MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2025-10-23 21:00:26+00:00
A part of me despises this orange guy,

another part is thankful that he is there as a proof that you can get to a high status and high relevance role in society and still mantain your humanity, your inner child alive, not being robotic and just have a blast doing whatever the f you want.

There is no point getting to the top if you then lose all your humanity and playfulness.

Like if the condition to become President were to become a robot like Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden, thanks no, I pass....Trump on the other hand is the best of both worlds.
by pfdietz | 2025-10-23 21:00:40+00:00
> sci fi books

I blame these for the unquestioned belief that fusion is desirable. It's a trope because it enables stories to be told, and because readers became used to seeing, not because science fiction has a good track record on such things.

The fact that the volumetric power density of ARC is 40x worse than a PWR (and ITER, 400x worse!) should tell one that DT fusion at least is unlikely to be cheap.

With continued progress down the experience curve, PV will reach the point where resistive heat is cheaper than burning natural gas at the Henry Hub price (which doesn't include the cost of getting gas through pipelines and distribution to customers.) And remember cheap natural gas was what destroyed the last nuclear renaissance in the US.
by leptons | 2025-10-23 21:00:50+00:00
I personally do not know any Americans that are as you described. 1/3 of Americans are as you describe, 1/3 are definitely not at all as you described, and another 1/3 is too apathetic to care about anything.

The recent "No Kings" protests were the largest in US history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_and_demonstra...
by Matticus_Rex | 2025-10-23 21:01:20+00:00
It should apply there, though the first Trump admin argued a very narrow interpretation that mostly exempts the president in the first term, at the end of which the case was declared moot (leaving us in suspense about what SCOTUS would have said). Great commentary on emoluments and needed reforms in light of this here: https://www.execfunctions.org/p/trump-20-and-the-foreign-emo...
by themafia | 2025-10-23 21:01:37+00:00
> we can develop a fix and roll it out on all of them.

You have to know what you're fixing first. You're going to write a lot of code in blood this way.

It's not that people are particularly bad at driving it's that the road is exceptionally dynamic with many different users and use cases all trying to operate in a synchronized fashion with a dash of strong regulation sprinkled in.
by martythemaniak | 2025-10-23 21:01:41+00:00
COLLINS: Today you pardoned the founded of Binance. Can you explain why you did that?

TRUMP: Which one was that?

COLLINS: The founder of Binance

TRUMP: I believe we're talking about the same person, because I do pardon a lot of people. I don't know. He was recommended by a lot of people.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m3v6mnpkb52i
by rvz | 2025-10-23 21:02:01+00:00
I am sorry to tell you that the majority of the services that you may be using (Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, PayPal, etc) all have exposure or have some form of funding by crypto.

> Who's going to give you anything for your bozo bucks? At this rate, it's not going to take long.

It's already here. Scan your eye-balls for some Worldcoins ($WLD) to prove you are not a LLM bot.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-10-23 21:02:24+00:00
Dealing with BMW is hilarious because you will end up speaking to some guy either looks about 14 or like God's older brother, and he will say either "Ja so this part, I will show you how you take the beer can and you cut a piece like this, oder so, and it will fit over this and it is ready, ja? Ausgezeichnett, ja?" or he will say "Ja so this part, it is a special order from Munich and it will be four thousand euros but we will have it tomorrow" and the customer being German will just pay it and pick the car up after work tomorrow, and that's it, end of the story, done.

Or the customer will be Austrian and there is nothing for it but assassinating archdukes and bloody warfare over a 1.50EUR gasket.
by ilikecakeandpie | 2025-10-23 21:02:31+00:00
It's not half. I think close to 32% were fully supportive (voted for him) and around 36% sat at home or abstained, but in practicality they basically said they were fine with whoever won.

I don't know which is worse, that 32% were in support of the corrupt leader or that 68% in total are either supported him or didn't care enough to support anyone else
by orbital-decay | 2025-10-23 21:02:43+00:00
This seems to be fundamentally based on n-grams and manually built regexes. "Slop", or more narrowly annoying -isms and model stereotypes, is not just repetitive n-gram sequences, mode collapse manifests itself semantically. Sometimes repetition/stereotyping is desirable (you need semantics to understand if it's the case), and sometimes undesirable repetition is undetectable by n-grams and regexes, especially in languages that rely on word formation. Fixing the mode collapse probably needs a sufficiently powerful reference model of semantic diversity, which doesn't currently exist.
by mort96 | 2025-10-23 21:02:49+00:00
The RTTI vs no-RTTI thing and the exceptions vs no-exceptions thing definitely does fracture the C++ community to some degree, and plenty of people have rightly criticized C++ for it.

> If you need to write GC-free code in D you can do it.

This seems correct, with the emphasis. Plenty of people make it sound like the GC in D is no problem because it's optional, so if you don't want GC you can just write D without a GC. It's a bit like saying that the stdlib in Rust is no problem because you can just use no_std, or that exceptions in C++ is no problem because you can just use -fno-exceptions. All these things are naïve for the same reason; it locks you out of most of the ecosystem.
by aktau | 2025-10-23 21:02:50+00:00
The name of the memo is the command that comes after it:

$ memo my-complex-command --some-flag my-positional-arg-1

In this invocation, a hash (sha512) is taken of "my-complex-command --some-flag my-positional-arg-1", which is then stored in /tmp/memo/${USER}/{sha512hash}.zst (if you've got zstd installed, other compression extensions otherwise).
by simonw | 2025-10-23 21:03:07+00:00
And if you're still not convinced the definitive evidence is to run a reasoning model on your own machine.

OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b is a 12GB download for LM Studio from https://lmstudio.ai/models/openai/gpt-oss-20b

It turns out it's powerful enough to solve this. Here's the thinking trace:

We need product. Compute. Use approximate? Let's compute exactly. 87,654,321 * 98,765,432. We can use multiplication: Let's do 87,654,321 * 98,765,432. Compute using decomposition: 98,765,432 = 100,000,000 -1,234,568. So product = 87,654,321100,000,000 - 87,654,3211,234,568. First term: 8,765,432,100,000,000? Wait multiply: 87,654,321 *100,000,000 = 8,765,432,100,000,000. Now compute second term: 87,654,321 *1,234,568. Compute 1,234,568*87,654,321. Use maybe multiply 87,654,321 1,234,568 = 87,654,321(1,200,000+34,568). First: 1,200,000 = 87,654,32112100,000. 87,654,32112=1,051,851,852? Wait compute: 87,654,321*10=876,543,210; *2=175,308,642; sum =1,051,851,852. Then times100,000 =>105,185,185,200,000. Second: 34,568. Compute 87,654,32134,568 = 87,654,321*(30,000+4,568). 30,000: 87,654,3213=262,962,963; times10,000 =>2,629,629,630,000. 4,568: compute 87,654,3214,568 = *4000 + *500 + *60 + *8. 4000: 87,654,3214=350,617,284; times1000 =>350,617,284,000. *500: *5=438,271,605; times100 =>43,827,160,500. *60: *6=525,925,926; times10 =>5,259,259,260. *8: 700,834,568? Wait *8=700,834,568. Sum these: 350,617,284,000 +43,827,160,500 =394,444,444,500 +5,259,259,260 =399,703,703,760 +700,834,568 =400,404,538,328. Now add *30,000 part: 2,629,629,630,000 +400,404,538,328 =3,030,034,168,328. Now add to first part: 105,185,185,200,000 +3,030,034,168,328 =108,215,219,368,328. Thus product second term =108,215,219,368,328. Now subtract from first term: 8,765,432,100,000,000 -108,215,219,368,328 = 8,657,216,880,631,672. So answer: 8,657,216,880,631,672.

And a screenshot: https://gist.github.com/simonw/a8929c0df5f204981652871555420...
by dc396 | 2025-10-23 21:03:14+00:00
If the goal of the pardon was to handle a corrupt Judicial branch, then a better answer would have been for the Executive branch to nominate someone for a pardon to the Legislative and require a 2/3 majority of the Legislative to approve.

But something like that would fly in the face of the "Unitary Executive" insanity and would (I suspect) require a constitutional amendment, which is no longer remotely feasible.
by QueensGambit | 2025-10-23 21:03:16+00:00
OP here. Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Curious if you’ve measured o1’s accuracy and token cost with tool use enabled vs disabled? Wondering if python sandbox gives higher accuracy and lower cost, since internal reasoning chains are longer and pricier.

[Edit] Its probably premature to argue without the above data, but if we assume tool use gives ~100% accuracy and reasoning-only ~90%, then that 10% gap might represent the loss in the probabilistic model: either from functional ambiguity in the model itself or symbolic ambiguity from tokenization?
by troupo | 2025-10-23 21:03:41+00:00
Stock market is responding to Apple behavior. Stock market was perfectly okay with Apple not doing yearly releases before the iPhone. The stock market was perfectly okay with Apple not doing yearly releases of MacOS during the iPhone era. The stock market was totally okay with Apple not doing yearly (or predictable) hardware upgrades on anything but iPhone.

The stock market can easily be taught anything. And Jobs didn't even care about stock market, or stock holders (Apple famously didn't even pay dividends for a very long time), or investors (regularly ignoring any and all calls and advice from the largest investors).

You need political will and taste to say a thousand nos to every yes. None of the senior citizens in charge of Apple have that.
by Jweb_Guru | 2025-10-23 21:03:47+00:00
No. The entire crypto ecosystem requires a steady infusion of capital and an absence of regulations to prosper, since their primary use case outside of speculation is for handling money by people who can't get past normal KYC/AML checks. If those people no longer have anywhere to on/off ramp into the crypto ecosystem, most of its "legitimate" (in the sense of actually getting real value out of it rather than just speculating) use goes away.
by antigremlin | 2025-10-23 21:03:48+00:00
While I don't disagree that there's no craft most of the time, it's interesting to note that the anti-analogy with art and artists doesn't really work (or works in an unexpected way).

I'm visiting a lot of museums and exhibitions for a number of years now, without having any kind of art education, etc. After some time you start seeing patterns and understand more even if you still haven't read your art history. What strikes me time and time again, is that there's a huge amount of repetition even in great artists' work. It's definitely not an assembly line, but they do the same thing over and over again for years and years. That was true centuries ago and that's true today.
by hirvi74 | 2025-10-23 21:03:54+00:00
Do you mind helping my understand how you interpreted my comment in that manner? Such a sentiment was never my intention, and I would like to know how I could have worded my comment better to avoid confusion.

I was merely try to express that things were bad and some progress has been made, however, that does not mean that things cannot get bad again. Both progress and regress are rarely a straight line.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-23 21:04:29+00:00
The "AI mistake" part is a red herring.

The real question is: Would this have happened in an upper/middle class school.

The student has dark skin. And is attending a school in a crime ridden neighborhood.

Were it a white student in a low crime neighborhood, would they have approached him with guns drawn?

The AI failure is masking the real problem - bad police behavior.
by klardotsh | 2025-10-23 21:05:31+00:00
This feels like the same question as in consumer goods: "do I buy this thing now, or do I wait for the potential refresh in 6mo to see if it's better?"

Just get the thing you need now, there's no promise the grass is getting any greener, nor that you're any better off waiting. Maybe the LLM won't learn for 6 months. Or 12 months. Or maybe the AI company will run out of money, or jack up their prices to where you're not using it anymore, or whatever.
by akerl_ | 2025-10-23 21:05:52+00:00
I’m curious about basically all of it. It seems like such a powerful tool.

I seem to have irritated the parallel commenters tremendously by asking, but it seemed implausible I’d understand the design considerations by just skimming the CI config.

Top of mind would be:

1. How do y'all think about mitigating the risk of somebody launching malicious or spammy PR sites? Is there a limiting factor on whose PRs trigger a launch?

2. Have you seen resource constraint issues or impact to how PRs are used by devs? It seems like Immich is popular enough that it could easily have a ton of inflight PR dev (and thus a ton of parallel PR instances eating resources)

3. Did you borrow this pattern from elsewhere / do you think the current implementation of CI hooks into k8s would be generalizable? I’ve seen this kind of PR preview functionality in other repos that build assets (like CLI tools) or static content (like docs sites), but I think this is the first time I’ve seen it for something that’s a networked service.
by remich | 2025-10-23 21:05:57+00:00
But, isn't improving tools and the LLM's integration with them improving the model?

Caveat that we don't fully understand how human intelligence works, but with humans it's generally true that skills are not static or siloed. Improving in one area can generate dividends in others. It's like how some professional football players improve their games by taking ballet lessons. Two very different skills, but the incorporation of one improves the other as well as the whole.

I would argue that narrowly focusing on LLM performance via benchmarks before tool use is incorporated is interesting, but not particularly relevant to whether they are transformative, or even useful, as products.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-10-23 21:06:12+00:00
I think things like this have been proposed - ad nauseum was mentioned in another comment. I think they're all doomed to fail for a number of reasons:

1. most people aren't running adblockers, so them turning them off and clicking on adds would add very little noise to the data

2. the ad companies aren't exactly honest with their numbers; remember the pivot to video? that was just an out-and-out fabrication. The ad companies would just lie to their clients about click-throughs, impressions, etc.
by antonvs | 2025-10-23 21:06:17+00:00
As I pointed out in another comment, the equivalence is really just about the fact that SSA, CPS, and ANF all name each intermediate value once and avoid mutation. The rest is implementation details.

That's certainly true of "every one of the dozens of passes made basically an entire copy of it" - that's just a choice of how to implement it, which is an obvious choice if one is coming at it from a functional angle.

These kinds of approaches aren't always as inefficient as one might naively imagine, because there are usually tradeoffs involved - look at Haskell for example, which is capable of producing very performant code despite being largely purely functional. Often, the performance is gained because of the purely functional source code allowing for optimizations during compilation, like stream fusion and so on.
by nomel | 2025-10-23 21:06:30+00:00
This is what happens when pure software people, with no hardware experience/education, do hardware for the first time. I've seen it multiple times, including in robotics. The mindset can be too far disconnected from real world consequences, especially those of electrons doing their thing.

In this case, the problem seems to be a complete disconnect from reality itself, at the decision making level of the company. I'm guessing many of an engineer there are saying "told you so".
by fzeroracer | 2025-10-23 21:06:39+00:00
> Can you give some examples of this happening in real life?

Austin had a local rideshare app that entered the scene when Uber/Lyft left the area because the city passed a law it failed to propagandize against called RideAustin. Non-profit, worked really well and paid well. When Uber and Lyft came back, they heavily subsidized the cost of doing business in Austin by both arbitrarily lowering prices and heavily juicing rewards for drivers. Conveniently, when RideAustin shut down because most drivers and riders had moved onto either app, these rewards started getting clawed back and prices went way back up.
by ndiddy | 2025-10-23 21:07:02+00:00
> What's going to happen, though, if it's possible to buy a PC that's just as good as an ARM Mac in terms of both performance and battery life?

Their advantage against Microsoft is that the Mac UX may be degrading, but the Windows UX is degrading much more quickly. Sure modern Mac OS is worse to use than either Snow Leopard or Windows 7, but at least you don't get the "sorry, all your programs are closed and your battery's at 10% because we rebooted your computer in the middle of the night to install ads for Draft Kings in the start menu" experience of modern Windows.

Their advantage against Linux is that while there are Linux-friendly OEMs, you can't just walk into a store and buy a Linux computer. The vast majority of PCs ship with Windows, and most users will stick with what comes with the computer. It definitely is possible to buy a computer preloaded with Linux, but you have to already know you want Linux and be willing to special order it online instead of buying from a store.
by big_toast | 2025-10-23 21:07:03+00:00
macOS exposes a lot of affordances to code/xrpc/services/etc that Shortcuts (and previously automator) used. They let you do basically anything you'd want on macOS programmatically, without going through accessibility frameworks, code signing and sand-boxing issues. iOS as well to some extent.

Presumably if OpenAI is dog-walked/locked out of these by Apple at some point, they would be stuck in the Chrome/Chromebook feature jail. My guess is this gives OpenAI a team to put in charge to give them a chance to wedge themselves into the OS before Apple changes their mind or puts scare-box dialogs everywhere.

Either that or there's nothing so complicated and OpenAI just wants to re-build this stack inside ChatGPT as quickly and well as they can.
by inkysigma | 2025-10-23 21:07:09+00:00
Sorry, is this person comparing the rights and immunities of a head of a sovereign nation to those of a CEO of a company? I don't think France, as a sovereign country, is completely bound by US law whereas binance, when it is operating in US jurisdiction is. I'm not totally familiar with US finance law but I'm pretty sure a more fair comparison would be to other banks where KYC requirements and anti money laundering rules can be strict. From what I read about the prosecution, Binance ignored many warning signs from their own executives about the possibility and the lack of controls within their platform to comply with the law.
by garciasn | 2025-10-23 21:07:24+00:00
Unfortunately, very often the best thing to do is just let them have their way and walk away with a lot less of a punishment than would be the case should you dare to fight them.

Financially and personally, it's what they do to pressure you into submission. It happens from criminal cases all the way down to fucking family court. It's absurd and it's broken.

I truly believe that almost every single attorney should have to lose sleep at night over how their actions impact others.
by cthalupa | 2025-10-23 21:07:31+00:00
Serious set of questions here from someone desperately trying to understand people who voted for Trump and how to have conversations with them that can be productive. None of them are meant to be insulting or insinuate anything.

To me, this sort of behavior just seems par for the course for how he has been acting since before his presidency. Did you follow his record in business and politics closely prior to voting for him? If so, what mitigating factors were there that let you still feel comfortable in voting for him?

Is this an isolated source of issue with him? Part of a broader trend? In either case, is it/these a big enough deal for him to lose your support moving forward? For the rest of the political party supporting him?

If there has been a shift in your ability to support him, what is it that broke the camel's back?
by al_borland | 2025-10-23 21:07:57+00:00
I pulled up a video on Omarchy 2.0 from DHH. The first thing he says is it's based on a tiling window manager that takes time to learn and setup, most things are done in the terminal and with the keyboard.

I feel like that loses a majority of people right there. I like the option to do common things with the keyboard, or to configure things with a file. But for things I don't do often, holding a bunch of keyboard shortcuts in my head feels like a waste for those rare things.

I'm not sure about anyone else, but I can't run whatever Linux distro I want at work. When an OS relies on muscle memory to get smooth and fluid operation, it seems like that would make it extra hard to jump between for work vs home. I spent years jumping between OS X and Windows, and I found it's much nicer now that I'm on the same OS for work and home. Even the little things, like using a different notes app at home vs work do trip me up a little, where I'll get shortcuts wrong, or simply not invest in them, because of the switching issue. Omarchy feels like it would be that situation on steroids.
by xp84 | 2025-10-23 21:08:10+00:00
If a developer so green that they don’t know what script injection risk is, and doesn’t know about innerHTML vs this method, stumbles into that scenario, I want them to encounter friction and have to dig into the documentation to find out why their script tag wasn’t run. Then they can start to learn how to do their job correctly. Having everything “just work” unsafely by default is not a viable best practice on the Web in 2025. Things have been slowly changing in this direction for at least a decade.

In fact, it’s better for the industry even if a few such individuals are so pained by having to learn about and handle security that they just quit web development entirely. Just like aspiring pilots who can’t stand checklists and safety rules should pursue a different career.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-23 21:08:19+00:00
> People knowingly buy into pump & dumps, gambling that they're on the early (pump) side and hoping to get out before the dump

I recently heard of a real estate person that wound up buying an entire neighborhood around one of the stadiums for next year's World Cup. The impetus for this decision was to jack up the rates during the tournament, and then sell them off after. Another person thinks renting a bunch of Teslas and then placing them Touro will be another get rich idea during the World Cup. There are all sorts of people that think they are smarter than everyone else and are so confident they just cannot think of any ways their idea will fail.
by thunky | 2025-10-23 21:08:21+00:00
> around 36% sat at home or abstained, but in practicality they basically said they were fine with whoever won.

Or, they were not fine with whoever won.

We've got two abismal parties to choose from. Yes, there's an agument for voting for the lesser of two evils, but it's not a great one.

I'd like to believe at least some of those 36% would vote for a decent candidate/party. But once you lose faith in the system, and realize that it doesn't represent you, you might just stop participating in it.