MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by a0123 | 2025-10-20 22:40:39+00:00
You could make smart inferences based on past and very frequent occurrences.

Or you could just say "there is no way the thing that constantly happens over and over again has happened once again, just no way".

Staff cuts constantly happen in the name of maximising profits. They always yield poor results for a company's performance. Every time. Especially for the consumer's side of it (not the company's finances of course).

Every time.

But maybe this time it's different. That one time.
by ivape | 2025-10-20 22:40:43+00:00
I don’t agree with this. If you found your favorite type of car, then that’s your preference. Each car can take you to roughly same place (unless you have a specific use case like off-road). If you a preference for a language, but your use case needs another language, then use case trumps preference. It’s silly to belittle a language preference given the facts.

Some languages and ecosystems are delightful to work with and people absolutely make reasonable trade offs to stay in them.
by avidiax | 2025-10-20 22:41:00+00:00
He did a good job on his setup, but I have to think that adding a spinning mirror would have made everything much faster and easier.

He could then capture an entire line quite quickly, and would only need a 1 dimensional janky mirror setup to handle the other axis. And his resolution in the rotating axis is limited only by how quickly he can pulse the laser.

Of course, his janky mirror setup could have been 2 off-the-shelf galvos, but I guess that isn't as much "content".
by melozo | 2025-10-20 22:41:02+00:00
You’re right about that. I guess what I mean is, how long will people be enthusiastic about AWS and its ability to innovate. But AWS undeniably has some really strong product offerings - it’s just that their pace of innovation has slowed. Their managed solutions for open source applications is generally good, but some of their bespoke alternatives are lacking over the last few years (ecs kinesis code* tools) - it wasn’t always like that (sqs ddb s3 ec2).
by eikenberry | 2025-10-20 22:41:11+00:00
But GUIs never took off as a UI for a general purpose computer, they became the UI for application on a general purpose computer. For them to be the former requires them to be programmable. Smalltalk is the best/most-famous example of a Graphical UI for a general purpose computer I can think of...

The main point is that for a general purpose computer the UI needs to integrate programming. Programming is how you use a computer. The shell (text) is currently the primary UI that inherently allows programming.
by xp84 | 2025-10-20 22:41:18+00:00
RubyMine, and I assume its cousin JetBrains IDEs, has a great HTTP client (Tools -> HTTP Client) that I've used when I need this sort of functionality. I've been off of Postman for quite some time, since it got so complicated, and all I wanted was something to help me make simple web requests. (No disrespect intended to those who like Postman, it's just too overwhelming for my needs.)
by tim333 | 2025-10-20 22:41:57+00:00
I don't buy the basic economic argument. China can do fine. Take:

>The math is unforgiving: $5-10 trillion in hidden property losses against $5 trillion in bank equity. That’s not a solvency problem—it’s a physics problem.

No, that is not physics, it's finance pretty obviously. The government could deal with it in all sorts of way - lend the banks more money, nationalize them, print money and so on.

People have been saying that sort of thing for decades but China remains uncollapsed with more engineers than pretty much anywhere else, more production, more high speed rail, more new housing even if they overshot a bit and so on. The accounting can always be re-jigged if the physical stuff like trains and factories are working.
by wvbdmp | 2025-10-20 22:42:21+00:00
In Windows CMD you don’t even need to hit return at the end. They can just add a line break to the copied text and as soon as you paste into the command line (just a right click!), you own yourself.

I have one question though: Considering the scare-mongering about Windows 10’s EOL, this seems pretty convoluted. I thought bad guys could own your machine by automatic drive-by downloads unless you’re absolutely on the latest versions of everything. What’s with all the “please follow this step-by-step guide to getting hacked”?
by tpmoney | 2025-10-20 22:43:22+00:00
> People could host websites on the Blockchain from beyond the grave...

This is precisely why something like this isn't a popular solution lots of people are working towards. Domains broadly speaking aren't a finite resource, but usable domains using common words definitely are. As time marches on human readable/typeable "permanent identifiers" are going to have to go away. Email address, usernames and the like are all going to get recycled, just like phone numbers are. Domains are currently recycled and most people probably think that's a good thing.
by mmooss | 2025-10-20 22:43:24+00:00
Or the banks own the most valuable, exclusive, world-changing IP in decades. Nobody else really has a shot at that IP besides a few other extremely-capitalized AI companies.

I'd loan them the money for that opportunity. It's possible that the IP will somehow turn out to be worthless; I don't know what will happen, but I am confident ruling out worthless. Could the lender could refuse Microsoft's payment - from a minority shareholder? OpenAI could accept Microsoft's money and pay the bank; with that offer, OpenAI would have leverage to play Microsoft and the lender against each other.

OpenAI could go bankrupt for many reasons having nothing to do with the value of their IP. For example, they could overinvest in developing it - a positive outcome for the lender.
by tpmoney | 2025-10-20 22:43:34+00:00
> People could host websites on the Blockchain from beyond the grave...

This is precisely why something like this isn't a popular solution lots of people are working towards. Domains broadly speaking aren't a finite resource, but usable domains using common words definitely are. As time marches on human readable/typeable "permanent identifiers" are going to have to go away. Email address, usernames and the like are all going to get recycled, just like phone numbers are. Domains are currently recycled and most people probably think that's a good thing (assuming they think about it at all)
by zahlman | 2025-10-20 22:43:51+00:00
Traditionally (he said, referring to prior art in a field that has basically only existed for about 3 years), this sort of "flattery" was understood (he said, referring to random rumours he'd read on the Internet) to make a big difference, since otherwise the LLM might roleplay as something else. Presumably the RLHF training is stronger now.
by snitty | 2025-10-20 22:43:59+00:00
>As I understand it, this is sort of simulating what it would be like to capture this, by recreating the laser pulse and capturing different phases of it each time, then assembling them; so what is represented in the final composite is not a single pulse of the laser beam.

It is not different phases, but it is a composite! On his second channel he describes the process[0]. Basically, it's a photomultiplier tube (PMT) attached to a precise motion control rig and a 2B sample/second oscilloscope. So he ends up capturing the actual signal from the PMT over that timespan at a resolution of 2B samples/s, and then repeating the experiment for the next pixel over. Then after some DSP and mosaicing, you get the video.

>It seems like if you could measure the pulse's propagation in one direction, and the other (as measured by when it scatters of the smoke at various positions in both directions), this seems like it would get around it?

The point here isn't to measure the speed of light, and my general response when someone asks "can I get around physics with this trick" by answer is no. But I'd be lying if I said I totally understood your question.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KOFbvW2A-o
by bwfan123 | 2025-10-20 22:44:06+00:00
cue in: programming as theory building [1] or building systems as theory building, ie, Mental causal models of how and why things work the way they do. Mental models live in people's heads and walk out of the door when they do. Management learns this the hard way [2].

[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

[2] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1980221072512635117
by codebje | 2025-10-20 22:44:50+00:00
There's no self-propagation happening, that's just the terrible article's breathless hyping of how devastating the attack is. It's plain old deliberately injected and launched malware. OpenVSX is a huge vector for malicious actors taking real Marketplace extensions, injecting a payload, and uploading them. The article lists exactly one affected Marketplace extension, but that extension does not exist.

> Has no one thought to review the AI slop before publishing?

If only Koi reviewed their AI slop before publishing :(
by rkagerer | 2025-10-20 22:45:57+00:00
This is an old-man rant, but the first time I saw Unicode I felt like I was looking at a train wreck coming from a long way off. It has too many edge cases, footguns and unintuitive artifacts like this. I wish we constrained its use to only where required. Text was so much easier to reason about and safer to manipulate in the ASCII days.
by js8 | 2025-10-20 22:45:59+00:00
Forth is an imperative language and as such you will have to model memory state (at least) somehow, if you want to use purely functional language as a representation. But that's the cost of doing business.

The thing is though, you don't translate to LC for performance, but for understanding. At any point, the LC evaluator might recognize a known subterm and replace it with a known equivalent. Depending on the goal, that might help to improve evaluation performance (skip known steps of beta reduction), reduce memory consumption (reduce size of the term), or improve readability (refactor code to use better known abstractions).
by terminalshort | 2025-10-20 22:46:02+00:00
> like they aren’t making enough already

This is completely irrelevant to anything. It's none of the business of the tenant how much the landlord is profiting, and it's the obligation of the landlord to return the deposit fairly even if he is losing money on the property. Your experience is the opposite of mine in terms of small vs large landlords. Where I'm from the corporate landlords don't even charge deposits when you have good credit and income.
by JustExAWS | 2025-10-20 22:46:22+00:00
If it were that big of deal, don’t you think Apple would have been forced to recall it and definitely couldn’t keep selling it for 3 years. True they did redo the antenna for the Verizon CDMA iPhone 4. But they never bothered to back port the changes to the GSM one.

I also had a GSM iPhone 4.

Compare that to how quickly they ran away from the shitty Intel modems when they were selling some made by Intel and some made by Samsung (?)
by mminer237 | 2025-10-20 22:46:29+00:00
No, he was exactly right. That says "may" because it's just a comment, not F-Droid's actual definition, which you cut out:

> This Anti-Feature is applied to an app that contains content that the user may not want to be publicized or visible everywhere.

https://f-droid.org/docs/Anti-Features/#nsfw

That is clearly not applicable to the vast majority of these apps' users as evidenced by their outrage.
by bombela | 2025-10-20 22:46:33+00:00
It isn't bonded at the panel. The panel ground is not used on any of the 1950 circuits. Neutral is bonded to the panel ground. And yes this does means neutral and ground pins at the outlet have a few volts across, since the path between them goes through the literal earth. The water and gas piping coming out of the earth at the opposite side of the house from where the electrical panel is located.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-10-20 22:47:02+00:00
I strongly suspect (as I’ve said elsewhere) that there’s no simulation going on, just a bunch of precomputed refraction maps. Two dependent texture fetches are not nothing (and neither of course is the sequentializing nature of rendering a transparent thing over another thing), but I wouldn’t lose sleep over them if there was a point. Thus far I’m not convinced that there is.

Has noöne located and disassembled the thing yet? The speculation is getting tiresome. (I don’t own an up-to-date macOS device and have never owned an iOS one, so no help from my end, sorry.)
by gschier | 2025-10-20 22:47:04+00:00
This is a conscious bet I'm making.

Yes, it's a good-faith license. The license doesn't even apply to the OSS version (only prebuilt binaries).

The bet is that super fans will pay for it in the early days and, as it gets adopted by larger companies, they will pay in order to comply with the legalities of commercial use. So far, it's working! The largest company so far is 34 seats, with a couple more in the pipe!
by RandomBacon | 2025-10-20 22:47:06+00:00
Same (though a slightly newer version).

I'm an Android person, but I got an iPhone 4S for her first cell phone because it was straightforward and hard to mess up.

Now there are double-secret swipes, all other kinds of anti-user "features" that almost make her cry because she can't figure out her phone anymore.

Now I am thinking about getting an Android and finding a home app ("launcher") that makes it impossible to screw things up and lock down everything else that I can.

Edit: Crap. She does have an Apple Watch that she loves though. And Apple is not only a piece of shit company about their UI, they also don't allow their watch to play nice with Android. (Except that answering a call on the watch pipes the audio to her watch and not her hearing aids. Fuck Apple.)
by duskwuff | 2025-10-20 22:47:39+00:00
> the personal website that would be casually hosted whenever your PC is on

I don't think that was ever really a thing. Which isn't to say that no one did it, but it was never a common practice. And free web site hosting came earlier than you're implying - sites like Tripod and Angelfire launched in the mid-1990s, at a time when most users were still on dialup.
by p337 | 2025-10-20 22:47:48+00:00
On the topic of comparing OpenAI models with Anthropocene models, I have a hybrid approach that seems really nice.

I set up an MCP tool to use gpt-5 with high reasoning with Claude Code (like tools with "personas" like architect, security reviewer, etc), and I feel that it SIGNIFICANTLY amplifies the performance of Claude alone. I don't see other people using LLMs as tools in these environments, and it's making me wonder if I'm either missing something or somehow ahead of the curve.

Basically instead of "do x (with details)" I say "ask the architect tool for how you should implement X" and it gets into this back and forth that's more productive because it's forcing some "introspection" on the plan.
by nextworddev | 2025-10-20 22:48:01+00:00
Your view doesn’t mesh with conversations I have had with most C-suite. Most firms outside of SV are seeing opportunities for cost reduction mostly.

And you can think through with first principles to see why it won’t expand developer hiring. Since AI progress is jagged, some industries will be affected in outsized ways while others may thrive more. But the increase in demand from new industries won’t absorb the reduction in demand from disrupted industries.
by vkou | 2025-10-20 22:50:00+00:00
> Don't bring elites into every discussion.

They are utterly critical to the discussion of political and economic power, and who shapes public discourse.

We aren't talking about spherical cows, here. Ignoring their existence and influence is like ignoring that people need to eat, or that 95% of the mass media you consumed is owned by a monoculture.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-20 22:50:03+00:00
> that is like my landlord telling me what kind of art I can hang in my own home

Fair enough, it's like the landlord telling you that you can't change the layout.

> don't give me oh that is not the apple way. I don't care

Fair enough again. Apple doesn't care about others' aesthetic preferences either, and that's worked well for Cupertino since the 1980s.
by lioeters | 2025-10-20 22:50:21+00:00
Oh how interesting, there are related database projects built on the same foundation library/tech called Data Substrate.

- EloqSQL - MySQL-compatible, high performance, elastic, distributed SQL database https://github.com/eloqdata/eloqsql

- EloqKV - Redis/Valkey Compatible Distributed Transactional Key-Value Store https://github.com/eloqdata/eloqkv
by randycupertino | 2025-10-20 22:50:44+00:00
I noticed music in TV shows is AI slop so they don't have to pay licensing fees lately as well. I was watching Unsolved the series about the Notorious BIG and Tupac murders a few weeks ago and in one of the club scenes a "Biggie" song that I'd never heard of was playing in the background, I wasn't familiar with that song so I googled it and it was an ai Biggie inspired recreation, not one of his actual songs.
by CompoundEyes | 2025-10-20 22:50:59+00:00
Claude Code is still good but I don’t TRUST it. With Claude Code and Sonnet I’m expecting failure. I can get things done but there’s an administrative overhead of futzing around with markdown files, defensive commit hooks and unit tests to keep it on rails while managing the context panic. Codex CLI with gpt-5-codex high reasoning is next gen. I’m sure Sonnet 5 will match it soon. At that point I think a lot of the workflows people use in Claude Code will be obsolete and the sycophancy will disappear.
by tombert | 2025-10-20 22:51:21+00:00
I think this would make the squatting problem that we already have way worse. There would be bots buying every single remotely usable domain, and there would be no incentive for them to sell it unless they get an absurdly large offer.

I bought tombert.com in 2014 and forgot to renew it in 2015, and it was auctioned off by GoDaddy. For like six years, it was owned by squatters, and they wanted thousands of dollars for the domain [1]. I called offering the $100 for it, and they claimed that they can't go below $1400 because this domain is in "extremely high demand". I finally was able to buy it back in 2021, presumably because the squatter purged out domains that hadn't been purchased for N years and they wanted to save money.

Now, you could argue "see! You wouldn't have had to worry about it expiring if it were permanent on the blockchain", and that's true, but if someone else had gotten to that domain first, then I would also never get it. I think the only thing that keeps the internet even remotely fair in this regard is that domain names cost some amount of money to keep.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160219161720/http://www.hugedo...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-20 22:51:40+00:00
> China does not project it's power across the globe. You only listed countries China can literally spit on from within it's own borders

China's projects power into the Red Sea and Central Asia, and is building bases to project further into the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Thailand, South Atlantic and Coral Sea. (Also ironic to reference Tibet and China's borders in the same sentence. In imperial terms, China, Indonesia, Libya and Russia stand alone in having annexed by force, since WWII, the sovereign land of other nations that weren't their colonisers.)

Examples of cultural projection outside Asia are rarer, given Chinese power projection as a whole is newer, but one would expect to see--as it's happened in its vicinity, as it happened in America's vicinity first--Chinese-language and cultural institutions following economic interests. (It's already happening, but not significantly enough yet to be of note. Most current objections from locals are around the migration and settlement of ethnic Chinese workers in their communities.)
by mananaysiempre | 2025-10-20 22:51:55+00:00
> I mean, we all just accept whatever the project believes is normal right?

Not in this thread we don’t? The whole thing has been about the fact that it wasn’t easy for a distro maintainer to detect the suspicious code even if they looked. Whether anyone actually does look is a worthy question, but it’s not orthogonal to making the process of looking not suck.

Of course, if we trust the developer to put software on our machine with no intermediaries, the whole thing goes out the window. Don’t do that[1]. (Oh hi Flatpak, Snap. Please go away. Also hi NPM, Go, Cargo, PyPI; no, being a “modern programming language” is not an excuse.)

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2021/09/27/Let-distros-do-their-job....
by lurk2 | 2025-10-20 22:52:15+00:00
I made no indication as to my nationality in my original post and you responded with rudeness and hostility. This is illustrative of the type of person I was talking about. Your country would not exist if the Americans did not have bases in Europe. There are 26,000 people in the Swedish armed forces. You and everyone you know are either dead or speaking Russian in less than a year if the Americans leave.
by malfist | 2025-10-20 22:54:21+00:00
Compounding isn't some shady enterprise. Its a standard medical use case. I have to use metronidozol cream on my face, but I'm allergic to some preservatives, so a compounding pharmacy makes a version of metronidozol cream without my allergens.

It's also relatively common for toddlers who need special doses, or for people who can't swallow pills and need liquid formulations.

Compounding is normal.
by mlhpdx | 2025-10-20 22:54:39+00:00
This is the time to accept that the path forward is keeping people and giving them the best tools you possibly can to do their work. That is, the same as has been true for decades remains so.

Yes, development tools are better every day. Yes, you can downsize. No it won’t be felt immediately. Yes, it mortgages the future and at a painfully high interest rate.

Suspending disbelief won’t make downsizing work better.
by ewoodrich | 2025-10-20 22:54:43+00:00
I've been dealing with this on Codex a lot lately. It confidently wraps up a task, I go to check it's work... and it's not even close.

Then I do a double take and re-read the summary message and realize that it pulled a "and then draw the rest of the owl", seemingly arbitrarily picking and choosing what it felt like doing in that session and what it punted over to "next steps to actually get it running".

Claude is more prone to occasional "cheating" with mocked data or "tbd: make this an actual conditional instead of hardcoded If True" stuff when it gets overwhelmed which is annoying and bad. But it at least has strong task adherence for the user's prompt and doesn't make me write a lawyer-esque contract to avoid any loopholes Codex will use to avoid doing work.
by dinobones | 2025-10-20 22:55:02+00:00
Dunno if this passes the bootstrapping test.

This is sensitive to the initial candidate set of labels that the LLM generates.

Meaning if you ran this a few times over the same corpus, you’ll probably get different performance depending upon the order of the way you input the data and the classification tag the LLM ultimately decided upon.

Here’s an idea that is order invariant: embed first, take samples from clusters, and ask the LLM to label the 5 or so samples you’ve taken. The clusters are serving as soft candidate labels and the LLM turns them into actual interpretable explicit labels.
by arjie | 2025-10-20 22:55:43+00:00
I don't use it myself so to speak, except to fill in some things sometimes like passwords. The LLM is the user. It just uses the primitives it has (these are my paraphrases): scroll_to, expand_viewport, screenshot, select_dom_element, fill_input. This way I can tell it to implement a feature and verify it and it does so in a Google Chrome testing profile. Without the grounding, I've noticed that LLMs often produce "code that should work" but then something else is missing. This way, by the time I see it, the feature works.

I then have to go in and advise it on factoring and things like that, but the functionality itself is present and working.