The superintendent noted that there were dozens and dozens of individual social programs that the school system managed. Many extending well beyond education and even testing the bounds of what might be called social work.

While they all (on the surface) operated on the idea that if students got these services they would be more effective in school ... it wasn't clear for most of them if that was even the case / being measured.

The superintendent noted that the only thing they could be sure of was that if they touched anyone of them, they were sure to be someone's baby and they'd face a backlash.

Personally, I'd like to see a more "fail fast" type system for a lot of social programs. Run it, see what happens ... then make the call if it goes any further. But that would mean people would have to start up programs fast, and shut them down fast. Both are not easy.