MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FloorEgg | 2025-10-22 18:53:36+00:00
Hmm, you have a point in that I spoke past you. To be fair I think we are both speaking past each other.

I don't disagree with the majority of what you're saying, except for the exclusion/rejection of the baseline effect.

So to steelman your perspective is to say the topic of this entire thread (proposition of a change in nasa's plan) is entirely due offensive things Elon has said on Twitter, and probably in another contexts, including (but not limited to) him criticizing Trump's bill, making the Epstein claims, offensive polls about the NASA chief (which is a really good example to hold up). Basically him being brash, offensive and placing his ego above maintaining certain relationships. Maybe characterized as his tendency to be offensive and disagreeable. And yes, I do see all these and yes they aren't helping, and they probably have a material impact on the situation.

To steelman my argument is to consider that in addition to all the points your making (not instead of them) there is also a money-power-struggle going on behind the scenes, and a lot of what we are seeing are second or third order consequences of that. One way this might be happening is that these interest sabotage something, Elon learns about it behind closed doors, and then lashes out in public in a childish manner.

So please understand that my lack of acknowledging your points wasn't as dismissal of them it was the opposite. I didn't mention them because I agree with them. The focus of my comments were what they were because I was trying to make a case for an additional effect at play.

If you want to convince me there isn't a baseline effect at play like I'm trying to point to, what would do so is not pointing to more examples of Elon being stupid on Twitter, it would be to somehow convince me that the extremely wealthy and powerful interests that seem to obviously want Elon to fail actually want him to succeed or don't care either way. That's a hard case to make, but I would be really open to it, because it's the thing most likely to shift my mental model of the situation.

It's kind of like you're talking about the weather and I'm talking about the climate. You're refusing to entertain my climate perspective. I'm not refusing to entertain your weather perspective.
by KaiserPro | 2025-10-22 18:54:08+00:00
They properly fucked FAIR. it was a lead, if not the leading AI lab.

then they gave it to Chris Cox, the Midas of shit. It languished in "product" trying to do applied research. The rot had set in by mid 2024 if not earlier.

Then someone convinced Zuck that he needed what ever that new kid is, and the rest is history.

Meta has too many staff, exceptionally poor leadership, and a performance system that rewards bullshitters.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-10-22 18:54:15+00:00
HuggingFace bought XetHub which is really cool. It’s built for massive blobs of weight data. So it’s not a general purpose VCS VFS. The world still needs the latter.

I’d be pretty happy if Git died and it was replacing with a full Sapling implementation. Git is awful so that’d be great. Sigh.
by zamadatix | 2025-10-22 18:54:17+00:00
Building on top of a bunch of things works well, and is pretty much what Chromium itself is anyways. Building something "new" that is 99% the old thing so you can add your 1% is a different kind of building, and can't be lumped with the former by default. More powerful extensions is definitely the answer, just not one Google wants to allow.

The main problem with this is if browser A adds feature 1 and browser B adds feature 2 then you don't end up with "Chromium + 1 + 2" you end up with "Chromium + 1" or "Chromium + 2". Repeat for a couple dozen Chromium folks and your single extra feature doesn't look all that enticing anymore. The inverse way of looking at it is "if you're only adding 1% on top of Chromium, it's unlikely to amount to anything worth the average user switching for". Especially since Chrome is starting to push Gemeni natively anyways.

For these reasons, I think Chromium paint jobs are the least interesting thing to happen to browser development in a very very long time. Servo for embedded, Ladybird for "something different", and so on are much more interesting. These kinds of things, as you say, are more to the scale of what an individual browser extension used to be.
by keane | 2025-10-22 18:54:54+00:00
In April 2024, Le Monde Group’s majority stakeholder became a financial endowment, or fonds de dotation (FDD), named Fonds pour l'indépendance de la presse.

En: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/about-us/article/2023/09/24/two-ma...

Fr: https://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2023/09/24/d...

This was the result of journalist demands, covered here: https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/le_monde_daniel_kretinsk...

This structure is also used by Mediapart, owned by Fonds pour une presse libre, and Libération, owned by Fonds de dotation pour une presse indépendante, with Mediapart being inspired to emulate The Manchester Guardian (which has been operated by a trust since 1936): https://www.lesechos.fr/tech-medias/medias/le-monde-appartie...
by cheeze | 2025-10-22 18:55:05+00:00
It makes me think that a lot of the folks commenting on this stuff haven't actually used the tooling.

Agreed, it's generally quite accurate. I find for hectic meetings, it can get some things wrong... But the notes are generally still higher quality than human generated notes.

Is it perfect? No. Is it good enough? IMO absolutely.

Similar to many other things, the key is that you don't just blindly trust it. Have the LLM take notes and summarize, and then _proofread_ them, just as you would if you were writing them yourself...
by browningstreet | 2025-10-22 18:55:28+00:00
Meta is the worst at building platforms out of the big players. If you're not building to Facebook or Metaverse, what would you be building for if you were all-in on Meta AI? Instagram + AI will be significant, but not Meta-level significant, and it's closed. Facebook is a monster but no one's building to it, and even Mark knows it is tomorrow's Yahoo.

Microsoft has filled in their entire product line with Copilot, Google is filling everything with Gemini, Apple has platforms but no AI, and OpenAI is firing on all cylinders.. at least in terms of mindshare and AUMs.
by teachrdan | 2025-10-22 18:55:35+00:00
> Virtually every Christian I know aspires to be as Christ like as they can. You may not see that in their actions, but in their beliefs they definitely aspire to that.

This is a nonsense statement. It's trivially obvious how to be "Christ like": Live poor, help the disenfranchised, feed the hungry, heal the wounded, don't marry, don't have kids, and preach the gospel, if only to a small number of people.

If the Christians you know don't live like that, then they are not being "Christ like." To say they are while they do the opposite -- work to get rich, get married and have big families, confine their spiritual work to Sunday mornings, occasionally giving to charity (or only to their own church) -- is to believe that words have no meaning at all.

I'm sure the people you think of as "Christ like" are by and large perfectly wonderful human beings. But this whole discussion was sparked by a powerful man at Sequoia making reductive statements about all of Islam based on a few quotations from the Quran. At some point we have to admit that the way people practice religion does not necessarily follow what's written in their texts. And to suggest, as others have in this very thread, that because Mohammad married had multiple wives means that all of his followers want to as well, is as ignorant as assuming that all Christians want to live like Christ actually lived.
by pklausler | 2025-10-22 18:55:49+00:00
> We’re ultimately here to make money, not just pump out characters into text files.

Different projects have other incentives. Dealing with AI slop from internet randos is a very real problem in open-source codebases. I've pretty much just stopped reviewing code from people that I don't know on one project that I work on when it's obviously going to take way more time than it would have done to do the patch myself. There used to be an incentive to help educate new contributors, of course, but now I can't know whether that is even happening.
by simonw | 2025-10-22 18:56:29+00:00
My preferred solutions right now:

1. A sandbox on someone else's computer. Claude Code for web, Codex Cloud, Gemini Jules, GitHub Codespaces, ChatGPT/Claude Code Interpreter

2. A Docker container. I think these are robust enough to be safe.

3. sandbox-exec related tricks. I haven't poked hard enough at Claude Code's new sandbox-exec sandbox yet - they only released it on Monday. OpenAI Codex CLI was using sandbox-exec too last time I looked but again, I've not reviewed it enough to be comfortable with it.

I'm hoping more credible options come along for the sandboxing problems.
by charcircuit | 2025-10-22 18:57:09+00:00
>I guess building an actual browser, from scratch

No one does this. For example all the major browsers reach out to an existing library to implement rendering for fonts. There is so mich complexity and already a solution to solve the problems and allow you to focus on something more important. There are benefits in standardizing on a single thing and having everyone working to improveia common base. Considering the actual rendering and functionality of the web is standardized the most exciting features kf a browser will be outside of the browser engine.
by iman613 | 2025-10-22 18:57:30+00:00
Haha, honestly, as a developer, I don’t really think about “job security” or being safe in the AI era — I’m more focused on how to embrace AI to become a better software developer. My dark side, though, whispers that once we hit full automation, none of this will matter… but hey, at that point, nothing will matter anyway — society as we know it will be completely redefined!

What’s funny is how many doctors I’ve met think they’re immune to all this. They trust their safety net a bit too much. But when you think about it, most of what they do is listen to complaints, gather subjective and objective data, and reason through it — exactly the kind of stuff AI can do… only faster, cheaper, and probably with better bedside manners soon!
by jimbo808 | 2025-10-22 18:58:17+00:00
Be specific, provide examples. Much of the things brains do that we call intelligent are totally unknown to us. We have, quite literally, no idea what algorithms the brain employs. If you want to talk about intelligence, I don’t know why you’re talking about neuron spiking. We don’t talk about semiconductor voltages when we talk about computer programs we’re working on.

AI systems are software, so if you want to build something brain like, you need to understand what the brain is actually like. And we don’t.
by username223 | 2025-10-22 18:58:37+00:00
> The web is crazy complex these days because it is an entire app platform.

I'd prefer something that's not crazy complex, that's not "an entire app platform" designed and implemented by Google. Google essentially controls the W3C (Mozilla would vanish if Google stopped funding it), and controls the monopoly rendering engine.

Half of websites are better without JavaScript and web fonts, and 99% are just text, images, and videos with maybe a few simple controls. For the other 1% I can fire up Google Chrome and suffer the whole platform.

I want a web rendering engine for the 1%, that does the simple stuff quickly and isn't a giant attack surface around 30 years of technical debt and unwanted features calling itself an "application platform."
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-22 18:58:55+00:00
> 2 years into his presidency and Argentina is crashing and burning and the US taxpayers have to bail it out

Has there been study into whether this is Milei's policies' fault?

Argentina's default state is default. Milei inherited a mess. And of their top export categories--soybeans, oil and cars [1]--two are currently fucked. If another policy treatment would have resulted in similar outcomes due to these exogenous shocks and the starting conditions, it's unfair to damn Milei's ideology for what could be a failure to execute.

From what I've read, the currency pressure started "after a heavy defeat for President Javier Milei's party at the hands of the Peronist opposition in local elections" in Bueons Aires [2]. That loss, in turn, is blamed on "claims that" Milei's sister "and other close associates profited from a bribery scheme within the country’s disability agency" [3].

Put another way, the folks who support him are rallying behind corruption. That may be different from those who originally rallied behind his ideas.

[1] https://oec.world/en/profile/country/arg

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/argent...

[3] https://apnews.com/article/argentina-javier-milei-karina-mil...
by michaelsbradley | 2025-10-22 18:59:51+00:00
I don't have time at present to develop a thesis around this idea, but my conjecture is that if a diagramming formalism is straightforward to express with 2D drawings and serially with declarative code (as JSON or XML or similar), and if it's possible to execute those diagrams with an interpreter, then you've got a winner.

UML is pretty dead, but statecharts and statechart interpreters can be amazing tools for developing reactive systems even if few developers today care that there's a UML specification for statecharts.

Harel, who invented statecharts in the 80s, tried to do something similar for sequence diagrams in the early 2000s, giving them an executable semantics named LSC, but it's little known and I wonder if one of the reasons it hasn't seen much success is that LSC diagrams are much messier to work with compared to statecharts.
by bwfan123 | 2025-10-22 18:59:52+00:00
Seems like a purge - new management comes in, and purges anyone not loyal to it. standard playbook. Happens in every org. Instead of euphemisms like "load-bearing" they could have straight out called it eliminating the old-guard.

Also, why go thru a layoff and then reassign staff to other roles. Is it to first disgrace, and then offer straws to grasp at. This reflects their culture, and sends a clear warning to those joining.
by AlexandrB | 2025-10-22 18:59:57+00:00
> Antifa is an organization

This one baffles me. Obviously it is - not a national one, but there are plenty of regional organizations/groups using that name[1][2] who share similar goals/methods. This is akin to saying that "Anonymous" didn't exist back in the day - even though you had people organizing on 4chan to do collective action (mostly against Scientology) under that banner.

[1] https://rosecityantifa.org

[2] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/forming-an-antifa-gr...
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-22 19:00:01+00:00
Since "legitimate interest" means you don't need consent, they do not let you toggle it off.

If they are showing you a toggle and calling it for "legitimate interest", they are most likely lying.

They love to put cookies under "performance and enhancements" as if that isn't bullshit as well.

All legitimate interest cookies are in the greyed out toggle for "required cookies".

By law, you can decline all and the site should still work fine, which again means they won't allow you to turn off actually needed cookies.
by jobigoud | 2025-10-22 19:00:11+00:00
We obviously wish for this to be true so we must be careful with our own bias. It's not clear at all that "centaur" teams are better at chess than computer alone, are there actual tournaments where this is tested?

I remember this was a topic in early 2010's and then it was said that the human team member was already not contributing much anymore. In a blitz game it would most likely be detrimental.
by te_cima | 2025-10-22 19:00:13+00:00
why is this interesting to you? the whole point of doing all of this is to be more efficient in the long run. of course there is an initial setup cost and learning curve after which you will hopefully feel quite efficient with your development environment. you are making it sound like it is not worth the effort because you have to potentially spend time learning "it"? i do not believe that it takes long to "learning" it, but of course it can differ a lot from person to person. your remarks seem like non-issues to me.
by tmoertel | 2025-10-22 19:00:42+00:00
> > When you always published and built Docker images for the public you are creating an expectation

> That expectation does not entitle anybody to anything though.

Note that implied contracts do exist, and sometimes expectations based on prior conduct do suffice to form an enforcable contract. In this case, I don't know whether you can reasonably make that argument, but that's never stopped enterprising lawyers before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied-in-fact_contract
by president_zippy | 2025-10-22 19:01:15+00:00
I don't thing we fundamentally disagree on anything, I'm just saying every product advertisement tries to convince you the product will make you happier, and sometimes it not a bad thing- like Japanese McDonald's (where they don't use hydrogenated oils).

All advertising is based around creating a need and fulfilling it, but not all of those needs are toxic. Imagine getting an advertisement for a concert for some musicians you've never even heard of. You hear their music, and maybe they even have some showmanship. You like what you see and hear, and now you have a need you didn't have before, whether that's going to a KISS concert or whatever kinda music floats your boat.

Toxic ads encouraging you to indulge in toxic behavior, like an Instagram ad making you think you don't matter if you don't publicize every hour of your life, are a different animal.

That's all I'm trying to say, I'm not trying to be pedantic or anything. I just don't think putting out a Disney World ad of a happy family eating breakfast with Mickey Mouse is promoting or exploiting toxic values even though it convinces you that you need something you weren't aware of yesterday.
by jimbo808 | 2025-10-22 19:01:18+00:00
Can you quote a any specific portion of my comment from which you inferred anger?

Also, do you not understand that reducing an American person’s wages, by having a Honduran guy come into the country and do his job for half the price, then use that to compete with him for an apartment, increasing his cost of living, and reducing the money Big Corp, Inc has to spend on labor, is a direct transfer of wealth out of your pocket, and into their pockets. It’s one of many ways rampant immigration is a war on the middle class, and yes, it is Big Corp, Inc, and the institutions that own it, who are doing this. I am not angry at the Honduran. I am critical of the people who gaslight us into thinking that allowing him and millions like him to come here and work for less money than their American counterparts, is somehow good for us.

People will say Americans don’t want those jobs. But here’s the rub - Americans did want those jobs, back when they paid enough to support a family. Americans also do want trucking jobs, and tech jobs, and medical jobs, and all jobs. And we’re forced to do them for a vanishingly small wage, while we watch our futures disappear, and the hope of ever securing financial security disappears.
by JohnFen | 2025-10-22 19:01:51+00:00
That Facebook couldn't care less about the well-being of people generally hasn't exactly been a secret. Their harmful and abusive behavior has been well-documented for many years. They'd poison their own grandmothers if it made them a buck.

But yes, it makes my blood boil too. It's just that this is entirely expected and on-brand for this company.
by SDedu | 2025-10-22 19:02:04+00:00
Ksherlock, thank you for your response but it’s not a tax! The 600 dollars is paid out from the employer then goes to the IRS/Fed who verify then the money (ADP) is used from a 1 - 9 (600 to 5400 which is split to 2700 dollars) which I know it not in Basel III or JPmorganChase or Citigroup but it’s the federal government! Then 50% of federal taxes for the worker will not be needed to be deducted but the Fed will just move the money over at the top! More money for everyone!
by hollerith | 2025-10-22 19:02:43+00:00
>Are we crying tears over Muammar Gaddafi here?

Yes, because removing Gaddafi from power after he yielded to international pressure to give up his nuclear-weapons ambitions makes it less likely that leaders will agree to give up nuclear ambitions in the future.

All leaders of countries know that no one would do to the leader of North Korea what France, Britain and the US did to Gaddafi -- because North Korea has nukes.
by cubefox | 2025-10-22 19:02:54+00:00
In 2024, SpaceX had one Falcon 9 launch per 2.8 days, after having been operational for several years. The first Falcon 9 was used in 2014, and the first booster reused in 2017. It seems it will take years for Starship to match and exceed that flight rate. Of course, Blue Origin faces other difficulties, as you mentioned, and they have a much more distant deadline (Artemis 5). But at this point I don't quite see Artemis 3 happening before a Chinese moon landing, with a much simpler approach that doesn't include any complexities comparable to what SpaceX is facing with its HLS. (As others mentioned, I don't think that's a major problem, as manned space flight is mostly done for abstract prestige, and the US already had Apollo.)

> My prediction is that nobody can build and fully qualify a safe moon lander with a more or less clean-sheet design in three years.

I tend to agree, though there are possible solutions that are technically simpler (if less ambitious) than either Starship or Blue Moon, while not even requiring SLS. Though it is probably too late now to try those. It's all the more surprising that Lockheed Martin still tries to offer an alternative solution:

> In a statement to Reuters, Bob Behnken, vice president of Exploration and Technology Strategy at Lockheed Martin's space unit, said the company this year has been conducting "significant technical and programmatic analysis for human lunar landers."

> "We have been working with a cross-industry team of companies and together we are looking forward to addressing Secretary Duffy's request to meet our country’s lunar objectives," said Behnken, a retired NASA astronaut.

https://www.reuters.com/science/us-seek-rival-bids-artemis-3...

But their offer would likely be very expensive, and it would be very questionable whether it can be faster than Starship HLS. So I don't think they will receive a contract.
by jerlam | 2025-10-22 19:02:57+00:00
You apparently missed a lot of context here:

- these specialty sodas have less than a third of the calories as a normal soda and are touted as a healthy alternative

- fast food meals often include a large soda which is more than two cans worth

- people often drink even more soda in a day, especially diet soda

- the GI issues are specifically for these new specialty sodas, not normal ones
by Rebuff5007 | 2025-10-22 19:02:57+00:00
ICE got billions of dollars this year seemingly out of thin air, and they are paying up to $50k for a signing bonus. The manhattan project went from nothing to an operation with 130,000 people in just four years.

You really don't think we can just fund people to go into healthcare or teaching? You understand that there is no real reason for those professions have to be chronically underpaid and overworked, right?
by opi12000 | 2025-10-22 19:03:09+00:00
A simple all natural ( I think) way to rebuild tooth enamel was actually discovered using denatured sheep wool. I do wonder what method was used to denature the wool that is completely non-toxic. I think they are keeping the exact method proprietary for now. As long as you get the denatured (clean) keratin you just apply it to your teeth and your own saliva uses it as a scaffolding to rebuild enamel. Anyone know what the method could be to process the sheep wool though? Can't be that complicated i'd guess, but i don't know