MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by refulgentis | 2025-04-16 18:02:32+00:00
I don't know what AGI/ASI means to you.

I'm bullish on the models, and my first quiet 5 minutes after the announcement was spent thinking how many of the people I walked past days would be different if the computer Just Did It(tm) (I don't think their day would be different, so I'm not bullish on ASI-even-if-achieved, I guess?)

I think binary analysis that flips between "this is a propped up failure, like when banks get bailouts" and "I'd run away from civilization" isn't really worth much.
by dchftcs | 2025-04-16 18:04:34+00:00
To make fspeech's point more obvious, while the rare earth materials may only be worth billions to China over multiple years, they could destroy entire industries worth trillions of dollars over the world, and in particular US. This is less obvious for other China exports, but with the "leverage" that's mentioned, you can assume for each dollar worth of imports lost from China, US may lose more than one dollar, possibly several dollars worth of production. On top of alienating multiple other trade partners and sending them to work with China. The US is losing its guts, its intestines, its kidneys, while China may only be losing an arm or a leg, or even just some of muscle and blood.
by ldoughty | 2025-04-16 18:05:00+00:00
Well I appreciate the attempt to keep the naming somewhere to DVWA...

As a part-time community college educator: I found using "Damn" in course work is problematic in discussions with colleagues or students that felt it might not be appropriate and asked me to change it. DVWA is obviously not my work to change, so I had to clone it and rename it, which is easy enough for me, but not most educators (remember: most cyber security teachers in the USA are high school Math teachers). It can be easy to stick to the acronym in a lot of cases, but it tends to pop out for carious reasons...

In my role supporting coursework for the Commonwealth of Virginia: I'd love to consider adding this to the Virginia Cyber Range / US Cyber Range, but we serve middle schoolers (or younger!) and that's 100% a "bad word". It would make our lives (and anyone in our boat) easier if if was renamed to even "Darn"
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-04-16 18:05:01+00:00
Link to the original reporting: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-...

Jenna is so so good at her job. So good that someone happened to be watching some traffic monitors. This stuff is almost certainly happening en-masse across the US Government & either not getting noticed or no one is saying anything. These vipers are true enemies.
by zelon88 | 2025-04-16 18:05:16+00:00
NPR is a public entity. It's funding, governance, and leadership structure are well known and well trusted. From Wikipedia...

.....Regarding financing;

>Funding for NPR comes from dues and fees paid by member stations, underwriting from corporate sponsors, and annual grants from the publicly funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.[4] Most of its member stations are owned by non-profit organizations, including public school districts, colleges, and universities. NPR operates independently of any government or corporation, and has full control of its content.[5]

.....Regarding governance;

> NPR is a membership organization. Member stations are required to be non-commercial or non-commercial educational radio stations; have at least five full-time professional employees; operate for at least 18 hours per day; and not be designed solely to further a religious broadcasting philosophy or be used for classroom distance learning programming. Each member station receives one vote at the annual NPR board meetings—exercised by its designated Authorized Station Representative ("A-Rep").

Now, I do question the authenticity of your question. Everyone knows that NPR is reputable and everyone knows why. Their reputation precedes them. But I entertained your charade and now I implore you to entertain one of mine.

Can you provide me the same detailed information which demonstrates why someone should trust OAN? How about Breitbart? How about Newsmax? Can you please pick one and demonstrate why they are trustworthy using a similar format that I provided for you?
by tempoponet | 2025-04-16 18:05:52+00:00
The outage forced me to use the free Amazon Music service that comes with my Amazon Prime subscription. It has many of the annoyances that come with its video services, including ever-present up-sells and muddiness around what's available or pay-walled. Apparently rewinding a song is a premium feature, too.

Suffice it to say that I'll wait out this and any outage before switching if this is how they treat "less than" subscribers.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-04-16 18:06:16+00:00
I'm using a stock Android keyboard - it doesn't. Perhaps that's were our differing perspectives originate. I'm updating away from AI, and toward iPhone users.

EDIT: I plugged in my prior, hit rate and false alarm rates from before updating and found that my P(AI|fancy-em) = 0.09. After updating my false alarm rate, P(AI|fancy-em) now = 0.016.
by contemporary343 | 2025-04-16 18:07:01+00:00
A prescient document that I have come back to many times in my own scientific career. It is striking how little those in power now seem to actually understand what was so clear in 1945:

"To create more jobs we must make new and better and cheaper products. We want plenty of new, vigorous enterprises. But new products and processes are not born full-grown. They are founded on new principles and new conceptions which in turn result from basic scientific research. Basic scientific research is scientific capital. Moreover, we cannot any longer depend upon Europe as a major source of this scientific capital. Clearly, more and better scientific research is one essential to the achievement of our goal of full employment.

How do we increase this scientific capital? First, we must have plenty of men and women trained in science, for upon them depends both the creation of new knowledge and its application to practical purposes. Second, we must strength- en the centers of basic research which are principally the colleges, universities, and research institutes. These institutions provide the environment which is most conducive to the creation of new scientific knowledge and least under pressure for immediate, tangible results. With some notable exceptions, most research in industry and in Government involves application of existing scientific knowledge to practical problems. It is only the colleges, universities, and a few research institutes that devote most of their research efforts to expanding the frontiers of knowledge."

and

"Science Is a Proper Concern of Government

It has been basic United States policy that Government should foster the opening of new frontiers. It opened the seas to clipper ships and furnished land for pioneers. Although these frontiers have more or less disappeared, the frontier of science remains. It is in keeping with the American tradition—one which has made the United States great—that new frontiers shall be made accessible for development by all American citizens.

Moreover, since health, well-being, and security are proper concerns of Government, scientific progress is, and must be, of vital interest to Government. Without scientific progress the national health would deteriorate; without scientific progress we could not hope for improvement in our standard of living or for an increased number of jobs for our citizens; and without scientific progress we could not have maintained our liberties against tyranny."

and

"Freedom of Inquiry Must Be Preserved

The publicly and privately supported colleges, universities, and research institutes are the centers of basic research. They are the wellsprings of knowledge and understanding. As long as they are vigorous and healthy and their scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems in Government, in industry, or elsewhere."
by fragmede | 2025-04-16 18:07:02+00:00
Sorta? I mean I want my problem fixed, regardless of it it's a person or not. Having a person listen to me complain about my problems might sooth my conscience, but I can't pay my bill or why was it so high; having those answered by a system that is contextualized to my problem sand is empowered to fix it, and not just a talking to a brick wall? I wouldn't say totally fine, but at the end of the day, if my problem is solved or my query, even if it's weird, I can't say I really needed for the voice on the other end of the pHone to come from a human. If a companies business model isn't sustainable without using AI agents, it's not really my problem that it's not, but also if I'm using their product, presumably I don't want that to go away.
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-16 18:07:15+00:00
>These days I wish education had a bigger emphasis on history and history should be looked at from different angles, like how the same thing is being taught from different angles.

It does. In higher education.

You cannot force someone to learn something. The mean-spirited bully not paying attention in high school history class and barely getting a C- to graduate didn't exactly learn anything about nuanced topics like "The Nazis didn't start the holocaust right away" and "Fascism is inherently incompetent, and that makes it so much worse"

If parents raise their kids to not consider education important (and millions of parents in the US have always done just so, we have an insane level of anti-intellectualism in this country), you won't get educated kids.

Every time someone says "I wish school taught <X>", plenty of schools EXPLICITLY DO THAT, and it doesn't work, because the person complaining was one of the kids crying "When will I ever use this" instead of paying attention.

The same adults who complain that school didn't teach them "critical thinking" are upset that school didn't walk them through the process step by step, as if you can't balance a check book with fucking basic algebra you learn by 4th grade. Meanwhile, 90% of the uproar about "new math" ends up being parents who can't even manage to understand basic word problems, you know, things which take critical thinking to work through?

I've had people complain that school should teach them how to calculate a mortgage, which is funny, because those people sat next to me in Precalculus as we literally did mortgage calculation problems.

The USA is struggling with multiple generations of people who have insisted that education is not only useless, but a liberal agenda, or even a devil-run plot to distract you from god. It's insane.
by wduquette | 2025-04-16 18:07:20+00:00
The UCSD p-System was amazing. I used it on a Heathkit-branded PDP-11, the Apple II, and an HP-9000 workstation; and though the author doesn't mention it, the first version of Borland's Turbo Pascal for CP/M and DOS had a UI that was clearly influenced by the p-System's UI.

The coolest thing about UCSD Pascal when I first encountered it was it supported "full screen" programs, notably the system's text editor, via the `gotoxy(x, y)` intrinsic. This procedure moved the cursor to the specified character cell on the terminal. Prior to this I'd only used line-oriented editors.
by paul7986 | 2025-04-16 18:07:21+00:00
I think it be better if they had to work and contribute to our economy and society. They could work in one these new manufacturing plants, as no doubt if you ask farmers and other businesses that offer grunt work they will say they can not find Americans to do the work but they can find hard working and reliable immigrants to do it! How many immigrants nowadays do you see at a construction site? It's the majority for me here in York, PA.
by shalg | 2025-04-16 18:07:31+00:00
Relevant article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266638992...

Something about this new iteration of phrenology seems more insidious. It allows researchers to avoid having to make actual claims about relationships between structure and outcome. Instead the buck is passed to the models. The scientists are free to just report their model accuracy and leave the conclusion of the validity of the connection to the reader. This is very abuseable too as bad methods can easily create convincing results that support a desired narrative. Oh well just another thing to worry about in the future.
by terminaltrove | 2025-04-16 18:07:42+00:00
It's very interesting that both OpenAI and Anthropic are releasing tools that run in the terminal, especially with a TUI which is what we showcase.

aider was one of the first we listed as terminal tool of the week (0) last year. (1)

We recently featured parllama (2) (not our tool) if you like to run offline and online models in the terminal with a full TUI.

(0) https://terminaltrove.com/tool-of-the-week/

(1) https://terminaltrove.com/aider/

(2) https://terminaltrove.com/parllama/
by eru | 2025-04-16 18:08:03+00:00
> 2. basic agricultural staples - potatoes, grain, rice, but also eggs and milk in powder form - are a global market these days, which means there's a ruthless competition in place, made worse by at least the US and EU doling out insane amounts of subsidies for their farmers.

Worse for some suppliers, but better for customers. It's very nice of US and EU tax payers to give the rest of the world cheaper food. Just like it's nice of Chinese tax payers to give the rest of the world cheaper solar cells.

> Western masses are getting ever more poor [...]

Citation needed. Normal statistics say that 'western masses' are getting ever richer.
by tedsanders | 2025-04-16 18:08:10+00:00
I think you may have misread the footnote. That simpler setup results in the 62.3%/63.7% score. The 70.3% score results from a high-compute parallel setup with rejection sampling and ranking:

> For our “high compute” number we adopt additional complexity and parallel test-time compute as follows:

> We sample multiple parallel attempts with the scaffold above

> We discard patches that break the visible regression tests in the repository, similar to the rejection sampling approach adopted by Agentless; note no hidden test information is used.

> We then rank the remaining attempts with a scoring model similar to our results on GPQA and AIME described in our research post and choose the best one for the submission.

> This results in a score of 70.3% on the subset of n=489 verified tasks which work on our infrastructure. Without this scaffold, Claude 3.7 Sonnet achieves 63.7% on SWE-bench Verified using this same subset.
by dh2022 | 2025-04-16 18:09:59+00:00
I think the current Russia-Ukraine war is the delayed end of Soviet Union collapse.

Boris Yeltsin in Aug 1991 called for "Russian Federation to reserve the right to review its borders with any adjacent republic" [0]. Yeltsin did that for a couple of weeks - until Leonid Kravchuk (Ukraine's last Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR and Republic of Ukraine's first president) said he will not support Yeltsin in dissolving USSR. By then the Baltics were already independent countries, but Yeltsin still needed Ukraine's Belarus' and Kazakhstan's support to get rid of Gorbachev.

So Yeltsin acquiesced the borders at that time, four months followed up with the Belovezha Accords and USSR dissolved without a fight a couple of weeks later.

I think what we see today is are some repressed conflicts being fought out in the open.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/27/world/soviet-turmoil-yelt... - free to read with NYT registration
by themaninthedark | 2025-04-16 18:10:22+00:00
Maybe if we stopped viewing housing as an investment vehicle, with the expectation that house prices are going to rise forever then you would see affordable housing.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-much-will-home-equity-level...

The last time that I know of housing losing values was 2008 before that, it was 1991
by taylodl | 2025-04-16 18:10:56+00:00
The UK isn't part of the EU. As an American, if I were looking to launch a startup in Europe, I'd prefer a country that's part of the EU. The Netherlands seems like a strong contender due to its strong startup ecosystem, central location, government support, and a highly educated workforce. Being part of the EU offers access to a large market, funding opportunities, and ease of movement across member states.

Going from America to the UK seems like a marginal improvement, whereas going from America to the EU seems more like a significant improvement.
by _mlbt | 2025-04-16 18:11:39+00:00
It is a violation of the rules so I flag these posts to assist the mods with policing the content of this site.

The amount of political content posted since Trump won the election has already greatly reduced my enjoyment of this site, and I'm sure that I'm not alone in this. As I said earlier, there are innumerable other places to discuss politics and such discussions really should be held somewhere else. The political discussions here aren't even high quality. They always devolve into a liberal circle-jerk as all arguments that run counter to that viewpoint are downvoted and flagged out of existence immediately. I greatly fear that this site will continue down the path of becoming yet another leftist politics echo chamber. I can't imagine anything more dull.

I wouldn't even mind if HN added some way to tag such posts and allow people like me to opt out of them.
by IshKebab | 2025-04-16 18:12:00+00:00
I disagree. Think about every time you use a service (website, email, etc.) you've used before via a network you don't trust (e.g. free WiFi).

On the other hand providing the option may give a false sense of security. I think the main reason SSH isn't MitM'd all over the place is it's a pretty niche service and very often you do have a separate authentication method by sending your public key over HTTPS.
by Nevermark | 2025-04-16 18:12:37+00:00
> Let's also not forget that "AI" has been grinding on for at least half a century, with nothing even coming close to AGI.

"Not there yet" isn't an argument against achieving anything. AGI and fusion included. It just means we are not there yet.

That argument is a classic fallacy.

Second, neural network capabilities have made steady gains since the 80's, in lock step with compute power, with additional benefits from architecture and algorithm improvements.

From a consumer's, VC's, or other technologists point of view, nothing might have seemed to happen. Successful applications were much smaller, and infrequently sexy. But problem sizes grew exponentially nevertheless.

You are arguing that unrelenting neural network progress for decades, highly coupled to the exponential growth in computing for 3/4 a century, will suddenly stop or pause, because ... you didn't track the field until recently?

Or the recent step was so big (models that can converse about virtually any topics known to humankind, in novel combinations, with hardly a mid-step), that it is easy to overlook the steady progress that enabled it?

Gains don't always look the same, because of threshold effects. And thresholds of tech vs. solution are very hard to predict. But increases in compute capacity are (relatively) easy to predict.

It may be that for a few years, efficiency gains and specialized capabilities are consolidated before another big step in general capability. Or another big step is just around the corner.

The only thing that has changed in terms of steady progress, is the intensity and number of minds working on improvements now is 1000 times what it was even a few years ago.
Show HN: Zelda: Type-Safe Intrusive Linked Lists in Zig
by samatman | 2025-04-16 18:13:04+00:00
There was a recent conversation[0] about the switch in Zig master branch to use of 'intrusive' linked lists, in preference to the textbook kind.

These will usually have better performance, but the stdlib implementation comes with some disadvantages as well: the Node types are fully generic, so it's possible to link two structs together which aren't supposed to be in the same list. It uses @fieldParentPtr to retrieve the struct pointer, so if this sort of confusion happens, the result will probably be illegal memory access. Basically it pushes key operations out of the type system and onto the runtime, where they can cause trouble.

I've had in mind for a while a different approach, one which is type safe, so I wrote zelda. This is more of a comptime 'mixin', taking a struct type and adding node capabilities to it, constructing a SinglyLinkedList or DoublyLinkedList type for handling the lists themselves.

It's a relatively straightforward translation of the stdlib types, passing a superset of the tests and adding a few additional operations and some diagnostic functions.

I had a lot of fun with it, and I think it answers some of the (fair) criticisms surfaced in the last conversation. It's also a nice illustration of what comptime is capable of, in my opinion. If you like this kind of thing, check it out!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43679707
by whalesalad | 2025-04-16 18:13:24+00:00
Model fatigue is a real thing - Particularly with their billing model that is wildly different from model to model and gives you more headroom as you spend more. We spend a lot of time and effort running tests across many models to balance for that cost/performance ratio. When you can run 300k tokens per min on a shittier model, or 10k tokens per min on a better model - you want to use the cheaper model but if the performance isn't there then you gotta pivot. Can I use tools here? Can I use function calling here? Do I use the chat API, the chat completions API, or the responses API? Do either of those work with the model I want to use, or only with other models?

I almost wonder if this is intentional ... because when you create a quagmire of insane inter-dependent billing scenarios you end up with a product like AWS that can generate substantial amounts of revenue from sheer ignorance or confusion. Then you can hire special consultants to come in and offer solutions to your customers in order to wade through the muck on your behalf.

Dealing with OpenAI's API's is a straight up nightmare.
by SweetSoftPillow | 2025-04-16 18:13:31+00:00
Some sources mention that o3 scores 63.8 on SWE-bench, while Gemini 2.5 Pro scores 69.1.

On most other benchmarks, they seem to perform about the same, which is bad news for o3 because it's much more expensive and slower than Gemini 2.5 Pro, and it also hides its reasoning while Gemini shows everything.

We can probably just stick with Gemini 2.5 Pro, since it offers the best combination of price, quality, and speed. No need to worry about finding a replacement (for now).
by KritiKay | 2025-04-16 18:13:52+00:00
`useEffect Assistant` is a VS Code extension that that helps developers apply the best practices right inside their code editor, using the power of AI.

Why? To make knowledge actionable.

There’s a mountain of best practices, docs, and blog posts — but knowing best practices isn’t the same as applying them.

`useEffect Assistant` brings the knowledge to you, when and where you need it.
by _mlbt | 2025-04-16 18:14:21+00:00
It was on the front page when I posted this. Sorry, this is just a straw that broke the camel's back moment for me. I really do try not to complain about things like this. I just hate seeing another website I used to enjoy being ruined by constant off topic political postings. Reddit is already nearly ruined by it with the exception of a few niche subs. I hope HN can avoid a similar fate.
by glenstein | 2025-04-16 18:14:33+00:00
Wholeheartedly agree, and if you can remember any more about the biography, I'd be curious to know.

I feel like I have a little essay brewing within me about these various examples of indifference to truth and the way they're rationalized. One example is this particular episode of This American Life. Another is Hassan Minaj's Notion of Emotional Truths. Another is Samsung's Faking moon photos and how they tried to blur the lines between image processing and fake photos.

And I'm sure there's other good ones as well.