MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by darkwater | 2025-11-11 16:43:54+00:00
> This is dumb pop-psych stuff, like the "make interview candidates wait then reject them if they don't know the other candidates' names" type hiring "tricks". It's barely different than judging someone based on their handshake grip strength, imo.

Wait, what? How are these related? One thing is putting a canary clause in a contract between companies to check if they actually read all the clauses (which had to be followed due to technical requirements that could make a stage collapse, for example), and another is your example.

Why are people in this sub-thread (including the grand-parent that started it) try to read between the lines of what David Lee Roth said? It's pretty clear and a solid way of doing businesses. Could they be just lying to justify their rock-star attitude back in the day? I highly doubt so.
by jugg1es | 2025-11-11 16:44:05+00:00
You are overstating or overgeneralizing the strength of psychedelics as a class of drug. Most people who take them are not taking enough to produce a PTSD-level response.

I developed PTSD after my finding my 3yo son floating in a pool face down (I luckily saved and revived him - he's fine now) and it would take a very intense psychedelic experience to come anywhere close to that kind of emotional content.

Claiming the entire class of drugs are a potent cause of PTSD rings of reefer madness propaganda to me.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-11 16:45:50+00:00
> You are being recorded by the government, constantly in public.

Are we talking about your country or about mine now? When the legal basis for the surveillance expires the government must also delete the data like everybody else. Sure they might not always do it, but that is simply illegal and I can sue my government for that.

This applies to all cameras. Any place where a camera is installed needs to have a sign, stating the storage duration and a contact where you can object and get your data deleted earlier. For example, footage from bodycams of policemen need to be regularly deleted, and emergency dashcams for cars, are only allowed to be have storage for a few hours maximum, so the data is regularly overwritten. If you use a camera that doesn't do that and you bring the data to a court as evidence, it is taken against you.

> If you're going to be disturbed that someone recorded you tripping over a rock, then that's your problem, not the problem of some random camera in the area.

It's less that I would be personally disturbed by the recording itself, but by the public humiliation that follows, which absolutely has real world consequences. Would you hire that fool you have seen last week on Youtube doing a dumb challenge? Suddenly the recorder has a way to ransom you. That applies even more to children in a school. That will be a easy way to bully people if you make that legal.

Your explanation sounds like it would be absolutely illegal, to record the habits of your neighbors, when they get up, when they go to work, what they like to eat etc. ...
by vips7L | 2025-11-11 16:45:57+00:00
> So if you had 3 different disjoint exception types that you simply wanted to wrap and rethrow, you had to write 3 different catch blocks for them.

Agreed. There's a proposal for exception catching in switch [0] which I'm hopeful will alleviate a lot of this. I think that jep plus combining exceptions with sealed types the error handling will be convenient and easy.

sealed abstract class SomeException extends Exception permits AException, BException {}; void someFn() throws SomeException; // hypothetically handling in switch would let you enumerate the subtypes of the exception var a = switch (someFn()) { case A a -> a; case throws AException aex -> new A(); case throws BException bex -> throw new RuntimeException(bex); };

> As another example, the exception type hierarchy doesn't pull enough weight.

Kotlin has an interesting proposal for their language that creates their own "error" type that will allow type unions [1]. The only thing I worry about is that it further puts Kotlin away from Java making interop a lot harder.

[0] https://openjdk.org/jeps/8323658

[1] https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/blob/main/proposals/KEEP-0441...
by rtkwe | 2025-11-11 16:45:58+00:00
Going to need one hell of a citation on that first claim because there's a lot of evidence showing reality follows the opposite intuitive correlation, additional funding does provide better outcomes. [0]

> destroy teacher's unions

States have tried doing essentially that and it's not worked for decades. So I say we should actually fund schools, pay and support teachers like we actually want educated kids before we try yet again to blame underpaid, undersupplied teachers trying to wrangle ballooning class sizes of rowdy kids.

[0] https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/how-money-matter...
by xp84 | 2025-11-11 16:46:03+00:00
But haven’t many countries not only imagined but tried very different alternatives to capitalism? What have we learned from those countries?

It seems to always come back to the fact that people who get power always attempt to use that power to get more resources and power, violating all their supposed values and stealing resources from the public.

Personally, I am far from enamored with the apparent equilibrium state of capitalism, if that’s what we have in the US. However, when you compare how I feel about American capitalism to how I feel about North Korean totalitarianism, Venezuelan corrupt socialism, Soviet murderous communism, Cuban destructive communism, etc etc. suddenly I appear to be a booster for capitalism.
by dmitry_stratyfy | 2025-11-11 16:46:06+00:00
Good point. Yes, it uses optimisation for various tasks.

First of all, it uses compact representatin of rules - similar to DNF, but converted to a sparse matrix.

Second, for the inference (which is a process of compiling the knowledge base) the order in which rules are compiled is crucial. We use two types of heuristic optimisations for this process, one is based on Jaccard similarity, another is so called predator-pray heuristics.

Happy to give more details, let me know
by chiph | 2025-11-11 16:46:13+00:00
This goes along with what I saw growing up. You had the retail mastering (with RIAA curve for LP, etc.) and then the separate radio edit which had the compression that the stations wanted - so they sounded louder and wouldn't have too much bass/treble. And also wouldn't distort on the leased line to the transmitter site.

And of course it would have all the dirty words removed or changed. Like Steve Miller Band's "funky kicks going down in the city" in Jet Airliner

I still don't know if the compression in the Loudness War was because of esthetics, or because of the studios wanting to save money and only pay for the radio edit. Possibly both - reduced production costs and not having to pay big-name engineers. "My sister's cousin has this plug-in for his laptop and all you do is click a button"...
by DANmode | 2025-11-11 16:46:13+00:00
It’s so nice when you finally feel okay.

I received both of these diagnoses,

and then ended up finding mold toxicity, Lyme, high levels of EBV, mycoplasma pneumoniae, and staph in some dental work.

Resolving all of those (a long process!) has left me cool as a cucumber, in comparison. Higher bandwidth, effective.

No easy feat - but it was better to work on that list than a permanent list of conditions like I was left with!
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-11 16:46:25+00:00
DSS-14

https://www.gdscc.nasa.gov/index.php/antennas/

https://science.nasa.gov/learn/basics-of-space-flight/chapte...

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnOGg82-oGA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone_Deep_Space_Communica...
by rpdillon | 2025-11-11 16:46:26+00:00
I'm saying that LLMs are worthwhile useful tools, and that I'm glad that we built them, and that the publishing industry, which holds the copyright on the material that we would use to train the LLMs, have had no hand in developing them, have done no research, and have actively tried to fight the process at every turn. I have no sympathy for them.

The authors have been abused by the publishing industry for many decades. I think they're just caught in the middle, because they were never going to get a payday, whether from AI or selling books. I think the percentage of authors that are commercially successful is sub 1%.
by churchill | 2025-11-11 16:46:39+00:00
I mean, what other options does he have? FAIR was just gutted in favor of Meta Superintelligence, which is to be led by Alex Wang whose pedigree comes from founding a human-labor-API/ Amazon MTurk for AI.

All the veteran researchers still left have to be reading the room by now.

Clearly, Meta is signalling that they care less for foundational research and more for habit-forming products like Chatgpt/Sora that can give them another 10-15 years of runway like Instagram did.
by zer00eyz | 2025-11-11 16:46:58+00:00
> the lowest effort possible

By that rational, Autocad is bad because it doesn't require the same skill as Draftsmen.

Effort, labor, is not a reflection of creativity or skill.

I have a decent sense of design, I can tell you if something looks off, but I say to designers all the time "I cant do what you do, take what I say with a grain of salt". I have rubber ducked non technical people and gotten questions that steered me in better directions...

AI Doesn't make me a good designer, AI doesn't make me a better coder.

Who is going to do a better job framing a house. Someone with 20 years of experience with a hammer and a hand saw or someone who has never built a house with a nail gun and a circular saw.

The AI has no taste, no talent, it simply does what it's told. The crappy content is a result of it producing what it has been asked to produce.
by visarga | 2025-11-11 16:47:28+00:00
> So, other companies innovated over the copyright holder's objections, and now we have to sort it out in the courts.

I think they try to expand copyright from "protected expression" to "protected patterns and abstractions", or in other words "infringement without substantial similarity". Otherwise why would they sue AI companies? It makes no sense:

1. If I wanted a specific author, I would get the original works, it is easy. Even if I am cheap it is still much easier to pirate than use generative models. In fact AI is the worst infringement tool ever invented - it almost never reproduces faithfully, it is slow and expensive to use. Much more expensive than copying which is free, instant and makes perfect replicas.

2. If I wanted AI, it means I did not want the original, I wanted something Else. So why sue people who don't want the originals? The only reason to use AI is when you want to steer the process to generate something personalized. It is not to replace the original authors, if that is what I needed no amount of AI would be able to compare to the originals. If you look carefully almost all AI outputs get published in closed chat rooms, with a small fraction being shared online, and even then not in the same venues as the original authors. So the market substitution logic is flimsy.
by unixplumber | 2025-11-11 16:47:29+00:00
> still has syntax highlighting (using the sizes/colors/styles that I'm accustomed to)

Where I work I find it's usually the youngins using a ridiculous light on dark color scheme that post screenshots of code. Are we still stuck in the '80s? And are they pining for a time they never experienced themselves? Computer hardware has been capable of displaying the more civilized and easier-on-the-eyes dark on light color schemes since then.
by jrm4 | 2025-11-11 16:47:33+00:00
Doubling down on my downvotes, then:

Look, I teach IT (to both novices and interested folks at a college) for a living; count this idea as one that, when I present it this simply, many a lightbulb goes on for those new to programming. Much like for zero-indexed arrays, I do very well with "look, this is stupid, but here's why it got that way, we'll just deal with it."

And while on occasion I take pride in nerd-dom, I feel like -- especially with the advent of AI for coding -- this is dinosaur stuff, where we would do better to go along with what's WAY more intuitive than to try to stick with mathematical or programming purity, etc.
by mikepurvis | 2025-11-11 16:47:43+00:00
Absolutely agree. That said, I feel like COVID sits in a bit of a special place where it was evolving and changing so quickly alongside rapidly developed and deployed vaccines— to this day I don't think I've seen anything conclusive on how much of COVID going way could be attributed to:

- effective, widespread vaccine deployment

- the virus naturally evolving to a less-lethal state

- it all having been overblown from the get-go

My instinct is like 60/30/10, but it would be great to see someone make an actual case based on hard data, of which surely there is plenty.
by wmeredith | 2025-11-11 16:47:51+00:00
It's a bit disingenuous to imply The Matrix did not catch on until DVD release. The Matrix broke several (minor) box office records, was critically hailed, and an awards darling for the below the line technical awards.

Having said all that. One of the most interesting aspects of conversations around the true version of films and such is that just because of the way time works the vast majority of people's first experience with any film will definitely NOT be a in a theater.
by Jrxing | 2025-11-11 16:48:33+00:00
As LLMs continue to diversifying, model routers become increasingly critical for connecting various models and achieving the best performance-cost trade off. RouterArena is the first open platform & leaderboard for rigorous and comprehensive router evaluation, supporting both open-source and commercial routers. It provides principally-constructed datasets, extensive evaluation metrics, an automated evaluation framework, and a live leaderboard. We aim for RouterArena to serve as a foundation for the community to evaluate, understand, and advance the next generation of routing systems.
by tmuhlestein | 2025-11-11 16:48:43+00:00
At GoDaddy, our engineering team has been experimenting with how to make AI agents more modular, auditable, and production-ready. Instead of treating agents as monoliths, we designed them around four core tools that separate decision from execution:

* MemoryTool – maintains persistent context and user continuity

* CompletionTool – defines task completion and termination criteria

* UserInteractionTool – handles clarifications, approvals, and feedback loops

* DelegationTool – enables handoffs between agents or humans

This approach makes agent behavior transparent, versionable, and safer to scale. We’ve open-sourced our thinking and early framework notes in a technical write-up here:

Building AI Agents at GoDaddy – An Agent’s Toolkit https://www.godaddy.com/resources/news/building-ai-agents-at...

Would love to hear feedback from others working on modular or composable agent architectures — especially how you handle agent memory persistence and versioning.
by parpfish | 2025-11-11 16:48:50+00:00
> For months, I was puzzled as to why a great number of listeners wholly ignorant of the autistic experience were so enamoured by The Telepathy Tapes. ... I feel I’m finally starting to understand. Moving forward, the series has expressed a desire to explore the wider nature of consciousness and explore topics outside of the autistic community.

It's right there in the name -- Telepathy. It's not a show about autism, that's just a means to the end. It's a show about the paranormal and it appeals to people that want to learn about the paranormal.

The fact the the author has this 'revelation' about the true appeal at the end is strange. it'd be like having a big breakthrough that "i though people were watching The X-Files because they were all interested in learning about FBI bureaucracy, but it turns out people are interested in aliens!"
by WhitneyLand | 2025-11-11 16:49:09+00:00
For some people having a child fundamentally changes their definition of love and their belief in how it’s possible to relate to other human beings.

This is mostly disconnected from true/false values. The facts haven’t really changed. Yet it can be so powerful and rewarding few would trade it regardless of the risks/pain/hardships that can come with it.

Experiences can be profound and change perspectives in a way that’s so rewarding and wholistic it’s really impossible to describe.

Comparing such experiences to math doesn’t really work, apples and oranges.
by myrmidon | 2025-11-11 16:49:23+00:00
Excellent writeup.

I wish it was also adressing the Helion Energy approach, too (FRC plasma configuration, pulsed operation, extracting electric energy directly from the magnetic field), which I see as a possible "out" for fusion energy, but regard with extreme skepticism. The only good independent analysis on that that I know is some older ARPA-E report that indicates that Helion, after 6 prototype iterations, is at 8T for "final B" (magnetic flux density), but needs to get to 40T (which sounds a bit challenging to me).

I often encounter extreme optimism towards fusion ("it's only a matter of time/research progress") which is completely unjustifiable in my view.

I think it is absolutely worth it to continue with ITER and other fusion projects, but relying on fusion long-term for electrical power is insanely irresponsible/naive and premature in my view.
by oskarkk | 2025-11-11 16:49:43+00:00
> Examples include Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, so-called libertarians with entire business that consist of "use your friends in government to get juicy government contracts and grow rich off that sweet, sweet taxpayer money" (SpaceX, Palantir)

Not true regarding SpaceX, they were just cheaper and better than the competitors. They had to sue the government to even be able to compete against Boeing/Lockheed for military contracts. Who had more friends in the government in the 2010s, SpaceX or Boeing/Lockheed? In 2014, NASA awarded two contracts to develop spacecrafts for transporting astronauts to the ISS (at the time, American astronauts flew to the ISS only on Russian Soyuz). SpaceX received $2.6B (for Dragon), Boeing received $4.2B (for Starliner). Since that time, SpaceX has made 11 operational flights with astronauts to the ISS, while Boeing has made 0 (they're still working on it). It's not friends in the government, it's delivering services faster and for a lower price.
by orochimaaru | 2025-11-11 16:49:51+00:00
Vaccines are incredibly effective and definitely not connected to autism. That being said there is a rather large distrust of them after Covid. The fact that media and government both colluded to suppress information related to Covid vaccine side effects is troubling.

Don’t use govt control to suppress speech on social media. It’s not conducive to any sort of trust building.

Before I’m labelled a “maga/trump” talking points peddler - my kids are vaccinated (yes, including the hpv), I haven’t done covid shots more than the one required time. We do flu shots but not picky about it. Kids have had the flu (a & b) and they’ve handled it pretty well.
by briandear | 2025-11-11 16:49:57+00:00
Very true. Just the other day, another “copyright is bad” post on the front page. Today its copyright is good because otherwise people might get some use of material in LLMs.

Considering this is hacker news, it seems to be such an odd dichotomy. Sometimes it feels like anti-hacker news. The halcyon days of 2010 after long gone. Now we need to apparently be angry at all tech.

LLMs are amazing and I wish they could train on anything and everything. LLMs are the smartphone to the fax machines of Google search.
by shermantanktop | 2025-11-11 16:50:19+00:00
Income inequality is a phrase that pathologizes what appears to be a universal truth. In all types of economic and political systems (after we left the forest, and probably while we were still in the forest), some people have been desperately poor while other people are not. What would be interesting is a single counterexample of sustained "income equality."

That said, our current degree of inequality and the particular way it is distributed seems to be unusual and remarkable. But pointing to someone having a hard time is, IMO, not a critique of that.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-11 16:50:26+00:00
It hasnt been ignored or denied. What's happening is some people's minds are detaching from reality, and it's our duty to snap them out of their delusion.

The reality, which might I remind everyone does not care about their opinion, is this: crime has been trending down for decades. Police budgets have been increasing for decades. Many police departments are over funded.
by waynesonfire | 2025-11-11 16:50:36+00:00
One of the features I really like about the BEAM is that it solves the problem of organizing the topology of the applications I build. It's unlikely you're even close to doing this in other languages / frameworks.

The supervisor tree is one of the killer-app features of BEAM. I hit the benefits of this ALL the time. I notice how it keeps getting solved over and over again in unique ways that are half-baked. In some ways, this quote is what I'm hinting at, except, things don't even have to be concurrent. That's just a cherry-on-top.

"Virding's First Rule of Programming: Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang."

I'd also argue that "sufficiently complicated" bar isn't very high.
by quaunaut | 2025-11-11 16:50:45+00:00
This reads as if it isn't trivial to have an HTTP API for your public API in Erlang/Elixir, which is weird. Sure there isn't an included HTTP API for Erlang processes, but why exactly would you want one? They're not for the public internet, as their an implementation detail of your system. The majority of what they're capable of just isn't relevant to the public internet.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-11 16:51:17+00:00
I did not pivot. TFA itself defines:

"Memory safety—the property that makes software devoid of weaknesses such as buffer overflows, double-frees, and similar issues—has been a popular topic in software communities over the past decade"

And the buffer overflows are not detected statically except for the cases when the compiler can prove them. And Rust proponents keep ignoring the topic of this subthread, which is memory safety by static analysis.
by rekabis | 2025-11-11 16:51:48+00:00
Consider me old-fashioned, but I have never been comfortable with my financial data sitting in someone else’s domain. Especially a third-party domain. General summary reports for legal or taxation on hard copy is one thing, the nitty gritty details in easily siphonable electronic format is a thorough hell naw.

Unless this is an installable app capable of doing 99% of everything offline and under my complete control, thanks but no thanks.
by cthalupa | 2025-11-11 16:51:54+00:00
That is an out of range value for the two largest testing labs in the USA - Quest and Labcorp. Their upper end is 100.

https://testdirectory.questdiagnostics.com/test/test-detail/...

https://www.labcorp.com/tests/120295/low-density-lipoprotein...

If you think a 100+ LDL-C is normal you're basing things off of significantly outdated information.

Expect the normal range to drop in the coming years as well - the AHA and NLA have both been talking about how this needs to go lower, and the science is robust. See my other comments for study links, the NLA's latest guidance, etc.

If your doctor is only getting concerned at 160+, find a new doctor.
by fragmede | 2025-11-11 16:52:07+00:00
The problem is Apple's monopoly on devices that run iOS. In an alternate reality, Apple licensed out iOS, and alternative designs could flourish. The Android ecosystem still has keyboard phones a la Blackberry. Caterpillar makes an Android phone with a FLIR camera. It's a gimmick, unless you work somewhere where it's not.

In this alternate history, there's a tiny design firm out of Carmel, south of Cupertino, doing bespoke runs of an iPhone 4 with A18s and eSIM capability and they're always sold out.