MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dotancohen | 2025-10-03 17:20:49+00:00
You give me a lot of material to address.

> So the photos of flattened buildings are all "hamas"?

No, if buildings are flattened then that's not Hamas. Israel uses HE explosive, Hamas uses FA. HE is the one that levels buildings, FA is the one that leaves burn marks. Just like we saw at the AlAhli hospital where 500 people were killed - burn marks. Flattened buildings are Israeli munitions.

> Their dead kids - oh they did that? The occupation? Oh, that's their fault!

Often, yes. This is not disputed among Gazans. By their culture, no matter which side had the hand in killing you, you are a martyr and afforded the rewards of heaven.

I suggest you go open the guys and Telegram channels. There's a photograph being shared right now of half a dozen Gazans that were killed by other Gazan's hands. All piled up on a blanket.

> The occupation? Oh, that's their fault!

There's no dispute that the beginning of the occupation is squarely on the Arabs, the Jordanian occupation of the West Bank lasted 19 years. That said, both sides are responsible for it having been dragged out for an additional 60 years. Various Israeli governments have had different levels of intentions of giving or not giving the Palestinians certain autonomies and land. But no matter what the intentions of any specific Israeli government, the Palestinians have rejected every single offer. At some point one has to be content with what they've gotten, and realize that they can't destroy the other side completely and those people need some place to live. We, the jews, watched the British give over three quarters of the land of Palestine to the Hashemite kingdom, and left us less than 25%. And we were content with that. Then the UN came in and gave half of that to an Arab state and half of that to a Jewish state. And we were content with that. But then seven Arab nations invaded us to slaughter us. The Jews were ethically cleansed during that war from the West Bank and other places. Just as the Jews were content with what we were offered when we were weak, so should one reasonably expect the Arabs to be content and realize that we're not going anywhere and we need a safe place to live as well.

> If only they would start being nice, so we can stop killing them and give them a city!

Yes, generally in Western culture it is expected that when you want something from somebody, you treat them nicely. Especially if what you want is to live next door to them.

> Ah let me build a settlement in their land

Their land? Are you pulling the Arab Land card? How would you respond to British who reject Arab immigration to Great Britain on the basis of GB being White Land? The Jews have 3000 continuous years of history in the West Bank, broken only for 19 years when Jordan ethnically cleansed the West Bank of Jews. Even Israel didn't ethnically cleanse the land she won, Israel was (and remains) 20% Arab. If you support ideas of one-race-only Land and ethnic cleansing, then you and I will never agree.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-10-03 17:20:55+00:00
it's a shame; i generally agree with most of what ed has to say and i think his arguments come from a good place, but the website is pretty irritating and i find his delivery to be breathless and melodramatic to the point of cliche (not befitting the serious nature of the topics he argues). i had to stop listening to his podcast because of the delivery; its not an uncommon situation for other CZM podcasts but at least some of them handle their editorial content with a little more maturity (shout out to Molly Conger's Weird Little Guys podcast).

I hate to make the comparison between two left-ish people who yell for a living just because they're both British, but it kinda feels like ed is going for a john oliver type of delivery, which only really works well when you have a whole team of writers behind you.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-03 17:22:16+00:00
It's not a matter of not knowing how to do it, that part is easy.

It's the lack of options or a clean way to replace an existing wallpaper without adding a new lock screen and re-customizing. E.g., clicking the share sheet from photos and choosing "Set as wallpaper" creates a brand new lock screen instead of just replacing your existing wallpaper.

At the very least, it should ask which option you want to do.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-10-03 17:22:25+00:00
> I couldn't go into a playground without some thought of having to prove I wasn't a child trafficker.

I was my wife's caregiver and dad to 5 young sons over 20years. I was the sole parent taking them to playgrounds and other outdoor activities, upwards to 200x a year.

In all those events, I never experienced nor witnessed anything remotely like what you described. Not for me and not for any other solo dad. On rare occasion, I was complimented for spending time with them. That's about all the notice I got.
by jstanley | 2025-10-03 17:23:01+00:00
So, wait, you're saying that these guys just aren't impressed by the AI technology, and that is blinding them to the fact that the AI companies' economics look really good?

That is a laughable take.

The AI technology is very very impressive. But that doesn't mean you can recover the hundreds of billions of dollars that you invested in it.

World-changing new technology excites everyone and leads to overinvestment. It's a tale as old as time.
by tibbar | 2025-10-03 17:23:20+00:00
The intensely negative reaction to GPT-5 is a bit weird to me. It tops the charts in an elaborate new third-party evaluation of model performance at law/medicine, etc [0]. It's true that it was a bit of an incremental improvement to o3, but o3 was a huge leap in capabilities to GPT4, a completely worthy claimant to be the next generation of models.

I will be the first person to say that AI models have not yet realized the economic impact they promised - not even close. Still, there are reasons to think that there's at least one more impressive leap in capabilities coming, based on both frontier model performance in high-level math and CS competitions, and the current focus of training models on more complex real-world tasks that take longer to do and require using more tools.

I agree with the article that OpenAI seems a bit unfocused and I would be very surprised if all of these product bets play out. But all they need is one or two more ChatGPT-level successes for all these bets to be worth it.

[0] https://mercor.com/apex/
by rcxdude | 2025-10-03 17:23:30+00:00
As I understood it the main bottleneck is interconnects, anyhow. It's more difficult to keep the ALUs fed than it is to make them fast enough, especially once your model can't fit in one die/PCB. And that's in principle a much trickier part of the design, so I don't really know how that shakes out (is there a good enough design that you can just buy as a block?)
by ctoth | 2025-10-03 17:23:31+00:00
I have been strongly-tempted to make Zitron and Marcus GPTs... But every time I think about getting started I realize a simple shell script would work better.

Oh wait Claude did a better job than I would have:

https://claude.ai/share/32c5967a-1acc-450a-945a-04f6c554f752
by erikerikson | 2025-10-03 17:23:31+00:00
Thank you for the improvements, I think it does read better now. Thank you for making the effort to converse in a second language.

I still think you are making a point that feels orthogonal to the article. The author presents (supported by public expressions of the opinion) that some people believe social anxiety is based on wanting to be liked. While to that point your study indicating that autistic people may be at a disadvantage on the getting people to like them front, the author is then rejecting that proposition (i.e. that the socially anxious are actually concerned about avoiding dislike). I suppose your point can be understood relevant there too, in that for the autistic population, the baseline "disliked" level is higher. However, the article remains about the internal focus of those with social anxiety (whether it over generalizes or not) between "liked" and "not disliked" which seems orthogonal to any baseline "likability" considerations for one or any other sub-population.

[edit: s/"liked" level is lower/"disliked" level is higher/ for higher congruence with context]
by mothballed | 2025-10-03 17:24:14+00:00
It tends to go the other way around; politicians and academia pick economists that favor the way they'd like economics to be managed.

Consider that Ludwig Von Mises, one of the most famous economists never held a tenure track position. And Milton Friedman won a nobel prize, including a study of monetary history that damned the fed for helping bring on the great depression -- later nobel prize to Bernanke for works that included the great depression held quite different or even opposing views to Friedman.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-03 17:24:33+00:00
I agree with you as a general rule. But this is actually pretty close to how Social Anxiety is defined. It's about the fear of being negatively evaluated or embarrassed.

For example the DSM definition https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519712/table/ch3.t12/ or the Mayo Clinic explainer page https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/social-anxiet....

I think what this blog post is getting at is describing for people the difference between fear of negative evaluation and positive desire to be liked.

One thing the post misses is that sometimes these are learned behaviors that come from a lifetime of experience being disliked for no obvious reason. For example, sometimes outgoing autistic children develop social anxiety after their peers reject them repeatedly.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-10-03 17:24:41+00:00
German speaking here: People here in Germany do not want to think about just how bad our constitution really is designed. We only get free speech lte, There's no fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine leading to constant prosecutorial overreach and illegal searches[0] that are later ruled illegal but with on effect and our public prosecutors are so much lacking in independence that they aren't allowed to issue european arrest warrants [1]. But I've heard people tell me with complete conviction how great our constitution is. I can't even bother arguing about it anymore.

[0] And they brag about it on 60 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bMzFDpfDwc [1] https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/201...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-03 17:24:48+00:00
Okay. My point wasn't that there aren't unedited videos out there. I acknowledged that. It was "They won't ever venture out and see the full context.". If thrres a 10m view clip and the full lovestream has 500k views, thats 95% of the audience without the full context.

The 2nd video is also a highlight reel of different segments edited together, so I'm not sure what you're showing here. There's still room to edit out any people they didn't like. Just because they show the full segment for one person doesn't mean they show them all.

But i feel we're way off topic at this point so I'll cut it off here.
by throw_a_grenade | 2025-10-03 17:25:01+00:00
I'm sorry to pick non-technical details, but this PDF is typeset on „Letter” paper, which is immediately noticeable (different aspect ratio). Normally it's on „yeah, whatever” level, but since this paper (sic) aims to influence European policy, now this detail is actually important.

This whole piece reeks „I'm an 1) outsider that 2) couldn't be bothered to get to know local culture so 3) probably has no stake in the affair” and as such is liable to get dismissed after only cursory glance. We know every single enumerated point above is false, but it doesn't matter. That every single word written on the page is right nd warranted, doesn't matter. @Meredith and anyone else writing papers aimed at EU, would you kindly please switch to A4 before exporting the PDF.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-03 17:25:57+00:00
Then support them. Too often you show up to scream "think of the children" without actually citing any research or empirical damage. If you refuse to argue in good faith and don't want to be told you're wrong, voting is the only thing you're capable of doing. Don't tell us about it, vote.

Everyone knows those laws do nothing, though; go look at the countries that pass them. Kids share pornography P2P, they burn porno to CDs and VHS tapes and bring in pornographic magazines to school. They AirDrop pornographic contents to their friends and visit websites with pornography on them too. Worst-case scenario, they create a secondary market for illegal pornography because they'll be punished regardless - which quickly becomes a vehicle for creating CSAM and other truly reprehensible materials.

They don't do it because they're misogynistic, mentally vulnerable or lack perspective - they do it because they're horny. Every kid who aspires to be an adult inherently exists on a collision course with sexual autonomy, most people realize it during puberty. If you frustrate their process of interacting with adulthood, you get socially stunted creeps who can't respond to adult concepts.
by e12e | 2025-10-03 17:25:58+00:00
To me this looks strictly worse than if they just used s/mime with some magic to integrate in the Gmail client for ux.

As I read it[1] - Gmail users are given a hidden s/mime key pair, possibly with secret key stored in a hw token/on device.

I can only assume that when mailing an external user without guest/Gmail account, Gmail will generate a (temporary?) key pair for the recipient, encrypt the message under temporary public key of the recipient - then when recipient creates the guest account - either generate a new key pair and re-encrypt or assign the key pair held for the user? To allow Gmail to decrypt the mail in the browser? As well as implicitly trust the sender key for verification?

I struggle to see how this is e2e in any meaningful sense?

When I log into a public terminal at my library - how will the browser access my keys?

[1] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/13317990?sjid=1138879...
by o11c | 2025-10-03 17:26:09+00:00
Citation fucking needed. You can't just claim any difference between people must be racism - if anything, that's a racist attitude to assume that in the first place, in fact.

I (and who knows how many a kid) was bored out of my mind all of kindergarten and first grade since I was one of the few kids who could read, and our gifted program didn't start until 2nd grade (I think in 1st grade I tested reading at 7th-grade level?). It's gratuitous torture to mix kids of different ability levels - both for the competent and the incompetent kids.
by marcosdumay | 2025-10-03 17:26:14+00:00
> All those robots represent a greater than 90 percent savings in time relative to doing the same tasks manually.

Lol, nope.

Dishwashers solve at best some 50% of the hassle that are the easy to wash table dishes, while being completely unable to clean oven ones. Floor cleaners solve a 5 minutes task in a couple-of-days-long house upkeep. Coffee makers... don't really automate anything, why did you list them here? And there's no automation available for heating and cooling food. And the part about drilling and turning screws also isn't automation at all.

The only thing on your list that is close to solved is clothes cleaning. And there's the entire ironing thing that is incredibly resistant to solving. But yeah, that puts it way beyond 90% solved.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-10-03 17:26:27+00:00
> It's mostly men who don't wanna get married and/or start a family and do all that stuff because (in states that have yet to reform their laws) they stand to lose half their shit and not even have half a kid to show for it.

> I have zero sympathy for people, of any gender, for whom not being on the favorable end of unequal treatment in divorce/custody is the marginal difference that makes them not get married.

I guess you have zero sympathy for a large chunk of men then, because first you say that men don't get married because they lose their stuff in a divorce, and then you say that you have zero sympathy for people who don't get married because of it.
by littlestymaar | 2025-10-03 17:26:42+00:00
> There is a lot of "transformer LLMs are flawed" going around, and a lot of alternative architectures being proposed, or even trained and demonstrated. But so far? There's nothing that would actually outperform transformer LLMs at their strengths. Most alternatives are sidegrades at best.

That's kind of an awkward timing to say that, as alternative to transformers have flourished over the past few weeks (Qwen3-Next, Granite 4).

But IIRC Le Cun's criticism applies to more than just transformers and to next-token predictors as a whole.
by kkukshtel | 2025-10-03 17:27:39+00:00
How long until disciples of Zitron realize that he is just feeding them sensationalist doomer slop in order to drive his own subscription business. Maybe never!

I find he exhbits the same characteristics of things that drove people like red letter media in the early aughts to be "successful". Make something so long and tedious that the idea of arguring with its own points would require something twice as long, and as such the ability to instead just motion to an uncontested 40 minute longread is then used as a surrogate for any actual arguement. Said diffferently, it's easy for AI skeptics to share this as some way of proving backing up their own point. It's 40 minutes long, how could it be wrong!
by pjmlp | 2025-10-03 17:27:45+00:00
Which is why since Windows 11 version 24H2, Windows started getting some additional sandboxing capabilities in Win32, similar to how UWP works.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...

Currently it is still opt-in, but who knows when they decide to go Apple style with Gatekeeper.
by gfodor | 2025-10-03 17:27:56+00:00
I’m saying that seeing dubious economics is blinding people from accepting what’s actually going on with neural networks, and it leads to them having a profoundly miscalibrated mental model. This is not like analyzing a typical tech cycle. We are dealing with something here that we don’t really understand and transcends basic models like “it’s just a really good tool.”
by bonesss | 2025-10-03 17:28:00+00:00
Much of the criticism of Israel is self-serving, one-sided, and predicated on definition twisting.

After 9/11 there was ample “glass parking lot” sentiment. If some enclave of Canadians or Mexicans tortured, murdered, raped thousands then kidnapped hundreds of Americans those parts of Canada/Mexico wouldn’t exist any more. And rightfully so. The hyperbole and constant double standards in the criticism undermine the credibility of all involved (I mean, Sudan… Congo… Afghanistans border…).

Every westerner involved in dogpiling needs fundamental clarity in the order of the “Death to ____” claims. Every, single, argument against The Jews applies immediately afterwards to The Brits, The French, The Spanish, and Great Satan itself: The US.

“500 thousand dead Iraqi children” is a “genocide” too, if we don’t care about facts or words. That specific strain of propaganda directly supports 9/11 style attacks and ongoing terrorism against the US.

I deeply disappointed in the mush brained cowardice we’re displaying. The best liberal democracy in the Middle East, and victim of constant horrific terrorism, deserves better.
by peterdunson | 2025-10-03 17:28:58+00:00
Tired of LLMs citing fake papers? renderscholar is a Google Scholar scraper (inspired by Andrej Karpathy’s rendergit) that pulls real papers, ranks them by relevance/citations/recency, and outputs an HTML file with a Human view for browsing and an LLM view for safe copy-pasting into models.

Please tell me what you think!!
by Loughla | 2025-10-03 17:29:06+00:00
This needs to be stressed. It's not just uncertainty of grants. That's a given, even when fed is stable.

Schools are questioning basic financial aid now. If Trump follows through on eliminating ED, no one is confident that there's a plan for any of the essential services and payments. . . Because there's never really been a plan for anything else.

Higher education is scared right now.
by dfawcus | 2025-10-03 17:29:30+00:00
That does seem to miss the fact that by then there was not a 'Viking king of Northumbria'. The Danelaw did not fully extend in to Northumbria.

My recall of history is that Northumbria had more or less split back in to Deira and Bernicia. With the Vikings having control south of the Tees, but north of the Tyne it was still an Kingdom of the Angles. Albeit possibly a client Kingdom, that seems a bit uncertain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northumbria#Northumbria_and_No...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernicia#Rump_of_Northumbria

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

So that portion only really became part of a unified England per-se after the Norman conquest, and the "Harrying of the North."

Certainly the English spoken in Northumberland to this day, is apparently heavily influenced by the Old Anglic language.
by dfxm12 | 2025-10-03 17:29:47+00:00
Not OP. It's not about the words or the intentions, it's about the fact that we can talk about anything in the world, do any activity together, and you want to do something I'm not comfortable with.

That said, I understand relationships are about give and take. I couldn't be in a romantic relationship like this, but I'll indulge my friends or my cousins. I have a friend who engages in "countersignaling" often. Our connection is generally worth the uncomfortableness, but sometimes it is unbearable.
by asciident | 2025-10-03 17:29:48+00:00
CS and DS people are getting more applied and gaining domain expertise, and can do a lot of economics work now. Academic economists, especially those who primarily do data science / big data, seem to basically be doing Masters-level data science projects for their Ph.D. The hard part in their Ph.D.s is collecting the data, which used to be a very manual job that relied on connections, but more of them are getting them or imputing them from public sources so it's not that impressive anymore.

Speaking as someone who has attended 3 economics Ph.D. defenses in the past two years.
by abaymado | 2025-10-03 17:29:58+00:00
Every headline when I was in college was "App J Sold for a Gizzillion Dollars." So, I figured I would learn programming and join the club. Easier said than done. Nevertheless, I started watching YouTube videos titled "Make a Clone of J."

In hindsight, it was a horrible way to learn. Most YouTubers probably benefited more from clickbait teaching than from actual fundamental teaching. Eventually, I was able to navigate the internet and land on an actual structured curriculum, whose lectures and courses were long and boring but taught you the fundamentals of programming.

I am picking up a similar pattern with Vibe Coding. Beginners are more excited about having a launched product wrapped with a band-aid rather than having deep knowledge.
by bjourne | 2025-10-03 17:30:43+00:00
It was a few years ago since I last played with Googles hw, but iirc TPUs were inflexible and very fast. Worked well for linear and convolutional layers but could not accelerate certain LSTM configurations. For such networks GPUs were faster. It wouldn't surprise me the least if TPU hardware support lagged behind what the latest and greatest LLMs require for training.