MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-27 20:20:02+00:00
Yeah my understanding of burgling is it’s all about speed. One of the best deterrents you can have is I think called “laminate glass,”that doesn’t shatter into a bunch of pieces when it’s hit. It has a tendency to hold together so they have to spend precious seconds knocking out more of it which almost always makes them run away rather than risk it.

If I can go out on a limb here, I also think I recall that they have very specific things they look for. For instance they will often run straight for the master bedroom and start pulling out drawers/checking closets because people tend to keep jewelry in there. They want small items.

Anything that slows them down tends to deter them even if they make an initial attempt
by port11 | 2025-10-27 20:20:09+00:00
This is, again, GP's criticism of purity for its own sake.

I've had to interview people for whom academia didn't work, and they were simply ignorant in terms of real-world skills. Writing a Bash script shouldn't be an hobby pursuit, I'm sure a Master's in CS can spare 6 credits (one course, one semester) to teach Git, scripting, encoding, linting, etc.

Academia-grade code can be much better if you look past the purity of their pursuits.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-27 20:20:18+00:00
The problem is that you don't know on what evaluations and you are not qualified yourself. By the time you are that qualified you no longer need AI.

Try asking ChatGPT or whatever is your favorite AI supplier about a subject that you are an expert about something that is difficult, on par with the kind of evaluations you'd expect a qualified doctor or legal professional to do. And then check the answer given, then extrapolate to fields that you are clueless about.
by burnerRhodov2 | 2025-10-27 20:20:42+00:00
I don't think thats true at all...

These companies are absolutely money printing machines at the scale we have never seen.

Some of the individual standout figures:

Apple’s trailing 12-month net income is around US$99 billion. Microsoft’s trailing 12-month net income is about US$101 billion. Alphabet (Google) is estimated around US$111 billion net income.

On revenue, one list shows: Amazon ~$670 billion, Apple ~$408 billion, Alphabet ~$371 billion, Microsoft ~$281.7 billion.

Have you ever read the soverign individual? He kinda predicted this. Tech companies will rise into unfathomably rich while the countries inability to tax foreign revenues will lead to the collapse of the nationstate.
by ilamont | 2025-10-27 20:20:50+00:00
I took this train or another one that crossed to Sicily in the early 90s. It was at night, so there wasn’t much to look at while the mechanics of being transferred from the wharf to the boat and then back to land took place. But I do remember the friendliness of the Sicilian people on that train. I only spoke a little French and some high school Latin, but it was enough to have a basic conversation and even a few laughs.
by burkaman | 2025-10-27 20:21:31+00:00
Oral exams and quizzes are hard for reasons unrelated to understanding the subject matter. Language barriers, public speaking anxiety, exam stress, etc. All things that students should hopefully learn how to overcome, but that's a lot to ask a teacher to deal with in addition to teaching history or whatever. With a paper, a student can choose their own working environment, choose a day and time when they are best able to focus, have a constructive discussion with the teacher if they're having trouble midway through the work, and spread their effort (if they want to) across more than an hour-long test or 5-minute oral exam. In an imaginary world where they couldn't cheat, a paper gives the teacher the best chance of evaluating whether a student understands the material.

I don't think you're wrong necessarily, but there are good reasons that teachers like papers other than "we've always used them".
by mitjam | 2025-10-27 20:21:36+00:00
Andrew Ng argumented in 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p248yoa3oE ) that the underlying tiers depend on the app tier‘s success.

That OpenAI is now apparantly striving to become the next big app layer company could hint at George Hotz being right but only if the bets work out. I‘m glad that there is competition on the frontier labs tier.
by beaviskhan | 2025-10-27 20:21:50+00:00
Automatic snow chains are a thing, often seen on emergency vehicles even outside of the normal snow band. Ex: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/yus43b/wha...

No idea if they're compatible with Jaguars or whatever Waymo is rolling these days, but my guess is that Waymo could make the economics work.
by bee_rider | 2025-10-27 20:22:21+00:00
It is sort of fun to bounce little ideas off ChatGPT, but I can’t imagine wanting to read somebody else’s ChatGPT responses.

IMO a lot of the dumb and bad behavior around LLMs could be solved by a “just share the prompts” strategy. If somebody wants to generate an email from bullet points and send it to me: just send the bullet points, and I can pass them into an LLM if I want.

Blog post based on interesting prompts? Share the prompt. It’s just text completion anyway, so if a reader knows more about the topic than the prompt-author, they can even tweak the prompt (throw in some lingo to get the LLM to a better spot in the latent space or whatever).

The only good reason not to do that is to save some energy in generation, but inference is pretty cheap compared to training, right? And the planet is probably doomed anyway at this point so we as well enjoy the ride.
by cryptonector | 2025-10-27 20:22:25+00:00
The reason to do this is not to prevent other civilizations from destroying themselves but to colonize the galaxy. It would still require all that you said (fantastical technology and enormous amounts of time) and then some.

And since the amount of time we're talking about is so large -- larger than the amount of time the beings that create these robotic probes can possibly continue to be alive -- that the only way it could work is if those beings accept robots as acceptable replacements for themselves, or if the probes carry embryos and can terraform planets and raise those embryos to adults and bootstrap a civilization.

Plenty of sci-fi has been written along these likes, like Ursula K Leguin's books, where human-ish beings on any given planet (e.g., Winter) turn out to be sent there from other planets to bootstrap a civilization and they have no memory of it. Or Pushing Ice, by Alastair Reynolds, where there is a robotic probe thing going on, but rather than continue the originating species [redacted to avoid spoilers].
by paganel | 2025-10-27 20:22:36+00:00
> I was only able to save files to OneDrive and not locally.

I find this very infuriating, and I've stopped using MS for more than 10 years now. They used to be a proper software company, with their flows, of course, but quite professional in the great scheme of things. But what you're describing goes against everything that I've valued as a computer programmer when I entered this field of work ~20 years ago.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-27 20:22:42+00:00
> But if I were in their shoes and I really cared about the money, I would have pressed that lawyer to show examples where the clawback clause had been invoked since Jan 20.

And the lawyer would be able to present hundreds of cases covering billions of dollars of federal grants, cancelled since Trump issued EO 14151 setting in black and white the Administration's broad crusade against funding anything with contact with DEI and declaring the DEI prohibition a policy for all federal grants and contracts, under different grant programs, many of which were originally awarded before Trump came back to office and which would not have had DEI terms in the original grant language. They'd also be able to point out that some of the cancellations had been litigated to the Supreme Court and allowed, other clawbacks had been struck down by lower courts and were still in appeals.
by acdha | 2025-10-27 20:22:48+00:00
Does the DOJ or PSF have more money for lawyers? If the answer isn’t the latter, the PSF is quite reasonably concluding that regardless of how a fair court might rule it would be financially perilous to attempt to stick up for the law, especially when a Republican supreme court has a fair chance of inventing another pretext for denying victory or allowing maximal harm to be done before acknowledging the law.
by randopico | 2025-10-27 20:23:12+00:00
> By the time you factor in the increased price of the car, increased price of insurance, and increased price of tires,

What car did you buy and what would you pick now?

I've had the opposite, EV had a cheaper price, more horespower, nicer interior, better acceleration, cheap insurance, tires are mostly the same prices (bought winter tires recently)

On top of that...

- no more getting ripped off at garages with ice maintenance

- gas would be 3-4x what i would pay in electricity if i didnt have solar panels.

- no worries having catalitic converter stolen...

- no more polluting the neighborhood (main reason initially)

I would find it impossible to justify going back to ice.

> There is just nothing, zero, zilch, that is better in an EV.

You dont kill your kids with the exhaust.
by pfdietz | 2025-10-27 20:23:39+00:00
"In 1933, the U.S. suspended gold convertibility and gold exports. In the following year, the U.S. dollar was devalued when the gold price was fixed at $35 per troy ounce. After the U.S. dollar devaluation, so much gold began to flow into the United States that the country’s gold reserves quadrupled within eight years. Notice that this is several years before the outbreak of World War II and predates a large trade surplus in the late 1940s. [...] In 1930, the U.S. controlled about 40% of the world’s gold reserves, but by 1950, the U.S. controlled nearly two-thirds of the world’s gold reserves."

https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/f...
by WorldMaker | 2025-10-27 20:23:46+00:00
A lot of what I'm seeing feels like LLMs are "perfect" bridge-to-nowhere enablers. They are the ultimate Yes Men and give upper management an impression that nowhere not only needs plenty more bridges but that the bridges are cheap to build and easy to use and may already have been built with magic strong enough to attract leprechauns and their pots of gold to the end of the bridges.

Too much of my career has been in the "Legacy Code" mines, and the LLMs seem like the worst pipeline for expanding "Legacy Code" faster than ever. Some of them may as well be called "Legacy Code-as-a-Service". I'm not worried that my "Legacy Code" skills are going to get out-of-date, I'm worried they are going to be in higher, uglier demand when some of these bridge-to-nowhere factories finally get shutdown or at least slowed down for some of the real maintenance costs to finally show up on companies' bottom lines.
by showerst | 2025-10-27 20:23:55+00:00
Not in the sense of "can't be opened without the key".

Good locks buy you two things: Deterrence (maybe), and a set minimum of time and noise requirements to bypass them. If your lock reputably takes 3 minutes to pick or a Ramset gun to blast them open, make sure your guard comes by every two minutes, and otherwise stays in earshot.
by jimbokun | 2025-10-27 20:24:27+00:00
> Thought experiment: if there were an AI everyone had access to that was capable of designing and implementing a business that would crush all competition, how would you make your business succeed?

You won't. Because you placed in your condition that the AI would "crush all competition". That would include any business idea you come up with, which would be included in the category of "all competition".
by marcuskane2 | 2025-10-27 20:24:31+00:00
Kinda.

Maybe I'm too optimistic and we're just doomed, but I think the average voter would have cared more if a handful of things had gone differently.

For starters of course, Biden's rapid cognitive decline and the poor handling of it from the DNC made a mess of everything and prevented a unified platform message to tout the successes of those programs.

Also, the timelines were tough to make work for short-term political gain. There's necessarily going to be a span of time between a law being passed to eg, create tax incentives or loan programs to support building a factory and when those factories are actually built, operational and impacting the economy.

Finally, most of the programs from the Biden administration were hamstrung by trying to jam every left wing and liberal ideal into every program. Instead of saying "Go build a battery factory" they said "Go build a battery factory that's owned by racial minorities and run by women and employs union workers paid at a minimum of 110% of the prevailing wage and provides childcare onsite and doesn't negatively impact local housing affordability and ..." until the whole thing became impossible to implement.

Basically, I think an Ezra Klein type of Democrat could succeed. To be determined if that's the direction the party goes though.
by mbreese | 2025-10-27 20:24:35+00:00
Serious question, as I’m starting to go through this process myself -

Is it possible for the customer to provide their own bearer tokens (generated however) that the LLM can pass along to the MCP server? This was the closest to a workable security I’ve looked at. I don’t know if that is all that well supported by Chat GUI/web clients (user supplied tokens), but should be possible when calling an LLM through an API style call, right (if you add additional pass thru headers)?
by worik | 2025-10-27 20:25:03+00:00
No

I am talking of the Foreshore and Seabed Act (under a different name) that overturned settled case law and disapropriated IWI claims for property rights.

Māori have their property rights confiscated regularly. About every twenty or thirty years there is another round

That said the racism here is mild compared to reports from the USA
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-10-27 20:25:07+00:00
This thread is considering image input as an alternative to text input for text, not as an alternative to other types of OCR, so the accuracy bar is 100%.

I've had mixed results with LLMs for OCR.. sometimes excellent (zero errors on a photo of my credit card bill), but poor if the source wasn't a printed page - sometimes "reusing" the same image section for multiple extracted words!

FWIW, I highly doubt that LLMs have just learnt to scan pages from (page image, page text) training pairs - more likely text-heavy image input is triggering special OCR handling.
by ccvannorman | 2025-10-27 20:25:13+00:00
I can't help myself and surely someone else has already done the same. But the query

obj.friends.filter(x=>{ return x.city=='New York'}) .sort((a, b) => a.age - b.age) .map(item => ({ name: item.name, age: item.age }));

does exactly the same without any plugin.

am I missing something?
by Balgair | 2025-10-27 20:25:28+00:00
If this can reliably deal with the REF, VALUE, and NA problems, it'll be worth it for that alone.

Oh and deal with dates before 1900.

Excel is a gift from God if you stay in its lane. If you ever so slightly deviate, not even the Devil can help you.

But maybe, juuuuust maybe, AI can?
by dexwiz | 2025-10-27 20:25:46+00:00
Are you required to take those 28 days? In the US there is no one telling you to take days, especially since unlimited PTO means businesses no longer have to pay out unused days.

With the constant stream of projects there is no opportune time. On top of that management rarely works vacations into capacity planning, so if you leave it just gets dumped on someone else. You are then disincentivize to take days, because your coworkers suffer for it.
by kridsdale1 | 2025-10-27 20:25:48+00:00
You are bang on.

Every AI company right now (except Google Meta and Microsoft) has their valuations based on the expectation of a future monopoly on AGI. None of their business models today or in the foreseeable horizon are even positive let alone world-dominating. The continued funding rounds are all apparently based on expectation of becoming the sole player.

The continuing advancement of open source / open weights models keeps me from being a believer.

I’ve placed my bet and feel secure where it is.
by aeonik | 2025-10-27 20:26:05+00:00
You know about the Ultraviolet catastrophe?

Physics Explained Ultraviolet Catastrophe: https://youtu.be/rCfPQLVzus4

This Veritassium Video goes back further in time and talks about Action, and the Genesis of this idea. https://youtu.be/qJZ1Ez28C-A

Chemistorian, The history of Atomic Theory. https://youtu.be/SqYPrA7upiE
by pbopps | 2025-10-27 20:26:25+00:00
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by itsanaccount | 2025-10-27 20:27:02+00:00
"they" dont detect it light years away. from what has been published in the public domain, like in the congressional hearings, there are machines that have been here possibly a very long time. think at least 500 years. theres no indication the "they" behind those machines have ever made contact, or are on this planet, or are even still in existence. but there is something mechanical here that was not made by us.

as far as I know, the very few publicly identified records of speeds we have suggest a really big power source and the probable manipulation of fields we cannot yet (mass/gravity), but nothing breaking the speed of light.

so many people make leaps beyond the evidence we have and then declare them not plausible.
by kragen | 2025-10-27 20:27:17+00:00
As I explained in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45719611, the previous governments have not been Socialist, hewing more closely to Fascism.

Argentina has never had a Socialist President.

There hasn't been a mainstream Socialist party in Argentina in decades.

The PTS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Workers%27_Party_(Ar... has four seats in the Cámara de Diputados and zero seats in the Senate. The PO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_Party_(Argentina) has one seat in Diputados and zero seats in the Senate. The PCA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Argentina has zero seats in Congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_Binner was the first (and I think only) Socialist governor of an Argentine province, from 02007 to 02011, and he died in 02020.

The UCR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Civic_Union is nominally a member of the Socialist International, and many decades ago was roughly aligned with Socialism, but in recent decades their politics mostly favor big landowners and other big businesses. Instead of running their own presidential candidate in 02023, they backed the mano dura Patricia Bullrich, notable for being the only major candidate more right-wing than Milei; he made her his Minister of Security. They did hold the presidency for two years until the crisis in 02001, and previously with Alfonsín in the 80s. They've voted in favor of a lot of Milei's initiatives in Congress; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_National_Congress lists them as "independent".
by game_the0ry | 2025-10-27 20:27:34+00:00
> I don't trust LLMs to do the kind of precise deterministic work you need in a spreadsheet.

I was thinking along the same lines, but I could not articulate as well as you did.

Spreadsheet work is deterministic; LLM output is probabilistic. The two should be distinguished.

Still, its a productivity boost, which is always good.
by duxup | 2025-10-27 20:27:35+00:00
I could not tell, are these RV Park's like "trailer parks"? Or are they actually RVs as in self propelled dwellings / recreational vehicles?

Might not matter as far as the controversy goes but I'm curious.

Growing up there were 3 trailer parks in my town. 2 were very nice, honestly nicer than some neighborhoods with fixed dwellings. The one by the airport much more stereotypical...
by subsection1h | 2025-10-27 20:28:05+00:00
> I personally don’t think I care if a blog post is AI generated or not.

0% of your HN comments include URLs for sources that support the positions and arguments you've expressed at HN.[1] Do you generally not care about the sources of ideas? For example, when you study public policy issues, do you not differentiate between research papers published in the most prestigious journals and 500-word news articles written at the 8th-grade level by nonspecialist nobodies?

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?type=comment&query=author:alyxya+htt...
by ender341341 | 2025-10-27 20:28:14+00:00
I'm in the US my last company migrated from set limit to unlimited.

Having the "You have X hours of PTO" made the expectations clear. Especially for less senior people who might not want to rock the boat or seem greedy. And while use it or lose it policies are overall bad, they do push people to take breaks instead of "saving it up for something good/important".

It also heavily depends on management. There's definitely some companies that do "unlimited w/ manager approval" with the manager expected to find ways to deny and those are 100% shit places to work, but not everyone gets a lot of choice on that.
by corporat | 2025-10-27 20:28:33+00:00
AI was used to analyze logical fallacies in the original blog post. I didn’t use it to draft content—just to spot the straw man, false dilemma, and appeal-to-emotion tactics in real time.

Ironically, this exact request would’ve fit the blog’s own arguments: "AI is lazy" / "AI undermines thought." But since I was using AI as a diagnostic tool (not a creative one), it doesn’t count.

Self-referential irony? Maybe. But at least I’m being transparent. :)
by toast0 | 2025-10-27 20:28:38+00:00
> To do this, wouldn’t you effectively need to make a graphics card (VGA would work) where a separate chip could read the screen buffer? And somehow get this card to display preferentially over the on-board video card?

If you do basic VGA (and UEFI), that'd be plenty for most. If it had a local output it'd be great for systems without video on the cpu (am4 non-apus, but also others)
by aduwah | 2025-10-27 20:28:51+00:00
I would share it, but BigCorp would come after me. It is nothing terribly smart really. I am using steampipe to list all the regions for VPC/Subnets/NAT GW/IGW/[everything else networky] and loop through the list adding nodes to the diagram. There is a long list of accounts which all gets generated and committed in a git repo. The big challenge was to make it all readable instead of making a mess.