MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-03 00:30:47+00:00
> The party refusing any kind of deal are Israel since their goal is annihilation of Palestinians

First, there is no such thing as a Palestinian - that’s a made up identity to falsely claim the region as their own. Second, there have been five two-state solution offers in the past, that Israel was ready to accept. Leaders on the other side refused. Third, Hamas is not accepting the current deal that is on the table, and is incredibly fair (given the lopsided hostage/prisoner release that favors Hamas). Fourth, Israel had already withdrawn from Gaza - that was the status quo when Hamas got elected and began a decades long campaign of terrorism - remember the literal thousands of rocket attacks on Israel? Fifth, if Israel’s goal is the “annihilation of Palestinians”, why are the 20% of Israel’s population that would identify as such doing so well? Clearly this isn’t their goal, but just misinformation.
by godelski | 2025-10-03 00:30:51+00:00
If you pre-record your live demo then it isn't a live demo...

What I dislike is presenting something as if it is live when it isn't. Demos are fantastic things and it is even perfectly fine to have imaginative aspects to them. But there's a division line between demoing and lying. Take Rabbit R1 as an example[0]. This whole thing was faked yet it was presented as a live demonstration, not an illustration. In other words, fraud.

The difference is if you're trying to show your customers (or potential customers) what you're imagining the device works like vs what the device actually works like. The difference is how you're communicating the difference to them.

I'm not sure why this is a contentious opinion, but just don't lie to people?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22wlLy7hKP4
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 00:31:11+00:00
> hardly in the way that could be described as the destruction of the state

It would be a destruction of the nation-state of Israel as a state for the Israeli, predeominantly Jewish, nation.

> Abolishing Jim Crow in the south hardly destroyed the south

It certainly felt that way to them! Strongly enough that they fought a war over it. (EDIT: Nobody went to war over Jim Crow. They did over slavery. Jim Crow was basically an attempt to regain part of what was lost in the war. Put another way, even a war--alone--is not enough.)

That's the point. The single-state solution, practically, would require a war. I know we pulled out of Afghanistan. But I thought we'd have a bigger gap before another group of Westerners decided they like drawing borders in the Middle East, and that anyone who disagrees with them--including the people on the ground--should be violently forced to comply.
by britannio | 2025-10-03 00:31:14+00:00
I had access to GitHub Copilot as a student in early 2022 while learning Haskell and immediately realised that it would hinder my learning if I didn't turn it off and implicitly follow this understand, plan, execute, reflect loop.

AI products like Cursor have the notion of an 'autonomy slider' [1] that can fortunately be turned all the way down (disable Cursor Tab) but relying on this discipline seems fickle when with the right agentic loops [2] and context engineering, thousands of lines of code can be churned out with minimal supervision.

I've considered always working on two projects over a long timespan, one with no AI assistance, possibly in a separate IDE like Zed, and one in Vibe Kanban (my current daily driver) but this feels like an inefficient proxy to accelerating this four step learning loop with a tool like solveit.

Since the solveit product isn't released and seemingly isn't competing with solutions, is there an opportunity to convey how AI product developers should be thinking about amplifying their users and keeping them in the learning loop?

So far, I've seen Claude Code's Learning output style [3], and also ChatGPT's study mode but in these cases, the only product change is a prompt and solveit is more than that.

[1] https://www.latent.space/i/166191505/part-a-autonomy-sliders [2] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/30/designing-agentic-loop... [3] https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/output-styles#bu...
by jhallenworld | 2025-10-03 00:32:02+00:00
This seems to refer to separate advanced schools vs. advanced classes that most in the US would be familiar with.

One analog in my area (Boston) is perhaps METCO, where ambitious students in impoverished districts can be bussed to wealthier suburban schools. It's fairly benign compared with the infamous forced bussing of the 1970s- a judge forced lower class black and white parts of the city to bus students to each other's schools in order to eliminate segregation- it caused riots. Sure there was racism, but the main complaint was that rich suburban towns were not included.

Another ongoing debate is over "charter schools"- where public funds are used for private schools that can be selective about their students. There are good arguments both for and against them. One against is that they can be for-profit even though they are not supposed to be. For example, they often pay rent to somebody- this never happens as far as I know for public schools.
by shoo | 2025-10-03 00:32:18+00:00
Jennifer Senior wrote a great piece back in 2006 about burnout [1] titled "Can’t Get No Satisfaction". It's worth reading the whole thing. Here are some fragments that stuck with me:

> we think of burnout as the gap between expectations and rewards

> happiness equals reality divided by expectations

> level of caring couldn’t be sustained in the absence of results

How have you been framing your side project? Is your side project intended to be a business? If so, what outputs is the business achieving (revenue, profit, your effective hourly wage as the owner operator)? Dispassionately, is it doing well enough commercially that it makes sense to continue to pursue this business?

In the case where this side project has not been achieving sufficient commercial results, and has been falling short of your expectations and the goals you set yourself, is it possible that your resistance to continuing working on the side project is because subconsciously your body has decided it is not a good use of additional time and energy?

It could be beneficial and healthy if you could give yourself a long break from thinking and focusing on your side project, to get your brain out of this habit of focusing on the side project and give it the opportunity to think and focus on some new things, or just to rest.

From my experience (not with side projects but with job related burnout) consider taking a holiday from it, get lots of sunlight and exercise, spend time with friends and family, pick up a new hobby or resume an old hobby that gives you some immediate enjoyment in the moment. It may take months for your habitual thinking patterns to adjust, but once your thinking patterns change you may have a very different perspective on the situation.

[1] https://nymag.com/news/features/24757/
by hopelite | 2025-10-03 00:32:31+00:00
If you start looking into it, you will surely be astonished at just how much “cultural exchange” there must have been going back even into the Paleolithic time, and definitely during the period of the OP article is touching on.

People have an extremely distorted perspective on European history for many reasons, but the late industrial age nation state probably had the biggest impact on that mental model people still have today in many ways. By all evidence I’ve seen, the cultural exchange in the distant past was far more organic than most people can easily imagine today for many reasons. Trade and cultural communion, religious exchanges and defensive unions all made that possible in a world that was not at all as controlled and authoritarian as we even experience today. It all waxed and waned over the centuries and regions of course, in a rather organic manner; but due to practical limitations a lot of the authoritarian restrictions we are all subject to today simply did not exist.

In some ways the USA until about 1960, is probably the most similar analogue of how Europe seems to have generally been for the longest time leading up to the Industrial Revolution. It was a land of general regions of self-regulating, cultural clustering with local levels of varying jurisdictions and power structures which to a large extent kept most people in their home region, if not their place of birth. By the latter part of that period the identity with one’s state and region and local culture had already largely succumbed to the oppressive force of the centralized dominating power of the federal and global power, but your region was still largely your cultural identity as a person and community.

That of course has all been totally razed and destroyed now and the USA effectively exists in name only today, which has been the case for an even longer time, but that’s a different topic altogether.
by baby_souffle | 2025-10-03 00:33:05+00:00
> As you say, "the incentive to develop the skills should sort this out" ... and I'd say that's true, but until it gets sorted out, the situation can reasonably be described as a "labor shortage".

That's fair. I wasn't thinking about the types of skills that take years to develop. I was thinking more along the lines of re-training in the sense that I can take somebody that's got a solid base of tangentially related skills and get them up to speed quickly.
by Syntonicles | 2025-10-03 00:33:12+00:00
I love this idea. I remember giving a live demonstration of a configuration management tool (SaltStack circa 2012) and some unknown networking conflict between my Virtual Machines and the local wifi subnet caused my commands to timeout. I was too junior to resolve it live and was left with boring slides explaining what ought to be happening.

Luckily it was a small group of devs and not a large venue. Still embarrassing...
by _wire_ | 2025-10-03 00:33:32+00:00
tl;dr the function and training of humanoid robots includes no proprioception just inertial feedback as the device follows a routine set down in the training program. The device doesn't inhabit its environment the way a person does, it injects large amounts of energy to a relatively large mass, and is hard as a rock, so if you end up in its way you'll be clobbered by a device that powers through all it's motions lacking situational awareness and with no coordinated measure of an incidental fine touch.
by pvtmert | 2025-10-03 00:33:38+00:00
sounds like you are more of a morning person,

as a non-morning person, it usually takes me about 4-6 hours to get up-to-speed. because there would be some unexpected twists and turns that will distract me from the task.

meanwhile, exact opposite. if i cannot "solve" an issue, if i just wait till the evening by going for a 100+km bicycle ride, i magically solve the problem in the evening (right about at dusk and after).
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by parsimo2010 | 2025-10-03 00:33:43+00:00
I’m not saying that AI is definitely here to stay this time, but it won’t be quantum replacing it.

AI has cooled in the past, even generating the term “AI winter,” but it’s hot now. Quantum could be big again, but this current wave of specialized computers is played out. There won’t be hype at the level that AI currently gets until there is general purpose quantum computing.
by godelski | 2025-10-03 00:33:44+00:00
But the problem is that the product is buggy. The question then is "can you fix those bugs before products ship."

I'm not sure what the problem is here. Customers don't want buggy products. Live demos are more informative to users who can't tell what the actual experience will be like vs what the envisioned experience is.

I'm sorry, but as a customer I don't care what's in a developer's dreams, I care what I can buy.
by syntaxing | 2025-10-03 00:34:21+00:00
They should be concerned with open weight models that don’t run on consumer hardware. The larger models from Qwen (Qwen Max) and ZLM (GLM and GLM air) perform not too far from Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5. ZLM offers a $3 plan that is decently generous. I can pretty much replace it over Sonnet 4 in Claude Code (I swear, Anthropic has been nerfing Sonnet 4 for people on the Pro plan).

You can run Qwen3-coder for free upto 1000 requests a day. Admittedly not state of the art but works as good of 5o-mini
by C4K3 | 2025-10-03 00:34:53+00:00
At the very least they should have excluded any chats with disappearing messages enabled from being included in backups.

With disappearing messages off it was already reasonable to assume that a compromise of a counterparty's phone would result in exposure of all previous messages, so enabling backups wouldn't expose you to new risk.

That would cater to those who want to keep their chat history forever without exposing those with disappearing messages enabled to new risk.
by mikeyouse | 2025-10-03 00:35:05+00:00
The point that everyone is so keen to miss is that those are fine statements to make by political parties or candidates and wholly inappropriate and obviously illegal ones to make by government employees and websites.. That there are two valid opposing ‘truths’ which can be wielded to bludgeon a political opponent is exactly why we made it illegal for the government to make these type of statements.

Turning all of our apolitical institutions into megaphones for the party in power is an absolute nightmare and is illegal for a reason.

Seriously - how can you possibly defend something like this: https://www.hud.gov/
by sublinear | 2025-10-03 00:35:27+00:00
The real answer is that the methodology really doesn't matter as long as you have clearly defined problems to solve, know that solving those problems would be lucrative, and the knowledge gaps across teams aren't too big.

Because we live in the real world full of people who are allergic to work that requires deeper and more tangible skills than "management", we must settle for some kind of methodology.
by oggadog | 2025-10-03 00:35:57+00:00
I'm a sales engineer and demoing is one of the core parts of the job. I think this is applicable if it's an internal demo or a demo to a large audience, i.e a conference where you have a very fixed window of time to present.

I would never recommend doing this in a sales context though, where you're selling to prospects. Mainly because it gives you no flexibility to pivot and adjust the content based on what they're interested in, and also because it gives off the impression you don't have a lot of faith in your product to perform live.

I'd still 100% recommend having pre-recorded backups however. I was once doing a demo to our largest customer in region and the second we joined the call our core product had a SEV0. I was very relieved to have something to show while the engineers fixed the issue.
by dirtbag__dad | 2025-10-03 00:36:37+00:00
This is interesting to me, too! My team is in the midst of opening new reqs. A leader wants to hire based on skillset. The team wants to hire based on upcoming work. We had a decent employee churn recently because the work wasn’t what they thought they were hired for.

I can see both sides. We don’t have work planned more than a quarter out (a good thing IMO). Generalist SWEs make a good fit. But we think we need someone specialized in AI/ML. Unclear to me if that’s the case… and how to plan for it if we don’t want to explore concrete features we _might_ build.
by godelski | 2025-10-03 00:37:04+00:00
> I prerecord all my live demos

That just sounds like a demo with more lying.

> People are always impressed at how flawless my live demos are

Because they think it is live!

> the i̶l̶l̶u̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ deception is perfect.

FTFY

Seriously... just call it a demo or pre-recorded. As soon as you call it "live" you've crossed into the territory of fraud.
by monocasa | 2025-10-03 00:38:04+00:00
> It would be a destruction of the nation of Israel as the people of Israel see it.

Just like the people in my home states of Georgia, Florida, and Tennessee thought that ending Jim Crow would destroy them. They were wrong, just as the people of Israel would be wrong.

> It certainly felt that way to them! Strongly enough that they fought a war over it.

No war was fought over the end of Jim Crow.

> That's the point. The single-state solution, practically, would require a war. I know we pulled out of Afghanistan.

At the moment, probably. That can change.

> But I thought we'd have a bigger gap before another group of Westerners decided they like drawing borders in the Middle East, and that anyone who disagrees with them--including the people on the ground--should be violently forced to comply.

Those Knesset members are not asking western intervention to end their ethnostate.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-03 00:39:27+00:00
>Where does this notion that LLMs have no value outside of programming come from?

Well this article cites 400b of spending for 12b of revenue. That's not zero value, but it definitely showing overvalue. We're not paying that level of money back with consumer level goods.

Now is B2B valuable? Maybe. But it's really tough valuating that with how businesses are operating c. 2025.

> ChatGPT released data showing that programming is just a tiny fraction of queries people do.

yes, but it's not 2010 anymore. Companies are already on ChatGPT's neck trying to get RoI's. They can't run insolvent for a decade at this level of spending like all the FAANG's did in yestr-decade.
by belorn | 2025-10-03 00:40:04+00:00
When we are talking about full tuition, does that include the full cost of the student for which could (in concept) be scaled infinitive without any additional funding and support from the government? For example, if there was more foreign students than space in existing buildings and land, could the university buy more land and build more buildings using only the tuition, on top of paying operational costs, and still gain profits?
by appreciatorBus | 2025-10-03 00:40:09+00:00
TBH my concern is less for the fate of people who choose to fly planes or drones - they are the ones making the choice so if they hurt themselves that sucks, but none of my business. However I am concerned for the innocent bystanders who might be under them, who did not choose to risk death or injury by an aircraft, drone or otherwise.

The template for this ofc is how we handle (or don't handle) the danger posed by people inside cars, to people outside cars. In aviation we will do a lot to avoid even one death, in the air or on the ground. But in cars we mostly don't give a crap. It took decades for drunk driving to become unacceptable, but outside of that, we are still pretty ok with death by car. The only survivor of the collision just has to claim the person outside the vehicle "darted" and we all shrug and move on.

I would just love it if we could apply lessons of the past to new technology. Instead we just hand wave it all away. Then in a few decades, if enough people die and their surviving loved ones invest enough time & energy, maybe we'll make a few tweaks to the formula.

So no, we don't need 5nm separations for 20 lb drones. But we do need some sort of structure that recognizes the people under them didn't sign up to be part of the beta test. For bonus points it should also recognize that externalities exist and should be priced but I am not holding my breath.
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 00:40:12+00:00
> Or even a single one active in Gaza that is not saying that a blatant genocide is taking place.

World Central Kitchen is active in Gaza and last I checked makes no claim of there being a genocide in Gaza.

> And the "tentacles" are the heads of a hydra labeled "Imperialism", "Racism", "Extractivism", "Capitalism", "Patriarchy".

What seems to be implied here is that these are the means in which the Jews control the world. Casting Israelis/Jews as demonic figures in general is also a common antisemitic trope.

> Not sure how much clearer the imagery could get, and which part of this is antisemitic.

The implied world domination part as well as the demonic imagery.
by ivanamies | 2025-10-03 00:40:16+00:00
>I never saw anything material from CA's GATE in the 80's-90's.

N = 1, CA's GATE program in the 2000's changed my life. "Being special" was a powerful motivator for a younger version of myself.

>shouldn't we offer investment in the top ~1-3% of kids with alternative schools that don't hold back their potential that will likely ultimately benefit us?

N = 1, what I needed as a child was a more G&T version of CA's GATE. I responded best to competitive sports and long hours of math and science problems.

I won't comment on NYC politics or the article.
by wredcoll | 2025-10-03 00:40:29+00:00
> It all depends on whether a the wrongdoing in question is legitimate or not, and I don't think you can dance around that question (bypassing the entire field of ethics) with a few remarks about agreement and consent.

Thank you for making this actual point.

I find the vast, vast majority of people who use the term "victim mindset" tend to be promoting views that involve not changing the status quo or making legitimate complaints and so on.
by cmurf | 2025-10-03 00:40:48+00:00
The video perspective might be misleading - but if the area surrounding the crane is as totally devoid from other obstacles as it appears? I wonder if the operator maybe didn't see the crane. How is that possible? No idea.

14 CFR 107 covers visual line of sight commercial UAS operations. My two cents is the operator should fly around or over and well clear of the crane. They're given a wide latitude. If within 400' of a structure, they can fly up to 400' above the highest point of that structure.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/part-107#p-107.51(b)

However, it seems probable these operations are BVLOS (beyond visual line of sight), which requires a waiver from the FAA. In which case most of 107.205 applies. I'm not sure if the operating agreement between Amazon and FAA is public information.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/part-107#p-107.205

Avoiding structures is pretty basic to operational control and responsibility. The fact they hit a seemingly obvious and avoidable structure, the ensuing loss of control being inevitable, which can (and in this case did) lead to on the ground injuries. Pretty remarkable operational failure in my opinion.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/part-107#p-107.23(a)

We’ve completed our own internal review of this incident and are confident that there wasn’t an issue with the drones or the technology that supports them, Terrence Clark, an Amazon spokesperson told CNN. Nonetheless, we’ve introduced additional processes like enhanced visual landscape inspections to better monitor for moving obstructions such as cranes.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/us/arizona-amazon-drones-cras...