MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TomasBM | 2025-11-26 20:23:41+00:00
> It does not. You are allowed to pick and choose.

Of course. You're allowed to choose your narrative and favorite scapegoat. That doesn't make it correct, or useful, or good. But it is useful to your government, I'll give you that.

The Baltic and Ukrainian friends and colleagues I talked to seemed to understand the difference between 1) what the Russian government says and does, and 2) what role their friends, colleagues or family of Russian origin have in that. The Russian and Belarusian friends and colleagues I talked to say they don't support their government's actions. Same with Israelis and Palestinians. So, unless they're all lying, or I'm imagining things, they seem to understand the nuance, even when it's painful or difficult.

I have much more in common with them than I do with any geopolitical warrior, whether they come from the government or just believe in that.

> that doesn't mean I appreciate getting members from an openly hostile society (to say the least)

Aside from the fact that this is a company, not a country, and there's no discussion of hiring let alone getting anyone:

If that's true, why wouldn't these apparently openly hostile Russians join their preferred army? Or do you think they are a fifth column in your country?

Be open about your conclusions. If all or most people of Russian origin are problematic because they come from an openly hostile society, what is your conclusion?

Do you think they should be kicked out? Should they be required to declare and prove allegiance to their host country? If they're as hostile as you say, why would you hire them?

What if they claim they're against their government's actions - are they lying, or should they have to prove it? What if they (falsely) believe in the propaganda of the Russian government - how would you ban this?

How do you feel about people from Saudi Arabia, Israel, Venezuela, the US for that matter? What about the Austrians, Germans, English or Japanese? Kurds, Palestinians, Cherokee? Their governments and/or minority groups have certainly been controversial in various countries and centuries, to say the least.

It's not an abstract subject, it's a question of principles and nuance.

> I bet you are from a country that has not been under Russian rule in the past

My country has been subject to plenty foreign conquerors, adversaries (real or not) and undue influence, including that of various Russian governments. Yet I don't see how the members of those other countries are guilty for that, nor how my hatred for them gets any justice for the pain of my ancestors (or the pain that my ancestors caused). And you don't seem like you have personal grievances that would at least explain your views.

But who knows, maybe scapegoating is more fun, and I'm missing out.
by LiamPowell | 2025-11-26 20:23:53+00:00
The authentication for the API seems poorly designed. The auth token is your email address rather than a real auth token. If I know someone uses this service I can send a massive number of requests to cause a large credit card charge with just their email address. I thought this was just a mistake in the obviously LLM-written home page, but the API really does work this way after testing.

On top of that logging in does not require a password, just an email address.
by zahlman | 2025-11-26 20:24:43+00:00
> This... shouldn't be possible.

1. Quite a lot of companies are not publicly traded, and therefore are not reflected in the stock market. AI companies have an incentive to be publicly traded because it's all venture-capital stuff.

2. Technology in general is always going to be over-weight anyway because these are companies that tend towards "growth" (re-investing profits into future expansion, offering to buy back stocks at a higher price as a means of compensating investors, etc.) rather than "value" (compensating investors by paying out an explicit cash dividend on shares). This tends to push their P/E multiples higher.

3. Publicly traded companies, and thus stocks, generally are valued based on speculation about future cash flows, not according to current holdings.

4. The companies that you have to add up in order to come to a figure like "one third of the stock market", are doing a lot of things outside of AI. People still play video games, and they still do GPU-accelerated data analysis with conventional techniques. People still want their computer to include an operating system, and still use their social media to talk to accounts that they know are operated by people they know in real life.

5. The term "AI" is now used as if it exclusively referred to LLMs, but other AI systems have existed for a long time and have been actually accomplishing real things in the economy.

> The economy is going to collapse

There are a great many people out there who have predicted a hundred or so out of the last seven recessions. You don't know this, and there are many reasons to doubt it.

Suppose some anti-AI deity snaps its fingers tomorrow and every LLM simply spontaneously ceases to function. It's not as if we've lost the knowledge of how to do things without LLMs. It's not as if the things we created without LLMs disappear, or anything else. We at worst, at a very conservative, scare-mongering estimate revert to that level; and things were pretty tolerable at that level. And technologies that are not LLMs have also advanced since the release of ChatGPT.
by port11 | 2025-11-26 20:25:09+00:00
Hmm, I did switch to Safari from Firefox because I couldn't put up with how slow everything felt. Ironically I now find Safari quite laggy, whereas Orion or Brave with uBlock make for a better experience. I do agree most people either don't switch browsers or switch to something they heard is good. Maybe Kagi have better intel than us.

(Safari with adblocker, of course.)
by genuser | 2025-11-26 20:25:19+00:00
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by Glemkloksdjf | 2025-11-26 20:25:37+00:00
Because AI doesn't mean 'AI' it means massive compute, massive amount of data and machine learning.

All of that pushes everything forward: LLMs and any other architecture to LLMs, GenAI for images, sound and video, movement for robotics, image feature detection.

Segment Anything 2 was a breakthrough in image segmentation, for example.

The latest Google Weather model is also a breakthrough.

All progress in robotics is ML driven.

I don't think any investor thinks that OpenAI will achieve AGI with an LLM. Its Data + Compute -> Some Architecture -> AI/ML Model.

if it will become the golden model which will be capable of everything or a thousand expert models or the Model of Expert model, we don't know yet.
by dfajgljsldkjag | 2025-11-26 20:25:38+00:00
This has a nice made up "case study": https://tokensaver.org/blog/how-i-saved-500-dollars-on-ai-co...

> Six months ago, I was running a customer support chatbot for a SaaS product. Nothing fancy - ...

I'm sure this toooootally happened

> curl -X POST https://tokensaver.org/api/chat \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "email": "your@email.com", "messages": [ {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"} ] }'

Am I getting this right that there's no auth? Just provide an email and get free requests?

Edit:

This seems to always use sonnet 3.5 no matter the request. I asked it a USAMO problem and it still used sonnet (and hallucinated the wrong answer of course).
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-11-26 20:27:12+00:00
That is perilously close to the usual:

"AI DID EVERYTHING IN A DAY"

"How do you know it works?"

"... it just looks like it does"

Like when I ask AIs to port sed to java, and it writes test cases ... running sed on a CLI and doesn't implement the full lang spec no matter how much prompting I give it.
by _pdp_ | 2025-11-26 20:27:13+00:00
I am not sure who is the intended customer for this service.

The prompt and the model go hand in hand. If you randomly select the model the likelihood of getting something consistent is basically zero.

Also model pricing don't very that much. I have never heard of spot-instance equivalent for inference although that will be cool. The demand for GPU is so high right now that I think most datacenters are at 100% utilisation.

Btw landing page does not bring much confidence this is serious. Might want to change it to communicate better and also to be attractive to "developers" I guess.
by hbarka | 2025-11-26 20:27:41+00:00
In the real world, data is never this clean. Majority of the time is data quality work because you will see outliers that might be due to measurement error, calibration, process changes. It requires familiarity with the process and having an understanding and intuition for why the shape of the data distribution in a process is the way it is. Because ad-hoc data visualization and exploration is critical here, enterprise requirements need mature tools that can be used quickly. BYOT and DIY code for an SPC Cpk chart is not what you want to be doing.
by 0manrho | 2025-11-26 20:28:23+00:00
Disagree. You should never trust SMART data from second hand drives, full stop. No matter if it's wiped or not.

If you're US domestic market, then yeah, you can usually avoid Chinese vendors. If you're EU or elsewhere, China can often be the main/only source of affordable drives vs domestic market. Really depends (I don't shop for international buds/clients, but I constantly hear about how the homelabbers across the pond have significantly higher prices/lower availability for surplus enterprise gear in general)

Stick to the rules on reliable vendors with a return policy, buy in bulk with the expectation that some will be bad (not a given, but good to be prepared), and the only issue from buying from china is delayed shipping times.
by basisword | 2025-11-26 20:28:40+00:00
>> So while men are taking risks, women take one for the team

I know you're joking but three of the top four are basically 'work related'. Men taking one for the team doing all the dangerous jobs.

And maybe if the men stop riding motorcycles the women will stop getting plastic surgery which is also shockingly high as a reason to end up in hospital.
by liamconnell | 2025-11-26 20:28:58+00:00
Yes but its not relevant to the agent use cases (which are mostly about interacting with external systems). So agents built by Microsoft (Copilot) can natively interact with Office files in Sharepoint, and the Sharepoint product team can build to enable this in special ways. OpenAI has to use the APIs and deal with rate limits, speed issues and other limitations.
by port11 | 2025-11-26 20:28:59+00:00
I have the same issue, but I also think their extension model is simply not cutting it. I run both Orion and Brave with uBlock, and the Orion experience is basically Safari's pitfalls + a slightly broken extension model.

Then again 1Password itself is problematic, from old bugs to the slowness of it all. I also dislike how their overlay thingie gets on top of everything, even form fields that make no sense. It's a bit pricey for the decrease in quality over time.
by danishSuri1994 | 2025-11-26 20:29:08+00:00
This is one of those projects where the implementation is more interesting than the meme. Rendering DOOM isn’t the impressive part, hijacking a PCB editor’s rendering pipeline and making it behave like a real-time vector engine is.

The part I love most is how many unrelated systems had to cooperate:

extracting geometry directly from DOOM’s drawsegs/vissprite internals

mapping sprite classes to physical component footprints

running real-time updates through KiCad’s object model without triggering full recompute

and then running the same vector stream to an oscilloscope via audio DAC

That’s a really clever chain of “use the tool for something it was never designed to do.”

ScopeDoom might end up being the more interesting long-term direction, vector displays force you to think about rendering differently, and there’s something poetic about DOOM being rendered as literal analog voltage traces.

If you ever take it further, the combination of:

faster DAC (or multi-kHz arbitrary waveform generator)

true analog persistence phosphor scope

and dynamic sprite simplification

…could get you surprisingly close to a smooth vector-shooter aesthetic.

Either way: great hack. The world needs more playful abuse of serious tools.
by beloch | 2025-11-26 20:29:50+00:00
I've seen a fair number of articles suggesting that the finances of AI companies have lost touch with reality and that the AI sector is now well within bubble territory.

If AI companies continue to scale up and buy massive amounts of memory as prices spike, how much will that intensify the spike? Could feedback of this nature cause a price shock sufficient to pop the AI bubble earlier than it might have otherwise? How soon might that happen?
by tpoacher | 2025-11-26 20:29:51+00:00
If the authors are reading. I notice you used a "Soft IoU" for validation.

A large part of my 2017 phd thesis [0] is dedicated in exploring the formulation and utility of soft validation operators, including this soft IoU, and the extent to which they are "better" / "more reliable" than thresholding (whether this occurs in isolation, or even when marginalised out, as in with the AUC). Long story short, soft operators are at least an order of magnitude more reliable than their thresholding counterparts [1], despite the fact that thresholding still seems to be the industry/academia standard. This is the case for any set-operation-based operator, such as the Dice coefficient (a.k.a. F1-score), not just for the IoU. Recently, influential groups have proposed the matthews correlation coefficient as a "better operator", but still treat it in binary / thresholding terms, which means it's still unreliable to an order of magnitude. I suspect this insight goes beyond images (e.g. the F1-score is often used in ML problems more generally, in situations where probabilistic outputs are thresholded to compare against binary ground truth labels), but I haven't tested that hypothesis explicitly beyond the image domain (yet).

In this work you effectively used the "goedel" (i.e. min/max) fuzzy operator to define fuzzy intersection and union, for the purposes of using it in an IoU operator. There are other fuzzy norms with interesting properties that you can also explore. Other classical ones include product and lukasiewicz. I show in [0] and [1] that these have "best case scenario sub-pixel overlap", "average case" and "worst-case scenario" underlying semantics. (In other words, min/max should not be a random choice of T-norm, but a conscious choice which should match your problem, and what the operator is intended to validate specifically). In my own work, I then proceeded show that if you take gradient direction at the boundary into account, you can come up with a fuzzy intersection/union pair which has directional semantics, and is even more reliable an operator when used to define a soft IoU.

Having said that, in your case you're comparing against a binary ground truth. This collapses all the different T-norms to the same value. I wonder if this is the reason you chose a binary ground truth. If yes, you might want to consider my work, and use original 'soft' ground truths instead, for higher reliability, as well as ability to define intersection semantics.

I hope the above is of interest / use to you :) (and, if you were to decide to cite my work, it wouldn't be the eeeeeend of the world, I gueeeeesss xD )

[0] https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dc352697-c804-4257-8aec-08...

[1] https://repository.essex.ac.uk/24856/1/Papastylianou.etal201...
by hodgesrm | 2025-11-26 20:30:02+00:00
> I love hummingbirds.

Same here! We see them practically every day where I live - no feeder necessary, just flowers in bloom, preferably red[dish] ones.

Hummingbirds would be my favorite birds of all, except for the existence of owls. We have many owls in our neighborhood, including two that nest nearby. We know that mostly from hearing, since they do their best to stay hidden during daylight. However, they are pleasantly loud at night. That's why we know there are two of them or rather two nests--it's easy to pick up the direction of the sound.
by Zababa | 2025-11-26 20:30:48+00:00
Quoting the article:

>I’m having to choose my words carefully, because I need to stress one thing: these are not the most common reasons for men and women to be admitted to hospital. They are the most typically male and typically female.

If you go to https://leobenedictus.substack.com/p/that-hospital-admission... and sort by number of admissions, you get stuff like:

- Personal history of certain other diseases

- Personal history of medical treatment

- Personal history of allergy to drugs, medicaments and biological substances

- Personal history of other diseases and conditions
by asdefghyk | 2025-11-26 20:31:24+00:00
From the above linked articale

"... Your SSD data isn't as permanent as you think Even the cheapest SSDs, say those with QLC NAND, can safely store data for about a year of being completely unpowered. More expensive TLC NAND can retain data for up to 3 years, while MLC and SLC NAND are good for 5 years and 10 years of unpowered storage, respectively. ..."

RE "...QLC NAND, can safely store data for about a year of being completely unpowered...."

QLC Nand only reliably stores data for only a year .

This would be within the warranty period for some products.

This information should be more clearly shown to product purchasers.
by Erwin | 2025-11-26 20:31:55+00:00
Jeff Bezos has a 233 billion net worth. It's not because Amazon users overpaid by a 233 billion but because his share in Amazon is highly valued by investors.

My own Amazon investment in my pension has also gone up by 10x in the last 10 years, just like Jeff's. Where did the value increase come from?

Is this idea of the stock market good for us? I don't know, but it's paper money until you sell it.
by prmoustache | 2025-11-26 20:32:19+00:00
If you can use the cli, it is at best mildly annoying but not critical.

Having said that, deprecating x11 completely is the one motivation for dev to fix bugs and/or find ways. Wayland really started to catch up with missing features when some distros like Fedora started using it by default.

If you want to stay on legacy stuff such as x11 while the remaining stuff is fixed, there are plenty of long term support distros out there anyway. You aren't forced to use the latest bleeding edge kde version available.
by creakingstairs | 2025-11-26 20:32:23+00:00
> Shouldn't you wait until your country is half run by women before claiming oppression? Until your boss and CEO are as likely to be women as men?

Well boss and CEO's generation _were_ heavily discriminated and no one disputes that. For younger generation who are working, they go through 2 years of military service, then sees women in their generation go on a trip to find herself instead, then gets "preferential treatment" at work (e.g. woman police officer goes up 2 rank for giving a person in distress their jacket). Meanwhile, men are expected to financially contribute more for marriages. So now you get this explosive cocktail of resentment: it's hard to get well-paying jobs + have to go to the army + other societal expectation for manhood.

Disclaimer: I don't think it's _that_ bad but I don't live in Korea, and I have lost friends for claiming this.

> I feel like this stuff it bought into by marginal men who are oppressed by other men of a higher class

Yes, there is some truth to this. Korean media is actively fuelling this outrage but I don't think you can't generalize it to everyone who supports it. Funnily enough, latest social discourse is around "Young Forties" (so older men with more social status), so now they are trying to stir up some discourse between generations.

> In Korea, the anger about conscription just gives them a semi-legitimate gripe that seems like it should be taken away by conscripting women.

I do think they should conscript women even for social services and that would quench most of the frustration from young men. But man suggesting this would get mocked for being so petty i.e. "not manly". Politicians also stay well away from this as it would be a political suicide. So where do these marginalised men go? To Lee and anyone who'd listen to them.

Edit: Once you delve deeper into this topic, Korea's abysmal birthrate of 0.68 will really make sense :p
by torginus | 2025-11-26 20:32:34+00:00
Because human brains are giant three-dimensional processors containing billions of neurons (each with computationally complex behaviors), each one performing computations >3 orders of magnitude more efficiently than transistors do, to train an intelligence with trillions of connections in real time, while being attached to incredibly sophisticated sensors and manipulators.

And despite all that, humans are still just made of dirt.

Even if we can get silicon to do some of these tricks, that'd require multiple breakthroughs, and it wouldn't be cost-competitive with humans for quite a while.

I would even think it's possible that building brain-equivalent structures that consume the same power, and can do all the stuff for the same amount of resources, is a so far out science fiction proposition, that we can't even give a prediction as to when it will happen, and for practical purposes, biological intelligences will have an insurmountable advantage for even the furthest foreseeable future once you consider the economics of humans vs machines.
by GaryBluto | 2025-11-26 20:32:40+00:00
This is an homage to the 90s only in the sense that public HTML hosting was more popular in the 90s. Everything about this seems like a modern project (in both design and ideals) with a very inaccurate "retro" coat of paint.

- Site makes use of HTML5 and modern JS. Why bemoan modern frameworks and then use modern, bloated elements?

- Why is there a completely modern register/sign in section in the middle of the home page? Why do young people think every website used to have a marquee? Why does it look like a facsimile of a borderless Windows 95 window? Why the emojis everywhere? Why is there a text shadow effect done with CSS when the 90s way would be to use an image of the text with the effect already replied, with ALT text for text browsers? So many odd design decisions.

- Long content moderation policy talking about how the site is for "Marxist, Communist, Anarchist, Feminist, Postcolonial, Abolitionist, Racial Justice, Queer, Hacker, and Pirate cultures." and how things the site owner doesn't like will be removed.

- The about page looks written with ChatGPT. "That's it. No webpack. No npm install. No 'building for production.', Just HTML. Just vibes." It then goes on to say that they only have "Passwordless authentication (because it's 2025, not 1995)"

This looks to be yet another project fawning over a time and place that the creator didn't experience or have any significant understanding of whatsoever. It's one thing to look at the past with rose tinted glasses, it's another to have a completely fictionalized view of a past you have no knowledge of and then build a service around it.