MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by HammadB | 2025-04-04 14:43:28+00:00
There is an abundance of discussion on this thread about whether models are intelligent or not.

This binary is an utter waste of time.

Instead focus on the gradient of intelligence - the set of cognitive skills any given system has and to what degree it has them.

This engineering approach is more likely to lead to practical utility and progress.

The view of intelligence as binary is incredibly corrosive to this field.
by kevstev | 2025-04-04 14:43:41+00:00
This picture without context gave me QA or build lab type vibes, and the caption in the story confirmed that. They had to test on all kinds of configurations and hardware, so this makes sense- tbh I am surprised its this small. Remote tools didn't really exist in those days, and even if they did, they are unlikely to work if the OS is having issues. So you run a test, find an issue, and if its hard to reproduce you might just have to bring the dev into the lab to get on the box to understand what happened.

It looks very similar to a QA Lab at a place I worked at in the early 2000s. They essentially commandeered a larger conference room and there were just (cpu) boxes everywhere.
by starky | 2025-04-04 14:43:44+00:00
What is killing people's work ethic in your opinion then?

How is that person in Japan paid? Are they able to live comfortably and not have to worry about whether they are going to be bankrupted by an unexpected medical problem or bill?

From my perspective, A major problem in the west is that it has become unaffordable for so many people and they are always stressed about money which permeates into the rest of their life. If you are always on the precipice of being homeless it is understandable why they are stressed and able to be exploited by predatory companies working them to the bone.
by spencerflem | 2025-04-04 14:43:50+00:00
The information in most ads is things like: "Skinny beautiful people are worthy of love and use this brand of makeup". Or "good parents who love their children go to Disney World". Or "it's a rugged and cool type of person that buys a Jeep".

The type of ads that do what you're taking about are sought out. People willingly watch Nintendo Directs.
by mapt | 2025-04-04 14:43:50+00:00
Steelmanning this: You take your phone out and snap a picture and it gets added to a running total without typing into a tiny keyboard or doing any math. You consult your total next time you're thinking of eating.

Critiquing: You still need to figure out serving sizes - it's going to need to ask how many servings. Nutrition labels also aren't available for any number of things.
by necovek | 2025-04-04 14:44:15+00:00
Apologies for implying you are claiming to be an expert software engineer: I took the "senior" in the title and "25 years of experience" in the post to mean similar things as "expert".

I don't doubt this is doing something useful for you. It might even be mostly correct.

But it is not a positive advertisement for what AI can do: just like the code is objectively crap, you can't easily trust the output without a comprehensive review. And without doubting your expertise, I don't think you reviewed it, or you would have caught the same smells I did.

What this article tells me is that when the task is sufficiently non-critical that you can ignore being perfectly correct, you can steer AI coding assistants into producing some garbage code that very well might work or appear to work (when you are making stats, those are tricky even with utmost manual care).

Which is amazing, in my opinion!

But not what the premise seems to be (how a senior will make it do something very nice with decent quality code).

Out of curiosity why did you not build this tool in a language you generally use?
by vel0city | 2025-04-04 14:44:26+00:00
There's a lot of ways to get at least a surface level understanding of the general affluence of an area.

How well upkept are the buildings? Are they clean and well maintained or are they dingy and broken with overgrowth? Are there a lot of open shops around? Do people seem to be buying things? What kind of clothes are the people wearing? Does it seem like many people are homeless? How is the state of the transit (both public and private?) Do people feel the need to have bars on their windows and security stationed around to prevent theft, or do storefronts feel safe enough to even have merchandise sitting out? Are people eating in restaurants? Are those expensive or cheap restaurants? Do people seem to be comfortable spending a night out on the town, going to bars and shows or are the streets empty because people can't afford outside entertainment?
by masfuerte | 2025-04-04 14:44:36+00:00
> It’s a battle between people who think we can do both, better; and people who seriously believe that a bat tunnel is the best way to spend £120m to support wildlife, a proposition for which no compelling evidence has ever been provided.

Nobody believes that about the bat tunnel. HS2 designed the most expensive thing they could think of because that maximises the profit. They say Natural England approved it but why wouldn't they? In a non-government project the contractors would negotiate with Natural England to agree on the cheapest thing that complied with the law. HS2 presented the most expensive thing and said can we do this? And they got the answer they wanted.
by that_guy_iain | 2025-04-04 14:44:37+00:00
People who develop software have to understand the difference between FOSS and Open-Source. We already have a term for what you want to describe as open-source, it's called FOSS.

Words have meanings they're collected and recorded in dictionaries, these are the source of truth for the definition of words. It's important that we have them so we can all talk and know what we mean. This is at the very core of languages.

This open source has to be FOSS is some straight-up bullshit by people who spend all their time in the FOSS community.

By every definition other than the FOSS community, this is open source. That is a fact.

Btw: FOSS means Free and Open Source Software. Even the FOSS community fundamentally says that open source does not neet to be free.
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-04 14:44:48+00:00
People have also spent lifetimes perfecting the art of painting, putting years of effort in, and then used those talents to... Make sellable copies of the Mona Lisa. Ironically, since copyright has a time limit, that's not even illegal (so long as they do not claim they're original works of da Vinci). Nor is photographing it and selling the photograph. I'm not sure what argument you're making given the observations you've made (other than, perhaps, "There is a big gap between the mechanics of copyright and what it's supposed to accomplish," which I'd agree with).
by vladms | 2025-04-04 14:45:09+00:00
Blaming difficulty of problems on capitalism alone is disingenuous. There are huge scientific projects that are not profitable and still done because there is a somehow clearer path forward (ex: UKBioBank, CERN, ITER).

When I hear "{x} is not very profitable" I think people mean "we are not sure if we succeed doing {x} and it requires us to divert lots of resources from other things that we think would be more useful".

Pharma companies invest already huge amounts in drugs and many fail anyhow. Quote: "It takes 10 to 15 years and around US$1 billion to develop one successful drug. Despite these significant investments in time and money, 90% of drug candidates in clinical trials fail." (https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/opinions/031222/90-of-drug...)
by HenryBemis | 2025-04-04 14:45:21+00:00
There are snakes. And there are vicious snakes. And then there is Boris Johnson.

It looks like (just like everywhere else in the world) the rich become waaaayy richer and the rest are taxed/inflated to death. It's not that a house that 'was priced' at GBO 200k is 20 years ago is worth GBP 1.5m. It's not that a house that is 20 years older than before has turned to gold and its value has grown. It is the constant devaluation of the GBP. Brexit simply accelerated an already bad situation. I still wait for Boris Johnson and his team to show us the GBP 350m per week to be redirected to the NHS.

I think that "you will own nothing and be happy" is happening in the UK already with below 35 to never own property (unless inherit it) and by then they have to sell it to have a 'modern' lifestyle.
by therealcamino | 2025-04-04 14:45:26+00:00
To allow the sender to set the TTL, right? Without adding another field to the packet header.

If you count up from zero, then you'd also have to include in every packet how high it can go, so that a router has enough info to decide if the packet is still live. Otherwise every connection in the network would have to share the same fixed TTL, or obey the TTL set in whatever random routers it goes through. If you count down, you're always checking against zero.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-04-04 14:45:27+00:00
> Countries that actually tried to keep manufacturing beyond its usefulness typically punch beneath their weight, such as the case of Germany.

Can you explain to me how Germany is punching below their weight?

Like, I personally think that having manufacturing in multiple places is good for resiliency reasons at the very least.

> The US lost manufacturing because it was heavily automated and those jobs don't pay really well. They are great for poor countries, because working in a factory sweatshop is better than plowing fields in rural areas, but advanced economies eventually grow beyond that.

This is a complete myth. The US lost manufacturing because capital controls were removed, and capital went looking for new margins. Like, all of Microsoft's English customer service and technical documentation were in Ireland in the 90's. Is that because Irish people have comparative advantage in these fields? No, it's because wages were super super low compared to the US. We used to have a bunch of clothing factories too, because we were cheap.

Fundamentally, stuff actually needs to be made if you want a modern society. You can outsource that to cheaper countries/Asia for a while, but it's not gonna end well. Like, a large proportion of the population are not cut out to be tech or finance professionals, and if you outsource all the factories that they could have worked at, then they'll get really depressed and angry and vote for Brexit/Trump/Le Pen/AfD.

And given that most of the rich west are democracies, you can't just pretend these people don't exist.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-04-04 14:45:29+00:00
The hopeful path is to knock down the made up national emergency via the courts.

Right now there are suits in the courts to declare that fentanyl crossing from Canada is not a national emergency. That's a tough case because there is no definition for national emergency, so the court will likely defer to the president's definition. However if Congress says it isn't a national emergency then the courts have the option to defer to Congress's decision rather than the president's. And once the national emergency declaration is gone, Trump needs Congress's support to pass tariffs.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-04-04 14:45:41+00:00
I had this in my comment but deleted it, maybe you were responding to it, but in case you didn't see it: I found multiplayer browser games to be a good example of a hard project that LLMs help a lot with so that you can focus on the rewarding part.

LLMs can one-shot pretty good server-authority + client-prediction + rollback netcode, something I've probably spent weeks of my life trying to build and mostly failing. And they can get a basic frontend 'proof' working. And once you verify that the networked MVP works, you can focus on the game.

But the cool thing about multiplayer games is that they can be really small in scope because all of the fun comes from mechanics + playing with other people. They can be spaceships shooting at each other in a single room or some multiplayer twist on a dumbed down classic game. And that's just so much more feasible than building a whole game that's expected to entertain you as a single player.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-04-04 14:45:42+00:00
England is a has-been society because 1) they are old and have more vacation. You've got less people working less hours. REAL GDP per work hour is up >50% since the early 80s - what people seem to think of as some golden era - and is more than double since the 60s, another golden era according to others - even real GDP PPP adjusted, you're still >50% since the 60s.

2) They decided they wanted to punish hard workers and productive investment and aggressively reward capitalists that "park money" in non-productive assets (like real estate).

England could easily reverse these decisions and aggressively reward hard work and investment in productive assets, open the doors to intellectuals, and the hard, smart working people and investment would come pouring in.

But, they'll never do that, because boomers.

The problem with England is the problem elsewhere. The amount your society needs to improve to let ~1% more people not work every year for ~30 years is incredible. The entire west has done it. But the benefits are going almost exclusively to the retiree class.

In the not too far future, if trends continue <50% of adults will be working with very high standards of living. This is absolutely UNHEARD of. At the same time, you'll see basically no benefit at all for the people who actually do the work.

This doesn't seem like the best way to distribute productivity gains to society, but it's the way we've chosen, and as long as old people have a say, you better bet they're gonna vote for the status quo or even bigger pension payouts in the future.
by dvsfish | 2025-04-04 14:45:48+00:00
This is only true where it is distinguishable that the end result is made with care and love rather than indiscriminate copying. Which is why attribution is essential. No one realistically could tell a ring was hand crafted or mass produced if there wasn't some tell. Some people may say the "tell" is a kind of intuitive nebulous concept of the "soul" of the animation.. but I feel we are quickly approaching the point where this is no longer obvious.

As an aside, my partner detests the things I 3d print unless they have a very specific purpose, even when they are random semi artistic pieces I'm tinkering with (and I typically agree, they are junk). She loves the first thing i ever printed her though, a triceratops model, despite being randomly downloaded.

Anything made with intent from one individual to another will have some level of sentimental value, but I don't feel like making a ghibli image with AI specifically tailored to a friends tastes would have quite as much value as leveraging your own talent to do it yourself.

On the flip side, I do believe that "doing it yourself" has less value than it used to. It's a very sad reality and in my opinion a strong argument against blind "progress". We gain the ability to mass produce art but lose the ability to perceive it as art?
by varun4 | 2025-04-04 14:45:57+00:00
Is comprehending the plot of a movie theft if I can summarize it afterwards? What if I am able to hum a song pretty well after listening to it twenty times?

Now, what if I get the highest fidelity speakers and the highest fidelity microphone I can and play that song in my home. Then I use a deep learned denoiser to clean the signal and isolate the song’s true audio. Is this theft?

The answer does not matter. The genie is out of the bottle.

There’s no company like Napster to crucify anymore when high quality denoising models are already prior art and can be grown in a freaking Jupyter notebook.
by manojahi | 2025-04-04 14:46:04+00:00
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by _fat_santa | 2025-04-04 14:46:06+00:00
As a manager the way I approach rules with my reports is I always tell them to understand the "chesterton's fence" behind any rule. I looks at rules like business logic in code, the "logic" was added there for a reason but there are often edge cases where that logic does not apply. I don't tell my reports to either break or follow any particular rule, but to understand why that rule is there before they decide if they need to either follow or break it.

And from personal experience i find that when you give people that level of autonomy, they will almost always approach what I told them about rule breaking in good faith.
by diggan | 2025-04-04 14:46:43+00:00
> I expected a repeat of his first term

Even when the candidate speaks of people not having to vote again in the future, if they just vote for him this last time?

I mean, I'm not even in the US and probably missed a lot of stuff that happened during the election. But no one around here is surprised about what's happening now, surely most of the US population was that aware too?
by kreetx | 2025-04-04 14:47:01+00:00
SQL is a relational algebra language which, unlike imperative languages, is compiled into an execution plan depending on the existence of indexes, table sizes, data types, etc. The reason you should love it is that you don't need to know the details when the data model is set up well. And DBMSs also have commands to view the execution plan, should it have otherwise been slow, such that you know what to do to improve it. It's really not that complicated once you learn how it works.
by surgical_fire | 2025-04-04 14:47:11+00:00
Nobody is increasing anything.

When China applies tariffs against the US, the result is that China imports the goods it needs from other countries. For example, now that US soy is prohibitively expensive for Chinese importers, they can buy from Brazil (who China is not applying the same tariffs against).

In the case of the US, the US importers cannot switch to anyone else, since it decided to go full trade war against every single country.
by tucnak | 2025-04-04 14:47:13+00:00
Since n300's came out, they have publicly shared their roadmap, so I've been waiting for next-generation hardware ever since. They have also announced p300 yesterday (that would put two Blackhole chips on one card, akin to what n300 did before)

So that would put a p300 unit at 64 GB GDDR6 and 1 TB/s bandwidth. Very competitive, considering that Tenstorrent is now the only vendor to offer scale-out at reasonable price point. Whoever figures out how to make it work with Corundum[1] for unlimited K/V cache offloading is going to make a lot of money: as agents spend more time executing tool-code, and de-coupled from chats, the individual jobs will take more and more time, so scheduling will become more important. How do you manage TB's of K/V cache concurrently?

People complaining about bandwidth are not seeing the bigger picture. Probably because they're unaware NVMe-oF exists, and never kept up with modern network topologies, because hyperscaler Kool-Aid doesn't include it.

[1] https://github.com/corundum/corundum
by hackyhacky | 2025-04-04 14:47:14+00:00
> Are you saying it's normal or acceptable to have your expectations be that a "convicted criminal" is automatically a bad person?

I believe what the parent comment is trying to say is: someone who committed crimes in the past has evinced a lack of respect for the law, and is therefore more likely to commit crimes in the future than someone with a history of law-abiding.

"Bad person" is a value judgement, which is besides the point.
by echelon | 2025-04-04 14:47:34+00:00
OpenAI will eventually have competition for GPT 4o image generation.

They'll eventually have open source competition too. And then none of this will matter.

OmniGen is a good start, just woefully undertrained.

The VAR paper is open, from ByteDance, and supposedly the architecture this is based on.

Black Forest Labs isn't going to sit on their laurels. Their entire product offering just became worthless and lost traction. They're going to have to answer this.

I'd put $50 on ByteDance releases an open source version of this in three months.
by billy99k | 2025-04-04 14:47:44+00:00
"The Real Anthony Fauci,” a book full of baseless claims about Anthony Fauci, an immunologist who became the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984 and whose life and identity had been shaped by his research into H.I.V."

I like how they snuck this in here. Fauci was terrible for the aids community. Back in the 80s and 90s, his name was on protest signs.

His refusal to put any money into HIV/AIDS research beyond a vaccine, meant that we didn't get things like PREP until decades later.
by blackbrokkoli | 2025-04-04 14:47:51+00:00
Hey, cool that you're working on this problem :)

Some feedback: I'd love some simple usage examples. I'm a newbie to the space of i18n, and your documentation goes from the installation (simple enough) to a fairly fat boilerplate to put in my app.js, without communicating how the actual workflow will actually look like.

Maybe I'm not your target audience, tho...
by card_zero | 2025-04-04 14:47:55+00:00
I really don't know, unfortunately. It seems important that we go beyond merely maintaining people in a state of being not dead, and enable them to feel young as well. This may cure a certain entrenched resentfulness. It will not, however, prevent people from being asshats or provide a mechanism by which they will eventually go away. Perhaps the concept of limited terms in power would be made more general to fields outside politics.
by karaterobot | 2025-04-04 14:48:36+00:00
It's not meant as an analogy for this case, so don't worry about it too much. My only point in bringing it up is an example of evidence for prior governments being more than willing to use funding as a lever to influence the policy of institutions they are not directly responsible for. I don't believe it was to be 1:1 to make that point, as indeed it is not.