MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by mock-possum | 2025-10-08 15:36:55+00:00
> Dr. Jacobs was found to have violated NOAA’s code of ethics in 2020 after an investigation into an incident that centered on an altered hurricane forecast map President Trump presented in the Oval Office in 2019. The investigation found he had bowed to political pressure in releasing a statement critical of National Weather Service forecasters in Alabama, who had stressed on social media that Hurricane Dorian was not expected to affect that state, despite warnings to the contrary from Mr. Trump.

“Will you lie for me?”
by lm28469 | 2025-10-08 15:36:58+00:00
> I think with a bit of engineering, the existing tech can replace customer support system

That's the lowest of the low and even you accept it doesn't work (yet), how can LLMs be worth 50% of the last years of gdp growth if it's that bad. Do you think customer support represents 50% of newly created value ? I bet it isn't event .5%
by elfenleid | 2025-10-08 15:37:24+00:00
Yep! Valkey should work fine.

Recall just uses basic Redis commands - HSET, SADD, ZADD, etc. Nothing fancy.

Valkey is Redis-compatible so all those commands work the same.

I haven't tested it personally but there's no reason it wouldn't work. The Redis client library (ioredis) should connect to Valkey without issues.

If you try it and hit any problems let me know! Would be good to officially support it.
by ghaff | 2025-10-08 15:37:30+00:00
Not at all. I may think $TECH is overvalued but some companies may well make it out the other side, some aspects of the $TECH may play out (or not), and the bubble may pop in 1 year or 5. So the sensible process may be to invest in broader indexes and let things play out at the more micro level (that may not be possible to invest in anyway).

I certainly had unease about the dot-com market and should have shifted more investments to the conservative side. But I made the "‘safe’ bet of being long the market" even after things started going south.

FWIW, I do think AI is overvalued for the relatively near term. But I'm not sure what to do about that other than being fairly conservatively invested which makes sense for me at this point anyway.
by condensedcrab | 2025-10-08 15:37:36+00:00
IANAL, but I suspect that the IP situation is similar to current uses, such as catalytic converters.

New tech and specific applications can be covered for commercialization, but the general "idea" of using MOFs for adsorption is broad enough that you'd probably only get into legal hot water if you tried to introduce a direct competitor to someone in the market.
by semitones | 2025-10-08 15:38:00+00:00
What if down the line we discover that MOFs can be used for sophisticated drug delivery? Imagine a therapy like this: a patient lies on a magnetic table, and is administered a dose of MOFs containing a specific drug, via bloodstream injection. The metal of choice is the MOF is magnetic. The magnetic table slowly guides the MOFs towards the part of the body that requires the drug, keeping them concentrated there for some period of time while the drug if absorbed by the body. If it is then necessary/ideal to remove the MOFs, the procedure can be performed in reverse. The patient's blood is drawn, and the MOFs are guided to the site of the injection. An external appartus filters the MOFs out of the blood, and returns the filtered blood to the patient (to minimize blood loss).

This therapy could take something like 1-2 hours and could potentially be a drastically more efficient way to administer drugs, because they will primarily affect the target organ/region rather than be necessarily dispersed throughout the whole body, which would result in better intervention outcomes, and less side-effects.
by Pxtl | 2025-10-08 15:38:41+00:00
But the point is the tech obviously isn't there yet. LLMs are still too prone to giving falsehoods and in that case a raw text-search of the support DB would be more useful anyways.

Maybe if companies would wire up their "oh a customer is complaining try and talk them out of canceling their account offer them a mild discount in exchange for locking in for a year contract" API to the LLM? Okay, but that's not a trillion-dollar service.
by Neywiny | 2025-10-08 15:38:56+00:00
That's an incredible find and once I saw the assembly I was right along with them on the debug path. Interestingly it doesn't need to be assembly for this to work, it's just that that's where the split was. The IR could've done it, it just doesn't for very good reasons. So another win for being able to read arm assembly.

Unsure if this would be another way to do it but to save an instruction at the cost of a memory access you could push then pop the stack size maybe? Since presumably you're doing that pair of moves on function entry and exit. I'm not really sure what the garbage collector is looking for so maybe that doesn't work, but I'd be interested to hear some takes on it
by BenFranklin100 | 2025-10-08 15:39:04+00:00
Current valuations are based on the belief genuine AGI is around the corner. It’s not. LLMs are an interesting technology with many use cases, but they can’t reason in the usual sense of the word and are a dead end for the type of AGI needed to justify current investments.

It’s going to be a gruesome train wreck.
by indoordin0saur | 2025-10-08 15:39:08+00:00
Yes, especially since this sounds like a government agency. Some contractor snuck a backdoor into your email servers and is secretly reading them? Imagine what kind of corrupt practices, up to and including foreign espionage, that they could get up to. They could have been justified in sending in the FBI or CIA if this was the US. Probably would have put a stop to their vendor problems really quick.
by nvlled | 2025-10-08 15:39:19+00:00
A semi-serious tinfoiled answer:

Humans are a protected species, carefully raised and nurtured by higher organisms that are hundred thousand times larger than us (in terms of space and time). The earth and solar system is just a vivarium of galactic scale. Several "glass wall" mechanisms were placed to ensure we are separated from the rest of the universe, like the oort cloud.

Somewhere out there in the universe are humans living freely outside the glass wall.
by unoti | 2025-10-08 15:39:21+00:00
> I'm not sure that having the patience to work with something with a very inconsistent performance and that frequently lies is an extension of existing development skills.

If you’ve be been tasked with leadership of an engineering effort involving multiple engineers and stakeholders you know that this is in fact a crucial part of the role the more senior you get. It is much the same with people: know their limitations, show them a path to success, help them overcome their limitations by laying down the right abstractions and giving them the right coaching, make it easier to do the right thing. Most of the same approaches apply. When we do these things with people it’s called leadership or management. With agents, it’s context engineering.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-08 15:39:39+00:00
> Tax increases may also help.

I don't live in a costal state, but when I do consulting work typically at charity rates alongside my standard full-time job, I have to pay 24% federal tax, 15.3% FICA, and 7.85% state tax. I am already taxed whenever I want to help anyone at 47.15%. That's before the required tax structures and consulting for doing all the invoicing legally. God himself only wanted 10%, so it seems a government playing God is awfully expensive.

You can't raise taxes any further before I'm done, and I don't think I'm alone, businesses and consultants are already crushed in taxes. I have to bill $40K to hopefully take home $20K; at which point, is it even worth my time? But if I don't consult because it isn't worth it, are small businesses suddenly going to afford an agency or a dedicated software developer? Of course not, so their growth is handicapped, and I wonder what the effects of that tax-wise are.
by s3r3nity | 2025-10-08 15:39:51+00:00
With so many recent leadership hires / acquire hires with Facebook Growth Team backgrounds, ya’ll are naive if you think OpenAI _isn’t_ using this business data for their own means…and/or intends to lean more heavily into this direction

Ex: if you’re a Statsig user, OpenAI now knows every feature you are releasing, content you produce, telemetry, etc.
by theodric | 2025-10-08 15:39:57+00:00
So it's "be a good person," but with then absolutely no follow-through or obligation attached: don't offer help, respond like an LLM when someone says something negative about the company that just sacked them, and don't even feel compelled to continue the conversation that you started if the person replies. Sounds to me like these goodbyes are more for the personal feelings of moral rectitude of the person making them, rather than anything related to the person who is departing. So it's really how to pretend to be a good person well enough to fool someone looking casually, a.k.a. instructions for being a passing sociopath.
by whatamidoingyo | 2025-10-08 15:40:24+00:00
I have recently started bug hunting again, and asking ChatGPT questions is really frustrating (e.g. "nmap port scan less aggressive?" -> "Sorry, I can't help you with that.") Right to Google.

It also feeds into things. I'll feel like I'm so close to a discovery, and ask ChatGPT if I found sensitive data, or a vulnerability, and it always says "yes", but 90% of the time, it's not. I end up Googling away to find out what I really have.

I would never use ChatGPT for a report, or trust it with this sort of thing. You could probably ask it if editing HTML with dev tools is a security vulnerability, and it will probably say "Yes, you should immediately report that. Would you like me to draft the report for you?"

It's good for writing some short scripts, though. Just don't let it know it's for a "bug bounty". Can't believe people are just blindly trusting it.
by pfexec | 2025-10-08 15:41:49+00:00
Would you say the same thing about Apple?

The "replaceable" SSD in the M4 Mac Mini is proprietary and will not accept a standard M.2 module. This was a deliberate choice.

Assuming you locate an exact match, you need a second, working, Mac to provision it.

The entire process is user-hostile from start to finish yet the criticism is few (and I've even read praise of this practice on Mac fan sites).
by glenstein | 2025-10-08 15:41:58+00:00
A good habit to practice is to see how far you can go reconciling apparent contradictions with charitable interpretation. I think in this case, I can see "brand loyalty" on a continuum ranging from "feels good about product" to "so completely loyal that lock-in would be redundant". The furthest extreme would produce an effective contradiction, but anything short of that can make sense of the term while leaving space to understand lock in as a rational, or at-least non-contradictory action.

I think that can backfire spectacularly, as we're seeing with Synology, but I suspect that a non-trivial amount of the time, it simply happens and works, no revolt is staged, and profits flow (for better or worse).

The example coming to my mind right how is Pitney Bowes, which sells big envelope stamping and sealing machines. They sell a proprietary sealing fluid (wtf) that, as far as I can tell, is water with blue food coloring. And a costly proprietary red ink cartridge for stamping. But people sign the contracts and the world keeps on keeping on.
by devin | 2025-10-08 15:42:05+00:00
I feel this way with some of the work I've pushed through an LLM, but part of the time I'm left wondering what kind of Mickey Mouse problems people are working on where they are able to form up tidy English descriptions in complicated domains to capture what they're trying to achieve.

If I have a clear idea of some algorithm I am trying to write, I have a concise method for expressing it already, and it ain't English.

I suppose the other thing I would say is that reading code and understanding is definitely not the same as writing code and understanding it in terms of depth of understanding, and I think this notion that reviewing the outputs ought to be enough fails to capture the depth of understanding that comes with actually crafting it. You may not think this matters, but I'm pretty sure it does.
by vuggamie | 2025-10-08 15:42:07+00:00
I truly believe we are in a bubble. I truly believe that AI will exist on the other side of that bubble, just as internet companies and banks existed on the other side of the dotcom crash and the housing crisis.

I don't know how to invest to avoid this bubble. My money is where my mouth is. My investments are conservative and long-term. Most in equity index funds, some bonds, Vanguard mutual funds, a few hand-picked stocks.

No interest in shorting the market or trying to time the crash. I would say I 90% believe a correction of 25% or more will happen in the next 12 months. No idea where my money might be safe. Palantir? Northrup Grumman?
by whimsicalism | 2025-10-08 15:42:08+00:00
You're talking about your marginal rate and we simply are far to the left on the laffer curve, raising taxes will raise revenue. I'm not unsympathetic, my marginal is close to the same - but generally I think people's claims that they will stop working are generally more bark than bite and the evidence largely backs that up.

If you don't want a tax-based solution, I do hope you are agitating for SS and medicare cuts.
by kqr | 2025-10-08 15:42:10+00:00
> Their main purpose is enabling their users to consume content

Here we go again... no, "consume content" is what the commercial social networks want you to do so you stick around until the next ad break. (Maybe even what a commercial SaaS RSS reader wants you to do so you pay the next bill.)

I use RSS specifically to get away from generic "content". Instead I read to learn things, and to explore opoinions I might not otherwise come in contact with, and to socialise with other people.
by lm28469 | 2025-10-08 15:42:46+00:00
> Thus, if we continue to strive to design/create/invent such, it is inevitable that eventually it must happen.

~200 years of industrial revolution and we already fucked up beyond the point of no return, I don't think we'll have resources to continue on this trajectory for 1m years. We might very well be accelerating towards a brick wall, there is absolutely no guarantee we'll hit AGI before hitting the wall
by Pxtl | 2025-10-08 15:43:18+00:00
Imho it will take off in animation/illustration as soon as Adobe (or some competitor) figures out how to make good tooling for artists. Not for idiot wantrepeneurs who want to dump fully-generated-slop onto Amazon, but so that a person can draw rough pencil sketches and storyboards and reference character sheets and get back proper illustrations. Basically, don't replace the penciler but replace the inker and the colourist (and, in animation, the in-betweener).

That's more of a UI problem than a limitation in Diffusion tech.

That's a customer who'll pay, it might be worth a lot. But a $trillion per year?
by Rendello | 2025-10-08 15:43:25+00:00
From FBI negotiator Chris Voss' book, Never Split the Difference:

> There is nothing more frustrating or disruptive to any negotiation than to get the feeling you are talking to someone who isn't listening. Playing dumb is a valid negotiating technique, and “I don't understand” is a legitimate response. But ignoring the other party's position only builds up frustration and makes them less likely to do what you want.

> The opposite of that is tactical empathy.

> In my negotiating course, I tell my students that empathy is “the ability to recognize the perspective of a counterpart, and the vocalization of that recognition.” That's an academic way of saying that empathy is paying attention to another human being, asking what they are feeling, and making a commitment to understanding their world. Notice I didn't say anything about agreeing with the other person's values and beliefs or giving out hugs. That's sympathy. What I'm talking about is trying to understand a situation from another person's perspective.

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The respondent to the author is ironically showing why empathy is so important. By being non-empathetic and shutting down the question as "stupid", the author is bound to feel the respondent doesn't care to understand their position. If the respondent really cared about having the author understand their position, they would have first shown that they will try to understand the author's, even if they don't agree with it.

Edit; on the other hand:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45517577
by johnny_canuck | 2025-10-08 15:43:41+00:00
Scott Galloway had a podcast episode about this topic just over a week ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeepx2ZLrCA

I used to scoff at the idea of the AI-bubble (or any recently called-for tech bubble) being like the 90s given the way technology/the internet is now so integrated into our lives, but the way he spelled it out it does seem similar.
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by PolymvthicPunks | 2025-10-08 15:43:42+00:00
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by petercooper | 2025-10-08 15:43:50+00:00
do Americans think higher about Europe just because ancestors of many of them came from there? Not happening.

I agree with you on the Sinophobia, but interest in the British royal family/British history generally and interest in Irish heritage are extremely common among groups of Americans. Most British visitors to the US can attest to how their accent is interpreted and affects treatment, in a positive sense, too.
by vonnik | 2025-10-08 15:43:50+00:00
I found this to be a remarkably uninsightful work. He somehow negates the inherent drama of war with the milquetoast prose and myopia of an academic. Much of what he says is in fact false, presumably because he is far from the action and relies on Clausewitz as a crutch for thought.

The key nodes to control have to do with supply chain, energy and information; ie depots, road and rail, bridges, factories, substations and data centers or satellites.

Ukraine has severely weakened Russia by attacking those points, as Russia has Ukraine.

Beijing could well defeat Taiwan (and the US by proxy) by controlling its sea lanes, cutting its cables, and jamming its radio spectrum.
by vel0city | 2025-10-08 15:43:58+00:00
If I hadn't been reading headlines I wouldn't have even known about the 2011 blackout, and I was definitely here for that. Things were pretty much normal for everyone around me and friends around the state (Houston, Austin, DFW, Lubbock, San Antonio, etc). The Superbowl even went ahead in AT&T stadium. It really wasn't as big of a deal as a lot of internet commenters seem to act like.
by btilly | 2025-10-08 15:44:28+00:00
In Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman tells the story of how he managed to end a dry spell where he couldn't come up with good research ideas.

He was in a cafeteria, someone slipped, and accidentally threw a plate into the air. Feynman could see it spinning, and could see that it had a wobble that spun, and wondered if he could figure out the ratio between the two.

The piece of mathematics that he worked out had no particular purpose. But having it turned out to be essential later in the work that earned him a Nobel prize.

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by maxglute | 2025-10-08 15:45:45+00:00
Manufacturing consent for war is important, news at 11. Snark aside, it's getting harder to generate moral high ground to maintain the facade of LIO supremecy. The problem with modern American imperialism (and European colonialism) is it's hard to sell to your (multicultural) people we need to to sacrifice blood and treasure to remove/occupy bad/inferior people on the other side of the world. More after decades of mass media recognizing you're actually sacrificing blood and treasure to collateral damage a bunch of civilians. More so when the spoils of war seems meagre relative to cost, and all the resources prosecuting one could have been focused on domestic serenity. Clausewitz (mostly) lived in a context of fighting for survival/dominance against neighbours, which I guess is apt for RU/UK, ISR/GAZA discussed in this article but the actual belligerants in either war are less sustained by morality / or need moral cover as realist interest. Who needs moral cover is however their sponsors, and really we're talking about US+co who needs to convince constitutents of the moral cause to support proxy wars, instead of just admitting: we get to cripple RU by sacrificing UKR, or keeping MENA influence is worth starving and killing tons of kids.
by kranke155 | 2025-10-08 15:46:00+00:00
The animation stuff is about to happen but not there yet.

I work in the industry and I know that ad agencies are already moving onto AI gen for social ads.

For VFX and films the tech is not there yet, since OpenAI believes they can build the next TikTok on AI (a proposition being tested now) and Google is just being Google - building amazing tools but with little understanding (so far) of how to deploy them on the market.

Still Google is likely ahead in building tools that are being used (Nano Banana and Veo 3) while the Chinese open source labs are delivering impressive stuff that you run locally or increasingly on a rented H100 on the cloud.
by bryanhogan | 2025-10-08 15:46:16+00:00
I'm not sure. You don't use a single context.md file, you use multiple and add them when relevant in context. AIs adjust these as you need, so they do "evolve". So what you try to achieve is already solved.

These two videos on using Claude well explain what I mean:

1. Claude Code best practices: https://youtu.be/gv0WHhKelSE

2. Claude Code with Playwright MCP and subagents: https://youtu.be/xOO8Wt_i72s