MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by evanelias | 2025-04-03 21:02:04+00:00
This is exactly the key point. Declarative schema management is typically better at catching hazardous operations, because declarative schema management tools inherently require the ability to introspect your desired CREATE definitions and also introspect the current database state.

Once a tool has those abilities, adding linters and destructive-action guardrails is much easier. Especially when compared to a traditional migration tool, which often has no underlying understanding of the ALTER TABLE operations being requested.
by jsight | 2025-04-03 21:02:07+00:00
I've thought about this quite a bit. I think a tool like that would be really useful. I can imagine asking questions like "I think this big codebase exposes a rest interface for receiving some sort of credit check object. Can you find it and show me a sequence diagram for how it is implemented?"

The challenge is that the codebase is likely much larger than what would fit into a single codebase. IMO, the LLM really needs to be taught to consume the project incrementally and build up a sort of "mental model" of it to really make this useful. I suspect that a combination of tool usage and RL could produce an incredibly useful tool for this.
by l1am0 | 2025-04-03 21:02:38+00:00
It means, that you don't need an internet connection for this to work :) (so it is no rabbitmq or so which runs on a server and the browser is just the client)

You can try on the demopage when you

1. play the songs each (for them to buffer a little audio snippet)

2. open the page in a second tab

3. Disconnect from the internt

Still works :D
by jetrink | 2025-04-03 21:02:41+00:00
That sounds like a reasonable prediction to me if the LLM makers do nothing in response. However, I'll bet coding is the easiest area for which to generate synthetic training data. You could have an LLM generate 100k solutions to 10k programming problems in the target language and throw away the results that don't pass automated tests. Have humans grade the results that do pass the tests and use the best answers for future training. Repeat until you have a corpus of high quality code.
by CyberDildonics | 2025-04-03 21:03:12+00:00
Are you seriously asking for 'evidence' of a nazi salute after witnessing it on video side by side with it being identical to hitler?

You made all sort of claims about persecution and instead of giving any sort of evidence you seriously say 'the onus is on you'.

People who call themselves nazis say it was a nazi salute. It is identical to hitler. There is no defense, because if there was, someone would have told you what to say and you would have repeated it here.
by Jtsummers | 2025-04-03 21:03:13+00:00
Some of the hardest hit places, too, are places that could never make up the trade deficit.

Deficit Tariff Saint Pierre and Miquelon 99 50

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon - an archipelago with less than 6,000 people. I can't even find how much they actually export to the US, but their exports aren't that significant. By the math used by Trump & co, if they export $1 million in goods to the US and only import $10k from the US, this is the result.
by cavisne | 2025-04-03 21:03:15+00:00
Scaling transformers has been basically alchemy, the breakthroughs aren’t from rigorous science they are from trying stuff and hoping you don’t waste millions of dollars in compute.

Maybe the company that just tells an AI to generate 100s of random scaling ideas, and tries them all is the one that will win. That company should probably be 100 percent committed to this approach also, no FLOPs spent on ghibli inference.
by layer8 | 2025-04-03 21:03:35+00:00
The artist is violating copyright by selling you that picture. You can’t just start creating and distributing pictures of a copyrighted property. You need a license from the copyright holder.

You also can’t sell a machine that outputs such material. And that’s how the story with GenAI becomes problematic. If GenAI can create the next Indiana Jones or Star Wars sequel for you (possibly a better one than Disney makes, it has become a low bar of sorts), I think the issue becomes obvious.
by WalterBright | 2025-04-03 21:04:17+00:00
> `::` simplifies the module vs identifier resolution

The identifier on the right is looked up in the scope of the identifier on the left. If it resolves to a module, then it's a module. If it resolves to a function, then it's a function. If the left side is a pointer (not a symbol with a scope) then the right side resolves to a member.

It also makes refactoring much easier - changing a pointer to a reference does not require a global search/replace of -> with .
by joshdickson | 2025-04-03 21:04:26+00:00
Almost every protein that I consume is weighed raw for ease in logging. One reason is if you are cooking a dish with e.g. bacon as an ingredient, you may not be able or want to separate it out at the end. Likewise, if I sauté chicken breasts in a pan and then finish the dish with other ingredients, I probably want to just eat the food and not deal with weighing them after water loss. Providing both just provides greater ease in logging your meals and is exact-enough for most people :)
by RajT88 | 2025-04-03 21:04:27+00:00
Totally agree. LLM's are just automating that infringement process.

If you make money off it, it's no longer fair use; it's infringement. Even if you don't make money off it, it's not automatically fair use.

My own favorite crazy story about copyright violations:

Metallica sued Green Jello for parodying Enter Sandman (including a lyric where it says "It's not Metallica"):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Harley_House_(of_Love...

They lost that case. The kicker? Metallica were guest vocalists on that album.
by palata | 2025-04-03 21:04:42+00:00
> For the average person, the benefits of having your own email domain are not very weighty compared to the risks, complexities, spent social capital, and inconvenience of having one.

I honestly think that most people don't know why it matters. 20 years ago I was happy (and proud) to have gmail, and didn't see a point in having my domain. Until I chose to move away from gmail, and then it all made sense.

I have an example: many (most?) universities give you an alumni email when you graduate. Some offer actual hosting, but others just ask you to redirect. It is free, and for many universities, graduates would trust their university more than gmail, right? And it wouldn't lock them into gmail. Still, none of my friends from university use it. Most use gmail instead.

Now tell them: "Look, if you use gmail, then Google can read all your emails. You didn't give a shit 4 months ago ("I have nothing to hide"), but now you've heard of random Canadians and Europeans getting deported or declined entry in the US for random reasons, including one who wrote stuff against Trump. How do you feel about the US reading you emails and deciding whether they should deport you or not based on that? If you controlled a domain, you could move away from gmail. Now you can't. Also know that if they can read your emails, it means that they know the flights/hotels/trips you booked, whatever you bought online, and they can just access all your accounts everywhere."

What will they think? "If I was to do it again, I would still use gmail" or "Would actually be nicer if I had been using my alumnus email all along"?
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-03 21:05:01+00:00
I suppose we'll have to hope researchers overseas complete the work.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/federal-funding-for-m...

> Federal support for mRNA vaccine research appears in jeopardy after KFF Health News reported Sunday that officials at the National Institutes of Health have directed scientists to remove all references to the lifesaving technology from their grant applications. All such research is now under direct scrutiny from health secretary and long-time anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
by falcor84 | 2025-04-03 21:05:03+00:00
That's a really deep question. Obviously there are types of creativity that don't require words, like painting or sculpting, or improvising music, but I'm having real difficulty imagining programming without something at least resembling natural language. The closest my imagination gets is Scratch/Blockly, but even then you're essentially creating an AST composed out of statements and expressions, even if they're pictorial.

Can you imagine the (intentional) creation of a program entirely without language?

Or, I suppose, if you're ok with it not being intentional, you can program via an evolutionary algorithm - is that what you have in mind?
by qzx_pierri | 2025-04-03 21:05:34+00:00
I have a T450 with a issue that I haven’t been able to figure out for years: When I shut the lid, the screen will shut off, and when I open the lid again, I can hear the fans spinning and I know the laptop is on, but the screen WILL NOT TURN BACK ON. I have to hold the power button to force power off and then start it up again.

Issue happens in Windows and Linux. I tried disabling the sleep enhancement feature in the BIOS (can’t remember what it’s called).

So it’s just sitting on my bookshelf. Sad because it works great, but you just can’t close the lid.
by why_at | 2025-04-03 21:05:50+00:00
Yeah I don't really understand what the thesis of this article is. Copyright infringement would apply to any of those images just the same as if you made them yourself.

I don't think it's possible to create an "alien which has acid for blood and a small sharp mouth within a bigger mouth" without anybody seeing a connection to Alien, even if it doesn't look anything like the original.
by nonrandomstring | 2025-04-03 21:05:58+00:00
> blame here are solely the ones employing these fingerprinting techniques,

Sure. And it's a tragedy. But when you look at the bot situation and the sheer magnitude of resource abuse out there, you have to see it from the other side.

FWIW the conversation mentioned above, we acknowledged that and moved on to talk about behavioural fingerprinting and why it makes sense not to focus on the browser/agent alone but what gets done with it.
by gamblor956 | 2025-04-03 21:07:17+00:00
That won't work. WaPo, LAT, etc. have run numerous articles where MAGA voters talk about the consequences of his actions to them or immediate family members (getting laid off, losing medical coverage, deportation, etc.) and they say it's worth the sacrifice because they just know that Trump is actually looking out for them and won't let them suffer for too long.
by j_san | 2025-04-03 21:07:23+00:00
Hey, another overengineer! :D

My solution was to just highlight the last anchor if the user scrolled to the very bottom. Although this might skip the second last heading if its too close to the bottom.

See here: https://sharezone.net/privacy-policy (most visible on desktop, on mobile you have to open the "Inhaltsverzeichnis" at the bottom)
by Trumpion | 2025-04-03 21:07:37+00:00
We currently don't see any ceiling if this continues in this speed, we will have cheaper, faster and better models every quarter.

Therewas never something progressing so fast

It would be very ignorant not to keep a very close eye on it

There is still a a chance that it will happen a lot slower and the progression will be slow enough that we adjust in time.

But besides AI we also now get robots. The impact for a lot of people will be very real
by mmooss | 2025-04-03 21:07:56+00:00
Those policies were designed to promote free speech from vulnerable groups. Political vulnerability has a huge influence on free speech (and freedom), and that's what they have been addressing.

(Picking two random groups:) If you are Pakistani and are in a room of all Indian people, and the others say how horrible Pakistanis are and how research shows that Pakistanis are less intelligent or prone to violence, that is a very intimidating atmosphere and it would be hard to endure, much less speak up.

If that one Pakistani says the same about Indians, it's obnoxious and annoying, but it's no threat to anyone. The many Indians are not vulnerable. That's the difference.

Furthermore, the dominant groups in a culture tend to create systems and knowledge that support them to the exclusion of others - sometimes explicitly and intentionally. That's systemic discrimination - the system naturally generates it if you follow the usual path. It takes some effort to create space for other points of view.

Whether the typical DEI policies are optimal is another question. I haven't heard anyone come up with a great solution. Some pretend it's not a problem and there is no prejudice, which is absurd and not a solution; it's just sticking one's head in the sand - because they can, because they are not vulnerable.
by littlestymaar | 2025-04-03 21:08:05+00:00
> so two of them would get you 64GB of VRAM at $2600 for ~600W which is basically what you're asking for?

Almost, except with respect to space in the box and power usage, which are critical IMHO.

> but if they can actually get a working build of vLLM and their cards remain actually buyable, well, they're doing better than some of the competition...

That's a big if though, poor software support is to be expected and you'll need to factor that in IMHO, and that's why they need to beef up the memory. Of course if software support is stellar then it may be good enough of a deal.
by honkycat | 2025-04-03 21:08:28+00:00
There is no popular left in the US, we have a center-right neoliberal party who rat-fuck all competition to the point their base has given up.

The corporate owners of social and news media pick the issues they want people to talk about and it is never anything I think is particularly compelling. Why do we care about a tiny fraction of a fraction of the US population's preferred pronouns again? Because nobody has to spend any money to fix that, unlike actually important things like environmental collapse.
by Earw0rm | 2025-04-03 21:08:34+00:00
That and having a dynamic housing market; flexibility in other services e.g. schools, so that people can move where work is, and move somewhere else when they're not working; and building mixed-use neighbourhoods that have schools, doctors, sports facilities and so on.

Not sure how the US handles that, but in my country (UK) there are various factors that mean people don't move as much as common sense might suggest. High sales tax on houses, very variable quality of schools meaning the good ones are oversubscribed and if you move your kids may end up at a worse school some distance away, and so on.
by SLHamlet | 2025-04-03 21:08:42+00:00
Like actual creative person Ted Chiang (who moonlights at Microsoft) put it, you might be able to get an LLM to churn out a genuinely original story, but only after creating an extremely long and detailed prompt for it to work with. But if you even need to write that long-ass prompt, might as well just write the story yourself!

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2024/09/ted-chiang-ai-new-yorker-c...
by jamesy0ung | 2025-04-03 21:08:56+00:00
Is there any reason to use VMS today other than for existing applications that cannot be migrated? I've heard its reliability is legendary, but I've never tried it myself. The 1 year licensed VM seems excessively annoying. Is it just old and esoteric, or does it still have practical use? At least with Linux, multiple vendors release and support distros and it is mainstream, whereas with VMS, you'd be stuck with VSI.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-04-03 21:09:12+00:00
This is extremely fascinating and finally something that feels extremely tangible as opposed to vibes based ideas around how AI will "take everyone's jobs" while failing to fill in the gaps between. This feels extremely gap filling.

I find it quite interesting how we can do a very large chunk of the work up front in design, in order to automate the rest of the work. Its almost as if waterfall was the better pattern all along, but we just lacked the tools at that time to make it work out.
by tristor | 2025-04-03 21:09:14+00:00
I used to do this, I have "retro modded" Thinkpads. I keep one still running (X61p) to use as a car computer. I've since switched everything I do that isn't on my Macbook to a Framework 13 AMD. The Framework 13, other than the case design being flimsier plastic vs magnesium alloy, is better at everything a new Thinkpad does than a new Thinkpad, and is roughly equivalent to an old with modern specs. As much as I wish that Lenovo would make a modern equivalent to the X60/X61, that's never happening, so Framework 13 is the best choice right now.
by johnea | 2025-04-03 21:09:16+00:00
> "Baroque art" ?

I guess these people weren't alive in the 1960s 8-/ The psychedelic era had color everywhere.

Not only color in design, but in people's general appearance. When I look through my highschool yearbook (1977), I'm shocked (shocked I tell you) at how _different_ everyone looked, not from now, but from each otther, then. I'm not just talking about stoners vs jocks, everyone had an individual look based around their overall physical characteristics.

Now, it's mostly Justin Beeber nazi-haircuts, and the ubiquitous "please run me over in the crosswalk" black clothing fashion statement.

In general, people aren't attempting to have an autonomous indivduality, instead everyone (wing-nut and woke-nut alike) are striving to value posture in their chosen identity "community".

How boring...
by wiremine | 2025-04-03 21:09:35+00:00
> MacBooks are not modular, completely proprietary, and have a perishability built into them.

I'm ok with this... maybe I'm odd? I view my laptops like I view my cars: I expect them to be replaced after a period of time. I'm NOT trying to maintain my old 2002 Honda Civic, and I'm NOT trying to maintain my older Macbooks. Once they leave Apple Care, I expect maybe another 12 to 18 months out of them, and then I move on.
by nialv7 | 2025-04-03 21:10:06+00:00
> the model is not aware that it's doing anything so how could it "explain itself"?

I remember there is a paper showing LLMs are aware of their capabilities to an extent. i.e. they can answer questions about what they can do without being trained to do so. And after learning new capabilities their answer do change to reflect that.

I will try to find that paper.
by the_af | 2025-04-03 21:10:08+00:00
I think framing this as "IP theft" is a mistake.

Nobody can prevent you from drawing a photo realistic picture of Indy, or taking a photo of him from the internet and hanging it on your fridge. Or asking a friend to do it for you. And let's be honest -- because nobody is looking -- said friend could even charge you a modest sum to draw a realistic picture of Indy for you to hang on your fridge; yes, it's "illegal" but nobody is looking for this kind of small potatos infringement.

I think the problem is when people start making a business out of this. A game developer could think "hey, I can make a game with artwork that looks just like Ghibli!", where before he wouldn't have anyone with the skills or patience to do this (see: the 4-second scene that took a year to make), now he can just ask the Gen AI to make it for them.

Is it "copyright infringement"? I dunno. Hard to tell, to be honest. But from an ethical point of view, it seems odd. And before you actually required someone to take the time and effort to copy the source material, now it's an automated and scalable process that does this, and can do this and much more, faster and without getting tired. "Theft at scale", maybe not so small potatos anymore.

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edit: nice, downvotes. And in the other thread people were arguing HN is such a nice place for dissenting opinions.
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-03 21:10:12+00:00
My original comment regarding the EEOC was about the impotence of Bostock in modern federal courts because the EEOC is dropping cases of Title 7 workplace discrimination brought by LGBT people. Although the US generally has at-will employment, there are certain reasons for firing people that are prohibited by law.

The discussion of housing is separate from that and is instead a point about the fact that LGBT people do not have federal protections in this domain. I thought that my post was very clear. LGBT people do not have any federal protections in many domains (housing for example). They have protections in some domains (employment, via Bostock) and even that is backsliding because of the EEOC's changing behavior.

Only adults can consent. The sodomy laws struck down in Lawrence were about consenting and private intercourse, both in general and in the very specific case of Mr. Lawrence.

I am extremely uninterested in any discussion that smacks of painting gay people and their relationships as in any way related to child rape.
by jeremyjh | 2025-04-03 21:10:44+00:00
Trump and his administration do spread Kremlin falsehoods and talking points. This was a major sticking point in Gabbard's confirmation. For instance, she spread the false claim that Ukraine was developing bioweapons that are a threat to Russia. Trump himself repeated the false claim that Zelensky has a poor approval numbers and is preventing elections because he's a dictator. Trump also said Ukraine started the conflict. In his last admin he said that "Crimeans want to be Russian".
by coderenegade | 2025-04-03 21:10:48+00:00
I don't see why this is an issue? The prompts imply obvious and well-known characters, and don't make it clear that they want an original answer. Most humans would probably give you similar answers if you didn't add an additional qualifier like "not Indiana Jones". The only difference is that a human can't exactly reproduce the likeness of a famous character without significant time and effort.

The real issue here is that there's a whole host of implied context in human languages. On the one hand, we expect the machine to not spit out copyrighted or trademarked material, but on the other hand, there's a whole lot of cultural context and implied context that gets baked into these things during training.
by chrisweekly | 2025-04-03 21:10:49+00:00
(below is my shallow res, maybe naive?) That might inject a ton of $ into "IP", doing further damage to the creative commons. How can we support remix culture for humans, while staving off ultimately-destructive AI slop? Maybe copyleft / creative-commons licenses w/ explicit anti-AI prohibitions? Tho that could have bad ramifications too. ALL of this makes me kind of uncomfortable and sad, I want more creativity and fewer lawyers.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-04-03 21:10:51+00:00
> moderately high tariffs at the EU border,

I've this assertion made here multiple times. The LLM's tell me the average tariff on goods coming into the EU is 2-3%. That's not what I would call "high". The tariffs imposed by the current USA administration start at 10%, and range up to 54% for nation it imports most from (China). Now that's what I would call "high", although if you are going to call 2-3% moderately high then you need a better superlative - perhaps "extreme".
by callahad | 2025-04-03 21:11:10+00:00
> I don't know if that means an Apple server actually listens for the notification from the HTTP server or if the device itself maintains the connection to the server.

In the case of Apple's ecosystem, the device maintains a connection to the Apple Push Notification service (APNs). The website POSTs notifications to APNs, which forwards them on to the user's device. The user's device then wakes up a local Service Worker for that website in order to process the incoming payload and display a notification.

Declarative Web Push makes the very last step unnecessary.

(It's the same on Android but using Firebase Cloud Messaging instead of APNs. Mozilla also runs a push service and its source is at https://github.com/mozilla-services/autopush-rs/)
by watwut | 2025-04-03 21:11:51+00:00
Yes they went to universities. No, they are not trying to help the students. They don't even pretend to be trying to do so. They are nit trying to make it cheaper and they are not trying to make it more accessible.

They agenda was either openly the opposite or they ignored the students. Except when they think they are too progressive and attack then verbally.