MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by j16sdiz | 2025-10-18 07:19:02+00:00
They bend the knee for censorship requirement. (Not only that, they provided machine learning based filtering service for other Chinese search engine at the time)

According to Google, the China government tried to infiltrate Google's internal computer system. In response, Google stopped the censorship over night, and withdraw from China market shortly afterward.

I still remember night, when _all_ Chinese search engine stopped censoring because Google stopped their filtering service.

The China tech company have evolved much since those days, and they are now much better at censoring compare to what Google had in the early days of the internet.
by sublinear | 2025-10-18 07:20:24+00:00
> This tilts the skill set of the general tech market towards the One True Way making it gospel to a lot of people

That lot of people literally cannot get hired anywhere but startups because everyone else isn't so naive

> things happen downstream of these unmanaged expectations

It sounds like a metric fuckton of people need to retire or get out of the way already if they can't set expectations despite being in the exact position where they should be able to talk to multiple audiences

None of these excuses appease the investors nor the heads-down employees. Shit will have to change sooner rather than later. Many factors will make it so. This is exactly what defines a tech bubble.
by Flamingoat | 2025-10-18 07:21:24+00:00
No his point was that there could be a cost to replacement that would be extremely expensive and that put his wife off. It would puts most people off.

It doesn't matter what the rates are compared to Petrol/Diesel cars, it is an unknown and large potential cost with an expensive initial purchase especially compared to a second hand vehicle that would fulfil the exact same function.
by thebruce87m | 2025-10-18 07:21:26+00:00
Why would I do that? There is no equivalent to that in an EV.

The only part that I think you might be trying to make this case for is the battery but even NMC batteries at 1,000 cycles and 200 mile range will by far exceed the scrap mileage of the average car.

LFP batteries with their higher cycle count will probably be transplanted to new cars.
by charcircuit | 2025-10-18 07:22:34+00:00
>What you're describing here is the opposite of a high trust society

In such a society, people don't steal because thieves have been removed from society. You can trust others because they have proven through their life that they are trustworthy. By trust I was talking between the people in society and not about the government trusting that people would not break laws. Humans are not perfect, so it's a bad assumption to assume that citizens will not break laws.

>66% of Americans say that the potential risks outweigh the potential benefits

The article you linked was about the current benefits. This is different than what I am talking about where laws are able to be effectively be enforced.

>Would you feel comfortable with me being able to surveil every moment of your life?

What do I get in return from you? Nothing? Then I have no reason to do so.

>NSA officers would regularly collect and trade sexually explicit media obtained from surveillance.

This should be made an instantly firable offense, like it is in the tech industry for accessing personal data of users. There should be alerting when such data is accessed to ensure that systems are not being abused.
by inkyoto | 2025-10-18 07:23:12+00:00
Likewise, thank you for a meaningful and civilised discourse.

To expand upon your observations regarding the role and the function of global infrastructure providers — what I find most disquieting is the manner in which the Internet has degenerated from a realm of open discourse, at times resembling the untamed frontier, into a labyrinthine construct of proliferating legislation and extrajudicial interference by a multitude of states.

The result is a regulatory morass so burdensome that, in certain instances, it proves more expedient to disregard an entire jurisdiction than to endeavour compliance with its statutory dictates. Even when such legislative efforts are conceived without malice, their consequences are seldom benign — the attendant escalation in implementation costs can be considerable. By way of illustration, conformity with the EU’s GDPR must now be accounted for at the very architectural level of a solution, with financial implications that are far from negligible.
by terespuwash | 2025-10-18 07:26:53+00:00
Important to note here is that the ruling found that there was no inappropriate influence on the content by any third party.

The documentary was impartial and remains a vital account of the genocide. The victims in Gaza deserve to have their voice heard.

Link to the documentary: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dX1rbFzRrXU
by bitwize | 2025-10-18 07:27:42+00:00
Early home console players in my country (USA) sometimes referred to game cartridges as "tapes" because of their resemblance to audiocassettes or 8-track cassettes (e.g., "Atari tapes"). In the Homestar Runner canon, Strong Bad has been known to make reference to "Sega tapes".

And then there's the generation of UK gamers who got their games for Commodore or the Speccy, on actual audiocassette for 10 quid apiece at the chemist's. Games on cassette were available on American micros as well, but didn't attract nearly as much interest.
by consp | 2025-10-18 07:29:05+00:00
Don't know about the us but all models mentioned were well over 50k (most nearing 75k+) with incentives where I live and thus fall in the top 1% income bracket range. And expensive mass produced cars lose value faster than cheaper models as they have to be sold second hand to the next lower income bracket which is an exponential curve hence the high dropoff. This used to be the same for ice cars.

Of course both can be true as well.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-18 07:29:15+00:00
Regardless of the time, I am already seeing programming as we know it slowly moving into prompts, in what concerns low coding environments for SaaS products integrations.

Dealing with Rust's borrow checker issues, how complex C++ might be, Go's approach to language design, Java vs C#, and whatever else in the same vein, will slowly be matter of discussion to a selected few, while everyone else is promoting or doing voice dictation, creating kaban tickets for agents.
by lloeki | 2025-10-18 07:29:58+00:00
Interestingly, I see an increasing number of young-ish people that simply skip "landline" ISPs (hence WiFi) entirely and only use their phone.

Mostly because around here you can have 100GB over 5G for less than 10€ + they mostly don't use computers (a.k.a laptops) except for a) school (where they have free WiFi+Internet) and b) binge-watching the occasional Netflix (and then they use connection sharing)

Their first move upon setting up a new phone is to disable Bluetooth+WiFi to, uh, "save battery" (their cargo-cult answer, every single time)
by sugarkjube | 2025-10-18 07:31:05+00:00
Now that's an interesting point of view.

Involving blind people would be an interesting experiment.

Anyway, until the sixties the ability to play a game of chess was seen as intelligence, and until about 2-3 years ago the "turing test" was considered the main yardstick (even though apparently some people talked to eliza at the time like an actual human being). I wonder what the new one is, and how often it will be moved again.
by hshdhdhehd | 2025-10-18 07:31:44+00:00
I agree. In any somewhat functional language (I.e. all the mainstream ones) you can wrap "if" in a function if you please.

E.g.

function funif (b, f) { return (b && f()) }

If you want to do clever stuff. I never feel the need as I would rather abstract over bigger things.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-10-18 07:32:04+00:00
>The transparency effects can be nice, but someone else's choices for a site background shouldn't be having such a dramatic impact on the actual UI of the computer.

Isn't this just the principle of transparency itself?

I'm convinced what Apple is doing here has exactly one purpose: Force developers to prepare their apps for the yet to be released iGlasses so that the Apple Vision Pro situation doesn't repeat itself - a device for which no one can be bothered to make apps.

The idea is clearly that covering things with animated light-grey sludge will make transparency bearable on both computer screens and iGlasses.

They are probably right that people will get used to it, but I very much doubt that any UI designer (at Apple or elsewhere) ever thought that this design is an optimal choice for traditional computer screens.
by jjav | 2025-10-18 07:32:09+00:00
> 0% of AI tools include the option to not train on my data.

That's perhaps not true. If you sign up for the enterprise accounts there are options to not use any of your data to train. That's how we have it set up at $job.

(I say "perhaps" because of course I'm still sending all the data to the AI and while the contract has an ironclad clause that they won't use it, there's no way to 100% verify that.)
by donjoe | 2025-10-18 07:32:23+00:00
To me, the most important question is: how do I scale v7 in an environment of 20+ engineers?

When using v7, I need some sort of audit that checks in every API contract for the usage of v7 and potential information leakage.

Detecting V7 uuids in the API contract would probably require me to enforce a special key name (uuidv7 & uuid for v4) for easier audit.

Engineers will get this wrong more than once - especially in a mixed team of Jr/sr.

Also, the API contracts will look a bit inconsistent: some resources will get addressed by v7, others by v4. On top, by using v4 on certain resources, I'd leak the information that those resources addressed by v4 will contain sensitive information.

By sticking to v4, I'd have the same identifier for all resources across the API. When needed, I can expose the creation timestamp in the response separately. Audit is much simpler since the fields state explicitly what they will contain.
by hansmayer | 2025-10-18 07:32:57+00:00
> That's what a prediction IS. If I waited until the feature had proven itself it wouldn't be much of a prediction.

No, that's merely guessing mate. Predictions are, at least in modern meaning, based on at least some data and some extrapolation model that more or less reliably predicts the development of your known dataset into future (uknown) values. I don't see you presenting either in your post, so that's not predicting, that's in the best of cases guessing, and in the worst of cases irresponsible distribution of Anthropic's propaganda.
by rgovostes | 2025-10-18 07:33:18+00:00
I encountered an interesting snag with the new UI while scrolling through Slack. Suddenly the glass Huddle button was glowing with a golden-yellow hue which drew my eye, but I wasn't sure why, it didn't seem like anyone had started a call...

It turned out I had scrolled the content such that a yellow smiley emoji was positioned directly underneath the Huddle button, and the glass effect dispersed the color to the edges of the control.

There is a long-established convention that Mac OS visually distinguishes "default" buttons from others to guide the user toward a certain action. A button that changes colors depending on nearby content subverts that expectation.

Although I should say I've been using Tahoe for a month and so far that has only happened to me once, it's also the only time in my entire lifetime of using Mac OS. Generally the UI is fine but it's definitely not the best-looking release. (Why does a random subset of menu items have icons now, exactly?)
by tushar-r | 2025-10-18 07:33:22+00:00
Block the AWS IP ranges. You will have reasonably good results blocking all datacenter ranges - cloud providers, VPSs etc., if you don't expect traffic from them. You can get the ranges from Udger (paid) and it isn't very bad w.r.to false positives. Alternatively just whitelist expected regions and block everything else. More false positives prone, but easier.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-18 07:33:55+00:00
Home Assistant is very flexible. It's kind of like a common meeting ground where all the things come together in one spot, and they can thereafter be programmatically automated.

Cameras? NVRs? A sea of IoT light bulbs, switches, and sensors that all variously speak Zigbee or Matter or Thread or Wifi or Z-Wave or Bluetooth or some clown connection or whatever? Almost all of it works fine with HA. It's very flexible.

If anything, it may be too flexible. It can be rough getting started with it.

(I use it in "Home Assistant OS" form in a VM on a light-weight x86 box that only cost me $50, wherein: Performance is quite lovely, and updates haven't hosed anything up [yet] that required me to go poking at it to keep it going. It's also right at home on bare-metal x86, or an ARM SBC like a Raspberry Pi, or in containers, or [...]. Did I mention that it's flexible?)
by distances | 2025-10-18 07:35:19+00:00
My experience is similar. So most of the work I do with Claude as I like the small tasks / fast iteration pair coding experience. When I need to investigate some issues I let Codex handle it, and check back in 10 minutes when it's ready. But Codex is way too slow for the pair programming style of work.

Also, most of the time Codex opts to use Python to edit files. Those edits are unreviewable so it's even less interactive, you just have to let it finish and check the outcome.
by arthurofbabylon | 2025-10-18 07:38:42+00:00
"Proven insufficient" when scoped to the sweeping social changes proposed by the author. PV cells are obviously effective and increasingly so over time, but further efficiency gains will not on their own topple dictatorships or cure diseases.

To summon the vast proposed changes, PV cells' improvements need to be coincided with many other changes: grid development, battery tech, industrial re-tooling, climate policies/institutions, mining/extraction, agricultural methods, production methods... and that's without even discussing culture, which will have to evolve substantially.

It's a nice notion (and totally inline with the existing technocratic sentiment (eg, "more compute!")) that a single lever can just be pulled harder and problems will be magically solved. However, the world is much more complex than that; the complexity cannot be hand-waived away.
by pj_mukh | 2025-10-18 07:38:56+00:00
I think this is exactly the right intuition. I think people hopelessly underestimate the human tendency to do nothing. We have this idea that if an innovation is good enough it should “sell itself”, and that’s almost never true because across all organizations, it’s almost always safer to do nothing, adopt nothing, keep doing what you’re doing.

No one gets fired for suggesting no change.

It takes a special level of hype where “doing nothing” is no longer the sensible choice.

Do I wish this hype was spread around to other technologies that are also awesome, of course. I’d love to help someone figure out a way to do that but as of now, we don’t know how to do that. Humans are very bad at holding two different ideas in their head.
by Grimblewald | 2025-10-18 07:39:15+00:00
Or when code is fully vectorizable they default to using loops even if explicitly told not to yse loops. Code I got a LLM to solve for a fairly straightforward problem took 18 minutes to run.

my own solution? 1.56 seconds. I consider myself to be at an intermediate skill level, and while LLMs are useful, they likely wont replace any but the least talented programmers. Even then i'd value human with critial thinking paired with an LLM over an even more competent LLM.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-18 07:39:20+00:00
>Why don't classic manufacturers not ramp up their software quality side?

VW is now at their second billion dollar attempt to fix their software. It's not like they aren't trying.

Also consider how software development works at hardware companies. It is all outsourced, inside the company you have "engineers" who are "managing" the requirements" and in "best cost countries" you have the dev teams, communication is hard and the actual devs are not particularly skilled and definitely not paid to care, they just have to do the requirements.

Tesla was revolutionary because they had Software developers, which they paid normal software developer salaries. VW has just sunk Billions into Rivian to have them do the software.
by henrebotha | 2025-10-18 07:40:43+00:00
> migrating all the doc that's strewn all over random SaaSes that people dropped it

I would love to be able to share our internal "all the things that are wrong with our approach to documentation" wiki page. It's longer than you could possibly imagine, probably more than 15 years old at this point, and filled to the brim with sarcasm and despair. It's so fucking funny. The table of contents is several pages long.
by _fizz_buzz_ | 2025-10-18 07:41:12+00:00
> Basically an LLM translating across languages will "light up" (to use a rough fMRI equivalent) for the same concepts (e.g. bigness) across languages.

That doesn't seem surprising at all. My understanding is that transformers where invented exactly for the application of translations. So, concepts must be grouped together in different languages. That was originally the whole point and then turned out to be very useful for broader AI applications.
by somat | 2025-10-18 07:42:27+00:00
It is probably down to whether you find humor in absurdity as the far side leans rather hard into this.

The humor "is" very weird, the normal flow is a strange image that is not funny and a simple caption that is also not funny. but coupled together there is something funny about the absurd connection that is made. sort of like a caption meme with better drawing. And honestly I think there are a lot of them that we just don't "get", too strange for comprehension, and we find this funny as well.
by judahmeek | 2025-10-18 07:43:54+00:00
So basically China has the infrastructure & raw materials for properly utilizing AI & America doesn't.

I really wonder if America will wake up because China crushes us under their feet. I kind of doubt it.

We beat the USSR due to their style of government being absolutely terrible. China's form of authoritarianism has proven far more adaptable. Not to mention that America's governance is showing risks of sliding towards corrupt authoritarianism as well. If both forms of government suck from an idealistic perspective, then China's manufacturing, rare earth metals, growing naval capacity, experience in stealing IP, & energy infrastructure seem to give it the advantage.

The only thing that I think that America has going for it right now is possibly control of space through SpaceX.
by Grimblewald | 2025-10-18 07:44:30+00:00
If you're creative, you're motivated, if you're motivated you'll describe precisely what you want, if you'll take the time to describe precisely what you want, the most efficient way to do it is to describe it using code, if you've described it using code, you've got what you want.

it's honestly be best hack for using llms, just write precisely what you want in the language you want it in, and the response is instant and perfect every time.
by montyboy_us | 2025-10-18 07:46:47+00:00
In my adult life I’ve owned four cars, three of them Honda Accords. Each Accord had around 85-100k miles when I bought them, and I’ve driven each well past 200k miles with no major issues. These cars are built to last if you maintain them. 1996, 2004, 2014 (Current) with 188k miles. Best advice, by 3 year old Toyotas/Hondas off-lease and then don't think about a vehicle again for 8-10 years. I buy mine a bit older, but next time ...
by Animats | 2025-10-18 07:47:28+00:00
> The interviewer had an idea that he took for granted: that to understand language you have to have a model of the world. LLMs seem to understand language therefore they've trained a model of the world. Sutton rejected the premise immediately. He might be right in being skeptical here.

That's the basic success of LLMs. They don't have much of a model of the world, and they still work. "Attention is all you need". Good Old Fashioned AI was all about developing models, yet that was a dead end.

There's been some progress on representation in an unexpected area. Try Perchance's AI character chat. It seems to be an ordinary chatbot. But at any point in the conversation, you can ask it to generate a picture, which it does using a Stable Diffusion type system. You can generate several pictures, and pick the one you like best. Then let the LLM continue the conversation continue from there.

It works from a character sheet, which it will create if asked. It's possible to start from an image and get to a character sheet and a story. The back and forth between the visual and textural domains seems to help.

For storytelling, such system may need to generate the collateral materials needed for a stage or screen production - storyboards, scripts with stage directions, character summaries, artwork of sets, blocking (where everybody is positioned on stage), character sheets (poses and costumes) etc. Those are the modeling tools real productions use to keep a work created by many people on track. Those are a form of world model for storytelling.

I've been amazed at how good the results I can get from this thing are. You have to coax it a bit. It tends to stay stuck in a scene unless you push the plot forward. But give it a hint of what happens next and it will run with it.

[1]https://perchance.org/ai-character-chat
by netbsdusers | 2025-10-18 07:47:49+00:00
There's no legal concept called "tainting". Black boxing is just a means by which you try to make yourself completely irreproachable (for if you haven't seen something, then it's outright impossible that you copied it). It obviously doesn't follow that the converse is true. If it were, musicians would not listen to other's music nor would painters look at other's paintings!
by encom | 2025-10-18 07:48:14+00:00
And they used to say kids were good with computers. I think if you graph computer illiteracy vs. year of birth, people who were born around the 80's are in the bottom of a bathtub curve.

The boomers are hopeless with tech, because they grew up without it. But gen-z is also hopeless, because they grew up with opaque appliances like Iphones. You use it how Apple allows you to. The inner workings of it are hidden behind endless abstractions and shiny (liquid!) UI. Every error message is something like "Oopsie woopsie" with a sad face emoji. When it breaks you toss it in the garbage.

This reads like an "uphill both ways" story, but we used to build our own computers (still do, but I used to too), because that was how you aquired one unless you bought a Dell like a lamer. When your software messed up it segfaulted or coredumped, and you had to figure it out. When your hardware broke, you took it apart. People today use Discord because picking a client and specifying a server and port combo to connect to is too hard. And so on and so forth, you get the point...

And the point is these damn kids are on my lawn, making TikTok videos.
by Implicated | 2025-10-18 07:48:43+00:00
Similarly, I've got 7 regulars and 4 to 5 more occasional visitors that I've been feeding and fixing (11 of them fixed so far) but there's issues with racoons and opossums - pretty sure they stole a whole litter, they taint the water and eat any food available.

My plan is something similar to this feed the cats thing - except, a twitch live stream of an fpv water turret in which they can "deter" those unwanted visitors.