MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rzerowan | 2025-11-14 22:53:33+00:00
To steelman some of the points youve posted

>You don't need a crazy fast connection for most of this automation stuff, because it has to be able to operate offline successfully to start with

As i mentioned youre looking at it as a consumer, this is industrial systems.Its not about speed primarily but latency - costs of deployment and maintainance.Your COTS router is not being installed wher million dollar assembly lines are operating, and for any serious business concern low opex/capex are first and foremost as well as reproducibility for expansion. KUKA robot arms are not being connected to TPlink routers.Together with the nature of Just-In-Time manufacturing , instant data for maintainance and logistics is crucial. Ditto for the automated ports [1]

>There is nothing 5G or 6G provides that is worth letting the CCP control your networks. Aside from just spying or hacking

The two standards are currently accelerating both consumer and industrial changes worldwide.There are some networks in GlobalSouth countries whose speed/latencies will rival even those deployed in major US cities. Its a question of leveraging future infrstructure for productivity and improving living standards.

As for espionage and hacking that was stillthere even with dialup modems and fax machines.

Regarding countries using their leverage via multicorps abroad , you really should read up on the US CLOUD act, patriot act etc and cast a cursory glance at entities as benign sounding as Nestle(child slaves in W.Africa) Chiquita(Death Squads in S.America) PullMan Cigarettes (suing to block ati cigaratte ads in SE.Asia) ,not adding historical ones like Swiss CryptoAG.

In short multicorps are immoral profit extracting entities and on the global stage they act sometimes directly with their parent county to further whatever agandas they have. Thus far no Chinese companies have been implicated in any such shenanigans - as im pretty sure if it had happened it would be published about in banner headlines 24/7/365.

As it stands all the accusations are simply alllegations of a future scenario , which most people specify any sensible person should be able to mitigate with good security architecture and practices.

[1]https://govinsider.asia/intl-en/article/how-huaweis-5g-solut...
by bwhiting2356 | 2025-11-14 22:54:02+00:00
am i misreading the article?

> I have a van that is falling apart. It needs a lot of work that we cannot afford to do. In the mindset that poor people are unskilled, it appears that I should watch some YouTube videos, get the parts, and do it myself

I’m not saying running a small business is easy. But they previously worked a corporate job and chose to start a landscaping business partly for lifestyle reasons.
by flatline | 2025-11-14 22:54:04+00:00
I believe they can create a novel instance of a system from a sufficient number of relevant references - i.e. implement a set of already-known features without (much) code duplication. LLMs are certainly capable of this level of generalization due to their huge non-relevant reference set. Whether they can expand beyond that into something truly novel from a feature/functionality standpoint is a whole other, and less well-defined, question. I tend to agree that they are closed systems relative to their corpus. But then, aren't we? I feel like the aperture for true novelty to enter is vanishingly small, and cultures put a premium on it vis-a-vis the arts, technological innovation, etc. Almost every human endeavor is just copying and iterating on prior examples.
by jdiff | 2025-11-14 22:54:58+00:00
This same principle is why my favorite image generation model is the earlier models from 2019-2020 where they could only reliably generate soup. It's like Rorschach tests, it's not about what's there, it's about what you see in them. I don't want a bot to make art for me, sometimes I just want some shroom-induced inspirational smears.
by NamlchakKhandro | 2025-11-14 22:55:44+00:00
Because the depth of concept is so deep, and if you're just beginning then it's going to take a while for that statement to illuminate how obvious it is.

For those who've been sniffing this since early 2010, it's so blindly obvious they've already dropped llms on the floor and moved onto deeper alternative research.

For the rest of us, we're still catching coke bottles from the sky and building places of worship around them
by treis | 2025-11-14 22:55:52+00:00
It's hard to put thoughts into the right words but the world she wants exists. They're not writing for substack or flying around to conferences. They're out there living their lives without being so unrelentingly negative.

I dunno I just see so much cool shit in the world today. I see Waymo cars driving themselves around. LLMs are still wildly revolutionary. My TV is the tits. There's so much good happening but there's this massive undercurrent of negativity that's hard to reconcile.
by rambojohnson | 2025-11-14 22:56:28+00:00
the comment thread here is obnoxiously naive, and speaks to the privilege some people having been raised under the calm of supposedly democratic societies.

you're all arguing about the syntax of rights while governments rewrite the grammar. once a state decides ubiquitous surveillance is necessary, it’ll find or fabricate a justification. the "law" doesn’t restrain power, power instructs law where to kneel.

stop treating the ECHR like some talisman that keeps the wolves at bay, as if authoritarian drift politely obeys paperwork. stop playing with this whole “actually, the loophole is X,” “no, the loophole is Y,” like you're debugging a bad API instead of staring at the obvious: when a state wants to expand surveillance, it does, and the justifications are retrofitted later, be it "public safety", or "keeping your children safe."
by pksebben | 2025-11-14 22:56:48+00:00
I don't know if I'd call it an 'amazing feat', but claude had me pause for a moment recently.

Some time ago, I'd been working on a framework that involved a series of servers (not the only one I've talked to claude about) that had to pass messages around in a particular fashion. Mostly technical implementation details and occasional questions about architecture.

Fast forward a ways, and on a lark I decided to ask in the abstract about the best way to structure such an interaction. Mark that this was not in the same chat or project and didn't have any identifying information about the original, save for the structure of the abstraction (in this case, a message bus server and some translation and processing services, all accessed via client.)

so:

- we were far enough removed that the whole conversation pertaining to the original was for sure not in the context window

- we only referred to the abstraction (with like a A=>B=>C=>B=>A kind of notation and a very brief question)

- most of the work on the original was in claude code

and it knew. In the answer it gave, it mentioned the project by name. I can think of only two ways this could have happened:

- they are doing some real fancy tricks to cram your entire corpus of chat history into the current context somehow

- the model has access to some kind of fact database where it was keeping an effective enough abstraction to make the connection

I find either one mindblowing for different reasons.
by SimianSci | 2025-11-14 22:57:28+00:00
"America’s problem isn’t that we lack wealth - we have enormous wealth - it’s that we’ve made our wealth invisible while letting everything visible decay in a way. We’ve inverted the formula."

In a way, I see this as our unwillingness to invest back into society. It very much is the fault of our wealthiest who have alienated themselves from anything resembling the everyday people and created themselves walled off enclaves where they no longer need to face the degredation. Wealth isnt visible anymore because its being hoarded, walled off, and turned into bits that can be easily moved from one place to another, allowing them to invest it only in the things they care about. I promise you, any time spent around the wealthy will show you their worlds are not decaying, its just that you dont get to live in it yourself.
by DrewADesign | 2025-11-14 22:58:05+00:00
Well drat, you’ve exposed all of us, from art directors to VFX artists to fine art painters to singer-songwriters to graphic designers to game designers to symphony cellists as a monolithic glob of petty, transactional rakes. Fortunately, everyone is an artist now, so you can make your own output to feed to models and leave our work out of it entirely! It clearly has no value so nobody should be mad about going without it. Problem solved!
by IshKebab | 2025-11-14 22:58:06+00:00
They definitely don't completely fail to generalise. You can easily prove that by asking them something completely novel.

Do you mean that LLMs might display a similar tendency to modify popular concepts? If so that definitely might be the case and would be fairly easy to test.

Something like "tell me the lord's prayer but it's our mother instead of our father", or maybe "write a haiku but with 5 syllables on every line"?

Let me try those ... nah ChatGPT nailed them both. Feels like it's particular to image generation.
by rambojohnson | 2025-11-14 22:58:22+00:00
it escapes you because all these treaty clauses read like safeguards, but in practice they’re just friction. Once a government decides it needs mass surveillance for ‘security,’ the law bends. The real question isn’t what the ECHR allows... it’s why people still think legal frameworks can meaningfully restrain a state that has already decided not to be restrained.

it escapes me hwo so many can be so naive.
by xign | 2025-11-14 22:59:01+00:00
Whether the codec is from 1995 or 2025 does not matter. What matters is that the codec is compiled in and working by default on ffmpeg as they intend to bundle all codecs for the user. You can just craft a file, send it to a user pretending to be a regular mp4 file, and trigger the bug. It literally wouldn't matter if the codec was this Lucas Arts one of HEVC. An attacker wouldn't care if they walk in the front door or a random broken window in the back.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-11-14 22:59:21+00:00
I wrote a BASIC renumberer and compactor in bash, using every bashism I could so that it called no externals and didn't even use backticks to call child bashes, just pure bash itself (but late version and use every available feature for convenience and compactness).

I then re-wrote it in awk out of curiosity and it looked almost the same.

Crazy bash expansion syntax and commandline parser abuse was replaced by actual proper functions, but the whole thing when done was almost a line by line in-place replacement, so almost the same loc and structure.

Both versions share most of the same advantages over something like python. Both single binary interpreters always already installed. Both versions will run on basically any system any platform any version (going forward at least) without needing to install anything let alone anything as gobsmacking ridiculous as pip or venv.(1)

But the awk version is actually readable.

And unlike bash, awk already pretty much stopped changing very much decades ago, so not only is it forward compatible, it's pretty backwards compatible too.

Not that that is generally a thing you have to worry about. We don't make new machines that are older than some code we wrote 5 years ago. Old bash or awk code always works on the next new machine, and that's all you ever need(2).

There is gnu vs bsd vs posix vs mawk/nawk but that's not much of a problem and it's not a constantly breaking new-version problem but the same gnu vs posix differences for the last 30 years. You have to knowingly go out of your way to use mawk etc.

(1) bash you still have for example how everything is on bash 5 or at worst 4, except a brand new Mac today still ships with bash3, and so you can actually run into backwards compatibility in bash.

(2) and bash does actually have plugins & extensions and they do vary from system to system so you do have things you either need to avoid using or run into exactly the same breakage as python or ruby or whatever.

For writing a program vs gluing other programs together, really awk should be the goat.
by jasode | 2025-11-14 22:59:27+00:00
>I just stream files from my Macbook via AirPlay to my tv.

Ok, explaining your situation with a laptop clarifies where you're coming from. (Which my prior reply anticipated and covered in my 3nd paragraph about torrents being easy for people using laptops.)

In any case, most normal people do not use AirPlay from their laptop, nor cast from a Chromebook, nor cast/mirror a Windows to their tv to play Netflix/HBO/Disney. Instead they just use the mainstream hardware streaming devices or the built-in tv app. Torrents would be much less convenient for the way most non-techie people watch tv (Roku/FireStick/SamsungTVapp/etc). Netflix has stated many times that the majority of their customers' watch time comes from smartphones/tablets/tv and not desktop/laptop web browsers.
by cpursley | 2025-11-14 22:59:48+00:00
It's difficult to export culture when the receiving cultures don't speak the language, don't share religion, etc. US has a big benefit of being part of the Anglophone world going back to it's founding and more recently with Western European dominance from WW2 where basically everyone there knows some level of English. Also, don't forget China has suffered from great "humiliation" for the last few hundred years and hasn't been in much of a position to export much of anything until recently. Furthermore, the main reason the US has absorbed some SK and Japanese cultural things is we brought them into our neoempire.
by WJW | 2025-11-14 23:00:50+00:00
Well if it works consistently, I don't see any problem with that. If they have a clear theory of when to add "photorealistic" and when to add "correct number of wheels on the bus" to get the output they want, it's engineering. If they don't have a (falsifiable) theory, it's probably not engineering.

Of course, the service they really provide is for businesses to feel they "do AI", and whether or not they do real engineering is as relevant as if your favorite pornstars' boobs are real or not.
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-14 23:01:28+00:00
For getting media made inaccessible, you could just do what all those many countries around the world without good public libraries do: pirate it. Talk to anyone serious about cinema as an art form in Eastern Europe or the developing world, and Bittorrent was their school, not a library or a paid streaming platform.

In any event, I agree that public libraries are good, but it is easy to see that momentum in the USA for sustaining them has slowed: on American-dominated forums people often view public libraries nowadays as a place for the smelly homeless to hang out, look at porn, and possibly shoot up.
by jonahx | 2025-11-14 23:03:31+00:00
> and exploits and traumatises data workers to make sure ChatGPT doesn’t generate outputs like child sexual abuse material and hate speech or encourage users to self-harm.

It's hard to take this seriously, especially with the inflated language.

They're essentially doing moderation. It's a job that's been done and needed on internet platforms of all stripes for at least 30 years. Sure, it can been unpleasant work. If it's "traumatizing" you, you shouldn't be doing it. Acting like this is some novel and horrific phenomenon springing from the quixotic pursuit of AGI is ridiculous. It would be needed even if no one believed AGI was possible.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-11-14 23:03:51+00:00
I see this a lot in socal especially in the san fernando valley. Neighborhood like sherwood forest with 2-10 million homes or more. Nearby offerings comprised of a run down strip mall with a smoke shop, liqour store, coin laundry, nail bar. It is sort of bewildering. Like why isn’t there an upscale restaurant? Seems the people in these neighborhoods are content to drive 20+ mins away for the sort of stuff they actually use at this income level. Or maybe their whole life is delivered to their door by this point.
by SimianSci | 2025-11-14 23:04:48+00:00
I call it Rent-seeking, of which, subscription fees are just a part. The biggest issue here is that the "meta" of capitalism has turned to toll booths and rent collection. This is why people say that American capitalism is turning into neo-feudalism, the people making the money are not the people producing things of value, its the landlords, asset holders, and tech companies that can continuously tax the peasantry.
by Retric | 2025-11-14 23:04:53+00:00
US didn’t have many large prosperous cities in the west or most of the south until very recently. Railroads and AC really changed where people lived in America.

https://1940census.com/Img/1940_census_map_usa.jpg vs zoom in a little here: https://maps.geo.census.gov/ddmv/map.html

LA and New Orleans should have made the list, after that it’s more questionable.
by elteto | 2025-11-14 23:04:54+00:00
From the performance comparison table, basically AMD could be NVIDIA right now, but they aren’t because… software?

That’s a complete institutional and leadership failure.

Ironically, building chips is the actual _hard_ part. The software and the compilers are not trivial but the iteration speed is almost infinite by comparison.

It goes to show that some companies just don’t “get” software. Not even AMD!
by dboreham | 2025-11-14 23:05:37+00:00
Not sure it really qualifies but certainly nice to see some history not written by the victors.

As Ken's article cited below details, none of these chips were really "invented". The designs, or very close to the same design already existed in SSI or MSI implementation. So nobody was inventing anything here. It was more a case of "can you make me one of these on a chip?" If anything was invented it was the idea that you could sell a discrete CPU component to many customers. Until then most system builders rolled their own CPU. That said the minicomputer market existed as a precursor. Those were often used in "embedded systems".
by joe_the_user | 2025-11-14 23:05:48+00:00
I dunno I just see so much cool shit in the world today. I see Waymo cars driving themselves around. LLMs are still wildly revolutionary. My TV is the tits. There's so much good happening but there's this massive undercurrent of negativity that's hard to reconcile.

Personally I'm doing something that brings me more happiness than most of my activities for the last twenty years - I'm providing direct aid for the unhoused and the impoverished. And I'm know there are people who are doing things that are their passion unrelated to that.

But I have to say, your list for is remarkable for being about things, not people. You amazed by the cool stuff available for some people for a lot of money and some things that are pretty cheap. But X percent of the population can't pay their rent with their income, cool stuff for sale is hardly going to help them. And indeed that statement itself is a strong illustration of how self-insulating people are from the conditions people live with.
by lokar | 2025-11-14 23:06:53+00:00
Ugh, this again? I bet it's the same thing with all the "voter fraud" they find.

They get two lists of people (list of votes/program enrollees and one of "dead" people, etc) that were not designed/cleaned for this, and do a very loose match and then declare just based on that it must be fraud.

Are there some that are fraud, probably, a bit of that is just the cost of dealing with the public. Private companies get it just as much.

But I'll bet almost all of it is either bad matching, poor record keeping, or honest mistakes.
by vunderba | 2025-11-14 23:06:56+00:00
Author here. It's mostly a satire piece referring to my own experiences. I actually am familiar with the numerical value referring to the "hardness" - but you're right that the way it's written could lead to that conclusion.

My elementary school specifically required Number 2 pencils on scantron related tests. And in the event that you didn't have one, a number 2 pencil would be provided.

I'll update the article to make it more clear!
by Rohansi | 2025-11-14 23:07:46+00:00
It's a sandbox game. You play on the same server over the course of a wipe (up to one month long) and then the server's map is cleared/changed. Hundreds of players gather resources, build bases, craft weapons, etc. to fight each other and defend themselves from others. Players often team up but you never know who you can really trust unless you're actually friends with them.

Other than aiming there's just game and map awareness, including understanding the current meta. Base design is a whole other area relevant to defending against raiding while you aren't online or away from your base.

We use EAC but also have our own layers of protection. We do some of our own anti-tampering in the client, a player reporting system with staff to investigate, server-side antihack to guard against all kinds of weird state modified clients send, and a lot of data collection+analysis. If you look up Rust or any other popular FPS game up you'll see it's still not enough.

The most effective anticheat tool really is game design. Games can be designed to limit or even eliminate the worst of cheating... but only by significantly changing the games. It'd be simple if everything was like the Civilization games because they're turn based and have well-defined actions. All input can be 100% verified without the need for tolerances and hidden state (fog of war) can be networked only when necessary.
by xign | 2025-11-14 23:08:15+00:00
Timed disclosure is just a compromise between giving project time and public interests. People have been doing this for years now. Why are people acting like this is new just because ffmpeg is whining?

And occasionally you do see immediate disclosures (see below). This usually happens for vulnerabilities that are time-sensitive or actively being exploited where the user needs to know ASAP. It's very context dependent. In this case I don't think that's the case, so there's a standard delayed disclosure to give courtesy for the project to fix it first.

Note the word "courtesy". The public interest always overrides considerations for the project's fragile ego after some time.

(Some examples of shortened disclosures include Cloudbleed and the aCropalypse cropping bug, where in each case there were immediate reasons to notify the public / users)
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-11-14 23:08:42+00:00
I respectfully disagree that Denmark is left-leaning wrt. immigration. 20-30 years ago that was true, today not at all.

From https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2lknr2d3go.amp

“UK seeks Danish inspiration to shake up immigration system”

“Shabana Mahmood will model some of her new measures on the Danish system - seen as one of the toughest in Europe.”