MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-12-01 21:59:29+00:00
As illustrated by the top comment, it seems that "AI" relies on hype, i.e., careful manipulation of how it is perceived. Its continued existence depends on relentless fund raising because generally no one is going to pay fees to use it long-term

As with so much of Silicon Valley's output the past few decades, "AI" is not something people will pay for. It could be a new form of Trojan Horse for data collection, surveillance and ads, though, adopting a hyperfocus on "growth" at any cost (human, environmental, etc.) but this might not even be necessary^1

Time will tell

In order to raise funds in the absence of any clear business plan, "AI" cannot just be ordinary and useful. It cannot be "autocomplete on steroids". It must be "world-changing"

No one shall underestimate or discount the value of "AI". Overestimation is permitted, however. Speculation is encouraged, but only if it's wild and extreme

1. "AI" is not depending on being brought inside the gates of Troy by the city's inhabitants. It's being placed inside the gates by others. Companies with large numbers of users are installing "AI" on users' computers without the users' consent
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-01 21:59:58+00:00
Right, I want premium because it's a "fair" payment for the service I use and would help support the people who make good content, but the vast majority of those dollars go to the company who is solely at fault for encouraging and essentially requiring creators to use clickbait and fake thumbnails and put out slop every single day and never ever ever try doing something slightly different and consistently change things in ways that those creators do not want and hate. Every complaint you likely have about youtube content was forced by youtube for their own profitability. Don't like sponsorships? People mostly started seeking them out after Google cut ad payouts essentially in half with no warning. Don't like videos being way longer than they need to be? That's because youtube started paying out based on watch time instead of views and that encourages padding. Don't like censorship? It was Youtube's choice to shadowban/punish anyone who even said the word pandemic during a literal global pandemic that people probably wanted to talk about, even in passing. Buy into Youtube's new "channel member" feature in good faith? Well then Youtube changed it so that the videos that only members can watch are now shoved in front of everyone's eyeballs without your approval or desire or asking and it's really annoying to all your viewers. Don't like every video spending 30 seconds telling you to subscribe and "hit that like button" and then the fucking bell? That's because google decided that if your video didn't have a high enough click through rate, it wouldn't be shown to subscribers at all, and then introduced the bell for "subscribers but for real", and then even that hasn't really been honored. Youtube has for example suddenly decided that I should be shown low view russian language plagiarism of videos I like that have then been autodubbed back into english rather than the video from one of my subscriptions that was copied to make the russian video. How is that supposed to help anyone?

I will happily pay for youtube when they show that they want to encourage good content and help empower the people who make that good content, but Google doesn't want to do that because Mr Beast slop advertising to your kids is more profitable.

So I pay for Nebula instead.
by misiek08 | 2025-12-01 22:00:22+00:00
We are observing the most valuable people leaving, because they easily can get a job at place where they care more about value you get to company than the bonus you will get as C-level after firing highly paid workers.

In the cases we know (I have a group of people working in different small and medium corps in Poland and Germany) - the people that are staying are either too lazy to change work or they are just not enough to get remote job.
by 9dev | 2025-12-01 22:00:25+00:00
You accumulate web frameworks and maintainers similar to the winning strategy at Monopoly, until you have implicit control over entire ecosystems. Whether you actually seize that control or not doesn’t even matter, because you are in a position to do so—by strategic neglect, or increased attention to whatever project supports your current business goals best.

No single entity should have that much power, especially no venture-capital backed one.
by xivzgrev | 2025-12-01 22:01:14+00:00
Yea like having 20 people on a project update call may be a poor of their time, but for boss man it's a great use - everyone he needs in the same room! Don't need to chase anyone down and someone can chime in if something inaccurate is said

Way too much upside for this kind of "low value" meeting to disappear
by schlauerfox | 2025-12-01 22:01:14+00:00
It's so strange when it obviously hits a preprogrammed non-answer in these models, how can one ever trust them when there is a babysitter that interferes in an actual answer. I suppose that asking it what version it is isn't a valid question in it's training data so it's programmed to say check the documentation, but still definitely suspicious when it gives a non-answer.
by sudobash1 | 2025-12-01 22:01:18+00:00
From the bill summary:

> The bill also requires a business entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the Internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material to prevent persons from accessing the website from an internet protocol address or internet protocol address range that is linked to or known to be a virtual private network system or provider.

Later:

> A business entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the Internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material shall prevent persons from accessing the website from an internet protocol address or internet protocol address range that is linked to or known to be a virtual private network system or virtual private network provider.

No mention is given to where the business is located.
by MattSayar | 2025-12-01 22:01:20+00:00
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by jakubmazanec | 2025-12-01 22:01:45+00:00
This is what they should have done: what is now React Router v7 should have been Remix v3, and what is now Remix v3 should have had a new name - it's a new framework that ostensibly makes different choices, new name is a must! They told us for years that Remix is just React Router with additional framework features. That made sense.
by archagon | 2025-12-01 22:02:15+00:00
Personally, I believe that housing security should be a right, and it’s just not possible to have that when your rent can spike arbitrarily in the future for reasons outside your control. Young people with no local connections and limited belongings might be able to move every few years, but it’s downright traumatic for older people. Based on my lived experience, I will always vote for rent control while simultaneously pushing for more housing. The economic arguments against it are almost irrelevant.
by renewiltord | 2025-12-01 22:02:23+00:00
I don't think the Indian government realistically has the ability to enforce on Apple/Google/Samsung like that. Regardless, even if they did, India has a diversity of (what we would probably consider) garbage smartphones. For anyone who lives in the West and is used to the kind of state legibility and control here, I think they'd find India quite surprising. The state has limited visibility and control there, simply because they never built a trustable bureaucratic network of data transmission.

If you read the Internet, you will hear that India has strict controls on KYC for SIM cards and so on. But on my last trip there I acquired one without much fuss. I'm not sure how that happened but I didn't provide any ID! I suspect that in such an environment you can't really do the thing you're suggesting.

The average mobile phone store there had an absolutely mind-blowing profusion of smartphone brands that all sound like those Amazon drop-shipped Chinese brands: Vivo, Poco, Realme, Oppo. And those are the good ones! There is a Cambrian-like explosion of brands there from various manufacturers. It's an unusual place.

EDIT: I'm going to have to reply to you here because I'm rate-limited on comments. See below in response.

Is it contradictory? I imagine saying "install this app on your phones from the factory when selling here" is a lot more achievable than coordinating what you suggested which is:

> ...build tools, reporting, support services around helping with both Scamming applications or Stolen phones etc....

But perhaps you anticipate these to both require equivalent ability? If so, I think that's the crux of the disagreement. I don't think the Indian state has the power to set up a mechanism to set a standard for tools, reporting, and support services that meet some requirements to detect scammers etc.

In fact, I think that's a really high bar. I think perhaps only highly developed nations would have any success designing such a program. I think even the smaller EU member nations would fail at it, and I don't think any of the developing nations (barring China).
by bigyabai | 2025-12-01 22:02:29+00:00
Both are objectively true, though. IFS would finally stand on it's own legs with a customer at Apple's scale, and Intel has the required IP and know-how to provide a stopgap RISC chip to embedded and datacenter customers that Apple usually ignores.

The "nightmare scenario" of Apple buying out the entirety of 14A to fabricate ARM chips is more-or-less what Pat Gelsinger spent his tenure trying to arrange.
by zdragnar | 2025-12-01 22:03:03+00:00
The wording of the bill is as follows:

(c) A business entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the Internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material shall prevent persons from accessing the website from an internet protocol address or internet protocol address range that is linked to or known to be a virtual private network system or virtual private network provider.

In effect, Wisconsin is demanding that no publisher of obscene materials (porn, basically) allow anyone to access their content via VPN. The wording of the bill doesn't care whether or not either the person viewing the content or the data center that publishes the content is in Wisconsin. With that said, Wisconsin won't be able to bring charges, and the civil liability portion won't trigger, unless one or the other does happen to be in Wisconsin.

Where the bill gets its teeth on the VPN side of things is in section (4) of the assembly bill, which is probably intended for parents of children to sue publishers:

(4) Civil liability. (a) A person alleging a violation of sub. (2) or (3) may bring an action seeking actual and punitive damages, court costs, and reasonable attorney fees notwithstanding s. 814.04 (1). A person bringing an action under this paragraph is not required to first exhaust any relevant administrative remedies.

In short, if my child uses a VPN to circumvent the age verification rules or some other safeguard to access the obscene materials, I can sue any site that operates in or employs people in Wisconsin for damages in a civil lawsuit for punitive damages. Alternatively, if my child accessed the material from a computer in Wisconsin, that would also be grounds for such a lawsuit. I'm not a lawyer, don't take this as legal advice.
by interpol_p | 2025-12-01 22:03:03+00:00
Depends what you see as “abusing” the system. By working from home, I can take a walk in the garden when I find it hard to think, it energises me. At my office I can (and do) take a walk in the car park, but inevitably I leave the office with a headache caused by constant noise and fluorescent lighting

At home, I can put my family first if needed. When I’m at the office and something comes up at the kids’ school that I need to deal with, it’s a mad dash to get away soon enough that I almost have to drop everything and run

The times working in the office has been good as a software engineer: when we are prototyping on physical hardware I do not have at home. That’s it

It’s great if people love to go to the office. That’s fine. It’s managers that enforce it who are the problem — the people who work for you aren’t children and if you feel like you can’t trust them to make the decision to work from home, why on earth would you trust them in your office?
by toyg | 2025-12-01 22:03:06+00:00
It's not an easy call. Sometimes, one or two dedicated and competent people can vastly outperform large and bureaucratic consulting firms, for a fraction of the price. And sometimes, somebody's cousin "who knows that internet stuff" is trousering inflated rates at the taxpayer's expense, while credentialed and competent professionals are shut out from old boys' networks. One rule does not fit all.
by cogman10 | 2025-12-01 22:03:46+00:00
Yeah, it'll be unrelated to docker.

Uberjars are (typically) extracting all the classes from jar dependencies and combining them into a single jar. That's all gzip compression work.

Container layers are simply saved off filesystem modifications. If you use something like Jib to build your image, then the actual deployable should actually be a lot smaller than what you could do with an uber jar. That's because Jib will put your dependencies in one layer and your application jar in another. Assuming you work like most everyone, then that means the only thing that usually gets transferred is your application code. Dependencies only get sent if you change them or the base image.
by klipklop | 2025-12-01 22:04:08+00:00
You are getting down voted, but it's true. They (WEF-types during their meetings you can watch on youtube) telegraphed it during/soon after the entire Covid lock downs that they intended to make large structural changes to society and the concept of ownership. They didn't make this secret or anything. Heck some sold books on the subject.

Most of what the WEF discusses is how to gain more technocratic control over democracy. You know, for the benefit of everyone...
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-01 22:04:17+00:00
Counting on 10% returns long term is way to aggressive especially when you have to consider sequence of returns risks during withdrawals. Even 5% is not conservative enough while you are in the withdrawal phase.

If I had $5 million of investments outside of my home, would I work? Maybe? My job is far from stressful, I work from home, I “retired” my wife over 5 years ago when she was 44 eight years into our marriage so she could pursue her passions and we could travel a lot.

All of my friends still work so what could I possibly do with my free time that I don’t do now? The only restrictions that not working would lift is that we could more easily spend an extended amount of time outside of US time zones.
by ajross | 2025-12-01 22:04:20+00:00
I'm seeing this attitude everywhere in this subthread, and it's frankly pretty offensive. The burden of proof is on you, not us. If a philosophy paper or textbook has an important contribution to this discussion then cite it! Or better link it, or even make an attempt at explaining it.

That's what the science people do. People who show up with questions get answers, or at least an attempt at an answer. No one tries to handwave away a discussion on power switching applications with "Well, see, this involves a MOSFET which isn't something we can actually explain but which you need to just believe in anyway because there are people who wrote textbooks about it". No, you link a StackExchange question or a electronics video on YouTube or whatnot.

The fundamental disconnect here is that you guys are saying: "Qualia are critically important and AI doesn't have them", to which we're responding "Qualia seem like complete bullshit and don't seem to mean anything". This is the point where you SHOULD try to explain them, or link an explanation that has some kind of relevance.

But instead you recursively cycle back to "No no, they're not bullshit, because Qualia are critically important per all of the philosophy papers and textbooks I'm not citing".

It seems... unpersuasive.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-12-01 22:04:28+00:00
There is a video below of mysterymath presenting LLVM-MOS where he talks about reserving 32 bytes of zero page to present to LLVM as 16 16-bit registers, to be able to utilize it's register allocator, which does seem a sane approach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejbTKtgSZI0

However his github doesn't show any activity on it in the last 2 years.

https://github.com/mysterymath/llvm-mos
by germanrdz | 2025-12-01 22:04:52+00:00
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by samuelstros | 2025-12-01 22:05:07+00:00
> RFC Hub has so much functionality that it's difficult to explain it all on the homepage

That's what I meant with overwhelming / too niche.

It seems like you intend to productize the RFC process e2e. But most "time consuming" parts of an RFC process is the human stuff "Did you read this?" "Did you update the RFC again?" etc. That back-and-forth seems to be expressed by all the features you have in RFC Hub but:

1. That makes RFC hub complicated.

2. Requires buy-in from every party to participate in all of RFC hubs feature like "Yes, I reviewed it and pressed the reviewed button in RFC Hub"

1 & 2 combined make RFC Hub (likely) a very niche product. New users are overwhelmed. Existing users need to onboard new users (their collegues) though. Otherwise, the RFC process will fallback to just DMs on Slack. Only a few teams will have sufficient buy in from all team members.
by troupo | 2025-12-01 22:05:09+00:00
> Because if you try anything different, you are simply doomed to fail. Just ask total losers like Jeff Bezos or Jensen Huang about that.

I'll give you one guess on how Amazon Prime operates, and whether or not it applies the same rules license/rights holders impose.

> Netflix disrupted Blockbuster, now we need to disrupt Netflix.

So it started with bold claims about "all we need is an official API for streaming to lock out license holders" and about something about "free market and disruption of Netflix".

> And nothing warms the cockles of my hearts like watching the naysayers like you get proven wrong yet again.

Again, you're arguing with voices in your head.

Adieu.
by munificent | 2025-12-01 22:05:13+00:00
> we could do a lot to reconfigure the existing supply to make it fit the people better?

The problem is that housing and infrastructure is, you know, actual giant physical objects. It takes a year of planning and millions of dollars to move a road. You can't tear down a block of single family homes and put a denser apartment building in there until everyone living in them sells. You need to run sewer, power, and roads to make a new neighborhood, and even then you will still have to deal with the impact to nearby schools, traffic, hospitals, etc.

Making places for people to live is, like, many orders of magnitude more effortful than anything we do in the software world.

> It kinda feels like the affordable housing issue is just a red herring for the larger wealth inequality issue.

Yes, this is certainly another piece of the puzzle. For every 100 people who can't afford a thing, there's still 1 rich person who can, and increasingly, rich people are the primary source of profit for businesses. So businesses target them more and more and we end up in today's world where it seems like "no one can afford what's being sold".

It's because unless you're one of the wealthy minority, you're simply not a market participant at all.

Related: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/opinion/disney-world-econ...
by squeaky-clean | 2025-12-01 22:05:33+00:00
Two reasons this doesn't work

Most competitive games these days are free to play. A cheater gets banned, makes a new account, and gets placed on the competitive ladder level of a new player, and stomps their way up the ladder against unskilled players until they get banned, and repeat.

For players that cheat less egregiously and don't get banned, it's still obvious many times when someone has no skill but is using cheating as some form of assistance. It's not fun to play against a player who has a similar K/D ratio as you because they suck at aiming but can see through walls, or because they can instantly headshot people but have bad positional awareness or understanding of other game objectives like capture points etc.

It's like telling a high level chess player that playing against a child with poor chess knowledge but they're allowed to just ignore checks and flick your pieces off the board is similar to playing against an equally skilled non-cheating player just because they're capable of beating you only 50% of the time. A victory doesn't feel earned, a loss doesn't feel like an actionable learning experience.
by lazzlazzlazz | 2025-12-01 22:05:45+00:00
Elephant in the room: what about meetings where the purpose is to receive updates, maintain context on project progress, etc.? Yes, sometimes (often!) these meetings can be emails or messages — but sometimes it's important to be able to ask or even hear others ask questions, and to get a sense of how people are feeling directly.

This seems to be missed by the author.