MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lisbbb | 2025-10-05 21:09:23+00:00
I don't know that it's that much easier today. I ran into lots of odd issues with Next.js and authentication and there wasn't a whole heck of a lot of useful info out there about it. Github does help, but you have to wait for the devs to reply.

There are tons of obfuscated Java jar libraries out there that are not upgradeable that companies have built mission critical systems around only to find out they can't easily move to JVM 17 or 25 or whatever and they don't like hearing that.
by cwmoore | 2025-10-05 21:09:25+00:00
I was surprised that XML (56%), with closing tags, wasn’t as good as YAMl/KV(60%), though line breaks perform the same kind of grouping function.

Then I realized from the table that XML used about 50% more tokens (~75K vs ~50K) for similar accuracy, and for the first time felt a kind of sympathy for the LLM…
by runarberg | 2025-10-05 21:09:38+00:00
von Neumann probes are a fantasy. I see no reason why any civilization in the entire universe will ever build a successful self replicating probes, let alone ones that are still replicating dozens of millennia later. The reasons include that targeted probes and telescopes can give you pretty much the same amount of knowledge for far cheaper and much quicker then random walking probes across the galaxy. There is also a technical limitation to self replicating probes, even if a civilization will build one, we cannot expect the self-replicating mechanism to last dozens of millennia. Some generations will fail to replicate, and in the vastness of space that may mean the entire lineage will go extinct.

I think you may be expecting an exponential growth when population dynamics almost always favor logistical growth. At some point your machines, or your colonial behavior hits a limit and your growth starts to slow down. I suspect that limit is within the solar system for the vast vast vast majority of civilization. And even if one escapes their own solar system and starts anew on a new home world, they most likely will not colonize another. The space is just so big, and habitable worlds so far away from each other that I find it extremely improbable that any civilization (and their ancestor civilization) will survive more than 5-6 colonization (by far most will see 0).

> Living beings are the same.

They are not. You are describing living beings like viruses (fair enough; viruses are worthy to be considered lifeforms) that spread from host to host until they infect everybody. But viruses don‘t behave like that. The vast majority of them only infect their closest neighbors, and those that do spread towards the limit of all members of the species (like Covid) still fall short and eventually start to slow down their spread in a logistical manner. Growth only looks exponential while you are at the initial stages of spread. This behavior is not only common among viruses, but in fact most population dynamics can be described with logistical growth.
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-05 21:09:52+00:00
I don't want to defend humanities academia too much, but you could ask the same about pure math too. Of course the correctness of proofs is a checksum, but that doesn't answer which direction one should develop it or whether the thing you developed is found to be useful and interesting and elegant to other pure math people (often like a dozen worldwide).

There's not further justification needed than the fact that other high prestige people find it cool and mind-blowing.

Now my own opinion is that humanities academia is not a good concept. Literature, poetry, art are all great. But merely thinking and chatting about it is not a field. By all means go write great novels that express the human condition. But better go live a real life with adventure and real non-academics around you and write about that. Like Hemingway. Or write poems or paint impactful paintings. But simply writing about that is the equivalent of a reaction YouTuber.

Now the steelman is that they make a complex literary work better understood by unfolding its layers, relating it to the context, analyzing its impact and influence etc. so the work becomes better and deeper understood.
by perlgeek | 2025-10-05 21:09:53+00:00
That's why the top-security DCs that my employer operates have large quantities of Nitrogen stored, and use that slightly lower the O2 saturation of the air in the case of fire.

Yes, it's fucking expensive, that's one of the reason you pay more for a VM (or colocation) than at Hetzner or OVH. But I'm also pretty confident that single fire wouldn't destroy all hard drives in that IT space.
by acdha | 2025-10-05 21:09:58+00:00
His later years involved repeated strong statements against transgender and abortion rights which would be highly incompatible with being a Democrat but quite in line with the Trump supporter his neighbors described him as. He also had a history of lying - for example, claiming law enforcement, security, or military experience – and your description of that letter is highly skewed from the mess of conspiracy and likely misdirection people with direct knowledge described it as.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/17/vance-boelt...

https://www.startribune.com/vance-boelter-letter-klobuchar-w...
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-10-05 21:10:05+00:00
Is encryption, almost any form, really reliable protection for a countries' government entire data? I mean, this is _the_ ultimate playground for "state level actors" -- if someday there's a hole and it turns out it takes only 20 years to decrypt the data with a country-sized supercomputer, you can bet _this_ is what multiple alien countries will try to decrypt first.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-05 21:10:24+00:00
> how economists don't model social cohesion itself as a factor

Again, did you even bother to look?

> When markets train people to treat every interaction as zero-sum

Not how every economic interaction is modelled in even toy models.

> Revealed preferences are differently welfare-maximizing under different market structures

…yes.

> You people have all the mathematical tools to model welfare. You just don't deign to do so

I can’t tell if this comment thread is just a desire to rant.

To third parties, yes, this is all modelled. Not perfectly. But not due to lack of effort. There are lots of things thrown out above, so I’m not going to chase down citations for someone who is unlikely to read them, given many should be findable within minutes of googling.
by rainsford | 2025-10-05 21:10:38+00:00
> I'm actually quite surprised that anyone is advocating the non-hybrid PQ key exchange for real applications.

Why is that so surprising? Adopting new cryptography by running it in a hybrid mode with the cryptography it's replacing is generally not standard practice and multi-algorithm schemes are pretty niche at best (TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt are the only non-PQ cases that come to mind, although I'm sure there are others). Now you could certainly argue that PQ algorithms are untested and risky in a way that was not true of any other new algorithm and thus a hybrid scheme makes the most sense, but it's not such an obviously correct argument that anyone arguing otherwise must be either stupid or malicious.
by drob518 | 2025-10-05 21:10:47+00:00
Exactly. I mean, if the end solution is to convert to a big int, who’s to say that some customer didn’t assume it would always be 32 bits and blow up then, too.

This does highlight the fact that 32 bit is just a small number these days. Personally, I prefer UUIDs instead of incrementing integers for primary keys since they also scale out without having to have global coordination, but at least choose a 64-bit number.
by likeclockwork | 2025-10-05 21:11:08+00:00
Move the browser to the side? I can never understand why anyone would want to manually shuffle windows around as a disorganized stack.

From my perspective the desktop metaphor UX was obsolete the moment it was conceived of. All anyone has to do is look at the physical desks of a thousand random people and it should be immediately obvious how little value there is in recreating that chaos.
by olliem36 | 2025-10-05 21:11:35+00:00
We ended up making middleware for LLM 'tools/functions' that take common data/table formats like CSV, Excel and JSON.

The tool uses an LLM to write code to parse the data and conduct the analysis to return back to the LLM. Otherwise, we found pumping raw table data into a LLM is just not reliable, even if you go to the effort to conduct analysis on smaller chunks and merge the results.
by eigenform | 2025-10-05 21:12:04+00:00
> x86 CALL/RET

I wonder if anyone has actually measured what the code size savings from this look like for typical programs, that would be an interesting read. RISC trope is to expose a "link register" and expect the programmer to manage storage for a return address, but if call/ret manage this for you auto-magically you're at least saving some space whenever dealing with non-leaf functions.
by trimethylpurine | 2025-10-05 21:12:17+00:00
> Does that mean that disobeying an unjust law is acceptable if a lot of people disobey? How many makes it acceptable?

No it doesn't. The establishment of government can be done without warfare in most cases, despite the nation's history. There was no framework for diplomacy or democracy within the kingdom. Your argument looks more like you've jumped to violence and lawlessness, even given alternatives. That's just bloodlust. That's not MLK. That's not Ghandi. You know that.

> India at the time was ruled by the British. If we're going to say that colonized or conquered nations don't count, where do we draw the line? How recent does the conquest have to be?

I won't entertain this example because it's irrelevant to the discussion. Is the US occupied by a foreign military, or are you just ignoring the political options at your disposal because you'd prefer to focus on how fast we can jump to arms and shoot each other? Let's skip this tangent.

>So again this seems like it comes down to amount of support

My argument against this example is that it's a last resort, while you're presenting it as the option of choice. A duty, no less.

>Because non-violent civil disobedience is often more effective than discourse.

It's sometimes more effective in the absence of alternatives. And non-violent civil obedience is most often effective and in most cases far more persuasive with the majority. Prioritize your efforts. No need to get violent when we can be disobedient. No need to get lawless when we can participate in democracy. Even fools won't follow a fool.

>Rosa Parks broke the law and was arrested, and that ultimately lead to the law being declared unconstitutional.

It was already unconstitutional. She didn't break the law. The judicial branch doesn't make new laws, it interprets existing ones. Her disobedience was lawful, and only required because she lacked a platform to reach the courts.

>(MLK...) Would the campaign for civil rights been as successful if there was no civil disobedience at all?

Same thing here, it was already unconstitutional to prevent peaceful demonstrations. Opposing local government with the law on your side to get the attention of a superior governing body is disobedience but as we can see by the court rulings, it's in fact not unlawful.

Even if it were unlawful behavior, it is not a duty. I have no imperative to go looking for laws to break, and anyone who tells me I have to is sick. I'm not MLK. There's 10 examples in history that this panned out for. I'm not such a megalomaniac as to think I'm going to be one of them. And I certainly don't think we all are.

It's not a duty. The claim is simply absurd.
by ben_w | 2025-10-05 21:12:29+00:00
> I’m pretty convinced it should be used to do things humans can’t do instead of things humans can do well with practice. However, I’m also convinced that Capital will always rely on Labor to use it on their behalf.

When computers were new, they were on occasion referred to as "electronic brains" due to their capacity for arithmetic.

Humans can, with practice, do arithmetic well.

A Raspberry Pi Zero can do arithmetic faster than the combined efforts of every single living human even if we all trained hard and reached the level of the current record holder.

Should we stop using computers to do arithmetic just because we can also do arithmetic, or should we allow ourselves to benefit from the way that "quantity has a quality all of its own"*?

* Like so many quotes, attributed to lots of different people. Funny how unreliable humans can be with information :P
by cyberax | 2025-10-05 21:13:31+00:00
I used to have a lot invested in Tesla, but I sold all my shares 2 years ago. I just don't think that their valuation is justified at the current price. So it can crash and burn at any moment.

Tesla has been underperforming for a long time. If we look back to 2021, at that time Tesla had the best battery tech in the world (maybe not on the cell level, but definitely when looking at the system as a whole), the best-performing drivetrain, and generally OK cars.

Fast-forward 5 years, and Tesla's bread-and-butter Model 3 and Model Y are still using essentially the same battery tech. The range has not increased, and the cars themselves are barely any different with only some cosmetic updates. The infotaiment system is rapidly aging, and the cars lack advanced features like vehicle-to-grid.

The FSD has not materialized, and Tesla is likely on hook for billions in upgrades/refunds to pre-2019 car owners for the promised upgrades.

Other Tesla products are less than stellar. Tesla Semi has essentially disappeared, Cybertruck is barely selling (just around 4000 units in Q2!), Model 2 was canceled, and solar is essentially dead.

The battery storage is the only area that is growing robustly with a good profit margin. But Tesla doesn't have any moat there, and competitors (like BYD) are quickly catching up.
by dboreham | 2025-10-05 21:13:35+00:00
The industry has cycled back and forth between "dark mode" and "light mode" several times. Browsers first appeared in a "light mode" era, which I suppose probably began with the Lisa then the Mac, then Sun workstations. Black-on-white needed a more expensive high performance CRT and graphics output circuitry so possibly there was an element of chic associated with it vs lowly green/white text terminals that came before.
by MaxPock | 2025-10-05 21:13:42+00:00
"If Russia were an American style democracy, they could vote in a new guy, send the boys, home, maybe mete out some token punishment to Putin, then be absolved of their crimes on the international stage by a world that's happy to see 'permanent' change"

This is funny because none of that happened to Bush for the illegal an full scale invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan nor to Clinton for the disastrous invasion of Mogadishu.
by SMAAART | 2025-10-05 21:14:14+00:00
I was also recently permanently banned by Reddit, the only reason why I can think of is because:

1. periodically like every 3-4 months I would be running a script to delete any and all posts and comments. Also every 1-2 years I would delete my account(s), and start brand-new with new accounts (to avoid doxxing).

2. I had 3 alt accounts, one for professional reasons (AI, coding, etc), one for local interests (NYC), and one for fun/shitposting. All three linked to the same email address.

3. I did not violate any rules (except for running a script), I did not upvoted/downvoted each other's posts or upvoted/downvoted the same post from different accounts, each accounts followed different subs.

IMO Reddit is cleaning up house and surely didn't like my deleting my history.

C'est la vie!
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-05 21:14:17+00:00
> While I agree this report is BS and xenophobic, I am still willing to bet that either now or later, the Chinese will attempt some kind of subterfuge via LLMs if they have enough control.

The answer to this isn't to lie about the foreign ones, it's to recognize that people want open source models and publish domestic ones of the highest quality so that people use those.
by whateveracct | 2025-10-05 21:14:18+00:00
> $10MM

Ah, so they are just basing their life decisions on falsehoods then? lol

I know the world is different now, but I graduated high school in the wake of the 08 financial crisis. A lot of this Zoomer doomerism sounds like what people said about millennials.

But I (and my future wife) just went to a state school with in-state tuition. Got tech/eng degrees with some debt (5 figures). Have worked in the industry with ups and downs (including layoffs) for a decade or so now. Paid that debt off. Lived in a high CoL city in a nice apartment. Got a nice house after 5y of saving (but not being super frugal, just savvy I'd say. e.g. drove the same 08 Civic the whole time). And now we have a baby and only one of us works at all (and the other WFHs).

We didn't get giant donations from our parents (although some reasonable college savings helped, which I am repeating for my kid). Didn't go to prestigious fancy schools. Didn't even exceptionally excel in school.

But the key was to not throw our hands up and say the system is fucked. It's waxed and waned since that 08 crisis, and not participating is the main way to have lost. So yeah, thinking insanely wrong stuff like you need 10 mil to succeed is just stupid and self sabotaging haha.
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by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-10-05 21:14:26+00:00
BYD made their Autonomous Driving Features free (1).

But they don't make false claims about them.

(1)

https://insidechinaauto.com/2025/02/11/byd-rolls-out-autonom...

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/11/cars/china-byd-smart-driv...
by thfuran | 2025-10-05 21:14:32+00:00
>Unless the population is growing, the steady state is that one prof can only mint one prof-descendant in their lifetime on average. That means, maybe some can create more, but then some will not have any mentees that ever become professors. It is very basic math

Yes, and the US population went from about 130 million in 1940 to 330 million in 2020, while the percent of adults with a college degree went from about 5% to about 40%. There were a few decades of particularly rapid growth.
by HeavyStorm | 2025-10-05 21:14:43+00:00
Well I'll be. Backup is a discipline to not be taken lightly by any organization, specially a government. Fire? This is backup 101: files should be backed up and copies should be physically apart to avoid losing data.

There are some in this threading pointing out that this would be handled by cloud providers. That bad - you can't hope for transparent backup, you need to actively have a discipline over it.

My fear is that our profession has become very amateurish over the past decade and a lot of people are vulnerable to this kind of threat.
by immibis | 2025-10-05 21:14:59+00:00
All of them that I'm aware of. There's generally a series of escalating actions, the last few of which involve direct physical violence against you. The only reason to comply with any of the earlier stages is the threat of direct physical violence from the later stages if you don't. Without that threat, the whole idea of being forced to do something collapses, since you can just completely ignore what the law is demanding you to do.

Sometimes the last stage in a chain of potential escalations is some kind of deprivation instead of violence. For example, if I get money taken from my bank account to pay a fine, and I only planned to use that money to buy a really big TV online, then now I don't get a really big TV, which is a punishment, but not a violent one.

But that's actually quite rare. It doesn't work with a brick-and-mortar store, because there would still be more stages of escalation available, where I could take the TV from the store without paying and then men with guns would come after me. It also doesn't work if I was going to buy food with the money, since starvation is a form of torture. It also doesn't work if I was going to pay rent with the money, since eviction is violent. Only relatively few escalation chains end in non-violent deprivation.

With fictitious legal entities it's more likely to end without harm to any natural entities. The last stages of the chain of enforcement against a corporation can be to transfer ownership to a different natural person, followed by dissolving it entirely. Both of those are just pushing words around on paper, and nobody gets a black eye. On the other hand, one could argue that dissolution is to a legal person what the death penalty is to a natural person, and we only just don't care as much legal people aren't real. I don't think have any ethical qualms with metaphorically murdering a corporation by writing a legal document saying it no longer exists, but it actually supports my point, that even against fictitious entities, escalation chains end with something analogous to shooting the corporation in the head.
by acdha | 2025-10-05 21:15:12+00:00
You’re presenting the data for whether it’s okay to be happy about a political figure’s death, not whether it’s okay to cause one. There’s a section about this you should read starting with “YouGov's polling doesn't suggest that young people or liberals are more pro-violence in general”, and in particular the stark divide about self-defense. None of this is great, but it’s hardly surprising that a minority of younger people are more supportive of violence than people who have more life experience and fully-developed frontal cortexes.
by ddxv | 2025-10-05 21:15:49+00:00
I haven't needed to interact with Garage itself specifically. I've been using Boto3 / awscli / s3cmd / rclone for everything S3 API related and it's worked great. Garage was a few commands to setup, turn on, get API keys setup, and then left to run on it's own for the past 4 months.

So in that sense, I've loved it.
by rappatic | 2025-10-05 21:15:51+00:00
Intuitively it makes a lot of sense. Red is obviously associated with “bad/stop/destructive” and green with “positive/go” while blue is neutral in this respect. The other colors aren’t primary and they have their own problems: orange is too similar to red and yellow is too hard to make out against a white background. Purple is okay which is why it’s used for “visited” links but it’s much less ubiquitous than blue in everyday life which makes it gaudy/distinctive.
by geraldcombs | 2025-10-05 21:16:25+00:00
I lead a large-ish open source software project. We have developers that need to build on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It's useful to be able to get everyone bootstrapped with as few steps as possible and with as few dependencies as possible. For our uses CMake works well as a universal superbinary, but I'm always on the lookout for tools that can reduce developer friction.
by mwkaufma | 2025-10-05 21:16:50+00:00
I don't disagree, but the article does. RH describes an architecture where setup functions create callbacks, independent of the receiving type. If I were to steelman him, it would be something like this: "in a pedantic MVC system, model objects don't depend on view objects by design, and therefore should not be aware that their methods are used as 'click callbacks'"