MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AlienRobot | 2025-04-14 20:29:46+00:00
IDE's can generate the proper structure and make simple assumptions, but LLM's can also guess what algorithms should look like generally. In the hands of someone who knows what they are doing I'm sure it helps produce more quality code than they otherwise would be capable of.

I'm unfortunate that it has become used by students and juniors. You can't really learn anything from Copilot, just as I couldn't learn Rust just by telling it to write Rust. Reading a few pages of the book explained a lot more than Copilot fixing broken code with new bugs and the fixing the bugs by reverting its own code to the old bugs.
by settrans | 2025-04-14 20:30:04+00:00
A) It's hard to argue that the war in Gaza was indiscriminate when the IDF achieved the highest combatant-to-civilian casualty ratio in the history of urban combat, despite Hamas hiding in tunnels underneath population centers.

B) When soldiers flood across your border from a neighboring polity by the thousands, it would be an abdication of sovereignty not to defend against that immediate threat, regardless of the enemy's funding sources.
by zer8k | 2025-04-14 20:30:41+00:00
While I agree code like this shouldn't be released fail-deadly it's also patently obvious it's not to be used. There is sufficient notice in the README. If someone uses this, it's at their own peril.

Would you make the same argument for reference implementations of algorithms? For example, small details leading to bugs that can be compromised?

At some point people have to be responsible for themselves...
by ajb | 2025-04-14 20:31:04+00:00
Because you don't know what the lighting is, what the sensor is, and what kind of shit the camera app and ISP are doing to the image without telling you

I recently tried to show some images to a vet. Something in my phone fucked up the amount of red in the image, making them useless (guess what, figuring out how much blood is present is pretty important for medical applications)

Probably at some point we will all have a separate medical camera with specified response and with a specified led illuminator. Apple will probably get their phone certified in some medical camera mode. Right now I don't think phone cameras can be trusted

Not all applications need accurate colour, (no idea about cancer checks) but some really do.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-14 20:31:32+00:00
> criminals

At the risk of stating the obvious: This qualifier is void. Trump thinks anything people say that he doesn't like is criminal or can be made-to-be.

FFS the man has said a 60 Minutes' interview with President Zelenskyy (which painted Trump in an unflattering light) is a crime that validates destroying an entire television network.
by tootie | 2025-04-14 20:31:41+00:00
Yeah this isn't purely a question of Harvard's P&L being dependent on subsidies. The money in question is grants attached to specific practices or research. The money isn't just gratuity for Harvard being so great, it's awarded for specific objectives that Harvard was deemed capable of delivering. Cutting off the money isn't going to hurt Harvard, it's going to stop all the programs the grants were funding.
Show HN: Rivermind, Nextflix Black Mirror-Inspired Neural Tech Website
by Imad_M | 2025-04-14 20:32:04+00:00
For the heyBossAI hackathon, I built Rivermind, a fictional neuroscience company website inspired by Netflix’s Black Mirror Season 7, Episode 1, "Common People." Using AI agents, it took just 9 minutes to create a dystopian UI that mirrors the show’s predatory tech vibe.

love this new shiny toy
by dharmab | 2025-04-14 20:32:18+00:00
I prefer quadlet for 2 reasons:

1. Podman is simpler than Docker. There is no long-running daemon. Rootless is default.

2. Quadlets can be managed as systemd services, giving me the same tools to manage and view logs for system daemons and containers.

Quadlets have been especially nice for bundling up an AI app I wrote as a cloud-init file, making it easy to deploy the hardware, software and models as one artifact.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-14 20:32:18+00:00
If I were the elderly parent, being on the receiving end of this would be the worst thing. Certainly worse than being ignored by my children. Them using this says that they weren't just too busy to think of you, but they had time to think of you and consider you a burden to be foisted off on a machine.

Talk about adding insult to injury.

We truly do seem to be living in the worst possible future.
by eriksjolund | 2025-04-14 20:32:35+00:00
Podman quadlet supports "Socket activation of containers" https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial... This allows you to run a network server with `Network=none` (--network=none). If the server would be compromised, the intruder would not have the privileges to use the compromised server as a spam bot. There are other advantages, such as support for preserved source IP address and better performance when running a container with rootless Podman + Pasta in a custom network.
by iLemming | 2025-04-14 20:32:46+00:00
> I find most niche / less popular languages lack the developer tools ecosystem in ways that simply hinders adoption by more devs.

Niche languages often serve specific purposes that don't require broad tooling. They also sometimes can leverage tooling from more popular languages. Less popular doesn't necessarily mean less capable - some niche languages have excellent tooling in their domain. Not to mention that not all developers need the same type of tooling or prioritize certain set of tools equally, like for example, for me personally - homoiconicity and REPL-connectivity in a language are far more important than LSP or some other things.
by timewizard | 2025-04-14 20:32:50+00:00
> The hospital gets about 7,000 urgent skin cancer referrals each year, but only 5% turn out to be cancer.

It seems to be that you could be doing a _much_ better job of filtering this pipeline before it gets to this point. How can so many _urgent_ cases end up being negative?

They're using AI to solve a problem that probably shouldn't exist.
by jchw | 2025-04-14 20:33:12+00:00
That'd be more than fine with me, except the small internet competes for attention with the rest of the internet and gets slaughtered by their attention-sucking applications with shiny animations, spammy push notifications, gamification and manipulative FOMO-inducing tricks. This means that the "small internet" for any given niche is very, very small, even compared to what it would've been a long time ago on a vastly smaller internet.

User retention aside... Nobody can even find the small internet. It's out there and there are search engines, but even if Google magically wasn't utterly ruined by SEO SPAM, people just don't Google their special interests as much directly anymore. (I can tell from search analytics!) So aside from a struggle to keep users engaged in small communities, there's also not very many users entering smaller communities either, certainly not enough to counteract the bleed.
by Galanwe | 2025-04-14 20:33:33+00:00
> I haven’t viewed default as a real risk beyond some true craziness happening like the U.S. willfully deciding to default on a payment.

Well there are many ways to default, and many shades of default.

I can very well see the current administration argue that China, for whatever reason, owes the US, and thus should be compensated by confiscating bonds.
by light_hue_1 | 2025-04-14 20:33:41+00:00
That's not at all what DeepSeek showed.

It showed that a single training run of a particular model could be done with a massive amount of compute, but not so massive that only OpenAI/Google/etc. can do it. Definitely not you nor I, or a university, or a mid-tier company.

In any case, that's small potatoes here. OpenAI spends most of its money not on training, but on inference. Inference is still way too expensive.

Even if inference got cheaper that's not great for OpenAI. It means that other people will launch a similar chat experience for fewer dollars.

Fundamentally, OpenAI needs a moat. And it has nothing.
by overfeed | 2025-04-14 20:33:57+00:00
Under the hoods, is your AI butter one service or many? It would be not-great for your weather or family-event-calendar-management components to communicate with each other or the orchestrator via email.

Receiving an email from the AI-butler rescheduling or relocating a planned outdoors family event because rain is expected would be excellent, using IMAP to wire-up the subcomponents together would not.
by jmyeet | 2025-04-14 20:34:10+00:00
So there are two things you should always bear in mind about any action taken by the current administration:

1. Everything is for sale. Any laws, tariffs, regulations, etc that negatively affect your interests can be bought off. Pardons can be sold. Thanks for the Supreme Court, there is absolutely nothing illegal about the President doing this anymore; and

2. The courts are used to bend individuals and companies to the policy and personal interests of the president. Take Eric Adams's corruption case. The DoJ wanted to dismiss the case without prejudice so it could be re-filed. This threat of future prosecution was the point to keep Adams in line. The courts saw through this thinly-veiled influence peddling and dismissed the case with prejudice.

So Meta is being forced to kiss the ring. That means silencing content critical of the administration and allowing right-wing conspiracies and hate speech to spread unfettered.

I expect nothing to come of this because these cases all take a decade or more to filter through various appeals, remands back to the trial court, further appeals and so on. But it will absolutely influence how Meta's recommendation algorithms work.
by tastyface | 2025-04-14 20:34:20+00:00
Define “terrorism.”

The administration, for example, freely uses the word to describe someone with no criminal record and no proven gang affiliations: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmrwrrkbnf2e

They also use the word to describe Tesla vandals: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/25/us/fbi-task-force-tesla-a...
by int_19h | 2025-04-14 20:34:37+00:00
As usual with LLMs. In my experience, all those metrics are useful mainly to tell which models are definitely bad, but doesn't tell you much about which ones are good, and especially not how the good ones stack against each other in real world use cases.

Andrej Karpathy famously quipped that he only trusts two LLM evals: Chatbot Arena (which has humans blindly compare and score responses), and the r/LocalLLaMA comment section.
by WorldMaker | 2025-04-14 20:35:04+00:00
Some of it is still linear like broadcast, if that's your personal distinction. Pluto, for instance, has a surprisingly large audience. The return of linear TV is also a big buzzword in streaming today with a lot of the majors experimenting with or already reintegrating linear TV options (partly because services like Pluto proved it out, partly because some of the streamers realized linear again is the ultimate endgame of Netflix-like binge watching and YouTube-like autoplay and want to skip the intermediate steps and return to the original thing).
by jajuuka | 2025-04-14 20:36:10+00:00
>I am not arguing this. Everyone is free to criticize Israel; when it becomes antisemitic is when you hold Jews to a different standard than you hold everyone else.

What different standard is being applied?

>Why do you say this? What would a proportionate response have looked like to an attempt to conquer your country by firing 5,000 rockets while 6,000 people invaded and murdered everyone they could find? Bear in mind, that immediately afterwards, Hamas leaders promised to repeat October 7th again and again until Israel was annihilated.

A proportionate response is not denying food, water, and medical aid to civilians. It's not destroying every school and hospital in the region. It's not committing genocide. You look at the situation as a zero sum game where only Israelis or Palestinians can live. Hamas is not all Palestinians and destroying their homes and families does not make them righteous or productive.

Maybe taking some effort to address the issues that have created the circumstances of the attack in the first place would be the better option. Like giving Palestinians either their own country or at least equal status in Israel. Maybe not taking their land and settling it. One cannot maintain inequality and peace. 50,000 Palestinians lost their lives for 1,000 Israelis. Does that seem proportionate to you?
by jjmarr | 2025-04-14 20:36:44+00:00
Wikipedia does not have many pages that are 750k words. According to Special:LongPages[1], the longest page right now is a little under 750k bytes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chiropterans

Despite listing all presently known bats, the majority of "list of chiropterans" byte count is code that generates references to the IUCN Red List, not actual text. Most of Wikipedia's longest articles are code.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LongPages
by jampekka | 2025-04-14 20:36:55+00:00
Language capability is a bit difficult to quantify, but LLMs know tens of languages, and many of those better than at least the vast majority of even native humans at least grammar- and vocabulary-wise. They also encode magnitudes more fact-type knowledge than any human being. My take is that language isn't that hard but humans just kinda suck at it, like we suck at arithmetic and chess.

There sure is some "inductive bias" in the anatomy of the brain to develop things like language but it could be closer to how transformer architectures differ from pure MLPs.

The argument was for decades that no generic system can learn language from input alone. That turned out flat wrong.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-14 20:36:56+00:00
> when they get in power

While warning Bukele can't hurt, this qualifier seems a little complacent. It's been almost 3 months since Trump took office, and we're already at the phase where the Republican party is kidnapping people off the streets and throwing them into gulag for the rest of their lives without trial or even the pretense of particular charges.

Meanwhile, an unprecedented political purge is firing staff everywhere to make room for the President's personal loyalists, import taxes are being created (and re-re-re-reversed) willy-nilly without the legislature, Trump wants to be able to strip people's citizenship, etc.

Unfun fact: It was ~2 months after elections that Hitler's first victims arrived at the Dachau concentration camp.
by arp242 | 2025-04-14 20:37:10+00:00
So pick one or the other: having a broad representation from many walks of life is important or it's not. You can't mix or match depending on which group you like.

And that is what I'm commenting on. I'm not a fan of Trump's "war on DEI" but if it was applied with some consistency I could take it as a genuine difference in viewpoints. That would be okay. But the movement is railing hard and vitriolic against anything with even a whiff of "DEI" while applying wildly different standards to themselves. This is hard to take as a genuine difference in viewpoints.
by throwanem | 2025-04-14 20:38:15+00:00
Who suggested using email in the service layer? I mean, you're not wrong, but this feels like you handed me a banana and then said I should have picked a better hammer.

We're talking about a conversation that has a human on at least one end, so email makes sense. For conversations involving no humans, of course there are much better stores and protocols if something like an asynchronous world-writable queue is what we want.

"Number of humans in the conversation" wasn't the distinction you initially established, I believe, but I wonder if it's closer to the one you had in mind.
by ravenzachary | 2025-04-14 20:38:38+00:00
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by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-14 20:38:39+00:00
Ship an arbitrary challenge as a SPIR-V or MLIR black box. Integrate the challenge-response exchange with HTTP. That should permit broad support and flexible hardware acceleration.

The "good enough" solution is the existing and widely used SHA( seed, nonce ). That could easily be integrated into a lower level of the stack if the tech giants wanted it.
by pbmango | 2025-04-14 20:38:39+00:00
I think an under appreciated reality is that all of the large AI labs and OpenAI in particular are fighting multiple market battles at once. This is coming across in both the number of products and the packaging.

1, to win consumer growth they have continued to benefit on hyper viral moments, lately that was was image generation in 4o, which likely was technically possible a long time before launched. 2, for enterprise workloads and large API use, they seem to have focused less lately but the pricing of 4.1 is clearly an answer to Gemini which has been winning on ultra high volume and consistency. 3, for full frontier benchmarks they pushed out 4.5 to stay SOTA and attract the best researchers. 4, on top of all they they had to, and did, quickly answer the reasoning promise and DeepSeek threat with faster and cheaper o models.

They are still winning many of these battles but history highlights how hard multi front warfare is, at least for teams of humans.
by matb31240 | 2025-04-14 20:38:43+00:00
We built ShuttleSEO to help find real questions people type into Google, using autocomplete data.

It’s inspired by AnswerThePublic, but with: - No login - More results

Main use case: discovering long-tail questions for content, SEO, or product research.

Would love feedback on the tool or ideas to make it more useful.

Thanks!
by mattmanser | 2025-04-14 20:39:06+00:00
Might be some thread merging, dang sometimes does it, or might be a newish automatic feature I haven't heard about.

Oddly, if you search the story name it says it was actually posted 3 days ago, but directs tot his thread:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

You can email them and ask, email's in the faq. They do respond.
by light_hue_1 | 2025-04-14 20:39:23+00:00
Sometimes having more evidence that's weaker, weakens the entire argument.

Who cares that Oracle might lose $1B? or $10B? Oracle has $17B cash on hand.

Who cares if an entity that NVIDIA gets 6% of its revenue from collapses? Nvidia had over 100% revenue growth YoY. That's literally a few days of growth.

The assertion that OpenAI is the generative AI industry is absurd. There are plenty of other players. There are plenty of other applications. OpenAI's biggest problem is that it's not the generative AI industry, it's just another player. One that has nothing unique to offer.
by os2warpman | 2025-04-14 20:39:28+00:00
Merit is not easily definable.

Standardized tests are bullshit, IQ tests are phrenology, class rankings are not comparable across school districts. Someone who was president of every club at school may be less able than a kid who had to flip burgers in the evenings to help make rent.

Merit to a university may mean "someone whose charisma and social connections will bring great repute to the institution" more than "a child prodigy who will burn out at 27 and end up fixing typewriters in his parent's garage because they actually had an undiagnosed mental illness growing up".

Merit may mean "a middling student smart enough to pass who will stick around working as a post-doc temporarily forever because they have no ambition beyond performing slave wage labor in exchange for the cold comfort of the known and familiar".

Any definition of merit is going to be irredeemably faulty. Like recruiting sporting talent based solely on stats without considering if the talent is an asshole who will destroy the atmosphere in the clubhouse and immediately get arrested for DUI after being signed.

I thought we wanted to let the market decide?

The government funding aspect is irrelevant. Nearly every business in the country receives some form of government funding either direct or indirect and they hire based on a wide variety of criteria. I was once hired to a position I would need time to be a productive in because I am a ham radio guy and my boss wanted someone to talk radios with.
by empath75 | 2025-04-14 20:39:59+00:00
> The point is, it's eating your seed corn.

I've seen arguments of this general shape and form many times about this, and yes, this is true. In general, Harvard should not spend down it's endowment when it has other sources of revenue.

I think the issue here is that this _is_ an emergency. Harvard should consider that Federal money gone for the near future and spend and plan to spend as if they will not have it. There is no point in them continuing to exist as an institution if they accede to these absurd demands.
by sottol | 2025-04-14 20:40:30+00:00
Maybe that's true for absolute arm-chair-engineering outsiders (like me) but these models are in training for months, training data is probably being prepared year(s) in advance. These models have a knowledge cut-off in 2024 - so they have been in training for a while. There's no way sama did not have a good idea that this non-COT was in the pipeline 2 months ago. It was probably finished training then and undergoing evals.

Maybe

1. he's just doing his job and hyping OpenAI's competitive advantages (afair most of the competition didn't have decent COT models in Feb), or

2. something changed and they're releasing models now that they didn't intend to release 2 months ago (maybe because a model they did intend to release is not ready and won't be for a while), or

3. COT is not really as advantageous as it was deemed to be 2+ months ago and/or computationally too expensive.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-04-14 20:40:40+00:00
So you can show me this contract in the Governmentwide Point of Entry, as is required under FAR Part 5?

No, you can't. You can try to escape the substance of the argument with phrases like "semantic-smith" if you'd like, but law is semantics.

And no, the judges referencing the memo that claims such an agreement exists does not indicate that judges "buy it" that there is a contract. The case before them is not about contracting compliance and public records, so they wouldn't be interested to bottom out that issue. The quoted language is not even allegedly from any agreement, contract or not, formal or informal. The quoted language is from a memo about the alleged agreement.

Edit to your edit:

> they aren't buying your case that informal arrangements are nothing but memos.

Ah, so it's "an informal arrangement" now? Interesting change of heart you've had. Our government is not allowed to make "informal arrangements" that involve shipping human beings to foreign governments and paying them several million dollars per year, for all sorts of very obvious procurement and budgetary reasons, even aside from the human rights issues.