MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drusepth | 2025-04-30 04:21:29+00:00
I've only briefly used an AVP (used a friend's before he returned it), but I didn't really notice that much difference in screen quality between it and my Quest 3. That's really what I was hoping it'd excel at given the price, but the real killer for me was just the bulkiness/weight of it compared to other headsets. I can't see myself working in it for longer than maybe 30-45 min compared to the 6+ hours I've put in with virtual desktops in Quest 3/Vive.
by mvkel | 2025-04-30 04:23:00+00:00
I am curious where the line is between its default personality and a persona you -want- it to adopt.

For example, it says they're explicitly steering it away from sycophancy. But does that mean if you intentionally ask it to be excessively complimentary, it will refuse?

Separately...

> in this update, we focused too much on short-term feedback, and did not fully account for how users’ interactions with ChatGPT evolve over time.

Echoes of the lessons learned in the Pepsi Challenge:

"when offered a quick sip, tasters generally prefer the sweeter of two beverages – but prefer a less sweet beverage over the course of an entire can."

In other words, don't treat a first impression as gospel.
by siffin | 2025-04-30 04:24:11+00:00
If people are actually relying on LLMs for validation of ideas they come up with during mental health episodes, they have to be pretty sick to begin with, in which case, they will find validation anywhere.

If you've spent time with people with schizophrenia, for example, they will have ideas come from all sorts of places, and see all sorts of things as a sign/validation.

One moment it's that person who seemed like they might have been a demon sending a coded message, next it's the way the street lamp creates a funny shaped halo in the rain.

People shouldn't be using LLMs for help with certain issues, but let's face it, those that can't tell it's a bad idea are going to be guided through life in a strange way regardless of an LLM.

It sounds almost impossible to achieve some sort of unity across every LLM service whereby they are considered "safe" to be used by the world's mentally unwell.
by istjohn | 2025-04-30 04:24:26+00:00
Wilhoit's Law:

> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

> There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progre...
by ehsankia | 2025-04-30 04:24:38+00:00
There's now a thing called "FSD", yes. But it's not FSD as in Full Self-Driving, as in L4. It's still an L3, the driver still needs to be at the wheel and paying attention. "Full Self Driving" implies L4. What Waymo has, with no one at the wheel, is L4.
by guywithahat | 2025-04-30 04:25:00+00:00
I think there was a lot of pressure on Tesla/Elon to donate and participate more, and higher ups turned pretty hard on him when he didn't. They were pulling the tax credit from Tesla while holding EV summits with everyone but him. I don't think he was being reactionary, I think his hand was forced.

Further he really isn't a conservative. He's still running around on X talking about how we need to double the number of H1-B's and other social-left causes. Cutting spending through DOGE is something every Republican has talked about for decades, and I don't think it's a major flip for him to want to do that.
by abbeyj | 2025-04-30 04:25:27+00:00
It seems like it should be possible to factor out most of the iterator boilerplate into a helper class. Then each place where you want to iterate you can construct an instance of that helper class and supply a lambda that specifies how to descend into children. If you're doing the same iteration in several places then you can use a named function instead of a lambda, which means less typing for each `for` loop. Here's a rough sketch: https://godbolt.org/z/x94WY77rv
by zmgsabst | 2025-04-30 04:25:51+00:00
There’s a correlating factor:

Technocratic managerialism.

Communism, socialism, fascism, and progressivism are 20th century political systems based around technocratic managerialism — and all of them have attempted to control breeding in the population. That’s because technocratic managerialism is prone to such decisions.

Progressives in the US were behind both Great Society programs and forced sterilization — so it’s more or less accurate to say the US equivalent of socialists did also sterilize people.
by tomjakubowski | 2025-04-30 04:26:24+00:00
My former giant corporate landlord (Onni) began refusing to accept checks as a matter of policy, even when I pointed this out exact law, and the language in my lease saying the landlord would accept them. They claimed that because the mandatory $5 "convenience fee" on their payment portal was paid to a third party processor, and not to them, that they were in the clear.

I didn't want to go so far as to challenge them to either continue accepting check payments or, if they still refused, try and evict me, but maybe I should have.
by phs318u | 2025-04-30 04:26:29+00:00
Even if this originated as a marketing thought bubble, there's no way that such a decision could've been made without direct approval from the executive (including the CEO), and only after taking advice from their general counsel and consulting with the board. The potential reputational damage is too immense for such a decision to be made by "marketing" alone. What you're describing has happened before and the courts awarded massive punitive damages against the motor company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimshaw_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
by nozzlegear | 2025-04-30 04:26:40+00:00
Doesn't the Bay Area have its own unique real estate/housing problem? I don't think that's something a federal minimum wage can or should address. I'm not convinced that I should be able to make $30/hour at any job in Iowa because of real estate prices in California or New York – but I do think people in Iowa should be guaranteed enough to buy their own homes with 40 hours per week.

> This is where the tech people are living.

Just to note, I am a tech person living out here! I run my own software business, and used to work as a dev for local and remote companies before that.
by copypaper | 2025-04-30 04:26:45+00:00
I would personally never touch a frontend not written with a framework. Sounds like a terrible developer experience--especially with a team. But from reading your article, it sounds like your issue is with React itself. I would recommend you try Svelte, it sounds like what you're looking for. It's as close to vanilla js as you can get with all the benefits of a framework.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-30 04:27:26+00:00
Just like it's reasonable for America to worry about the group that conducted forced sterilization (Jim Crow racists) and worry about the slide back to them attaining power, it makes sense to do the same for socialists.

Ideologies that further concentrate power in the hands of a central state - in India's case, things like Hindutva nationalism and socialism - are risky, particularly in developing nations where liberty is less firmly-established, and should be given a stern eye when they appear.

And, just like "southern democrat" is a "bad word" in America for obvious reasons and doesn't imply "democrat from the south", "socialist" is a bit taboo in India.
by tetromino_ | 2025-04-30 04:28:05+00:00
This is honestly a pretty skillful try at extremist propaganda. Long form vaguely neutral text with a vaguely plausible message. Gets your guard down, draws you in. Explicit right-wing politics in footnotes. And links (with the implication that they are links to authoritative references!) to unabashedly and proudly bigoted bullshit hosted on other domains.

Wonder how many people fall for it.
by tdb7893 | 2025-04-30 04:29:24+00:00
Trump has been a pretty different politician (both in how he's talked but also what he's done) so I don't think it makes sense to view things he does slightly differently. Also the issue is less that a specific company is targeted but more that it looks like a personal political favor.

Not that your point is entirely invalid, just that I think the context is probably different (though I'm not sure exactly what EU comments you're referring to).
by moomin | 2025-04-30 04:29:30+00:00
You’re right that it’s an easier problem, but it’s still trickier than it looks. Remember the point of this is to be listening together. To do that, you need to be able to communicate your reactions. And then you’re back to the 38ms (in practice it’s probably twice that). Either way, at 120bpm that’s over a bar!

If you _don’t_ have real time communication, then you don’t really need to solve this problem. But the problem is fundamentally unsolvable because the speed of light (in a vacuum) is the speed of causality and, as I say, puts a hard cap on simultaneity. This tends to be regarded as obvious at interstellar distances but it affects us at transatlantic distances too.
by uptownfunk | 2025-04-30 04:29:43+00:00
I must say that making my own starter, and making pizza from this.. incredible. It has been a very fun and fulfilling journey. It is better than going out for me and I now have it dialed in to where I can crank out 12 pizza in an hour from my oven. We have friends over and it’s a great time. The dough I feel like is also well adapted and suited to my particular environment and the flour I bake with and there is something unique in that this culture you can only get from me and my house
by anamexis | 2025-04-30 04:30:14+00:00
I did essentially the same thing. I have this input in a form:

<label for="gb-email" class="nah" aria-hidden="true">Email:</label> <input id="gb-email" name="email" size="40" class="nah" tabindex="-1" aria-hidden="true" autocomplete="off" >

With this CSS:

.nah { opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; height: 0; width: 0; z-index: -1; }

And any form submission with a value set for the email is blocked. It stopped 100% of the spam I was getting.
by dangus | 2025-04-30 04:30:49+00:00
Great advice from the parent comment.

I'll throw these random ideas in along with it:

- Work/life balance is something you enforce on your own. Learn to get over fear of being fired (an emergency fund helps) and simply refuse to follow unspoken toxic overwork culture. I have found that more likely than not, nobody actually notices that you aren't working as hard as all the 10x developers that have no life and the people who imitate them.

- On the topic of "field versus company," another aspect to keep in mind is that the actual job of software development is very different in different industries. Moving to the same job in a different industry may feel a lot different and have much different norms regarding workload, culture, compensation, etc.

- Don't forget that desk jobs in software are still some of the best work you can do overall. Not only is it a desk job where you are generally treated like an adult, it's one of the higher paying ones at that. Think very hard about the grass on the other side of that fence. Your example of aviation mechanic sounds like it could be ripe for shit work conditions (physical job, being out in the elements, having to go on location physically 100% of the time, working for extremely low-profit-margin companies, I would think that it's only decent if it's got a strong union and that in itself will be a barrier for you getting into it)

- Consider how you evaluate companies during job interviews. Focus on finding out if the company, manager, and team is the right fit for you. Spend less headspace on trying to impress the company and make sure they are impressing you. (I am not sure if this is true but I think a lot of candidates who do this in interviews are perceived as knowing what they're doing because they are expressing a very clear idea of what they want out of the role)

- There are other ways to use software developer skills that aren't a software development job directly. One example is working on the customer side in pre-sales or post-sales.
by nailer | 2025-04-30 04:31:11+00:00
This is odd - it keeps mentioning Open Source but the Llama license isn’t open source at all - see https://www.llama.com/llama3/license/. The “additional commercial terms” section violates the open source definition as does the advertising clause.

I would’ve hoped to have seen Meta, in their supposed dedication to open source, actually fix it.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-04-30 04:31:38+00:00
The social engineering aspects of AI have always been the most terrifying.

What OpenAI did may seem trivial, but examples like yours make it clear this is edging into very dark territory - not just because of what's happening, but because of the thought processes and motivations of a management team that thought it was a good idea.

I'm not sure what's worse - lacking the emotional intelligence to understand the consequences, or having the emotional intelligence to understand the consequences and doing it anyway.
by grogenaut | 2025-04-30 04:31:58+00:00
I'm pretty sure that the bots changed the dieback meta around the last TI in seattle when openai last did their demo pre canada TI. So I disagree that the "ai taught us nothing". Prior to that dieback was seen bad. After that people did the math and realized that spam respawn, the money and growth matter more. They may have altered the game after that, I don't know. I only paid attention when it was at Climate Pledge / Key.
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-04-30 04:32:15+00:00
Absolutely! Silent disco still requires impractically expensive rental hardware to work well as far as I know. A lot of them run off FM radio, since it's the simplest way to go, but nobody owns portable radios anymore.

An OSS app with the ability to sync everyone up over mobile or wifi, on Android or iOS with BYO headphones, would be incredible. This should be a thing :)
by nonethewiser | 2025-04-30 04:32:58+00:00
>In other words, don't treat a first impression as gospel.

Subjective or anecdotal evidence tends to be prone to recency bias.

> For example, it says they're explicitly steering it away from sycophancy. But does that mean if you intentionally ask it to be excessively complimentary, it will refuse?

I wonder how degraded the performance is in general from all these system prompts.
by walterbell | 2025-04-30 04:32:59+00:00
US needs more small, efficient models. Case in point, Qwen3.

> Instead of focusing solely on building the most powerful and costly tool sets, [America] should also invest in more affordable models, he said. Otherwise, businesses and consumers around the world might choose Chinese alternatives. America needs “to invest in smaller models that can be used by other countries, that can be used with lower infrastructure and lower costs. They may not be as powerful, but would be just as important.”
by cryptonector | 2025-04-30 04:33:29+00:00
> There was also forced sterilization in the United States.

Yes, in the 20s in New York State. It was quite rare by comparison to what happened in India. The point was not to say "this is what socialists do" but to say point out that they did it at the behest of capitalists, which is quite the incongruity -- an incongruity which you noticed yet you failed to make the connection that it made the Gandhis phonies. That should make you wonder how genuine they were as socialists.
by littlestymaar | 2025-04-30 04:34:09+00:00
> what we’re seeing now is spread across the entire economy, suddenly

Including in sectors that aren't affected by tariffs at all, that's the thing.

> the assertion that the theory that sudden tariffs cause sudden price increases doesn’t have predictive value, when basically every sober analyst predicted what we are seeing now.

You are misunderstanding. Tariffs will cause price increase with certainty. But so will lowering the USD value on FX markets, and so will adding massive uncertainty to businesses (including, but not limited to, the prospect of higher inflation in the near future), etc.

Tariffs will cause price hikes, but attempting to measure tariffs effect by observing price variations simply cannot work.

Real life prices are influenced by much more than just supply and demand.
by phs318u | 2025-04-30 04:34:32+00:00
That scene is a reference to Grimshaw vs Ford Motor Co.

The precedents set in that case mean that the liabilities arising out of legal action based on 'strict liability' are likely to be extremely punitive (these days, well upwards of the $147M awarded against Ford in 1980, and into the billions). Any company that did not factor such a payment in their calculation in addition to the indirect costs of reputational damage, deserves everything they get. I doubt this is the case with Mercedes.

One question I do have that perhaps someone here will know - is the Mercedes guarantee limited to certain locales? e.g. Germany only as the roads there are in good condition and well marked? (I'm assuming here).
by JBlue42 | 2025-04-30 04:35:03+00:00
Very cool and hopefully they keep the tradition alive.

In Historical European Martial Arts, we have messer fighting

Casual sparring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY-y_Y7IUfY

More cinematic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHNzL9-zpg
by jrflowers | 2025-04-30 04:35:09+00:00
> An inexperienced new employee can easily be a net loss for a long time as they mess up more stuff than they produce while they learn.

Yes. It is an employer’s responsibility to train or fire employees that are harmful to the business. If they can’t manage to do that, that’s a failure to operate the business at the most basic level.

Insisting that there exists x or y groups of employees that intrinsically deserve to be paid less than a living wage is tantamount to asserting that an employer or manager is entitled to have their planned failure to operate the business subsidized by that same group that they insist on hiring.

Again, it’s not just greed behind the “[teenagers]* don’t deserve a living wage” spiel. It also tends to expose laziness, lack of imagination, entitlement, an active disdain for work, a lack of grasp on business fundamentals, etc. In other words, a lack of the bare minimum aspects of intellectual capacity and discipline necessary in somebody tasked with employing people

* it is not uncommon to see “teenagers” replaced with all manner of groups that any incompetent manager or employer might foist the responsibility for their failures upon. There is nothing special about them as a group
by jimbob45 | 2025-04-30 04:35:24+00:00
China has a highly unique language for foreigners to acclimate to. While I salute the effort for and commitment to higher education, I’m not sure this will bring the boon they’re hoping for.

I would have suggested that they create a high-quality course for introducing westerners to their language instead. It’s the sort of thing that everyone takes for granted that it exists but often doesn’t (where is the Wheelock’s for Spanish these days?) Tonality, pictography, and a highly analytic morphology are all high barriers for any language learners, let alone all three at once.
by motorest | 2025-04-30 04:35:34+00:00
> I guess LLM will give you a response that you might likely receive from a human.

In one of the reddit posts linked by OP, a redditor apparently asked ChatGPT to explain why it responded so enthusiastically supportive to the pitch to sell shit on a stick. Here's a snippet from what was presented as ChatGPT's reply:

> OpenAI trained ChatGPT to generally support creativity, encourage ideas, and be positive unless there’s a clear danger (like physical harm, scams, or obvious criminal activity).
by nirui | 2025-04-30 04:36:25+00:00
I'm glad it worked out for you, but the testimony is objectively somewhat anecdote.

Opposite to your testimony, I know one designer who's an out sourced contractor for a game company. The last time we talked, he's genuinely worried about generative AI, and witnessed layoffs due to the expectation that such tech would replace workers (specially ones who has singular function).

So, yes, there are people who's livelihood has already being negatively effected by AIs. Maybe those are just "DIY people", not "pro-like-me", maybe.
by proc0 | 2025-04-30 04:36:44+00:00
I think React caved in to wider adoption pressure to introduce abstractions that are intuitive on the surface level but are costly in terms of large scale complexity.

> It's "declarative" right up until you're debugging stateful hooks, or resorting to useRef, or trying to reason about when a "component" re-renders

Maybe they should have modularized the core library more and have these things be separate, because the core idea of a uniflow pattern with reactivity is good.

I think what happened, at least in frontend, is that the industry pushed away from having engineers do any design or architecting on the frontend. All of these high level patterns have been "outsourced" to frameworks, and the result usually is something that has trouble scaling and adjusting to whatever domain it's in.
by dangus | 2025-04-30 04:37:04+00:00
This might just be the dumbest thing I heard all day.

I have a family member who got cancer in their 50's and they've now lived 25 years longer than how long they would have lived without healthcare research. They would have been dead if it was 10 years earlier and the research wasn't where it was.

They literally gained a third of a lifespan just because someone decided to spend money on research. They would have never seen their kid get married or have their own kids.

Now multiply that by hundreds of thousands if not millions who have the same diagnosis.

Nobody's trying to be immortal, we're just trying to live the fullest lives possible and give ourselves a good amount of healthy years.

If you think healthcare is a waste of money I am not sure what you think is more important than your health, maybe an AI app to create shareholder value?
by huhcat | 2025-04-30 04:37:12+00:00
> HSR just doesn't run at full speed through city centers anywhere in the world. doesn't happen.

Wrong. It's most definitely a thing in quite a few mid-sized Japanese cities. Here's a compilation video taken at Fukushima Station (https://youtu.be/K-wkX3vFU_A?t=403) on the fastest 320 km/h line for example. You can check for yourself that the station is dead smack downtown in a city of 275,000.

At the world level it doesn't tend to happen because existing developments in cities usually strongly inhibit the construction of straight rail alignments that can support high-speed operations. But that's not a problem in the Central Valley – they're blessed with excellent existing rights-of-way.
by daemonologist | 2025-04-30 04:38:03+00:00
In my experience, LLMs have always had a tendency towards sycophancy - it seems to be a fundamental weakness of training on human preference. This recent release just hit a breaking point where popular perception started taking note of just how bad it had become.

My concern is that misalignment like this (or intentional mal-alignment) is inevitably going to happen again, and it might be more harmful and more subtle next time. The potential for these chat systems to exert slow influence on their users is possibly much greater than that of the "social media" platforms of the previous decade.
by Aloisius | 2025-04-30 04:38:21+00:00
> I wonder what might happen if I was to feed it twice a day at room temperature for a month or so.

If that S. cerevisiae is from accidental contamination from commercial yeast, it'll probably stay dominant. Commercial yeast is a bit of an overachiever.

Temperature matters though. You only really see San Francisco style sourdough cultures, with L. sanfranciscensis cooccuring with K. humilis yeast, in bakeries that regularly backslop at room temperature and never use commercial yeast. That's not easy for most home bakers.