MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krisoft | 2025-11-12 08:13:04+00:00
> Do you say “killing” to mean “eliminating the job of”?

No. They mean killing as in ordering a pilot to fly an airplane with less cautious testing resulting in a crash and the death of the crew.

> I don’t see anywhere that mentioned “killing”.

It is there. This is what stackskipton said “Your primary concern is not spending a ton of money and not getting a bunch of people killed.” They even use the example of the F-4U Corsairs mentioning how during the program pilots died.

This is the comment potato3732842 replied to and this is the context their message should be interpreted in. They compared “fractional lives wasted” which they define as “man hours worked to pay the taxes to pay for unnecessary paper pushing labor” with “whole lives”. They don’t define what they mean by whole lives lost, but since they wrote it as a response to stackskipton‘s comment from context i think they mean pilot deaths.

To me it seems they are arguing that if we accept more mangled pilot bodies pulled out of burning wreckages then we can do the program cheaper. And to understand where they stand on the question they call the work needed to prevent those pilot deaths “unnecessary paper pushing”. Is your reading of the comment different?
by lionkor | 2025-11-12 08:13:12+00:00
Then your team is too big. If you have more than, say, 7 people in a planning, your team is too large.

And it's never really asynchronous. It's more honest to block everyone who might have input. Planning the effort (points) also helps see if anyone thinks its more complex than it is, which can reveal issues before implementation begins..

It's not perfect, but if you're gonna do planning, just do it properly.
by shubhamjain | 2025-11-12 08:13:45+00:00
> Companies prey on those who forget to cancel their free trial. So far, it only happened once to me, but thankfully, I managed to get my refund.

This dark pattern has completely taken over the iOS ecosystem. Apps hide the fact that they’re paid until you’ve gone through several steps—registration, login, setup—making you believe the what you downloaded it for is just one the next screen. And then, bang, a paywall! with a “generous” 3-day free trial and a $3.99/week subscription.

I uninstall such apps immediately and leave a one-star review. I get it, devs need to make money, but there are better ways than this sleazy bs. Unfortunately, too many gurus have normalized this practice by constantly bragging how much revenue they are making.
by Findecanor | 2025-11-12 08:14:31+00:00
AFAIK, there isn't any official USB protocol for this, and I think there really should be. Pairing has to be out-of-band to be properly secure against MITM attacks during pairing, and using USB would be such a simple way to achieve that.

Apple has a proprietary USB protocol for pairing its own wireless keyboards, trackpad and mouse, and Microsoft and Sony have proprietary protocols for their respective gamepads.
by easytiger | 2025-11-12 08:15:00+00:00
I researched that before and I think it's considered generally safe. Toxicity required huge doses.

Though the instructions recommend ventilating the room a little after letting it settle, and I don't use it every night. Also I like to cover pillows before spraying.

It's very similar to the WHO recommended stuff used before and during flights - https://www.inchem.org/documents/ehc/ehc/ehc243.pdf
by hycsystembella | 2025-11-12 08:15:25+00:00
HYC (HYC Co., Ltd) is a one-stop service provider specializing in the design and manufacture of optical connectivity (MPO/MTP, LC, SC, etc.), high-speed subassemblies for transceivers (Z-block, MT-FA, Receptacle, etc.), WDM multiplexers, PLC splitters, and micro-optic devices(multicore fiber fan-in/fan-out , MCF hybrids, etc
by Braxton1980 | 2025-11-12 08:16:18+00:00
These aren't related items so there's no comparison.

Let's say you publish a blog post guide on how to set up a MySql cluster and I use that as part of DevOps contract work for a company. Do I owe you money?

What if I form an opinion because of a political piece you published then produce my own blog post?

AI use of public data to produce new information is exactly what we do as people.
by bradley13 | 2025-11-12 08:16:23+00:00
Consider this example that he gives:

If I take a bunch of photos, those don’t have filenames (or not good ones, and not unique). They just exist. They don’t need a directory or a name.

So how are you supposed to find anything? Sure, I take photos. Most of them aren't needed after they serve their immediate purpose, but I can't be bothered to delete them, or sort or name the ones that do have a longer purpose. But at least they are organized automatically by date. For permanence, OwnCloud archives them for me automatically, from where they get sucked into my regular backups.

Why would I want to toss them all into an even less-organized pile?

[run] search queries over my higher-level objects. e.g. a “recent” directory of recent photos

How, exactly, are those search queries supposed to work? Sure, maybe date is retained in meta-info, but at best he is regaining the functionality he lost by tossing those pictures into a pile. If he is expecting actual image recognition, that could work anyway, without the pile.

It would be nice if we were a bit more in control. At least, it would be nice if we had a reliable backup of all our content. Once we have all our content, it’s then nice to search it, view it, and directly serve it or share it out to others

Sure, and that's exactly what you achieve with OwnCloud (or NextCloud, or whatever).

As for reliable backups, that's a completely different issue, which still has to be solved separately. You have got to periodically copy your data to offline storage, or you don't have real backups.

Seriously, I'm just not seeing it...
by raincole | 2025-11-12 08:16:33+00:00
Use the slower but easier to write languages for front end is the norm for complex apps. Many apps that passed the trial of time are like that.

Blender: frontend Python, backend C++.

Houdini: frontend Python(PyQt), backend C(presumably)

Sim City: frontend JavaScript, backend C++

The reason is very simple: frontend is more error tolerant, but less resistant to the product designer's whims (or the users' desire to customize.)
by thiago_fm | 2025-11-12 08:17:00+00:00
Everybody has found out how LLMs no longer have a real research expanding horizon. Now most progress will likely be done by tweaks in the data, and lots of hardware. OpenAI's strategy.

And also it has extreme limitations that only world models or RL can fix.

Meta can't fight Google (has integrated supply chain, from TPUs to their own research lab) or OpenAI (brand awareness, best models).
by tovej | 2025-11-12 08:17:08+00:00
You seem to be incredibly confused.

DHH's fears are all feeling no fact. The "Pakistani rape gangs" targeting "white british girls" and trying to tie brown people to increasing theft is made specificly to paint brown people as dangerous. No mention of the fact that the perpetrators were all native brits, part of whom had Pakistani heritage, no mention of the fact that white people are more likely to commit child sexual assualt in general, no evidence provided for the idea that brown people commit theft. DHH is clearly associating the crimes with perpetrators at the resolution of skin color, because he does not give any other information.

A nation is not a state, it cannot be democratic. A nation is a socially constructed group identity, it's not the same as your country. A state can be multinational, as the UK is.

Racist ideology, and the very idea of races, comes from right wing ideas like nationalism and colonialism. The right wing historically supported apartheid, Jim Crow, zionism, segregation, the idea that muslims are terrorist, and that black people are criminals and dumb. There are multiple far-right groups pushing false racist narratives for decades, such as the Pioneer Fund (founded 1937) and the Human Diversity Foundation in DHH's native denmark (founded 2022). They are all far-right ethnonationalist groups.

The fact is that the nazi ideology did not disappear after WWII, it just kept out of the mainstream and tried to reinvent itself with a more seemingly scientific public image, claiming to cite statistics and banking on the audience not being able to interpret them.

The left is interested in combating these ideas, which is why it talks about them, because they are dangerous. The left does not generally use the concept of race, which is nebulous, conflating ethnicity, statehood, and cultural identity, like the protonazi Völkisch movement did.

And you usually don't sew seeds. You're thinking of stitches.
by openfluke | 2025-11-12 08:18:52+00:00
Author here.

I built LOOM because deploying AI models is broken. Every platform needs different conversion (ONNX, TFLite, CoreML), outputs vary between platforms, and Python dependencies make production deployment painful.

LOOM solves this by: - Loading HuggingFace safetensors directly (no conversion) - Providing deterministic outputs across all platforms (MAE < 1e-8) - Compiling to a 10MB binary (vs 2GB+ Python stacks) - Working on 8 platforms from one model file

Already published to PyPI, npm, and NuGet. First framework with native game engine integration (Godot + LLMs).

The article covers technical architecture, real use cases (healthcare, games, privacy apps), and why local AI matters.

Demos: Desktop (Go server), Godot integration, Android mobile - all linked in article.

Code: github.com/openfluke/loom

Happy to answer questions about the implementation, especially the cross-platform determinism and C-ABI design.
by mnky9800n | 2025-11-12 08:18:58+00:00
When I moved to Oslo, my PhD adviser told me that if I was interested in foraging mushrooms I should take someone with me. He said since I lived in Japan he was concerned because there has been multiple cases of Japanese and Chinese foraging in Norway and becoming very ill because some of the mushrooms that are safe to eat in those regions look identical to poisonous mushrooms in Scandinavia.
by scandox | 2025-11-12 08:19:39+00:00
> The Shire is defiantly non-military and pre-industrial.

The Shire stands as a symbol for a rural and peaceful life but their protected way of life is only possible because of the the military might of others and this is explicitly alluded to several times...for example in a conversation between Merry and Pippin (which I just happened to read to my kid yesterday!):

"Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not."
by Deukhoofd | 2025-11-12 08:20:55+00:00
In my experience with Tauri, it's pretty good on Windows, but not so much on other platforms, especially Linux. The decision to target different browser engines on each operating system means you still have to deal with a bunch of different OS-specific bugs.

For Windows you're dealing with Edge (so Chromium), on macOS you have Safari, and on Linux you have WebKitGTK. WebKitGTK has honestly abysmal performance, and you're missing a lot of modern standards.

The Tauri devs are looking at bundling a Chromium browser with it to deal with that, but that's still some time off, and leads to the same issue Electron has, where you have large bloated applications.

https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry/issues/1064
by Fokamul | 2025-11-12 08:21:19+00:00
BT standard wasn't even that bad, from security stand-point, the worst thing is implementation and maybe only SW implementation.

Televisions(eg.: LG) where you're unable to turn BT off. With that knowledge, you can buy cheap device which is normally used for development and analyzing of BT communication.

And with that device, you can spam any TV around you with fake BT connection requests, TV is basically unusable during this time and best thing, this cannot be blocked :D

(only way to turn BT off on LG TV is with you getting root and downloading homebrew app, which of course degrade the use of your TV remote, because it uses BT)
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-11-12 08:21:29+00:00
>I’m not going to engage with you if you’re going to get in multiple threads and refer to things as “fashy.”

>It’s difficult enough to engage in a heterodox view in good faith. I don’t need to deal with slapdash bullshit.

I see we've reached the point in the discussion where you 'abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating...that the time for argument is over.'

Good fascist! Nice fascist! Late for a Bund meeting, are we?

Source: “Never believe that anti-Semites [or in this case, fascist apologists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre[0]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-...
by Aldipower | 2025-11-12 08:21:59+00:00
"It’s funny how “ownership” in the digital world has become an illusion. You don’t really own your apps, your music, or even your tools anymore."

That's your decision. I've published an music album on Bandcamp. You can buy it, I'll send you a real physical tape and you can _download_ high quality FLAC you own then.

If you like to own things, you have all the possibilities.

But I agree, we maybe tend to forget about high quality stuff, if we consume conveniently low quality streaming content for example on Spotify.
by DyslexicAtheist | 2025-11-12 08:22:01+00:00
a better starting point for technologists to engage with philosophy than Nietzsche would be Jacques Ellul's La Technique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Technological_Society

this article feels like the authors were trying to pander to those few people working in AI research telling them how crucial philosophy is "to the future of humanity". When in reality it has always been important long before AI came along and not only for AI but also for anyone working in Tech or any subject in Tech. so it is nothing more than news-jacking (or buzzword jacking) of a topic that has always been important but probably not in the isolated / cherry-picked manner that it is being done (isolating the topic to AI, or Nietzsche).

And the only thing that this article highlights if anything, is that we we should have never defunded the humanities.
by MindSpunk | 2025-11-12 08:23:43+00:00
I think Rust's choice to panic on OOM is the right choice for 95% of code people write. It would be absurdly verbose, and OOM can be very tricky to recover from without careful top down design because it's very easy for error handling code to itself try and allocate (print/format a message) leading to a process abort. The mistake was not having the fallible APIs on allocating containers from the start, for the users that do care and can tangibly recover.

Depending on the OS you likely won't even get the chance to handle the error because the allocation never fails, instead you just over commit and kill the process when physical memory gets exhausted.

I guess what I'm trying to say is designing your language's error handling primitives around OOM is probably not a good idea, even in a systems programming language, because it's a very rare class of generally unrecoverable error that only very carefully designed code can recover from.

Anyhow allocating isn't that absurd either. It keeps the size of Result<T, E> down by limiting the 'E' to be a pointer. Smaller Result<T, E> can help the compiler generate better code for passing the return value, and the expectation is the error path is rare so the cost of allocating might be outweighed by the lighter Result<T, E> benefits. Exceptions take a similar standpoint, throwing is very slow but the non-exceptional path can (theoretically) run without any performance cost.
by pathartl | 2025-11-12 08:24:03+00:00
https://web.archive.org/web/20250118205639/http://pathar.tl/...

This is way out of date. I have since been able to get it working on a Windows 11 4th gen Intel machine with 64-bit drivers cobbled together from a couple of versions of FlexColor and some .inf modification. It's not flawless, there's some major corruption that can occur when trying to use certain operations, but overall it works for my needs.
by sebmellen | 2025-11-12 08:24:58+00:00
I’m no admirer and I’m speaking relatively here. That’s why I said surprising. I think we could agree he’s a level above Matt Gaetz or “special envoy” Witkoff.

This article kind of mirrors my thoughts about his speech https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/opinion/pete-hegseth-spee....
by recursivecaveat | 2025-11-12 08:25:18+00:00
On one hand it often feels like the tech industrial complex is all consuming here. When you fly you can sit and watch 12 different billboard ads in a row for different companies all claiming to be the "foundation of enterprise AI". All the money is there. On the other hand objectively most people are not tech bros. Even if literally all office workers were (and they're not), people need to eat, get around, shop, get their plumbing fixed, their teeth cleaned, etc etc. Your perception of the normalcy is probably mostly dictated by your willingness to engage with normal people activities, and perhaps your command of Spanish.
by yoz-y | 2025-11-12 08:25:43+00:00
Back when subscriptions started to be a thing some people (myself included) were cautiously optimistic.

The problem with paid upfront and paid upgrades was that it eventually resulted in bloated programs because the only way to continue having a business was to add features.

Subscriptions, in theory, could leave the focus on user experience and fixing bugs, because in the end the people who are paying are those that like your product as it is now.

Now of course this optimism was misplaced. Subscriptions permitted to move as much of the logic as possible out into cloud.
by fxtentacle | 2025-11-12 08:25:51+00:00
LLMs and Diffusion solve a completely different problem than world models.

If you want to predict future text, you use an LLM. If you want to predict future frames in a video, you go with Diffusion. But what both of them lack is object permanence. If a car isn't visible in the input frame, it won't be visible in the output. But in the real world, there are A LOT of things that are invisible (image) or not mentioned but only implied (text) that still strongly affect the future. Every kid knows that when you roll a marble behind your hand, it'll come out on the other side. But LLMs and Diffusion models routinely fail to predict that, as for them the object disappears when it stops being visible.

Based on what I heard from others, world models are considered the missing ingredient for useful robots and self-driving cars. If that's halfway accurate, it would make sense to pour A LOT of money into world models, because they will unlock high-value products.
by majormajor | 2025-11-12 08:25:54+00:00
> I know people complain about car manufacturers being hostile to CarPlay and Android Auto. But I think in the long run, the executives are being smart. Looking down the history of other companies that turned over responsibility of their user experience to tech companies - there's not a good track record of long-term successes.

No car manufacturer suffered that badly from using standard-sized single-DIN/double-DIN radios for a couple of decades. CarPlay/Android Auto are just software versions of those. It's a way to let your car stay more relevant 3, 5, 10 years down the line.

But that conflicts with short-term revenue optimization, data gathering, advertising, etc.
by tovej | 2025-11-12 08:26:08+00:00
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/native

Native quite literally means associated with birth. It does also mean something that's lived somewhere since prehistoric times.

If we use the first definition, then white brits and everyone else born in the UK are native.

If we use the second definition then neolithic farmers with an Anatolian material culture are native. Since they were replaced there are no natives in that sense in the UK.

But there is no interpretation where white brits are native and second generation immigrants aren't.
by jll29 | 2025-11-12 08:26:27+00:00
I politely disagree - it is exactly an industry researcher's purpose to do the risky things that may not work, simply because the rest of the corporation cannot take such risks but must walk on more well-trodden paths.

Corporate R&D teams are there to absorb risk, innovate, disrupt, create new fields, not for doing small incremental improvements. "If we know it works, it's not research." (Albert Einstein)

I also agree with LeCun that LLMs in their current form - are a dead end. Note that this does not mean that I think we have already exploited LLMs to the limit, we are still at the beginning. We also need to create an ecosystem in which they can operate well: for instance, to combine LLMs with Web agents better we need a scalable "C2B2C" (customer delegated to business to business) micropayment infrastructure, because as these systems have already begun talking to each other, in the longer run nobody would offer their APIs for free.

I work on spatial/geographic models, inter alia, which by coincident is one of the direction mentioned in the LeCun article. I do not know what his reasoning is, but mine was/is: LMs are language models, and should (only) be used as such. We need other models - in particular a knowledge model (KM/KB) to cleanly separate knowledge from text generation - it looks to me right now that only that will solve hallucination.
by giorgioz | 2025-11-12 08:26:41+00:00
Why are they not calling it Department of Defense?

Department of War hasn't been in used since 1947:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Wa...

https://www.war.gov/

I'm quite concernedd by the decision to use again terms such as department of War. It feels we are going back to war-driven nationalism.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-11-12 08:27:12+00:00
He also said other things about LLMs that turned out to be either wrong or easily bypassed with some glue. While I understand where he comes from, and that his stance is pure research-y theory driven, at the end of the day his positions were wrong.

Previously, he very publicly and strongly said:

a) LLMs can't do math. They trick us in poetry but that's subjective. They can't do objective math.

b) they can't plan

c) by the very nature of autoregressive arch, errors compound. So the longer you go in your generation, the higher the error rate. so at long contexts the answers become utter garbage.

All of these were proven wrong, 1-2 years later. "a" at the core (gold at IMO), "b" w/ software glue and "c" with better training regimes.

I'm not interested in the will it won't it debates about AGI, I'm happy with what we have now, and I think these things are good enough now, for several usecases. But it's important to note when people making strong claims get them wrong. Again, I think I get where he's coming from, but the public stances aren't the place to get into the deep research minutia.

That being said, I hope he gets to find whatever it is that he's looking for, and wish him success in his endeavours. Between him, Fei Fei Li and Ilya, something cool has to come out of the small shops. Heck, I'm even rooting for the "let's commoditise lora training" that Mira's startup seems to go for.