MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by imchillyb | 2025-11-04 23:55:28+00:00
Sing me a song, Mr. Kalason man. Sing me a song on a bus. We'll miss all of those pure-ish tone melodies. Driving your competitors nuts.

That was an interesting read. There is a movie called RV, and in that movie there is an RV with a kalason type select-a-melody horn installed. I'm glad we don't have these distractions in our vehicles, but they would surely be a fun diversion while stuck in traffic. Can you imagine the cacophony of a congested California freeway, with each vehicle belting out their own melodies on their own kalason? I can. No thank you. But, to dream...
by crote | 2025-11-04 23:55:32+00:00
The real question is whether their networking has a value of hundreds of millions to the company, or to the CEO: are they getting hired because those networking skills are genuinely providing a huge value to the company, or are they getting hired because they are so good at networking that they can fool a company into hiring them instead of someone else capable of providing virtually the same value at a far lower salary?

> Why is [a CEO salary cap at $2-5M] reasonable?

Why not? It's enough to live a very comfortable life. If you want to, you can retire after a single-digit number of years. Anyone who needs more money clearly has a serious spending problem and shouldn't be anywhere near your company's finances.

And the whole "but look how much money they are making/saving the company" argument you usually hear is bullshit as well. I bet there are plenty of mid-level FAANG engineers who have saved their company literally tens of millions of dollars a year by optimizing some code, but they don't get those obscene salaries either.

It gets even worse once you take into account the bottom rungs on the ladder: paying the CEO tens or hundreds of millions a year would be a lot less problematic if that very same company didn't have workers literally peeing in bottles, having to work around the body of their dead coworker, or having the building literally collapse on their head.
by leptons | 2025-11-04 23:55:47+00:00
>Fairly confident the CPU has never been the reason you can't install whatever you want on an iOS/iPadOS device. Also not the reason you can't install macOS on it either.

Are you lost? Did you reply to the wrong comment? My comment says nothing about CPU or anything about hardware, at all.

The thread above my comment is talking about a "MacPad" which means running MacOS on Apple tablets and phones.

Of course Apple prevents this even though it's entirely possible to do it, because Apple is going to do Apple things.

>In all seriousness though, I have an iPad Pro and a MacBook (as a lot of people here do I'm sure)

Reality distortion field in effect?

> and it would make a poor laptop.

Uh... all you would need to do is add a keyboard and mouse and it's a laptop, and all of that is already possible to do and has been possible for a very long time.

>(actually I'd rather just have the MacBook as the iPad sits largely idle, as I'm also sure a lot of people's do).

You seem to be sure about a lot of things.
by fragmede | 2025-11-04 23:56:00+00:00
Go to the union hall, sign up, pass a test, wait a lifetime (because there's a line of people ahead of you), get called in finally, start as an apprentice, work, do well, get put on the list as a trained apprentice, eventually get called into trained apprentice jobs, train up through the years, become a journeyman and later a master, all while cycling between working and waiting for work. If you're amicable, you can move up the list and get called more frequently because the person in control of the list can just do that, or alternately, someone at a job site can call for you specifically which will get you work faster than simply waiting around for work from the list.

There are still union trades in the US, but they're a dying breed.
by Arainach | 2025-11-04 23:56:50+00:00
It doesn't avoid the delays. I have incredibly fast CFx cards, an incredibly fast card reader, and an incredibly fast CPU in my desktop, but the simple reality is that reading tens (or hundreds) of gigabytes over USB takes a long time, and analyzing those files to determine if they're already in my large photo library takes a lot of resources too. Minutes, not milliseconds.

A RAW file from a Nikon Z8 is generally 50-70MB. If I left 300 photos on the card before going out for a shoot, that's tens of gigabytes of data to transfer and analyze before the software can get to the images I'm actually interested in. If it's hundreds of gigabytes the problem is even worse.
by harrall | 2025-11-04 23:56:54+00:00
I don’t entirely understand who this is for.

- For one-offs, you would just use a GUI.

- For regular edits where you want creative control, you would use a NLE GUI.

- For regular edits where you want consistency, you would have a limited GUI without access to ffmpeg options.

CLI/prompt-based editing for a visual medium is how a programmer might approach editing but no creative…
by kderbyma | 2025-11-04 23:57:23+00:00
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by PaulKeeble | 2025-11-04 23:57:23+00:00
One thing that AWS, Google and Azure do that your own systems don't is release their updates whenever it suits them, often taking down your business down in the middle of the day with their own problems. You can't fix it, you can't rollback what you just did and get back up and running you just have to sit and wait.

That is quite different to a business that turns off its boxes for an hour at 0100 Sunday morning to do updates and release new software. The downtime isn't equivalent because it really matters when it is and if that hurts your use case or not. Your own system might be down for more hours a year than AWS, but its not down Monday to Friday on an evening when you do most your sales because you refuse to touch anything during that period and do all the work outside that and schedule your updates.
by ianstormtaylor | 2025-11-04 23:57:25+00:00
Seeing this on the front page again prompted me to dig into some of the Whole Earth Catalog successor publications for the first time.

I came across an article in Whole Earth Software Review, where many participants on a forum discuss the emerging technology of word processors — particularly interesting given the rise of LLMs as a new tool for "writing".

https://wholeearth.info/p/whole-earth-software-review-no-1-s...

A few quotes:

> LEVY: I readily admit that using my Apple and Wordstar has changed me considerably. I do stories faster, write them more organically and have time to play more. I play on my computer a lot. Word processing, even in our current brain-damaged technological state, is something that significantly improves lives.

> SPEZZANO: … You could thoroughly try out five cars in one day, but it would take a month to really test out five word processors.

> SPEZZANO: … I think the overall plan should be to work towards a software aesthetic, a capacity on the part of the reader to appreciate a good program. Most of us don't have this because a computer program is a new medium. Like the appreciation of art or music or literature, software appreciation may not lead to one perfect word processor but an increased ability to see the subtleties of the medium, and to be articulate about what you think and don't like.

> ICENOGLE: … Transparency isn't a property of the program. It concerns the relationship of the user to the program. If you don't have to think about it, it's transparent.

> LISWOOD: Some day I will be able to talk at the screen, and then I can really screw things up in a hurry.

> McWILLIAMS: I have noticed my handwriting has deteriorated significantly ever since my word processor arrived. Is this happening to anyone else?

> NAIMAN: … Yes, my handwriting has gotten much worse since I've been using a word processor. And I find I can hardly ever write a short note, even just a line or two, without scratching something out and rewording it.

The list of "Fifteen Word Processor Commandments" at the end of the article is also a fun read. And right after that:

> The typewriter is a tool that extends human capabilities. It lets the dysgraphic writer read his own writing and allows him to share it with others. The word processing computer goes further. It separates writing (modeling ideas with words) from printing. This is why this tool is so important to me. Since the writing first exists only electronically, one can word and rework it for as long as necessary — moving things around, correcting spelling, transpositions and typos — before it gets printed.

> It's unfortunate that there's been so much hype and lack of imagination an insight about all of the wonderful things computers can do for us. Given this, it was hard for me to visualize a personal use for a computer until I found out about word processing.
by neilv | 2025-11-04 23:57:52+00:00
There are many scenarios in which cloud providers (especially AWS) make sense.

Ideally, your company has technical experts who can do quite a lot of things non-cloud, so you can make informed decisions about near-term costs, complexity, vendor lock-in, execution speed, etc.

I'm especially a fan of cloud providers for early startups, which tend to be high on velocity, and low on workers. And the free credits programs often solve the early problem of being low on dollars.
by duderific | 2025-11-04 23:57:57+00:00
Can you seriously deny that it will take many fewer developers using LLMs to do what was done without LLMs? Many if not most software companies have either greatly slowed hiring, or laid off tranches of developers.

Not all developer jobs will disappear, but there will most certainly be fewer available. Any new grad can tell you how hard it is to find a software engineering job nowadays.

Certainly we cannot just let an AI spin and build software unattended. But what used to take days can now be done in minutes.
by abbrowne | 2025-11-04 23:58:02+00:00
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by Levitz | 2025-11-04 23:58:10+00:00
For a communicator, no audience means you lose everything. Why would he, or for that matter, anyone do that?

Look at JK Rowling. Stood her ground, if it wasn't for her books allowing her advocacy, she'd have disappeared. Instead she has to endure being among the most hated millionaires for a good bunch of the left.

Say Rogan sticks to his guns. He would face similar, never-ending attacks, no left-leaning figure could attend his podcast without becoming guilty by association, so he'd end up interviewing basically the same people as he does now, only he wouldn't cater to some people that, given somewhat recent events, would most probably celebrate him getting murdered.

I reckon we shouldn't take away the agency away from the adults who made purity testing a common practice, given the utter disaster we are experiencing as a consequence.
by bpavuk | 2025-11-04 23:58:19+00:00
you missed the point. Zed develops and pioneers ACP (Agent Client Protocol), which I can also use in other editors and with other agents. at the moment, only Neovim is available as an alternative editor, but nothing stops, say, JetBrains from implementing it. I can plug Codex, Gemini, Claude Code, and Goose directly into my editor of choice.
by rand846633 | 2025-11-04 23:58:33+00:00
Absolutely. At several startups, getting a simple €20–50/month Hetzner server meant rounds with leadership and a little dance with another department to hand over a credit card. With AWS, leadership suddenly accepted that Ops/Dev could provision what we thought was right. It isn’t logically compelling, but that’s why the cloud gained traction so quickly: it removed friction.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-04 23:59:17+00:00
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/china-energy-transi...

https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/wind-and-solar-gener...

https://electrek.co/2025/09/02/h1-2025-china-installs-more-s...

> Global solar installations are breaking records again in 2025. In H1 2025, the world added 380 gigawatts (GW) of new solar capacity – a staggering 64% jump compared to the same period in 2024, when 232 GW came online. China was responsible for installing a massive 256 GW of that solar capacity.

> For context, it took until September last year to pass the 350 GW mark. This year, the milestone was achieved in June. That pace cements solar as the fastest-growing source of new electricity generation worldwide. In 2024, global solar output rose by 28% (+469 terawatt-hours) from 2023, more growth than any other energy source.

> Nicolas Fulghum, senior energy analyst at independent energy think tank Ember, said, “These latest numbers on solar deployment in 2025 defy gravity, with annual solar installations continuing their sharp rise. In a world of volatile energy markets, solar offers domestically produced power that can be rolled out at record speed to meet growing demand, independent of global fossil fuel supply chains.”

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65064

> Utility-scale solar power capacity in China reached more than 880 gigawatts (GW) in 2024, according to China’s National Energy Administration. China has more utility-scale solar than any other country. The 277 GW of utility-scale solar capacity installed in China in 2024 alone is more than twice as much as the 121 GW of utility-scale solar capacity installed in the United States at the end of 2024.

> Planned solar capacity projects will likely lead to continued growth in China’s solar capacity. More than 720 GW of solar capacity are in development: about 250 GW under construction, nearly 300 GW in pre-construction phases, and 177 GW of announced projects, according to the Global Solar Power Tracker compiled by Global Energy Monitor.

(1GW of solar PV is installed every 15 hours globally as of this comment; 4.6TW of new renewables are expected to come online globally in the next four years)
by thejosh | 2025-11-05 00:00:05+00:00
Sounds great until you're locked into Snowflake - so glad iceberg is becoming the standard, anything is great.

The trap you end up in is you have to pay snowflake to access your data, iceberg and other technology help with the walled garden.

Not just snowflake, any pay on use provider.

(Context - have spent 5+ years working with Snowflake, it's great, have built drivers for various languages, etc).
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-05 00:00:23+00:00
> An llm generates the next word based on what best matches its training, with some level of randomisation.

This is sort of accurate, but not precise.

An LLM generates the next token by sampling from a probability distribution over possible tokens, where those probabilities are computed from patterns learned during training on large text datasets.

The difference in our explanations is that you are biasing towards LLMs being fancy database indexes, and I am emphasizing that LLMs build a model of what they are trained on and respond based on that model, which is more like how brains and cells work than you are recognizing. (though I admit my understanding of microbiology places me just barely past peak Mt Stupid [Dunning Kruger], I don't really understand how individual cells do this and can only hand-wavey explain it).

Both systems take input, pass it through a network of neurons, and produce output. Both systems are trying to minimize surprise in predictions. The differences are primarily in scale and complexity. Human brains have more types of neurons (units) and more types of connections (parameters). LLMs more closely mimic the prefrontal cortex, whereas e.g. the brainstem is a lot more different in terms of structure and cellular diversity.

You can make a subjective ontological choice to draw categorical boundaries between them, or you can plot them on a continuum of complexity and scale. Personally I think both framings are useful, and to exclude either is to exclude part of the truth.

My point is that if you draw a subjective categorical boundary around what you deem is consciousness and say that LLMs are outside of that, that is subjectively valid. You can also say that consciousness is a continuum, and individual cells, blades of grass, ants, mice, and people experience different types of consciousness on that continuum. If you take the continuum view, then what follows is a reasonable assumption that LLMs experience a very different kind of consciousness that takes in inputs at about the same rate as a small fish, models those inputs for a few seconds, and then produces outputs. What exactly that "feels" like is as foreign to me as it would be to you. I assume its even more foreign than what it would "feel" like to be a blade of grass.
by verdverm | 2025-11-05 00:00:43+00:00
> There's no evening the field, only deepening the muck.

While I generally agree, I think if we the consumers do more to level the playing fields from our vantage point, we can have more influence

This would be done by running more ad blockers and being vocal about our rejection of how bad ads have become, so they hear back (in theory...)
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-05 00:01:10+00:00
This is largely because search engines are a concentrated market and AI training is getting done by everybody with a GPU.

If Google, Bing, Baidu and Yandex each come by and index your website, they each want to visit every page, but there aren't that many such companies. Also, they've been running their indexes for years so most of the pages are already in them and then a refresh is usually 304 Not Modified instead of them downloading the content again.

But now there are suddenly a thousand AI companies and every one of them wants a full copy of your site going back to the beginning of time while starting off with zero of them already cached.

Ironically copyright is actually making this worse, because otherwise someone could put "index of the whole web as of some date in 2023" out there as a torrent and then publish diffs against it each month and they could all go download it from each other instead of each trying to get it directly from you. Which would also make it easier to start a new search engine.
by _--__--__ | 2025-11-05 00:01:29+00:00
"In addition to the participation of the Portuguese Navy and Judicial Police, the operation was supported by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Joint Inter-Agency Task Force – South (JIATF-S), and the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA), working together within the scope of MAOC-N."

from the linked press release, I'm assuming DEA tipped off the Euro agencies that the sub was headed their way
by JCM9 | 2025-11-05 00:02:10+00:00
This isn’t a binary issue. I disagree with these “abandon the cloud” takes but do agree that most folks spend way way more than they should.

The biggest threat to cloud vendors is that everyone wakes up tomorrow and cost optimizes the crap out of their infrastructure. I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say that global cloud spending could drop by 50% in 3 months if everyone just did a good audit and cleaned up their deployments.
by macleginn | 2025-11-05 00:02:30+00:00
People also apply the notion of data manifold to language data (which is fundamentally discrete), and even for images the smoothness is hard to come buy (e.g., "images of cars" is not smooth because of shape and colour discontinuities). I guess the best we can do is to hope that there is an underlying virtual "data manifold" from which our datapoints have been "sampled", and knowing its structure may be useful.
by taink | 2025-11-05 00:02:53+00:00
He specifically references the last page of the last issue, and concludes his commencement speech with its words "Stay hungry. Stay foolish." [1]

Pretty nice to see it context, next to all the other editions.

> I wonder what obscure (probably online?) source of information of today we'll be comparing to the mainstream sources of tomorrow.

Maybe this very website will be among them?

[1] https://wholeearth.info/p/whole-earth-epilog-october-1974?fo...
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-05 00:03:01+00:00
That's like saying "thousands of miles from California" when something is a few miles from Hawaii.

The article kind of buries it but it was intercepted near the Azores, which are Portuguese territory and policed accordingly. They weren't patrolling in the middle of nowhere.

Also they probably got spotted by drone or something before the surface vessels got sent in to check it out.
by sunscream89 | 2025-11-05 00:03:16+00:00
Hypocrites.

I will tell you the story of how the “greys” traveled back through time.

Time travel is referenced in several CIA occult Power disclosures, including the Stargate programs.

I want to tell you this story to drive a splinter in your mind, as well as to relieve any of “time travelers” messing with us.

Humans are our threat, humans are messing with us through Power. I hope you will remember that.

In a future that is no longer possible, those so called greys (they dislike that title) came upon the Earth, a radiologically active dead cinder. Just over 750,000 years into our future.

Apparently, just before 2012 America nuked the world. A Russia core helped too, though it was American Thought Control who murdered us all.

These found a spacious and untouched subterranean cave, and meditated upon some crystals, for 10,000 years.

These collectively (hundreds of thousands of individuals) meditated for 10,000 years to weave their way back through the quantum flux of time to approximately 10,000 years before the “event.”

From that reference, they entangled their consciousness with some fungal life forms growing in the cave on the crystal surface they chose. Compared to all of that, They promptly and adeptly manipulated the DNA of the fungus to grow a ship and crew of three.

This fist clones of those who found us and saved us when Jesus was lacking, referred to himself by the name Ion.

It wasn’t like they flew around the sun a few times. Their collective intellects spent 10,000 years just to ask the question.

What did Man, by all of his science, do to this beautiful world?
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-05 00:03:41+00:00
Then we can go the other direction. Popping a partially full card in my camera with media that I can’t sort through at a glance/quickly. Library software isn’t going to help you there.

Best practice is to dump, back up, and format. If you’re doing photos and you’re not shooting several gigs per shot hundreds of times then sure you can hold onto those SD cards, but then you need to take them out of rotation.

Ultimately boils down to the kind of user we are talking about, which is incredibly varied