MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PeterFBell | 2025-10-21 19:45:33+00:00
With LLMs we're all becoming managers. Good news is we'll get more done. Bad news is that we'll have to get way better at persisting mid-state process status (I sometimes ask my LLM "could you summarize what we were talking about and why"), tracking outstanding tasks (linear for our agents) and jumping between contexts.

I am also finding work is becoming more tiring. As I'm able to delegate all the rote stuff I feel like decision fatigue is hitting harder/faster as all I spend my time doing is making the harder judgement decisions that the LLMs don't do well enough yet.

Particularly tough in generalist roles where you're doing a little bit of a wide range of things. In a week I might need to research AI tools and leadership principles, come up with facilitation exercises, envision sponsorship models, create decks, write copy, build and filter ICP lists, automate outreach, create articles, do taxes, find speakers, select a vendor for incorporation, find a tool for creating and maintaining logos, fonts and design systems and think deeply about how CTOs should engage with AI strategically. I'm usually burned pretty hard by Friday night :(
by hmate9 | 2025-10-21 19:45:51+00:00
I'm testing this and it's really weird not being taken straight to a Google results page when I type something. Honestly, I'm quite comfortable just switching to the ChatGPT app and typing my query there if I want to use it, and then relying on the browser if I just want to hit Command+Tab and search it on Google. But I'll test it out and see what happens.
by pookha | 2025-10-21 19:45:55+00:00
W. Edwards Deming was partially responsible for Japanese manufacturing QA and was a huge player in WWII manufacturing. He was one of the reasons the United States went from annually manufacturing 3k planes to over 300k+ planes by the end of the war, which is pretty crazy to think about. The US did plenty right in WWII but it gets over looked by historians and (I guess) universities.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-10-21 19:46:11+00:00
Because of the extreme diversity in voting methods in the US (it varies not only by state, but by county within the state) it's impossible to accurately make any generalization about voting in the US. For example, in my parents' county in Wisconsin, you show up at the polling place, they check you off the list of registered voters, and they hand you a ballot with no individual markings at all. Once you finish filling it out, you put it in a box with the other identical ballots, to be counted later. It's as anonymous as you could possibly ask for, except that they know that someone claiming to be you showed up and voted.

As far as party registration goes, is that required where you are? Because if so that's insane and the government there needs to change that. Everywhere I've lived you don't need to register any kind of party affiliation (and indeed some places you couldn't), you just register as a voter and you're good. Maybe it's different where you are, but if so just be aware that it is (thankfully) not universally done wrong in the way you describe.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-21 19:46:19+00:00
> Bolsonaro didn't question the electoral process

He did. For years, and during his mandate. I was there. Out of every stupid thing he said and did, they cited his perfectly valid criticism of the voting machines as the reason for his banishment from politics until 2030. I submitted news of that event to HN.

> Not dissimilar than Trump's "stop the count!" on US paper ballots.

Completely different matter. I'm very skeptical of claims of election fraud in the USA because it uses paper ballots. I have no trouble at all believing that our Magnitsky sanctioned judge literally named Lula president. They broke the guy out of prison to run against Bolsonaro for a reason.

In the end it's irrelevant. Bolsonaro's ordeal has revealed the deep truth of Brazil to the masses: the real power is in the supreme court. Discussing elections is utterly pointless since these judges are not elected. Elections are just a game they play to give this shithole a veneer of democracy.
by m4rtink | 2025-10-21 19:46:22+00:00
Shuttle had the unfortunate combination of fragile indivudally unique (!) tiles glue to lightweight aluminum structure that would fail if heated to 175 C (!!) [0], even in a small area.

In comparison Starship is covered by mostly identical tiles attached to hull welded from milimeters thick (internet data indicates something between 4 and 2 mm thick & often multiplied in important places) steel plate.

The steel hull has demonstrated surviving missing tiles just fine - and during earlier flight even multiple burn throughs on the flaps with bits falling off and even back then Starship completed simulated landing to the ocean (including the flip manuever and landing burn!).

So even if SpaceX does not perfect rapid reusability of Starship immediately, they would still have hands down the best orbital launcher in the world, with the option of populating new Starship hulls with reused engines, acuators and avionics for the time being.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_thermal_protecti...
by xg15 | 2025-10-21 19:46:27+00:00
That's part of it, but I think not the whole picture. Many jobs do have some genuine benefits they give the employee (in addition to salary) : practical experience and skill training, but most importantly a certain degree of influence and power: You can't go on strike if you don't have a job.

Those are cold comfort if compensation isn't enough or the job ruins your health or drives you into burnout, but I think their absence becomes important if you talk about popular UBI or "end of work" scenarios.

That's why I think even if we had some friendly tech company that did All The Jobs for free using automation and allowed everyone to live a comfortable life without even the need for an income, and even if we changed the culture such that this was totally fine, it would still be a dystopia, or at least risk very quickly drifting into one: Because while everyone could live a happy, fully consumption-oriented life, they'd have zero influence how to live that life: If the company does everything for you that is to be done, it also has all the knowledge and power to set the rules.
by alliao | 2025-10-21 19:47:03+00:00
and now I can direct people to you for Asian with peanut allergies lol... but yeah just saying incident rate is crazy low.. I probably know indirectly around 2000 Asian or so growing up in Asia till I was 10 never heard of anyone had peanut allergies.. seafood yes, but peanut would be considered borderline theatrical definitely not anaphylaxis styled
by bonobocop | 2025-10-21 19:47:23+00:00
The durability and transformation reasons are definitely more compelling, but the article doesn’t mention those reasons.

It’s mainly focused on the insert batching which is why I was drawing attention to async_insert.

I think it’s worth highlighting the incremental transformation that CH can do via the materialised views too. That can often replace the need for a full blown streaming transformation pipelines too.

IMO, I think you can get a surprising distance with “just” a ClickHouse instance these days. I’d definitely be interested in articles that talk about where that threshold is no longer met!
by eMPee584 | 2025-10-21 19:47:25+00:00
yeah very sad, had a tmux shortcut for quickly "googling" things.. However, https://www.startpage.com/ does not complain and supposedly sports the same search index..

For modern sites and if your terminal toolchain does not support sixel, https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl is a neat hack that gives you a text-rendered blink engine, i.e. supporting all the same sites as those pesky GUI browsers. With sixel/kitty graphics, there was another option which slipped my mind.. [edit: maybe chawan as in sibling comment, but that also is "not supported" by google with the default user agent.]
by ThreatSystems | 2025-10-21 19:47:29+00:00
It does sound like you've been compromised by an outfit that has got automation to run these types of activities across compromised accounts. A Reddit post[0] from 3 years ago seems to indicate similar activities.

Do what you can to triage and see what's happened. But I would strongly recommend getting a professional outfit in ASAP to remediate (if you have insurance notify them of the incident as well - as often they'll be able to offer services to support in remediating), as well as, notify AWS that an incident has occurred.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/119admy/300k_bill_afte...
by airesearcher | 2025-10-21 19:47:43+00:00
Looks better... the one thing I am not seeing is the behavior where they expand in two directions at the same time - but it might be that it's too small. Also it would be better if you started from a much lower density initial condition like 15% density. Also note - while Amazing Dragons shows really interesting behavior microscopically it is not the most balanced rule - there are other variants that are sparser and have a more interesting balance (see gallery, see repo to try them out). I found density of initial conditions is very important and different rules need different densities.
by klodolph | 2025-10-21 19:47:55+00:00
I’ve never met a casual Magit user. They’re usually people who have decided to invest time in learning Emacs or Spacemacs, at the very least. Some of them have massive .emacs files and take notes in org-mode. The casual users would probably be using VS Code or Jetbrains instead.

If anything, Magit has helped me AVOID getting in a bad state, because it automatically shows me more information and context than what I get from the Git command line (despite all this fancy Git stuff I put in my prompt). When I’m committing in Magit, I see some weird hunk I didn’t mean to commit, and I can seamlessly edit it, because I’m already in the editor.
by internetter | 2025-10-21 19:48:13+00:00
> Just as a start, other sources of reference, including encylopedias, dictionaries

This just seems like healthy competition. I thought we were talking about a situation where Wikipedia’s use of other encyclopedias is an instrument of their demise.

> Maybe there's a little bias there

Paradoxically, I suspect you’d be pleasantly surprised about how tough this article is on itself. A lot of attention is given to bias in this case.

> Would Wikipedia accept Wikipedia's analysis of its own reliability as a valid source?

First, it is not Wikipedia’s own analysis. Editors should not present their own conclusions from research, just what each paper says. See [[WP:SYNTH]]. Second, generally Wikipedia discourages anyone citing it as it is not a stable source of information. Much better is to use the sources the article itself conveniently cites inline. As a general policy citing any encyclopedia is discouraged.

> having no knowledge of the accuracy of any particular article, it's not worth very much to me.

Wikipedia does have internal metrics grading the quality of an article. [[WP:ASSESS]]. In general though, even entirely discounting the Wikipedia component of the británica comparison, based on británicas own failures it seems wise to verify each and every claim in an encyclopedia, which Wikipedia does an excellent job of helping you do.

> They don't with you, but many people obviously use them that way. Also, reputation does not correlate strongly with reality

OpenAIs own benchmarks show much higher hallucination rates than any study on Wikipedia. Wikipedia itself is quite close to a ban on LLMs for reliability issues. If you ask literally any layman “has ChatGPT ever been wrong for you” they will say yes, either in that moment or after only a little prompting. It is much harder to elicit such a response regarding Wikipedia in my experience

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/2221c875-02dc-4789-800b-e7758f372...
by ggm | 2025-10-21 19:48:47+00:00
The desperation inherent in modern 3rd party AV messaging is a huge problem. Assisting seniors who got conned into a mcaffee install at boot time, the fear from the bombardment of warnings is palpable. They can't believe the integrated free product is "as good" which is sad.

Remnants of past AV install do not inspire confidence. It seems uninstalls aren't equal.

Microsoft should have done it sooner. The legal argument was FUD.
by bravetraveler | 2025-10-21 19:49:07+00:00
On the cheat topic: don't forget things like 'r/overemployed'. People truly taking advantage of, and ruining, what could be a nice situation. Sure, some of it's made up, but the response is certainly genuine.

CEOs and middle-management are loud and clear: get back to the office/work yourselves to the bone. I've never had to attend so many pointless Teams calls just to prove presence... until this started making the rounds. I've been WFH for nearly ten years. I didn't stop caring until they started. Funny, isn't it?

Anyway, we're rambling a bit. Why such a soft apologist? They care. And? These still mean the same thing as fifty years ago: 'salary', 'exempt', and 'at will'. If you mean the peers: well, comparison remains the thief of joy. Management probably also wouldn't want us discussing comp, eh?

I hope my point is clear, it's not our place to worry. This is a business transaction, the terms were well-defined. A coworker being upset that you Did Good and Was Rewarded is insanity. Go after the employer, not your peer.
by whynotminot | 2025-10-21 19:49:46+00:00
Well, most of them (the hackers from the 70s) probably did do it solely for the love of the game.

We’re 50 years past that now. We’re in the era of boot camps. I feel semi confident saying “most of us” meaning the current developer work force are here for well paying jobs.

Don’t get me wrong I like software development! I enjoy my work. And I think I’d probably like it better than most things I’d otherwise be doing.

But what I’ve been getting at is that I enjoy it for the solving problems part. The actual writing of code itself for me just happens to be the best way to enjoy problem solving while making good money that enables a comfortable life.

To be put it another way, if being a SWE paid a poverty wage, I would not be living in a trailer doing this for my love of coding. I would go be a different kind of engineer.
by mncharity | 2025-10-21 19:50:04+00:00
I liked your emphasis on individual diversity, and an attendant need to explore, select, adapt, and integrate tooling. With associated self-awareness. Pushing that further, your "categories" seem more like exemplars/prototypes/archetypes/user-stories, helpful discussion points in a high-dimensional space of blended blobs. And as you illustrate, it branches not just on the individual, but also on what they are up to. And not just on work vs hobby, but on context and task.

It'd be neat to have a big user story catalog/map, which tracks what various services are able to help with.

I was a kid in NE43 instead of TFA's Building 26 across the street - with Lisp Machines and 1980s MIT AI's "Programmer's Apprentice" dreams. I years ago gave up on ever having a "this... doesn't suck" dev env, on being able to "dance code". We've had such a badly crippling research and industrial policy, and profession... "not in my lifetime" I thought. Knock on wood, I'm so happy for this chance at being wrong. And also, for "let's just imagine for a moment, ignoring the utterly absurd resources it would take to create, science education content that wasn't a wretched disaster... what might that look like?" - here too it's LLMs, or no chance at all.
by teekert | 2025-10-21 19:50:31+00:00
What would we become in such a universe? We would take a step back, it will become about survival again (I know it's like that on earth here and there), not about growing together, exploring. It's like Star Trek's mirror universe.

Sure I'd fight for humanity, but I'd be so disappointed. Maybe even enough to just give up.

(I have to admit I just could not make it through part 2 of the Three Body problem, it went to slow for me.)
by alexpotato | 2025-10-21 19:50:33+00:00
So I once brought down an alerting system using Excel

(btw, this story is more about unintended consequences instead of MSFT)

- I own an alerting system

- For log based alerts, it looks for a keyword e.g. "alert_log"

- I make a spreadsheet to track data about alerts and call one of the sheets "alert_log"

- Alert system starts going crazy: using tons of CPU, number of alerts processed goes through the roof but not a lot of alerts generated

- Turns out that I was using the cloud version of Excel so any text entered transited the firewall

- Firewall logs store the text "alert_log"

- Alert system thinks it's an alert BUT it's not a real alert so triggers an alert processing alert

- That second alert contains the text from the firewall log and so cycle begins

In other words, systems can operate in weird ways and then cause things to happen you didn't anticipate. It's why things like audits, red teaming and defense in depth all matter.
by Veserv | 2025-10-21 19:50:54+00:00
The standard you linked literally talks about: "High Impact BES Cyber Systems with External Routable Connectivity" and "Remote Access Management" for "High Impact BES Cyber Systems". That explicitly indicates non-airgapped critical systems. Furthermore, the proscribed auditing specifically spells out "network diagrams or architecture documents" as good evidence. Obviously, that is a high level document, but I see nothing to indicate robustness against state-level actors which are a expected threat.
by vvolhejn | 2025-10-21 19:50:58+00:00
Author here, thanks for the kind words! I think such a physics-based codec is unlikely to happen: in general, machine learning is always moving from handcrafted domain-specific assumptions to leaving as much as possible to the model. The more assumptions you bake in, the smaller the space of sounds you can model, so the quality is capped. Basically, modern ML is just about putting the right data into transformers.

That being said, having a more constrained model can also lead to some really cool stuff. The DDSP paper learns how to control a synthesizer to mimic instruments: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04643

You could probably do something similar for a speech model. The result would not sound as good but you could get away with much fewer parameters, because much of the modelling work is done by the assumptions you put in.

Compare also KokoroTTS, a tiny TTS that's so tiny because it uses a handcrafted system to turn text into phonemes, and then just synthesizes from those phonemes: https://huggingface.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS
by sailingparrot | 2025-10-21 19:51:25+00:00
> If it conveys the intended information then what's wrong with that?

Well, the issue is precisely that it doesn’t convey any information.

What is conveyed by that sentence, exactly ? What does reframing data curation as cognitive hygiene for AI entails and what information is in there?

There are precisely 0 bit of information in that paragraph. We all know training on bad data lead to a bad model, thinking about it as “coginitive hygiene for AI” does not lead to any insight.

LLMs aren’t going to discover interesting new information for you, they are just going to write empty plausible sounding words. Maybe it will be different in a few years. They can be useful to help you polish what you want to say or otherwise format interesting information (provided you ask it to not be ultra verbose), but its just not going to create information out of thin air if you don't provide it to it.

At least, if you do it yourself, you are forced to realize that you in fact have no new information to share, and do not waste your and your audience time by publishing a paper like this.
by hunter-gatherer | 2025-10-21 19:52:09+00:00
Lol. This is brilliant. I'm not sure if anyone else has this happen to them, but I noticed in college my writing style and "voice" woukd shift quite noticeably depending on whatever I was reading heavily. I wonder if I'll start writing more like an LLM naturally as I unavoidably read more LLM-generated content.
by nerdponx | 2025-10-21 19:52:19+00:00
"They" aren't that interested in PII. They're interested in assigning a unique identifier for you and building as detailed of a profile about you as possible, for targeting ads to you, and more recently tailoring prices to maximize value extraction when you buy something. Focusing on the narrow definition of "PII" as it usually is defined in law is a total distraction. Your email address and name are irrelevant for all of that.
by crc_ | 2025-10-21 19:52:30+00:00
64kW of RAM @ a 4 byte (32-bit) word size, so 256KiB of actual RAM for the applications running on ilo.

For a reference, the 8088 build needs a bit more than that to account for stacks, the VM code, drivers, and memory needed for the actual hardware. (Around 384KiB physical RAM on an 8088/8086 works well from my testing, but I've tested with 285-320KiB in non-standard configurations under a few emulation targets).
by colonCapitalDee | 2025-10-21 19:52:43+00:00
I think cooling in a chip vs cooling in space are two orthogonal problems. In a chip, the problem is getting the heat to the heatsink where it can be efficiently dissipated into the much larger heatsink of the surrounding environment. In space, the problem is that the only way to dissipate heat is thermal radiation because you're in a vacuum.
by convolvatron | 2025-10-21 19:52:45+00:00
this is pedantic, but I think its important. We can say that a truth and lie are exclusive. when we lie, we know the truth. we just make up something else because it fits our agenda better. post-truth implies that the distinction doesn't matter anymore. nothing is true, everything is true. no statement can be evaluated outside the intent in which its delivered. that's much more substantial shift than just presenting a set of lies as the truth. a post-truth society is almost compelled to devalue science or any other pursuit of knowledge. by making all the voices selfish and mundane, it explicitly rejects beauty and accomplishment.
by fortran77 | 2025-10-21 19:52:52+00:00
RFID still costs several cents per sensor. At suparmarkets, this is a non-starter, but for some retailers, like Uniqlo, it's acceptable.

You would think that overpriced concessions would be a great place for this because it can be very fast and accurate but I think this would require the food handler to make sure to use a different tray or container for each differently priced item, etc. And there may just be enough items that would be hard to affix an RFID to (metal can, etc) that would make it unfeasible.
by caconym_ | 2025-10-21 19:52:59+00:00
2024 was never considered remotely realistic by anybody in the "industry"---it was a purely political deadline and the will/funding was not there to achieve it.

Today (AFAIK) 2028 is considered quite aggressive, mostly due to the lack of progress on Starship, and the facts driving that conclusion are not any more amenable to change via political pressure than they were last time.
by Blackstrat | 2025-10-21 19:53:14+00:00
I understand the motivation for re-opening the contract. However, who is going to do it faster than SpaceX? Certainly, Bezo and Blue Origin will go after the contract, but they are way behind SpaceX. And traditional NASA providers, e.g., Boeing, can't even get to the space station. So, I suspect this is simply a pressure move on Duffy's part.
by tstactplsignore | 2025-10-21 19:53:25+00:00
Ha, or, perhaps for a 2025 variant: it would quickly be shared publicly by government scientists (who are not as secretive or good at keeping secrets as the public seems to think!), the evidence all shared publicly, subject to international peer review and consensus. And then 70% of people would believe it's made-up. The US-sphere would believe China made it up as a plot (or "globalists") and the developing world and BRICS would believe the US made it up as a plot. Western countries would repeatedly sign and then remove themselves from international treaties to prepare for contact.

Bit too on the nose, maybe, but a heck of a lot more likely than a coverup by government scientists.