MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jackphilson | 2025-10-03 18:08:50+00:00
for fear of being overly utilitarian here its not really an issue that people are manipulatable but that they are manipulated into doing the wrong things (consumerism, political divide-and-conquer strategies)

and rejecting manipulation from a deontological stance reduces agency and output for doing good in the real world

manipulation = campaigns = advertisements = psyops (all the same, different connotations)
by mothballed | 2025-10-03 18:09:02+00:00
There was an electric vehicle stock I was watching for awhile (WKHS) hoping for a good time to short. All their reports showed what I believed was an unviable vehicle, there was simply no way to produce it that was anywhere near gross margin positive and they didn't have the money nor access to capital to lose hundreds of millions proving that out. All the economics of the company was going to zero, and they had a ticking time bomb of debt they were about to default on.

Shortly before this debt time-bomb went off, Trump magically showed up tweeting in support of the company and alluded to a deal getting pulled off with GM. [] Of course, this ended up being spun off as Lordstown motors, a company that has failed horribly, including Hindenburg Research publishing a video of one of the few trucks they had literally catching on fire on the road while the CEO was simultaneously claiming they had hundreds of millions of dollars in solid orders (later fined by the SEC for that and barred from being an executive of a company for N years).

I still don't understand how Trump magically got involved with this penny stock at the 11th hour, but I can tell you I feel something very fishy happened there.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/08/trump-tweet-sends-penny-stoc...
by somat | 2025-10-03 18:09:04+00:00
Because it is the human scale for temperature. It turns out to not matter that much. but imagine a cold snowy winter, that's 0 and image a hot summer that's 100.

Really both C and F are silly, the minute temperature was found out to have a zero point, they should have been discarded, and we should have gone full in on Kelvin(or Rankine if that is your jam), or even better a new unit that better integrates 0, a scale from 0 to the boiling point of water? and give water boiling 1000? or would it be better to give water freezing 1000? Triple cells are a common way to calibrate temperature.
by mbgerring | 2025-10-03 18:09:09+00:00
Before LLMs were mainstream, rationalists and EA types would come on Hacker News to convince people that worrying about how "weak" AI would be used was a waste of time, because the real problem was the risk of "strong" AI.

Those arguments looked incredibly weak and stupid when they were making them, and they look even stupider now.

And this isn't even their biggest error, which, in my opinion, was classifying AI as a bigger existential risk than climate change.

An entire generation of putatively intelligent people lost in their own nightmares, who, through their work, have given birth to chaos.
by dabockster | 2025-10-03 18:09:28+00:00
> nothing about tech is genuinely inevitable

This reminds me of when everyone was saying that "everything on the internet is written in ink" - especially during the height of social media in the 2010s. So imagine my surprise in the first half of the 2020s when tons of content starts getting effectively deleted from the internet - either through actual deletion or things like link rot. Heck, I literally just said "the height of social media" - even that has pulled back.

So yeah, remember that tech ultimately serves people. And it only happens so long as people are willing to enable it to happen.
by immibis | 2025-10-03 18:09:47+00:00
Postgres can also run on the Pi.

More than once I've started a project with sqlite and then had to migrate to postgres. In my experience it's because of the way sqlite has to lock the whole database file while writing to it, blocking concurrent reads - this isn't a problem in postgres. (There's WAL mode, but it still serialises all writes, and requires periodic explicit checkpointing IME)

You may also find you really want a feature postgres has, for example more advanced data types (arrays, JSON), more advanced indices (GIN inverted index on array members), replication...
by tibbar | 2025-10-03 18:10:11+00:00
I mean, I agree. There is not yet a clear path/story as to how a model can provide a consistently expert-performance on real-world tasks, and the various breakthroughs we hear about don't address that. I think the industry consensus is more just that we haven't correctly measured/targeted those abilities yet, and there is now a big push to do so. We'll see if that works out.
by rawgabbit | 2025-10-03 18:10:40+00:00
When I was growing up the fear of WW3 was ever present and occupied the minds of intellectuals. One of the big questions was how can we prevent another Great Depression. The Great Depression was blamed for the rise of Fascism in Europe (the collapse of Weimar Germany and the rise of Hitler). There was genuine fear that Communism would also take root in the US during the Great Depression. People looked to economists for an explanation and a cure. For better or worse, the elites believe they have an answer. My understanding is that the consensus is that government must move heaven and earth to keep the financial machinery (banks and payment services)flowing. To prevent a chain reaction where the collapse of a big bank would lead to the preventable closures of many businesses and loss of jobs.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 18:10:43+00:00
> If they were able to repeat Oct 7, I think they'd gladly be martyred for that

I'd love to see firm evidence for this. It seems a little too fatalistic, and convenient for arguing for the permanent subjugation of a people, to suggest that two million people can't be left to their own devices without obsessively committing to destroying themselves against their neighbors.
by j1elo | 2025-10-03 18:12:12+00:00
(A)GPL + Dual licensing is totally insufficient to fullfill the needs, or at the very least the wants, of people using things like "Fair source" licenses (regardless of the naming): to share their code as a sign of goodwill, without that becoming a risk for their survival.

Amazon offers lots of AGPL software, and they fully respect the license in all cases. Ultimately the GPL is about protecting users' rights at the expense of developers' rights. So as long as AWS can offer a better/cheaper managed version of a software service, while still giving the users all details on how to run the same service if they chose to, then the AGPL is completely achieving its aims, even if the original company goes out of business.

-- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095581
by vharuck | 2025-10-03 18:12:23+00:00
>How about Israel stop fighting, right now? Right this minute. The magazines come out of the rifles and the fighter jets stay on the ground. As soon as the Gazans decide that this is what they want, they can return the hostages and this will happen.

The Israeli government can stop fighting in a way that's currently killing Gazan civilians and destroying Gazan civil infrastructure.

The Gazan civilians cannot release the hostages. Those hostages are held by Hamas, the Gazan government.

This broad-brush blaming leads to despicable crimes against humanity, and is why so many nations have agreed to rules of war. It is inhumane to intentionally punish civilians for what their government is doing. Collateral damage is inevitable, but there must be an effort to minimize it and to actively preserve the lives of civilians. If that means sending in convoys of food trucks after securing a city, then that's what a humane government should do.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-03 18:12:37+00:00
I think Super and Meta are the vendor independent terms.

Ctrl - Ctrl - Ctrl Super - Windows - Command Left/Right Super - ?? - Open/Close Apple Left Meta - Alt - Option Right Meta - Alt Gr - Right Option?

Anybody able to fill the gaps?

Approaching an Apple keyboard for the first time, I naively thought Command would be Ctrl and was quite confused, since there also is Ctrl. But once you start a terminal it became quite clear that this was not the case. This is quite neat, it directly solves the SIGINT,SIGSTOP / Copy, Ctrl-D? confusion. Also having these operation as OS command means that all programs support them.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-10-03 18:12:47+00:00
> The biggest threat to humanity is our own decisions

The vast majority of us don't have any input on those decisions, unfortunately

Believe me, if I had even a modicum of influence to leverage anywhere, I would be fighting tooth and nail against AI as much as I can

Instead I just growl impotently in comment threads online like this one and hope this new technology finds some kind of equilibrium before it fucks us all over

But it's really tough to feel helpless watching this massive capital machine just grinding over society, knowing how much it is fucking things up

Maybe, MAYBE AI turns into a wonderful technology that ushers in a post scarcity utopia but I can't help but feel we're in for a few years, maybe even a few decades of extreme pain before that comes about

I'm almost 40. I don't particularly want to live through the back half of my life in the pain that is coming
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 18:14:26+00:00
> Your post weirdly focuses on only the concerns of israelis, even though Palestinians are equal people with equal human rights, including an equal right to protection from israeli violence. Do you even realize that you're not treating Palestinians as humans?

It's not clear what you're suggesting in practice, we can all say Palestinians should be given equal rights in an ideal world but that doesn't really bring us any closer to resolving the conflict.

> The last time israelis voted, they quite literally elected not only terrorists, but war criminals, criminals against humanity, and literal genociders. Obviously that's worse! Thus, israel has no moral high ground here to attack others, and should look inward and fix itself first.

I'm certainly not a fan of the current Israeli government but with how Israeli elections(proportional representation) work you tend to get more extremist parties than you would in systems like the United States where you usually just end up with a two party system.

> "Palestinian rule" is not a thing at the moment: all Palestinians are currently ruled (dominated even) by a genocidal israeli military occupation that kills hundreds of innocent civilians daily.

There is a form of Palestinian rule in which the Palestinian Authority exercises a certain level of control in the West Bank, in Gaza Hamas still retains some control as well. I would agree it's not the same thing as an independent state but I don't think characterizing it as no Palestinian rule at all is accurate either.
by 1attice | 2025-10-03 18:14:26+00:00
So Bitwarden can store _the password and TOTP for Bitwarden itself_. (!) I actually keep this in an entry entitled 'How meta!' because I'm cute and silly.

So, let's say you're sitting down in front of a fresh install of Bitwarden. You can go to your phone in your pocket and get the password and TOTP and then set Bitwarden to not require a password for 30 days.

Similarly, let's say you've installed the desktop app for Bitwarden but not yet the browser extension. You can look up the BW password and TOTP in the desktop app and use that to authenticate the browser extension. Or vice versa! T
by fzeroracer | 2025-10-03 18:14:38+00:00
It's this and it's really funny to see users here argue about how the revenue is really good and what not.

OpenAI is only alive because it's heavily subsidizing the actual cost of the service they provide using investor money. The moment investor money dries up, or the tech industry stops trading money to artificially pump the market or people realize they've hit a dead end it crashes and burns with the intensity of a large bomb.
by sdesol | 2025-10-03 18:14:51+00:00
> I'm in awe they are still allowing free users at all.

I am not.

> The free tier is enough for me to use it as a helper at work, and I'd probably pay for it tomorrow if they cut off the free tier.

You are sort of proving the point that thid isn't crazy. They want to be the dealer of choice and they can afford to give you the hit now for free.
by mg | 2025-10-03 18:15:09+00:00
For some reason, in the early days of the web, email seemed like a logical choice to get input from users.

The first time I tried to have users fill out a form, what I did was that I sent them an exe file which contained a windows application that showed a form and saved the replies to a file. In the email I asked users to send me back that file. But no matter how I worded the email, 50% of users sent me back the exe file instead.

That problem was what triggered me to learn about server side code and databases.

And when that worked, it hit me: I could make a form that asked users about their favorite bands and suggest them new bands right away. This way the system would learn about all the bands of the world on its own and become better and better in suggesting music. This is how Gnoosic [1] was born. Later I adapted it for movies and called that Gnovies [2]. And for literature and called that Gnooks [3].

All 3 are still alive and keep learning every day:

[1] https://www.gnoosic.com

[2] https://www.gnovies.com

[3] https://www.gnooks.com
by sauercrowd | 2025-10-03 18:15:15+00:00
The rails creator dhh has been hyping it up a lot in the first 6 month of this year, and quite a few followed of the "Dev influencers" scene. Fly's litestream came out around that time, and there's been more sqlite in the cloud companies/discussions, in particular with the AI agent use-case.

Not super sure who followed who but there was all of a sudden a lot of excitement
by dfsegoat | 2025-10-03 18:15:27+00:00
...not monetized yet: Can't find the post, but a prev. HN post had a link to an article showing that OpenAI had hired someone from Meta's ad service leadership - so I took that to mean it's a matter of time.

edit: believe it was Fidji Simo et al.

https://www.pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2025/openai...
by weinzierl | 2025-10-03 18:15:33+00:00
Besides that this is likely a criminal offense in Germany[1] we tried it 16 years ago with "Zensursula" and you can see how that turned out.

[1] §86a StGB "Use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations" applies also to words, not just symbols in the strict sense. It is also enforced in broad coarse strokes for example on the usage of the swastika inside a red prohibition circle (the one with a diagonal bar).

EDIT: Looking back at my comment, I realize it might come across as too negative. If you think shaming politicians is the right way to protest this, go for it.

I just believe convincing politicians that the spirit they summon may easily slip from their control and turn against them is a more likely successful angle.
by vizzier | 2025-10-03 18:15:56+00:00
This does sound like it could be solved with better installDiskSelectors[0]. Talos has done a fair bit of work in improving this and UserVolumeConfigs in the last couple of 1.x revisions.

Alternatively, network booting in some fashion is an option. [1]

[0] https://www.talos.dev/v1.11/reference/configuration/v1alpha1...

[1] https://www.talos.dev/v1.11/talos-guides/install/bare-metal-...
by smcin | 2025-10-03 18:16:20+00:00
So, perhaps 2020s China ~ 1950s US demographics. The bridges that recently collapsed in the US (2024 Baltimore/Francis Scott Key Bridge and 2007 Minneapolis I-35W Mississippi River Bridge) were built in 1964 and 1972-1977 respectively.

Noone has yet compared the Chinese construction times/costs to the replacement Baltimore Francis Scott Key Bridge: cost ~$2b, estimated October 2028. Will have 600ft bridge towers, 1600ft main span (increased from 1209ft), total span length 3300 ft, improved pier protection. Surprised they didn't add a freight rail link.
by cldcntrl | 2025-10-03 18:16:21+00:00
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by itissid | 2025-10-03 18:16:24+00:00
I wonder what might be more formal ways to extract such mental models.

1. Most people have been exposed to some sort of a computing device in their lifetimes, if that experience had enough UI/UX to support what the user wants from the new platform/os then a new UI/UX start with that, no matter how "ugly" it looked. Maybe give the option to make the desktop os windowing and nav look just like the mobile OS, if the user knows the latter, so that challenged users can just start cold if they know the other. This could solve problems like: Most people know how to do attachments on one platform do not know how to do it on the other.

2. If one does not have any mental model you could gamify it and reward the user for learning a UI/UX and decrease the reward over time as the user gets better.

3. Too many times people forget compound actions e.g. publising an ad on Facebook or knowing how to do 2 fac auth. A strong voice driven navigator could aid in overcoming discovery difficulties, it would know how to do X and the user knows what(X) they want. Ideally since these things are done in a sequence, sequence models like LSTMs could learn what trips up people the most and it would reflect ones own mental model.
by cldcntrl | 2025-10-03 18:16:38+00:00
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by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 18:16:52+00:00
> don't see credible evidence that they are

An NGO "Agence France-Presse has described...as 'a lobby group with strong ties to Israel'" [1] is not a credible source for disputing two separate groups at the UN, the IPF and--at this point--more than a few independent investigations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Watch#cite_note-GazaAFP-5
by sidibe | 2025-10-03 18:17:40+00:00
I don't disagree that openai is desperate, this is a fierce competition and Google has a pretty huge head start in a lot of ways, but I wonder at what point these people who constantly dismiss LLMs and AI will change their tune? I understand hating it and wishing we could all agree to stop things, I do too, but if you can't find any uses for it at this point it's clear you're not trying
by orthecreedence | 2025-10-03 18:17:41+00:00
I think this is happening already, no? People seem to have found their enclaves, each with its distinct thought leaders, and now follow that enclave and believe all others to be full of lies and deceipt. The return to a central truth seems liek a pipe dream. The concept of truth and fact has been fractured seemingly beyond repair. If it is repaired, I don't think it will happen over any medium controlled by profiteering corporations: they have a vested interest in the fracture. And yet, all forms of modern communication fall under this umbrella. So, I believe we are at an impasse.
by sixo | 2025-10-03 18:17:49+00:00
I find it helpful to think of that physical barrier as your own emotions barring you from entering a state where the uncertainty as to whether you'll be safe grows too high to trust yourself to operate in real time.

The problem isn't really being liked or not being liked, the problem is the cognitive overload of trying to predict what will happen and respond to it in realtime, which is sure to set in when one's mental model of the potential interaction is very uncertain. Of course, if your brain quits in a conversation, the other person is not going to be very impressed with you, so this kind of failure carries social risk itself.

The way to fix this is to have as many interactions which are bearable as possible so as to build out the mind's mental model of itself and others in social situations. Gradually the danger just fades away. There's no substitute for firsthand experience; no amount of premeditating, ruminating, or brooding will fix this.
by intalentive | 2025-10-03 18:17:50+00:00
>the only real difference is the amount of money backing it

Judging by how often Sam Altman makes appearances in DC, it's not just money that sets OpenAI apart. It's likely also a strategically important research and development vehicle with implicit state backing, like Intel or Boeing or Palantir or SpaceX. The losses don't matter, they can be covered by a keystroke at the Fed if necessary.
by halgir | 2025-10-03 18:18:02+00:00
I dislike Sea Shepherd as an organization, due to their distasteful methods (and personal bias, being a Faroese resident). But I spoke with several of their volunteers during one of their campaigns, and was pleased to realize that, as individuals, their hearts are mostly in the right place. Nearly all of them claimed to be vegan, which I feel does give you legitimate ethical grounds from which to criticize grindadráp.

However, if you don't oppose the general consumption of meat, I don't find the argument against grindadráp compelling. It yields more meat per killed animal than most, and the slaughter itself is arguably no less humane than most commercial meat production (not a high bar, I admit).

In terms of publicity, grindadráp suffers from being inherently more visible than commercial meat production. Personally, I think this is a positive thing. It confronts you with the fact that meat doesn't magically appear in a supermarket freezer - if you want to eat meat, then by definition a living animal has to die. The visibility of grindadráp has prompted conversations with my young son about where meat comes from, and the animal welfare consequences of eating it.
by ls612 | 2025-10-03 18:18:42+00:00
Apple briefly proposed something similar but then reversed course pretty quickly and has unequivocally stated that it was a poorly thought out idea when they proposed it.

I'd have to assume that Apple and WhatsApp are taking a more behind the scenes approach on this and that they too would leave the EU if it came to it. Both of their messenger brands are so fundamentally tied to E2EE that its hard to imagine them thinking its worth it to stay and break their encryption.
by dabockster | 2025-10-03 18:18:44+00:00
The moat, imo, is mostly the tooling on top of the model. ChatGPT's thinking and deep research modes are still superior to the competition. But as the models themselves get more and more efficient to run, you won't necessarily need to rent them or rent a data center to run them. Alibaba's Qwen mixture of experts models are living proof that you can have GPT levels of raw inference on a gaming computer right now. How are these AI firms going to adapt once someone is able to run about 90% of raw OpenAI capability on a quad core laptop at 250-300 watts max power consumption?