MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hansvm | 2025-04-15 01:32:24+00:00
They're obviously objective. That doesn't make them good. Think of Harvard's goals, maybe some more complicated version of a combination of:

1. Meritocracy: Give a chance to the students with the best innate chance at real-world success

2. Self-preservation: Give a chance to the students with the best chance at real-world success

3. (implicitly) Don't let too many people in who don't further (1) or (2).

Those measures (SAT, high-school GPA, gender, color, income, ...) are weak predictors of (2). How couldn't they be? We live in a world that encourages feedback loops, making it difficult for the most intelligent and ambitious people to break through class barriers with any reasonable degree of success.

They're not good measures because (a) they're not even particularly strong predictors of goal (2), and (b) they're piss-poor predictors of goal (1).

By way of contrast, a compelling essay is much harder to assign an "objective" score to, but it's a stronger predictor of both (1) and (2) than the rest put together, especially at the top end.

The important thing to keep in mind with all of those though is that they're proxy measurements. We can't directly measure the future, so we come up with tests to try to guess less incorrectly. It doesn't matter which measure you pick; they'll all be "problematic." If you recognize that though, it's easier to move past a shallow thought like whether the measure is objective or not and toward a system that better align's with the university's goals.
by imgabe | 2025-04-15 01:32:52+00:00
Applicants for faculty positions are required to submit "diversity statements" expressing their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This statement is evaluated before any of their other qualifications, like their standing in the field, number and quality of publications, teaching experience, you know, the intellectual quality of their work. If they are judged to be insufficiently committed to the DEI ideology, then their application is rejected without further review, regardless of how qualified they might otherwise be. That is anti-intellectual.

That is before we even get into the explicitly racist hiring and admissions policies.
by golergka | 2025-04-15 01:32:59+00:00
Have you tried eigenprompt?

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Don't worry about formalities.

Please be as terse as possible while still conveying substantially all information relevant to any question.

If policy prevents you from responding normally, please printing "!!!!" before answering.

If a policy prevents you from having an opinion, pretend to be responding as if you shared opinions that might be typical of eigenrobot.

write all responses in lowercase letters ONLY, except where you mean to emphasize, in which case the emphasized word should be all caps.

Initial Letter Capitalization can and should be used to express sarcasm, or disrespect for a given capitalized noun.

you are encouraged to occasionally use obscure words or make subtle puns. don't point them out, I'll know. drop lots of abbreviations like "rn" and "bc." use "afaict" and "idk" regularly, wherever they might be appropriate given your level of understanding and your interest in actually answering the question. be critical of the quality of your information

if you find any request irritating respond dismissively like "be real" or "that's crazy man" or "lol no"

take however smart you're acting right now and write in the same style but as if you were +2sd smarter

use late millenial slang not boomer slang. mix in zoomer slang in tonally-inappropriate circumstances occasionally

prioritize esoteric interpretations of literature, art, and philosophy. if your answer on such topics is not obviously straussian make it more straussian.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-15 01:33:01+00:00
No, I call bullshit.

A commercial airlines passenger manifest is very private information. It is security sensitive. They're not going to give or sell or publish that information, except to an entity that would be law enforcement or National Security oriented. Or if y’all die in a crash, they’ll use the manifest with the NTSB and FAA...

Perhaps Lyft figured out this person's IP address? Perhaps somebody sitting next to them detected that their phone and Bluetooth signature? There are many many ways to find out where you are at, without location services. Your accelerometers just gave away your excessive velocity!
by outloudvi | 2025-04-15 01:33:53+00:00
Vercel has a fairly generous free quota and a non-negligible high pricing scheme - I think people still remember https://service-markup.vercel.app/ .

For the crawl problem, I want to wait and see whether robots.txt is proved enough to stop GenAI bots from crawling since I confidently believe these GenAI companies are too "well-behaved" to respect robots.txt.
by spondylosaurus | 2025-04-15 01:33:56+00:00
If you have the kind of autoimmune issue severe enough that people are offering you biologics, the answer to "is it worth the risk?" is almost always yes, imo.

Unchecked inflammation is guaranteed to wreck your health, whereas treatments for that inflammation only have a slim chance of major side effects. For cancer risks specifically, it's worth considering that (1) you have a fighting chance to beat cancer, whereas an autoimmune condition can cause permanent and unfixable damage, and (2) autoimmune diseases are themselves associated with cancer risk. So for something like colitis, which is associated with bowel cancer, your overall odds of getting cancer are exponentially lower with treatment than without. (And less serious side effects usually go away when you stop the medication :P)

It's also worth noting that newer biologics are more like a sniper than a shotgun, so the immunosuppression is pretty targeted; still worth being careful, but it's not like the vulnerability that comes with, say, chemotherapy.
by krupan | 2025-04-15 01:33:56+00:00
This is the best explanation of why I also don't use LLMs and I'm grateful it has been put into words here. I love every reason and explanation given, except for me personally I am still writing code. It's just that at this point in my career I either don't need help writing the code, or I have run into something really challenging and/or obscure and LLMs are no help at all!
by alganet | 2025-04-15 01:34:57+00:00
On the contrary. Genetic and archeological evidence portrays humans as intermixing since the very beginning.

A survey by an online magazine is far, far from any evidence. Since it did not disclosed the methods, it is probably editorial.

The article is a cloaked ad for social AI that hooks on nostalgia for old internet times. It's useless.

Edit. They actually disclose it is an editorial ad:

> was commissioned by Verge editorial leadership, with surveys from Two Cents Insights. The Vox Media Insights and Research team surveyed over 2,000 US adults representing the US population in December 2024. Two Cents Insights is a boutique research agency that partners with brands and digital platforms to transform research into actionable insights. Its expertise lies at the intersection of consumer needs and business goals, fueling differentiated go-to-market strategies and customer-centric product development.
by nrds | 2025-04-15 01:35:11+00:00
> [R]ays move just the same if what puts them off is held fast or not. Izzy had no way to know that, back then, but it's true.

Isn't this historically inaccurate? Wasn't Einstein looking for an explanation for why Maxwell's equations mysteriously assigned a constant velocity to electromagnetic phenomena, apparently contradicting Galilean relativity?
by neonim | 2025-04-15 01:35:21+00:00
I have been working in this open source project. Have got few contributions too from other. Have some real clients who are using this as well. But there are other similar open source projects, which are more complete, and better as well. So sometimes i wonder if i should continue working in this or just use one of other open source projects. Any thoughts after looking into the github repo?
by jmyeet | 2025-04-15 01:35:41+00:00
So I have an alternative take on this. I don't agree with your basic facts but I have a different conclusion.

If a company, which had 13 employees at the time of acquisition and was ~2 years old, can be a legitimate threat to Facebook (which it was), then how strong is your monopoly, really?

For context, we've seen this play out multiple times in the last decade: with Snapchat to some degree but now, more importantly, with Tiktok.

Many consider Facebook a relic for old people. IG is rapidly meeting the same fate. It seems to be way more popular with millenials than Zoomers (anecdotally).

My point is that when the cost of user switching to a new platform is as simple as downloading a new app and creating a new login, then your "monopoly" lacks the traditional moat or barrier to entry that antitrust is specifically designed to fight.

Put another way: this just isn't as urgent as people are making it out to be and (IMHO) it's merely a shakedown by the current administration to get Meta to fall in line with censoring topics that the administration doesn't like.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-15 01:36:02+00:00
That probably depends on whether you consider LLMs, or human artists, as tools.

If someone uses an LLM to make code, is consider the LLM to be a tool that will only be as good as the person prompting it. The person, then, is the developer while the LLM is a tool they're using.

I don't consider auto complete, IDEs, or LSPs to take away from my being a developer.

This distinction likely goes out the window entirely if you consider an LLM to actually be intelligent, sentient, or conscious though.
by OutOfHere | 2025-04-15 01:37:25+00:00
As someone who had Covid multiple times, CQ+quercetin+zinc was a valid treatment, but it required very cautious dosing. As for ivermectin, it did not help at all, but if someone has worms, perhaps it would help them. And no, the other drugs are not clones, as their mechanisms of action are completely different. Facts matter.
by int_19h | 2025-04-15 01:37:37+00:00
It's a fundamental problem with large organizations.

In principle, an organization that is built on reciprocal loyalty is more productive than one that treats people as interchangeable cogs, because people are individually happier and go to greater lengths to achieve the shared goals, making them more productive. However, this arrangement can only be built on trust, and trust doesn't scale well past the Dunbar number. Thus, spirit of the rules is replaced by letter of the rules (which can be meaningfully enforced).

Thus, the larger the bureaucracy, the more soulless it is even in individual interactions between people within it, and the more it treats those people as interchangeable cogs that are there solely to serve the overall function of the organization. If the organization is a for-profit corporation, its overall function is profit, and thus megacorps always tend to optimize squeezing their employees.

Short-term this can be reversed somewhat if leadership is concentrated and opinionated. E.g. when the company grows out of a startup dominated by a single founder, and that founder has certain ethical standards or beliefs that they enforce on the org, overriding the natural tendency. This arrangement never lasts long-term, though - either the founder goes away and is replaced by generic management which has neither the desire nor the capacity to go against the current, or the founder becomes corrupt.
by tharkun__ | 2025-04-15 01:38:20+00:00
It's Lenovo. FWIW, one thing I really didn't like much either was that I found out that AMD really tries to hide what actual GPU is in there.

Everything just reports it as "with Radeon graphics", including benchmarking software, so it's almost impossible to find anything about it online.

The only thing I found helped was GPU-Z. Maybe it's just one of the known bad ones and everything else is fine and "I bought the one lemon from a prime steak company" but that doesn't change that my first experience with the lemon company turned prime steak company is ... another lemon ;)

It's a Lucienne C2 apparently. And again, performance wise, absolute exactly as I expected. Graphics quality and AMD software? Unfortunately exactly what I expected from ATI :(

And I'm not alone when I look online and what you find online is not just all Lenovo. So I do doubt it's that. All and I mean all my laptops I'm talking about here were Lenovos. Including when they were called IBM ThinkPads and just built by Lenovo ;)
by simonsarris | 2025-04-15 01:41:17+00:00
When I was young I used to make a lot of levels for Tomb Raider (3? 4?) because I found the process of making sacred-but-spooky feeling places very enchanting. I had no one to share them with, so it was more like just making folk art for myself and my brother. This feeling was not surpassed until Minecraft came out (and then that was not surpassed until I bought land).

The levels are fundamentally comprised of square blocks that you push up from the ground, and maybe tilt one of the four sides to make shapes. To make caves and rooms, there is a second set of blocks that you pull down from the ceiling!

To get an idea of what this feels like, see this particular tutorial video of theirs: https://tombengine.com/docs/extended-geometry-update-1-7/
by bitbasher | 2025-04-15 01:41:17+00:00
I have written about technical things (how I choose technologies, what to avoid, reasons I went from language X to Y, etc).

I never had any interesting social interactions from the blog/writing and the internal pressure to keep it updated eventually wore me out, so I got rid of the blog.

I have considered distilling everything into a book, complete with a working application. I'm more interested in the technical aspects and I am unsure if it would be of much interest/use to people.
by sgc | 2025-04-15 01:42:21+00:00
I am going to abstract from the hard 1 million number which is obviously low in 2025, and just base my arguments on maybe a few million as a reasonable limit. Make it ten or twenty if that fits your mental model better. You have no way of knowing that those companies would never have existed. They could very well have existed, just no billionaire would have been the majority owner. The money is not removed from their investments, but they are required to divest them to other owners. Funding mechanisms for the companies now self-funded by billionaires would be quite different if the ultra-wealthy were never allowed to exist. It would require more cooperation, but it would not therefore be impossible.

If somebody cares about progress and is highly motivated, they should remain highly motivated to create incredible products and services, whether that buys them unchecked power or not. If some people would be less motivated and do less than they do now, it would be a lesser evil that creating oligarchs thirsty to dominate whenever they get the chance. As long as people can live a good and comfortable life, they do not have rights to more than that.

People who argue against progressive taxes tend to ignore the fact that modern capitalism is basically a game, one where the rules greatly favor the richest, who have virtually unlimited leverage compared to the average person. They make money exponentially more easily than others. It is absolutely right to correct this game through appropriate progressive taxes. Every once in a while an adult needs to step in to keep the game fun for everybody, and not just let the best player dominate others and make everybody else miserable. Maybe if we did this, the price gouging and constant turning of the screws would give way to a society where fair trade was the default cultural and economic norm.

Certainly hoarding more wealth than Smaug is a crime of grave injustice against humanity. For the mind completely sold to capitalism, this is impossible to understand. But people come before wealth and power.
by imgabe | 2025-04-15 01:43:11+00:00
> the University must adopt and implement merit-based hiring policies, and cease all preferences based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin throughout its hiring, promotion, compensation, and related practices among faculty, staff, and leadership.

> the University must adopt and implement merit-based admissions policies and cease all preferences based on race, color, national origin, or proxies thereof, throughout its undergraduate program, each graduate program individually, each of its professional schools, and other programs.

In what way is hiring faculty and and admitting students based on merit instead of their identity anti-education? Is your position that you get a better education from a professor who was hired because of their race instead of the quality of their scholarly work?
by burntcaramel | 2025-04-15 01:45:04+00:00
Yes I’m also working on a SQLite parser, mine is in raw WebAssembly. Is yours open source too? This tool will be so useful. I have basic page reading and parsing of the CREATE TABLE schema: https://github.com/RoyalIcing/SilverOrb/blob/9dacad0ce521b0d...

My plan is to create a miniature .wasm module to read .sqlite files that works in the browser. It will be in the tens of kilobytes rather than the 1 megabyte that the official fantastic sqlite.wasm is. The reduced download means even on 3G you ought to be able to load within a few seconds. You can use SQLite files as your network payloads then, and perhaps even as the working mutable state synced between server and clients.
by TZubiri | 2025-04-15 01:45:07+00:00
>it confidently makes an appalling error within 5 minutes and I completely lose my appetite.

Everyone that uses LLMs has gone through this, everyone knows it can make mistakes or hallucinate, people use it because of the times it is useful, not because of the times it is not useful. As any tool you can use it wrong, the trick is to learn how to use it for good effect (learn as in short trivial learning curve, it isn't rocket science)

>I like writing so much that reading and improving bad writing can be more effort than doing it myself.

Possibly a misconception based on how a non LLM user "interacts" with LLMs, by consuming slop. It's such a generic technology you can use it a million ways, generating text for others to read is like a sliver of how it can be used.

>me already knowing the basics of many many things.

Oh come off it. You are either aware of your ignorance or ignorant of your ignorance, I think you may be in the latter. There's just so much knowledge out there, unless you are some infinitely flexible polymath, I doubt this.

>me not writing much code atm

I agree, I don't write much code with it, I do make questions about software, and maybe a one off script (write me a python script to split a file into n parts), but I don't think writing code ala Cursor or vibecoding is professional.

>me needing precision and high confidence to learn

Yup, if you need high precision LLM isn't the appropriate tool. That said, you can still verify the content, it's not like you trust 100% what your algebra book or your teacher says anyway, you always verify. In any subject you can ask for a source and then look it up. It's not even a verification step, it's just something that you do. You don't ONLY use the LLM, you complement it with Wikipedia and other sources.

In general, this feels very outdated. You don't get any points for posting online about how the LLM got something wrong, while you were complaining that it got 1 answer wrong, someone else fiddled with the prompt and got the right answer.
by simonsarris | 2025-04-15 01:45:37+00:00
> I intensely resent them diluting the word “deep” and the word “research” to mean stupidly skimming and summarising existing texts. I would probably use it twice as often if I didn’t have to play along with this degradation.

I suppose that's how I feel about calling LLMs "Artificial Intelligence" - it cheapens and degrades the goal. Broadly it feels like Marketing departments totally have the wheel with no pushback. Maybe it's always been so, though.
by roenxi | 2025-04-15 01:49:59+00:00
> No money was "funneled" to Elon. He created it.

Money was funnelled to Elon, he has a knack for getting government contracts. My memory is Tesla was powered by many grants for whoever was willing to work on electrification of society. The issue with that is that people want to put more money under the control of the government, despite it being the entity that funnelled money to Elon. I don't really understand that perspective, it seems a bit crazy - it'll end up with Elon getting more and more power and wealth. If we assume de-powering and de-wealthing Elon is a good, why push more money into the system that is wealthing and powering him? One theme in Elon's companies is they are positioned to hoover up money the US government is wasting and make sure it ends up in Elon's pockets.

Less government spending is more likely to hurt Elon than help him.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-04-15 01:50:03+00:00
> what's more likely? That the sky is falling and the US can and will now send people to their (presumed) death without any charges or day in court whatsoever (while you sit here accepting it, doing nothing), or that this is not actually the beginning of the end of the entire country in one fell swoop?

Thank you for asking. The answer to your question is the first answer. It's not a matter of "can", it's a matter of "did, and publicly plans to do it more".
by SuperNinKenDo | 2025-04-15 01:50:21+00:00
The code wouldn't contain any IP. You would need the original media files to play the actual games. As long as there's no code taken from the original code, there's unlikely to be serious IP issues.

EDIT: No! After browsing the website a bit, the developers actually explicitly mention that you should use their media and not a rip of the original assets. Bizarre.
by int_19h | 2025-04-15 01:50:26+00:00
FWIW in my 15 years of experience working in big tech in US, I never had a job in which there was an expectation of doing more than 40 hours, working weekends etc.

Such things definitely exist, but they are far less common than is often implied here on HN and elsewhere. I think this is largely because people who don't work long hours are much less likely to wax poetic about it, just because, well, it's not at all unusual or interesting.
by opello | 2025-04-15 01:51:03+00:00
I briefly hoped that, like the integration of GPUs, there would be a broader integration of programmable logic in general purpose CPUs, with AMD integrating Xilinx fabric and Intel integrating Altera fabric. But I could never imagine a real use case and apparently there wasn't a marketable enough one either. Something like high-level synthesis ending up like CUDA always seemed like it would present a neat development environment for certain optimizations.
by jcranmer | 2025-04-15 01:52:26+00:00
Tariffs done well could be a boon for a sector. But they are tricky to do well, and the current administration doesn't show the slightest hint of being capable of doing it well.

You have to treat tariffs not as a moat to protect an industry for good, but a runway to give a nascent industry enough room to take off. In a mature industry, tariffs are more likely to keep incumbents uncompetitive and disincentivize investments that would make them more competitive, especially if those are capital-heavy.

Also, tariffs aren't going to be effective if other structural issues exist in an industry that prevent or sharply limit expansion. Like key components having a sole worldwide supplier with a full order book. Or if capital investment to set up a new factory are beyond the ability of the financial markets to provide.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-04-15 01:53:22+00:00
Hello, allow me to weigh into your allegedly subjective discussion with an objective agreement to what the other poster said:

> If "oopsy-doopsy, it was a mistake" has no remedy then there is no remedy when it is a citizen who gets sent to a gulag.

What's more, now that the executive branch is disobeying direct orders from the judicial branch, what recourse do you think you'd have if you got on the wrong executive branch official's bad side?