MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by programd | 2025-04-08 16:55:27+00:00
Behavior can be inferred from the fossil record. There's quite a lot of literature on this. For example inferring nesting behavior of dinosaurs from fossilized nests and where you find them. Or tool use in early hominids.

You need to define what constitutes intelligent behavior and we certainly have some of this from studies of human evolution - e.g. tool use, emergence of art, burial practices, that kind of thing.
by throwaway889900 | 2025-04-08 16:55:27+00:00
Sometimes a lambda is more readable. "lambda x : x if x else 1" is pretty understandable and doesn't need to be it's own separately defined function.

I should also note that development style also depends on tools, so if your IDE makes inline functions more readable in it's display, it's fine to use concisely defined lambdas.

Readablity is a personal preference thing at some point after all.
by itishappy | 2025-04-08 16:55:49+00:00
> As long as the disability doesn't prevent a person from executing their contractual obligations [...]

That's exactly the context. In the US, if you're being asked to prove a disability, it's part of a request for accommodations.

> And from personal experience, once you're in the second half of your life, looking for an autism diagnosis and then using that to fight the gauntlet of bureaucracy required to get a government approved "stigma certificate" is a chore that really eats into one's provision of spoons.

I'm in my 30s, but that's been my experience as well. Unfortunately, from personal experience as well, finding a new job after being fired with cause due to failing to obtain ADA protections really eats into one's spoons too.

> How do you propose I demonstrate to you that being in an office severely impairs my ability to reason about problems and write code? Is heart rate enough? Are higher bugs per feature enough? Is being an asshole to people enough?

Why guess? A diagnosis per the DSM by a qualified professional is how you demonstrate impairment. It's also how you guarantee accommodations. As a bonus, it often come with suggestions tailored to your specific disability.
by fmxsh | 2025-04-08 16:55:58+00:00
Imagine boys and girls could have their own gender being represented and they would compete with each other in that card game, or if it's not like "Magic: the gathering", at least interact around arguing who is better. But here, girls are completely excluded from any such interaction, like: "Nope, you don't exist." Girls, who should they look up to? Having both, it allows both genders to choose whom to admire.

I actually do not see the obvious reason. Maybe I missed something. My take is Japan has what some would call a gender stereotypical view. What is surprising to me is how a whole gender is excluded from something that creates much fun interaction and play. It feels surprising especially also when the project is supposed to represent a community. I almost feel bad pointing it out, because the project is so wholesome, but it's simply what I see.

I have a European lense, and I am sure I am not aware of many things of their culture. But, I am struggling to see how it's not a blunt confirmation of typical western feminist critique. Of course, Japanese society may have another cultural framework to rationalize it, where any such critique wouldn't even be recognized to be rational. That, in itself, reflects a possible large discrepancy in cultural views.

(edit: I don't think the creator did any wrong, I think they acted within their frame. Maybe the product wouldn't be as successfully otherwise. My inquiry is at the level of culture and it's undercurrent of values dictating what's successfully and to what degree an artifact is based in cultural values and re-affirm those, well transcending mere artistic choice and artistic appreciation which should be free.)

(edit 2, psychoanalysis: the artist framing males within cards... Males being looked up to... The artist psychologically in perhaps a Lacanian sense, is "looking up" to expressions of the mighty, assertive phallocentric values constituting society. The artist mediating societal core views by making this artifact, enacts those values by admiration, and mediates those values to the right population, boys, who by their mere gender, are both the protectors and the representations of society's core view. I suspect Japan is a phallocentric society more so than not.)
by prirun | 2025-04-08 16:56:02+00:00
I boot Finnix and use dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx to wipe out drives. Most drives can be wiped out overnight. That fable about needing multiple passes is not true:

https://datarecovery.com/rd/why-does-it-take-multiple-passes...

If a drive contained state secrets, I might use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/zero, but those kinds of drives are probably just shredded.
by throwanem | 2025-04-08 16:56:20+00:00
Yeah, but it's also important to me I don't get mistaken for wanting to stand next to a guy who's comfortable displaying that kind of attitude. I think my original approach inadvertently encouraged that, so I'm overcompensating now.

And given a somewhat thoroughly developed analysis of this extremely young industry's place in the span of human history to date, why not talk about that when I can spare the time? I feel like I'm probably not the only person here who finds such ideas of interest.
by nightski | 2025-04-08 16:56:26+00:00
Do you know that they made a bet on MoE? Meaning they abandonded dense models? I doubt that is the case. Just releasing MoE Llama 4 does not constitute a "bet" without further information.

Also from what I can tell this performs better than models with parameter counts equal to one expert, and worse than fully dense models equal to total parameter count. Isn't that kind of what we'd expect? in what way is that a failure?

Maybe I am missing some details. But it feels like you have an axe to grind.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-08 16:56:56+00:00
> The creatives [...] “Lern to code!”

No, the underlying format of "$LABOR_ISSUE can be solved by $CHANGE_JOB" comes from a place of politics, where a politician is trying to suggest they have a plan to somehow tackle a painful problem among their constituents, and that therefore they should be (re-)elected.

Then the politicians piled onto "coal-miners can learn to code" etc. because it was uniquely attractive, since:

1. No big capital expenditures, so they don't need to promise/explain how a new factory will get built.

2. The potential for remote work means constituents wouldn't need to sell their homes or move.

3. Participants wouldn't require multiple years of expensive formal schooling.

4. It had some "more money than you make now" appeal.
by btilly | 2025-04-08 16:56:58+00:00
I first remember the term when Oracle ported themselves to Linux, began submitting patches, then began pushing Oracle on Linux to enterprises.

Oracle's big reason for doing so was because they could charge more for Oracle on Linux, and still get to a lower total cost of ownership than Oracle on Solaris.

Oracle began this in 1998. By 2006 they had their own Oracle Enterprise Linux distribution.
by realityfactchex | 2025-04-08 16:57:20+00:00
> the first-ever study to measure users’ actual ability to perform daily tasks on a PC

Amazing, if true.

> age remains the most important factor in how well an individual can use applications.

> the most important thing in using a spreadsheet program is practice

I have a feeling those older user would do just fine if Windows behaved like Windows 95 to Windows 7 and Office behaved like Office 95 to Office 2003. And I don't really think it's the users' intelligence that is the problem.

On Desktop in 2025, Windows usage is >70%, Mac >15% [0]. I think some of us techies have rosy glasses because our occupations let us afford frequent Apple everything, but this is not a financial reality for most.

This computer-usage-researcher finds that computer users who are better at using computers are smarter and younger? (And not that the systems themselves are stupider than they should be?) Interesting.

There is a digital divide, and TFA does help describe its characteristics. Contributors to the divide are not just economics-driven-availability, but rather, "availability in general" of sane systems, partially informed by who is willing/able to put in the effort to even use a computer effectively.

More and more, I don't think it's lack of intelligence leading users to give up--I think it's a *different kind* of intelligence that informs users that it's not "worth it" to suffer. As software producers, we can do better.

Even we on HN are on a sliding scale of user-savviness.

What happened to "it's never the user's fault"? Is that adage gone?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
by gessha | 2025-04-08 16:57:40+00:00
The nuance is it does put you in a vulnerable position. It’s the financial equivalent of putting all your eggs in one basket. It looks super convenient to pay with Wechat and Pix but I can’t imagine how bad it would be if I get on the government’s bad side.

I really want a system where I can transfer money effortlessly but I also want a guarantee that I won’t be restricted access to my banking.
by acc_297 | 2025-04-08 16:57:45+00:00
The greenery in question appears to be a tidal estuary (but I'm not 100% sure) and it also appears to be close to the downtown center of a city of 4 million people who all need some amount of electricity to live their daily lives. The ecosystem of the body of water on which these panels are installed is I would imagine relatively undisturbed by the solar PV - it's a question of aesthetics whether or not this habitat has been degraded.

My feeling is that these over-water panels generating a not-insignificant amount of power are an ideal compromise between the sprawl of the built environment of (Taizhou, China) and the natural ecosystem.
by cryptonector | 2025-04-08 16:58:15+00:00
You're supposed to also use `set -e` if you're going to `set -o pipefail`, but of course that requires understanding that `set -e` will not apply to anything happening from inside a function called in a conditional expression -- this is a tremendous footgun.

And if you want to know which command in a pipe failed there's `PIPESTATUS`.
by ekojs | 2025-04-08 16:58:45+00:00
I think it's most illustrative to see the sample battles (H2H) that LMArena released [1]. The outputs of Meta's model is too verbose and too 'yappy' IMO. And looking at the verdicts, it's no wonder by people are discounting LMArena rankings.

[1]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmarena-ai/Llama-4-Maverick-03...
by pydry | 2025-04-08 16:59:32+00:00
https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-near-100-per-cent-renewables-g...

Thats the question this guy asked, using actual weather data to power his models instead of carbon industry fluff.

Unfortunately the instinctive skeptical reaction to this is not "here's an alternative model and alternative data" but "here's even more FUD".
by acdha | 2025-04-08 17:00:11+00:00
> I don't want politics discussed at work, it's annoying and a distraction.

This is a lot trickier when politics won’t stay out of your work. For example, almost every business is affected by the tariffs because such a massive tax increase affects almost everyone. On the article’s topic, someone at the EPA hired for professional skills around pollution, climate change, etc. under the current administration will regularly be faced with the choice between denying reality/law and being seen as political.
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by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-04-08 17:00:49+00:00
Intelligence - big brains - is costly, whether in terms of metabolic needs (20% of human energy!), head size (human birthing difficulty), or weight - an issue for birds. Intelligence will only arise where the benefits outweigh the costs, which basically means for generalist species that need to be highly adaptive to prevailing conditions/resources, not just a one-trick optimized machine like a crocodile or cow.

Not all modern birds are intelligent - some like chickens are clearly not, which is understandable because they don't need to be. However, the sheer variety of habitats and food sources utilized by birds (from raptors to penguins, ostriches to hummingbirds) would seem to indicate that generality and intelligence may have developed early as they were pushed to, and able to, explore new environments, and survive climate and other challenges over the millenia. Some birds like covids are still generalists and therefore highly intelligent, while others have settled into much narrower behavioral niches and have therefore lost it (or perhaps never had it).
by genewitch | 2025-04-08 17:01:18+00:00
A 4x8 MOE performs better than an 8B but worse than a 32B, is your statement?

My response would be, "so why bother with MOE?"

However deepseek r1 is MOE from my understanding, but the "E" are all =>32B parameters. There's > 20 experts. I could be misinformed; however, even so, I'd say a MOE with 32B or even 70B experts will outperform (define this!) Models with equal parameter counts, because deepseek outperforms (define?) ChatGPT et al.
by saidinesh5 | 2025-04-08 17:01:31+00:00
Embedded systems for sure.

Eg. Home Automation with custom LED strips + an ESP32 (via. tasmota, esphome etc...), Wireless sensors using the same, FPV Drones and RC toys/cars in general, 3D printers, Custom keyboards are the usual gateway hobbies in my experience. I haven't seen anyone who is into one of these and hasn't explored the others.
by igouy | 2025-04-08 17:01:42+00:00
And that was about me being tired of the bogus Smalltalk's so fragile meme.

So how would we explore fundamental changes that break the debugger? Would the dumbest workable thing be create subclasses without changing the originals?

I have come across someone who genuinely seemed to think that making copies of just the image was a viable approach to version control. Their project failed badly; and they were absolutely convinced the problem had been Smalltalk, when the problem was not understanding how they could use Smalltalk.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-04-08 17:03:13+00:00
Good. This lets them receive some of the value they’ve created (they should get paid!) and gives certainty they won’t go out of business. Which means more Tailscale now and in future!

If they turn evil (unlikely with the current folks there) they’ve written up / open sourced plenty of what got them to this point.

Don’t capture all the value you create. But you should try to capture some.
by caseyy | 2025-04-08 17:03:13+00:00
There is a small, hopeful flipside to this. While people using AI to produce art (such as concept art) have flooded the market, real skills now command a higher price than before.

To pull this out of the games industry for just a moment, imagine this: you are a business and need a logo produced. Would you hire someone at the market price who uses AI to generate something... sort of on-brand they most definitely cannot provide indemnity cover for (considering how many of these dubiously owned works they produce), or would you pay above the market price to have an artist make a logo for you that is guaranteed to be their own work? The answer is clear - you'd cough up the premium. This is now happening on platforms like UpWork and Fiverr. The prices for real human work have not decreased; they have shot up significantly.

It's also happening slowly in games. The concept artists who are skilled command a higher salary than those who rely on AI. If you depend on image-generating AI to do your work, I don't think many game industry companies would hire you. Only the start-ups that lack experience in game production, perhaps. But that part of the industry has always existed - the one made of dreamy projects with no prospect of being produced. It's not worth paying much attention to, except if you're an investor. In which case, obviously it's a bad investment.

Besides, just as machine-translated game localization isn't accepted by any serious publisher (because it is awful and can cause real reputational damage), I doubt any evident AI art would be allowed into the final game. Every single piece of that will need to be produced by humans for the foreseeable future.

If AI truly can produce games or many of their components, these games will form the baseline quality of cheap game groups on the marketplaces, just like in the logo example above. The buyer will pay a premium for a quality, human product. Well, at least until AI can meaningfully surpass humans in creativity - the models we have now can only mimic and there isn't a clear way to make them surpass.
by theamk | 2025-04-08 17:03:47+00:00
The pagination was chosen because it was prominently featured in the candidate's resume, and was something that interviewer was familiar with - it's not about "cool experience", but rather conversation starter.

When performing interview, asking about things mentioned on the resume is a pretty good conversation starter. No one wants random trivia, resume entries, especially from the most recent jobs, are absolutely fair game. And if they turn out too simple, we can always dig further based later.
by vel0city | 2025-04-08 17:03:48+00:00
My 2020 Walmart-brand Motile M141 is still my main personal laptop. I have another Thinkpad T460s (2016) that still works fine. My wife still uses her 2019 Surface Pro. I have an ASRock Vision 3D (2010) in my closet running some SDRs. I've got a Supermicro X11SBA-LN4F (2016) in an old Shuttle SFF chassis (2009). And that's just the old stuff that still gets regular use.

Aside from the Surface tablet they're all very repairable.

I disagree that Mac things tend to last longer. There might be trash out there, but there's tons of stuff that's just fine and lasts a long time. You don't even need to always spend a lot on it; that Motile was like $300 for a 14" 1080p laptop.
by disambiguation | 2025-04-08 17:04:08+00:00
Why would you interview with a company far away if you aren't willing to travel and eventually relocate there?

Job hunting has become a game of shotgunning your resume while employers cast the widest net, and this has been hugely detrimental. Internships, junior positions, and onsite training are disappearing across the board. Everyone instead wastes time shopping around without any real evidence that this way improves outcomes.
by kjs3 | 2025-04-08 17:04:28+00:00
>BUT. I worked at a place that used IBM 360s...Then one day an engineer brought in an Apple II from home and ran the programs on that.

The 360 was introduced in 1964. The 370 was introduced in 1970. The 3033 was introduced in 1977. The Apple 2 was introduced in 1977. So, yeah, if you were still using 360s contemporary with an Apple 2, no wonder the engineers were frustrated.
by woodrowbarlow | 2025-04-08 17:04:37+00:00
i think it would be interesting to allow each Ojisan to be in charge of distribution. some would freely hand out their cards to any who ask, while some might be more "stingy", awarding cards only to youth who impressed them. the game designer could periodically restock the Ojisan's supply and each generation of cards could be mechanically rebalanced to reflect the observed rarity.
by stevekemp | 2025-04-08 17:05:06+00:00
We're gonna go "No true Scotsman", on irn-bru? That takes some doing!

I get what you're saying, and I kinda believe the best Irn-Bru was the stuff in a glass bottle, delivered to the door, when I was a kid.

But the stuff that's out there, to my mind, is still just fine. It cures hangovers. It tastes of sugar and love, whether there's real sugar, real iron, or real love in it is almost immaterial.
by thwarted | 2025-04-08 17:05:07+00:00
> Its also not clear for example that Studio Ghibli lost by having their art style plastered all over the internet. I went home and watched a Ghibli film that week, as I'm sure many others did as well. Their revenue is probably up quite a bit right now?

This sounds like a rewording of "You won't get paid, but this is a great opportunity for you because you'll get exposure".
by laweijfmvo | 2025-04-08 17:05:20+00:00
the article is pitching this as a concern/bad thing, but since they called out Meta specifically, I’d counter it. Meta wouldn’t be Meta without Zuckerberg having full control. It’d still be called Facebook and their entire existence would be showing more ads and less relevant content to a dwindling audience. Definitely no metaverse and maybe not even a player in the AI race.
by pydry | 2025-04-08 17:05:40+00:00
>Pumped storage is cost effective but it's also built out, there's little if any scope for growth

You're confusing pumped storage with river dams. The geography for pumped storage is abundant, river dams not so much.

>Battery storage is entirely speculative so far.

In 2012 maybe. These days grid level battery plants are deployed routinely.

>Whilst nuclear is a proven baseload source

At 5x the cost per kwh, according to lazard.

Baseload also means "requires peakers". That means gas or...batteries.

When french nuclear plants go down for maintenance the country chews through ungodly amounts of gas. Some of their plants have capacity factors of like ~80% - not much better than high performing wind farms.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-04-08 17:05:43+00:00
Okay, you don't like leetcode, that's fine. It doesn't mean you shouldn't prepare for an interview. In fact I'd say preparing for an interview might include researching their interview process and avoiding them if they use leetcode type questions which you don't like. It might also include learning about their tech stack, brushing up on relevant past experience, or learning a bit about the industry they operate in (for example).
by saidinesh5 | 2025-04-08 17:05:58+00:00
Not accidental, but government restrictions are the main reason people built their own drones here. Government banned import of drones here back then. Only way to fly and have fun was build your own. build them part by part.

I have built them for dozens of non technical friends too. And then they themselves got into fixing them once they broke. Solder the wires. Get parts 3d printed etc..
by simonw | 2025-04-08 17:06:01+00:00
"... for some reason the models still think markup languages are regular and can be handled with regular expressions"

Presumably you mean this code here? https://github.com/simonw/llm-hacker-news/blob/e945c84e825f4...

I reviewed it. For this particular application (turning JSON from https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/43615912 into a more concise format suitable for feeding into an LLM like https://github.com/simonw/llm-hacker-news/blob/e945c84e825f4...) it's perfectly adequate (or "good enough" to quote your comment). You're welcome to convince me otherwise!