MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jongjong | 2025-10-01 23:42:20+00:00
I also work in AI as a software engineer. I feel bad about what's happening but I'm just getting by and AI is ultimately a threat to my career too. My younger truck driver cousin is doing much better than me financially. He didn't go to university, didn't rack up university debt, didn't have to work nights and weekends for 15 years.

My main problem isn't AI though, it's the structure of the anti-competitive tech sector; which is itself driven by the structure of the monetary system in which it operates.

AI is just yet another tool, like crypto, and other distractions which may be used to further disenfranchise me and others. I don't feel bad about other people because I've been a victim myself and as a tech person, I also get the privilege of being labelled as part of the oppressor class, while being oppressed by them... While working one of the most competitive and mentally-taxing jobs in the history of humanity... Seeing the harms, understanding the problems, seeing the solutions but being so powerless that I'm literally forced to work for the oppressor.

I feel too much pain to feel any guilt. I can totally relate to the comment about 'nice colleagues' but I understand it's a very superficial concept, unfortunately. Our world is so dystopian, even kindness is turned into a weapon. Their kindness is partly what holds this incredibly violent system together as it strengthens bonds between the elites which protect the system. Kindness, kinship and filter bubbles combine to form a moat around a global monopoly on power, violence and opportunities; causing the most unjust, asymmetric treatment of humans in the history of mankind. Topped with layer upon layer of gaslighting which looks more and more disturbing and unbelievable as you move down the social hierarchy and lose your voice and power. We have a system where every person lives in a different reality and yet pretend to live in the same reality. People communicate with words but nobody shares the same understanding of the words; that's how bad the situation is.
by Gracana | 2025-10-01 23:42:23+00:00
I used Omron's K3GN panel meters in a project at work and I had to draw the alphabet in the configuration drawing because it is so unintuitive. It's not a whole lot worse than the one shown in the article, but still... it's pretty rough. I think I prefer numbered parameters like you typically see on VFDs. It's a lot easier to just scroll to P148 or whatever, enter to view/modify, scroll the value, enter to set. Menu trees on seven-segment interfaces are a mistake.

Page six shows the alphabet: https://www.myomron.com/downloads/1.Manuals/Panel%20Indicato...
by latexr | 2025-10-01 23:42:58+00:00
> If it were true, Google, Meta, and X wouldn't have paid out ~60 million so far.

They paid because they fear that not caving would be worse for them. Lawsuits aren’t cheap, and it’s a common tactic to sue someone to burden them with the costs of fighting it, thus getting them to shut up.

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

In this case, they also have to feat the possibility of legal repercussions in other ways, such as having business deals deliberately stalled or denied in retaliation, something the Trump administration has made very clear is something they are OK with doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_Jimmy_Kimmel_Liv...!

> based off a protest

You are oversimplifying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022–2023_Brazilian_coup_plot
by lmm | 2025-10-01 23:44:08+00:00
Discoverability is a big one. People really underestimate the value of having a menu, an actual fucking menu, listing all the functions you can use. Typing and getting autocomplete is a poor substitute, and you don't get even that in SQL, Python, or R by default - there are products that can provide that for you, but only after an expert has set them up.
by tptacek | 2025-10-01 23:44:10+00:00
There are typos in it, too. I don't think this kind of style critique is really on topic for HN.

Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by muppetman | 2025-10-01 23:44:49+00:00
I recently took an 890 GB takeout from Google photos and put it into Immuch. Holy crap it's amazing. I had to use a third-party importer which read all the Google photos metadata, but after about 2 hours of processing all my images were there. I've ended up with an exact perfect clone of my Google photos, including albums and metadata such as GPS location, comments etc. I was so surprised at how well it works, there's even an app for my Android phones and it syncs photos that I take now on my phone's camera. This is a really, really amazing piece of software.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-01 23:44:54+00:00
It really depends on how strictly you define "solved".

If for "solved", you want AI to be as accurate and reliable as simply retrieving the relevant data from an SQL database? Then hallucinations might never truly "get solved".

If for "solved", you want AI to be as accurate and reliable as a human? Doable at least in theory. The bar isn't high enough to remain out of reach forever.

To me, this looks like an issue of self-awareness - and I mean "self-awareness" in a very mechanical, no-nonsense way: "having usable information about itself and its own capabilities".

Humans don't have perfect awareness of their own knowledge, capabilities or competences. But LLMs have even less of each. They can recognize their own inability or uncertainty or lack of knowledge sometimes, but not always. Which seems like it would be very hard but not entirely impossible to rectify.
by justonceokay | 2025-10-01 23:45:32+00:00
It’s embarrassing. Back when Zillow was trying to be a real estate broker, they had a pipeline for salespeople to track the progress of flipped houses. I was brought in with oh maybe 50 other devs to code the more extensible replacement.

The existing workflow was all down in google sheets, and it scaled to at least 10 states. There were growing pains, sure, but it seems like a monumental waste to spend an hundred years of dev effort replacing an existing working system that cost the price of a Google enterprise installation.
by Tetraslam | 2025-10-01 23:46:12+00:00
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by jrowen | 2025-10-01 23:46:33+00:00
I think it's because it did kind of used to mean that. It described people that couldn't mask, couldn't totally function in society, couldn't have the kind of job depicted in the Autism Simulator. It's been expanded officially and colloquially which may not have been the right direction with the terminology. I think the DSM and the approach of trying to follow and fit in with more concretely diagnosable medical conditions may be considered harmful and too rigid.

For more mild and gray-area cases, it's really more akin to personality and it should be about understanding the particular combination of traits or symptoms of an individual. I wouldn't be officially diagnosed with OCD, or depression, or BPD, or maybe even ADD, but I can relate to all of those on some level and I feel like learning about them helps me understand myself better (with a grain of salt just like any health thing). It doesn't make me go around telling people I'm disabled and how they need to accommodate or support me, that's just narcissism.
by sebmellen | 2025-10-01 23:46:42+00:00
Those guidelines that you reference talk almost exclusively about annoyances on the webpage itself, not the content of the article.

I think it's fair to point out that many articles today are essentially a little bit of a human wrapper around a core of ChatGPT content.

Whether or not this was AI-generated, the tells of AI-written text are all throughout it. There are some people who have learned to write like the AI talks to them, which is really not much of an improvement over just using the AI as your word processor.
by yumraj | 2025-10-01 23:47:38+00:00
> Will it build scaled solutions, not this year.

That is not true IMHO.

If one is expecting Lovable to create a production app by just giving a few prompts, that obviously is not going to happen, not now and most probably for a long time.

However, if you use Claude Code or one of the proper IDEs, you can definitely guide it step by step and build production quality code, actually code that may even be better than most software engineers out there.

Moreover, these tools allow you to take your proficiency in software dev and specific languages/frameworks to other languages/frameworks without being an expert in them, and that I think is a huge win in itself.
by rdli | 2025-10-01 23:47:41+00:00
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by paulnasca | 2025-10-01 23:48:23+00:00
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by brucehoult | 2025-10-01 23:49:11+00:00
That has existed for the last four years in the `Zbb` extension which is implemented in the most common RISC-V Linux SoC (JH7110, 2023) and anything more recent implementing RVA22 e.g. the SpacemiT chips. Also the P550 ones such as EIC7700X.

The THead cores from 2019 (C906, C910) that precede the Zbb spec by a couple of years implement their own custom instruction.

The only reasonably common Linux core that doesn't have byte reverse is the 2018 U54, used in the HiFive Unleashed (~500 made) and the Microchip Polarfire Soc and PIC64GX ranges.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-01 23:49:28+00:00
I've setup on-prem environments that would automatically and transparently spill workload to the cloud when we ran out of on-prem capacity. The prerequisite is that your operations people need to have strong automation skills, there can't be any human button-pushers in the loop, but it really isn't that much work nor does it require unusual technical skill if you have a competent operations environment. Once everything is wired up, it mostly just works. Even the devs often don't know whether their workloads are running on-prem or in the cloud.

An under-rated aspect of this is that it provides detailed data for planning the expansion of the on-prem environment, including changes in how the hardware is being used.

My experience is that this is a good model. On-prem is about 1/3 the cost of the cloud, fully burdened, in my experience but being able to transparently spill to the cloud mitigates the capacity and supply chain risks that come with on-prem.

It is effectively a cheap insurance policy.
by janalsncm | 2025-10-01 23:49:36+00:00
The author gave two arguments, a weak one and a stronger one. You quoted the weaker one. The OpenAI paper contains the stronger one, basically explaining that models will guess at the next token rather than saying “idk” because its guess could be correct.

The strongest argument in my mind for why statistical models cannot avoid hallucinations is the fact that reality is inherently long-tail. There simply isn’t enough data or FLOPs to consume that data. If we focus on the limited domain of chess, LLMs cannot avoid hallucinating moves that do not exist, let alone give you the best move. And scaling up training data to all positions is simply computationally impossible.

And even if it were possible (but still expensive) it wouldn’t be practical at all. Your phone can run a better chess algorithm than the best LLM.

All of this is to say, going back to your Fermat’s last theorem point, that we may eventually figure out a faster and cheaper way, and decide we don’t care about tall stacks of transformers anymore.
by deevus | 2025-10-01 23:49:59+00:00
I don't have an official diagnosis, but I have markers for ADHD and Autism as suggested by a professional. It's quite expensive to pursue these as an adult, so I haven't done it yet.

That being said, I found several of these situations triggering. I am definitely a high masking ND, so I can deal with much more than what this game allows.

40 y/o. Often skips breakfast. Puts in AirPods on noise-cancellation mode with nothing playing. Wakes up at 2am with a song repeating in my head making it so I can't sleep.
by Silhouette | 2025-10-01 23:51:18+00:00
Unfortunately, MS knows it’s a captive audience and enterprises aren’t rushing to exit Microsoft anytime soon so they continue to get away with it.

That is the traditional spin but if they pull many stunts like this how long will it continue? Corporate IT teams are infamous for being slow and unwieldy but that's not entirely fair because the corporate IT teams are usually also the ones on the hook if anything goes wrong. Screw up some sort of data protection or regulatory compliance issue and that can have serious and lasting implications for the entire business. Move fast and break things is not what you want when x% of your global turnover is at stake if a regulator decides to make an example of you. Letting anyone else play with your toys is definitely not what you want in that scenario - why else do Windows Enterprise and Education editions not try to force the same hostile measures onto their customers as all the lower tiers?

This looks like a huge misstep to me - the kind of mess that could actually be big enough to move the needle. And for Microsoft the greatest danger is probably the needle moving enough for everyone to see it. Once no-one ever got fired for buying Microsoft except for that guy who just did it really could be the beginning of the end for them.

Microsoft also seems to have just abandoned one of the most powerful brands ever - Office - in a move that I can only assume was intended to show that Musk wasn't actually the craziest PR guy in the world when he renamed Twitter. There seems to be an outbreak of delusional thinking in Redmond and if this stuff doesn't get backtracked quickly I don't see a happy ending for MS here.
by trafficante | 2025-10-01 23:51:37+00:00
I wonder if Apple will be able to bridge the biggest gap between their hardware and Meta’s: the price gap

The new Ray Ban AR glasses retail at a Meta subsidized $800 - has Apple ever released subsidized hardware?

I remember when the Vision Pro’s BoM got leaked prior to announcement and people calculated out the pre-bulk discount cost at around $2500 (iirc). I saw crazy posts predicting it would get subsidized down to $2k, some saying they’d eat R&D and price it at hw cost, and a few realists claiming $2750-3000 was a more realistic target. It launched at $3500.

If history is any guide, it won’t matter if Apple Glass 1.0 is a generation and a half above whatever Meta is selling if they keep going with the 5x price differential.
by shaneziegler | 2025-10-01 23:51:38+00:00
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by cosmicgadget | 2025-10-01 23:52:09+00:00
Imho going back before Reagan isn't really relevant. In the modern era we have Reagan (8), Bush I (4 because he raised taxes), Clinton (8), Bush II (8), Obama (8), Trump (4 because he botched covid), Biden (4). Biden would probably have been re-elected were it not for the cognitive decline, so he didn't exactly do anything wrong enough to be a single-term president.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-01 23:53:39+00:00
If you're an alcoholic susceptible to advertisement, you can't buy food at the grocery store without subjecting yourself to alcohol ads. In some states you cannot drive on public roads without consuming alcohol advertisements. It's disgusting, the status-quo is set so low that this won't even register on the scummery leaderboards for many people.

It's way too late for us to start drawing the line now, as Americans. This is a road we paved with our own negligence.
by Retric | 2025-10-01 23:53:46+00:00
That chart is misleading in the other direction, it’s comparing energy released by burning fossil fuels not useful work preformed.

A solar powered EV goes a lot further per unit energy working with electricity than per unit energy of gasoline. Heat pumps are vastly efficient using electricity than even the most efficient natural gas furnace. It’s actually more efficient to use natural gas to make electricity to then use a heat pump than it is to run natural gas to people’s homes.
by brokenmachine | 2025-10-01 23:53:56+00:00
Sheets is the one thing I haven't found a good self-hosted alternative to.

I tried Nextcloud a couple of years ago but found it really buggy and slow. Even the basic notes editor on Android was absolutely terrible. Absolutely no comparison to what I'm using now, Obsidian with Syncthing.

Can anyone recommend a good sheets alternative other than Nextcloud?
by jancsika | 2025-10-01 23:54:19+00:00
> Sure, it may be my car, and I may have control of the radio, but I don't always act upon the need to adjust my environment.

But in the context of the beginning of a game, people without autism are probably confused. Why isn't the car's environment already tuned to the character's exact specifications?

I get some of the potential reasons why after playing the game for a bit. But I still would have liked to see a callback to this. E.g., if I drive to lunch with coworkers I could choose to mask by letting the passenger tune the radio. Then the next morning I get a painful sound when I turn on the car. Ah, I get it now! That seems like more satisfying gameplay-- maybe the game already does it and I died too early to see!
by oersted | 2025-10-01 23:54:21+00:00
No doubt, I am simply being pragmatic. I will keep hand-holding AI when needed, it is increasingly less needed, good. I am not a skeptic, I will keep using AI to the limits of its ability the whole way, but one quickly learns its limits when you try to do some professional work with it.

It’s still plenty useful of course, but it absolutely needs constant babysitting for now, which is fine. I like AI coding tools that acknowledge those limits and help you work around them, rather than just pretending its magic and hiding its workings from you as an autonomous background process. Maybe soon such need for control will become obsolete, awesome, I will be the first one onboard.

PS:

Chess AI is definitely superhuman now, but Stockfish is a small NN surrounded by tons of carefully human-engineered heuristics and rules. Training an LLM (or any end-to-end self-supervised model) to be superhuman at chess is still surprisingly hard. I did some serious R&D on it a while back. Maybe we’ve gotten there in the last few years, not sure, but it’s very new and still not that much better than the best players.

Most real-world stock trading is still carefully supervised and managed by human traders. Even for automated high-frequency trading, what really works is to have an army of mathematicians devising lots of trading scripts, trading with proper deep-learning/reinforcement-learning is still surprisingly niche and unsuccessful.

Also combat aviation is far from being automated, sure they can bomb but not dogfight, and most drones are remote controlled dumb puppets.

I do agree with your point generally, but any good engineer needs to understand the details of where we are at so we can make real progress.
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