MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aerbil313 | 2025-10-03 18:56:56+00:00
To be honest, I don't have a good answer.

Indeed, I don't have the friend network since I stopped forcing myself to be social. Most people don't call again if you don't answer their calls for a few months [1].

I too witnessed people calling their friends for help in hard situations (like car broke down at 1am) and wondered who I could call if that happened to me.

I have a family and extended family who are very supportive. That is my social safety net, and they would help in any serious issue like money, car broke down at 1am, etc. This is a part of our culture where I live (It's not the US.) If you don't have that, it gets trickier.

For example, if you live in a different city than your family (which is a historically new phenomenon) you can't rely on them for car breakdown at 1 am situation.

Setting aside family, I think, for life-and-death issues (e.g. cancer) even people who know you at a superficial level (e.g. classmates, colleagues) would be willing to help, at least where I live.

For middle sized issues (car breakdown at 1am) I could call exactly 1 friend in my hometown, and 1 another in the city I study. They are close friends who like me as the person I am. They are content with our low-effort low-contact friendship. If you want advice, I think if you meet enough people (that's the hard part ofc) you'll eventually find one of these. Funnily one of these friends is extremely social, the sort of person you'd expect to greatly succeed in politics.

For smaller matters (e.g. an assignment in college) I have to admit I refrained from asking people for most anything ever since I stopped being forcibly social. This did lead to some (small) losses over time.

I live by the principle of "never ask any more than you gave to a person". Though it's not uncommon to see NT people who barely know each other confidently ask for small favors, offering nothing in return, simply because they don't have the social anxiety that I do.

1: I know it's rude. But iykyk the anxiety.
by rco8786 | 2025-10-03 18:57:15+00:00
Let's say Google release a new phone that is significantly cheaper and/or smarter than an Apple one. nobody would stick to apple. There is nearly zero cost to switching and it is a commodity product.

The AI market, much like the phone market, is not a winner take all. There's plenty of room for multiple $100B/$T companies to "win" together.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-03 18:57:42+00:00
The sources of university funding and spending on administration has been broken for a long time.

What does a graduate math program need? A building with some offices and classrooms, wifi, email service, maybe a couple of secretaries and janitors, office supplies, and salaries for students and researchers/instructors.

What need does a math program have for any but the most basic administration? That's where all the money is going, where the biggest growth in spending is going.

You could cut university admin costs by 75% and lose nothing. Start with the top 25 university presidents who all earn a slightly rounded up 2 million a year and more.
by jemiluv8 | 2025-10-03 18:57:44+00:00
Enterprises are always selling lofty future promises.

And your subprime mortgage reference - suggesting they are manipulating information to inflate the value of the firm - doesn't cleanly apply here. For once, here is a company that seems to have faithfully represented their obscene losses and here we are already comparing them to the likes of enron. Enron never reported financial data that can be categorized as losses.

I see lots of people speculating about these losses and I really wish someone investing in openai could come out and say something vague about why they are investing.

Once again, I need not tell you, the information available to the general public is not the same as that which is available to anyone that has invested a significant amount into openai.

So once again, reign in your tendencies to draw conclusion from the obscene losses they have reported - especially since I'm positive you do not have the right context to be able to properly evaluate whether these losses make sense or not.
by angoragoats | 2025-10-03 18:58:04+00:00
> I don’t use Twitter, and I abhor white nationalism as much as any other kind of genetic population-based supremacy movement. So you’re at least wrong about me.

I never claimed that you use Twitter or that you were one of the "Twitter is not real life" people I was referring to.

> Like DHH, though, I am staunchly anti-multiculturalism. This has nothing to do with genetics or identity groups; it has everything to do with beliefs. Search your own convictions, and you’ll likely find that you feel the same way as DHH and I: you likely want your neighbors to not be ardent believers, for example, that women are inherently 2nd class citizens.

Beliefs are held by individuals, not by cultures. To conflate the two sounds dangerously close to racism to me. So no, I don't feel the same way as you or DHH about this. It might be true that I don't want my neighbors to believe that women are 2nd class citizens, but there are plenty of people who believe that anyway in my own culture, so I don't see the this point and multiculturalism as being connected. The logical thing to do in this case is to espouse anti-mysogynism, not anti-multiculturalism.

> You’ve just been misled into thinking that anti-multiculturalism is somehow related to the poison of one specific identity-based movement (white supremacy).

No, I was not misled into that; we are discussing DHH here, and I think it's clear from his own words that DHH is referring to some sort of ethnic nationalism. The evidence is only a single click away from his "As I remember London" blog post, if you haven't seen it yet: the very first link in the article (anchor text "no longer full of native Brits") links to the "Ethnic groups in London" wikipedia entry[1]. So he is equating being a "native Brit" with being of a certain ethnic group. Do you share my belief that "ethnic group" and "identity group" are terms that are reasonably close in meaning? If so, then by your own admission, DHH is not espousing anti-multiculturalism, and instead is advocating for some sort of ethno-nationalism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London
by port11 | 2025-10-03 18:58:39+00:00
As someone tracking their daily nutrition for 10 years (yikes!), I can confidently say that I've never eaten worse than when I have to be at the office. It's just much more exhausting, I don't know. Ego depletion has been disproven but it seemed to me like being in the city centre, commuting, lots more social interaction, noise, anything, was making me eat crap the whole day. WFH days are usually much more wholesome/healthy.
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-03 18:59:02+00:00
I didn't even realize psql had autocomplete. It's nice, but I pretty quickly learn the table and column names I'm working with, or I just run \dt and copy/paste from the output. I guess I understand if someone would find that tedious; I learned to program before autocomplete was a thing in any editor, and I'm just used to it.

All the autocomplete and other smart editor features quickly outrun the speed at which I can think about what I'm doing, so I find them of limited use.
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 18:59:17+00:00
> This is actually very simple. The historic region of Palestine has been inhabited by more or less the same people ever since Biblical times. It was conquered a few times by various empires, and a large part of the population has converted to various religions (from pre-Biblical religions to Judaism, to Christianity, to Islam). The languages they speak have changed various times, and of course the genetic makeup of the population has not been constant, especially given it's a relatively common trade route.

There have been many rather significant demographic shifts since biblical times[0] including migration waves of Egyptians during the Ottoman period. The genetic makeup of the population changing would be something one would expect to result from things like population movements into and out of the region, so I'm not sure what you mean by "The historic region of Palestine has been inhabited by more or less the same people ever since Biblical times." if there have been significant changes since Biblical times.

> Then, starting with the 1930s or so, a colonization effort by an initially fringe group of Jewish zealots, the Zionist movement; they became much more mainstream after the horrors of the Holocaust.

That didn't just start in the 1930s[1].

> This colonization effort culminated with the proclamation of the state of Israel as a "Jewish and Democratic" state in 1948, led mostly by the colonists who started to expel the local population from the region, with the assent of the British Empire, the USA , and even the USSR (and other European powers). This is the beginning point of the current conflict. Going back further in history is completely absurd: the Palestinians of today are descendants of the ancient Jewish people, of ancient Romans, of ancient Arabic tribes and so on - just as much if not more so than the Jewish people "returning home".

The origins of the current conflict arguably started in the 1800s, however Jews occupied the region prior to that period as well in smaller numbers.

Regardless of the history most Israelis living in Israel were born in Israel and hold no other citizenship so one can't really expect them to leave their country at this point.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palesti...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah
by tavavex | 2025-10-03 18:59:42+00:00
> Okay and why exactly would anybody be interested in that? Sounds like a pointless hypothetical

"Okay, so this new attack vector that hasn't existed before will appear, but maybe no one will ever want to use it" isn't a great argument.

I'm not sure how to explain it better that total aggregation of all data that's ever existed on you into one convenient blob is dangerous. Even answering your direct question is trivial: imagine that you break up with someone and they use your public data to stalk you. Or you have a conflict with your relatives, who can then use that data to see where you might be and what you might be up to.

But the obvious further implications of systems like those are second-, third-, fourth-order processing. So, we live in a society where you can look people up by their photos. Up next, the videos they appeared in will be location-tagged, with other services putting two and two together and selling everyone's location data, just put a photo in and you get a convenient timeline. Other services may sell information on what people and groups you were seen associating with. These are all very convenient things to offer - now, police investigations go a lot easier, breaking up inconvenient groups is less troublesome, employers and landlords can screen you for 'undesirable' qualities before ever seeing you. Lots of possibilities, lots of people who would love to use that.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-03 19:00:16+00:00
The problem of this "depreciation" rationale is that it presumes that all the cost is in training, ignoring that actually serving the models is also very expensive. I certainly don't believe they would be profitable, and vague gestures at some hypothetical depreciation sounds like accounting shenanigans.

Also, the whole LLM industry is mostly trying to generate hype, at a possible future where it is vastly more capable than it currently is. It's unclear if they would still be generating as much revenue without this promise.
by jmyeet | 2025-10-03 19:01:41+00:00
I, personally, think that OpenAI is way overhyped and will never deliver on that promise. But... it might not matter.

There is going to be an awful lot of disruption to the economy caused by displacing workers with AI. That's going to be a massive political problem. If these people get their way, in the future AI will do all the work but there'll be no one to buy their products because nobody is employed and has money.

But I just don't see one company dominating that space. As soon as you have an AI, you can duplicate it. We've seen with efforts like DeepSeek that replicating it once it's done is going to require significantly less effort. So that means you just don't have the moat you think you do.

Imagine the training costs get to $100M and require thousands of machines. Well, within a few years it's going to be $1M or less.

So the question is: can OpenAI (or any other company) keep advancing to outpace Moore's Law? I'm not convinced.

But here's why it might not matter: Tesla. Tesla should not be a trillion dollar company. No matter how you value it on fundamentals, it should be a fraction of that. Value it as a car maker, an energy company or whatever and it gets nowhere near $1T. Yet, it has defied gravity for years.

Why? IMHO because it's become too large to fail and, in part, it's now an investment in the wealth transfer that is going on and will continue from the government to the already wealthy. The government will make sure Tesla won't fail as long as it's friendly to the administration.

As much as AI is hyped, it's still incredibly stupid and limited. We may get to the point where it's "smart" enough to displace a ton of people but it's so expensive to run it's cheaper to employ humans.
by ajross | 2025-10-03 19:01:51+00:00
As gets pointed out, that justification is post hoc; the argument wasn't made when the app was introduced, only after the ban. It's also leaning hard on "can be" and just letting the reader infer what "malicious" means. Clearly the intent is that protestors can show up to disrupt enforcement actions. Is that what you mean? If so, you should say so.

But it's also just plain overbroad: the same logic applies to Waze flagging of speed traps, which are also "crowd sourced law enforcement location data".

Basically this is bunk. The app got banned because the government doesn't want its enforcement actions disrupted by protestors, and whined[1] to Apple to coerce them into a ban.

[1] Plausibly threatened. It's not alleged here but they did it to Disney and Paramount already.
by llbbdd | 2025-10-03 19:02:01+00:00
That's disappointing to hear. I've generally liked Ed's writing but all his posts on AI / OAI specifically feel like they come from a place of seething animosity more than an interest in being critical or objective. At least one of his posts repeated the claim that essentially all AI breakthroughs in the last few years are completely useless, which is just trainwreck hyperbole no matter where you lie on the spectrum as far as its utility or potential. I regularly use it for things now that feel like genuine magic, in wonder to the point of annoying my non-technical spouse, for whom it's just all stuff computers can do. I don't know if OpenAI is going to be a gazillion dollar business in ten years but they've certainly locked in enough customers - who are getting value out of it - to sustain for a while.
by leakycap | 2025-10-03 19:02:40+00:00
When a company uses a logo, they assume it is theirs.

When an LLM gives a company a 39¢ logo they like that is a copy of someone else, who breaks the news to them that your LLM probably had the other company's logo in its training?

Gigs with humans involved provide a level of protection to the buyer. This app seems like it slings out logos that could be dead-ends for buyers.
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-10-03 19:02:49+00:00
> Let's say Google release a new phone that is significantly cheaper and/or smarter than an Apple one. nobody would stick to apple.

I don't think this is true over the short to mid term. Apple is a status symbol to the point that Android users are bullied over it in schools and dating apps. It would take years ti reverse the perception.
Show HN: Dq_tester – a lightweight data quality testing framework
by koddachad | 2025-10-03 19:03:17+00:00
I put together a simple Python framework for writing lightweight data quality tests. It’s intended to be easy to plug into existing data pipelines, and lets you define reusable checks on your database or csv files in yaml.

It’s meant for cases where you don't want the overhead of larger frameworks and just want to configure some basic testing in your pipeline. I've also included example prompt instructions in case you want to configure your tests in a project in claude.
by lenerdenator | 2025-10-03 19:03:25+00:00
>For decades, a doctorate in economics was a golden ticket. It promised a path to tenure, or at worst, a lucrative role at a central bank, think tank, or tech firm.

So, the field is being consumed by the ideology it espoused?

Automation and leaner government budgets were pushed hard by a number of schools of economic thought.

Of particular note is this section:

> REASON 4: Lying About Inflation

If you were there during the pandemic money printing, you remember the sequence all too well: first the confident insistence that government spending wouldn’t fuel inflation, then the soothing claim that inflation was merely “transitory,” and finally the outright gaslighting that prices weren’t rising at all. Each step was wrong, and each was delivered with smug certainty. Ordinary people—who watched their rent, groceries, and gas bills skyrocket—saw a profession more invested in protecting Democratic policy narratives than in telling the truth. The result is a self-inflicted torching of trust.

This isn't about protecting Democratic policy narratives. Arguably the single worst thing for inflation, the Paycheck Protection Program, happened under Trump. You had business owners taking out loans for pretty much anything and everything they thought they could possibly justify as business-related, no matter how tenuous that justification was, and then of course the government forgave massive amounts of it. Since business owners already tend to have more money and capital, this fueled their consumption of then-scarce products and services even more. Laws of supply-and-demand kicked in, which shouldn't be hard for the author to understand.

Ultimately the inflation that happened during the pandemic was due to the fact that for the last 45-ish years, the US has been running deficits not just in the public sector, but the private sector as well. Our economy is designed to run on debt that suddenly, people couldn't pay on time. They then looked to the government to offer a backstop, and since federal, state, and local governments have no "rainy day" fund to speak of, the federal government had to fire up the money printers.
by ijidak | 2025-10-03 19:03:35+00:00
In my years, I've noticed bubbles tend to burst after we move past the phase of bubble skepticism being the dominant voice.

When the dominant voices begin to claim, "This time it's different!!" that's usually a sign we're nearing the end.

Look this up. During the dot-com bubble, the popular notion emerged that the business cycle might have ended. "The end of the business cycle!!" Many media outlets pushed the narrative that humanity would experience endless growth thanks to technological advancements.

During the housing bubble, towards the end, multiple media outlets suddenly started repeating the idea that housing prices, in real terms, have never fallen.

When I heard that farcical argument gain steam, I got out of housing immediately—before the bubble burst.

So, for me, that AI-bubble skepticism is still the dominant opinion suggests that this bubble is far from over.

I think we're closer to the Netscape IPO than we are to the .com crash.

Maybe we're at the halfway point. Just one person's opinion.
by fishmicrowaver | 2025-10-03 19:03:52+00:00
Doesn't matter. Go to DC and get a tour of the Pentagon. You have a 50/50 chance of seeing Palantir/DOD counterparts physically hugging and talking about eachothers personal lives. Congratulations to them, they've won the game. And congrats SV, the rest of you hang up your phones when you might be the only plausible competitor for the next bid, because you think staying away from gov protects your values. All you're doing is letting the absolute worst of companies win.
by angoragoats | 2025-10-03 19:04:46+00:00
Oh, well, a quick Google gives you the answer I think you're looking for:

> In an email to ICEBlock creator Joshua Aaron, Apple wrote that “upon re-evaluation,” the app does not comply with its app store guidelines around “objectionable” and “defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content,” according to a copy of the message viewed by CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/tech/iceblock-apple-removed-t...
by Lazaruscv | 2025-10-03 19:05:14+00:00
Our current thinking is to focus heavily on automating triage across syslogs and bag/mcap files, since that’s where the hours really get burned, even for experienced folks. For interpretation, we see it more as an assistive layer (e.g., surfacing “likely causes” or linking to past incidents), rather than trying to replace domain expertise.

Do you think there are specific triage workflows where even a small automation (say, correlating error timestamps across syslog and bag files) would save meaningful time?
by alaithea | 2025-10-03 19:05:31+00:00
ChatGPT has been shown to spend much more time validating people's poor ideas than it does refuting them, even in cases where specific guardrails have supposedly been implemented, such as to avoid encouraging self-harm. See recent articles about AI usage inducing god-complexes and psychoses, for instance[1]. Validation of the user giving the prompt is what it's designed to do, after all. AI seems to be objectively worse for humanity than what we've had before it.

[1]: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urban-survival/20250...
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-10-03 19:05:52+00:00
The novels, and movies to some extent hint heavily that industry/technology was used for evil far more than good, and in general the "forces of good" were more "attune with nature" than their opponents

Example - Saruman clear cutting a good portion of Fangorn forest in order to strip mine it and produce weapons.

Paywalled article in the Atlantic on this subject

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/fall-...

Brief exerpt:

'So it makes sense, then, that the chief exponents of technology in The Lord of the Rings are a demonic figure bent on world domination (Sauron) and a wizard (Saruman). Treebeard, the Ent or tree-shepherd, says of Saruman, "He is plotting to become a Power. He has a mind of metal and wheels; and he does not care for growing things, except as far as they serve him for the moment." '
by GeekyBear | 2025-10-03 19:06:25+00:00
> To registered developers, with no upstream or downstream support whatsoever.

It's open source, you don't have to be registered with anything.

Wine already uses it.

Buy the commercial version of Wine for Mac, and you get end user support.

> It's quite exciting to have two competing standards like this,

Wine is the single open standard here.

> Being a fork of Wine, Proton maintains very similar compatibility with Windows applications as its upstream counterpart... Proton generally lags behind its upstream Wine base by several releases.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software)

Apple and Valve are just providing layers that translate graphics API calls from the Windows standard DirectX API to Metal on Mac or Vulkan on Linux that Wine can use to support games on those platforms.

However, Proton lags behind on features available in the newer versions of upstream Wine.
by nxobject | 2025-10-03 19:07:00+00:00
…and money to go to conferences and summer schools, and money for software licenses (especially in applied programs), and department funds to bring visiting academics, and the following things that get lumped under administration: money for grad student food pantries and childcare because funding streams for PhDs don’t provide for good salaries outright, and job advising centers because the math job market is a crapshoot, and free student health clinics for psychological and physical health because doing a PhD in any condition is rough…