MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by davidcelis | 2025-10-06 17:17:27+00:00
By "Astral" do you mean "Spinel"? Also, what paid services? So far the only paid services they've mentioned is retainer services that essentially amount to priority customer support. The tools themselves are only ever described as free

EDIT: Misread the comment and thought it was only about `rv`, not both `uv` and `rv`
by recursive | 2025-10-06 17:17:29+00:00
Looks interesting, but I can't pass the camera control tutorial level. As I move the mouse to control the camera, eventually, the mouse moves outside the browser window, and the camera direction gradually aligns with Sonic's POV before I can move the cursor around the window to re-enter the opposite side to continue moving. Continuous mouse movement seems necessary to keep the camera aligned differently from Sonic's movement direction.

I don't think this is how it's supposed to work.
by morcus | 2025-10-06 17:17:39+00:00
As I said, intro calculus books will spend a large amount of time teaching you the mechanics of finding closed form solutions for integrals and derivatives of various kinds of functions. Look at https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-18-001-calculus-fall-2023/pa... for an example. Most of that content is not that important to understand the concepts.

And yes, with more mathematical maturity you definitely don't need as much detail. The proofs get terser as you're expected to be able to fill out the more straightforward details yourself.
by ljm | 2025-10-06 17:17:42+00:00
The main page itself provides little to no info so I’m going to make a few assumptions that, to me, seem logical:

1. It must depend on RubyGems in order to stay in sync, because people publish to RubyGems.

2. It has no UI to search or view gems, so still depends on RubyGems for that.

Ignoring any question about technical detail or implementation: there is zero practical reason or motivation to switch unless I am ideologically aligned with the maintainers and their reasoning.

As such, there is zero reason to even entertain the idea of switching in a professional context. At best I’d have to care enough to remember it for personal projects.

So it is with almost any fork. It’ll either converge with the mainline after achieving its goals, take over as the new status quo, or fade into obscurity. If I don’t have any direct stake in that then I’m going to wait it out.

This isn’t to discredit or discount the work or the reasoning, of course. It arguably has a far better standing than forking Rails because of DHH.
by cess11 | 2025-10-06 17:18:03+00:00
Under what state are you living, where you can expect it to never turn on you? Where corporations aren't exploitative and manipulative?

It can't be the US or EU, that's for sure.

I commonly leave the phone behind and switch to cheap walkie-talkies to lessen the tracking data I produce without giving up the ability to communicate with people nearby but not adjacent.
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by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-06 17:18:29+00:00
Your confusing tactical fear with existential fear.

Encryption, weapons? These create tactical fear. Governments have no fear of your tactics when they can shut down cell towers and roll in the tanks. Governments have no fear when they can also easily identify bad actors, highlight them, and win public opinion.

Blank paper, candlelight? These create existential fear. Governments have no playbook to deal with them without looking absurd. If they try to do so anyway, then it converts into tactical fear. Every successful revolution starts with the existential before the tactical.

China has no tactical fear, at all, if tens of thousands of rebels were armed. They'll be solved by next month. China has enormous amounts of existential fear when tens of thousands of people are putting blank pages everywhere. Blank pages could turn into tactical later, but tactical never leads to existential.

The Civil Rights movement you cite? They won through lunch counter sit-ins and bus boycotts - existential challenges to segregation's legitimacy. The tactics was a side show that didn't contribute much. There never was some defining moment where the Civil Rights Warriors won a victory in the Battle of Seville through the superiority of their communication methods. Same with the Civil War - it didn't start with shooting until after the existential battle had been blazing since the Missouri compromise four decades earlier.
by JeremyNT | 2025-10-06 17:18:32+00:00
Yeah viewing it as a single plan is wrong.

I think the more complete view is that the current generation of fascists learned from the Bush admin's mistakes (or, I suppose you could say, they feel unshackled by Bush era "restraint").

Combined with a cult of personality frontman to distract, aided by a captured media ecosystem and a radicalized judiciary, they are empowered to build on the shoulders of giants.

It was not self evident in the 00's that we would end up with Miller/Vought running the show - the actual form could have been something completely different. Indeed, Rove himself recently popped back up to chastise them!
by afavour | 2025-10-06 17:18:49+00:00
> I guess law enforcement can acquire all your chat logs from OpenAI

OpenAI could also just voluntarily give it to the government.

I'm trying to find ways to articulate these fears without sounding deep in hyperbole but it's undeniable that the current US government has authoritarian desires. When I look at all these services I'm forced to think "if push came to shove, would they stand up for my rights?", and I just don't have a lot of faith in the current tech giants.
by dannyobrien | 2025-10-06 17:19:08+00:00
> Could Jonathan Blow host his streams off his $200 laptop?

You may be right on the other parts, but, theoretically, yes? We've had the capabilities since BitTorrent to build p2p streaming tools: our main limitation for such situations is not capital, but the ability to coordinate making such tools simple and resilient enough for everyone to use.

Someone else downthread said "No struggle but class struggle", which it really does require a Marxist outlook. My take is "No problems but coordination problems" -- we have enough capital, labor, and raw resources now to solve most of our remaining problem set, we just need ways to coordinate better. Some of that is about aligning incentives. Marxists try to do this too! I just haven't seen them succeed very well without having to fall back on other, more general methods.

Digital technology, the domain of people here, is the main engine of better coordination in the modern era. We need to keep working on it to make it work better for everyone trying to solve problems.
by sfRattan | 2025-10-06 17:19:10+00:00
Likely coincidence. Myers-Briggs has no scientific validity and is the corporate equivalent of horoscopes in the newspaper. [1]

When someone asks for your Myers-Briggs type, give them a zodiac sign. When someone asks for your zodiac sign, give them a Myers-Briggs type. ;)

[1]: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/myers-briggs-psychology...
by mjr00 | 2025-10-06 17:19:37+00:00
> The government is basically telling everyone to take crazy risks, because if the risk is big enough, we'll bail you all out.

This is the widespread sentiment, yes, and why the bubble is so crazy. The feeling a lot of people have is; even if shit hits the fan, rather than let stocks/assets decrease in value relative to cash, governments will just print money and keep stocks/assets "stable" while making cash worthless. The US proved they're willing to do this during COVID. What you're betting on by holding assets despite the bubble is that they're willing to do it again.
by caminanteblanco | 2025-10-06 17:20:03+00:00
From my reading, this is completely unhelpful in determining how easy it would be to exfiltrate sensitive data from ChatGPT's memory. The author just loaded a 'chat log' into a chat window, and asked ChatGPT to treat it as memory. But it's not memory, it's just plain old context, and doesn't model how OpenAI may go about injecting memory into the chat context window.
by steveklabnik | 2025-10-06 17:20:57+00:00
I know that Ferrocene and AdaCore were working together, but then parted ways. I am assuming they're both doing roughly the same thing: qualifying the upstream compiler with some patches. I know that Ferrocene's patches are mostly adding a new platform, they've upstreamed all the other stuff.

> Isn't that only for a very small subset of Rust and its standard library?

It is currently for the compiler only. This ties into the next bit, though:

> Also, do you happen to be able to explain this comment?

Yeah, you can see me posting in that thread, though not that specific sub-thread. Rust has a layered standard library: core, alloc (which layers memory allocation on top of core), and std (which layers OS specific things on top of that). There's three parts to this comment:

First, because it's only core, you don't get the stuff from alloc and std. So, no dynamic memory allocation or OS specific things like filesystem access. That's usually not a problem for these kinds of projects. But that's what they mean by 'some language features will not be available', but they're mistaken: all language features are available, it's some standard library features that are not. No language features require allocation, for example.

Second, they qualified a subset of libcore for IEC61508. A founder of Ferrous mentions that IS 26262 is coming next, they just had a customer that needed IEC61508 quickly, so they prioritized that. This is how it relates to the above, for ISO 26262, it's just the compiler currently.
by w10-1 | 2025-10-06 17:21:02+00:00
For dot-com's it became clear that just having a web site wouldn't move customers. You could expect strong negative signal within a year of putting up the site, prompting broad pull-back.

For AI now, the question is (a) how well one can monetize a LLM (size of the market); and (b) how much better one LLM can be than another (enduring competitive advantage). Both of these are generation-long questions.

The other factor is who's investing. A lot of money now is from (mostly foreign) non-players who are paying to play, and who have a vested interest in managing their online and business ecosystems. They're not really subject to uncertainty about (a) or (b). Any good LLM will likely be good enough for them, and they already know what they're using it for. So when turbulence hits, those in it for profit will drop out, ceding control to those in it to control society.

The bubble bursting is not the important risk.
by bhelkey | 2025-10-06 17:21:09+00:00
> I just shared my location with home depot a few days ago so it could locate which store I am in.

There is a huge difference between giving Home Depot permissions to know your location while you are in a Home Depot vs giving Home Depot permissions to know your location 100% of the time.

If I was using a Home Depot app and I wanted the app to know my location, I would share location data using the "Allow While Using App" option instead of the "Always" option. I can't imagine a scenario in which I would want Home Depot to a continuous stream of my location data.
by Spivak | 2025-10-06 17:21:24+00:00
Which is so stupid, there's a probably a million examples of this exact pattern. It is crazy that courts have decided that people don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy for data that is otherwise kept secret with multiple locks, and guards at the door. Clearly people expect it to be kept private, it's more protected than their house.

If I ask Alice to store my diary for me and keep it secret it seems obvious to everyone except law enforcement that you should have to get a warrant and serve it to me before getting it from her.
by john01dav | 2025-10-06 17:21:26+00:00
> I wish that more developers had this same stance of refusing all options with abusive practices like platform exclusivity.

I don't touch consoles. They're cesspits of abusive practices: computers that can't do general purpose computing, shit like xbox demanding a monthly fee to have networking capabilities, and, of course, the fact that you need permission from the console's manufacturer to make games for them.

Steam deck is an exception. They do consoles how it should be done.

(I will touch such technologies when being paid to do so, after expressing my concerns about them if applicable)
by kube-system | 2025-10-06 17:22:10+00:00
Creating new words from existing words or concepts is how language works. In fact, "airport" is an example of this... ports were originally for boats.

New terminology may sound strange to people who are not familiar with it, but if people start to adopt it, it becomes a normal and accepted word. Basically every word has gone though this process at some point.

And brand names are often witty puns or irrelevant words, intentionally. Using descriptive words for a brand is legally a bad idea, because this can disqualify you for trademarks. The point of trade marks is to uniquely identify the offering -- if you named it descriptively you risk losing this. Apple computers are not fruit, and Windows computers are not transparent glass. If you named your computer "computer" you wouldn't have a brand, and nobody would be able to know what to refer to your computer.
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by jandrese | 2025-10-06 17:22:58+00:00
I think that's mostly training costs. There is a serious level of diminishing returns and the primary way companies have been trying to get ahead is throwing more and more hardware at it. AI already burns something around 5x as much power as crypto mining and it's only growing.

You hear sometimes about the AI singularity and how they will continue to become smarter at an exponential pace until they're basically gods in a box, but the reality is we're already well into the top of the S curve and every advance requires more effort than the one before.
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by KaiserPro | 2025-10-06 17:23:22+00:00
> 2) the dot com companies were mostly not profitable with small revenues, while the big players here are either profitable (google, Facebook), backed by big players, and/or have massive revenues and user bases. And growing. 3)

OpenAI is losing 4x its income from operating expenses.

Facebook is pouring tens of billions into it

Google, fuck knows.

These are all loss leaders, looking to make the others fold, rather than say a geared company that is profitable but geared to expand.

better AI costs much much more to make and run, and there isn't much brand loyalty.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-06 17:23:27+00:00
The mistake this article makes is assuming LLM scaling is one thing. It's not.

RL is spiky. It produces narrow improvements on specific capabilities. They're not making the model generically smarter, they're RLing in holes in the model's capabilities. In reality we don't have one scaling curve, we have thousands of them. We're in diminishing returns in "top line smarts" but we're raising the floor in a wide variety of areas that people who don't heavily eval models for a living might not notice.
by recursivedoubts | 2025-10-06 17:23:28+00:00
OK, have now read: https://dmitriid.com/hypermedia-is-a-property-of-the-client

I think that a large part of the disagreement we seem to have is language related. I do NOT believe that HTML is the only hypertext: my inclusion of HXML as a mobile hypermedia format confirms that I do not believe this. In the tweet linked in your essay I am being sarcastic and pointing out HXML as the counter argument to it, I apologize if that was not clear to you.

Your essay is, as you say, meandering & at times incoherent, so I will try to clarify and address specific issues in it as best I can.

You mention that clients can interpret non-hypermedia files (such as Java classes) contextually and provide actions related to the content. This is of course true and I don't disagree with it. I do NOT believe that a hypermedia system is defined solely due to a hypermedia format (and, again, I do not believe that HTML is the only hypermedia format). Markdown, for example, is a (limited) hypermedia format imposed on top of plain text. When combined with a client that understand Markdown it forms a hypermedia system.

> If your custom non-standard XML DSL is hypermedia, then everything is

This section is very difficult to parse. I did not create HXML, however I do think it qualifies as a hypermedia format due to the presence of hypermedia controls. And I agree that the hypermedia client for HXML is just as important as the format itself in creating a mobile hypermedia system.

I also want to stress that I think you can impose a hypermedia format on top of JSON. You offer some examples and another one I'm familiar with is Siren (https://github.com/kevinswiber/siren). This is analogous to how HTML imposes a hypermedia format on top of SGML, or HXML imposes a hypermedia format on top of XML. As you rightly note, that isn't enough however: you also need a hypermedia client that understands that format and can present non-linear actions to a user.

You seem very focused on the idea that I think only HTML is a hypertext. I want to stress again that do not believe this to be the case, that appears to be a language misunderstanding.

Finally, we have this:

> Hypermedia, as Roy Fielding himself says, is the property of a machine talking to another machine using a media type both understand. The media type aka format itself doesn't matter as long as both machines understand it. Even presentation of controls to the user is a secondary concern and can be performed by the machine as it sees fit. Because, once you've unwrapped the contortionist back into their human shape, hypermedia is a property of the client.

This conclusion is contradictory.

"A machine talking to another machine using a media type both understand" makes the effective use of hypermedia a property of both the client and the server (both machines).

I agree strongly with that conclusion, drawn directly from your own words, which is why I titled my book Hypermedia Systems rather than, say, "HTML is the only hypermedia format".
by derefr | 2025-10-06 17:23:48+00:00
> try explaining why that isn’t technically possible in Python (at least during an interview) without using a third-party library.

I'm actually vaguely surprised that Python doesn't have extended-grapheme-cluster segmentation as part of its included batteries.

Every other language I tend to work with these days either bakes support for UAX29 support directly into its stdlib (Ruby, Elixir, Java, JS, ObjC/Swift) or provides it in its "extended first-party" stdlib (e.g. Golang with golang.org/x/text).
by dylan604 | 2025-10-06 17:24:42+00:00
I've never once allowed a company like Home Depot to know my location with Location Sharing. If their site needs to know what store is "my store", then I use zip code searching and manually setting the store.

There is no way to prevent cell providers from knowing the location of the device connected to their network. We can regulate the industry from selling that location. I don't necessarily mind allowing law enforcement to learn the location of a device with a proper warrant. Them selling the data to any interested 3rd party should be banned punishable by imprisonment of the the entire C-suite.

Sharing your location with family/friends is not even in the same ballpark as sharing with corporate entities. To conflate the two in your mind just shows how fucked we've allowed ourselves to become. Sharing your location with family/friends through social platforms is also not the same thing as sharing directly through the devices. Again, thinking it is just shows how numb we've become to theSocials
by citizenpaul | 2025-10-06 17:25:21+00:00
The AI hype bubble now represents something like 20-30% of the stock market depending on who you ask. For reference the great depression started with a 24% drop of the stock market. The people running this AI game know there is 0% chance the government will let this play out naturally because it would cause another great depression. Bailout Guaranteed.

The plebs can take some inflation,higher taxes and national debt increase for the hucksters to get some yachts and lambos. I mean what were you going to do with that money? Feed your family? Pay rent? Jeeze get a life....

In this round of con there is not even a way for an average pleb to get any scraps since the AI bubble is almost completely hidden behind private equity. Except maybe Nvidia stock.

The bubble is starting to froth/pop IMO. An incestuous cycle of players propping each other up with circular investments(ie I'll loan you money to buy my product so I can sell it to you) began last month with Nvidia "funding" OpenAI datacenters. Actions like that mean they are out of external ways to keep shuffling the debt. Like when WeWork CEO started loaning the company its own money to buy its own product to rent.

Edit: Oh $hit AMD just did the same thing with a circular funding deal with OpenAI. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45490549 Channel Stuffing Money printer go brrr. I can't belive there is even discussion if there is a bubble at this point. Its literally wolf of wall street "Never let them cash out that makes it real" style deals all over the place.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-06 17:25:28+00:00
An asterisk to this: SEA competition is way fiercer than people in the west give it credit for.

There's more and more product that I wish existed, and one search in AliExpress returns me what I exactly wanted plus some more. 5 years ago the product just existed and quality was meh, nowadays it's pretty much on par.

I had to recently look for camera gear, and the amount of adapters or quirky tripods is just great. Ulanzi for instance is a pretty well known brand at this point.