MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lurk2 | 2025-04-03 20:48:06+00:00
https://studyinternational.com/news/trump-student-wharton/

> Despite the US president attesting to the fact that he finished “top of his class” at Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, his former college professor, William T. Kelley, had another view.

> After Kelley’s death, Frank DiPrima, a close friend of Kelley, revealed that the professor felt the president was a fool.

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/09/14/donald-trump-at-wh...

> It was, it can be said without fear of exaggeration, a day that will live in infamy. When President Donald Trump emerged from his mysterious one-on-one summit with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in July of 2018, the respective visages and body language of the two world leaders could not have been further apart. The Russian president looked smug and sated, like a vampire with a bellyful of peasant blood; Trump looked like a man who’d just received a painful enema.

Any accounts that could be taken seriously?
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by voidspark | 2025-04-03 20:49:00+00:00
LOL. I tried this with Grok

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_1e6f3801-c9fb-4d33-844b-3902...

"Based on the information you provided, it seems you need something capable of plimfing to handle your erork. Kwomps can’t plimf, so they’re out. Ghirns are similar to Kwomps and excel at zarking, but there’s no indication they can plimf either. Plyzers, however, have the skills that Ghirns lack, and since plimfing is a skill Ghirns don’t have, it’s reasonable to infer Plyzers can plimf. As for the method, quoning is explicitly described as a type of plimfing, while zhuning isn’t mentioned as such—only that it was developed earlier.

So, I’d choose the Plyzers to plimf your erork using quoning. They seem capable, and quoning fits the job."
by tart-lemonade | 2025-04-03 20:49:02+00:00
Any model we can create of human intelligence is also likely to be incomplete until we start making complete maps of peoples brains since we all develop differently and take different paths in life (and in that sense it's hard to generalize what human intelligence even is). I imagine at some point someone will come up with a definition of intelligence that inadvertently classifies people with dementia or CTE as mindless automatons.

It feels like a fool's errand to try and quantify intelligence in an exclusionary way. If we had a singular, widely accepted definition of intelligence, quantifying it would be standardized and uncontroversial, and yet we have spent millennia debating the subject. (We can't even agree on how to properly measure whether students actually learned something in school for the purposes of advancement to the next grade level, and that's a much smaller question than if something counts as intelligent.)
by grayhatter | 2025-04-03 20:49:03+00:00
> Self reliance and resilience,

describe how a entirely domestic food chain would be more resilient than one that is global?

Self reliance is a defective meme that breaks down once you want anything other than individual survival. Dependence on a community allows humans to specialize. Humans being able to specialize is the only reason this comment, or this thread exists. More simply, not just the Internet, but modern life couldn't exist without it.

Once you acknowledge that interdependency is a reasonable trade-off for the other nice things about life. A simple infection no longer being a death sentence is a nice thing we've commoditized reasonably well. The only question is, how do you build a robust and resilient system?
by rickpm | 2025-04-03 20:49:04+00:00
They seem pretty efficient to me. I got the first round of interviews scheduled the same day I applied.

I'm used to being on the other side of the table, and in my experience, as long as you have strong relevant experience for what they need and put effort into the application, companies tend to move quite fast.

I also only apply to a few companies for positions that I find interesting and where I know I can bring value. My response rate has always been 90%+, even when I don’t know anybody there or have a referral.

Meanwhile, most people nowadays apply to anything with 'software' in the title and are surprised when they don’t hear back.
by TrackerFF | 2025-04-03 20:49:47+00:00
I found this older photo of myself and a friend, 25 years old now, in some newspaper scan.

The photo was of poor quality, but one could certainly see all the features - so I figured, why not let ChatGPT try to play around with it? I got three different versions where it simply tried to upscale it, "enhance" it. But not dice.

So I just wrote the prompt "render this photo as a hyper realistic photo" - and it really did change us - the people in the photo - it also took the liberty to remove some things, alter some other background stuff.

It made me think - I wonder what all those types of photos will be like 20 years from now, after they've surely been fed through some AI models. Imagine being some historian 100 years from now, trying to wade through all the altered media.
by keybored | 2025-04-03 20:49:49+00:00
Remember all those people who are resentful (of course that word) towards degree-holders because they wish they had one themselves? Me neither. That’s a they-hate-me-cause’-they-ain’t-me kind of logic.[1]

True othering comes from people living in different worlds and hating the other person’s world.

[1] I did not read the the article but I’ve read this argument in a Graeber article.
by xormapmap | 2025-04-03 20:49:50+00:00
So many of the so-called "C alternatives" end up doing way too much. I don't need algebraic data types or classes or an integrated build system or a package manager.

What I would like to see is a language that is essentially just C with the major design flaws fixed. Remove the implicit casting and obscure integer promotions. Make spiral rule hold everywhere instead of being able to put const at the beginning of the declaration. Make `sizeof()` return a signed type. Don't allow mixed signed/unsigned arithmetic. Make variables/functions private by default i.e. add `public` to make public instead of `static` to make private.

Keep the preprocessor and for the love of god make it easy to invoke the compiler/linker directly so I can write my own Makefile.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-03 20:49:53+00:00
> If we're creating an economy where decent jobs only exist for people in the top ~20% of the ability curve, how do we handle that?

The most important thing here is to do something about the cost of living, i.e. the price of necessities.

Housing isn't inherently as expensive as it is in the US, it's made that way on purpose. Healthcare likewise. If you only make $25,000/year and housing is $20,000/year and healthcare is $12,500/year, you're screwed. If you only make $25,000/year and housing is $10,000/year and healthcare is $5000/year, you're not.
by littlestymaar | 2025-04-03 20:50:17+00:00
Re-using a comment a wrote some time ago:

Tenstorrent really needs to put more VRAM on their cards.

If chinese companies can hack Nvidia GPUs with 48 or 96GB vram at a competitive price, surely Tensorrent can too.

Variants of n300d at $2500 for 48GB and $3900 for 96GB would be instant hits.

~~24GB for $1500 simply isn't gonna do it.~~ (old part of the comment related to the old n300 which can be update with: 32B for $1400 still isn't enough for success. There's some progress, but that's still too low considering it's exotic hardware that will lead to tons of compatibility issues).
by janalsncm | 2025-04-03 20:51:19+00:00
> That's true of all the best artists ever.

Just to play Devil’s advocate for a moment, why should we require human artists to be held to the same standards as automated software? We can make whatever rules we want to.

A human might implicitly copy, but they are not infinitely scalable. If I draw a picture that in some way resembles Buzz Lightyear I am much less of a threat to Disney than an always-available computer program with a marginal cost of zero.
by goldchainposse | 2025-04-03 20:51:25+00:00
It looks like this is his gimmick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3#/media/F...

Haters gonna hate, but there's not much more to his work than using extreme pauses and tempos as art. Maybe it's meta art.
by mcmcmc | 2025-04-03 20:51:51+00:00
So if it’s a theft machine, how is the answer to try teaching it to hide the fact that it’s stealing by changing its outputs? That’s like a student plagiarizing an essay and then swapping some words with a thesaurus pretending that changes anything.

Wouldn’t the more appropriate solution in the case of theft be to remunerate the victims and prevent recidivism?

Instead of making it “not so obviously bad” why not just… make it good? Require AI services to either prove that 100% of their training corpus is either copyright free or properly licensed, or require them to compensate copyright holders for any infringing outputs.
by gertlex | 2025-04-03 20:51:55+00:00
What if the word "generic" were added to a lot of these image prompts? "generic image of an intergalactic bounty hunter from space" etc.

Certainly there's an aspect of people using the chat interface like they use google: describe xyz to try to surface the name of a movie. Just in this case, we're doing the (less common?) query of: find me the picture I can vaguely describe; but it's a query to a image /generating/ service, not an image search service.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-03 20:52:05+00:00
> They are not buying the latest igadget, or really anything chinese/gloablist for that matter, except for whatever junk at dollar tree. They buy flour, they buy gas and they pray their car doesn't break down.

You don’t understand how interconnected the economy is.

You don’t really think that flour appears on the shelves at the store without any coupling to internationally-sourced goods, do you? The parts for the farm equipment, the steel for the buildings it’s stored in, the vehicles that deliver it to the store.

This idea of the economy as an ultra-simplistic 1:1 line between raw product and the supermarket shelves is not how the world works.

Ignoring that, you conveniently glossed over the part about their car breaking down. What happens now when their car does need new parts? Tires wear out?

It’s also absurd to claim that poor people don’t enjoy things like access to cheap cellular phones.
by sweatybridge | 2025-04-03 20:52:07+00:00
> it doesn’t tell you the consequences of changing an attribute (database restart or other downtime-inducing stuff)

Modern diff tools are designed to provide better guardrails in these situations. For eg, pg-schema-diff [0] tries to generate zero downtime migrations by using lock-free migrations and warns you about potentially hazardous migrations.

I think it's good direction to bake these best practices into the tooling itself, rather than relying purely on the experiences of engineers.

[0] https://github.com/stripe/pg-schema-diff
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-03 20:52:17+00:00
Meta-comment: the use of Indiana Jones, a character that was a very intentional throwback to the "Pulp hero explorer" from the childhoods of its creators, in this example to ponder how one would get "Indiana Jones without Indiana Jones" is quite humorous in its own right.

Indiana Jones is already a successful permutation of that approach. He's Zorro, Rick Blaine, and Christopher Leiningen mashed together with their serial numbers filed off.
by archagon | 2025-04-03 20:52:22+00:00
> Small light computers become fast enough that autonomous slaughter it's become reality

This is the real scary bit. I'm not convinced that AI will ever be good enough to think independently and create novel things without some serious human supervision, but none of that matters when applied to machines that are destructive by design and already have expectations of collateral damage. Slaughterbots are going to be the new WMDs — and corporations are salivating at the prospect of being first movers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiiqiaUBAL8
by JohnFen | 2025-04-03 20:52:29+00:00
I won't be replacing my android phone either. But I'm also not going to the iPhone. I don't find anything in that ecosystem any more attractive than android.

Instead, I'll be forgoing a smartphone entirely. I've been keeping close track on my smartphone usage, and there is literally nothing I use it for that is actually necessary, so giving it up seems like an easy win.
by genewitch | 2025-04-03 20:52:39+00:00
the eeoc link doesn't mention housing or "rent." https://www.findlaw.com/lgbtq-law/housing-discrimination-pro... this says that HUD and DoJ handle those cases.

If you're talking about employment (which the EEOC appears to cover) - i've been fired for not cutting my hair short enough. I've been fired for refusing to wear a tie for a cubicle job. In the US, employment is at-will, generally. If that's what you have an issue with, then let's talk about that. Even if the issue is with hiring discrimination of any kind, i can get behind that, too.

And there's a subtle, yet perceivable difference between what you said, "sodomy laws" and your statement now about "consenting and private intercourse." i also notice you didn't mention "between adults."

I don't really want to have a side-channel discussion, here. The employment vs housing statements, you either had a typo, or it was a red herring, i am unsure. I feel like this is devolving, perhaps of my own fault, into a god of the gaps argument.
by HenryBemis | 2025-04-03 20:52:49+00:00
I think that upon closer inspections the (current) technology cannot make 'perfect' fake photos, so for the time being, the historian of the future will have no issue to ask his/her AI: "is that picture of Henry Bemis, with Bruce Willis, Einstein, and Ayrton Senna having a beer real?" And the AI will say "mos-def-nope!"
by Spivak | 2025-04-03 20:52:51+00:00
I think so, but I'm not actually sure that any of the realities that would have lead to this outcome is any less embarrassing for the administration. Because there is real information contained in the fact that pretty much every LLM gives roughly the same answer— it doesn't help that the wording is similar either. Does it mean that they used an LLM? No not really, but it does strongly imply that their formula and the source for it are the "StackOverflow answer" for lack of a better term.

And while it's not wrong I guess it's also the kind of thing that you would expect to use for your econ homework than a real application of policy. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that the person who made this spreadsheet really did do something to the effect of type "how to calculate reciprocal tariffs" into Google. And that's not a bad thing necessarily if you're a rando who's just been tasked with figuring that out but you couldn't have found someone with more experience with actually doing this and modeling the economic effects?

I think that it's a testament to the genuinely breakneck speeds they been trying to get policy out there that it's been so slapdash.
by perrygeo | 2025-04-03 20:52:59+00:00
This is important because one of top arguments for tariffs in a globalized world is to disincentivize anyone from undercutting prices by committing environmental or labor rights violations. Example: US timber companies have to follow environmental laws and pay a living wage. But their competitors overseas might not so they can flood the market with cheap timber. A tariff can level the playing field so that US companies can compete in the US market without stooping to illegal/immoral behavior.

That's probably the only plausible theory I've heard for the place of tariffs in a free market. But this paper shows that it's not happening that way in practice. Exactly the opposite. Countries seem eager to benefit from exploitation as long as it happens outside their borders.
by jabrotapu | 2025-04-03 20:53:01+00:00
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by Aurornis | 2025-04-03 20:53:29+00:00
Certain products might go down in prices as retaliatory tariffs come into effect.

But again you’re missing all of the second-order effects, like people losing their jobs in the resulting contraction of demand.

You have a wildly simplistic view of the economy that ignores all of the well-understood second order effects that are inconvenient to your argument.
by crawdog | 2025-04-03 20:53:45+00:00
The supply chain impact on manufacturers in the US on contracts is overlooked in this tariff fiasco. For example - auto manufacturers enter into long term agreements as a fixed price for a product. The only negotiation point they may have to reset that price would be a government action, which a tariff checks the box. The genie is out of the bottle, lots of contracts will be negotiated and prices will go up.

I would like to think this is some kind of 4-d chess game to avoid rate hikes and to devalue the dollar, but on implementation it will accomplish none of the above with a sprinkle of recession.
by joshdickson | 2025-04-03 20:54:19+00:00
Thank you for your questions and feedback.

> When something doesn't have a reference listed, and just says "sourced from a publicly available first-party datasource", what does that mean?

It depends, and the degree to which it depends is why the citation is ambiguous (although it is true, if imprecise). My goal is to individually cite the individual nutrients but it was simply too costly and time-consuming at the stage of the project at which I did this work.

> what is the process like there for interpreting those values?

Because the degree to which something in the database might be related to those values is so varied, it depends. The reasoning agent had access to those database entires, which is helpful because they tend to contain micronutrient data. It also had access to web data, as well as its own world knowledge, and considers sources in that order. Ultimately it was left up to the agent to decide what the most reasonable fit for each food was, thinking through what an average user likely meant by that entry (e.g. a typical user probably assumes a 'Tomato' is raw), and then to choose the best sources from there. For the chicken salad, it used approximate micronutrient values from the listed references to inform its answer, but adapted the end values for how the dish is described in the description.

> if you had the choice between verified data and fuzzy LLM data, you should go for the human verified data (for now)

Human verification isn't free, and that means it is not available to a lot of people who can't or don't want to pay for something. But if that's something that someone values, I would certainly not diss the human effort!
by Scenic0573 | 2025-04-03 20:54:38+00:00
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by evanelias | 2025-04-03 20:54:41+00:00
"Declarative" is the correct word, as the input to the tool is a desired-state set of CREATE statements, and the tool figures out what DDL is actually necessary to make the target DB reach that desired state.

In other words, the engineer is declaring "make my schema look like this" and the tool makes that happen. That's the key definition of a declarative system, consistent with how this is described in CS classes.

Meanwhile traditional migration tools are "imperative", as the engineer must tell the tool exactly what operations (e.g. ALTER) to be run.
by mmooss | 2025-04-03 20:55:08+00:00
> "Brain drain"

That's a good point; I wasn't thinking of that. Still, the number of immigrants to the US for 'brain drain' jobs I'd guess is relatively small, and Trump supports them to some degree - he likes wealthy immigrants, including in tech. Remember the recent (H-1B?) visa controversy.

> Those who love manufacturing

Is that really a passion for many people, working on an assembly line? I've read about it as a necessary job to pay the bills that almost nobody likes, and they want their kids to have someting better, etc.
by brandonb | 2025-04-03 20:55:09+00:00
It's true that low COQ-10 can cause muscle aches, which are a common side effect of statins. But if the alternative is a heart attack, then I'd probably rather take the statin and supplement COQ-10 if it's low. Given that the lifetime risk of a heart attack is >50%, the benefit outweighs the harm IMO.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-04-03 20:55:13+00:00
> "They were able to in the 50s/60s/70s. So why not now?"

Because the 50s/60s/70s was the post-World War II economic boom for the US. Unless you're volunteering to endure World War III so that the next generation can enjoy that kind of boom, that is not going to happen again.
by micklemeal | 2025-04-03 20:55:26+00:00
Recently gave this language a spin with raylib and libtmx for loading tiled maps. Out of C3, Zig, and Odin, I've had the least trouble integrating C libraries with C3 (rolled my own bindings for libtmx). Overall a big fan of the language and am hoping it gets recognition on the level of the other languages mentioned here.
by traverseda | 2025-04-03 20:55:27+00:00
I don't understand why problems like this aren't solved by vector similarity search. Indiana Jones lives in a particular part of vector space.

Two close to one of the licensed properties you care to censor the generation of? Push that vector around. Honestly detecting whether a given sentence is a thinly veiled reference to indiana jones seems to be exactly the kind of thing AI vector search is going to be good at.