MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ferrouswheel | 2025-11-30 18:46:10+00:00
The best engineers I've had the pleasure of working with, are not anyone who would be recognised outside of the teams they've worked in.

I aim to be like them, high performers that get respect from their peers, but unknown to internet strangers.

Sometimes you get the rare exceptions of people who don't chase fame but become known for their work due to other people talking about it.
by ddtaylor | 2025-11-30 18:46:35+00:00
For anyone curious there is a somewhat similar thing in Linux called Abstract Domain Sockets. These are Unix domain sockets where the first character is NUL ('\0')

I am working on a game where every player has system resources on a Linux computer. The basic idea is that some resources need to be shared or protected in some ways, such as files, but the core communication of the game client itself needs to be preserved without getting in the way of the real system environment.

I am using these abstract data sockets because they sidestep most other permissions in Linux. If you have the magic numbers to find the socket, you get access.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-30 18:48:23+00:00
I would really prefer a solution that doesn't result in tangible social harm to me. Ideally, I should be able to live my life in public and have it not be absolutely fucking terrible.

I don't think that's asking too much. Really, I don't. Maybe I'm naive, maybe I have high expectations. Or maybe everyone else is a pathetic loser with no spine who actively advocates for things they know harm them, out of some masochistic desire for punishment.

I don't know, you decide.
by scuff3d | 2025-11-30 18:48:33+00:00
Their entire business model is currently based on legally questionable practices. I'd argue they wouldn't even exist without massive copyright infringement and utter disregard for software licences.

To my knowledge there is absolutely no legal precedent for one company simply paying to have themselves more heavily weighted in the training data. So it just happens that they show up more in responses then their competitors.
by Zigurd | 2025-11-30 18:48:38+00:00
Google "atoms for peace." You will find an entire multidimensional cluster of hype ranging from Rickover maneuvering to get a nuclear navy, which seems to work pretty well, but on the way there it created a subsidized nuclear reactor business which was never in the money but for subsidies, loss leaders, and underbids. There was no Golden Age of nuclear power. There were fixed bid contracts that masked cost overruns until they didn't anymore. There was FOMO about Soviet gigantism and (subsidized) European nuclear projects.
by nacozarina | 2025-11-30 18:49:30+00:00
assume it is being ‘done wrong’, not due to the usual trifecta of greed/evil/stupidity, but due to socio-economic pressure that demands this approach.

AI really needs R&D time, where we first figure out what it’s good for and how best to exploit it.

But R&D for SW is dead. Users proved to be super-resilient to buggy or mis-matched sw. They adapt. ‘Good-enough’ often doesn’t look it. Private equity sez throw EVERYTHING at the wall and chase what sticks…
by smusamashah | 2025-11-30 18:49:38+00:00
The skeleton has issues, floor tiles are very inconsistent for example. I haven't looked more carefully. We probably notice something wrong subconsciously but it takes time to point those out.

Generated pixel art for now is 80-90% done state. To use them in prod, issues should be fixed which seems to be the palette and some semantic issues. If you only generate small parts of the big picture with AI, it will be perfectly usable.
by jameslk | 2025-11-30 18:50:10+00:00
I think the best outcome from this is that many are skeptical enough to question what they’re consuming. I see enough comments that call everything “AI” when it’s clearly not but that seems better rather than the majority taking what they see for granted. Some fall for it but it seems there’s usually an embarrassment after, a negative conditioning to not fall for it again. Eventually nothing will be trustworthy until there’s better ways to discern what’s real or not.
by bogwog | 2025-11-30 18:50:28+00:00
> I don’t think punishing the steel maker for a gun maker who sold it to a distributor who then sold it to a nut job should be liable for the nut job

Nobody thinks that, because it's ridiculous. This is a false equivalence. Isolated crimes are inevitable, and impossible to solve with any single thing.

But when it comes to genocide, you can stop or at least limit it by going after the suppliers who equip the group with the tools to carry it out. Microsoft is one such supplier, and they know exactly what they're doing. If our government isn't going to do something, an activist shareholder is a decent alternative.
by zzzeek | 2025-11-30 18:50:38+00:00
> We will work with the creators, writers, and artists, instead of ripping off their life's work to feed the model.

i support this but the Smarter Than Me types say it's impossible. It's not possible to track down an adequate number of copyright holders, much less get their permission, much less afford to pay them, for the number of works required in order to get the LLM to achieve "liftoff".

I would think that as I use Claude for coding, it would work just as well if it didnt suck down the last three years of NYT articles as if it did. There's a vast amount of content that is in the public domain, and if you're ChatGPT you can make deals with a bunch of big publishers to get more modern content too. But that's my know-nothing take.

maybe the issue is more about the image content. Screw the image content (and definitely the music content, spotify pushing this slop is immensely offensive), pay the artists. My code OTOH is open source, MIT licensed. It's not art at all. Go get it (though throw me a few thousand bucks every year because you want to do the right thing).
by bellamoon544 | 2025-11-30 18:50:40+00:00
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by beginnings | 2025-11-30 18:50:42+00:00
i tried to watch it but like AI in general, it was extraordinarily boring. neural nets are really cool technically, but the whole AI thing is just getting old and I couldnt care less where its going

we can guarantee that whether its the birth of superintelligence or just a very powerful but fundamentally limited algorithm, it will not be used for the betterment of mankind, it will be exploited by the few at the top at the expense of the masses

because thats apparently who we are as a species
by redwall_hp | 2025-11-30 18:52:16+00:00
Extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence, however, is not. It's the foundation of the scientific method.

There's an obvious lack of logical rigor to jump from someone pointing that out to framing it as proving an untruth.

A is true if evidence B supports it ≠ A is only true if evidence B supports it.

But you can only claim A is true if B. Otherwise you're just blowing smoke around an unknown.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-30 18:52:19+00:00
>> Why did they not succeed if that is what it takes?

short answer: it's might be necessary but not sufficient.

Alex Honnold, the rock climber with some pretty spectacular solo / speed ascents was asked why no-one else has free soloed El Cap, replied "it's hard." he spent a lot of time (years) building up to it and finishing other routes, and no one else has taken these first steps yet. He goes on that they may have the talent or disposition, but not the motivation or an experience that pushes them in another direction. His perspective (similar to general outlier success) is others will do it but it takes a bunch of things all coming together, including luck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDTg4P9ZdP4
by itsanaccount | 2025-11-30 18:53:16+00:00
I think Age of Disclosure is coming out. Might be interesting to watch if only to scratch your head about how many military and defense people are trying to convince people the opposite, that there are craft with extraordinary capabilities and they ARENT ours.

I made fun of UFO people the same as I did the religious and bigfoot believers, but after the video in the Times in 2017, and all the military people who have come forward with roughly the same story.. I would very much like to know whats behind it.
by jimmaswell | 2025-11-30 18:53:52+00:00
You're either mistaking me for someone else or massively projecting - that was my only comment in this thread, and it was nothing but a neutral request for sources. You can't expect to win anyone over with personal attacks followed by "it's obvious".

If you were to give me a truly compelling argument/source, I would still consider it, as with anything. I don't trust the government and I don't put it past the "establishment" to systematically lie about something, but that doesn't mean there's no burden of proof on the other side.
by DaveZale | 2025-11-30 18:54:12+00:00
Arnold Schwartzenegger gives similar advice. Cultivate chosen habits, so that energy isn't spent agonizing over choices. This reduces friction to the behaviors that you choose.

The Pump Club newsletter is a free offering and has simple, time tested tips that he's picked up over the last six decades, during which he's been Mr. Universe, two term Gov of California, movie star and more. Not to be a shill, but I've picked up plenty of useful tips over the past year. Now to mine over a year of those email newsletters and distill them into bite-sized, fortune-cookie-like nuggets and put them into some kind of blog or app :-)
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-30 18:54:22+00:00
Not necessarily. The reason why SFT can hurt performance is often the gap between the data and the capabilities.

Imagine forcing someone who never used chopsticks to eat with the chopsticks. The results wouldn't be good - the instruction "use chopsticks" has taken effect, but an underlying "chopstick use" capability isn't there.

If your SFT data pushes your LLM too far past its capabilities? It'll teach it to try doing a thing it can't do.

If your SFT traces assume your LLM can do 10 digit multiplication, the LLM wouldn't learn 10 digit multiplication from them. It'll learn to attempt 10 digit multiplication, and it'll fail.
by jack_tripper | 2025-11-30 18:54:26+00:00
>very few people buy trucks

Because most buys SUVs instead.

>massive pickup trucks, the majority of which are never used for anything more than a commuter vehicle for 1, maybe 2 occupants? Marketing, an arms race, manufacturers not offering much else because their marketing works, Americans being very aspirational about what they'll do with their vehicles, idk.

Not sure why you have this judgmental and holier than though "Europeans better, Americans stupid for buying trucks" stance throughout this conversation. It's not like Europeans are immune to marketing car oversizing with their affinity for SUVs which is why Volvo only makes SUVs for the past 8+ years now.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-11-30 18:55:13+00:00
Disable your script execution and cookie storage for the OP site and then attempt to view it. The page and content load fine; the host injecting coercing messages for enabling tracking cookies and scripts are the reason AI has been integrated into everything.

You either comply of face unnecessary roadblocks. OP has complied by sharing the link. My right to choose tracking cookies and script execution is parallel to my right to not utilize or be forced to utilize AI. This issue has to be addressed universally as is not simple "no ai" on the web; it's freedom to use the web or compliance with violation of that freedom
by ble | 2025-11-30 18:55:13+00:00
Cool idea. Given that it transferred ~29 mb when loading, is it safe to assume that the actual page is doing some of the processing? Is the front-end just doing the HNSW or is it doing the mapping of stories or headlines into vectors, or am I totally off base?

Front-end downstream of clicking on a card doesn't seem to work correctly on every reload... but it works sometimes.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-30 18:56:15+00:00
Having made the API incredibly hard to access & having attached incredibly harsh terms of service, both of which make X basically impervious to the kinds of academic research that the firehose there used to allow, there's really a feeling of X as Dark Forest. You never know what propoganda network is out there doing what, selling what, putting out whatever message it is you've happened to alone and naked in the dark X forest. You are but a (hu)man, with no ability to assess any background or context or behaviors over the things you run into.

This was such a wonderful & amazing move. It's a small move! But going from having nothing to having even a small breadcrumb of context gives users some understanding of the network around them with: at least it's something.

Thanks Sean & Zach for writing this up. Founder/executive types, putting their word down about what a phase change this was, from everyone just being utterly lost & adrift.
by tehjoker | 2025-11-30 18:56:19+00:00
i did think the 4-sided design using the cardboard box as a base was very efficient. one of the contributions here was Corsi and Rosenthal did this in a lab and reported particulate counts, flow rates, and energy usage. So there was some kind of intellectual contribution to broaden adoption by giving it more of an imprimatur of quality

other refinements were using a shroud to prevent back flow
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-30 18:56:28+00:00
Linux lacks a lot of APIs other operating systems have and certificate management is one of them.

A Linux equivalent of listing certificates through the Windows virtual file system would be something like listing /proc/self/tls/certificates (which doesn't actually exist, of course, because Linux has decided that stuff like that is the user's problem to set up and not an OS API).
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-30 18:58:34+00:00
I would avoid anything exceed 100 watt-hours (which this does) as you can't fly with it. I do a lot of backocuntry bike trips so flying isn't the primary concern, but I'm not going to own multiples. Anker and other reputable brands tend to design around these type of use-cases which helps.
by owenversteeg | 2025-11-30 18:59:07+00:00
That works, but be sure to use a wool or cotton cloth.

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The proper method to deal with an oil fire: turn off the heat and smother the fire with a metal lid, metal baking sheet, or wool/cotton cloth. Do not use a fire blanket made of polyester or nylon; it will melt and burn producing toxic smoke. Do not use flour or any other flammable/explosive powder. Do not use water, as the liquid water will get into the oil and expand 1600 times its original size as it turns to steam; this rapid expansion will fling burning oil everywhere. If you do use an extinguisher, be careful not to spread the burning oil.

For small NON-OIL, non-electrical fires, smothering with a wet non-synthetic cloth is the best way to stop the fire.
by abe_m | 2025-11-30 18:59:34+00:00
Call it what you will, but the ability of dissenting voices to be heard is the basis of free speech, and also integral to the pursuit of science. Blind trust in authorities is anti-science, and suppression of dissenting views is also anti-science. Those in position of authority like to cast out all who have opposing views as lunatics, but that isn't true. When those in position of authority lie to feather their own nests and cement their power, the truth will be found among the dissidents.

Specifically to Kennedy, in his congressional hearings I've watched does not present himself as a doctor or a scientist, and also not anti-science. His main thrust appears to be that there are a great many problems in the status quo, the "authority" scientists and institutions don't have any reasonable explanations for them, and there are other scientists that are not financially entangled in the status quo that have theories that look to be worth pursuing. That is pro-science in the meaning of exploring the world in pursuit of truth. He is trained as a lawyer, and it is within his profession to be leading inquiries into intent and motivations of various parties in a dispute.

The characterization of him as anti-vax is a slur, and greatly simplified from what he actual advocates.
by ReflectedImage | 2025-11-30 18:59:49+00:00
Ahh the bad high school maths take, which doesn't account for the risk.

People don't just build 1 thing for a house nor can they afford a $20k failure.

If you take Fred who saves up $10k for a major purchase for his house each year.

If there is a 10% chance of a failure, then Fred will have a 53% chance of bankruptcy in 7 years.

You can't run an economy where everyone is bankrupt.
by alchemist1e9 | 2025-11-30 18:59:50+00:00
The style of the account comments and “about” definitely give off LLM vibes, but it’s not a particularly active account so I feel not a true bot. It’s also possible the account owner just runs their own comment through an LLM before posting it. I do that for most business emails I send these days but they are still reflecting my own thoughts and details.
by tehjoker | 2025-11-30 19:00:51+00:00
I’m aware there’s a genocide in sudan but i’m not aware of entire cities being leveled in this fashion. there have been other conflicts where more people have died, but rarely is there a conflict where the entire world government apparatus appears to stand against 2 million people mostly women and children in contradiction to the democratic will of almost the entire world

it takes a lot of money and firepower to do what they’ve done to gaza. it is an affectation of enormous wealth and callousness against a nearly defenseless population

i will say though that sri lankans said that some of these tactics were pioneered against the tamil tigers in more recent history
by d3Xt3r | 2025-11-30 19:01:24+00:00
Unless your threat model includes state-sponsored attacks, the encryption is good enough for most people, especially considering its primary use-case (gaming). And there's nothing stopping you from using a secondary secure container if you do intend to store that level of sensitive data (eg: VeraCrypt volume for plausible deniability).

Also, the password isn't stored anywhere, you get prompted by the BIOS upon every boot to unlock the drive.
by mindslight | 2025-11-30 19:01:24+00:00
As a strictly logical assertion, I do not agree. Guessing URLs is crafting new types of interactions with a server. The built in surveillance uploader is still only accessing the server in the way it has already been explicitly authorized. Trying to tie some nebulous TOS to a situation that the manufacturer has deliberately created reeks of the same type of website-TOS shenanigans courts have (actually!) struck down.

As a pragmatic matter, I do completely understand where you're coming from (my second paragraph). In a sense, if one can get to the point of being convicted they have been kind of fortunate - it means they didn't kill themselves under the crushing pressure of a team of federal persecutors whose day job is making your life miserable.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-30 19:01:50+00:00
I like being able to run games from early 2000s. Being able to write software that will still run longer after you're gone used to be a thing. But here we are with linux abandoning things like 'a.out'. Microsoft doesn't have the luxury to presume that it's users can recompile software, fork it, patch it,etc.. When your software doesn't work on the latest Windows, most people blame Microsoft not the software author.
by bbminner | 2025-11-30 19:02:15+00:00
I have not looked into the HM algorithm much, but is there (an educational or performance wise) advantage over implementing a (dumb) SAT solver and expressing a problem as a SAT problem? It always seemed like the "natural representation" for this kind problem to me. Does knowing that these are types _specifically_ help you somehow / give you some unique insights that won't hold in other similar SAT problems?
by IshKebab | 2025-11-30 19:02:21+00:00
Nice! I think it's pretty widely agreed that requiring type annotations at the function level is a good thing anyway. Apparently it's considered good practice in Haskell even though Haskell doesn't require it.

I've also worked with OCaml code that didn't do it and you lose a lot of the advantages of static typing. Definitely worse.

Rust got it right.
by sparky_z | 2025-11-30 19:02:31+00:00
This is one of those situations where the video is just an insane value-add above and beyond the Wikipedia article that this sort of response is baffling to me. The well thought out presentation and progression of the concepts. Just enough context to keep the non math grad students following along without wasting time or talking down to the audience.The incredible visualizations that are both beautiful and insightful. Someone spent months of their life making this video as good as it could be, and it shows.
by mkagenius | 2025-11-30 19:02:41+00:00
> The key to changing everyday behaviour is to make the evaluation of costs (effort) and benefits (rewards) a habit that doesn’t seem too much like hard work. Even for the most apathetic among us, this holds out the hope of turning a kneejerk “no” into an ability to consider saying “yes”.

and this

> But left to his own devices he did nothing. Studies in people who develop apathy have shown that many of them just don’t find it sufficiently rewarding to take action. The cost of making the effort doesn’t seem worth the potential benefit.

seem to form a deadlock?
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-30 19:03:12+00:00
> The windows registry (configuration manager is the real name btw) does a good job of abstracting configurations, but obviously you can't pick and choose the back-end implementation like you potentially could in Linux.

In theory, this is what dbus is doing, but through APIs rather than arbitrary path-key-value triplets. You can run your secret manager of choice and as long as it responds to the DBUS API calls correctly, the calling application doesn't know who's managing the secrets for you. Same goes for sound, display config, and the Bluetooth API, although some are "branded" so they're not quite interchangeable as they might change on a whim.

Gnome's dconf system looks a lot like the Windows registry and thanks to the capability to add documentation directly to keys, it's also a lot easier to actually use if you're trying to configure a system.
by squeek502 | 2025-11-30 19:03:13+00:00
They work just fine, as the drive-specific CWD is stored in the environment as a normally-hidden =<drive-letter>: environment variable which has all the same WTF-16 and case-insensitive properties as drive letters:

C:\> cd /D λ:\ λ:\> cd bar λ:\bar> cd /D C:\ C:\> echo %=Λ:% λ:\bar C:\> cd /D Λ: λ:\bar>
by stego-tech | 2025-11-30 19:03:34+00:00
Replace AI with Blockchain. With cloud. With big data. With ERP. With service models. With basically almost any fad since virtualization. It’s the same thing: over-hyped tools with questionable value being shoe-horned into every possible orifice so the investors can make money.

I’m not opposed to any of the above, necessarily. I’ve just always been the type to want to adopt things as they are needed and bring demonstrable value to myself or my employer and not a moment before. That is the problem that capital has tried to solve through “founder mode” startups and exploitative business models: “It doesn’t matter whether you need it or not, what matters is that we’re forcing you to pay for it so we get our returns.”