MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keernan | 2025-12-31 05:17:36+00:00
I don't care how its accomplished, but there must be a system that assures that everyone shares the same relative burden of paying for the costs of society. Relative burden meaning the financial pain Musk experiences is the same as you and I experience.

Right now, income is the only thing taxed by the federal government. Unlike wage earners, the truly wealthy ( say over 100 million in assets ) only have income if and when they chose to do so. Every billionaire could chose to never pay a single penny of income tax - and remain a billionaire - forever. And that's exactly what they do. They do not pay income tax. Unless they have an asset readjustment reason to do so.
by vgeek | 2025-12-31 05:19:16+00:00
The educational and informational queries were always the least valuable from a monetization standpoint. Chegg Answers could rank for these low competition (also low commercial intent) terms-- think queries like phrases from textbooks students would be querying. There is virtually 0 way (for people besides Chegg) to monetize these types of queries. Now Google can answer these queries directly, albeit with the assumption it costs them slightly more to serve these AI responses than a search query.

AI overviews are breaking the implicit "contract" for informational sites-- "we will create content to rank on Google with the expectation of monetization via display ads, mailing list growth and/or sales commissions of some sort." If these sites now lose 90% of their traffic, they simply go extinct. We have already seen the destruction of the old web era sites and the walled gardens being built. How many new sites, at the same frequency as 15 years ago, 1) get built and 2) get visibility without relying on one of the fickle walled gardens for an audience?

Google will probably figure out a way to monetize these informational queries by building better profiles of users. Or most likely, they start slipping in commercially biased responses-- either natively or disclosed, but probably based on all user conversations instead of the current one.
by ivraatiems | 2025-12-31 05:19:33+00:00
For what it's worth, this is essentially the policy my current and most recent previous workplace followed. (My employers before that were pre-LLMs.)

If you are the one with your name on the PR, it's your code and you have to understand it. If you don't understand it at least well enough to speak intelligently about it, you aren't ready to submit it for review. If you ask Copilot, Cursor, or whatever to generate a PR for you, it still must be reviewed and approved by you and another engineer who acts as your reviewer.

I haven't heard a lot of pushback on this; it feels like common sense to me. It's effectively the same rules we'd use if somebody who wasn't an engineer wanted to submit code; they'd need to go through an engineer to do it.

LLM usage has increased our throughput and the quality of our code thus far, but without these rules (and people following the spirit of them, being bought in to their importance), I really don't think it would.

I encourage you to raise this policy with your management, if you think you can get them to listen, and demonstrate how it might help. I would be very frustrated if my colleagues were submitting AI-generated code without thinking it through.
by autoexec | 2025-12-31 05:21:16+00:00
I think you can only get away with that excuse so long as you're actively looking for a new job while also collecting data to turn whistleblower (anonymously if need be) once you have one. Ultimately it falls on the employee to do the right thing or get out because they risk being held accountable for what they do. A replaceable employee (which is pretty much all of them) will be especially vulnerable since they can be thrown under the bus with minimal inconvenience to the company.
by jordanb | 2025-12-31 05:21:21+00:00
I think what Altman is looking at is becoming so codependent with NVidia and Microsoft that they'll all go down together, meaning the US government would have to deal with the biggest software company and the biggest chip company both imploding together.

If you look at the financial crisis, the US government decided to bail out AIG, after passing on Bear Sterns, because big banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley (and even Jack Welch's General Electric) all had huge counterparty risk with AIG.
by edgineer | 2025-12-31 05:21:39+00:00
Counter-anecdote, I did the same, got Burt's Bees with novamin when they still sold it (discontinued), then switched back to Crest. I prefer the Crest. No cavities either way, but tooth sensitivity and clean feeling differences. A tooth chip I wondered might remineralize, i.e. grow back or fill in or something, had no change.

My guess is the SLS detergent, present in Crest and not in Burt's, is the more significant factor.
by mberning | 2025-12-31 05:21:57+00:00
I am so exhausted by reviewing the AI slop from other “developers”. For a while I was trying to be a good sport and point out where it was just wrong or doing things that were unnecessary or inefficient. I’m at the point of telling people to not bother using an AI. I don’t have the time or energy to deal with it. It’s like a missile defense system that costs a million dollars to intercept but the incoming projectile cost $10 for your adversary. It’s not sustainable.
by darth_avocado | 2025-12-31 05:22:00+00:00
> If the toaster carbonized bread in 20 seconds it's defective, likely unsafe, possibly violates physics, certainly above the pay grade of a sandwich-pusher.

If the toaster is defective, not using it, identifying how to use it if it’s still usable or getting it replaced by reporting it as defective are all well within the pay grade of a sandwich pusher as well as part of their responsibilities.

And you’re still responsible for the sandwich. You can’t throw up your arms and say “the toaster did it”. And that’s where it’s not tangential to the AI discussion.

Toaster malfunctioning is beyond your control, but whether you serve up the burnt sandwich is absolutely within your control, which you will be and should be held responsible for.
by rvz | 2025-12-31 05:22:43+00:00
Open source projects like LLVM need to do this as it is one of those projects that is widely used in the software supply chain, on the level that needs protection from contributors who do not understand the code they are writing or cannot defend their changes.

There needs to be a label which designates such open source projects that is so important and adopted throughout the industry that not anyone can throw patches to it without understanding what it does, and why they need it.
by ajross | 2025-12-31 05:22:56+00:00
> history as a universally recognized store of value.

History of what now? Gold is a volatile commodity. It has crashed, many times, often catastrophically, and had bear markets that dwarf anything you see in stocks.. A quick search tells me that inflation-adjusted gold prices dropped like 80% between 1979 and 2000.

And given its value right now, it's probably due for another.
by tehjoker | 2025-12-31 05:23:08+00:00
Interesting concept, but it feels difficult to use. I do think it's a cool demo!

One conceptual issue I noticed with using it is that force touch requires pressure in the opposite direction of how I would understand weight and mass. It feels more like... I'm trying to think of a physical example, trying to force down something with buoyancy. I also expected the weight to affect how fast I needed to drag my finger, but once I exerted enough downward pressure, both heavy and light objects moved the same.
by themacguffinman | 2025-12-31 05:23:18+00:00
The difference I see between a company dealing with this as opposed to an open source community dealing with this is that the company can fire employees as a reactive punishment. Drive-by open source contributions cost very little to lob over and can come from a wide variety of people you don't have much leverage over, so maintainers end up making these specific policies to prevent them from having to react to the thousandth person who used "The AI did it" as an excuse.
by SpaceManNabs | 2025-12-31 05:23:29+00:00
not deep learning but this oldie is a goodie too (since we are sharing favorites): https://narrative-flow.github.io/exploratory-study-2/

I originally had it saved as [[ https://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/ ]] but it seems that link is gone?
by aezart | 2025-12-31 05:23:30+00:00
Something I've occasionally wished for is a classic-style Zelda game[1] where partway through the adventure you discover that all the dungeons are actually adjacent to each other, and you can open up passages connecting them turning it all into one big Metroidvania experience.

[1]: i.e. one with 4-8 dungeons and new navigation/combat tools in each, not a sandbox like BotW
by cookiengineer | 2025-12-31 05:23:43+00:00
I think it's great that this AI slop fatigue happened so quickly.

Now we can still identify them easily, and I am maintaining bookmarks of non slop codebases, so that I know which software to avoid.

I encourage everyone to do the same because the slopcode fallout will be inevitable, and likely be the most harmful thing that ever happened to open source as a philosophy.

We need to change our methodology of how to develop verifiable and specdriven software, because TDD isn't good enough to catch this. Something that is able to verify logical conclusions and implications (aka branches) and not only methods and their types/signatures.
by dh2022 | 2025-12-31 05:23:55+00:00
Ok ok. I can’t wait to see how 2026 and 2027 will shake out. Trump’s choice to replace Jerome Powell will drive short term interest rates to zero because, among other things, US pays around $1 trillion / year in interest for its debt.

Getting these rates to 0 will require the Fed to print massive amounts of USD. Let’s see then how the USD is backed by something other than thin air.

(BTW - lots of countries managed to achieve hyperinflation: Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Russia and my home country of Romania in the 90s. It is not that difficult)
by i2talics | 2025-12-31 05:23:57+00:00
What good does it really do me if they "stand behind their work"? Does that save me any time drudging through the code? No, it just gives me a script for reprimanding. I don't want to reprimand. I want to review code that was given to me in good faith.

At work once I had to review some code that, in the same file, declared a "FooBar" struct and a "BarFoo" struct, both with identical field names/types, and complete with boilerplate to convert between them. This split served no purpose whatsoever, it was probably just the result of telling an agent to iterate until the code compiled then shipping it off without actually reading what it had done. Yelling at them that they should "stand behind their work" doesn't give me back the time I lost trying to figure out why on earth the code was written this way. It just makes me into an asshole.
by like_any_other | 2025-12-31 05:23:58+00:00
> immediate

I gave my hypothetical to point out your "on the spot" was a strawman, and here you strawman again. Nobody demanded "immediate", and after the police verified that you are the lawful owner, and that there is no tenancy contract notarized/registered with the state, the squatters should be kicked out. But this is as ridiculous as the police refusing to remove someone from, say, your server farm, because that someone claims he's your employee and allowed to be there/actually he's the owner, prove he's not in a protracted civil procedure, during which time he dismantles your servers and sells them for parts. A year later when you get your judgment and can finally kick him out, a second squatter appears and you have to start all over again.

Trespassing and theft are criminal matters, and the police should treat them as such, even if the thief/trespasser says "actually, I'm not stealing/trespassing, this is mine/I live here".
by pfannkuchen | 2025-12-31 05:24:00+00:00
I am just trying to actually understand why some people are upset. It seems wise for others to do the same, rather than simply dismiss the concerns. If the concerned are in the majority and they are dismissed consistently for years, then good luck to their opponents. I don’t have a dog in this fight, I just think most of society is regarded at this point and I feel like an alien trying to understand humans.
by willtemperley | 2025-12-31 05:24:18+00:00
Their copyright clause reflects my own quandry about LLM usage:

I am responsible for ensuring copyright has not been violated with LLM generated code I publish. However, proving the negative, i.e. the code is not copyrighted is almost impossible.

I have experienced this - Claude came up with an almost perfect solution to a tricky problem, ten lines to do what I've seen done in multiple KLOC, and I later found the almost identical solution in copyrighted material.
by stego-tech | 2025-12-31 05:24:25+00:00
I mean, yeah, but the parallels OP is drawing really kinda feel like the lingering whispers of the “gold standard” crowd rather than anything more substantial.

For the working classes, the peak was the dotcom bubble - everything after that has been repeated speculative bubbles attempting to create explosive growth from nothing of substance, as much a deliberate decision of Capital to weaken the working classes while extracting wealth as it was a desperation gambit by an increasingly stable (but not yet stagnant circa mid-2000s) western hemisphere and its governments. Gold alone isn’t an indicator of this, so much as all asset prices skyrocketing to the moon while worker wages remained relatively flat and precarity increased. Metals, securities, housing, land, all of it has appreciated faster than working wages have kept pace, reflecting a siphoning of that wealth into fewer hands.

Gold just makes the story “neater” to tell to folks lamenting the heyday of Breton Woods.
by SunlitCat | 2025-12-31 05:25:27+00:00
Oh wow. That something like this is necessary is kind of sad. At first (while reading the title), I thought they just didn’t want AI-generated contributions at all (which would be understandable as well). But all they are actually asking for is that one understands (and label) the contributions they submit, regardless of whether those are AI-generated, their own work, or maybe even written by a cat (okay, that last one was added by me ;).

Reading through the (first few) comments and seeing people defending the use of pure AI tools is really disheartening. I mean, they’re not asking for much just that one reviews and understands what the AI produced for them.
by foxglacier | 2025-12-31 05:26:45+00:00
I sometimes wonder if we should be measuring money in some other unit besides dollar/etc. to reveal inflation. We could report bank balances and wages that way so the effect of inflation is obvious instead of being a trick to silently steal money off people. But it's tricky because there's no natural measure of inflation. Gold seems like a good idea in a way but I don't understand enough to know.
by sb8244 | 2025-12-31 05:28:54+00:00
It adds accountability, which is unfortunately something that ends up lacking in practice.

If you write bad code that creates a bug, I expect you to own it when possible. If you can't and the root cause is bad code, then we probably need to have a chat about that.

Of course the goal isn't to be a jerk. Lots of normal bugs make it through in reality. But if the root cause is true negligence, then there's a problem there.

AI makes negligence much easier to achieve.
by dfajgljsldkjag | 2025-12-31 05:29:02+00:00
They had an invite only one in the bard days before it was rebranded to gemini. You didn't just need to get the invite link but actually link your discord to your google so I didn't bother.

Just goes to show that google's attempts at chat have been a big flop and even though google chat exists they don't use it.
by cobbal | 2025-12-31 05:29:27+00:00
Not saying if the title is good or bad, but just to provide context: there's a tradition of these style of apple-language explainers / cheat sheets titled in this pattern. First I'm aware of is https://fuckingblocksyntax.com/ . There seem to be at least 15 of them listed on https://fuckingsyntaxsite.com/ , and probably more with different swears. It's a genre of titles in the same vein as "considered harmful" or "falsehoods programmers believe about"
by bigbadfeline | 2025-12-31 05:30:47+00:00
> I guess this would be a part of making an export oriented economy viable?

Not in the time of trade wars and tariffs.

That's the irony here, nationalism - both economic and cultural - is being pushed onto the world spearheaded by the current US administration, it's a worldwide push - anyone can impose tariffs for any reason and simply point to the US as an excuse.

End result - an export oriented economy can never take roots in the US during that time.

The fall of the dollar will only lead to more inflation, more poverty and higher wealth inequality.
by autoexec | 2025-12-31 05:33:13+00:00
We're not fully complicit all of the time. You don't know how many slaves made your phone, but somebody does. If you had a choice between a phone you knew was made by slaves and a phone that wasn't I assume you'd pick the slave free version every time. While it's fine to feel guilty for your involvement in the scheme don't let that get in the way of placing the blame for it squarely on the people who set things up this way and put you in this position.

When you can't escape an evil system you just have to do your best within it, while either working to get out of it or working to improve it however you can. What more can anyone ask of you? Capitalism is pretty much inescapable, but thankfully I'm not convinced that capitalism is an evil system inherently, it just needs strong constraints and regulations to keep it from being used to do evil things.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-12-31 05:33:24+00:00
I think we'll find that that asymptote only holds for cases where the end user is not really an active participant in creating the next model:

- take your data

- make a model

- sell it back to you

Eventually all of the available data will have been squeezed for all it's worth the only way to differentiate oneself as an AI company will be to propel your users to new heights so that there's new stuff to learn. That growth will be slower, but I think it'll bear more meaningful fruit.

I'm not sure if today's investors are patient enough to see us through to that phase in any kind of a controlled manner, so I expect a bumpy ride in the interim.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-12-31 05:33:26+00:00
One of the reasons I left a senior management position at my previous 500-person shop was that this was being done, but not even accurately. Copilot usage via the IDE wasn't being tracked; just the various other usage paths.

It doesn't take long for shitty small companies to copy the shitty policies and procedures of successful big companies. It seems even intelligent executives can't get correlation and causation right.
by kamranjon | 2025-12-31 05:34:01+00:00
I use the Mudita Kompakt specifically cause it allows sideloading so I can still have a few extras. Right now I have Kiwix and Libby. It works really well.

I have a $10 a month plan from US cellular with only 2gigs so I try to keep everything offline that I can.

Honestly it's mostly the news... so I draw the line at browser, I'll never install a browser, that's basically something I can do when I sit down at a PC. I read quite a bit and I like to have the ability to look up a word or a historical event or some reference from something I read using Kiwix and it's been great for that, just needed to add a 512gb micro sd card. And Libby I just use at the gym when I'm on the treadmill.
by EE84M3i | 2025-12-31 05:34:16+00:00
>I neither tell people to use AI, nor tell them not to use it, and in practice people have not been using AI much for whatever that is worth.

I find this bit confusing. Do you provide enterprise contracts for AI tools? Or do you let employees use their personal accounts with company data? It seems all companies have to be managing this somehow at this point.
by cliftonc | 2025-12-31 05:34:48+00:00
I used Cube as inspiration, and actually the rest API for drizzle-cube is compatible with the cube-js schema definition. The main difference is that I chose to model the cubes in typescript, so they can be validated in the IDE easily (autocomplete, catch issues early) and not have an option for YAML, but the semantics are exactly the same.
by Dilettante_ | 2025-12-31 05:35:05+00:00
Again, you are not getting what I was saying about the corpus. I am pulling from a vocabulary to express my personal outlook from personal experience, from direct observation.
It's not either/or. You are the one completely rejecting half of all power-of-truth-finding available to you, and calling it intelligent?
I'm explaining mathematics to you and you're complaining that I'm leaning on centuries of established proofs instead of, what, inventing a new lexicon just for talking to you?

I am giving up. You are engaging with the points in your head instead of those on the page.

You match the spirit that you comprehend, not me.
by transcriptase | 2025-12-31 05:35:06+00:00
There’s a very negative immune response to the idea of Netflix running ads.

And yet they’re there, in the form of prominent product placement in all of their original series along with strategic placement in the frame to make sure they appear in cropped clips posted to social media and made into gifs.

Stranger Things alone has had 100-200 brands show up under the warm guise of nostalgia, with Coke alone putting up millions for all the less-than-subtle screen time their products get.

I’m certain AI providers will figure out how to slyly put the highest bidder into a certain proportion of output without necessarily acting out that scene in Wayne’s World.
by josephcsible | 2025-12-31 05:35:58+00:00
If you think you have all the words filled in properly but nothing is happening, hint: base64(VGhlIGNvcnJlY3QgdHJhbnNsYXRpb24gb2YgdGhlIGFsaWVuIHdvcmQgImN2aXF6dnhxIiBpcyBub3QgIm5ld2hhcnQiLg==), and spoiler: base64(SXQncyAiZXZlcnN0cm9uZyIu). I suspect there may be a bug in the game that it uses the wrong message at one point.
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by dheesh | 2025-12-31 05:36:31+00:00
I built this using Django and Channels for the WebSocket layer. I wanted to see if I could make a strategy game that felt as snappy as a desktop app but lived entirely in the browser.

The hardest part was handling the game state transitions in Redis to ensure that moves felt 'instant' even with a bit of network jitter.

I'm aiming to make this a legitimate alternative to Chess for people who want a shorter, more accessible strategy loop. Would love to hear your thoughts on the performance and the UI!
by inkysigma | 2025-12-31 05:36:36+00:00
I think the concern is that this might somehow enable a privacy policy they weren't aware of that permits training over the entire Drive. However, I think the primary reason for this is that these products generally would like to store data on the user's Google Drive but Google Drive doesn't have super granular permission structure to be able to set up a partitioned directory for the app alone. I actually think that might be a good thing to work on next?
by SunlitCat | 2025-12-31 05:36:41+00:00
Maybe not targeted specifically at this project, but… can we please stop turning everything into a business idea?

It’s something I’ve been noticing more and more over the last few years: everything gets turned into some kind of monetization scheme, or at least it feels like nothing has value unless it can be turned into money.

That said, good luck with your endeavor!

P.S.: RAMBnB? Do you eat RAM for breakfast in bed? Bold choice! :D