MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neither_color | 2025-04-26 18:54:52+00:00
>I just don’t get how people are ok with “cheaters” gaming the system.

I usually steer clear of talking about these issues but there's something in the framing of this issue that maga has intentionally made people misunderstand: People do not say "I'm going to risk my life crossing a desert, and then when i have kids I'll be untouchable!" The actual "cheaters" are the birth hotel operators, whose clients are wealthy international elites who fly in while pregnant, then immediately leave to raise their US citizen babies abroad:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-raid-l-maternity-h...

These instances of people actually and deliberately cheating the system require a completely separate system of enforcement that does not need to target desperate people who happened to get pregnant over the course of living life and making ends meet and whose children for all intents and purposes will grow up as regular English-speaking Americans who will go to school, work and pay taxes just like everyone else. Immigrants on dual-intent visas(e.g forever h1b but not yet green card), asylum seekers, etc do not get pregnant to "cheat the system".
by koakuma-chan | 2025-04-26 18:55:23+00:00
If an LLM happens to know the answer to your question, that answer will have the greatest weight, and will therefore become a non-hallucinated output. Otherwise the output will be hallucinated. Note that a hallucination may manifest as an attempt to extrapolate, which may be successful. If you query an LLM with prior knowledge that the LLM doesn’t know the answer, you are guaranteed to receive a hallucinated output.

Or at least this is how I interpret the term.
by guywithahat | 2025-04-26 18:58:21+00:00
It’s not easy to do at all. They have extensive blacklists to reputable conservative papers, and I’ve been cussed out for trying to link things. There are a lot of topics that can’t even be discussed because the pro-left bias is too strong that any reputable source is banned, and many non-political pages which are monitored so tightly by a single individual it’s impossible to edit.
by joshvm | 2025-04-26 19:00:18+00:00
Mailing lists are a good example. For example take a look at some random threads from the Linux Kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/20/2066

If you reply to an earlier one, the UI will handle it and show a new branch where that conversation started. I'm not a huge fan of typical mailing list web UX and usually view flat, but it's so common that I guess a lot of people like it. My opinion is probably biased from years of using/running forums, so I'm much more used to that UI.

I think newer systems like Discourse will formally track replies to you (versus a new message in the overall thread), while legacy forums like PHPBB usually just quote-reply.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-04-26 19:00:37+00:00
> Have you tried using code generated by an LLM? It rarely runs at all until you fix it yourself.

In College Humor's Brennan's exasperated tone:

THEN WHAT ARE WE DOING!?

Like Jesus fuck. I feel insane. We scraped the internet, broke tons of trust in our community, fed tons of code we didn't ask for into an industrial shredder, and worked out nonsense generators that can make awful code that barely, and apparently sometimes just doesn't work, burning enough electricity to power several small countries in the process and lighting billions of dollars on fire.

What, and I can't stress this enough, the fuck are we doing anymore. I swear to God the entire valley needs to be pushed into the ocean and humanity will lurch forward 200 years.
by tomrod | 2025-04-26 19:01:36+00:00
> FWIW, I don’t think LLMS will solve all our problems, so I too am skeptical of that claim. I’m not skeptical of the slightly weaker “larger models have emergent capabilities and we are probably not done finding them as we scale up”.

100% agree. I'd classify the time now as identifying the limits of what they can functionally do though, an it's a lot!
by cluelesssness | 2025-04-26 19:03:25+00:00
there is also some more systematic research on this phenomenon from roughly half a year ago, demonstrating that even much less recent vision-language models are pretty good at guessing not just location but also other personal infos about you such as sex, age, education, etc.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.10618

would be interesting to see how much better these reasoning models would be on the benchmark
by const_cast | 2025-04-26 19:03:40+00:00
Right, if anything I'd say men's reproductive health is under looked in general. Men rarely go to Urologists and issues with the prostate and penis are very much treated as just a fact of life, as opposed to something to look into it. And, even when we do look at these issues, we do it in such an overly pragmatic sense.

Like, how men feel about their penis not working or their muscle atrophying doesn't matter. What matter is does their penis work, literally? We approach it in such a blunt and apathetic manner. We don't really think about the more emotional side of hormonal changes or changes with age.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-04-26 19:03:43+00:00
>If you have any evidence of the above by non-Trump administrations, again as a matter of policy, I'm all ears. Everything else is just "feels".

I assume you know how to use the internet, so please go do a few searches, on Google or the search system of your choice, for the sake of informing yourself better. They're there, and if you care about the subject enough to make claims, you should be aware of wider history.

Illegal actions, whether by policy or by bureaucratic inertia towards authoritarian tendencies, have been the case under multiple previous administrations. Under Obama these were even (in a very different context) taken to the level of outright killing American citizens without due process via drone strike. Under Bush II, they involved very illegal and repeated acts of "extraordinary" rendition to black sites. There are more examples, many involving deportations.

Trump getting attention for things that have also been the case since before him poses the risk of making people think that it will all be okay if they just get rid of Trump, even if it's good that the attention is at least being given to this finally.

None of this is to defend the Trump administration or ICE. The cases documented in the link in this post are grotesque, and deserve the full force of censure by other branches of government and the public, and the media, but that doesn't excuse simplistic examinations of a wider injustice.
by ordu | 2025-04-26 19:03:56+00:00
Correct. I avoid autotools and cmake as much as I can. I'd better write Makefiles by hand. But when I need to deal with them, I'd prefer cmake. I can can modify CMakeLists.txt in a meaningful way and get the results I want. I wouldn't touch autotools build system because I never was able to figure out which of the files is the configuration that is meant to be edited by hands and not generated by scripts in other files. I tried to dig the documentation but I never made it.
by generalizations | 2025-04-26 19:05:34+00:00
No, they gave a list of policy differences - and justified them with an emotional argument: "cruel". They said nothing about the pragmatic justification of them. Which is exactly my point: the left tends to operate on ideological emotional values.

They could have said things like 'reproductive rights leads to X goods for the populace' or 'prohibition was a net positive in Y ways' or 'minimum wage laws are shown to improve GDP by Z amt on average' - but they didn't. They used an emotional argument. Like I said they would.
by timewizard | 2025-04-26 19:05:40+00:00
> has always depended on vibes

Jury trials do. Administrative trials never have.

> It's broadly labelled "prosecutorial discretion",

Federal DAs win 98% of their cases. This discretion is not what you think it is.

> IMHO, it's essential.

Well, unless they're J6 defendants, or any other group labeled by the media as undesirable.
by tzs | 2025-04-26 19:05:45+00:00
First of all, that is not correct. In one of the cases one parent was also a US citizen.

Second, even if in all cases the parents were not citizens it does matter because the US citizen child's due process rights were not respected.

> They deported the parents and their kids along with them. Should they go into foster care instead?

There should be a hearing for the US citizen child to determine what to do with them. Even if both parents have to leave there may be other relatives in the US legally who would be happy to care for the child.
by nandomrumber | 2025-04-26 19:06:38+00:00
Here you go:

Sally Dowling SC - Director of Public Prosecutions New South Whales

Frank Veltro SC - Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions New South Whales

Helen Roberts SC - Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions New South Whales

Ken McKay SC BAB - Senior Crown Prosecutor New South Whales

Craig Hyland - Solicitor for Public Prosecutions New South Whales

Anne Whitehead - Deputy Solicitor for Public Prosecutions (Legal) New South Whales

Esther Kwiet - Deputy Solicitor for Public Prosecutions (Legal Operations) - New South Whales

Natalie Weekes - Deputy Solicitor for Public Prosecutions (Operations) New South Whales

Deborah Hocking - Deputy Solicitor for Public Prosecutions (Operations) New South Whales

Joanna Croker - Deputy Solicitor for Public Prosecutions (Operations) New South Whales

https://www.odpp.nsw.gov.au/about-us/leadership-team

The current head of Fire and Rescue NSW is Jeremy Fewtrell.

https://www.fire.nsw.gov.au/page.php?id=135
by lostdog | 2025-04-26 19:06:59+00:00
February 29th, 2027, the so called "Hacker News" is declared a criminal and illegal site. The wartime powers delegated to the Supreme President allow him to imprison domestic enemies and remove them. Gradus_ad is right in the middle of explaining the difference between "begging" and "panhandling" to the hobo he is harrassing, when disguised agents grab him off the street for commenting on a criminal site. He is whisked off to a correction facility in Hungary (it is now illegal for this publication to call them "gulags") and never heard from again. Luckily the agents who disappeared him say everything was handled legally!
by levocardia | 2025-04-26 19:07:20+00:00
Surprised that there isn't any explicit discussion of why dexterity is so hard, beyond sensory perception. One of the root causes (IMHO the biggest one) is that modeling contact, ie the static and dynamic friction between two objects, is extremely complicated. There are various modeling strategies but their results are highly sensitive to various tuning parameters which makes it very hard to learn in simulation. From what I remember, the OpenAI Rubik's Cube solver basically learned across a giant set of worlds of many different possible tuning parameters for the contact models and was able to generalize okay to the real world, in various situations.

It seems most likely that this sort of boring domain randomization will be what works, or works well enough, for solving contact in this generation of robotics, but it would be much more exciting if someone figures out a better way to learn contact models (or a latent representation of them) in real time.
by ranger207 | 2025-04-26 19:08:41+00:00
You don't have to read everything you're subscribed to. I'll wake up and have, say, 150 or so unread items in my feed reader, and I'll just take 5 minutes or so hitting the next button and marking them as read, and if there's something I care to actually read I'll mark it unread and move on. Then once I've actually found everything I want to read I'll go back and actually read those. A Eurogamer article on a game I don't care about? Skipped. A Eurogamer article about an interview with the devs of a game I love? Mark unread and come back to it after filtering.

The benefit of RSS is that it presents everything as a purely chronological feed. An algorithmic feed tries to figure out what you want and present it to you; a chronological feed you have to do that filtering yourself. RSS isn't a way of getting around that, it's a way of doing it better
by vkou | 2025-04-26 19:08:49+00:00
Europe has been dealing with unexploded ordinance from the fallout of European wars for over a century.

Of the countries you listed, its the US that has not actually known war. A few of its cities being reduced to rubble and a few thousand of its children losing limbs to land mines might convince some more of its people that war isn't quite the swell adventure they think it is.
by tonetegeatinst | 2025-04-26 19:08:51+00:00
I got a stem degree via community college, but had to goto a state college and get a bachelor in the same degree for employers to even consider hiring me or being able to move up in a company.

I have a associates in science in cyber security, most credits didn't transfer to a bachelor's of science in cybwrsecurity program despite both being public schools and not private colleges. Its set my education back years all because most jobs demand a bachelor's and certifications.
by dartharva | 2025-04-26 19:08:55+00:00
I'd love to go through similar lists this site's users have made or found, which they swear by and which they would highly recommend to their younger selves.

Here is something I have started (WIP):

You move from rigid linearity (that the world projects) to fluid experimentation. 1. From your reptilian instinct (Response 1, i.e. fear and other emotional reactions) against change and situations, move to awareness and excitement (Response 2, witness and deliberate action). Free yourself from the need to control the outcome, focus on the play. Be curious and imaginative! 2. Fixed ladders wrong, Growth loops right. There are no fixed objectives and no set paths. Everything is in the present, and all goals are mutable. Live and grow with active observation, don't try to be a cautious zombie. It is not in your nature. 3. Focus on outcomes wrong, Focus on processes right. Progress is incremental experimentation. Directions get revealed and success unfolds as we move. Don't try to be perfect (you don't even know what that is) at any stage. Just do.
by iandanforth | 2025-04-26 19:08:59+00:00
For some perspective we have not yet scaled robot training. The amount of data that Pi is using to train their impressively capable robots is in the range of thousands of hours of data. In contrast language models are trained over trillions of tokens comprising the entirety of human knowledge. So if you're saying things like "this still seems hard" just remember we have yet to hit this with the data hammer. Simulation is proving a great way to augment / bootstrap robot dexterity but it still pales in comparison to data in the real world. So, as the author points out, we may get capability scaling like Waymo where one company painstakingly collects real data over a decade, but we may also see the rapid progress in simulators and simulator speed overtake for practical household / industrial tasks. My bet is on the latter.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-04-26 19:09:26+00:00
Bow & Arrows are still in the literal Olympics; there is clearly appetite for seeing what humans can do with less powerful tools. Actually the fact that there are races on foot, bike, and car is probably an interesting analogy; I for one would be a fan of having a spread of contests from "you may use only pen and paper" to "literally any tool you can use is fair game".
by mimischi | 2025-04-26 19:09:51+00:00
In 2017, the Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf (and two others artists from a trio called "LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner") put up a flag in an undisclosed location as part of their "HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US" work [1].

> On March 8, 2017, the stream resumed from an "unknown location", with the artists announcing that a flag emblazoned with the words "He Will Not Divide Us" would be flown for the duration of the presidency. The camera was pointed up at the flag, set against a backdrop of nothing but sky. [...], the flag was located by a collaboration of 4chan users, who used airplane contrails, flight tracking, celestial navigation, and other techniques to determine that it was located in Greeneville, Tennessee. In the early hours of March 10, 2017, a 4chan user took down and stole the flag, replacing it with a red 'Make America Great Again' hat and a Pepe the Frog shirt.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaBeouf,_Rönkkö_%26_Turner#HEW...
by mrandish | 2025-04-26 19:10:03+00:00
> you don't know that you'll work out your problem in the process of explaining it.

For me, the solution doesn't often arrive while I'm explaining the problem but I've had a strong correlation with solutions arriving shortly afterward. As others have said, for at least for some cognitive types (which include me), the process of verbalizing a complex problem activates alternate mental pathways. Explaining it requires curating the domain into what's relevant/not relevant to include, adequately defining terms, surfacing implied assumptions and transforming the mental structure into a linear sequence of explanatory statements.

I think the other person actually being there, as opposed to talking to the duck, is an essential element. And I suspect the results tend to improve in proportion to how capable and experienced in the relevant domain the duck holder is - despite not even speaking. The reason is that when I'm thoroughly explaining something complex to someone I know well, that communication requires me to model their prior understanding of the domain, terminology and even the ways they're most likely to engage with the problem. Sure, explaining something to a random stranger who doesn't know the domain can be partially helpful but it's also inefficient because a lot of my mental focus will be spent on explaining enough of the basics to orient a domain novice. Explaining it to someone who not only knows the domain but who I know is smart in exactly the ways likely to lead to solutions, unconsciously forces me to model my knowledge of how they tend to solve problems like these. It's kind of like a turbo version of that old adage "Ask yourself how {experienced domain expert} would solve this".
by ohgr | 2025-04-26 19:10:12+00:00
As a notorious bastard I used to run C# code tests by giving someone a flattened windows 7 with the .net SDK installed and nothing else. Also no network connection. How the potential engineer dealt with it was interesting.

We had a couple of people shrug it off and do it in notepad and csc quite happily. They were of course hired.
by MegaButts | 2025-04-26 19:10:49+00:00
JFC if someone asks you multiple times for a source then provide a fucking source, instead of continuing to be an obnoxious holier-than-thou "do your own research you ignoramus" asshole.

You are so completely incompetent when it comes to discourse that I have to assume you are purposefully spreading misinformation. Either provide evidence or do everyone else the favor of shutting the fuck up you intolerable asshat.
by RainyDayTmrw | 2025-04-26 19:10:57+00:00
Take this article with a grain of salt. Much of its argument quotes from TurnItIn, which was already an unethical scourge in earlier days, and already ruined many students' lives with traditional information retrieval, but more recently pivoted to ruining students' lives with "AI" instead[1].

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/14/prove-f... (archived/paywall bypass) https://archive.is/BoVlG
by bastawhiz | 2025-04-26 19:10:58+00:00
I once helped maintain some PHP software that was effectively a CMS. You'd drop a little PHP snippet into any page (e.g., that you make with Dreamweaver) and it would automatically integrate it with the CMS functionality.

We had unending trouble with mod_security. The worst issue I can remember was that any POST request whose body contained the word "delete" was automatically rejected. That was the full rule. To this day I still can't imagine what the developers were thinking.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-26 19:11:38+00:00
Answering for myself, I don't see a movement that is strictly for due process, law, and order.

Each side is so encumbered with baggage that I don't want to support them.

One is breaking law and processes in egregious ways. The other thinks that law should not apply to illegal immigrants and even legal deportations are a due process violation.
by thephyber | 2025-04-26 19:13:23+00:00
Have you seriously not gone through the thought exercise of why some thoughtful + well-informed people would oppose your opinion on the subject?

(1) in previous centuries, the US accepted as many immigrants as could arrive “on Ellis Island” and it only took a few weeks. All of the immigration barriers that you overcame were added by American legislators many centuries after my ancestors came to America. I don’t view “illegal immigrants” any different than I viewed my own ancestors who came to America in the 1500s.

(2) US law affords legal pathways to residency/ citizenship for refugees and political asylum claimants. Just because you used one slow legal workflow doesn’t mean you should look down on people who used a faster legal workflow. They aren’t “gaming” the system — they are using the fast lane that was installed purposefully. If anything, we should use the legislature to revisit the fast lane (the refugee and political asylum claims)

(3) an infant didn’t have any volition in this situation. Maybe they were born here as an “anchor baby” (which the Trump Admin is trying to redefine as not-a-citizen, breaking with all of the jurisprudence). If they were pushed over the border by their parents or someone else, we have a duty to make sure their life is handled with care, not malice.

(4) there are political and media interests in making “legal immigrants” like you hate other immigrants. It makes native born Americans feel like they have cover for their hatred of immigrants. You should sit with the thought experiment of whether it’s actually relevant to the conversation that you “spent years getting here the hard way” or whether the conversation would be more productive without it.

(5) the reason the “immigration system is broken” is because there are multiple factions in America who can’t agree on what kind of changes to make to it. Famously Obama tried to force Congress to deal with it around 2013, but the “Gang of Eight” couldn’t come up with even broad guidelines for changes that both parties would agree to. There are simply too many people who have strong opinions and yet believe untrue things about American immigration. Are you perhaps in this category?
Ask HN: Why do we celebrate AI-Copilots but reject AI–Generated art?
by praveeninpublic | 2025-04-26 19:13:40+00:00
While browsing YouTube, an AI-generated video appeared and I reflexively told my wife, “That’s AI—skip it.”

Yet I’m using AI-created illustrations for my graphic novel, fully aware of copyright and legal debates.

Both Copilots and art generators are trained on vast datasets—so why do we cheer one and vilify the other?

We lean on ChatGPT to rewrite blog posts and celebrate Copilot for “boosting productivity,” but AI art still raises eyebrows.

Is this a matter of domain familiarity, perceived craftsmanship, or simple cultural gatekeeping?
by o11c | 2025-04-26 19:13:49+00:00
I find `nextup/`nextdown` useful for when you want to calculate `{f(nextdown(x)), f(x), f(nextup(x))}` and see if some property holds (or to what degree it holds) for both `x` and its surrounding values. It's annoying that one such surrounding value gets skipped.

That said, quite often you need to handle signed zero specially already, and if you don't the property you're testing might sufficiently differ in the interesting way for the smallest-magnitude subnormals.