MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Atlas667 | 2025-11-14 17:34:19+00:00
Yes, they literally "established" it. Thats what that word means.

They drove the perspective for the sake of propaganda. They promoted american movies and art everywhere.

And it worked. This is how they got young kids in Europe, Asia and S.America to side with them.

Through a vague notion of coolness, individual liberty, sophistication, and tying that to progress and to America.

If you look at anti-colonial documentaries you can see it very evidently. One that comes to mind is "The hour of the furnaces" about the argentinian US backed dictatorship. There is a chapter in there where all the yuppie city dwellers are very counter culture oriented and welcome the external influence in their country.

The way they infiltrate the youth is through this very cultural operation.

The world wide phenomenon of counter culture was a CIA fabrication.

PS: Communist bloc art is not bland and conformist, it's just about daily life or about collective life. Some of the best western art is also about daily life and society. But thats just my opinion.
by Merinov | 2025-11-14 17:34:53+00:00
Valid question. Let me clarify:

NO ADS: Zero advertising. No ad network scripts.

TRACKING: Only privacy-respecting essentials: . Sliplane (European hosting) server logs . No Google Analytics, no third-party trackers

What made you think there's tracking? I want to fix any privacy concerns immediately. This is a European digital sovereignty project & privacy is the whole point.

Can you share what triggered the concern? (Specific script/banner you saw?) Thanks for your help.
by mossTechnician | 2025-11-14 17:34:57+00:00
It's interesting that companies don't provide concrete definitions or examples of what their AI guardrails are. IBM's definition suggests to me they see it as imperative to continue moving fast (and breaking things) no matter what:

Think of AI guardrails like the barriers along a highway: they don’t slow the car down, but they do help keep it from veering off course.

https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/ai-guardrails
by nsypteras | 2025-11-14 17:35:02+00:00
Ya interesting thought - would be fascinating if generating games w/solutions is part of the training data pipeline. There's been previous work done on on testing LLMs on logic puzzles[1][2][3] so they could possibly be building off those ideas to improve performance.

[1] https://huggingface.co/papers/2504.00043 [2] https://huggingface.co/blog/yuchenlin/zebra-logic [3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.12094
by dukeofdoom | 2025-11-14 17:35:30+00:00
It's also owning lower quality goods, that plague you by breaking all the time. So the maintenance cost (time and energy) is quite high. It's almost better not to have things when you're poor, because the things you have are just a big headache. I think it's also that increasingly working people are living in old houses that were never built properly, and now have lots of problems. And even new things you buy, are just kind of annoying. I have an LG electric stove. Instead of modulating heat, it pulses the burner top. So you can't effectively lower the heat, just extend the time it takes to cook. The oven timer doesn't turn off, it tries to keep the food warm, and plays chime every minute. Exactly opposite of what I want, since I cook food for my dog and want the food to cool off. And it's stuff like that, the constant annoyance of dealing with badly designed products, and things breaking. I had 2 driers break (all plastic parts), and a washing machine that started leaking oil inside that damaged the clothes in the last year. It's the cumulative effect of dealign with lower quality things.
by georgemcbay | 2025-11-14 17:35:35+00:00
> Modern LLMs in an agentic loop can self correct

If the problem as stated is "Performing an LLM query at newly inflated cost $X is an iffy value proposition because I'm not sure if it will give me a correct answer" then I don't see how "use a tool that keeps generating queries until it gets it right" (which seems like it is basically what you are advocating for) is the solution.

I mean, yeah, the result will be more correct answers than if you just made one-off queries to the LLM, but the costs spiral out of control even faster because the agent is going to be generating more costly queries to reach that answer.
by rekabis | 2025-11-14 17:36:04+00:00
> i was thinking "You need to use the backend the info shouldn't be traveling to the client"....

If it leaves the server, it’s available to anyone who has access to the display device.

And if it’s meant to be displayed to the end user - as this content is - it needs to leave the server.

There is just no other way to have the user see that info.

That’s the same no matter what you want to serve up, be it dollar values or images. Nothing prevents a person who has full control of the display device from copying it or gaining access to it.

I’ve run into that problem before, most notably with a client who - back in the 90s, so the very early web - desperately wanted a website with large, stunning photographs of the product his company was making, but he wanted 100% assurances that no photo could ever be copied locally and “stolen” off of this website. In the end, I had to tell him that anything that is visible to an end user is fully copyable and “stealable”, and there is nothing that provides even a fractional assurance, much less a complete assurance against “theft”. Because that’s the fundamental nature of any website.

Even in today’s web environment, screenshotting the display utterly circumvents whatever display protections may exist against copying content, because screenshotting occurs outside of the web browser.

What OP’s solution is, however, is a protection against shoulder surfing, and nothing more. It’s the result of a flag that the user can enable so that others in the vicinity aren’t going to be able to visually snoop. And for that objective, this font is ideal, especially since the raw values still need to be summable by the client-side code. And client-side code that works with text values is utterly unaffected by font choice.
by londons_explore | 2025-11-14 17:36:14+00:00
My takeaway... The specific model plays a huge role in the failure rate.

A great model has a MTBF of 250 years.

A bad model might have a MTBF of just 5 years.

I suspect if you had a need for reliable storage which couldn't be met with the usual RAID approach, buying 2nd hand drives from eBay of a model and batch proven to be really reliable is probably your best bet.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-11-14 17:36:31+00:00
Very true but I also think that being poor is a mindset to change. I've known of people that would couch surf but they were never poor. We knew, they knew, that at anytime they could turn it around, and they did. They wanted to do things that were not the norm so they chose not to follow society's norms so they lacked money and they lived day to day. Once they changed their mind set they were able to work their way to an American middle class. It was not easy but they did it. They had little money but they were never poor.

Then there's the other side. Families that can never get out. Families that have been poor for generations. Sure there are valid reason but I also think it's a mindset that needs to change. The multi-million dollar question is: how?
by pweezy | 2025-11-14 17:36:31+00:00
To me, "Tip for AI skeptics" reads as shorthand for "Tip for those of you who classify as AI skeptics".

That is why the meta commentary about identity politics made complete sense to me. It's simply observing that this discussion (like so many others) tends to go this way, and suggests a better alternative - without a straw man.
by Merinov | 2025-11-14 17:36:31+00:00
I understand the skepticism, but let me address this:

"LLM shovelware": The articles are curated from around 30 European news sources (TechCrunch Europe, Sifted, The Verge, etc.). AI is only used for: 1. Translation (EN→NL/DE/FR/ES/IT) 2. Pattern-based image generation

The curation, source selection, and quality filters are all manual.

"Self-promotion": Fair point on the account activity. I created this account specifically to share this project with HN because the community values European tech sovereignty and privacy.

Happy to answer specific questions about the implementation. The goal is NOT traffic farming, it's building a multilingual resource for European digital policy/startups.

What would make this more valuable to you? :)
by tshaddox | 2025-11-14 17:36:47+00:00
> This is maybe the first dataset I've seen that clearly illustrates how margin (profit) is inversely correlated with value to humanity.

Of course, this pretty closely matches the basic Econ 101 explanations of competition and free markets. The entire goal of competition is to reduce prices, specifically to get the market price of a good to trend down towards the marginal cost. The thing that's supposed to be good for society isn't that some people get very rich by selling things at high profit margins, but rather that the stuff we want is available at the lowest feasible price.
by merth | 2025-11-14 17:36:49+00:00
I have poor friends, they spend more on Netflix, Gym, Starbucks, IPhones, steam games etc then me, and they are poor for atleast last 10-20 years. I almost never have any of these and I have given them that classic suggestions like the cancelling the gym membership that he/she rarely or never uses, and it doesnt work, they keep spending money on garbage with money they don't have.
by smithkl42 | 2025-11-14 17:37:29+00:00
The post does a good job of describing a phenomenological difference between being broke and being poor, and its account seems plausible to me. But what I'm curious about is the causal difference between the two. I've known working class folks who seem like they're getting by fine, even if they're occasionally "broke", and I've known working class folks who are constantly in financial crisis, and definitely fit in the category of "poor". I wonder why folks who start with roughly the same skills, intelligence and opportunities (and bank account balance!) can nevertheless end up in very different places?
by saint_yossarian | 2025-11-14 17:37:45+00:00
Distros do have manuals, they just usually come in the form of user-curated wikis these days. ArchWiki is usually my first stop when I run into a Linux issue, even as a fellow Debian user.

Both https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bluetooth and https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser mention rfkill and show you how to troubleshoot.
by serjester | 2025-11-14 17:38:03+00:00
As someone that also worked at a large automakers, I think you’re making large, unfounded assumptions.

Warranty data flows up from the technicians - good luck getting any auto technician to properly tag data. Their job is to fix a specific customer’s problem, not identify systematic issues.

There’s a million things that make the data inherently messy. For example, a technician might replace 5 parts before they finally identify the root cause.

Therefore, you need some sort of department to sit between millions of raw claims and engineering. I would be curious what kind of alternative you have in mind?
by asdfman123 | 2025-11-14 17:38:09+00:00
I'm conflicted. Zooming out, the problem isn't with AI specifically but economic development in general. Everything has a side effect.

For decades we've been told we shouldn't develop urban centers because of how it development affects local communities, but really it just benefited another class of elites (anonymous foreign investors), and now housing prices are impoverishing younger generations and driving homelessness.

Obviously that's not a perfect comparison to AI, which isn't as necessary, but I think the anti-growth argument isn't a good one. Democracies need to keep growing or authoritarian states will take over who don't care so much about human rights. (Or, authoritarian governments will take over democracies.)

There needs to be a political movement that's both pro-growth and pro-humanity, that is capable of making hard or disruptive decisions that actually benefits the poor. Maybe that's a fantasy, but again, I think we should find ways to grow sustainably.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-14 17:38:13+00:00
I like this guy’s backstory[0].

I grew up in Africa. The poverty I saw, as a child, was foundational in my own personal development.

There are some places in the US, that have that kind of poverty, but I have not seen them, with my own eyes.

I have family that dedicated most of their life to fighting poverty (with very limited success). They believe that poverty is probably the single biggest problem in the world, today. Almost every major issue we face, can be traced back to poverty.

Income inequality is one thing, but hardcore poverty, as described by the author, is a different beast, and creates a level of desperation that is incredibly dangerous.

[0] https://blog.ctms.me/about/
by teknikalm | 2025-11-14 17:38:24+00:00
> On HN, we can do better! IMO the move is drop the politics, and discuss things on their technical merits.

Zero obligation to satisfy HN audience; tiny proportion of the populace. But for giggles...

Technical merits: there are none. Look at Karpathy's GPT on Github. Just some boring old statistics. These technologies are built on top of mathematical principles in textbooks printed 70-80 years ago.

The sharding and distribution of work across numerous machines is also a well trodden technical field.

There is no net new discovery.

This is 100% a political ploy on the part of tech CEOs who take advantage of the innumerate/non-technical political class that holds power. That class is bought into the idea that massive leverage over resource markets is a win for them, and they won't be alive to pay the price of the environmental destruction.

It's not "energy and water" concerns, it's survival of the species concerns obfuscated by socio-political obligations to keep calm carry on and debate endlessly, as vain circumlocution is the hallmark of the elders whose education was modeled on people being VHS cassettes of spoken tradition, industrial and political roles.

IMO there is little technical merit to most software. Maps, communication. That's all that's really needed. ZIRP era insanity juiced the field and created a bunch of self-aggrandizing coder bros whose technical achievements are copy-paste old ideas into new syntax and semantics, to obfuscate their origins, to get funded, sell books, book speaking engagements. There is no removing any of this from politics as political machinations gave rise to the dumbest era of human engineering effort ever.

The only AI that has merit is robotics. Taking manual labor of people that are otherwise exploited by bougie first worlders in their office jobs. People who have, again with the help of politicians, externalized their biologies real needs on the bodies of poorer illiterates they don't have to see as the first-world successfully subjugated them and moved operations out of our own backyard.

Source: was in the room 30 years ago, providing feedback to leadership how to wind down local manufacturing and move it all over to China. Powerful political forces did not like the idea of Americans having the skills and knowledge to build computers. It ran afoul of their goals to subjugate and manipulate through financial engineering.

Americans have been intentionally screwed out of learning hands on skills with which they would have political leverage over the status quo.

There is no removing politics from this. The situation we are in now was 100% crafted by politics.
by tome | 2025-11-14 17:38:49+00:00
I'm confused whether the author is poor, has been poor, has never been poor but has deep understanding of what it's like for other reasons (friends, family, etc.). He writes

> I have a van that is falling apart. It needs a lot of work that we cannot afford to do.

but I think that should be read as "Imagine that I have ...", because, from his About page, he seems to have an irrigation and landscaping business and plays around with technology on the weekend.

I think the article would have been more effective it had been clearer exactly on what basis the author is writing about the experience of poor people.
by lbrito | 2025-11-14 17:38:54+00:00
The geographic variation on the semantics of poverty always amaze me.

Poverty and having a credit card, a van, and a house to live in. No matter how maxed out or broken all of those are, having them automatically means you are not poor in most of the world's point of view.

Not to say that the struggles aren't real or that we shouldn't empathize, of course. Just that what strikes me most about these kinds of posts is how the semantics simply implode if you expand your context window just a bit, looking at a broader perspective country-wise.
by johntash | 2025-11-14 17:39:01+00:00
For me, I was happy using Zed until suddenly an update caused it to crash every time I opened it. It was caused by some sort of issue with graphics drivers on linux I guess.

I just checked the issue [1] and it is fixed now, but it's crazy to me that I never really thought of my text editor needing to use my graphics card for rendering.

[1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/37448
by notatoad | 2025-11-14 17:39:03+00:00
Copilot completions in vscode are pretty great, and i think a lot of people are happy with that.

in general i agree with you, adding an AI chat window to an app that isn't an AI chat app is almost always a detriment. but i think it's shortsighted to assume there won't be other important use cases for AI, and we're in the experimentation phase right now where companies are trying to learn what that looks like. it's just unfortunate that there's so much incentive for apps to frame their AI chat as the best new thing ever and you should really use it, instead of introducing it more subtly.
by renewiltord | 2025-11-14 17:39:24+00:00
Sure. That’s the theory. Then I read the book Evicted and I understood. One of the people gets a small windfall. Enough to stop the treadmill. What she does is buy something nice for herself because she “deserves a treat”.

Also the sums of money here are humongous. Someone is net -$40k? They need $40k more per year to not be poor? That is the British median income. So this shortfall in money a person needs to be not poor in the US is what half of the people in the UK live under, total.

Heck even in Germany that’s the 40th percentile or so.

This shows how poor Europeans are compared to Americans. Some half of them are in this comparative state of misery.
by raeroumeliotis | 2025-11-14 17:39:35+00:00
Steven Pemberton argues that current AI systems lack true intelligence—“there is no I in AI”—but anticipates a coming era of superintelligence that could surpass human capability. Drawing parallels with historical paradigm shifts, he cites Ray Kurzweil’s findings that technological revolutions occur exponentially faster. Pemberton warns that superintelligent systems, governed by unknown axioms and unbounded logic, may not share human ethics, presenting three potential futures: benevolent oversight, utilitarian indifference, or adversarial control.

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by londons_explore | 2025-11-14 17:39:48+00:00
And to answer the obvious question... One usecase where you want reliability and can't use RAID is where you are selling a product that only has physical space or money for one drive - for example a standalone CCTV storage device.

Every drive failure will lead to an unhappy customer and product return, so you really want the failure rate in the first 10 years of operation to be 1% or below. (Which none of the drives in this study can do).
by tech_ken | 2025-11-14 17:39:58+00:00
> I haven't heard of that being the argument. The main perspective I'm aware of is that more powerful AI models have a compounding multiplier on productivity, and this trend seems likely to continue at least in the near future considering how much better coding models are at boosting productivity now compared to last year.

This is the new line now that LLMs are being commoditized, but in the post-Slate Star Codex AI/Tech Accelerationist era of like '20-'23 the Pascal's wager argument was very much a thing. In my experience it's kind of the "true believer" argument, whereas the ROI/productivity thing is the "I'm in it for the bag" argument.
by tim333 | 2025-11-14 17:40:13+00:00
I tend to use Chrome over Firefox although I have both. Plus points - better translate, google lens, slick and consistent. Minus points - Firefox containers are good.

Re privacy it comes across to me as a bit tin foil hat worrying about the evil doers tracking my thoughts. I mean sure I don't want criminals to know my home address and bank account details but re Google knowing say I use mac and advertising some Apple stuff to me - what's the problem?
by spwa4 | 2025-11-14 17:40:34+00:00
This has been the huge problem in AI research since at least 1998 (and that was just when I was first exposed to it). With data, everything is so much easier, and much simpler machine learning methods.

Supervised learning. Took a while to make that work well.

And then every few years someone comes up with a way to distill data out of unsupervised examples. GPT is these days the big example of that, but there was "ImageNet (unlabeled)" and LAION before that too. The issue is that there is just so much unsupervised data.

Now LLMs use that pretty well (even though stuffing everything into an LLM is getting old, and as this article points out, in any specific application they tend to get bested by something like XGBoost with very simple models)

The next frontier is probably "world models", where you first train unsupervised, not to train your model but to predict the world. THEN you train the model in this simulated, predicted world. That's the reason Yann Lecun really really wants to go down this direction.
by energy123 | 2025-11-14 17:40:36+00:00
I've heard it described that being poor is expensive. The poorer you are the more expensive it is. Being poor in a poor country is the most expensive. You can't just buy coffee, you can only afford a sachet of coffee. So per gram you're paying double. You can't afford medical care, so the condition gets worse and thus more expensive to do something about. You're in debt most of the time, which is expensive. You have to travel for work, again expensive. You rent, expensive. It must be awful.
by xp84 | 2025-11-14 17:40:43+00:00
Yeah the sad part is that much of the reason we have to have subscriptions is that there’s a very real ongoing cost just to avoid the platform owner breaking the software with OS changes (and of course Apple is 10x worse than any others, most Windows XP-era .exe files work perfectly fine on Windows 11 today).

Why do we need OS changes though? Well practically we don’t. But the platform owners all want to move new hardware so they need to shovel features in, which we could just completely ignore, except that they’ll abandon you to the wolves for security patches, which is about the only “new” thing we do need, if you’re not on the latest couple releases. And as for hardware, eventually you need new hardware and drivers only get created for current and future OS releases.

So the end result is we’re being led on a wild goose chase of trend-chasing shitty UI changes, adware, and performance-killing crap we don’t need, purely because we can’t run the old hardware forever, and even when we can keep the old hardware going, we can’t safely run old software for lack of patches.