MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-16 19:10:38+00:00
> When I asked "but DL is proven to be able to find pattern even in random noise, so how can you be sure this is not just overfitting to artefact?"

So here you say quite a mouthful. If you train it on a pattern it'll see that pattern everywhere - think about the early "Deep Dream" trippy-dogs-pictures nonsense that was pervasive about eight or nine years ago.

I repaired a couple of cameras for someone who was working with a large university hospital about 15 years ago, where they were using admittedly 2010s-era "Deep Learning" to analyse biopsy scans for signs of cancer. It worked brilliantly, at least with the training materials, incredible hit rate, not too terrible false positive rate (no biggie, you're just trying to decide if you want to investigate further), really low false negative rate (if there was cancer it would spot it, for sure, and you don't want to miss that).

But in real-world patient data it went completely mental. The sample data was real-world patient data, too, but on "uncontrolled" patients, it was detecting cancer all over the place. It also detected cancer in pictures of the Oncology department lino floor, it detected cancer in a picture of a guy's ID badge, it detected cancer in a closeup of my car tyre, and it detected cancer in a photo of a grey overcast sky.

Aw no. Now what?

Well, that's why I looked at the camera for them. They'd photographed the biopsies with one camera on site, from "real patients", but a lot of the "clear" biopsies were from other sites.

You're ahead of me now, aren't you?

The "Deep Learning" system had in fact trained itself on a speck of shit on the sensor of one of the cameras, the one used for most of the "has cancer" biopsies and most of the "real patient under test" biopsies. If that little blob of about a dozen slightly darker pixels was present, then it must be cancer because that's what the grown-ups told it. The actual picture content was largely irrelevant because the blob was consistent across all of them.

I'm not too keen on AI in healthcare, not as a definitive "go/no-go" test thing.
by zug_zug | 2025-12-16 19:10:43+00:00
So if you have a billion in the bank, you can collect 5% return and never touch the money. So you get $50m a year to pay enough engineers to make a browser.

That's plenty of money if they recognize they need a super lean company with 0 bloat and a few highly paid experts who focus on correctness and not bullshit features.
by spwa4 | 2025-12-16 19:11:07+00:00
The whole history of AI from at least the 1930s happened in waves, and each wave could be accurately summarized by what you just said. Oh, and add Bitcoin with the same logic.

But it never happened. None of the AI waves, not perceptrons, not "deep neural networks", not RNNs, not support vector machines, not ... made zero-human companies possible, or even less-human companies, in contrast to buying from China I might add, and other nations before China.
by jandrese | 2025-12-16 19:11:13+00:00
The fact that almost anybody could make a Window Manager on X lead to a tremendous amount of experimentation and variety. Almost all of them were half baked and faded to obscurity, but it was a lot of fun to try them out. Also, if your bar is "better than TWM" then it's a pretty easy target to hit. These days the level of effort to even get to the baseline is way higher, one dude in a weekend can't try out some crazy idea.
by xnorswap | 2025-12-16 19:11:14+00:00
I feel this.

I take breaks.

But I also get drawn to overworking ( as I'm doing right now ), which I justify because "I'm just keeping an eye on the agent".

It's hard work.

It's hard to explain what's hard about it.

Watching as a machine does in an hour what would take me a week.

But also watching to stop the machine spin around doing nothing for ages because it's got itself in a mess.

Watching for when it gets lazy, and starts writing injectable SQL.

Watching for when it gets lazy, and tries to pull in packages it had no right to.

We've built a motor that can generate 1,000 horse power.

But one man could steer a horse.

The motor right now doesn't have the appropriate steering apparatus.

I feel like I'm chasing it around trying to keep it pointed forward.

It's still astronomically productive.

To abandon it would be a waste.

But it's so tiring.
by otterley | 2025-12-16 19:11:40+00:00
> An artist can refuse to license their work to a given station.

Via what means?

First, radio stations in the USA aren't required to pay royalties to a recording artist, only to the songwriter via a Performing Rights Organization (PRO) like ASCAP or BMI. It follows that recording artists don't even have a say in whether their recordings can be played on the radio.

Second, songwriters don't have any control over public performance once they've licensed their work to the PRO. It's all or nothing. Songwriters can withdraw their works from the PRO, but then they have to negotiate with public performers through some other means. Radio stations don't have the means to enter separate negotiations with every songwriter, so they'll likely forego it, which practically means no airplay for artists who haven't submitted to the PROs.

> politicians being refused use of music has happened

That's not radio, and different license terms apply for campaign events. See https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12775 for the details.
by waleedk | 2025-12-16 19:12:02+00:00
Most IDEs are built for humans, with AI bolted on as an assistant. Agent Farm is built for both: AI agents and humans share the same terminal, same commands, same workflow. We shipped 60 features using it to build itself.

GitHub: https://github.com/cluesmith/codev

Quick start: `npm i -g @cluesmith/codev && af start`

How it works:

The Architect window is your control center. You create specs (what to build) and plans (how to build it). Then with `af spawn --project 22`, a builder agent spins up and implements the spec. When it's done, it opens a PR – already reviewed by a panel of AI agents (Gemini, Claude, GPT). It notifies you, and you merge.

Meanwhile, you're not blocked. You can spawn more builders, design the next feature, or review what's already done.

How it's built:

Agent Farm runs in your browser, built on common infrastructure:

- tmux – each agent gets its own terminal session

- ttyd – exposes terminals to the browser (no Electron)

- git worktrees – each builder gets an isolated worktree on its own branch

~20K lines of TypeScript + HTML. VSCode is 2.7 million.

The workflow:

Codev structures the work: `codev init` sets up specs/, plans/, reviews/ folders. You write specs first, then plans. Once approved, spawn one builder per spec. Three specs? Three builders, parallel, isolated. Each opens a PR when done.

Opinionated design:

- Simple extensible implementation

- No chat sidebar – agents get full terminal sessions

- Specs and plans are markdown files

- Multi-agent review before human review

Live Demo: youtube.com/watch?v=0OEhdk7-plE

Would love feedback on it. Happy to answer questions.
by overrun11 | 2025-12-16 19:12:03+00:00
> It only applies to estates over $14MM

Yes this entire conversation is about the ultra wealthy not paying their "fair share". A $14MM exemption is practically irrelevant here.

> most large estates get reorganized into trusts with estate tax avoidance

This isn't so simple. Transfers to a irrevocable trust count against your lifetime 14mm estate and gift tax exemption and a trust in excess of the 14M exemption is subject to gift tax.

Also, this discussion was about "Buy Borrow Die" strategy. Irrevocable trusts don't make much sense in this context because trusts aren't subject to stepped up basis.
by thesuitonym | 2025-12-16 19:12:05+00:00
I love how quickly the goalpost moves from "No ads" to "Only opt in ads" to "Ads can be disabled with two clicks."

Quit coping and just admit it, Brave is adware. If you like it, that's cool, totally your choice. It's fast, performant adware. But it's adware all the same.
by 4ndrewl | 2025-12-16 19:12:08+00:00
I guess kudos for doing a deep dive into this, but was it necessary?

Aren't all of these types of things (unhappiest day of the year, best day to be born on, age that we're happiest etc) clearly pseudo-scientific/scientistic babble - and brands can then just use them to sell the Scandi (or whatever) lifestyle. Nobody who believes this is going to be swayed by your anaylsis. :)
by gslepak | 2025-12-16 19:12:20+00:00
Excellent! Thank you for releasing this.

Notice the "Knowledge Graph" feature that lets you "Visualize hidden connections between People, Orgs, and Places" just like the cork board meme.

This is the essence of what good "conspiracy theorists" do. Whenever investigative journalists uncover a conspiracy among the elite, they are talked down to and dismissed as "conspiracy theorists". But that is what good conspiracy theorists are: investigative journalists.
by D-Machine | 2025-12-16 19:12:23+00:00
I think the problems in nutrition are far, far deeper (we cannot properly control diet in most cases, and certainly not over long timeframes; we cannot track enough people long enough to measure most effects; we cannot trust the measurement i.e. self-report of what is consumed; industry biases are extremely strong; most nutrition effects are likely small and weak and/or interact strongly with genetics, making the sample size requirements larger still).

I'm not sure what you mean by "experimental psychology" though. There are areas like psychophysics that are arguably experimental and have robust findings, and there are some decent-ish studies in clinical psychology too. Here the group sizes are probably actually mostly not too bad.

Areas like social psychology have serious sample size problems, so might benefit, but this field also has serious measurement and reproducibility problems, weak experimental designs, and particularly strong ideological bias among the researchers. I'm not sure larger sample sizes would fix much of the research here.
by verdverm | 2025-12-16 19:13:01+00:00
Am I reading (7) of the data flow correctly?

1. Establish SSE connection

... user event

7. send updates over origin SSE connection

So the client is required to maintain an SSE capable connection for the entire chat session? What if my network drops or I switch to another agent?

Seems an onerous requirement to maintain a connection for the life-time of a session, which can span days (as some people have told us they have done with agents)
by nout | 2025-12-16 19:13:07+00:00
It's not easy to spam someone on Nostr. The apps that users use have multiple options that make it into a non problem. There is a lot of spam and offensive content, but you just don't get to see it unless you look at "global" feed and that's now quite hidden in most apps. Essentially your app restricts to seeing content from people you follow and then you limit visibility on random replies to posts.

Now nostr is actually much bigger than "twitter-like" app, including powering app stores, chat apps, collaboration, podcasts, music player, etc.
by viccis | 2025-12-16 19:13:18+00:00
It doesn't help that a lot of the graduates I've talked to or interviewed seemed to treat a compsci degree as nothing more than a piece of paper they needed to get to be handed a high paying tech job. If you're motivated enough to learn enough job skills to be useful on your own then I guess you can treat your degree that way. But if you got through 4 years through cheating and minmaxing the easiest route possible and wound up with no retained skills to show for it? Congrats, you played yourself and fell for the "college is useless" meme. Coulda just skipped the student loans and bombed interviews without the 4 year degree.
by lab700xdev | 2025-12-16 19:13:42+00:00
That barrier to entry ("laziness") is the #1 security vulnerability. If it takes 3 minutes to set up a scanner, nobody does it. That's actually why we built the Web Viewer - so you can just drag-and-drop the JSON output rather than reading terminal logs. But a native OS "Right Click --> Scan with AIsbom" Context Menu integration is a fantastic idea for a future desktop release. Thanks.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-16 19:14:12+00:00
When you are limited to use SSH as the transport, you can still do better than using scp or sftp by using rsync with --rsh="ssh ...".

Besides being faster, with rsync and the right command options you can be certain that it makes exact file copies, together with any file metadata, even between different operating systems and file systems.

I have not checked if in recent years all the bugs of scp and sftp have been fixed, but some years ago there were cases when scp and sftp were losing silently, without warnings, some file metadata (e.g. high-precision timestamps, which were truncated, or extended file attributes).

I am using ssh every day, but there are decades since I have last used scp or sftp, with the exception of the cases when I have to connect to a server that I cannot control and where it happens that rsync is not installed. Even on such servers, if I may add an executable in my home directory, I first copy there an rsync with scp, then I do any other copies with that rsync.
by dalyons | 2025-12-16 19:14:18+00:00
i tried to find some data that isnt chatgpt. [1] & [2] show that about 60-65% of pickups are owned by people living in urban/suburban settings. of the rest, its kind of hard to find a breakdown for situations like your own, but lets guess that roughly half live in towns that are big enough to get superchargers in the near term. That makes, ~80% of pickups sold in places where you can expect to have charging infrastructure either now or soon.

[1] https://www.americantrucks.com/pickup-truck-owner-demographi... [2] https://usa.streetsblog.org/2021/04/21/suv-and-pickup-purcha...
by kjuulh | 2025-12-16 19:14:19+00:00
After self hosting our builds ended up so fast, that we were actually waiting for was GitHub scheduling our agents, rather than it being the job running. It sucked a bit, because we'd optimized it so much, but we on 90th percentile saw that it took 20-30 seconds for github to schedule the jobs as they should. Measured from when the commit hit the branch, to the webhook begin sent.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-16 19:14:23+00:00
I’d go farther and guess that the tech job market would be even worse today without every company with at least 500 headcount (and many smaller than that), whether a tech company or not, putting money into “AI initiatives”.

I don’t think we’ve seen any amount of a net drop in tech jobs on account of LLMs (yet). I actually think they’re (spending on projects using them, that is) countering a drop that was going to happen anyway due to other factors (tightening credit being a huge one; business investment hesitation due to things like batshit crazy and chaotic handling of tariffs; consumer sentiment; et c)
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-12-16 19:14:49+00:00
> air-to-water heat pumps

these are slightly odd, however: they either need an external air intake set up, or they require that the water (tank/heater) be located in a space that you don't mind being cooled down (often quite significantly) AND that isn't thermally connected to the space you're heating via other means.

still great technology, but deployment can be a little more challenging that space heating/cooling.
by tigranbs | 2025-12-16 19:15:05+00:00
Nice! I am surprised that the JS compressed chunks are not that big. I have checked, and the largest is ~340Kb, which is even smaller than a regular Next.js starter kit home page.

Traditionally, we have a ton of components for 2D UI, but the UX still sucks for the most part. I am not even sure what it will look like to create the 3D UX for anything other than the Games. For example, nobody uses Unity for desktop or mobile apps, because the freedom of a 3D environment isn't suited to regular UI tasks.
by lapetitejort | 2025-12-16 19:15:08+00:00
Reading these comments, a common through-line seems to be cars. Hit and runs, drive by shootings, cars without plates, cars speeding, breaking into cars, etc. But the concept of disincentivizing cars never seems to be brought up. Close down urban roads to private car traffic. Increase public transportation. Remove subsidies on gas. Build bike lanes.

Cars are weapons. They kill people quickly with momentum, and slowly with pollution and a sedentary lifestyle. We need to start treating them as such
by hamdingers | 2025-12-16 19:15:11+00:00
> “Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from zero at the bottom to ten at the top. Suppose we say that the top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. If the top step is 10 and the bottom step is 0, on which step of the ladder do you feel you personally stand at the present time?”

My immediate problem with this is the lower bound of responses in a given country would be determined by your perception of the safety nets available to you. Someone in a Scandinavian country where there are virtually no unsheltered homeless people probably doesn't index their zero to "dying of exposure on the sidewalk due to untreated mental illness," while an American who sees that regularly would.
by Reubachi | 2025-12-16 19:15:20+00:00
I assure you, there is no more layoffs to do at any auto manufacturer that will effect the bottom line. IF that is the problem, the brands dead anyways.

I assure you that the biggest cost to VW, Ford, JLR, Renault etc is: 1. Building/investing in Chinese domestic market (IE, building plants in china to sell to their market) 2. lobbying governments to dissalow chinese branded/manufactured OEMs in western markets 3. Litigation on IP against those same chinese manufacturers they are both working with in chinese market, and preventing entry into their western market.

These problems "can be gotten around", by simply accepting this is reality. VW is doing such unfortunatley, while a company like BMW REALLY pretends "it's fine", as they have way too much cash doing nothing.
by kortex | 2025-12-16 19:15:32+00:00
You're 100% correct, and in fact I think you've touched upon partly explaining why fascism and authoritarianism is not just on the doorstep, it's got a foot in the door (without a warrant) and is asking^W trying to force its way in saying "it's just a quick search, you have nothing to hide cause you're not doing anything wrong, are you?"

Realism isn't very palatable. Most folks want to stay in their little rat race lane and push their little skinner box lever and get their little variable interval algorithmic treato, and they are content with that. That's fine. It's just a shame they gotta tighten the noose around absolutely everyone else for a morsel of safety.
by maxglute | 2025-12-16 19:15:52+00:00
TBH whatever comes, comes. What I want to see in context to what I think is coming: IMO US/PRC bipolarity. The most favourable result for the world is to have 2 alternative, comprehensive tech stacks to develop from instead of depending on whims of single hegemon who controls entire tech tree. PRC/US/developed west will be fine, as in they can collapse/decline so far, but not to subsistent developing country levels due to capita accumulation. They can continue to jockey for podium positions. All the poors need to buy cheap Chinese renewables and capital equipment and up their development game which has never been more accessible. For the big players, peaceful transition / handover of regional hegemony / spheres of influence but that's a tall ask.
by impossiblefork | 2025-12-16 19:16:11+00:00
Probably, but that isn't really something I say anything about in what I wrote. Instead, what I wrote is basically a terminology quibble with the use capitalism instead of market economy.

I don't think your statement is true absolutely, I think it's very possible to have pure market economies that are quite well-functioning, i.e. not monopolies etc., where many people are very rich but with some people being really poor, even to the point of not being able to afford healthcare or healthcare insurance, so I don't think it's guaranteed to be true, though I think it's mostly true.
by kylegalbraith | 2025-12-16 19:16:14+00:00
Founder of Depot[0] here. To answer your idea, at Depot we already have this concept internally. In fact, Depot isn't reliant on webhooks at all to run your jobs. One of the reasons we can be up running your jobs when GitHub webhooks service is down. Effectively, we listen to a different system to know you have a job that needs to be run.

To your second statement, I generally agree. Sounds strange to say given we're in the business of GHA runners. But it's just not a performant or reliable system at scale. This change from GitHub doesn't smell of a company that wants to do right by it's users.

If you are interested in what is up next for us at Depot, feel free to ping me via the email in my bio. I think you'll be quite interested in what we are doing.

[0] https://depot.dev
by jojomodding | 2025-12-16 19:16:16+00:00
This was in the olden days when your language's type system would maybe look like C's if you were serious and be even less of a thing when you were not.

The hard part about compiling Rust is not really parsing, it's the type system including parts like borrow checking, generics, trait solving (which is turing-complete itself), name resolution, drop checking, and of course all of these features interact in fun and often surprising ways. Also macros. Also all the "magic" types in the StdLib that require special compiler support.

This is why e.g. `rustc` has several different intermediate representations. You no longer have "the" AST, you have token trees, HIR, THIR, and MIR, and then that's lowered to LLVM or Cranelift or libgccjit. Each stage has important parts of the type system happen.
by pmontra | 2025-12-16 19:16:31+00:00
Ah I see, they are not minutes as on the clock. They are runtime minutes. That changes my assessment. I was thinking that they picked a balanced price point not to scare away many people except probably personal projects or unfunded open source. If it's something potentially in the ballpark of $500 per month it's a bit too greedy. It's more like: we want only corporate customers, free tier users need not apply.
by celeryd | 2025-12-16 19:17:46+00:00
The language used on the website is very fresh! They are brave enough to call bad AI output "slop", which immediately makes me think they are trustworthy, that they are in the know. An AI bandwagoner wouldn't be brave enough to call it slop.

Then there's a blurb about the CEO who claims "AI doesn't need better prompts. It needs orchestration." which is something I have always felt to be true, especially after living through highly engineered prompts becoming suddenly useless when conditions change because of how brittle they are.

I might even give this a shot and I usually eschew AI plugins because of how cloud connected they are.

I am a nobody, but I think these people are making a bunch of right moves in this AI space.
by impossiblefork | 2025-12-16 19:17:58+00:00
You literally have the communist distribution principle for education at the primary level in the US, and it's a stabilizing element that allows you to stabilize your system despite having one of the harshest market economies in the world.

So I don't understand how your comment really relates to mine. My comment is basically me quibbling about terminology with the terms capitalism and market economy.
by j45 | 2025-12-16 19:18:05+00:00
What's surprising is the desire to have a silver bullet, or not solution.

What's still amazing is fMRI can provide more visual context of what's happening in the brain, in what region, and activities that can help that improve.

There are other complementary technologies like QEEG and SPECT that can also shed a light as well.

It does seem the case that fMRI cann be more of a snapshot photo, and technologies like SPECT can provide more of a regional time lapse of activity.