MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjc50 | 2025-12-04 10:46:09+00:00
It's fairly clear from Twitter that it's possible to be a victim of your own system. But sycophancy has always been a problem for elites. It's very easy to surround yourselves with people who always say yes, and now you can have a machine do it too.

This is how you get things like the colossal Facebook writeoff of "metaverse".
by xg15 | 2025-12-04 10:48:02+00:00
> One thing mathematics education is really bad at is motivating the definitions.

I was annoyed by this in some introductory math lectures where the prof just skipped explaining the general idea and motivation of some lemmata and instead just went through the proofs line by line.

It felt a bit like being asked to use vi, without knowing what the program does, let alone knowing the key combinations - and instead of a manual, all you have is the source code.
by pas | 2025-12-04 10:48:29+00:00
No one forced you to migrate immediately. (Also, non-value-adding work? You don't think the rewrite to TS did not bring any value? And thanks to that rewrite that app can be upgraded even today to Angular v21. And likely it'll be the case for many years.)

React also went through a lot of churn. (Still does.) There's no magic optimal duration for keeping API stability. Not in general and not for specific projects.

Ecosystems sometimes undergo a phase-shift. Sometimes they take a long time, based on the size. Python 3 was released in 2008, just a year before Angular 1. And the last Py2 release was in 2020, about 2-3 years before the last AngularJS version. (And of course there are many businesses running on py2 still. I know at least one.) These things take plenty of time.

Angular1 was pretty opinionated, willing to break with the tradition of just add one more jQuery plugin.

Miško was working at Google, he persuaded some people to take a look at the framework that he and Adam Abrons were tinkering with.

Angular 2 was announced in 2014 January. And then v1 still got years of support, even the component architecture was "backported" around 1.5 (in 2016?)

You can run old v1 code side-by-side in a v2+ app up until v17. (At least the v17 docs describe the process in full and later docs link to this page. https://v17.angular.io/guide/upgrade )

...

Google did a pretty good job IMHO. Google throws products under the bus, but not so much OSS projects. (Though the sate of AOSP comes to mind.)
by pjc50 | 2025-12-04 10:48:37+00:00
> The real concern for me is incredibly rich people with no empathy for you or I, having interstitial control of that kind of messaging. See, all of the grok ai tweaks over the past however long.

Indeed. It's always been clear to me that the "AI risk" people are looking in the wrong direction. All the AI risks are human risks, because we haven't solved "human alignment". An AI that's perfectly obedient to humans is still a huge risk when used as a force multiplier by a malevolent human. Any ""safeguards"" can easily be defeated with the Ender's Game approach.
by ACCount37 | 2025-12-04 10:48:58+00:00
By that metric: do you?

Seeing an AI casually spit out an 800 lines script that works first try is really fucking humbling to me, because I know I wouldn't be able to do that myself.

Sure, it's an area of AI advantage, and I still crush AI in complex codebases or embedded code. But AI is not strictly worse than me, clearly. The fact that it already has this area of advantage should give you a pause.
by magicalhippo | 2025-12-04 10:49:02+00:00
One thing I missed from Unreal Tournament, which too few other games adopted IMHO, was the concept of mutators. Effectively server-level mods which, as the name implied, mutated the gameplay in some way.

There were silly ones like the one making your characters head larger for each kill, and those which made it just different like low gravity, and so on.

It was also relatively easy to make your own, thanks to UnrealScript.

Really wish more multiplayer games embraced this concept, it really increased replayability by changing things up.
by wongarsu | 2025-12-04 10:50:21+00:00
Isn't Grok just built as "the AI Elon Musk wants to use"? Starting from the goals of being "maximally truth seeking" and having no "woke" alignment and fewer safety rails, to the various "tweaks" to the Grok Twitter bot that happen to be related to Musk's world view

Even Grok at one point looking up how Musk feels about a topic before answering fits that pattern. Not something that's healthy or that he would likely prefer when asked, but something that would produce answers that he personally likes when using it
by Havoc | 2025-12-04 10:50:29+00:00
> The executives who never cared about research in the first place?

Don’t think caring is high on the list of things that matter in this context. Progress and commercial incentives are unforgiving

Not playing is just going to relegate people to artisanal work and not sure artisanal research is even a thing.

I get the sentiment but this feels very much like an attempt to stand in the way of a tsunami and thinking you won’t get swept off your feet because of a principled stance
by rusk | 2025-12-04 10:50:40+00:00
> bed frames and box springs are mostly superfluous and a mattress on the ground is more comfortable and cheaper

I was also of this persuasion and did this for many years and for me the main issue was drafts close to the floor.

The key reason I believe though is mattresses can absorb damp so you wana keep that air gap there to lessen this effect and provide ventilation.

> getting up from a squat should not be difficult

Not much use if you’re elderly or infirm.

Other cons: close to the ground so close to dirt and easy access for pests. You also don’t get that extra bit of air gap insulation offered by the extra 6 inches of space and whatever you’ve stashed under there.

Other pros: extra bit of storage space. Easy to roll out to a seated position if you’re feeling tired or unwell

It’s good to talk to people about your crazy ideas and get some sun and air on that head cannon LOL

Futon’s are designed specifically for use case you have described so best to use one of those rather than a mattress which is going to absorb damp from the floor.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-12-04 10:51:09+00:00
You can still run your local cloud and AI providers will be heavily consolidated to a few.

While for programming task I do use Claude currently, local models can be tuned to serve 80% of the time reduction you win by using AI. Depends a bit on the work you do. This will improve probably, while frontier models seem to hit hard ceilings.

Where I would disagree is that joining concepts or knowledge works at all with current AI. It works decently bad in my opinion. Even the logical and mathematical improvements of the latest Gemini model don't impress too much yet.
by andsoitis | 2025-12-04 10:51:11+00:00
> That's why British Steel is owned by Tata

British Steel is legally owned by Jingye, but the UK government has taken operational control in 2025.

> the remains of British Leyland ended up with BMW

The whole of BL represented less than 40% of the UK car market, at the height of BL. So the portion that was sold to BMW represents a much smaller amount smaller share of the UK car market. I would not consider that “the UK politicians selling an industry to foreigners”.

At the risk of changing topics/moving goalposts, I don’t know that your examples of European govts or companies owning or operating businesses or large parts of an industry in another European country is in thr spirit of the European Union. Isn’t the whole idea to break down barriers where the collective population of Europe benefit?
by jacquesm | 2025-12-04 10:52:49+00:00
> If your underlying system is linear and stable

Sure, but that 'If' isn't true for all but the simplest analog systems. Non-linearities are present in the most unexpected places and just about every system can be made to oscillate.

That's the whole reason digital won out: not because we can't make analog computers but because it is impossible to make analog computers beyond a certain level of complexity if you want deterministic behavior. Of course with LLMs we're throwing all of that gain overboard again but the basic premise still holds: if you don't quantize you drown in an accumulation of noise.
by somat | 2025-12-04 10:54:03+00:00
One of my favorite calculations of pi is to pick random coordinates in a unit square and count how many of them are in a circle. it's so stupid and so clever at the same time.

This was recreated from memory. I think it is close but I may have a bounding bug.

import random def pi(count): inside = 0 for i in range(count): test_x = random.random() test_y = random.random() if test_x ** 2 + test_y ** 2 < 1: inside += 1 return inside / count * 4 #above is a quarter circle print(pi(2 ** 30) )
by pjc50 | 2025-12-04 10:54:05+00:00
People hate feeling manipulated, but they love propaganda that feeds their prejudices. People voluntarily turn on Fox News - even in public spaces - and get mad if you turn it off.

Sufficiently effective propaganda produces its own cults. People want a sense of purpose and belonging. Sometimes even at the expense of their own lives, or (more easily) someone else's lives.
by throwaway68108 | 2025-12-04 10:54:29+00:00
Is that a bad thing? Why would I want someone who can't even manage their own money to manage my life savings? If anything I'd expect a company where the decisions are in the hands of 99% John Smiths and 1% Warren Buffets to be even more short sighted, *especially* when it comes to splurging on dividends.
by RossBencina | 2025-12-04 10:54:59+00:00
Live coding music/visuals/art has been a fairly major subculture for over 15 years: https://blog.toplap.org/ Prior to that there was plenty of live/interactive code-based music going on within the computer music scene, HMSL (FORTH based)[1] and CLM (Lisp based)[2] come to mind.

Real-time sound synthesis was tough to live-code, or to run in real-time at all, prior to the faster personal computers of the early 90s. (The tracker scene obviously pre-dates this, but in that case the actual sound synthesis algorithms weren't live coded.) In fact, code-to-music dates back to 1951[3], or 1957[4], depending on your definitions. There is a large history of development by many computer musicians following on from Max Matthews' MUSIC-N. The Computer Music Tutorial[5] is a good source for the academic/research institutions/serious composers part of the picture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_Music_Specificati...

[2] https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/clm/

[3] https://cis.unimelb.edu.au/about/history/csirac/music

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC-N

[5] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044912/the-computer-music-tu...
by piva00 | 2025-12-04 10:55:48+00:00
Are there are any FPS shooters on the genre of UT (or even Quake3) but modern, not remasters?

I've been missing a lot the frenetic gameplay of those, used to play a lot of UT at a decent level but nowadays I only see tactical FPSs or the likes of Counter-Strike/Battlefield with a high player count.
by wiz21c | 2025-12-04 10:56:25+00:00
People don't know they are being manipulated. Marketing does that all of the time and nobody complain. They complain about "too much advert" but not about "too much manipulation".

Example: in my country we often hear "it costs too much to repair, just buy a replacement". That's often not true, but we do pay. Mobile phone subscription are routinely screwing you, many complain but keep buying. Or you hear "it's because of immigration" and many just accept it, etc.
by tgv | 2025-12-04 10:57:08+00:00
That's one of those "nothing to see here, move along" comments.

First, generative AI already changed social dynamics, in spite of facebook and all that being around for more than a decade. People trust AI output, much more than a facebook ad. It can slip its convictions into every reply it makes. Second, control over the output of AI models is limited to a very select few. That's rather different from access to facebook. The combination of those two factors does warrant the title.
by thymine_dimer | 2025-12-04 10:57:17+00:00
Quite a tangent, but for the purpose of avoiding anaerobic decomposition (and byproducts, CH4, H2S etc) of the dog poo and associated compostable bag (if you’re in one of those neighbourhoods), I do the same as your mum. If possible, flick it off the path. Else use a bag. Nature is full of the faeces of plenty of other things which we don’t bother picking up.
by ManlyBread | 2025-12-04 10:57:20+00:00
>The HL3 memes don't even seem fair to use anymore.

It's absolutely fair to mock them for not releasing these games and keeping radio silence all these years. They managed to dethrone Duke Nukem Forever.

There were multiple times in which the internet was hyped for Episode 3 and where it would make sense to release even a basic game like they've did with Episodes 1&2 just to wrap things up. I'm sure plenty of people that make up various explanations to why that happened but the end result is that Valve has chosen to disappoint the fans who have been waiting for the conclusion to the story. It's not like doing that would prevent them from releasing an another new entry in the series that uses revolutionary new technology or whatever.
by vegabook | 2025-12-04 10:58:03+00:00
market economics are like newtonian mechanics. It's all so wonderful and logical and even elegant, until the dimensions expand a few orders of magnitude, and then all the rules break. Having worked on a trading floor for 20 years I know how this works. Swamping a market with huge trades is definitely considered manipulation by essentially all authorities, and indeed is a form of monopoly power, which even economic theorists will agree is undesirable. Jane Street just got a mega fine for exactly this in India, btw.
by eastoeast | 2025-12-04 10:59:16+00:00
This is pretty cool. Congrats on the launch! With anything, there will be multiple corner cases to handle, but I'm initially impressed!

Low hanging fruit feedback that would really improve the experience of many: I haven't been able to pinpoint it, but there seems to be double scroll bar enabled in both the container of the whole page (top navbar, and "non-content") and the actual wanted scrollbar inside the rendered content. Because of this, especially on mobile, when I try to scroll, the outside scrollbar "captured" my scroll input and I could never get past the Headline.

Might be a missing height: 100vh; or overflow-y: hidden in your min-h-screen class. Cheers!
by bananaflag | 2025-12-04 10:59:17+00:00
I think people who care about superintelligent AI risk don't believe an AI that is subservient to humans is the solution to AI alignment, for exactly the same reasons as you. Stuff like Coherent Extrapolated Volition* (see the paper with this name) which focuses on what all mankind would want if they know more and they were smarter (or something like that) would be a way to go.

*But Yudkowsky ditched CEV years ago, for reasons I don't understand (but I admit I haven't put in the effort to understand).
by isodev | 2025-12-04 11:00:07+00:00
It doesn’t actually solve those math problems though, does it? It replies with a solution if it has seen one often enough in training data or something that looks like a solution but isn’t. At the end, the human still needs to proof it.

Same for short stories, it doesn’t actually write new stories, it rehashes stories it (probably illegally) ingested in training data.

LLMs are good at mimicking the content they were trained on, they don’t actually adopt or extend the intelligence required to create that content in the first place.
by ACCount37 | 2025-12-04 11:00:25+00:00
No one understands how LLMs work. But some people manage to delude themselves into thinking that they do.

One key thing that people prefer not to think about is that LLMs aren't created by humans. They are created by an inhuman optimization algorithm that humans have learned to invoke and feed with data and computation.

Humans have a say in what it does and how, but "a say" is about the extent of it. The rest is a black box - incomprehensible products of a poorly understood mathematical process. The kind of thing you have to research just to get some small glimpses of how it does what it does.

Expecting those humans to understand how LLMs work is a bit like expecting a woman to know how humans work because she made a human once.
by lelanthran | 2025-12-04 11:00:45+00:00
I've got 4 different chat windows open on 4 free plans. That's not counting the free IDE-autocomplete I use.

In any given day I never have no access to free LLM help.

Since all the models are converging onto the same level of performance, I mostly can't even tell responses from ChatGPT and Claude apart.

> Right now a lot of AI tools are underpriced to get customers hooked, then they'll jack up the prices later.

Good luck with that. I mean it.

The ChatAI TAM is now so saturated with free offerings that the first supplier to blink will go out of business before they are done blinking.

I see people (like sibling reply to parent) boasting about the amount of value they get from the $20/m subscription, but I don't see how that is $20 better than just using the free ChatAIs.

The only way out of the red for ChatAI products is to add in advertising slowly; they have to boil the frog. A subscription may have made sense when ChatGPT was the only decent game in town. Subscriptions don't make sense now - I can get 90% of the value of a ChatAI for 0% of the cost.
by defrost | 2025-12-04 11:01:02+00:00
Spectacle, for some, isn't about the speed alone, it's also about risk and skill.

The bare minimum of downforce and grip in tight corners on a mountain pushes the skill requirement to, uhhh, over 9000.

I used to spend hours every day at 252 km/hr (156 miles/hr) 80m above the ground. That got dull fast as it was in dead straight headings for 20km or so at a time.

( Did have to keep an eye out for birds taking off over lakes, power lines, etc. though )
by monerozcash | 2025-12-04 11:01:12+00:00
> Have a look at this: https://m.slashdot.org/story/180969 Clearly there is precedent in the US and elsewhere for prosecution based on accessing URLs

"prosecution based on accessing URLs" is a dishonest way of describing this case. It's a prosecution based on accessing URLs with malicious intent, while the persons responsible knew they were not intended to access said URLs.

That's like saying "prosecution based on walking through a doorway". Well yeah, except it was the middle of the night and the door to someone else's house had been accidentally left unlocked.

>Idk that much about this case. It seems to me that Swartz was in a hell of a lot of trouble, that could have gotten him a prison term along with financial and career ruination. He clearly should not have killed himself but that kind of stress can make people lose sight of the future.

Swartz had good lawyers; he was certainly aware that he wasn't in big trouble. He was facing neither financial nor career ruination. The damages he had caused were far from enough to result in financial ruination. The charges had made him even more of a celebrity and would've been a boost to his career.

https://volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/

https://volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-against-a...

Orin Kerr, a top subject matter expert addressed this extensively. In the second part he also offers the best criticism of CFAA, which is that it's almost entirely redundant given the existence of very broad wire fraud statute.

And for what it's worth, Swartz had been spending a lot of time thinking about suicide for years before the whole JSTOR debacle http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dying
by pdimitar | 2025-12-04 11:01:29+00:00
And I don't understand your comment. The author is obviously a techie. Netlify + Cloudflare cost peanuts (might end up less than $5 a month) and you would have a blog that can sustain all but a coordinated huge DDoS attack.

If you're talking about non-tech people then sure but that would be a hypothetical. The author obviously has the skills. He just fell into the trap "my blog is not popular enough so WP is fine". Which is a common bug in our brain's algorithms: we never act until too late after an incident. Oh well. That's Homo Sapiens for you.
by albertodenia | 2025-12-04 11:02:20+00:00
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by dandellion | 2025-12-04 11:03:16+00:00
One I can think of is that setting up your own company is a pain in the ass, and working as a contractor almost never worth it. I'm in Spain, but I think it applies to many Euro countries, which actually is another one, the exact laws and paperwork are entirely different for each country, though that's not something people actually reject, it's just the nature of having many countries with many different languages.
by gregjor | 2025-12-04 11:03:51+00:00
I see. Sounds like most office buildings I have worked in, with some more amenities. I think companies frequently lease space in buildings for branch offices. Sometimes those buildings have restaurants, coffee shops, gyms, other services. Usually not included free, because amenities cost money, someone will have to pay.

The perks of big corporate campuses make some sense at scale, to get employees to leave home and work 12 hour days. As a former Silcon Valley worker at a nice campus I know how that works. Many companies have cut back on the perks now that they have a workforce afraid of AI and layoffs. Now they can just order return to office without the goodies.

Good luck with the idea. I suspect the WeWork of the future will look more like a bland overpriced Regus office than a Google campus, but who knows.
by adriand | 2025-12-04 11:04:07+00:00
My point about my experience with this plugin isn’t that it’s a throwaway or meaningless project. My point is that it might be enough in some cases to verify output without verifying code. Another example: I had to import tens of thousands of records of relational data. I got AI to write the code for the import. All I verified was that the data was imported correctly. I didn’t even look at the code.
by fabioborellini | 2025-12-04 11:05:14+00:00
As merely a systems engineer sometimes having to create a Web app I really much appreciate the experience of building a well-separated app without layers of trivial but flaky boilerplate layers that is a REST API in a dynamic language. The Next app I built last year using heavily RSC is one of the most legible and easy-to-maintain apps I have created so far.

We'll see if the magic can be trusted on or if we need more explicit solutions to this, but the Next/RSC experience was vastly superior compared to writing another REST API that is never to be used with anything else than the accompanied React app, and I'd love to use it or something similar to it in the future.

The reason is probably that a REST API for a "BFF" is in many cases quite tightly coupled with the frontend, and trying to detach those in the system architecture does not separate them in some higher scheme of things. Even if the two parts could separated but would never end up used without another, the separation probably just makes an unnecessary barrier.