MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hgomersall | 2025-04-02 19:36:59+00:00
You make an interesting point, but there's an issue that significant resources are put into making sure that people do not understand economics, law and geopolitics properly. Economics is particular egregious in that the academic discipline is, for the most part, complete horseshit, and popular economics is a bastardised version of that. Geopolitics is also filtered heavily through whatever lens one views it.
by thyristan | 2025-04-02 19:37:35+00:00
Any other science is messy as well.

Truck passing by on the nearby road? Oops, my physics experiment got shaken, results look messy. Lab animal caught a cold? Oops, genetics experiment now has messy data. Atmosphere is turbulent and some shitty starlink satellite passed by at the wrong moment? Oops, my stellar spectra are messy now. Imperfection in my test ingot? Oops, now my tensile strength measurements have messy data because a few ripped too early...

It is the nature of experimental science to deal with messiness. And dealing with it means being honest about it. You write it like it happened, find the problems in the messy parts of your data, exclude that and explain the why and how. Hand-picked results and just omitting data you find inconvenient is not science, its fraud.

When I am allowed to just pick one result I can show you a perpetuum mobile, cold fusion, superhuman intelligence in mice and tons of other newsworthy things...
by chrisgeiger3 | 2025-04-02 19:38:02+00:00
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by harmmonica | 2025-04-02 19:38:16+00:00
Even if Google's robotics technology (software and hardware) is leading edge does anyone think they'll actually be able to productize it? Seems similar to how they were the pre-product leaders in transformers and then fumbled any advantage they had to ChatGPT. It seems like something's missing from Google where they can't get from research to product effectively. Waymo perhaps a good counterexample if you think where they are today is product/market fit, but I can't shake the feeling that Google more often than not can't seem to get things to market or even if they do they give up on them before they take hold.

Just wondering if anyone has a strong feeling or, better yet, insight on this regarding their robotics efforts.
by peteforde | 2025-04-02 19:38:38+00:00
Late-stage capitalism is a term that is rapidly approaching its 100th birthday. It colloquially describes a phase of capitalism marked by the dominance of multinational corporations, financial speculation, and mass consumerism. Do you really take issue with this characterization?

I make no argument against free labor, voluntarily given in service of a collective good.

I do take issue with the fact that creating OSS is not a viable way to cover basic living expenses unless you are on some corporation's payroll.
by acidmath | 2025-04-02 19:38:42+00:00
> All four were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the private chats.

Anyone with access to NSA plus various subcontractors' toolsets can "unmask" these people in like five minutes. Musk may not be "tech genius" some of the media makes him out to be, but he knows enough about how the internet and computers work (or has advisors who do) to figure that out.
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-02 19:38:43+00:00
This extends to actions vs beliefs too.

F.ex. one of my most altruistic and charitable friends is a Trump supporter

She's run a Christmas time charity for 10 years, solely out of the goodness of her heart, to ensure that families in our community who are struggling get what they need for a happier holiday in tough times.

It's a non-trivial 6 months of work, between making prizes for donation-driving lotteries, attending events and promoting, and then finding the most cost-effective deals for the families.

So I choose to say "She's a better person than most I know, in some ways, and disagrees with me in others. Worth friendship."
by hylaride | 2025-04-02 19:39:34+00:00
This question is a false equivalency. Amazon is not an economy. Comparing the two, morally or otherwise, is a fools errand. It's like comparing the morality of a TV network versus an actor.

Amazon is an organization/corporation that participates in a market economy (mostly - I won't get into a details rabbit hole over regulation, monopoly, etc) that ultimately responds to price signals in chase of a profit motive and cannot use violence to force people to live within it. Maybe Bezos would like to be able to, maybe he wouldn't, but he can't either way. You can only realistically (morally) compare it to other companies.

Communism (as practised on earth so far) is a centrally planned economy backed by a coercive, centralized state that has a monopoly on violence to competitors, mostly ignores price signals, and usually uses violence against those that try to leave or access alternatives. You can only realistically compare it to other economic and/or government models.
by Aissen | 2025-04-02 19:39:52+00:00
I wrote a set of uBo rules to do the same on TikTok. Not sure if they still work, but might as well publish it:

tiktok.com##sharing-main-video-el:watch-attr(controlslist):remove-attr(controlslist)

It seems a bit flakey on mobile, but it was a nice addition to the other enhancements. I haven't been able to make the mobile web as useful as the desktop web version, but didn't want to spend too much time on it either.
by zelse | 2025-04-02 19:39:53+00:00
FWIW, your Enterprise key for Win10 should also work to install Win11 enterprise (the MAK keys for the two versions are identical, even), so you can test this fairly easily if you're inclined. That said, I can aver that domain-joining in Win11 doesn't require an MS account - corporations would flip out if that requirement was extended to them.
by ElevenLathe | 2025-04-02 19:40:44+00:00
Shorts are expensive to keep on long term, so unless you are very confident of a collapse happening like, this month, probably better to instead be long stuff that would benefit from US collapse. I can't actually think of major asset classes that would benefit but there are probably small plays like particular public companies or commodities with non-US supply chains for things where the current cheapest supplier is American (European banks? Soybean futures for delivery in Asia?)
by joquarky | 2025-04-02 19:40:45+00:00
I resonate with what you're saying so I'm mostly just curious how long you've been developing front end code. I think those who have had had to run the gauntlet of naked JS in the 90s developed the discipline to intuitively code untyped.

I've been enjoying JS since it was first added to Netscape and I also loathe the creeping bloat that is endemic to web development these days.

In the event that I want an "intellisense" dropdown capability in a project, I'm a big fan of JSDoc. I think the bootcamp kiddies these days just don't have enough experience to get by without the intellisense crutch.
by ziddoap | 2025-04-02 19:41:28+00:00
If you intentionally post something publicly, it's public. Full stop.

The tricky part is dealing with inadvertent or malicious (i.e. some other party), posting of private information to a public space. That's really hard to deal with on multiple levels.

For one, the archives would retain the information and scrubbing it is effectively impossible.

Secondly, legitimate things which should remain public (i.e. were posted publicly, are of public interest, etc.) can be argued to have been inadvertently or maliciously posted. So you need some way to moderate and create rulings for each individual case, which quickly becomes untenable due to the sheer volume of information being posted and the inordinate amount of time required to investigate vs. post.
by llsf | 2025-04-02 19:42:15+00:00
No skin in the game. Looking at the old one https://www.mta.info/map/36946 vs. the new one https://www.mta.info/map/5256, and not being a New Yorker, I would prefer the old map as it allows me to appreciate the distances and contextualize more.

But I can see a New Yorker preferring the new map to get just the subway lines and connections.
by freejazz | 2025-04-02 19:42:58+00:00
It's not literal and I have a hard time believing you couldn't figure that out when I used 'amazon-economy' and not just 'amazon'. No less so in the context of a thread comparing capitalism (which was represented by Amazon's existence, in the thread) and communism, which is of course, the question you didn't answer in your response to the previous poster.

Frankly, explaining communism in your response is just rude, even disregarding how pointed it is. But maybe there is a trend in your responses seeing as how you refuse to actually compare the results of capitalism against the results of communism, as was asked in the post you responded to yet didn't answer the central question thereof, so I put it to you again. I guess you could not answer the question a third time, but I would not expect a response from me if you continue with this obtuse path.
by toinebeg | 2025-04-02 19:43:23+00:00
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by passwordoops | 2025-04-02 19:43:27+00:00
Hence the crisis we have in science today.

As an aside, I'm working at a QC chem lab now, with results that have a direct impact on revenue calculations for clients. Therefore the reports go to accountants, therefore error bars dont't exist. We recently had a case where we reported 41.7 when the client expected 42.0 on a method that's +/- 1.5... They insisted we remeasure because our result was "impossible" The repeat gave 42.1, and the client was happy to be charged twice
by scoofy | 2025-04-02 19:43:50+00:00
There is some good stuff here, but I generally disagree.

The difference for me is, I don't like everybody, and not everybody has to like me. That's okay, and it's not about disrespect, it's just that I like to surround myself with people who are thoughtful before they are opinionated.

If you know me, and you respect me, and I say something you think is crazy... if they first think you think is "Wait, I thought I respected him, but he's a bad person" instead of "Wait, I respect this person and they're saying something I disagree with. Am I wrong about that?", then, guess what, I'm not actually interested in having a deep relationship.

I studied philosophy in college and grad school. I had to "relearn" how to interact with people outside of the university setting for many of the reasons in this essay. However, upon reading the horrifying "how to win friends and influence people" way of interacting with normal people through flattery and shallow interaction, I thought fuck it, I just don't actually want to be close with people I can't have a real conversation with.

Not everyone gets to the right position right away, that's okay. I'm a strong small-"L" liberal, and I have friends that are conservatives, socialists, and even the occasional anarchist. The difference is that we're all still trying to figure it all out. We're not all pretending that "well if those people didn't exist then we'd have utopia already" because, well, all these system exist all over the earth and it ain't a utopia anywhere. We'll make our points, we'll needle each other in a friendly way, and we'll all say "fuck it, we're doing our best."

That doesn't mean I'm friendly with everyone (remember, I don't like everyone, and not everyone likes me), because there are plenty of political positions that pretty much require people to be unthoughtful. The views need to be consistent, and pretty much anything that end advocating substantial discrimination against certain people over other people isn't going to be internally consistent. Axioms are arbitrary, reason is not.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-04-02 19:43:51+00:00
Fair enough, I can see from the thread how that interpretation could arise. I would definitely interpret "moderation policy" to be policy implemented by moderators. In this case, I was responding to the statement that "flagging is not moderation", and I thought it was useful to distinguish that flagging semantically is a kind of moderation (done by users rather than by moderators).
by anigbrowl | 2025-04-02 19:44:32+00:00
I really don't know how you'd prove it, or I'd be operating a cranky social media account demanding the scientific community pay attention to me! My knowledge of astronomy/cosmology tops out around Quanta magazine reader level and studying the subject academically always seemed like a luxury for people who already have money. The 'space is foam' idea just hit me out of the blue one day ~20 years ago when I was staring at bubbles and looking at how tiny ones interact with larger ones. I feel like it has something to do with heliopause and plasma, but every time I read up on it the scientific consensus seems to be 'we still don't know much about it,' so I don't know what to do with the idea.
by davorak | 2025-04-02 19:44:35+00:00
> The president can instruct (or basically ask) DOJ to delay enforcement

That does not change if the law has been broken though or that those breaking can be punished for breaking the law though to my understanding. So in cases where a president asks for something not to be enforced a future DOJ, even under the same president, would be enabled to press charges to my understanding.
by IceHegel | 2025-04-02 19:44:52+00:00
I was playing around with having this model plot orbital trajectories and it was seriously impressive. Other top-tier models would struggle to get functional simulations working. Gemini 2.5 was able to do it after three or four turns in Cursor. It does feel like a meaningful step up in mathematical reasoning and math-dense coding.

On the other hand, if you try to play chess with any of these reasoning models (including Gemini 2.5), it basically doesn't work at all. They keep forgetting where pieces are. Even with rl and sequential thinking on max, they consistently move pieces in impossible ways and mutate the board position.

In a recent test with Gemini 2.5, it used like 1700 thinking tokens to conclude it was in checkmate... but it wasn't. It's going to be very hard to trust these models to do new science or to operate outside of domains humans can verify while this kind of behavior continues.
by gkolli | 2025-04-02 19:45:18+00:00
Hi! Looks pretty interesting - few questions/thoughts:

1. Could you talk a bit more about your behavioral-training? If ace-control is trained on behavioral recordings, would it choose the most efficient path for the agent to take to complete a task? I'm guessing humans choose naturally take less-optimal steps.

2. What causes the huge speed increase? I'm guessing there were a lot of optimizations made, especially since this behavioral-training seems very different from vision models. I'm guessing the model is smaller, so it's interesting that accuracy is highest. I'd be interested to see a comparison vs. 4o-mini

3. Would be neat for it to handle instructions offline/locally - like "connect me to wifi" ;)

4. Would be cool if agent could work in the background so I can do something else in the meantime. ;)
by MPSFounder | 2025-04-02 19:45:35+00:00
I agree. The current leadership of Google (especially Sundar) is mediocre and comes from a consulting background. They will fail at making a tangible product out of this, similar to glass or Inbox or a multitude of other examples. This is particularly sad, as I know a few remarkable engineers at Google that share this frustration. However, Google's leadership folded to Indian managers and is now run as a circus
by James_K | 2025-04-02 19:46:00+00:00
I fail to see how that relates to my using it as an example of a fast compiler. For that matter, my suggested approach doesn't need to to release source code, just some kind of programming language code. You could minify it, pre-optimise it, or do any number of things that would mean it isn't source code but instead becomes derived code (as I said in my original comment). Distributing textual code is not the same as being open source. I'm really just saying you should distribute something that isn't a platform specific blob with a fixed binary interface. You could, for instance, use LLVM IR code to achieve this, which is little more than a kind of portable assembly. LLVM can apply heavy optimisations to this code on the developer's machine, then take only the last step of code generation on the user's machine.
by anon84873628 | 2025-04-02 19:46:10+00:00
Put another way, impossible to program if you wanted to. These are highly abstract concepts that only manifest at the highest level of cognition. The governance module would need to be programmed at that same level using those tokens, but that doesn't seem to be how things are shaping up to work. Instead we start with low level programming that learns and builds up concepts on top.

Essentially you would need some sort of independent adversarial sidecar mind that monitors the robot's actions at a high level. And that just kicks the can down the road a bit.
by amanzi | 2025-04-02 19:46:46+00:00
Perhaps PlantUML isn't as new and interesting as Mermaid, but each time I try a side-by-side comparison, the results are always better in PlantUML than Mermaid. I'll admit that the Mermaid syntax is a lot easier to understand, but the PlantUML syntax is a lot more powerful. I especially like the new Activity diagrams in PlantUML with the conditionals and looping syntax.
by drgo | 2025-04-02 19:47:13+00:00
I think what publishers need to do is retain reviewers (possibly on part-time basis); many retired scientists can benefit from those opportunities and it is a way to keep senior scientists engaged in their fields. For most submitted papers, there is no need for the reviewer to be sub-specialized in the paper's field (most reviews done by the sub specialists are actually done by their postdocs and grad students) and the hiring process (and subsequent evaluation) is ought to be more effective and speedier than randomly contacting people to beg for reviews. Until the review process is taken more seriously by publishers and journal editors, the quality of published science continues to deteriorate.
by bsimpson | 2025-04-02 19:47:29+00:00
One nice side effect of Signal's importance for governmental/military use is that it helps keep it free for civilian use. They can't mandate a backdoor for something other parts of the government rely on to be secure.

I once heard a great anecdote to that effect, and to my embarrassment I can't recall the details to repeat here.

(And yes, I understand that there are limits on what is appropriate to share with civilian hardware on a civilian network, but the truth stands that part of the reason there's not a push to breach encryption in the US like there is in the UK is because Signal is relied upon even by the government when they need a private channel on civilian hardware.)
by joquarky | 2025-04-02 19:47:33+00:00
IMO, most SPAs are bloated. MPAs are cleaner and more forgiving.

The only reason to still stick to an SPA instead of an MPA is that the app is so bloated you want the user to only have to load it once.

And people say "lazy loading!" but by the time you've implemented lazy loading in a SPA, you could have just used an MPA to keep things modular and memory efficient.

SPAs became popular at a time when companies thought everyone was going to move to progressive web apps. Then the bloated frameworks came along, PWA interest has faded, and here we are.

The above are all my opinions, apologize in advance if they come off as speaking objectively.
by dang | 2025-04-02 19:47:56+00:00
> (chances are people will downvote without comment or scream "ThAtS nOt TrUe")

> (Love how HN proved my comment as correct)

Please don't do this here. It's against the site guidelines (see the bottom: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), which guarantees downvotes, and then the combination of help-help-I'm-being-repressed and I-told-you-so is annoying to pretty much everyone.

As for "left leaning", see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870 (Feb 2021). The specific examples are old now but there is an endless fresh supply from each tap.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-04-02 19:47:58+00:00
>Saying I'm pretending is the same thing as saying that I'm lying. But it doesn't really matter either way. Your claims about what's in my head are mistaken. You are, of course, free to think anything you like.

Correct, I think you're lying. But that's an extreme way to put it. You're more humble bragging.

Again, it wasn't an attack. Even if I say you're lying it's not an attack either. I'm just stating what I'm thinking.
by parsimo2010 | 2025-04-02 19:49:04+00:00
> They keep forgetting where pieces are

The vast majority of human chess players need to look at the board to know where the pieces are. Only a few people can know where all the pieces are if you just give them a list of moves. Have you tried evaluations where you give the LLM a representation of the board state at every move, as most human players would have, and which all chess engines track?
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-02 19:49:06+00:00
> Then it shifted in the last ten or fifteen years. When social media started having friends of friends, the tribalism kicked in. It was explained very well in a talk between Maria Ressa and Jon Stewart.

Also by Jon Stewart on Crossfire in 2004: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE&t=310s

The critique about what passes for debate is as apt today as it was then.
by James_K | 2025-04-02 19:49:29+00:00
Not Gentoo. The system I'm suggesting is one where you replace the linker with one which accepts a platform agnostic assembly code with similar semantics to C, and perhaps some additional tools for stack traversal to allow the implementation of garbage collected languages and exceptions. Compiling would be fast because the code you distribute would have already had optimisations applied to it in a pre-compilation step. It would also be automatic in the same way the present linker system is automatic.