MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nancynguyen98 | 2025-12-31 03:06:50+00:00
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by nephihaha | 2025-12-31 03:07:40+00:00
Ah yes, Wikipedia again... It lists Ireland (sic) as a multiparty state, which is only true up to a point— every taoiseach since the 1930s has been from either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil, and FG/FF form the backbone of every government. Right now they are in coalition to keep Sinn Fein out. Other parties in the Dáil but don't run it.

Denmark seems to be pretty solidly Venstre vs the Social Democrats since the mid nineties with many other parties.

Israel is genuinely multiparty, with a rule that Benjamin Netanyahu must be returned every few years.

Germany is multiparty on paper like Ireland but is dominated by the Christian Democrats and the SPD at federal level. Every Bundeskanzler of West Germany and post-reunification Germany comes from these two. Ditto every president except Gauck.

In mamy countries, there is a level of nepotism with close relatives of former political figures taking charge. Canada, the USA, India, Greece and Thailand have all had this, with some of the same names repeating over the course of generations.
by xivzgrev | 2025-12-31 03:08:00+00:00
Not to mention security. I'd trust Google more not to have a data breach than open AI / whomever. Email accounts are hugely valuable but I haven't seen a Google data breach in the 20+ years I've been using them. This matters because I don't want my chats out there in public.

Also integration with other services. I just had Gemini summarize the contents of a Google Drive folder and it was effortless & effective
by kccqzy | 2025-12-31 03:08:35+00:00
That's not my point. My point is that if executable A depends on library B, and library B does not provide any stable ABI, then the package manager will take care of updating A whenever updating B. Windows has fanatical commitment to ABI stability, so the situation above does not even occur. As a user, all the hard work dealing with ABI breakages on Linux are done by the people managing the software repos, not by the user or by the developer. I'm personally very appreciative of this fact.
by timr | 2025-12-31 03:09:24+00:00
I’ve used Sonnet 4.5 and Codex 5 and 5.1, but not in their native environment [1].

Setting aside the fact that your examples are mostly “replicate this existing thing in language X” [2], again, I’m not saying that the models haven’t gotten better at crapping out code, or that they’re not useful tools. I use them every day. They're great tools, when someone actually intelligent is using them. I also freely concede that they're better tools than a year ago.

The devil is (as always) in the details: how many prompts did it take? what exactly did you have to prompt for? how closely did you look at the code? how closely did you test the end result? Remember that I can, with some amount of prompting, generate perfectly acceptable code for a complex, real-world app, using only GPT 4. But even the newest models generate absolute bullshit on a fairly regular basis. So telling me that you did something complex with an unspecified amount of additional prompting is fine, but not particularly responsive to the original claim.

[1] Copilot, with a liberal sprinkling of ChatGPT in the web UI. Please don’t engage in “you’re holding it wrong” or "you didn't use the right model" with me - I use enough frontier models on a regular basis to have a good sense of their common failings and happy paths. Also, I am trying to do something other than experiment with models, so if I have to switch environments every day, I’m not doing it. If I have to pay for multiple $200 memberships, I’m not doing it. If they require an exact setup to make them “work”, I am unlikely to do it. Finally, if your entire argument here hinges on a point release of a specific model in the last six weeks…yeah. Not gonna take that seriously, because it's the same exact argument, every six weeks. </caveats>

[2] Nothing really wrong with this -- most programming is an iterative exercise of replicating pre-existing things with minor tweaks -- but we're pretty far into the bailey now, I think. The original argument was that you can one-shot a complex application. Now we're in "I can replicate a large pre-existing thing with repeated hand-holding". Fine, and completely within my own envelope for model performance, but not really the original claim.
by gottorf | 2025-12-31 03:10:00+00:00
> It could, but it shouldn't unless your goal is stagnation with a lower standard of living under the control of cartels and oligarchs

I'm seeing no evidence that how much a nation taxes corporations affects its standard of living or political systems one way or another[0]. Norway and Cuba collect similarly high amounts (as a percentage of total tax receipts); the US rubs shoulders the likes of Spain, France, and Finland, as well as Cabo Verde and Tunisia in its relatively low collections.

[0]: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/corporate-tax-statistic...
by oefrha | 2025-12-31 03:10:16+00:00
Riding a wave is fine. Stealing someone else’s clout and falsely advertising your product is not. This applies to every other shitty AI company with little to offer on top of someone else’s foundational model, regardless of origin country. It’s just that Manus is particularly egregious in their false advertising, and their bullshit is an insult to people doing actual heavy lifting, like DeepSeek or Alibaba Qwen team.

Are they the only grifters? No, not by a long shot. Are they the only ones ridiculed? No.
by stephen_g | 2025-12-31 03:12:27+00:00
I think it mostly just means a few hundred billion dollars of value wiped from the stock market - all the models that have been trained will still exist, as well as all the datacentres, even if the OpenAI entity itself and some of the other startups shut down and other companies else get their assets for pennies on the dollar.

But it might mean that LLMs don't really improve much from where they are today, since there won't be the billions of dollars to throw at training for small incremental improvements that consumers mostly don't care to pay anything for.
by 578_Observer | 2025-12-31 03:13:09+00:00
Fair point. What if you start completely naked, with no master and no connections?
As a banker, I see two main paths for "Outsiders":

1. *The "Inheritance" Route (Muko-yoshi / M&A):*
As I mentioned, you can inherit an existing engine. In Japan, "Shinise" with no successor often legally adopt talented outsiders as CEOs (Muko-yoshi). Or, you can buy the company. My job is often matching these "Old Trust" with "Young Energy".

2. *The "Newcomer" Route (Startup Support):*
If you want to build from zero, the system actually protects you.
Depending on the municipality, there are massive subsidies for startups. For example, "0% interest" and "0 guarantee fees" for the first 5 years.

Culturally, we have a soft spot for the "Shinzan-mono" (Newcomer) who works hard. If you humbly present yourself as a beginner, the community and local government often step in to support you.
Japan is strict with "Rude Outsiders," but surprisingly warm (Humanity) to "Sincere Beginners."
by logicprog | 2025-12-31 03:13:27+00:00
Not nearly o3 level. Much better than GPT4, though! For instance Qwen 3 30b-a3b 2507 Reasoning gets 46 vs GPT 4's 21 and o3's 60-something on Artificial Analysis's benchmark aggregation score. Small local models ~30b params and below tend to benchmark far better than they actually work, too.
by otterley | 2025-12-31 03:13:58+00:00
If you fail to heed a warning, though, the law provides that you assume the risk of injury that could result and contributed to your own injury. Without assumption of risk, anyone who provides any services would be strictly liable for any injury, even for those that don’t result from inherently dangerous activities. That would mark a significant change in the law and would suddenly make a lot of activities and services infeasible to provide.
by tehjoker | 2025-12-31 03:14:25+00:00
I think you're right, framing of the shot absolutely tells a story, but at the same time, when you can trust the veracity of the frame content at least you can say something about the real world even if you have to acknowledge there is a possibility of something just off-screen that would change your interpretation of events. Sometimes, the contents of the image betray that the real world diverges significantly from the author's intent, for example, by allowing you to deduce that what is claimed is actually impossible. So there is significant value in "real" images.
by bawolff | 2025-12-31 03:15:53+00:00
No, but at this point the alleged crimes were allegedly comitted (or started to be comitted. The ICC prosecutor would presumably argue that some of the alleged crimes are ongoing or at least were up until the ceasefire) years ago. At best, that argument might have worked when the warrants were first announced, but its been years now. There has been more then enough time to start an investigation. If they were serious about it, they can still start one tomorrow.
by inkyoto | 2025-12-31 03:16:37+00:00
> I don't think that anyone actually believes that writing code is only for junior developers.

That is, unquestionably, how it ought to be. However, the mainstream – regrettably – has devolved into a well-worn and intellectually stagnant trajectory, wherein senior developers are not merely encouraged but expected to abandon the coding altogether, ascending instead into roles such as engineering managers (no offence – good engineering managers are important, it is the quality that has been diluted across the board), platform overseers (a new term for stage gate keepers), or so-called solution architects (the ones who are imbued with compliance, governance and do not venture out past that).

In this model, neither role is expected – and in some lamentable cases, is explicitly forbidden[0] – to engage directly with code. The result is a sterile detachment from the very systems they are charged with overseeing.

Worse still, the industry actively incentivises ill-considered career leaps – for instance, elevating a developer with limited engineering depth into the position of a solution designer or architect. The outcome is as predictable as it is corrosive: individuals who can neither design nor architect.

The number of organisations in which expert-level coding proficiency remains the norm at senior or very senior levels has dwindled substantially over the past couple of decades or so – job ads explicitly call out the management experience, knowledge of vacuous or limited usefulness architectural frameworks (TOGAF and alike). There do remain rare islands in an ever-expanding ocean of managerial abstraction where architects who write code, not incessantly but when a need be, are still recognised as invaluable. Yet their presence is scarce.

The lamentable state of affairs has led to a piquant situation on the job market. In recent years, headhunters have started complaining about being unable to find an actually highly proficient, experienced, and, most importantly, technical architect. One's loss is another one's gain, or at least an opportunity, of course.

[0] Speaking from firsthand experience of observing a solution architect to have quit their job to run a bakery (yes) due to the head of architecture they were reporting to explicitly demanding the architect quit coding. The architect did quit, albeit in a different way.
by tmoertel | 2025-12-31 03:17:24+00:00
> If it is a vulnerability stemming from libc, then every single binary has to be re-linked and redeployed, which can lead to a situation where something has been accidentally left out due to a unaccounted for artefact.

The whole point of Binary Provenance is that there are no unaccounted-for artifacts: Every build should produce binary provenance describing exactly how a given binary artifact was built: the inputs, the transformation, and the entity that performed the build. So, to use your example, you'll always know which artefacts were linked against that bad version of libc.

See https://google.github.io/building-secure-and-reliable-system...
by godelski | 2025-12-31 03:18:14+00:00
> "get multiple different minds involved to check each other's blind spots

This is actually my big gripe about chatbot coding agents. They are trained on human preference and thus they optimize for errors that are in our blind spots.

I don't think people take this subtly seriously enough. Unless we have an /objective/ ground truth we end up proxying our optimization. So we don't optimize for code that /is/ correct, we optimize for code that /looks/ correct. It may seem like a subtle difference but it is critical.

The big difference is when they make errors they are errors that are more likely to be difficult for humans to detect.

Good tools should complement tool users. Fill in gaps. But as we've been trying to train agents to replace humans we are not focusing on this distinction. I want my coding agent to make errors that are obvious to me just as I want errors I make to be obvious to it (or for it to be optimized to detect errors I make)
by nradov | 2025-12-31 03:18:45+00:00
Well to be pedantic, in the USA at least the value of the dollar is largely maintained by civilian law enforcement rather than the military. If you incur a tax liability and fail to pay your debt in US dollars then eventually the IRS will seize your assets and auction them off to settle the debt. Due to the Posse Comitatus Act, the Army doesn't get involved.
by iamnothere | 2025-12-31 03:19:34+00:00
It’s more complicated than that, as Germany’s punitive war debt was designed to cripple it and it didn’t have many options. It’s actually fairly difficult to create hyperinflation without being trapped in an extreme situation. But I agree that it’s generally a bad idea to put yourself at risk of it.

Fiat isn’t necessarily backed by nothing, that’s a misconception. It’s backed by the strength of the underlying economy, the perceived value of claims on the nation’s resources and services, the political stability of the nation, and the need to hold that currency for trade. The problem with fiat is that when those things are in decline, the lack of hard assets can cause a rapid devaluation, as the “invisible assets” backing the currency are now devalued. This compounds the decline.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-31 03:22:39+00:00
From my experience, it’s more likely that the engineers who got far enough in the company to be working on this code believed that their willingness to work on nefarious tasks that others might refuse or whistle-blow made them a trusted asset within the company.

In industries like this there’s also a mindset of “Who cares, it’s all going to corporations anyway, why not send some of that money to the corporation that writes my paychecks?”
by danabramov | 2025-12-31 03:25:22+00:00
It’s more of a vibe, as they say :) Things that cumulatively feel off: overly descriptive headers, overuse of flowery language (“we’re entering a new age where A is B, where X coexist peacefully with Y”). Lots of “isn’t X but Y”, “not X, just Y”. In general the rhythm and the tone is a tell (authoritative and scoldy but vapid and bland at the same time).
by sedatk | 2025-12-31 03:25:25+00:00
No. On NT, kernel ABI isn't defined by the syscalls but NTDLL. Win32 and all other APIs are wrappers on top of NTDLL, not syscalls. Syscalls are how NTDLL implements kernel calls behind the scenes, it's an implementation detail. Original point of the thread was about Win32, UWP and other APIs that build a new layer on top of NTDLL.

I argue that NT doesn't break its kernel ABI.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-12-31 03:26:59+00:00
If you ask an AI that question, it would tell you all the ways this is a bad idea, which isn't in this article (which is one of the reasons I think this wasn't written by AI, but just formatted by it)

Human articles on HN are largely shit. I would personally prefer to see either AI articles, or human articles by experts (which we get almost none of on HN)
by Davidzheng | 2025-12-31 03:27:19+00:00
There are other avenues of income. You can invade other industries which are slow on AI uptake and build an AI-from-ground competitor with large advantages over peers. There are hints of this (not AI-from-ground but with more AI) with deepmind's drug research labs. But this can be a huge source of income. You can kill entire industries which inevitably cannot incorporate AI as fast as AI companies can internally.
by xnx | 2025-12-31 03:28:17+00:00
In the panoramas for the USS Enterprise (Kelvin) you can see the barcode scanners they used.

https://www.barcodesinc.com/news/price-check-on-the-bridge-b...

https://www.barcodesinc.com/news/barcode-scanners-back-for-a...
by shagmin | 2025-12-31 03:28:48+00:00
I don't have a concrete example, but I think you can invent plenty of iterated prisoner's dilemmas with whatever modified rules and variables and find 'tit-for-tat' isn't the end-all-be-all. Like it changes things if there's an infinite or an unknown number of rounds, some of the defects are 'noise', etc.,.
by just6979 | 2025-12-31 03:29:09+00:00
random internet users are not promising salvation, nor or they taking profit.

they are saying: i made this and it worked for me in my specific case. you can look at it (or have a trusted knowledgable friend look at it), and use it, for zero payment; if you want to, if the paid solutions offered on the market are insufficient for your specific case.

they would never need to come up with 1.1 billion dollars because they're not making 10x that from selling things that still harm people despite the resources that that profit makes available.
by nashashmi | 2025-12-31 03:29:28+00:00
No. Fraud subject is great to rile the public to action, but the amount of fraud that happens is so low, it is minute to the benefits of the program, and thus the program is considered effective. Secondly, every person who has committed some fraud is always looking over their shoulder for years. Fraudsters in Hurricane Katrina damages were caught ten years later.
by bawolff | 2025-12-31 03:30:35+00:00
I would say notifications of investigations are almost never given after the crime is committed, is vaccously true because literally nobody other than the ICC does the notice thing.

In almost every other system, investigations are kept secret. The complementary thing is pretty exclusive to the ICC.

I would also say that this is a matter of politics not justice, since such investigation notices are not addressed to the accused and in general it is expected that the accused is not told that they are the subject of an investigation. As such even if the notice was handled incorrectly, it wouldn't impinge on any of the accused rights and hence not be an issue of "justice"
by arcfour | 2025-12-31 03:31:08+00:00
It's very clearly proven that murder is dangerous, yet people still commit it. You still have not explained how laws stop things from happening, as if by magic.

> And I am not even going to respond to your idiotic "leftist" statement.

This says more about you than it does me. Taking the most cynical view possible, at least a for profit company has a profit motive to keep me alive unlike a bureaucrat. A bureaucrat doesn't lose their salary if traffic deaths go up. In fact, if a problem gets worse, they often receive more funding to fix it. If a government road is dangerous, you cannot easily fire the government and switch to a competitor's road.

The success in Helsinki wasn't a triumph of law; it was a triumph of engineering. The question is not whether we want safety, but which system—a state monopoly with no financial penalty for failure, or a private entity that faces financial ruin if it kills its customers—is more likely to engender safety.
by slwvx | 2025-12-31 03:32:58+00:00
Others wrote their own NYT editorials in response to Romney: https://archive.ph/iPN3E

On a related note: I was intrigued to see Vitalik Buterin talk about wealth taxes in a post today. He favors "diffusing not dollars, but the means of production." So he favors somehow distributing capital and investment more broadly? At any rate, I think it's a sign of strength in the Ethereum community that Vitalik is engaging with these ideas.
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/30/balance_of_power...
by yowlingcat | 2025-12-31 03:34:02+00:00
Ah, I remember scheming about buying an NF7-S + an Athlon XP Barton and unlocking it, combining it with a geforce 4 ti4200 and overclocking both but not even having enough of the pocket change to pull that off. By the time I was far enough along to have some of that in school, I picked up an A64 and a top of the line Geforce 5 from a black friday sale and had a great time gaming and coding.

Ironically, all the scheming I did about overclocking ended up being very unnecessary and I found it borderline impossible to actually stress the upper limits of the machine's muscle with day to day workloads and so all the research I put into overclocking was not really practically necessary, that it was freeing to not have to even think about the machine and instead focus on the work I wanted to do with the software I was using and building. Surely a lesson that continues to pay dividends, albeit from simpler times...
by codazoda | 2025-12-31 03:34:34+00:00
As for bag space...

I always take my suitcase and my backpack to the airplane and then I check my suitcase at the gate. Three reasons. First, there are no baggage fees at the gate. Second, I can roll backpack on my suitcase. Third, I get to board early for "helping out". Why wouldn't you do this?

I do only check it if someone else in my party is already checking bags but that turns out to be most of the time for me.

Note: I'm actually replying to a reply that's too deep.
by bbor | 2025-12-31 03:34:35+00:00
I’m glad someone else noticed the time frames — turns out the lead author here has published 28 distinct preprints in the past 60 days, almost all of which are marked as being officially published already/soon.

Certainly some scientists are just absurdly efficient and all 28 involved teams, but that’s still a lot.

Personally speaking, this gives me second thoughts about their dedication to truly accurately measuring something as notoriously tricky as corporate SWE performance. Any number of cut corners in a novel & empirical study like this would be hard to notice from the final product, especially for casual readers…TBH, the clickbait title doesn’t help either!

I don’t have a specific critique on why 4 months is definitely too short to do it right tho. Just vibe-reviewing, I guess ;)