MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danaris | 2025-10-02 12:38:24+00:00
It doesn't have to be.

It can also be the opposite.

Making yourself indispensable. Being the one who shows up for people (not as in "comes in and does a lot of unpaid work", but as in "helps out when other people need it"). Giving people credit where credit is due, especially the unsung heroes.

If you are well-known around the office as the person who is honest, kind, and helpful, the next time someone else tries to take credit for your work, make you look bad, or otherwise stab you in the back, it's much less likely to work—and when that kind of thing fails, it invariably makes the person who tries it look much, much worse.
by jstummbillig | 2025-10-02 12:38:40+00:00
Again, this is not an argument. I am asking: Why do we assume that we know better and people with far more knowledge and insight would all be wrong?

This is not rhetorical question, I am not looking for a rhetorical answer. What is every important decision maker at all these companies missing?

The point is not that they could not all be wrong, they absolutely could. The point is: Make a good argument. Being a general doomsayer when things get very risky might absolutely make you right but it's not a interesting argument – or any argument at all.
by jddj | 2025-10-02 12:38:50+00:00
> Lots of people are celebrating but I’m not. It's a sad, lonely sort of anticlimax. It’s really crap and I feel really bad it’s all ended up like this. I thought she'd just say sorry

Wow.

> In May 2018, Hopkins won an IPSO case against the Daily Mirror for claiming that she had been detained in South Africa in February 2018 for taking ketamine. The Mirror updated the headline to say that she had been detained for spreading racial hatred, and included a correction in the article.

Pick your battles, eh
by rimunroe | 2025-10-02 12:39:07+00:00
That doesn’t seem to me like a good reason to dismiss the question, and especially not that strongly/aggressively. We’re supposed to assume good intentions on this site. I can think of any number of reasons one might feel more productive but in the end not be going much faster. It would be nice to know more about the subject of the question’s experience and what they’re going off of.
by rsynnott | 2025-10-02 12:39:14+00:00
Western Europe in general really, though specifically Ireland, yeah. It hasn't caught on here to the same degree that it has in the UK, at least not for now, fortunately (politically, it's mostly the preserve of fringe weirdos, whereas it's a major-party thing in the UK at this point), but some of the talking points have definitely come over.

As to the sudden shift in the UK, Cameron and May's Conservative governments planned to introduce self-ID (and Cameron was very noisy about the UK's high rating on LGBT rights - of course it has since slid quite a bit in those rankings...), Boris was kinda transphobic but not particularly loud about it, but then by 2022 you see Penny Mordaunt basically facing a sort of transphobia purity test in her leadership campaign (https://news.sky.com/story/penny-mordaunt-dismisses-claims-a...). It was a really rapid about-face.
by hemloc_io | 2025-10-02 12:39:14+00:00
Regardless of my opinions on if you're correct about this, I'm not an ML expert so who knows, I'd be very happy if we cured cancer so I hope you're correct and the video is a cool demo.

I don't believe the risk vs reward on investing a trillion dollars+ is the same when your thesis changes from "We just need more data/compute and we can automate all white collar work"

to

"If we can build a bunch of simulations and automate testing of them using ML then maybe we can find new drugs" or "automate personalized entertainment"

The move to RL has specifically made me skeptical of the size of the buildout.
by mettamage | 2025-10-02 12:39:33+00:00
> Just think about how much more effective advertisements are going to be when LLMs start to tell you what to buy based on which advertiser gave the most money to the company.

Optimistic view: maybe product quality becomes an actually good metric again as the LLM will care about giving good products.

Yea, I know, I said it's an optimistic view.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-02 12:39:48+00:00
There is coreboot which is technically just linux but as the bootloader so a fancy bootloader could have many similarities with a os as although I know that linux is a kernel but I am not really sure as linux is also an operating system as well so the lines are definitely blurry and not as clear I suppose

Fun fact I was actually thinking of a similar idea and I had always known about coreboot but I hadn't known that it was actually invented because someone figured out that the bootloader and the linux kernel had similarities and so that's why. it was an aha moment of me for sorts

I came to know about this from the heads firmware ccc speech yesterday which I am going to link later as I saw it on my pc and I don't have its access right now

See coreboot till then https://www.coreboot.org/ and also a fork of coreboot which removes propreitory blobs iirc https://libreboot.org/ as well
by reedlaw | 2025-10-02 12:40:04+00:00
Not an Old Testament reference, but a Gnostic belief. 1 John addresses Gnosticism by refuting some of its claims such as Jesus only appearing to be human. While John doesn't reference the Demiurge, the concept goes hand in hand with this Gnostic teaching that Jesus was a pure spiritual being. Gnostics considered material things evil, so Jesus coming in the flesh and a benevolent creator God did not fit their worldview.
by rosseitsa | 2025-10-02 12:40:35+00:00
There is a level of investment we put in the platforms we use.

This comment is akin to asking farmers cut off from repairing their equipment "why don't you buy tractors from a different company instead of fighting to fix your existing ones?"

The investment in the case of social media is the network you've built. In my country most local events are announced primarily on facebook for example.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-02 12:41:06+00:00
Ironically, I find that schools (due to voters and politicians) focusing on “equality” or “fairness” is what lead to the decline in public education in the first place.

Voters wanted better results from poorer performing students, but politicians had no cheap way to deliver them, since the poor performance is caused due to the environment at home.

The politically acceptable and cheap solution was capping the ceiling instead of raising the floor, which means parents who wanted their kids to excel sought school districts with similar parents, or sought private schools.

Obviously the current admin and their previous term did not help the situation, but the incentives had been set wrong long before they came to power.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-02 12:41:06+00:00
The GDPR carries a fine risk of up to 20 million, but usually the fines are a few hundred/thousand euros depending on the entity. Think "300 euro fine to a driving school" rather than "300 million euro fine to Google".

And even then, you have to be unlucky enough to actually get caught and investigated by market surveillance authorities. I think you're going to be more likely to get caught up in income/donation/gift tax bracket fraud investigation than to ever feel the impact of the CRA as a hobby open source dev.
by driverdan | 2025-10-02 12:41:38+00:00
I keep seeing articles like this but does anyone actually think we're not in a bubble?

From what I've seen these companies acknowledge it's a bubble and that they're overspending without a way to make the money back. They're doing it because they have the money and feel it's worth the risk in case it pays off. If they don't spend, another company does, and it hits big they will be left behind. This is at least insurance against other companies beating them.
by jstummbillig | 2025-10-02 12:41:46+00:00
It's not convincing. If those simply numbers (that everyone who is deciding these things has certainly considered) were a compelling argument, then everyone would act accordingly on them. It's not the first time they — all of them — are spending/investing money.

So what do I have to assume? Are they all simultaneously high on drugs and incapable of doing the maths? If that's the argument we want to go with, that's cool (and what do I know, it might turn out to be right) but it's a tall ask.
by msukhareva | 2025-10-02 12:41:52+00:00
RAG was always somewhat of a Frankenstein combining two things that should not be combined: information retrieval based on string matching enhanced with embeddings and LLM that needs not string matching but informative texts. If string matching is good but information is poor or provides wrong context, it would only enforce hallucinations. Search, tool calling and connections should be a part of the system and trained together with LLM
by ForHackernews | 2025-10-02 12:41:56+00:00
Can we? Why haven't we, then? What are the big problems that were unsolvable before and now we can solve them with AI?

Auto-tagging of photos, generating derivative images and winning at Go, I will give you. There's been some progress on protein folding, I heard?

Where's the 21st century equivalent of the steam locomotive or the sewing machine?
by griffzhowl | 2025-10-02 12:42:14+00:00
Thanks, that sharpens it then to a question about natural numbers, or at least some idea of an indefinitely extensible collection of unique elements: it seems the ordering on the numbers isn't required for a collection of variables, we just need them to be distinct.

I don't think you need set theory to define set theory (someone would have noticed that kind of circularity), but there still seems to be some sleight of hand in the usual presentations, with authors often saying in the definition of first-order logic prior to defining set theory that "there is an infinite set of variables". Then they define a membership relation, an empty set, and then "construct the natural numbers"... But I guess that's just a sloppiness or different concern in the particular presentation, and the seeming circularity is eliminable.

Maybe instead of saying at the outset that we require natural numbers, wouldn't it be enough to give an operation or algorithm which can be repeated indefinitely many times to give new symbols? This is effectively what you're illustrating with the x, x*, x**, etc.

If that's all we need then it seems perfectly clear, but this kind of operational or algorithmic aspect of the foundation of logic and mathematics isn't usually acknowledged, or at least the usual presentation don't put it in this way, so I'm wondering if there's some inadequacy or incompleteness about it.*
by mrtksn | 2025-10-02 12:42:46+00:00
That how you build up a case for transferring control. First its "lol, 5m is a pocket change" and it becomes argument of politicians for tighter control over Meta. Then Zuck says they are trying to make the world a better place but it doesn't stick, people side with the politician who is building a career by sticking it to Meta.

So not entirely useless.
by antonyh | 2025-10-02 12:42:50+00:00
I prefer my old iPhone 8 to the new models, but without the updates it's no longer useful. I was waiting for 4th Gen SE but it never came, but in practice it's the same width and less than 2 centimetres taller. If I could have a shorter phone (like an iPhone 8 without the bezel) that would be amazing.

I tried small Androids in the past, had a Sony Xperia compact (Z1?) and loved it until it very literally fell apart.
by reisterm | 2025-10-02 12:43:08+00:00
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by cmrdporcupine | 2025-10-02 12:43:30+00:00
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by Atomic_Torrfisk | 2025-10-02 12:43:49+00:00
> Calling this an “AI bubble” reads like pure sour grapes from folks who missed the adoption curve.

Ad hominem.

> ignores lagging enterprise procurement cycles

Time is long gone for that, even for most bureaucratic orgs.

> rapid glide path of unit economics as models, inference, and hardware efficiency improve

Conjecture. We don't know if we can scale up effectively. We are hitting limits of technology and energy already

> Habit formation is the moat

Yes and no. GenAI tools are useful if done right, but they have not been what they were made out to be, and they do not seem to be getting better as quickly as I like. The most useful tool so far is copilot auto-complete, but its value is limited for experienced devs. If its price increased 10x tomorow, I would cancel our subscription.

> We’re not watching a bubble pop; we’re watching infrastructure being laid for the next decade of products.

How much money are you risking right now? Or is it different this time?
by justupvoting | 2025-10-02 12:43:51+00:00
I don't think so; preserving goodness and decency comes at little personal cost to most of us, but McCarthy's effort in the book is at its core a depiction of these things surviving even the apocalypse, and at an incredible cost.

That fire they carry is not extinguished even in a world where all systems and pretenses at civilization have been ruined. It finds the wider flame, and decent folks to tend it.

It is one of the more optimistic works he's done, not despite the setting, but because.
by Balgair | 2025-10-02 12:44:00+00:00
I know you're not asking for it, but as someone that has a really hard time with anxiety and sleep: quit caffeine and exercise more.

The quitting caffeine is tough. It's 3 days of really bad headaches that no pain killer will touch, because those painkillers act on a different biochemistry. But, after I did that, my anxiety went way down and I was able to sleep a lot better.

Exercise is a bit harder, as it's a schedule problem. Even just a little bit will help though and increase the sleep 'pressure' or so I have found with myself.

Again, not trying to be a jerk here, just trying to help out however I can. My bad if this is not the place.

Best of luck in the struggle!
by stockresearcher | 2025-10-02 12:44:05+00:00
Guardrails, regexes, blacklists, etc are not the right solution.

Your system should have an “agent” user group and each agent should run as a distinct user in this group. Use ACLs to give permissions on directories and files. This is why all this stuff exists.

And while we’re at it, we can harden individual commands by taking openbsd ideas like pledge and unveil. And perhaps even some openvms ideas with the symbol and logical redefinitions to make sure these users can only operate on what we want them to operate on and use only what we want them to use.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-02 12:45:06+00:00
The article frames the issue as 'public' vs 'private' education, yet is railing against things like charter schools which are public. And their main argument is formulated by comparing education against no education, which is nonsensical. The main reason "private" (in their sense of the word) schools are gaining in popularity is precisely because they are seen as delivering a better education by an ever wider chunk of society.

More specifically the US currently spends more than the vast majority of the world per pupil [1], yet our outcomes in e.g. math leave us somewhere between Malta and and Slovakia. [2] Clearly it does not seem that 'more money' is the solution.

[1] - https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...

[2] - https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/pisa-scor...
by schwartzworld | 2025-10-02 12:45:25+00:00
Interested is the wrong word. Motivated is a better one, with interest being a subcategory of motivation.

The kind of intrinsic practice is even easier today than it was back then because we carry powerful computers in our pocket. If, like Orwell, you want to be a writer, you can literally work on it anywhere at any time. If you want to learn a language, you can spend time practicing it. If you want to learn music or art, the tools for explicitly practicing those things are in your actual pocket.

“Talent” is a myth. We all have our aptitudes, but in most subjects that only gets you a small advantage. Maybe you can remember Spanish vocab better than me, but if I practice every day and you don’t, you’ll reach the limits of “talent” quickly. Putting in the reps is the most important part of learning anything. The irony is that when you DO get good at something people forget that you were ever bad at it, and they will quickly dismiss your hard work as talent.

In high school, I had an ongoing argument with my dad about this. I got really into music and practiced daily for hours, wanting to be good enough to play in a band. By the time I graduated, I wasn’t bad. My dad would pontificate about which relative I had inherited this talent from, and I would get annoyed because it undermined the 100s of hours I spent locked in a music room. It did NOT come easy; I wanted to be able to do something and worked my ass off to get there.
by qn9n | 2025-10-02 12:45:26+00:00
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by UpsideDownRide | 2025-10-02 12:45:34+00:00
I think there is a good flipside too. LLMs potentially enable generating custom made tooling tailored just for you. If you can get/provide data it's pretty easy to cook up solutions.

As an example - I'd never bother with mobile app just for myself since it's too annoying to get into for a somewhat small thing. Now I can chug along and have LLM fill in quickly my missing basic in the area.
by thyristan | 2025-10-02 12:45:41+00:00
Professional Engineers signed off on on broken dams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brumadinho_dam_disaster ), leaking chemical plants (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster ), exploding reactors and how (not) to operate them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster ) and "high enough" sea walls (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident ). There are a ton more examples. All highly unethical, most of the responsible engineers got away scot-free.

Licensed professions only serve to increase the scarcity of licensed professionals, drive up the price and thereby form an economic cartel. Neither does it prevent any of the aforementioned disasters, nor are the responsible professionals held liable.

"Licensed professionals" is one of those myths in software engineering cycles that won't die. A license won't make anyone competent. It will, however, provide them with an excuse to charge more, do less and ascribe any fuckups to "must be something else wrong, I did everything to board standards"...
by spinoza1791 | 2025-10-02 12:45:48+00:00
No, you are all victims of a massive scheme to treat your poor habits with medications which wont create metabolic health. Stop eating all highly processed foods, like protein bars, restaurant foods cooked in seed oils and vegetables laced w pesticides. Eat pasture cattle, chicken, turkey, mozzarella, and organic fruit only. Cook in tallow or ghee only. Olive oils are fake. No more processed sugar. Learn to play pickleball, and make friends that bike, walk and are active. You will die from the normal American diet before retirement.Statins cause diabetes, GLP-1 50% reduction and Alzheimers per the CDC.
by beacon294 | 2025-10-02 12:45:51+00:00
I've been reading about expertise and deliberate/purposeful practice, starting with "Peak" by Ericcson.

Experts, as a rule, augment their practice with a coach, and they never stop doing that. The quintessential example is the olympian.

So, that is how they increase their practice surface area.

I think interest is also generally relevant, but it's not the core in established fields: coaching is.

I am interested in unestablished fields too, which may be fundamentally interest driven. Although IMO that interest may be more about establishing frontiers than the specific topic.
by bArray | 2025-10-02 12:45:56+00:00
> Sure but this wasn't fascism, this was entirely democratic. Then people got upset and wanted a do-over because the democracy didn't do the thing they wanted.

Voting will continue until the correct result is achieved [1].

> And after accusing the brexiters of just being anti immigration, still nothing was done about immigration, because fuck what people want if its not what better people want.

This is exactly it, they simply hold the public in contempt and believe they know better. The public has been extremely clear about it's voting intentions post-Blair.

> Now we have constant riots, pork pie patriots in their hundreds of thousands gathering in London, and useless promises after 20 years of lies and broken promises now that the demographics have changed massively creating a situation where one has to either do nothing or do something unsettling to revert any of this.

If only something was done 20 years ago when people originally aired their concerns. This situation was entirely foreseeable and avoidable.

I think "pork pie patriots" is a very unfair characterisation, and it's that sort of denigration of them and their opinions that has led to where we are. They have legitimate concerns about the direction the UK has gone in.

> Its like fascism for cowards.

Are you talking about the government or the people opposing the government?

[1] https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/235138
by alphawhisky | 2025-10-02 12:46:49+00:00
Or, hear me out, it's because they've been underfunded from the start. PTA, Volunteer Coaching, Parent involvement in fundraisers, etc. all helped make the underfunded schools of the 1990's and 2000's run smoothly despite lack of funding. The reality is that there were never enough resources in the first place, and parents used to shoulder a lot more of the burden. Parents no longer have time for these things, which when combined with an even smaller budget results in very lackluster schools. Maybe, just MAYBE, if we took the 60k signing bonus and absurd salary away from ICE and started giving it to teachers, we'd see change in a meaningful way.