MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by palmotea | 2025-12-10 20:27:45+00:00
> As I see it, the purpose of AI is the same as the purpose of every technology ever since the hand axe - to reduce labor. Humans have a strong drive to figure out ways to achieve more with less effort.

Yes.

> Obviously there are higher order effects, but same as we wouldn't expect the Homo Erectus to stop playing with stone tools because they'd disrupt their society (which of course they did), I don't understand why we should decide to halt technological progress now.

The difference is the relationship of that technology to the individual/masses. When a Homo Erectus invented a tool, he and every member of his species (who learned of it) directly benefited from the technology, but with capitalism that link has been broken. Now Homo Sapiens can invent technologies that may greatly benefit a few, but will be broadly harmful to individuals. AI is likely one of those technologies, as its on the direct path to the elimination broad classes of jobs with no replacement.

This situation would be very different if we either had some kind of socialism or a far more egalitarian form of capitalism (e.g. with extremely diffuse and widespread ownership).
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-12-10 20:27:48+00:00
LLM slop doesn't have aspirations at all, its just click bait nonsense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0

Drives people insane:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftBiNu0ZNU

And LLM are economically and technologically unsustainable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-8TDOFqkQA

These have already proven it will be unconstrained if AGI ever emerges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx4Tpsk_fnM

The LLM bubble will pass, as it is already losing money with every new user. =3
by sosodev | 2025-12-10 20:27:52+00:00
I did find this app: https://github.com/gabber-dev/gabber

The creator posted a little demo of it working with Qwen3 Omni that is quite impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DBFVe3cLto

He didn't include any details regarding how the model was running though
by yannyu | 2025-12-10 20:28:06+00:00
I've thought about this a lot as I see more and more reckless driving in the areas I live in. Surveillance is generally a net negative, but it's also bad when you see people speeding around schools, rolling through stop signs, and running red lights. We seem to have a worst of all situations where traffic is getting increasingly difficult to enforce, driving is getting more dangerous year by year, and we're terrified of government overreach if we add any automation at all to enforcement.

I don't know the solution, but I do know that in the US we've lost 10-15 years of progress when it comes to traffic fatalities.
by vdupras | 2025-12-10 20:28:11+00:00
Does it do this often? This is quite literally "printing money", right? Wasn't the Fed not supposed to be allowed to do that?

I'm guessing that if it doesn't do that, short term treasury yields will spike, and they don't want that to happen?

Doesn't this make treasury yields meaningless? If they're subsided by the Fed, then it means that nobody but them will buy them, since this subsidy means that short term treasuries are noncompetitive with other asset classes.

What am I missing?
by pizza | 2025-12-10 20:28:13+00:00
The platform operators have a responsibility to remove garbage from their site. I don’t see how it’s better if adults are the recipients of these alleged harms. And I definitely don’t see how the platform operators are going to clean up their act if — rather than being penalized — they can pretend that the problem has vanished into thin air because a specific category of vulnerable users is now de jure disappeared.
by Havoc | 2025-12-10 20:28:23+00:00
The gamernexus point about "open one eye, close one eye" was on point here.

China instructed companies to stop using nvidia chips too...knowing fully well it'll not stop. It achieves their aim though - a strong nudge in the direction of independence.

Much of Chinese top level direction seems to be that way - indicating direction of travel and implied future threats for companies not rowing in said direction

As for the US side of the ban - that's about as sound as the war on drugs. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows that's futile
by macleginn | 2025-12-10 20:28:46+00:00
Neveress all Austen's happy endings are due to the magical alignment of respect and love with security and social alliance. Jane's heroines are playing a (relatively, see below) high risk/high reward game of not wanting to sacrifice _anything_, which leads to their triumphs in the novels but most often led to loneliness and economic insecurity in the real world.

Similarly, all people have choices, but these choices are often pretty agonising ones, and Jane almost never has her protagonists or us confront such life-and-death, very-bad-vs-infinitely-worse choices. And this was a conscious choice since the novels of the 18th century had been more or less filled with them.
by gary_0 | 2025-12-10 20:28:55+00:00
This worldwide push for online ID verification is absolutely not in good faith, and I'm shocked at how few people on "Hacker" News are seeing it for what it is. Imagine going on 1990's or 2000's Usenet and telling those folks they'd have to upload government ID to prove they weren't children and keep using the system. Virtually everyone would have shouted this Big Brother shit down until it was their dying breath.
by ang_cire | 2025-12-10 20:29:12+00:00
> It's also a massive propaganda channel.

The problem is that school curriculum is as well. I remember going to school in Texas and hearing the phrase "Northern War of Aggression" to describe the Civil War.

Censorship is never about cutting off information, it's only ever about cutting off information that the censors don't like. Given how openly hostile both AU and the US's governments are to progressive politics and worldviews, I am dubious that this isn't about controlling kids' access to a more open view of the world than their schools will give them.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-10 20:29:33+00:00
Oh, man.

My nephew works for Kroger, primarily picking stock for online orders.

He's a good dude and I enjoy hanging out with him, but I absolutely promise you that he doesn't do all of those jobs. He doesn't do anything quickly-enough to shift roles like that, and never has. To use a polite managerial description: He definitely works at his own pace.

I don't see that kind of task diversity at the store I usually shop at, either.

The register people do register stuff. The self-checkout people do self-checkout stuff. The order-pickers do order-picking. The people who bag groceries and fetch carts just bag groceries and fetch carts. The produce folks do produce. The florists florist. And so forth.

Sometimes I see a management-type range-walking from one problem to the next, but even that's exceptional.

It's the only real grocery store we have in the small city in which I live, so I get to spend a fair bit of time there whether I like it or not. I've spent years passively becoming familiar with the people who work there, and the jobs they do.

If they moved around much between different roles, I'd have noticed it by now.

(It's also a union shop, which may have something to do with it. When high-speed shifts from pushing a broom and heads out to the parking lot to fetch carts before he starts sorting produce, he's taking work away from the people who normally do those jobs and diminishing their roles. Unions may tend to dislike that kind of thing.

We didn't shift around much when I worked in union retail, either. It was a big deal for me to spend a day away from my department to help out with another one that was short-handed, and an opportunity was always presented for me to say "No, I'll just keep working where I normally work."

It was an even bigger deal if they needed help over on the grocery side of the store, which had a completely different union with a completely different contract. The union guys had to agree to allow it every time before that could happen.)
by paganel | 2025-12-10 20:29:54+00:00
> I don't think we should normalise children on platforms where the content contains political agitation

Why not? Why won't you give political agency to young adults? I'm saying this as a kid who grew up in Romania, just after Ceausescu had been executed, so throughout the '90s, I do very well remember all the political news and commentary coming my way (I was a teen), but I can't say that it bothered, not at all, it made me more connected to the adult world and hence more prepared to tackle real life just a little bit later on.

I won't comment on the other stuff, because that would make me bring back memories of watching TV1000 (a Swedish TV satellite channel) late at night on Saturdays, also in the early '90s, I won't say for what but suffice is to say that I turned out ok.
by Mogzol | 2025-12-10 20:30:10+00:00
For me it appears in millimetres, but I'm in Canada not the US. I'm guessing the default is chosen based on your browser's language. You can change the units in the top right.

Edit: I checked the page's code and it does indeed set the units based on language. If your language is "en-US" you get imperial by default, everyone else gets metric.
by ignoramous | 2025-12-10 20:30:14+00:00
> Targeted attacks against military/militia leadership is not terrorism - almost by definition.

I mean, you're not wrong: the State seeks monopoly on violence; the kind of damages it can inflict, where, when and however it wants. Everyone else is ... a terrorist, and whatever they do is ... terrorism.

> communication devices procured by Hezbollah and directly given by Hezbollah

Replace "Hezbollah" with "the US Govt" and you'll arrive at some answer.

Btw, off-duty / non-combat personnel aren't deemed to be "at war".
by karmickoala | 2025-12-10 20:30:19+00:00
I understand the exercise, but I think it should have a disclaimer, some of the LLM reviews are showing a bias and when I read the comments they turned out not to be as bad as the LLM made them. As this hits the front page, some people will only read the title and not the accompanying blog post, losing all of the nuance.

That said, I understand the concept and love what you did here. By this being exposed to the best disinfectant, I hope it will raise awareness and show how people and corporations should be careful about its usage. Now this tech is accessible to anyone, not only big techs, in a couple of hours.

It also shows how we should take with a grain of salt the result of any analysis of such scale by a LLM. Our private channels now and messages on software like Teams and Slack can be analyzed to hell by our AI overlords. I'm probably going to remove a lot of things from cloud drives just in case. Perhaps online discourse will deteriorate to more inane / LinkedIn style content.

Also, I like that your prompt itself has some purposefully leaked bias, which shows other risks—¹for instance, "fsflover: F", which may align the LLM to grade worse the handles that are related to free software and open source).

As a meta concept of this, I wonder how I'll be graded by our AI overlords in the future now that I have posted something dismissive of it.

¹Alt+0151
by mothballed | 2025-12-10 20:30:21+00:00
Sure but bearing arms is a lot more restrictive in Switzerland. I'm not claiming you can't have guns in other countries, hell you can have a gun even in places like Japan in a limited capacity with the right permits.

Where I live in Arizona you can 3d print a handgun, load it, stick it down your pants, and walk around with it around town all day doing basically whatever (as long as you don't go to a school, jail, or courthouse basically). All with zero background checks, licenses/permits, or even needing to carry an ID. Can I do that in Switzerland? I doubt they would let you do that even with a long rifle, unless you are going to/from some sort of approved activity.

The only euro-controlled place I know where you can basically do that is Greenland, as long as it is a bolt action rifle. Greenland is actually looser than USA in that regard, you can buy a bolt rifle like a hammer from a hardware store in Greenland with zero checks or license (IIRC, even as a foreigner) whereas in USA you could only do that if you bought it privately or made it yourself.
by mamonster | 2025-12-10 20:30:32+00:00
>When Ukraine assassinates a Russian general with a car bomb, is that "terrorism" or is that just a targeted killing of a military leader during a war?

That depends on when the car detonates. If the car detonates when he and his guard enter it at 6 am near the defense ministry sure. If the car detonates when it is parked in the middle of Moscow at noon and 100 people are around then by pre-2022 standards it would be terrorism.

I think instead of these fake whataboutisms we should just admit that there is no universal bar and if it's "our team" then we are willing to change the standard.

In this case, we know that when Israel set off these pagers some innocent bystanders got hurt. No need to "whatabout".
by schmiddim | 2025-12-10 20:30:35+00:00
Mine is not comparable with the Early Kindles but it comes close to the Oasis with the tiny Battery. I have to charge it every 1 - 2 Weeks. Wifi is disabled, Bluetooth turned on. I only use the Koreader App, sometimes Wikipedia. Powersafe triggers after 24h of inactivity what really rarely happens because I read every evening.
by hearsathought | 2025-12-10 20:30:42+00:00
> 1. There aren't a lot of dead civilians given that...

It's amazing how similarly zionists/israelis and nazis rationalize.

> 2. Semites is not an ethnicity, it's a language family, sorry. When used colloquially it has always referred to Jews.

"Semitic people or Semites is a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group[2][3][4][5] associated with people of the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, including Akkadians (Assyrians and Babylonians), Arabs, Arameans, Canaanites (Ammonites, Edomites, Israelites, Moabites, Phoenicians, and Philistines) and Habesha peoples." --wiki

> 3. “Semitic” is a language group, not a racial caste.

Germanic is a language group and an ethnic group. Using your logic, germans are not germanic peoples because germanic is a language group.

> Jews—including Ashkenazi—have documented Middle Eastern ancestry,

They have less documented middle eastern ancestry (none) than elizabeth warren has of native ancestry.

> The idea that Israelis are “non-Semitic Europeans pretending to be Jews” is just antisemitic nonsense, not a serious factual claim.

Considering that most "israelis" are ATHEISTS and most "israelis" are non-semitic and most "israelis" do not adhere to or respect the torah, it is a factual claim.

> 5. Correct, Arabs are Arabian. You're not "making shit up" you're repeating evidence-free nonsense you want to be true without examining its validity.

Why do you lie? People can literally google "semites" or "semitic peoples". If you lie about something like this, what are the odds you are lying about israel killing civilian semites in palestine?
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-10 20:30:45+00:00
As someone who doesn't want to live in a country run by corporations, that first part of indication the direction of travel sounds like a good idea. Obviously, the companies should follow the direction set out by the nation willingly and not because of threats, but otherwise it doesn't sound like a dumb idea to try to unify people toward some goal rather than the goal being "individuals can get very, very rich and wealthy".
by an_aparallel | 2025-12-10 20:30:59+00:00
where would my firms documents end up (on whos servers) to do this checking? I dont know how any firm would just hand out their cd's just like that?

Or is being that lax normal these days?

Aside: this field is insanely frustrating, the chasm between clash detection and resolution is a right ball ache...between acc, revizto, and aconex clash detection (and the like)..the defacto standard is pretty much telling me x is touching y....great...can you group this crap intelligently to get my hi rise clashes per discipline from 2000 down to 10? Can you navigate me there in revit (yes switchback in revizto is great) but revizto itself could improve.
by MrJohz | 2025-12-10 20:31:05+00:00
Generally, I'm fully on board with the "eliminate everything but the point" philosophy, but transitions can be really useful for displaying that the same element is present in multiple slides. I've had a few cases where I've shown a "before" diagram/code sample/whatever, then on the next slide shown the same diagram again, alongside an "after" version. But the layout I use to put two diagrams on the screen is going to look different to the layout I use for just one, which means the original diagram is going to jump around suddenly.

A ~100ms transition where the first diagram moves from its place on the first slide to its place on the second slide ensures that a person looking at the slide understands very intuitively which of the two diagrams is the original, and which one has been added. It's not perfect (e.g. you'll miss it if you're not looking at the slides at the time), but for diagrams or code samples you generally want the audience to be focussing on the slides, so it typically works well. And in 90% of cases, even if you do miss it, it'll be obvious after a couple of moments' thought what's going on, but the transition saves you those couple of moments.

I could just show both items on the first slide, but I find it's often pedagogically useful to explore the initial state by itself, rather than jumping straight in with the comparison. That way you can motivate the comparison more clearly by identifying the issues with the initial state (be that a code sample, a diagram, whatever), before moving on to the comparison with a potential solution.

If it weren't for this one use-case, I'd probably also switch to PDFs, because I've been bitten by presentational issues before that would have been a lot easier to solve if the presentation had just been available as a PDF.
by autoexec | 2025-12-10 20:31:16+00:00
> Why would someone in an Idaho suburb care about how Manhattan manages its congestion pricing?

Because in all likelihood this isn't going to be limited to Manhattan, and I'd argue (like many others) that it probably shouldn't be. The fact that it's been so successful makes it all but inevitable that the practice will spread. Why would people wait until they're forced to choose between driving to work and affording groceries before they speak out against it?

> None of these things are actually related to why people are stretched thin and getting screwed by the system

I think a lot of people would argue that dynamic pricing schemes and governments taking increasing amounts of money from their pockets is, at least in part, why they are stretched thin. In any case, regardless of the cause of their struggles they are struggling. If they were feeling financially secure they might grumble at the increasing likelihood of paying fines to drive where they want to, but they wouldn't be panicking over it like they have been.

Congestion pricing isn't seen as something that's screwing them over right now, but it is seen as the latest scheme cooked up by government that will be screwing them over if they can't put a stop to it.

I think we'd agree that congestion pricing isn't the biggest issue impacting the struggling American family right now, but I can understand why it's being seen as a concern and as something they want to keep out of their own cities. For some that means putting a stop to the practice before it spreads.
by dang | 2025-12-10 20:31:29+00:00
I just remember them. Or forget them!

The process is simply that moderation is super repetitive, so eventually certain pathways get engraved in one's memory. A lot of the time, though, I can't quite remember one of these patterns and I'm unable to dig up my past comments about it. That's annoying, in that particular way when your brain can feel something's there but is unable to retrieve it.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-10 20:31:33+00:00
> where cities get all the benefit at the expense of the larger region

A pair of thought experiments. The tri-state area is depopulated and turned into a nature reserve. Everywhere except for New York City. How does it do?

Now, New York City is leveled and turned into a nature preserve. How does this affect those states’ non-urban populations? (Hint: economic collapse. Budget cuts. Unemployment.)

Cities suck resources from outside. But by and large, they also distribute largesse to their proximities and subsidize life for everyone around them.

> led to a recent recall of the local council member. Why does the majority vote of a city of 800k people get to unilaterally dictate the transportation options for a region upwards of 7MM?

New York City has a population of 8.5mm [1]. That’s almost half of the metropolitan area’s population [2]. Include New York State and the non-voting population effect is a minority. Congestion charging isn’t a tyranny of the minority.

As for why, self determination.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area
by selkin | 2025-12-10 20:32:03+00:00
> It's odd to always say "Hashicorp, an IBM company". Looks like they want to assign blame.

Or it's legal trying to preempt a risk.

If it was the author just wanting to point at IBM, they'd mention it just once or twice, but using that awkward phrase throughout the text makes me think it was an edit mandated by a careful lawyer.
by kbar13 | 2025-12-10 20:32:20+00:00
we're using cdk since 100% of our stuff is in aws but will soon need to hook up some external resources like cloudflare. looked at tfcdk a while back but didn't think it was a good idea (glad). still trying to figure out a good way forward and hoping it's not to rip the bandaid and migrate everything to terraform / pulumi
by johnfn | 2025-12-10 20:32:38+00:00
I think AI only "got good" around the release of Claude Code + Opus 4.0, which was around March of this year. And it's not like I sit down and code 8 hours a day 5 days a week. I put on my pants one leg at a time -- there's a lot of other inefficiencies in the process, like meetings, alignment, etc, etc.

But yes, I do think that the efficiency gain, purely in the domain of coding, is around 5x, which is why I was able to entirely redesign my website in a week. When working on personal projects I don't need to worry about stakeholders at all.
by palmotea | 2025-12-10 20:32:46+00:00
> Yes, they were "actively working on it"; no, they had made little significant progress despite throwing tons of money at the initiative.

That's how things sometimes go when you're building up a capability. I'm sure they were going to work through the setbacks, regardless.

>> The US's problem is that its actions are uncoordinated.

> They are coordinated well enough, but with the goal of magnifying Cheeto Benito's personal influence and cultivating his in-group's fortunes.

No. That problem is bigger than the Trump administrations, focusing on him is lazy.
by noosphr | 2025-12-10 20:33:11+00:00
Banning the printing press in Europe would have stopped the 30 years war.

Somehow I don't think anyone here would approve of the long term consequences.

The end result of this will be that everyone needs to give their real name and address to view social media.

Anything you say or watch that the current government doesn't like will result in police coming for a chat.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-12-10 20:33:28+00:00
> The real reason was the “Infectious API” problem. To get performance benefits, you can’t just create an arena locally; you have to pass it down the call stack so functions can allocate inside it. This forces a rewrite of function signatures.

Sorry, but it doesn't seem that difficult (famous last words). Add a new implicit parameter to all objects just like "this" called "thisArena". When a call to any allocation is made, pass "thisArena" implicitly, unless something else passed explicitly.

That way the arena is viral all the way down and you can create sub-arenas. It also does not require actually passing the arena as parameter.

You don't even need to rewrite any new code, just recompile it.