MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nizsle | 2025-10-02 13:03:23+00:00
Greater output doesn't always equal greater productivity. In my days in the investing business we would have junior investment professionals putting together elaborate and detailed investment committee memos. When it came time to review a deal in the investment committee meetings we spent all our time trying to sift through the content of the memos and diligence done to date to identify the key risks and opportunities, with what felt like a 1:100 signal to noise ratio being typical. The productive element of the investment process was identifying the signal, not producing the content that too often buries the signal deeper. Imo, AI tools to date make it so much easier to create content which makes it harder to be productive.
by aquaHsu | 2025-10-02 13:03:35+00:00
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by dckimGUY | 2025-10-02 13:04:32+00:00
Thank you so much for following up with another reply, this is really helpful.

I will think about how to do that... I know that the interface and menu does not yet have an 'easy-button' to simply enter an editable text thing.

Strangely enough, make sure the CAPS LOCK is OFF, then you only need to press E and the Z on the keyboard to make that happen, then press the ENTER key.

That will most likely be too much for a new user, so I have been considering just putting that onto a single clickable button on that side menu. Because the program is very configurable, and doesn't really reduce the outcomes: I basically need to do the work of identifying the basic set of parts that a beginner might want.

So, we are back to the subject of choosing the 'starter menu'.

Thank you very much for your valuable input, and for taking the time to follow up from your last post.

-dckimGUY
by recroad | 2025-10-02 13:04:42+00:00
Ha, no way man. I've been trying to get YouTube/Google to reactivate my YouTube account for 14 years which has all my daughters baby videos (then a 2 year old). They shut it down due to some vague copyright violation which they still can't explain to me, and haven't activated it despite about 20 support tickets being filed. And I'm a paying customer.

BTW, if anyone works for Google here and can help me to get it back I'll pay you $100.
by athosblade | 2025-10-02 13:04:59+00:00
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by n4r9 | 2025-10-02 13:05:22+00:00
That may be what I was thinking of. An AI-assisted search suggests I may have conflated that passage with this one from Keep the Aspidistra flying:

> Over and over again he tried, quite vainly, to explain to them why he would not yield himself to the servitude of a ‘good’ job. ‘But what are you going to live on? What are you going to live on?’ was what they all wailed at him. He refused to think seriously about it. Of course, he still harboured the notion that he could make a living of sorts by ‘writing’ ... The next seven months were devastating. They scared him and almost broke his spirit. He learned what it means to live for weeks on end on bread and margarine, to try to ‘write’ when you are half starved

And there's also this other passage from Why I Write:

> The great mass of human beings are not acutely selfish. After the age of about thirty they abandon individual ambition – in many cases, indeed, they almost abandon the sense of being individuals at all – and live chiefly for others, or are simply smothered under drudgery. But there is also the minority of gifted, willful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.
by fragmede | 2025-10-02 13:06:02+00:00
> Doesn’t mean smoking cigarettes is good for working.

Fun fact; smoking likely is! There have been numerous studies into nicotine as a nootropic, eg https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1579636/#:~:text=Abstract,sh... which have found that nicotine improves attention and memory.

Shame about the lung cancer though.
by speff | 2025-10-02 13:06:12+00:00
I said Nazi/Hitler comparisons. Fascist fits the bill as much as socialist does for Democrats. Gore (retired) said it and apologized afterwards. Pritzker made the comparison yes.

So...that's one? A literally-who to most lay people, but yea, it is one Democratic politician. I see your one Illinois Governer and raise you one US President:

> "These people are running a Gestapo administration. It's the only thing they have. And it's the only way they're going to win, in their opinion..."

> "Every time the radical left Democrats, Marxists, communists and fascists indict me, I consider it actually a great badge of honor.... Because I’m being indicted for you"
by tamimio | 2025-10-02 13:06:16+00:00
If you look at all the tech “breakthroughs” in the past decades, you will know AI is just another one: dot com, automation, social media, smartphones, cloud, cybersecurity, blockchain, crypto, renewable energy and electric X, IoT, and now AI. It will have an impact after the initial boom, and I personally think they are always negative impacts. Companies will always try to milk investors' money during the boom as much as possible, and the best way to do that is to keep the hype, either with false promises (AGI omgg singularity!!) or even fears, and the latter one is stronger because it taps into public emotions. Just pay a few scientists to create "AI 2027!!" research saying it will literally take over the world in two years, or it will take your jobs meanwhile you use the excuse to hire cheaper labor to maximize profits and blame it on AI. I remember I said that to a few friends back in early 2024, and it seems we are heading to that pop sooner than I expected.
by mscbuck | 2025-10-02 13:06:17+00:00
I've found his hybrid approach pretty good for the majority of use cases. BM25 (maybe Splade if you want a blend of BOW/Keyword), + Vectors + RRF + re-rank works pretty damn well.

The trick that has elevated RAG, at least for my use cases, has been having different representations of your documents, as well as sending multiple permutations of the input query. Do as much as you can in the VectorDB for speed. I'll sometimes have 10-11 different "batched" calls to our vectorDB that are lightning quick. Then also being smart about what payloads I'm actually pulling so that if I do use the LLM to re-rank in the end, I'm not blowing up the context.

TLDR: Yes, you actually do have to put in significant work to build an efficient RAG pipeline, but that's fine and probably should be expected. And I don't think we are in a world yet where we can just "assume" that large context windows will be viable for really precise work, or that costs will drop to 0 anytime soon for those context windows.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-02 13:07:01+00:00
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by judahmeek | 2025-10-02 13:08:03+00:00
What you're saying is that you're not fighting for the truth, but just for a better lie.

While I agree with the basis of your argument, I don't think anyone wants to agree with it.

Most people like to believe that they strive for getting as close to the truth as they possibly can.

To the practical subject at hand, I would argue that means that the attribution to Musashi is the actual lie, not the saying itself, although any saying regarding the qualities of truth may be called a lie.

For example, I call your statement that truth is fragile, unreachable, & invisible into question.

If the truth is indeed unreachable & invisible, then how could you possibly know if it is fragile?
by Aurornis | 2025-10-02 13:08:09+00:00
> but generally speaking I'd like to see allocating jailtime across the top shareholders as an option.

Shareholders don’t control day to day operations of a company. Top shareholders rarely have enough shares by themselves to control anything about the company. Remember the VW emissions cheating scandal where people were jailed? It would be completely unreasonable to jail top shareholders because some manager somewhere concocted a scheme to cheat on emissions.

Jailing top shareholders for decisions made by the company would be a weird misdirected use of the justice system. If someone is to be jailed, it should be people responsible for the decision.

That said, I can’t believe anyone would be watching the news about the current U.S. administration threatening companies with spurious and often nonsensical demands and think that we should be normalizing the process of letting the government jail individuals if the company does something the government doesn’t like that would have previously been a small fine. You can’t think of any way this power might be abused by elected officials?
by kragen | 2025-10-02 13:08:28+00:00
Yes, that is certainly true of aluminum smelters, but precisely because they are so energy-intensive, their capital cost is a smaller contributor to the cost of their product than, say, a pharmaceuticals plant or a machine shop.

Steel EAFs cannot be run continuously, no matter how much capital efficiency you might hope to gain by doing so. It's inherently a batch process.

Continuous flow process plants like oil refineries are also very energy-intensive, but on the other extreme from things like an EAF, are very tricky to ramp up and down. But most of their energy usage is thermal at relatively moderate temperatures, which is much easier to store than the high-exergy energy needed for things like EAFs, aluminum pots, and data centers.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-10-02 13:08:49+00:00
IMO module names should be the same as the namespace of objects exported by the module (more like Modula-2). I've never used C++20, but modules do seem a bit of a mess.

Globally unique namespace names are needed to be able to differentiate the same name used in multiple namespaces, but of course are potentially a problem if you don't have control over them.

It might occasionally be useful if there was a workaround to resolve namespace clashes by doing something like:

namespace foo {

#include "foo/module.h" // namespace Module

using Module; // Module.x is now foo.x

}

namespace bar {

#include bar/module.h" // namespace Module

using Module; // Module.x is now bar.x

}

Or, we could invent a new syntax like "import foo/module as foo".

But AFAIK there is no way to then tell the linker to rename symbols to match (e.g. -l foo/module.o as foo -l bar/module.o as bar).
by ndiddy | 2025-10-02 13:09:30+00:00
> Looks like Google wants to force people to use the WebUI instead of email clients (no google ads on IMAP/POP).

I think that’s a valid criticism, but Protonmail also doesn’t allow people to use a standard email client. I agree with the parent commenter that it’s strange that you’re suggesting it as an alternative, especially when there’s services like Fastmail and Purelymail that both have accessible human support and let you use a standard email client.
by throw0101d | 2025-10-02 13:09:34+00:00
> My understanding is that the 40 hour work week (and similar) was talked about for […]

See perhaps:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day_movement

Generally it only really started being talked about when "workers" became a thing, specifically with the Industrial Revolution. Before that a good portion of work was either agricultural or domestic, so talk of 'shifts' didn't really make much sense.
by Panzerschrek | 2025-10-02 13:10:06+00:00
It seems for me that adding modules into C++ was a mistake. The old-style approach with includes wasn't ideal, but it was well understood and all its downsides and pitfalls were well known.

Than modules were standardized and this happened in a very strange way. Usually major features are already implemented at least in some compilers before being standardized, but with modules it wasn't the case. It was in 2020, it's now 2025 and they aren't fully implemented and tested in all major compilers and it's unclear how long one need to wait to be able to use them.

Modules are also very problematic, as the article above shows. They didn't solve many C++ problems with multiple translation units management, like compilation speed. Moreover they added new problems atop of old ones. And managing dependencies may become ever more painful, because some dependencies use old-style includes and some use modules instead (xkcd 927).
by jsheard | 2025-10-02 13:10:23+00:00
> we have never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products or services and we never will.

They spun off a separate instance of iCloud for China which is fully compliant with local regulations (i.e. backdoored), but that instance is operated by a third party so I guess Apple can wave their hands and say it's technically not their backdoor. "We will never sell you out unless access to a huge market is on the line" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-02 13:10:43+00:00
Most places I know of seem to use Microsoft 360 for "cloud office productivity apps" vs. Google Workspace. The exception being schools which tend to use Google (maybe because they often buy cheap Chromebooks for the kids?).

IDK if Microsoft is better with onboarding or support but I'd be inclined to assume that given their longer history with Office and business customers.
by UncleMeat | 2025-10-02 13:10:51+00:00
This is going to get worse.

States are introducing age-verification bills for porn where they include "gender ideology" or "people expressing identity incongruent with their biological sex" in the definition of porn. This was planned very explicitly in Project 2025. The right is pushing the same "trans visibility is turning kids trans" nonsense that they were pushing a 20 years ago with "gay visibility is turning kids gay."

This isn't just going to be parents cancelling netflix subscriptions or even school boards removing specific books from libraries. This is going to be coordinated efforts to criminalize trans visibility.
by chilmers | 2025-10-02 13:11:07+00:00
But isn't that a limitation of the AI, not necessarily how the AI is integrated into the software?

Personally, I don't want AI running around changing things without me asking to do so. I think chat is absolutely the right interface, but I don't like that most companies are adding separate "AI" buttons to use it. Instead, it should be integrated into the existing chat collaboration features. So, in Figma for example, you should just be able to add a comment to a design, tag @figma, and ask it to make changes like you would with a human designer. And the AI should be good enough and have sufficient context to get it right.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-02 13:11:07+00:00
>Ironically, private schools are more likely to pitch anti-union and anti-worker ideas to kids. These places are all conservative think tanks and anyone who doesn't see that is an idiot. The liberation of the common man will never include a private school.

I was thinking more on the lines of the sort of how they never really teach critical thinking, gloss over any and every historical mistake and perhaps how to spot and avoid them and generally do their hardest to create what shortsighted small scope government silos see as model citizens at the expense of not creating people capable of sort of long term thinking and ability to connect disparate concepts that result in a more performant society.

But anyway, I think your response speaks volumes.
by Sharlin | 2025-10-02 13:11:23+00:00
> Then someone will give that mee Iron sword/knife/axe a try , duel a friend, ruin their bronze weapon, and said friend will be like "holy shit I want an iron sword too it's way too good" and bam you got a meme.

Iron is not a superior material to bronze, if anything it's inferior. Iron's either soft or brittle, depending on carbon content, neither of them awesome qualities in a tool or a weapon. Also, iron's considerably more difficult to smelt, and fully melting iron was not possible at the temperatures achievable with Bronze Age technology. Even after you learned that you need to use charcoal and very high temperatures to reduce iron ore, what you got was a spongy mass of very impure iron at the bottom of your furnace that you then had to refine further.

The biggest thing that iron had going for it was logistics. Where there was copper, there was no tin, and vice versa. Sourcing tin required trade routes thousands of kilometers long – no doubt the demand for tin was a large boon to long-distance trade across Europe and Asia, but it made bronze an expensive commodity.

It required new furnace technologies and a millennium worth of experimentation to perfect the art of controlling the carbon content (and what we now know is the crystal structure) of iron-carbon alloys precisely enough to make steel, and in particular steel blades that combine a hard (martensitic) edge and a flexible (austenitic) spine.

(For the record, Dwarf Fortress (unsurprisingly) is one of the few games that get this mostly right.)
by Aurornis | 2025-10-02 13:12:05+00:00
> We need to be able to message our friends without seeing a feed without having to convert all of our friends to a new platform.

Those people are in the app because of the social features and the feed in the first place. The messaging features were built on top of the platform.

Requiring companies to make and maintain a separate app entirely if their product has messaging features is an unreasonable requirement. If someone has such a strong self-control problem that they can’t message someone without becoming addicted to the feed, they shouldn’t be involved with the platform at all.

Just exchange emails, phone numbers for SMS, or any other type of communication. I seriously doubt that your friends are only able to communicate through exactly one communication channel and it happens to be Instagram.
by bakugo | 2025-10-02 13:12:14+00:00
> I can’t get my job done without a computer

Are you really comparing an LLM to a computer? Really? There are many jobs today that quite literally would not exist at all without computers. It's in no way comparable.

You use ChatGPT to do the things you were already doing faster and with less effort, at the cost of quality. You don't use it to do things you couldn't do at all before.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-10-02 13:12:18+00:00
> To be fair, I don’t think anyone’s trying to eliminate public education. That’s a very unfair characterization.

It's not unfair at all, that is what they're trying to do. It would be a political career ender to say that so they say things like "trying to cut down large education bureaucracies that don’t appear to be benefiting the students." But there is an influential contingent of republicans that wants to effectively end american universal public education and they're not meaningfully opposed within the party.

> It’s not clear that the Federal resources in the Dept of Education are directly benefiting the students.

What's your area of experience with education where this is how you've come to see it? Because for what I do, it's extremely obvious that these resources do benefit the students.
by hannasanarion | 2025-10-02 13:13:17+00:00
Chunking is still relevant, because you want your tool calls to return results specific to the needs of the query.

If you want to know "how are tartans officially registered" you don't want to feed the entire 554kb wikipedia article on Tartan to your model, using 138,500 tokens, over 35% of gpt-5's context window, with significant monetary and latency cost. You want to feed it just the "Regulation>Registration" subsection and get an answer 1000x cheaper and faster.
by yanico | 2025-10-02 13:13:52+00:00
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by thahajemni | 2025-10-02 13:14:23+00:00
I, as a European, am worried that these rulings, regulations, and the prevailing mindset will lead to companies leaving and result in technological stagnation, due to our inability to compete with global markets.

Of course, there is something to be said about the dangers, effectiveness, and societal impact of social media. But companies should have the right to decide how they conduct their business. They should also have the incentive to innovate and improve- without being threatened by overly strict or poorly designed laws.