MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anovikov | 2025-11-21 17:11:12+00:00
True, you take them for life, given multitude of other benefits, what's the problem about it? No one is claiming otherwise. Problem used to be the price, but now they are cheap.

Negative consequences of quitting gym are even more severe than those of quitting GLP-1. Especially if one worked out intensely enough to actually achieve any weight goals (i've been doing it for 6 years with a personal trainer and achieved absolutely nothing). Many people who were serious gym rats, just died after quitting (quitting because of trauma or similar external causes), usually due to heart conditions - heart was unable to readapt. You don't die after quitting GLP-1, just get fat again, which is bad in itself - analogous to yo-yo dieting - but not fatal.

GLP-1 is indeed, absolutely, a silver bullet for obesity. And pre-diabetes, and multitude of other conditions and among other things, many addictions (albeit not smoking, sadly).

Having lost weight, i quit gym because it wasn't working for me anyway, and my weight goals have been achieved. Nothing bad happened except now, a year later, i can feel that slight back pains i used to have before starting gym and that completely went away while i was doing it, are slowly coming back.
by drivebyhooting | 2025-11-21 17:11:43+00:00
I abstain from making any conclusion about LLM consciousness. But the description in the article is fallacious to me.

Excluding LLMs from “something something feedback” but permitting mamba doesn’t make sense. The token predictions ARE fed back for additional processing. It might be a lossy feedback mechanism, instead of pure thought space recurrence, but recurrence is still there.
by perlgeek | 2025-11-21 17:11:55+00:00
Some scattered thoughts on that:

* If everybody does it, it won't work so well

* I've seen cases where folks pinned their dependencies, and then used "npm install" instead of "npm ci", so the pinning was worthless. Guess they are the accidental, free beta testers for the rest of us.

* In some ecosystems, distributions (such as Debian) does both additional QA, and also apply a cooldown. Now we try to retrofit some of that into our package managers.
by simonw | 2025-11-21 17:11:59+00:00
I use it for things I don't know how to do all the time... but I do that as a learning exercise for myself.

Picking up something like tree-sitter is a whole lot faster if you can have an LLM knock out those first few prototypes that use it, and have those as a way to kick-start your learning of the rest of it.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-21 17:12:07+00:00
Since they are set open, I assume they are actually using them as if they were en-dashes and not em-dashes, which the more common style would be to set closed, but I’m guessing, in either case, the reason is “because you can type it on a normal keyboard without any special modification, Compose-key solution, or other processing, and the author doesn't care much about typography”.

EDIT: Though these the days it could also be an attempt at highly-visible “AI didn't write this” virtue signaling, too.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-11-21 17:12:47+00:00
In retrospect, these fatalities were preventable. Safety codes are written in blood.

Ghost Ship burnt a few years after I'd left California; what surprised me most was that it still existed into 2016!

I never saw their specific electrical infrastructure, but it's absolutely surprising that more structure fires aren't sparking up daily (everywhere). My recommendation (as a former IBEW electrician) to DIY sparkies is if you can't afford a thermal camera to verify your own inexperienced handywork then you can't afford to be doing your own electrical work [yes especially YOU Mister E.E.].
by filmgirlcw | 2025-11-21 17:13:23+00:00
XMP was the first time I ever picked up a soldering iron -- so I could "hack" my OG Xbox 1.0.

I will always, always love and respect it. I love that they are still committed to the OG device. I want to pull mine out and see if the spinning hard drive still works after all these years, might even try to update it!
by smaudet | 2025-11-21 17:13:37+00:00
> also drops by virtue of less eyeballs

I don't think the people automatically updating and getting hit with the supply chain attack are also scanning the code, I don't think this will impact them much.

If instead, updates are explicitly put on cooldowns, with the option of manually updating sooner, then there would be more eyeballs, not fewer, as people are more likely to investigate patch notes, etc., possibly even test in isolation...
by willio58 | 2025-11-21 17:14:52+00:00
This would be amazing, though I realize it's not straightforward and not easy to do. I have so many accounts across different companies that this connection piece is basically a requirement for me to use your app on a regular basis. I'm sure that applies to a lot of people, and I'm sure you already know that. I appreciate the focus on building the tool first and then getting that connection stuff working later.

I just want to also commend you on the UI/UX here, it looks and feels really solid.
by heisenbit | 2025-11-21 17:14:54+00:00
The discussions shifts across the board but it takes time to shift due to momentum. The EU has many nations and many more companies all making strategic purchasing decisions. US dependence skeptics belittled earlier have now concrete examples and more weight. The shift can already observed in weapons system purchasing but won‘t be limited to those. For better or worse the US has lost its position of trust and is sadly working on cementing distrust for the next decades.
by gruez | 2025-11-21 17:15:23+00:00
You pay for it though, both in terms of extra manufacturing costs (presumably) and weight/bulk. Compare the north american apple usb-c power adapter to the british one:

https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/1/as-images.apple.co...

https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/1/as-images.apple.co...
by swatcoder | 2025-11-21 17:15:44+00:00
The point is to apply a cooldown to your "dumb" and unaccountable automation, not to your own professional judgment as an engineer.

If there's a bugfix or security patch that applies to how your application uses the dependency, then you review the changes, manually update your version if you feel comfortable with those changes, and accept responsibility for the intervention if it turns out you made a mistake and rushed in some malicious code.

Meanwhile, most of the time, most changes pushed to dependencies are not even in the execution path of any given application that integration with them, and so don't need to be rushed in. And most others are "fixes" for issues that were apparently not presenting an eminent test failure or support crisis for your users and don't warrant being rushed in.

There's not really a downside here, for any software that's actually being actively maintained by a responsible engineer.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-21 17:15:54+00:00
> * If everybody does it, it won't work so well

Indeed, this is a complex problem to solve.

And the "it won't work so well" of this is probably a general chilling effect on trying to fix things because people won't roll them out fast enough anyway.

This may seem theoretical but for example in websites where there are suppliers and customers, there's quite a chilling effect on any mechanism that encourages people to wait until a supplier has positive feedback; there are fewer and fewer people with low enough stakes who are willing to be early adopters in that situation.

What this means is that new suppliers often drop out too quickly, abandon platforms, work around those measures in a way that reduces the value of trust, and worse still there's a risk of bad reviews because of the reviewer's Dunning-Kruger etc.

I think the mechanism is important for people who really must use it, but there will absolutely be side effects that are hard to qualify/correct.
by mothballed | 2025-11-21 17:16:11+00:00
Are you unaware that the exact same justification was used to attack the Ukrainian people? Your position here is weev is an actual neo-nazi while the Ukrainian people are not. I concede you are likely correct, and it is frankly obvious I'm not making the case they are compared as both being neo-nazis. It is still relevant because the failure mode is still paralleled, an accusation of neo-nazi and then serious state action taken without objective due process to ensure it is true.

By dismissing and frankly belittling my statement, you are falling for the same trap that justified so many dead Ukrainians.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-21 17:16:23+00:00
>Putin would be backed into a corner.

He'd be backed into the door marked "exit". There is no corner to trap him here.

>End the invasion after suffering a nuclear strike

And why do you believe that Zelensky or whoever is in charge would nuke Moscow first? Do you think that, if they had say 30 nukes (plenty for a few relatively harmless demonstrations) that this would be the first target? Obviously they'd pick something that he could decide to de-escalate afterwards.

>they're only credible if used in response to a correspondingly severe threat.

You mean such as the severe threat that Ukraine has endured for a decade at this point? The war now threatens to make them functionally extinct. Many have fled and will never return, their population is reduced to something absurdly low, many of their children have been forcibly abducted to be indoctrinated or tormented/tortured.

That condition you impose was pre-satisfied.

>Certainly they're not an automatic "leave me alone" card.

Of course not. They'd have to be used intelligently (readers: "used" does not imply detonated). It's not entirely clear to me that this would be the case with Ukraine/Zelensky. But nothing less at this point will suffice. Even if the US promised to put 150,000 troops on the ground, this wouldn't end. It would only escalate. Perhaps to that nuclear war you seem to fear.
by gbacon | 2025-11-21 17:16:24+00:00
This is the Schoolhouse Rock version that ignores the real phenomenon of regulatory capture, formalized by Stigler way back in 1971.

“We propose the general hypothesis: every industry or occupation that has enough political power to utilize the state will seek to control entry. In addition, the regulatory policy will often be so fashioned as to retard the rate of growth of new firms.”
by bgwalter | 2025-11-21 17:16:29+00:00
The underlying paper is from AE Studio people (https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24797), who want to dress up their "AI" product with philosophical language, similar to the manner in which Alex Karp dresses up data base applications with language that originates in German philosophy.

Now I have to remember not to be mean to my Turing machine.
by NicuCalcea | 2025-11-21 17:16:34+00:00
It's a company doing carbon removal, the environmental equivalent of snake oil. They claim to have removed 11,234 tonnes of CO2e, which might sound like a lot, but for context, a single seat on a return flight from New York to London produces 1.7 tonnes.

There is only one solution, stop burning fossil fuels. No amount of stuffing agricultural waste down abandoned oil wells will make a dent in the climate crisis.

PS: One of the investors in Charm Industrial also owns half a company that produces equipment for the oil and gas industry.

https://charmindustrial.com/blog/accelerating-carbon-removal...

https://www.exor.com/pages/companies-investments/companies/w...
by nemomarx | 2025-11-21 17:16:34+00:00
A lead battery plant that we can oversee and regulate is better than a polluting one in another country, where we basically export the suffering and damage to them. So policy goals should try to keep it possible and economically viable (with subsidies, bureaucrats who are responsive to community needs, whatever you like) to do recycling in the first world in some way.

Whether any particular regulation is necessary or onerous needs more detailed examinations, and it's easy to say "just have the regulations be as simple as necessary to protect us", but I'm arguing we've gone a little far with zoning regs and studies so that we can't build things as well as we used to. You could also argue that bodies are using these environmental regulations for their own purposes, like keeping property values high or protecting their other investments instead of actual environmental impacts?

(We can also try and spread regulations down the outsourcing chain, but I think that's difficult for other reasons.)
by cogman10 | 2025-11-21 17:17:18+00:00
That's the point of regulations.

If correct/moral/societally beneficial behavior was the most profitable then no regulation would be needed.

Lacking regulation also has a cost, it's just not to the unregulated. Dumping waste into a river is cheap for the business doing the dumping, but has environmental impacts on everyone downstream. It's more expensive to properly dispose of or recycle waste material, that's why a regulation that you must do that is needed.

The market simply does not hold bad actors accountable in any meaningful way. As a result, it pays to be a bad actor.

It's simply not a black and white issue. There are bad regulations to be sure. But it's not nearly as simple as saying that less regulation is better or that more regulation is better. The right amount is good and the wrong amount is bad. What that amount is is up for debate.
by breppp | 2025-11-21 17:17:33+00:00
> can't think of a more direct example of ethno-nationalism than the Jewish state.

It's a weird concept, which kind of nationalism isn't ethno-nationalist? I can think of maybe two nations whose brand of nationalism does not relate to an ethnic group and I will probably push it for the USA.

Israel is probably the only ethnoreligious nation, and the ethnic part is debatable if you ever seen Israelis, unlike the Palestinian national movement which is ethnic-nationalist
by cxr | 2025-11-21 17:17:43+00:00
What everyone should all be doing is practicing the decades-old discipline of source control. Attacks of the form described in the post, where a known-good, uncompromised dependency is compromised at the "supply chain" level, can be 100% mitigated—not fractionally or probabilistically—by cutting out the vulnerable supply chain. The fact that people are still dragging their feet on this and resist basic source control is the only reason why this class of attack is even possible. That vendoring has so many other benefits and solves other problems is even more reason to do so.

Stacking up more sub-par tooling is not going to solve anything.

Fortunately this is a problem that doesn't even have to exist, and isn't one that anyone falls into naturally. It's a problem that you have to actively opt into by taking steps like adding things to .gitignore to exclude them from source control, downloading and using third-party tools in a way that introduces this and other problems, et cetera—which means you can avoid all of it by simply not taking those extra steps.

(Fun fact: on a touch-based QWERTY keyboard, the gesture to input "vendoring" by swiping overlaps with the gesture for "benefitting".)
by eddiemac24 | 2025-11-21 17:17:59+00:00
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by kami23 | 2025-11-21 17:18:14+00:00
This has been what I've been seeing internally within $DAYJOB down to the split between vibe coding / vibe engineering / artisinally crafted code.

The gaps between engineers using the tools and those not are continuing to grow, and I'm curious to see what tools we get to use internally and what we can't... I've been able to demonstrate significant speed up in development time for features with certain tools but the amount of control some of these companies want in contracts are things the company hadn't seen before, and made it too conservative to go in on.

I also see this space changing so much that I don't particularly care for the tools for individuals now as much as I care about the way I share the workload with my team. I need a way to keep everyone up to date and reviewing code without getting brain drained as fast. Review fatigue is real, and it sucks. I haven't really found one that I've liked in that regard and one that a Fortune N company would want to go in on.
by AlexandruGlv | 2025-11-21 17:18:52+00:00
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The goal is to give us Rails devs a modern and reusable component library similar to what exists in the React ecosystem but built natively for Rails with Stimulus.

Note that most sets are free (≈80%) and some are paid (≈20%) to keep the project sustainable.

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by cmrdporcupine | 2025-11-21 17:18:55+00:00
"The downside of vibe coding the whole interpreter is that I have zero knowledge of the code."

This is exactly the problem. When I first got my mitts on Claude Code I went bonkers with this kind of thing. Write my own JITing Lisp in a weekend? Yes please! Finish my 1/3rded-done unfinished WASM VM that I shelved? Sure!

The problem comes, that you dig too deep and unearth the Balrog of "how TF does this work?" You're creating future problems for yourself.

The next frontier for coding agents is these companies bothering to solve the UX problem of: how do you keep the human involved and in the driver's seat, and educated about what's happening?
by Hellene | 2025-11-21 17:18:56+00:00
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However, this approach has limitations. It requires asset managers to spend significant time and effort selecting the assets beforehand, and it cannot explore all possible combinations of assets, which means the resulting portfolio might not be globally optimal. In classical computing, an exhaustive search of all possible combinations is called brute force, but this quickly becomes impractical: for example, considering just 10 assets with simple inclusion/exclusion yields 2¹⁰ = 1,024 combinations, and the number grows dramatically if allocation weights are included.

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by jcalvinowens | 2025-11-21 17:19:18+00:00
Obviously. Every release introduces bugs. There's an inevitable positive correlation between the amount of code we write and the number of bugs we introduce, we just try to minimize it.

The probability of introducing bugs is a function of the amount of development being done. Releasing less often doesn't change that. In fact, under that assumption, delaying releases strictly increases the amount of time users are affected by the average bug.

People who do this tell themselves the extra time allows them to catch more bugs. But in my experience that's a bedtime story, most bugs aren't noticed until after deployment anyway.

That's completely orthogonal to slowly rolling out changes, btw.
by dmix | 2025-11-21 17:19:34+00:00
I'd be happy with just allowing more low/middle-market housing development which is what eventually seeds low income housing. I don't think anyone's calling for more slums but rapidly building houses and less aggressive urban planning is the only way to solve what is easily the #1 social problem here in Canada and many parts of the US/Europe and Australia.

"Slums" in the west are mostly just old apartments that used to be middle class or cheap buildings in less 'desirable' locations. They aren't people living in shacks.

In a housing shortage those old buildings which would normally decline in rent still cost $2000/m in many cities like Toronto due to lack of supply. And no developer can afford all the headaches just to build a new affordable low-rent buildings either.