MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Havoc | 2025-10-02 19:15:30+00:00
I'd be pretty worried as a shareholder. Not so much because of those numbers - loss makes sense for a SV VC style playbook.

...but rather that they're doing that while Chinese competitors are releasing models in vaguely similar ballpark under Apache license.

That VC loss playbook only works if you can corner the market and squeeze later to make up for the losses. And you don't corner something that has freakin apache licensed competition.

I suspect that's why the SORA release has social media style vibes. Seeking network effects to fix this strategic dilemma.

To be clear I still think they're #1 technically...but the gap feels too small strategically. And they know it. That recent pivot to a linkedin competitor? SORA with socials? They're scrambling on market fit even though they lead on tech
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-02 19:15:30+00:00
I used to work for a company that built claims benefit management systems, for both direct insurers, and then TPAs (third party administrators).

The flip side of what you say is this - employers are not actuaries in the world of healthcare. So, while an employer can say "hey, whatever else we're doing, we want to give every employee a massage a week, covered 100%, no copay" and the TPA will facilitate the pricing of that, for the general spectrum of care, they will say "We want basically this level of care" and really just choose a plan already provided by the insurer, because all the actuarial effort has been done and the employer has less risk of getting slammed with a multi-million bill because of unexpected incidences.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-02 19:16:08+00:00
Google invented the transformer architecture, so I genuinely have no clue what you're talking about. Do you actually think they should have kept it a secret from the world? Do you think Google would genuinely be a better company if they monopolized the tech?

In this day-and-age, it feels like HN refuses to advocate for anything that isn't a monopoly. Are we incapable of imagining competitive markets now?
by jen20 | 2025-10-02 19:16:14+00:00
I for one wish it would go further. Despite being in Austin, I often can't watch the Astros - as if I'm going to drive a six hour round trip to go to every game otherwise - without subscribing to some channel which is inevitably only available with companies I don't want to do business with. I'd happily pay ~300/yr for a streaming subscription that gets me all those games though...
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-02 19:16:23+00:00
> They would have to be the biggest fools in tech history to not flip that switch

As much as I don't want ads infiltrating this, it's inevitable and I agree. OpenAI could seriously put a dent into Google's ad monopoly here, Altman would be an absolute idiot to not take advantage of their position and do it.

If they don't, Google certainly will, as will Meta, and Microsoft.

I wonder if their plan for the weird Sora 2 social network thing is ads.

Investors are going to want to see some returns..eventually. They can't rely on daddy Microsoft forever either, now with MS exploring Claude for Copilot they seem to have soured a bit on OpenAI.
by ragona | 2025-10-02 19:16:36+00:00
Definitely, but when we're running around sprinkling PQ algorithms all over the place, it's on top of the asymmetric bits, not replacing the "boring" stuff like your symmetrically encrypted backups. Shit certainly does happen, especially where key management is involved, but I'm not sure I agree that offering an encrypted backup feature is necessarily undoing the FS/PCS story.

edit: Well, let me argue with myself for a moment. I don't think offering an encrypted backup feature undoes the PQ story. But FS/PCS is weakened, sure, since we're talking about all types of shit happening, not just currently known (or strongly theorized) attacks.
by Ozzie_osman | 2025-10-02 19:16:47+00:00
> Question: There is a repeated claim that more calories have been provided to the Gaza people than several other human crisis scenarios, but that Hamas is currently stealing it all.

This claim is made by supporters of the war _outside of Israel_ for external consumption. If you look at what the Israeli cabinet, generals and politicians are saying for internal consumption... it's pretty deliberate.
by tsegratis | 2025-10-02 19:16:59+00:00
> With confidence fractured along partisan and generational lines...

the root cause, i think, is a devaluation of truth; for "truth" in the name of partisan lines

this is so so common: "we know this is not true, but we advance it to improve our position or virtue signal etc"

this was, i think, foundational to the collapse of society at the beginning of the 1900s -- we "believe this" because we get other peoples property or otherwise advance our cause

being truthful costs us, and people are no-longer so willing to pay

the root cause of that, i would say is they have walked away from Jesus who pays his life for our benefit; only people who live like that can be trusted to tell the truth
by wewtyflakes | 2025-10-02 19:17:05+00:00
These are different reasons than given previously. Regardless, Google Sheets are automatically versioned and have extensive access controls, both at the document level, and cell level. Further still, these types of documents are not black boxes, since anyone with access can inspect the data themselves. Arguments regarding scale and atomic operations/properties/consistency are fine, though I do not believe all business logic is necessarily beholden to these qualities.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-02 19:17:17+00:00
I get ApoB is a better marker... but it's been hard enough in my limited experience to even get the numbers for Tg and HDL from lab results from the doctors I've seen.... they tend to just go "number high, give drugs"

Risk being higher when Tg is more than 2x HDL in adult men. Even then, I'm not sure that medication as intervention is always the right answer vs lifestyle changes, which are of course harder.
by OGWhales | 2025-10-02 19:17:35+00:00
I've found this a really useful strategy in many situations when working with LLMS. It seems odd that it works, since one one think its ability to give a good reply to such a question means it already "understands" your intent in the first place, but that's just projecting human ability onto LLMS. I would guess this technique is similar to how reasoning modes seems to improve output quality, though I may misunderstand how reasoning modes work.
by BJones12 | 2025-10-02 19:17:35+00:00
Definitions matter. It's possible for an organization to redefine "acutely malnourished" as less than 4000 Cal/day, and then use that to make an accusation. Is that reasonable? No, because that does not match reality. It's unreasonable to criticize pushback on changing definitions because definitions should be pushed toward reality.
by runningmike | 2025-10-02 19:17:54+00:00
There are some good SAST scanners and many bad commercial scanners.

Many people advocate for the use of AI technology for SAST testing. There are even people and companies that deliver SAST scanners based on AI technology. However: Most are just far from good enough.

In the best case scenario, you’ll only be disappointed. But the risk of a false sense of security is enormous.

Some strong arguments against AI scanners can be found on https://nocomplexity.com/ai-sast-scanners/
by catlover76 | 2025-10-02 19:18:10+00:00
Interesting article, thanks for posting

> But I do get the idea that there is something soulless about it, and the way conservatives interact with one another is closer to how our species evolved to live – that is, either hiding women from public view, or allowing their sexuality to be central to their public identity, without much room in between.

I wonder what makes him say that (not that I'd be persuaded there is anything to it, for a few reasons, but just curious)
by 72736379 | 2025-10-02 19:18:22+00:00
There's a standardized way to express what is happening in the game too- you'll often hear on the radio and television broadcasts the play that just happened using numbered positions on the field. 1 is pitcher, 2 is catcher, 3 is first baseman, 4 is second, 5 is third, 6 is shortstop, etc. so you'll hear something like "6-4-3 double play" which means the ball was fielded by the shortstop (6), thrown to the second baseman (4) for the first out, then to the first baseman (3) for the second one.

Makes it easy to visualize the game if listening on the radio.
by codegeek | 2025-10-02 19:18:31+00:00
I am curious to see how this compares against where Amazon was in 2000. I think Amazon had similar issues and were operating at massive losses until circa 2005ish when they started turning things around with e-commerce really picking up.

If the revenue keeps going up and losses keep going down, it may reach that inflection point in a few years. For that to happen, the cost of AI datacenter have to go down massively.
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-02 19:18:42+00:00
> Killing 736 Israeli civilians, 79 foreign nationals, and 379 Israeli military and security personnel, and kidnapping an additional 250 civilians is not, by any fathomable definition, genocide. It is a war crime for sure, but it's not genocide.

I think the evidence is quite overwhelming that Hamas had clear genocidal intent, even if they did not have the means to accomplish that intent.
by bjoli | 2025-10-02 19:18:46+00:00
The reason for that is apparently that you can use baby formula to make rocket candy. Because apparently extracting the lactose from 40kg baby formula is all it takes to make a quassam rocket.

If you can get your hand om 20kg of oxidiser that is. It is all more than ridiculous.

Edit: and Nick Maynard is a national treasure.
by pyuser583 | 2025-10-02 19:19:12+00:00
Even "medieval peasantry" was a bit of an odd phrase.

The middle ages saw the growth of cities, commerce, increasingly industrial agriculture, etc. It also saw non-peasant societies like the vikings, muslim civilization, etc.

There were massive social safety nets in the form of guilds, religious orders, and political patronage organizations. Disease was a much bigger threat than starvation.

You're right the Victorians, like the Pre-Raphelites and Oxford movement, fetishized medieval life. But that was a reaction against anti-medieval Tudor-begun propaganda in place since the Plantagenets were defeated at the Battle of Bosworth Field (1485).
by polartx | 2025-10-02 19:19:17+00:00
I’d like to piggyback on your comment to get your (and broader audiences) opinion on a situation I’m facing:

I’ve recently learned my 5 year old is exhibiting behavior problems in kindergarten. His teacher has put the notion in his mother’s head that he may have autism and has provided his mother a fast track referral to have him tested/diagnosed. I feel strongly that he does not have autism; aside from being disruptive in class he doesn’t have any other characteristics—-he is very verbal, social, doesn’t avoid eye contact or physical contact. I’ve spoken to his Sunday school teachers, daycare workers, etc and they were incredulous that he potentially has autism.

‘Well if he doesn’t have it what’s the harm in having him tested at a facility that specializes in pediatric autism? If you’re right they’ll easily determine he’s not autistic, right?’ Is the question I can imagine being asked at my reluctance to consent to the testing and diagnostics. Frankly, I’m suspicious of the (potential) conflict of incentives that a clinic specializing in pediatric autism may have; I positive diagnosis is only good for business in the way that a men’s clinic is incentivized to find every patient that walks through their door has low testosterone. Especially considering the subjectivity and ‘spectrum’ that falls under the blanket term ‘autism’.

On a scale from likely to incredibly unlikely, how rooted in reality would you characterize my concerns? Also what harm, if any would come from a false positive diagnosis? Would it outweigh the harm of a person being an undiagnosed, high functioning person with autism?
by palmfacehn | 2025-10-02 19:19:36+00:00
Billionaires often prefer the centralization which socialist narratives rationalize. It allows them to more easily capture wealth from the state. The central bank is a boon to Wall Street. The USDA is a boon to big agriculture. The central bank financing debt is a boon for the defense industry. The "Affordable Care Act" increased profits for health insurers. Regulations are often used to create artificial barriers to entry and prevent competition.
by rbanffy | 2025-10-02 19:19:38+00:00
You might call it weak and gimmicky all you want, but it entrenched itself deeply into our collective imagination.

I saw many people come up independently with a direct quote from this story when they saw the IBM promotional image of a man standing in front of an IBM Quantum System One machine.

The image: https://www.techmonitor.ai/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2023/...
by proto_deka | 2025-10-02 19:19:54+00:00
been an early user of the product for a while now! primarily using it to get high level product analytics trends in my product, nothing crazy but I'm a solo open source dev and it saves me time from worrying about setting up data pipelines/or dashboards for my project. look forward to using the new ontology work to get deeper insights. also would be great to see some improvements in the agent's memory capabilities - e.g. i don't have to explain what my definition of a "power user" is every convo, but loving it so far : )
Show HN: Enhance – A Terminal UI for GitHub Actions
by dlvhdr | 2025-10-02 19:19:58+00:00
I'm very excited to share what I've been working on lately!

Introducing ENHANCE, a terminal UI for GitHub Actions that lets you easily see and interact with your PRs checks.

It's available under a sponsorware model. Get more info on the site:

-> https://gh-dash.dev/enhance

This is an attempt to make my OSS development something sustainable. Happy to hear feedback about the model as well as the tool! Cheers!
by lapcat | 2025-10-02 19:20:03+00:00
> Is anybody who identifies strongly with a political party is interested in hearing fair or balanced news?

What does "fair or balanced" even mean?

I don't identify with any political party. What I want is truthful and accurate news. I don't want an equal number of Democrat and Republican reporters, for example, as if that somehow made good news.

"Fair and balanced" was the catchphrase of FOX News, which is anything but truthful and accurate. Ironically, FOX News eventually dropped even that slogan, remiscent of how Google eventually dropped "Don't be evil".
by refulgentis | 2025-10-02 19:20:08+00:00
I assumed based on your post and the post you replied to that it is literally impossible to prove any AI is involved, and I trust both of you on that.

Given that, I'm afraid all the interlocution I have to offer is the thing you commented on, the mind of a downvoter, i.e. positing that every downvoter must have details, including details we[1] can't find.

Past that, I'm afraid to admit I am having difficulty understanding how the slides are related, and I don't even know what Matasano is -- is that who owns fly.io? I thought they were "indie" -- I'm embarrassed to admit I thought Monsanto at first. I do know how much I've used AI to code, so I can vouch for tptacek's post.

[1] royal we, i.e. I trust you and OP so completely on what it findable vs. not findable that I trust we can't establish with 100% certainty any sort of AI-based thingy was used at all. To be clear, too, 100% is always too high of a bar, I mean to say we can even't establish at 90% confidence. Even 1% confidence. If all we have is their word to go on, it's impossible.
by jimbo808 | 2025-10-02 19:20:09+00:00
I genuinely tried to embrace them, but I have found these AI "enhancements" to be utterly useless. Very rare that they can answer the question I'm having about the product. I'm not sure what the norms are for how these assistants are trained or fine tuned for the specific products they're being offered in, but it seems that they're pretty bad. They don't seem to know anything about the product you're using them in.
by its-kostya | 2025-10-02 19:20:13+00:00
I don't have a background in web development and have a genuine question.

> Your blog is your place to experiment and program how you want it

I 100% agree with your statement and people don't need to justify their hobbies. I've done really pointless things simply for lolz and because I wanted.

My question arises because I was surprised in how ... architected and (dare I say) complex the tech stack in your blog is. In my blogging days I wrote my own HTML/CSS and published it on a Internet facing server. Later, I've used CSS templates and Markdown-to-HTML to generate the static content. What is the purpose of Lua and having a database and all the other complexity for what seems like a static blog? Again, "because I wanted to experiment" or "sharpen my skills" is a totally valid answer but seeing I don't have a background in web development I am inquiring to see if there is a technical reason for doing this. Would be curious to learn what, if any, technical problem warrants such a set up :)
by nemo | 2025-10-02 19:20:15+00:00
Orwell was an anti-Communist, though especially anti Stalinist. He fell into the POUM, he didn't choose them, "I knew that I was serving in something called the POUM. (I had only joined the POUM militia rather than any other because I happened to arrive in Barcelona with ILP papers), but I did not realize that there were serious differences between the political parties."

He actually said "As far as my purely personal preferences went I would have liked to join the Anarchists." After the Stalinists illegalized the POUM, killed and tortured Orwell's friends and tried to kill him, forcing him flee Spain, his view on Communism grew ever more dim, and after that he grew more strongly anti-Communist than his earlier anti-Fascism.
by bityard | 2025-10-02 19:20:23+00:00
I don't know/care about "fair source," but the "open source" label in particular has ALWAYS had a well-known and specific meaning in the software world. Attaching it to a proprietary product for the marketing and social media good feels is actively deceitful, no matter if the company is USA trillion-dollar Big Tech or a single developer from a marginalized demographic in a developing country.

Software authors have the right to choose whatever license they wish for the project/product, just don't try to lie to users about what it really is.
by legitster | 2025-10-02 19:20:34+00:00
There's a couple of problems with Chomsky's book that make it hard to seriously recommend.

The whole book was spent describing a "propaganda model" of news that begins and ends with corporate incentives, profits, and advertising. But he completely ignores the large number of non-profit, independently funded, or publicly owned news sources. And from experience they can exhibit some of the exact same systematized biases! Even without greedy owners.

There's also a lot of conjectures about how news works that simply aren't true or have not existed in decades. He's more interested in pushing his "theory of everything" and making it generic enough to fit any situation anywhere. And the whole idea of using his credibility as a linguist to confidently push a punch of political theories well outside of his actual experience never sat right with me.

There's also an irony that this book was written to combat the media in an era when it was highly trusted and respectable. Now that the media is completely distrusted in America, it's hard to also argue that it's a tool of the elites when it seems dismantling trust in the media is also a tool of elites (which some of his modern contemporaries now argue).

I think the average person is better off reading books about Dick Cheney or the machinations of the War on Terror. You'll actually get a sense how clever people in the seats of power go about actually hijacking the media to take advantage of voters (and the elite!) for particular policy goals.
by aidenn0 | 2025-10-02 19:20:52+00:00
This is somewhat funny because many of my classes in school barely even managed a veneer of objectivity in scoring, and grades for many things were far more opaque than any annual review I've had at my job.

- In general any class with subjective grading where the work was not anonymized, the name on top would affect the grade (sometimes significantly).

- Some friends actually did an experiment once; person A said that the instructor was grading them harshly because they didn't like them. Person B said "surely not, maybe they just don't like your writing style." So they wrote papers and swapped their names. The paper written by person A, but with person B's name on it got an A, the other got a B-.

- The most extreme case of this was when I pissed off my instructor and she took me aside and informed me that regardless of the quality of work I turned in, I would not be getting a grade higher than a C on any assignment, and I should expect a D for the class. In retrospect, I think the instructor was trying to get me to drop her class, but I was a freshman and didn't realize that was something you could do 4 weeks into the semester and I ended up with a D.

- I once had a paper returned scored "56/100" the only comments on the paper were "Great Job!! Almost an A paper!" The cutoff for a passing grade in that class was 60%.
by BirAdam | 2025-10-02 19:21:12+00:00
I think the main reason is that places like Twitter provided real-time images of things happening around the world. All it takes is one influencer looking at a photo and talking about it for people to see that reporting is heavily biased. There were also just huge mistakes… like the Weather Channel saying things are terrible and the reporter guy appearing to be struggling to stand while two guys are just walking normally in the background.
by gjm11 | 2025-10-02 19:21:37+00:00
My exact thought process on seeing the title here: "Ah, 'insufficient data for meaningful answer'. No, wait, that one's called 'The Last Question'. So perhaps it's 'There is now'." :-)

(Asimov's is better. Also, the version of this one in my memory is better than the actual story, in that "There is now" is better than the rather clunky equivalent in the story. I suppose it's possible that I'm remembering a different, slightly better written, story with the exact same idea.)
by JCM9 | 2025-10-02 19:21:42+00:00
Until there’s real liquidity (right now there’s not) it’s just a line item on some system you can log into saying you have X number of shares.

For all practical purposes it’s worth nothing until there is a liquid market. Given current financials, and preferred cap table terms for those investing cash, shares the average employee has likely aren’t worth much or maybe even anything at the moment.
by jajuuka | 2025-10-02 19:21:57+00:00
The weirdly feels like a "can you believe he said that" piece. But he's not wrong. Having a two tiered education system from kindergarden that favors one group over another does not lead to good educational outcomes across the board. Nothing wrong with gifted or AP programs, but when they start right away and seem to be favoring one group over another that's a problem.

Ultimately this is a minor issue though. Nobody is voting for a mayor based on their view of a gifted student program.
by pavlov | 2025-10-02 19:22:17+00:00
Amazon's loss in 2000 was 6% of sales. OpenAI's loss in 2025 is 314% of sales.

https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_financials/annual/0...

"Ouch. It’s been a brutal year for many in the capital markets and certainly for Amazon.com shareholders. As of this writing, our shares are down more than 80% from when I wrote you last year. Nevertheless, by almost any measure, Amazon.com the company is in a stronger position now than at any time in its past.

"We served 20 million customers in 2000, up from 14 million in 1999.

"• Sales grew to $2.76 billion in 2000 from $1.64 billion in 1999.

"• Pro forma operating loss shrank to 6% of sales in Q4 2000, from 26% of sales in Q4 1999.

"• Pro forma operating loss in the U.S. shrank to 2% of sales in Q4 2000, from 24% of sales in Q4 1999."