MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by deckeraa | 2025-12-04 01:04:31+00:00
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by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-12-04 01:05:34+00:00
> he can even ask clarifying questions back when my instructions are ambiguous or he doesn’t understand them

This is kinda moot in this discussion given cats have neither the facial structure nor lung capacity for this. Others are essentially saying that a cat would (have the mental capacity to) do these things if they were not so physically constrained.
by bee_rider | 2025-12-04 01:06:01+00:00
Does Valve engage in a lot of unfair or anticompetitive behavior? If you were to apply some anti-trust enforcement what would you actually do? Split off their game studio (that makes like one game a decade) from Steam?

They mostly sell space in their digital game shop, and services directly related to that shop.

Like, when people say “split up Google” or “split up Amazon” I know what they mean: you have a bunch of things that would ideally be profitable competitive businesses, under one umbrella—Chrome, Android, ChromeOS imagine if browsers and operating systems didn’t have a market price of $0! AWS, Amazon shop, etc. Valve, I don’t see it…
by jacquesm | 2025-12-04 01:07:31+00:00
I think the main problem was that 'the standard' wasn't evolving fast enough to solve the bulk of the issues around input validation and UI building so we got this crap language that is powerful enough to hide a thousand footguns in a few lines of code. It will never be perfect so it will generate this kind of issue for the next century or so.

If instead, we would have gradually expanded the HTML standard without adding a fully functional programming language into the content stream we would have had better consistency between websites and applications and we would treat the browser like what it is: a content delivery mechanism, not an application programming platform. That's the core mistake as far as I'm concerned.
by deltaburnt | 2025-12-04 01:08:16+00:00
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone seriously argue that personal throwaway projects need thorough code reviews of their vibe code. The problem comes in when I’m maintaining a 20 year old code base used by anywhere from 1M to 1B users.

In other words you can’t vibe code in an environment where evaluating “does this code work” is an existential question. This is the case where 7k LOC/day becomes terrifying.

Until we get much better at automatically proving correctness of programs we will need review.
by neilv | 2025-12-04 01:08:58+00:00
Even funnier, if one SIGINT team built a centralized "encryption everywhere" effort (before sites get encryption elsewhere), but that asset had to be need-to-know secret, so another SIGINT team of the same org, not knowing the org already owned "encryption everywhere", responded to the challenge by building a "DoS defense" service that bypasses the encryption, and started DoS driving every site of interest to that service.

(Seriously: I strongly suspect that Let's Encrypt's ISRG are the good guys. But a security mindset should make you question everything, and recognize when you're taking something on faith, or taking a risk, so that it's a conscious decision, and you can re-evaluate it when priorities change.)
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-12-04 01:09:03+00:00
I agree that we've never been critical enough of America's strikes on innocent people. The difference though is that you can make the case that there was an ongoing war in which these strikes were ostensibly made in an effort to improve the outcomes of a congressionally-approved war.

Presently though, America is not at war with small boats in international waters, so it's a eyebrow-raising (or absolutely disturbing) in similar yet also different ways. They can't even pretend it was necessary or adherent to policy in this case.
by stavros | 2025-12-04 01:09:08+00:00
I don't know about cats (I haven't tried training) but my dog definitely knew a few nouns and verbs. She understood "food", "water", "walk", "bone", "ball", "bear" (her toys), and could distinguish between "point", "fetch", and "drop". With "fetch ball" she would go get the ball, whereas with "point food" she would point (paw) at the food, and with arbitrary combinations of these verbs and nouns.

It's astonishing, I didn't think they could do that, but apparently they can.
by bdangubic | 2025-12-04 01:09:19+00:00
I hope things get ever better and more prosperous for you and your family in the future!!

In some scenarios capitalism can work really, really well. but lose a job, have a health issue and you then see that it is just a house of cards that generally works for small fraction of the population. not that other systems don’t have their own issues (and more) but capitalism is always good in the eyes of the beholder and over time there are less and less happy stories (USA is perfect example, see graphs of income inequality/gaps over time…)
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-04 01:09:20+00:00
I know that. At issue is the fact that the signing keys can be used to sign a MITM key. If there were multiple signatures on the original key, it would (or could) be a lot harder to MITM (presumably). Do you trust any CA enough to never be involved in this kind of scandal? Certainly government CA's and corporate CA's MITM people all the time.

Edit: I'm gonna be rate limited, but let me just say now that Certificate Transparency sounds interesting. I need to look into that more, but it amounts to a 3rd party certificate verification service. Now, we have to figure out how to connect to that service securely lol... Thanks, you've given me something to go read about.
by toast0 | 2025-12-04 01:09:23+00:00
Focusing on acts of the current administration is sensible because the current administration can be stopped from similar future acts. Bush, Obama, and Biden are already prevented from future similar acts. It's also reasonable to protest more when the quality of the acts has changed.

Certainly, extrajudicial killings aren't new, but claiming the victims are drug dealers instead of terrorists is new, as is doing it at sea instead of on land. Above and beyond soverignity concerns and treaties about such things, there are many treaties and standards of maritime conduct and violating them seems to be more offensive than on land.
by Miraste | 2025-12-04 01:10:08+00:00
Interesting approach. I can think of one more explanation the author didn't consider: what if software development time wasn't the bottleneck to what he analyzed? The chart for Google Play app submissions, for example, goes down because Google made it much more difficult to publish apps on their store in ways unrelated to software quality. In that case, it wouldn't matter whether AI tools could write a billion production-ready apps, because the limiting factor is Google's submission requirements.
by grix | 2025-12-04 01:11:25+00:00
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by jacquesm | 2025-12-04 01:11:46+00:00
No, they were not. They required a lot more round-trips to the server though, and rendering the results was a lot harder. But if you think of a browser as an intelligent terminal there is no reason why you couldn't run the application server side and display the UI locally, that's just a matter of defining some extra primitives. Graphical terminals were made first in the 60's or so.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-12-04 01:12:28+00:00
In the "opposite" direction, you might discover quantum mechanical "spin" from the Maxwell equation. Suggesting that coincidence is a kind of historical artifact :)

Thanks for the postclassical angle on this, I missed that in the comment below, which was only "charge"

Not sure what you mean by Hodge equation, care to elaborate?

I assume (for the lay physicist) it's the Hodge decomposition mentioned in here (pp6-8)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1305.6874
by mrpmohibur | 2025-12-04 01:13:01+00:00
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by sunnyday_002 | 2025-12-04 01:13:30+00:00
> I mean, … the outages are a big part of it. But those outages also extending to taking out my own hardware (e.g., through bugs like the above consuming resources on my own compute) is just double the pain.

Never needed to run my own runner, but yes the outages are annoying.

> Artifact APIs will return garbage results during a run. Note that the APIs are separate from the GHA actions for interacting with artifacts, and the latter uses undocumented APIs, presumably b/c the documented APIs are buggy AF.

Never had an issue either I've only used the GitHub CLI to upload artifacts to releases.

> needs.… will just return junk data, if you typo.

Was not aware, but I have never typod. I'm wondering if a linter such as actionlint would catch this.

> Builds of actions are not cached, making them rather slow. Many GH official actions hack around this by pointing the tag/branch (e.g., @v4) at a pre-built artifact.

Is there not caching actions you can use?

> The pricing is high, compared to other offerings.

Try blacksmith.sh, half the price, faster and unlimited parallelisation etc.

> The interface is just FUBAR: e.g., stdin is a pipe, which will wreak havoc on some commands that change their behavior when piped to. stdout & stderr are pipes, which although GHA ostensibly supports colored output, this basically renders it useless.

I always call out to a task runner, I don't have command inside the workflow so never experienced this.

> Jobs, steps, actions are conceptual mud. There's a few ideas, like "execute this thing" in there, but its all jumbled up/duplicated.

Is it not each job has multiple steps, each step is an action?

> Container settings are configured per-job, so if you want to run some steps in one container, and some in another, but in the same job, you're just going to be left out to dry.

Yeah something you can't do, but never ran into this issue either. Ways around it, such as calling out to a script which does volume mounts and run things in a container using `docker run`. Or just cut up the problem so you don't need to and have multiple jobs or something.

> Secrets are hard to manage, and even harder to not leak.

For a personal account agreed, no way to set a secret for every repository. Recently I have been doing.

``` gh repo list --json name,owner --limit 100 | jq -r '.[] | "\(.owner.login)/\(.name)"' | while read repo; do if gh secret list --repo "${repo}" --json name | jq -e '.[] | select(.name=="EXAMPLE")' > /dev/null 2>&1; then gh secret set EXAMPLE --repo "${repo}" --body "${EXAMPLE}" fi done ```

> The expression language has all sorts of corners, like coerced types and functions with parse-time side-effects!.

Again I don't really have logic inside a workflow, I call out to Make or a script or something so it has never been an issue.
by avianlyric | 2025-12-04 01:13:43+00:00
But why would Valve do that, Steam is a game market place, that happens to provide a really powerful comparability layer to allow you to run many windows games on not windows. It’s not a platform in any meaningful sense. The Steam deck is a platform, and the Steam frame, and if they can get existing games running on them, without involving the original devs what’s the problem? Dev get a new market to sell their games into, Stream gets a new market to extend their store front onto, how is that not a clear win-win?

Also Valve does fund plenty of games, such as all of the first party games you might have heard of, like Half Life, and its long tail of sequels and spin offs.
by r_lee | 2025-12-04 01:13:49+00:00
I think anyone sane will have had the same conclusion a long time ago.

It's a black box with input/output in text, thats not a very good moat.

especially given that Deepseek type events can happen because you can just train off of your competitors outputs

I've tried out Gemini 2.5/3 and it generally seems to suck for some reason, problems with lying/hallucinating and following instructions, but ever since Bard came out at first, I thought Google would have the best chances of winning since they have their own TPUs, YouTube (insane video/visual/audio data), Search (indexed pages), and their Cloud/DCs and they can stick it into Android/Search/Workspace.

meanwhile OpenAI has no existing business, they only have API/Subs as revenue, and they're utilizing Nvidia/AMD

I really wonder how things will look once this gold rush stabilizes
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-04 01:13:58+00:00
Sounds like Cloudflare honestly. There are many issues with CA trust in the modern Internet. The most paranoid among us would do well to remove every trusted CA key from their OS and build a minimal set from scratch, I suppose. Browsers simply make it too easy to overlook CA-related issues, especially if you think a CA is compromised or malicious.
by aidenn0 | 2025-12-04 01:14:15+00:00
I admit I trusted your math; you seem to be off by a factor of 4:

You have: 510.1e6km^2/1073741824/1073741824 You want: cm^2 * 4.4244122 / 0.22601872

Strangely enough, units lacks area_earth, so I used the number from https://iere.org/what-is-the-area-of-the-earth/
by area51org | 2025-12-04 01:14:24+00:00
One thing people often don't realize or ignore: these LLMs are trained on the internet, the entire internet.

There's a shit-ton of bad and inefficient code on the internet. Lots of it. And it was used to train these LLMs as much as the good code.

In other words, the LLMs are great if you're OK with mediocrity at best. Mediocrity is occasionally good enough, but it can spell death for a company when key parts of it are mediocre.

I'm afraid a lot of the executives who fantasize about replacing humans with AI are going to have to learn this the hard way.
by a_tessellator | 2025-12-04 01:14:45+00:00
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by ewoodrich | 2025-12-04 01:14:54+00:00
Anthropic's incessant cuts to CC rate limits/quota on the Claude Pro plan have nearly pushed me to cancel.

If anything they're far ahead of Google on the enshittification schedule (who still give out API keys for free Gemini usage and a free tier on Gemini CLI, although CLI is still pretty shaky unfortunately but that's a different issue).

It also doesn't help that CC will stop working literally in the middle of a task with zero heads up, or at best I get the 90% warning and then 30 seconds later have it stop working claiming I hit 100% after about two additional messages during the same task. I'm truly baffled by how they've managed to make the warnings as useless and aggravating as possible in CC and routinely shutdown while the repo is in a broken state, so I have to ask Codex to read the logs and piece things back together to continue working.
by smeej | 2025-12-04 01:15:24+00:00
I still don't understand how this means you "can't afford to sell your house." It just means you can't afford to buy another house at the same price as the one you have now. That's a different problem, and one that doesn't actually have anything to do with the interest rate on your existing mortgage. You can't afford to buy a house today at the same price that you could on the date you closed on your current house, but that's true regardless of the interest rate on the current house.

Let's put a number on it. Since the article uses $400k as a reference point, let's use that. You could afford to buy a $400k house back when you bought your current house. You cannot afford to buy a $400k house today. That would be true whether or not you had purchased your current house, and regardless of the interest rate on its mortgage if you had.

You only "can't afford to sell your house" if you're underwater on the mortgage and can't come up with the money to sell it.
by 05 | 2025-12-04 01:15:27+00:00
Treats are good and all but you will probably get better results with clicker training and splitting the job into simple parts. Fetch is pretty complicated and even dogs often have issues with it - our dog did just fine on the 'chase the toy' part - mostly due to strong prey drive - but then just ran away with it :). Took months to get it working.. Also cats usually lose interest quickly, so short sessions repeated more often will give better results.
by toast0 | 2025-12-04 01:15:35+00:00
I think it's a question of what it means to make something constitutional, and also how to refer to that thing.

If the headline was Palantir CEO Says Making Boat Attacks Constitutional Would Be Good For Business, it would be easier to read it both ways; change the boat attacks so they comply with the constitution, or change the constitution so the boat attacks are no longer prohibited.

It's just a little harder to say change the war crimes so that they comply... But if they comply, are they still war crimes? And if they are still war crimes, and we entered a treaty to prohibit war crimes, and the constitution says treaties are the supreme Law of the Land, how can it be constitutional to carry them out?
by avianlyric | 2025-12-04 01:16:27+00:00
I don’t think anyone can seriously hold up the PC gaming platform as a paragon of “supported configurations”. The stupid number of tiny things that can cause a PC game to fail on a supposedly “supported configuration” is beyond ludicrous. To the point where I’ve personally given up running Windows completely because it’s less reliable at actual running the game I care about than Proton is.
by DLA | 2025-12-04 01:18:14+00:00
ABC News now reporting:

New details emerged Wednesday about the second strike by the U.S. military on an alleged boat on Sept. 2 that killed two survivors, according to a source familiar with the incident.

The two survivors climbed back onto the boat after the initial strike, the source said.

They were believed to be potentially in communication with others in the vicinity and were salvaging some of the drugs that had been the boat’s cargo, the source said, and because of these actions were determined to be "still in the fight" and considered to be valid targets.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/new-details-emerge-controver...
by tokioyoyo | 2025-12-04 01:19:12+00:00
> aside from generating "creative media"

Interesting take, because I'm the opposite of it. My biggest use case is getting into a completely new topic, as it's the most frictionless starting point for most of the queries. Then I look around based on the rudimentary knowledge that I can gather from LLMs. However, I'm completely opposed to any sort of creative media created by LLMs and try to avoid it as much as I can (music, images, and etc.).

Also, it has become the natural workflow for me to throw bunch secondary priority work stuff to Claude and let it do its things, while I focus on the important stuff.

My point is, everyone finds a way to use it. Some are opposed to specific things, others are using other parts.