MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by orev | 2025-11-29 17:06:54+00:00
I suspect that could have also been accomplished without any kind of AI. Most processes are inefficient simply because nobody has taken the time to optimize them (and rightly so if they’re not used often enough to justify the time; premature optimization and all that). The act of simply deciding to optimize something, and then looking at it, usually results in significant gains just because of that, regardless of what tools were used.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-29 17:07:03+00:00
I would be careful about labeling stuff “lies.”

What’s that saying? “Make your words sweet, because one day, you may need to eat them.”

Shadow funding has been a thing for over a century, but it’s getting harder to pull off, as time progresses.

My mother used to be in charge of fundraising for a nonprofit, and she had to be very careful about the provenance of funding. She was just doing it for a science center; not research, so she was actively seeking support from corporations, and needed to make sure that there was no hidden “quid pro quo” (sometimes , there was “aboveboard quid pro quo”). Some of the stories she told me about dodgy funding schemes were eyebrow-raising.

A lot of time, there’s no “quid pro quo.” They just want to have additional research out there, to “muddy the water,” in the future, so they may proxy-fund some pretty whacky stuff.

They will also go after individuals; not organizations. Why leave an NPO paper trail, when you can just send the underpaid professor on an all-expenses-paid “fact finding” trip?

People kind of suck, sometimes.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-29 17:07:25+00:00
Once again GDP has nothing to do with anything here. Whether it was higher, lesser, or whatever else does not matter. Advertising spending increased exponentially only because exponentially more money was being spent on advertising. How exactly that relates to GDP has no relevance, whatsoever.

In 1980 (this study didn't even cover 1970), there were something like 1750 newspapers for something like 60 million readers. So the subscribers per paper was already (relatively) very low. And with classifieds you get a very tiny subset of that that opt-in to reading the classifieds, and further opt-in to the section you are listed in. It should be beyond obvious that this has basically no relationship whatsoever to modern advertising.
by dkdcio | 2025-11-29 17:07:48+00:00
FWIW I do agree with the operational agency at scale bit

and I’m always fascinated by these conspiracy theories, was genuinely hoping to get one (but also happy to see you’re challenging your own position). the idea of people coordinating on these things is very funny to me

I think like all tech people will use it for good and bad. those in power have more power etc etc I think it tends to boil down to whether you believe people are, overall, good or bad. over time, that’s what you’ll get with use of tech
by tetha | 2025-11-29 17:07:49+00:00
One thing process protects against is lazy people.

Like, we recently had an incident where someone just pasted "401 - URL" into the description and sent it off. We recently asked someone to open the incident through the correct channels. We got a service request "Fix" with the mail thread attached to it in a format we couldn't open. We get incidents "System is slow, infrastructure is problem" from random "DevOps" people.

Sadly, that is the crap you need to deal with. This is the crap that grinds away cooperative culture by pure abuse. Before a certain dysfunctional project was dumped on us as "Make it Saas", people were happy to support ad-hoc, ambitious and strange things.

We are now forced by this project to enforce procedure and if this kills great ideas and adventures, so be it. The crappy, out-of-process things cost too much time.
by smallmancontrov | 2025-11-29 17:09:13+00:00
Those tides are really something.

In 2020-2022 I had a repair side-hustle that became unexpectedly profitable, so I started scaling it up and thinking about quitting my job. Then interest rates went up, assets stopped appreciating, and I realized that most of the value I thought I was adding was actually just asset inflation and the common wisdom that repair is a miserable business niche was correct after all.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-29 17:09:25+00:00
Very nice. My only feedback is that on a 2017 iMac (Radeon Pro 580), while rotating around, there is a brief hiccup every 1 second. Probably transferring data to the GPU periodically, but something is blocking rendering. Reproducible on Safari and Firefox.

Not reproducible on Windows Edge or Firefox, on a RX 5700, where it's consistently smooth.
by ben_w | 2025-11-29 17:09:36+00:00
There's lots of implicit assumptions or this would be a book, but remember that Musk has a rocket and wants to colonise Mars, and that Mars is so bad that it is currently 100% populated by robots.

For the billionaires without rockets, there's also a whole bunch of deserts conveniently filled with lots of silicon.

(Or as Mac(Format|World|User) put it sometime in the 90s when they were considering who might bail out Apple and suggested one of the middle east oil barrons, a "silly con").
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-11-29 17:09:40+00:00
> Habsheem air show crash in 1988

Surprisingly Google couldn't handle the typo: Habsheim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296Q

3 dead, 133 survivors, started (undisputedly) with pilots intentionally and with approval trying to fly a plane full of passengers 30 meters off the ground, possibly with safety systems intentionally disabled for demonstration purposes.

Past that, there are disputes what kept them from applying enough power and elevator to get away from the trees that they were flying towards, including allegations of the black box data being swapped/faked.
by toshinoriyagi | 2025-11-29 17:10:03+00:00
I don't think it is this simple. Even with UBI, there will be varying quality of rentals, with nicer ones being more expensive. If every landlord jacked up the price, demand would shift to cheaper, lower quality rentals. More people will get roommates etc, reducing demand entirely.

In addition, every seller of a good/service could do the same. They can't all increase prices to extract the full $xxxx a month. There are much more complex dynamics at play then just "landlords will raise rent enough to extract the full UBI benefit."
by inhumantsar | 2025-11-29 17:10:33+00:00
former head of eng at a crypto company. I don't have the time to look thru your docs atm but I'd like to.

off the top of my head: stateless is tricky. as I'm sure you know, AML typically includes at least a few rate-based rules. eg: validate that someone isn't evading checks by making several transfers which are all slightly less than the trigger amount. it would be hard to justify paying for a service like this without that kind of capability, depending on the price ofc.

would love to chat more about this though. I'll set a reminder to check the docs later. feel free to send me an email, username at protonmail.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-29 17:11:16+00:00
I’m not familiar with Ohio village, but I grew up in unincorporated county land in the Texas boonies. My dad had a burn barrel, and would dump oil into the ground “putting it back from where it came”. Even as a kid, nothing about it felt right. Just that experience alone gives no doubt to service members working the burn pits qualifying for disability
by jpollock | 2025-11-29 17:12:17+00:00
For example....

"Preliminary A330/A340 FCPC algorithm"

"The algorithm did not effectively manage a specific situation where AOA 2 and AOA 3 on one side of the aircraft were temporarily incorrect and AOA 1 on the other side of the aircraft was correct, resulting in ADR 1 being rejected."

So, you've got a system where _two_ of the three sensors are bad, and you need to deal with it.
by anthk | 2025-11-29 17:12:33+00:00
That xor effect was under FVWM too for moving and resizing windows and doing an xor wireframe was MUCH faster than a full repaint.

If you had no X11 acceleration (xvesa for instance), that mode was magnitudes faster than watching your whole browser window repaint on a resize lasting more than 3 seconds on a Pentium.
by gloftus | 2025-11-29 17:13:11+00:00
Worth noting that the hyperbolic triangle in the article contains "points at infinity" which are not actually a part of the hyperbolic plane, so this is really an "improper triangle" as the article notes. One could construct a similar improper triangle in the Euclidean plane that consisted of two parallel lines meeting at infinity. Such a triangle would still have 180 degrees of internal angle but it's area and perimeter would be infinite.
by abhashanand1501 | 2025-11-29 17:13:56+00:00
My advice - use same rigor as other software development for a RAG application. Have a test suite (of say 100 cases) which says for this question correct response is this. Use an LLM judge to score each of the outputs of the RAG system. Now iterate till you get a score of 85 or so. And every change of prompts and strategy triggers this check, and ensures that output of 85 is always maintained.
by a4isms | 2025-11-29 17:14:31+00:00
The business model for Tesla and xAI is actually very simple and superior to OpenAI and Google's. No, this is not satire:

The business model is that his companies are meme stocks, and controlling social media means controlling meme stocks. The business model is also that his companies require corporate socialism, and controlling social media means influencing government policy.

He can talk about AI driving cars, but that's yesterday's news. Today, his business model for AI is to put his finger on the scale and influence society to help him become richer. AI is threatening to replace search, but in a way it's also threatening part of what social media provides, namely the ability to guide discourse at scale.

What's easier: Getting his personal board to give him a trillion dollars, and shoring up public support for that with bias in his AI products and on X? Or building a trillion-dollar business?

Elon Musk's business model for AI is actually quite easy to understand.
by mekoka | 2025-11-29 17:15:01+00:00
Giving a blank check to anything someone says because they disclaimed that they'll be uttering opinions? That sounds kinda naive. Have you never heard someone include facts to support their opinions? Would you disagree that it's fair game to attack opinions presented as facts? The "problematic" paragraph jumps out because the assertive generalizations moot the earlier agreement that the author is sharing their experience. The proclamations are not subjective they're factual. Perhaps re-read that passage yourself while donning your own critical thinking hat.
by zahlman | 2025-11-29 17:15:16+00:00
We can imagine another copy of the trapezoid, rotated 180 degrees and situated on top; the pair of them create a square with side lengths of a + b. This cancels all the 1/2s out of Garfield's equations, and also makes the result more geometrically obvious: the entire square (a + b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab + b^2 is the inscribed square c^2 plus four copies of the original triangle 4 * ab/2 = 2ab.

This then becomes a restatement of another classic proof (the simple algebraic proof given near the top of the main Wikipedia page for the theorem). So we can imagine Garfield discovering this approach by cutting that diagram (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem#/media/Fil...) in half and describing a different way to construct it.
by neom | 2025-11-29 17:15:35+00:00
Shutdown of northern Atlantic overturning after 2100 following deep mixing collapse in CMIP6 projections - 28 August 2025 - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adfa3b

High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC) - 12 Oct 2025 - https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/10/high-...

Physics-Based Indicators for the Onset of an AMOC Collapse Under Climate Change - 24 August 2025 -https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JC02...
by codingdave | 2025-11-29 17:16:06+00:00
I plugged in a scenario when I was unemployed last year, so had little money, and was making over 150K this year while self-employed. Its recommended payment was about 10% of what it really should have been, presumably because it was reporting the lowest amount I could get away with due to safe harbor rules, not the actual estimated amount for the quarter. If I actually paid what this site says, I'd end up with a massive tax bill at EOY.
by magicalhippo | 2025-11-29 17:17:49+00:00
> where I create LOC records for devices without a dynamic IP address so I can figure out where the f*k they are without having to keep a continuous mental map running at all times

Obligatory bash.org quote[1]:

<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.

[1]: https://qdb.lol/quote/5273
by TRiG_Ireland | 2025-11-29 17:18:14+00:00
That is a very strange (and very emotional) take. I find it easier to focus with some other people around me, so long as they're being quiet. An office (or a library) is easier to work in than my house. I also really like the idea of separation between my home and my workplace. If I was rich and had room in my house for a separate office I could close the door on when the workday was over, perhaps I'd feel differently.

So I'd prefer to work in an office, so long as it was nearby and the commute was short and my officemates were fairly quiet. This does not mean that I'm "advocating for serfdom". Working for an employer is no more (and no less) serfdom in an office than it is at home.
by genuser | 2025-11-29 17:18:25+00:00
As millions prepare for Thanksgiving travel, the critical decision between Google Maps and Waze could determine whether you arrive at dinner on time or stuck in holiday traffic. Both navigation giants offer powerful routing capabilities, but they approach navigation with fundamentally different philosophies. Google Maps serves as a comprehensive digital atlas, while Waze focuses exclusively on optimizing the driving experience through real-time community data.
by JohnBooty | 2025-11-29 17:18:58+00:00
Flickr doesn't break down views, so, for all I know it could have been bots doing image recognition or a single guy in his bedroom clicking on certain pictures 100x a day.

But yeah.... "links shared on forums" was always my leading theory.

In some cases, I'm sure the thumbnails enticed extra clicks. But some of the pictures just had a bustier than average woman in the background or something. It's not clear to me that the thumbnails were enticing.

(99% of these people were my IRL friends as well, so I wasn't really trying to take salacious pictures....)
by a2128 | 2025-11-29 17:19:21+00:00
Who's to say it has to keep moving forward? The companies are buying up massive amounts of GPUs in this AI race, a move that's widely questioned because next year's GPUs might render the current ones outdated[0], so there will probably be plenty of GPUs to go around if the CEO demands it (prior to collapse). Operating datacenters would probably be out of the question with a collapsed society as the power grid might be unreliable, global networks might be down and securing many datacenters would probably be difficult, but there's at least one public record of a billionaire building his own underground bunker with off-grid power generation and enough room to have his own little datacenter inside[1]. "Ordinary" people will acquire 32GB GPUs or Mac Studios for local open-source LLM inference, so it seems likely billionaires would just do the next step up for their bunker and use their company's proprietary weights on decommissioned compute clusters.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/ai-gpu-depreciation-coreweav... [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-hawaii-under...
by 65a | 2025-11-29 17:19:50+00:00
Right, I think those were the closest we got to the CHRP standard, as they moved the platform toward PC-style floppies, PS/2, ATX PSU and even more generic "platform" stuff than most clones. I'm fairly sure I had an ISA slot, I do remember trying to get a bargain bin NE2K card working in mine under linux (it didn't work). Definitely did nothing under OS 8/9.

The powercity models were interesting, because they came out after Apple revoked Motorola's clone license. A German company, ComJet, bought up the boards and sold unlicensed clones cheap. Case was slightly different, but otherwise they corresponded to StarMax models (fairly certain they were identical but may have been last revision boards).
by kennywinker | 2025-11-29 17:21:11+00:00
> Go is not for clever developers

What “clever” code is required to write a BBS-over-IP? 99.99% of code isn’t clever and shouldn’t be clever.

> It punishes you for trying to think about what you're building and to design sophisticated software, relying more on brute force.

Can you give an example of this? I have not written much go, so i am unable to think of a case where golang encourages brute force over sophistication?
by clearleaf | 2025-11-29 17:21:49+00:00
For me it just doesn't work at all. I don't know why but every windows instance I've used since Win7 has not been able to find files even with the exact filename supplied. I don't disable the indexer. I can see it using CPU and disk resources but it just doesn't find anything relevant when I search. When I instead use Search Everything on Windows it works perfectly.
by downrightmike | 2025-11-29 17:21:58+00:00
Colleges are mostly useless for anything not technical, even then we force people through a couple years of irrelevant education to keep the costs up "to be well rounded."

Those skills in the two years you actually do relevant work got replaced with AI and now it appears all they are doing is basically extending the two years of irrelevant work to the full four years. AI changes month to month and teaching it has worse decay than writing technical info into a book.

"The four-year tuition for Ohio State University is estimated to be around $54,564 for in-state students (based on a 2024-25 annual tuition of $13,641) and approximately $169,692 for out-of-state students (based on an annual tuition of $42,423). These estimates include tuition and fees only; a more comprehensive four-year cost of attendance will be higher, factoring in room and board, books, and other expenses"

Not worth the cost.
by conartist6 | 2025-11-29 17:22:58+00:00
LOL. So basically the correct sequence of events is: 1. The scientist does the work, putting their own biases and shortcomings into it 2. The reviewer runs AI, generating something that looks plausibly like review of the work but represents the view of a sociopath without integrity, morals, logic, or any consequences for making shit up instead of finding out. 3. The scientist works to determine how much of the review was AI, then acts as the true reviewer for their own work.
by DocTomoe | 2025-11-29 17:23:34+00:00
Mild disagree.

The saying "you can't solve social problems with technology" usually means - at least in the places I have heard / used it - "If your workforce fights a process - be it for the process being stupid, tools being slow, incentives do not align with policy, whatever - especially a control step, no amount of mandatory tech enforcement of that process step will yield better results." At best you get garbled data because someone hit the keyboard to fill in mandatory fields, sometimes, the process now works OUTSIDE of the system by informal methods because 'work still needs to be done', at worst, you get a mutiny.

You have to fix the people(s' problems) by actually talking to them and take the pain points away, you do not go to 'computer says no' territory first.

In my experience, no org problem is only social, and no tech problem is merely technical. Finding a sustainable solution in both fields is what distinguishes a staff engineer from a junior consultant.
by hulitu | 2025-11-29 17:23:51+00:00
> Which is a load of FUD, the X11 security extensions from (checks google) 1996, restrict this.

Wait, what ? X11 has extensions ? As in can be "extended" ? And has the same thing since ( for the sake of dialogue) 1996 ? That't why it must die. We need a monolith window system, with clear versions, all incompatible with each other. Only then, real progress can be made. /s
by matt-p | 2025-11-29 17:24:10+00:00
You can do it like this, or (easier IMO if your router doesn't support it) you can just setup a raspberry pi as a VPN router then set you dhcp server on your router to hand out the RPIs address. You can then switch on to the normal connection at any point you need by just changing your default gateway back to .1

2GB Pi5 maxes out the 1Gb port.
by stanfordkid | 2025-11-29 17:24:10+00:00
I have done Ayahuasca. I think it's dangerous to say it is "healing"... it's a window not a door. You have to be careful, some personalities will develop psychosis and disconnection from reality. You will certainly end up above where you started but there may be a deep trench you have to walk through. Especially amongst type-A highly IQ and rationality driven people this is very likely IMO.
by sph | 2025-11-29 17:24:13+00:00
I choose not to use any LLM, but technologies should still be judged on their potential for evil even if they are a choice.

And choice is a very loaded concept that does not take us anywhere: if the market is creating a world where LLM usage is central to a more productive future, or so they want us to believe, the choice quickly becomes between participating in the brainwashing and subtle advertising, or having a hard time finding a job that depends on LLM usage.

Ultimately, humans depend on habit and lowest friction. You cannot expect everyone to make a ‘virtuous’ choice and it is dishonest to even expect that. I dislike that many of my clothes are made my underpaid people in third-world countries, but at this point I don’t really have time and energy to choose not to unless I make that my life goal, as does the rest of the world.

This reminds me of the discussion about gun control by the way.