MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by landonlewis | 2025-04-05 16:21:09+00:00
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by Tadpole9181 | 2025-04-05 16:22:25+00:00
In my opinion? No, and precisely because you used the words "third impeachment". I have come to realize there simply is no bottom. He was truly right: he could shoot someone in broad daylight and he wouldn't be held accountable.

If Republicans weren't aligned with Trump, it wouldn't have been a 51-aye vote. If they actually cared, they would be on the news discussing historical precedent and impeachment right now. Yesterday they were praising him on Fox, calling this a genius plan that will save America while denying the market collapse is even haplening. They, again, talk of a third term for glorious leader.

The party has become fundamentally incapable of admitting they are wrong about anything to the point that they would rather descend into a fascist regime that disappears political opposition to El Salvador prisons.
by GMoromisato | 2025-04-05 16:22:50+00:00
I remember reading Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_Concepts_and_Creative_An...]

He wrote about Copycat, a program for understanding analogies ("abc is to 123 as cba is to ???"). The program worked at the symbolic level, in the sense that it hard-coded a network of relationships between words and characters. I wonder how close he was to "inventing" an LLM? The insight he needed was that instead of hard-coding patterns, he should have just trained on a vast set of patterns.

Hofstadter focused on Copycat because he saw pattern-matching as the core ability of intelligence. Unlocking that, in his view, would unlock AI. And, of course, pattern-matching is exactly what LLMs are good for.

I think he's right. Intelligence isn't about logic. In the early days of AI, people thought that a chess-playing computer would necessarily be intelligent, but that was clearly a dead-end. Logic is not the hard part. The hard part is pattern-matching.

In fact, pattern-matching is all there is: That's a bear, run away; I'm in a restaurant, I need to order; this is like a binary tree, I can solve it recursively.

I honestly can't come up with a situation that calls for intelligence that can't be solved by pattern-matching.

In my opinion, LeCun is moving the goal-posts. He's saying LLMs make mistakes and therefore they aren't intelligent and aren't useful. Obviously that's wrong: humans make mistakes and are usually considered both intelligent and useful.

I wonder if there is a necessary relationship between intelligence and mistakes. If you can solve a problem algorithmically (e.g., long-division) then there won't be mistakes, but you don't need intelligence (you just follow the algorithm). But if you need intelligence (because no algorithm exists) then there will always be mistakes.
by hollerith | 2025-04-05 16:23:14+00:00
I don't mean to be rude, but anyone who thinks watts/day and watt days are ever interchangeable will have severe problems reasoning about anything electricity-related or energy-related.

It is akin to thinking that "2 apples" and "an apple divided by 2" are interchangeable because both expressions involve the concept of an apple and the number 2.
by remexre | 2025-04-05 16:23:48+00:00
Many universities that use OCaml in upper-division courses also use it in lower-division; my university requires all CS majors to take a course that is taught in OCaml, and covers higher-order programming, "advanced" (Hindley-Milner) type systems, equational reasoning, etc., typically in their sophomore year.

The compilers class can then be taught in it without worrying about that problem much.
by ben_w | 2025-04-05 16:23:53+00:00
It was indeed already true decades ago.

I would say that the transition we are currently witnessing is real action: while the pandemic made it difficult to be certain, the extremely rapid growth of renewables — even though electricity is far from the only concern — seems to have resulted in emissions either peaking or being very close to peaking.

I'm not sure if we really could have gone much faster. 20 years ago I would have bet on nuclear energy and hydrogen cars, not because they were cheap, but because nuclear was already at the right scale and hydrogen can obviously be scaled up quickly whenever the energy is cheap. Instead, we got PV so cheap I'm planning on getting a balcony system with a pay-back period of less than a year because it makes sense to get that immediately while my partner and I plan how to do a full-power system, and batteries are so cheap they're not only used in cars but also for grid power time shifting.

But to expand on what I said before, electricity is far from the only concern: we need to reduce emissions by 99.9% to be sustainable. If you look at this graph, https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector, the remaining 0.1% is the smallest line in the pie chart — "grassland". Switching all road transport to electric helps a lot (11.9%), it's not something to be dismissed simply because other things also need to be fixed.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-05 16:24:04+00:00
I mean, Occam’s Razor says he’s just incompetent, honestly. And he’s had a bit of an obsession with tariffs for a _very_ long time. He’s been going on about them since before the fall of the Soviet Union, so unless you’re speculating some sort of secret Putinist rebel cell within the former Soviet Union influencing him 40 years ago, it’s probably just that he’s quite stupid.

Also, this kind of ignores how dependent Russia is on _China_. If this were actually at Russia’s behest, China would hardly even be bothering with mirroring tariffs; it would just call Putin to heel.
by bspammer | 2025-04-05 16:24:38+00:00
I think a lot of environmentalists do have a very anthropocentric view though - humans are viewed as a uniquely corrupting, malevolent force that's a blight on the natural balance of the world. But every other species would do the same, if they could. Our worst instincts are the ones that we share with all other life on this planet - to expand at the expense of everything else. To be selfish, and grow without limit.

Ironically one of the things that's unique to humans is our ability to feel guilty about our impact on the environment.
by redwall_hp | 2025-04-05 16:24:48+00:00
It's disrespectful, that's why. If someone doesn't think it's worth the time and effort to write something, it's not worth my time to read it.

All writing, visual art and music is an act of expression and communication. If one delegates that human element to a machine, they're a poseur, and that's the end of it.

Thanks for calling that out and saving a click. There are lots of nice reconstructions of dance music on YouTube, which are fascinating to learn from as someone who likes to play with DAWs and synths, which are more worth the time.
by hinkley | 2025-04-05 16:24:55+00:00
Knuth has lost almost all meaning in more heads than Sturgeon’s Law would anticipate. Too often his quote is just an excuse for developers not to think.

There is no doubt that the grail of effi- ciency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: pre- mature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportuni- ties in that critical 3 %. A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been identified. It is often a mistake to make a priori judgments about what parts of a program are really critical, since the universal experience of programmers who have been using measurement tools has been that their intuitive guesses fail.

> A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning

And yet “lulled into complacency” is exactly what most people are.
by secabeen | 2025-04-05 16:24:58+00:00
> Stop staying at chain hotels. There are plenty of hotels out there that are what you're looking for, and have an actual business to engage with in case of issues instead of some anonymous lister on AirBNB.

That has not been my experience. It is very hard to find a robust selection of hotels in a major city that has a living room and kitchen. Even when you do, in a part of the city you want to stay in, they are often tiny kitchens, with limited kitchen equipment, and where the cabinets are completely cleared of every food item after every guest. These places also have very antiseptic, uncomfortable furnishings. They are night and day different from staying in most AirBNBs.
by red020 | 2025-04-05 16:25:05+00:00
"The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don't believe in authoritarianism. Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream (and is no doubt consumed by those very same WASPs), its subversive character becomes more charged." - Al Goldstein
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-05 16:25:15+00:00
I have been planning it out but only for my property. I can not afford to build the national, international or interplanetary bits. Getting a good team together at my location is my only obstacle. It's very hard to find a solid general contractor and team here that will build as designed in phases. They want to do it all in one shot but that introduces a lot of legal risk if they are doing it wrong.

I love being underground. It's cool and quiet. Those facilities also last a very long time. I found many "Kilroy was here" scribbles in tunnels in the military and some of them were dated back to WWII.
by sodokuwizard | 2025-04-05 16:25:26+00:00
Why would it equally be shit? It's like doing a final exam , you know what you know and and you don't know what you don't know , no hacks or gimmicks can save you.

And while yes they should also test for stack related and other technical aspects and not just Algorithmic leetcode esque knowledge , thats more of a reflection on the test.
by incomingpain | 2025-04-05 16:25:48+00:00
about a week ago I had a weird experience. I had purchased concert tickets for a date night with wifey in april, which got postponed to october. like wtf long.

I brought it up in conversation as i was annoyed. Everyone at the table picks up their phone to fact check me and they brought up the hall's website and said I was wrong. I had the email sent to me about the postponement on my phone, it was real. I didnt care to prove myself right. Checking the website now it's now showing october.

Why even fact check it? Just to prove me wrong? What if your fact check went wrong?
by tmpz22 | 2025-04-05 16:27:02+00:00
"We love disruption and whatever is good for America will be good for Americans and very good for Palantir,” Palantir CEO Alex Karp said in a February earnings call. “Disruption at the end of the day exposes things that aren't working. There will be ups and downs. This is a revolution, some people are going to get their heads cut off."
by csdvrx | 2025-04-05 16:27:22+00:00
A more generous take on the previous post is that the dominant paradigm of Math (consistent logic, which depends on many things like transitive preference) is wrong, and that another type of Math could work.

If you look at the slide, the subtree of correct answers exists, what's missing is just a way to make them more prevalent instead of less.

Personally, I think LeCun is just leaping to the wrong conclusion because he's sticking to the wrong tools for the job.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-04-05 16:28:00+00:00
Nothing stops people from using it that way.

I would kind of prefer appimages / flatpak's though ?

I think appimages are the best way if we can get aside from the fact of some limitiations it has if I remember like if you build the project on X then code can only run on linux versions on Y where there is some relation b/w X and Y , I know its very vague... It was some reddit post.

Man , I have watched / read so many posts that I only vaguely remember things but I really don't have exact bookmarks and it just feels so repetitive and kind of humiliating to say these again and again....
by greeneggs | 2025-04-05 16:28:03+00:00
> Edit: You can also "hand feed" your jumping spider with a cotton swab dipped in sugar water. They drink flower nectar in the wild, so my wife and I tried this and it worked!

But don't they need live protein, like flightless fruit flies? I feel like the need to raise prey is the biggest downside to having a jumping spider pet.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-04-05 16:28:40+00:00
I don't see what would lead you to this conclusion. Multiple members of his cabinet have direct said the plan will do this, so it's not like they don't know they're collapsing the economy. His secretary of commerce (?) has published papers about wanting to remove the US dollar as the reserve currency and destroy our status as the hegemon in pursuit of us becoming a T-shirt sweatshop nation instead of an infotech powerhouse.

Heck, even Musk accidentally said the quiet part aloud on Twitter about burning it all down.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-05 16:29:28+00:00
I mean, if that were the case, then their previous behaviour on Ukraine seems baffling, as it has made the defence umbrella look, at a minimum, kinda tattered. Like, we are now in a world where Poland is talking to France about hosting French nuclear warheads. If you told someone in 2010 that that would be happening in 2025 they’d think you were completely insane.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-04-05 16:29:29+00:00
Once upon a time, I ran out of money and was feeling kinda suicidal, so I thought, hey, why not take up whaling? and oh man, the captain. Where to begin? His white whale was an actual white whale. Not a beluga: I mean a sperm whale, horrifyingly white, and bigger than any other! And he had the most interesting conversations when he thought I wasn't listening… Anyway, I spent much of the voyage giving my religious opinions to anyone who'd listen. (I also have opinions about vegetarianism! And whiteness!) Alas, each who listened has drowned himself. Or was it God who drowned them? I have opinions on that, too!
by glenstein | 2025-04-05 16:29:50+00:00
It's hilarious that the excuse for needing Windows is to pretend that in this context that you would be using the game console as your primary operating system. That's what Linux is for. If the problem with Linux is that 20,000 modern games being supported isn't enough because you still need to play Fall Guys, which is a hilariously boutique thing to hang the whole legitimacy of Windows on, then your problem is better solved with a console than with adding Windows. The operating system was already accounted for. Amazingly, your preferred solution is to have the worse operating system and fewer games.

>Is it behind the times to prefer an OS where literally every single game I've played in the last year has booted with no issues?

You're copying the manner of my phrasing while turning it into a rhetorical question about a different topic, you're not being responsive to my point about it being behind the times to claim that Linux does not offer a thoroughly modern gaming experience.

I'm pretty sure that type of non sequitur response is exactly what the Onion was making fun of in its headline: "Hippie wants to tell you what the real crime is." The joke is the familiar feeling of hearing someone go off who clearly didn't pay attention to a word you said.
by kylecazar | 2025-04-05 16:29:59+00:00
On the one hand, this is obviously nice. I'm seeing more and more thinning as I age.

On the other -- of course they founded a company and got backing from Google. People get to work on what they want to, and they should, but I feel the same way about esteemed cell biologists starting hair startups as I do brilliant computer scientists working on ad placement algorithms. There's a bit of a shame in there somewhere.
by secabeen | 2025-04-05 16:30:02+00:00
> There are also some hotels with kitchens. Usually they have 'Suites' in their name. I stay at one most holiday seasons, we go and visit my folks and want to have a place where my family can cook without taking over my parents' kitchen.

These are okay, but they still have the antiseptic, overly-clean feeling of a space optimized for housekeeping. They will usually have a small couch or two, and maybe a table for 4. I have never seen one with a full dining room with table for 6; a fully stocked kitchen that includes non-perishable food staples, or any outdoor space. These things are common in AirBNB rentals, often at the same or similar price to nearby hotels.

AirBNB and VRBO absolutely opened a new market of accommodations compared to what was available before. These options may or may not be for the previous commenters, but it's silly to state universally that you can or should stay in a hotel instead. It's like saying "I love to ride my bike", and the reply being "you know you could ride a scooter to your destination, or drive a car."
by antirez | 2025-04-05 16:31:20+00:00
As LLMs do things thought to be impossible before, LeCun adjusts his statements about LLMs, but at the same time his credibility goes lower and lower. He started saying that LLMs were just predicting words using a probabilistic model, like a better Markov Chain, basically. It was already pretty clear that this was not the case as even GPT3 could do summarization well enough, and there is no probabilistic link between the words of a text and the gist of the content, still he was saying that at the time of GPT3.5 I believe. Then he adjusted this vision when talking with Hinton publicly, saying "I don't deny there is more than just probabilistic thing...". He started saying: not longer just simply probabilistic but they can only regurgitate things they saw in the training set, often explicitly telling people that novel questions could NEVER solved by LLMs, with examples of prompts failing at the time he was saying that and so forth. Now reasoning models can solve problems they never saw, and o3 did huge progresses on ARC, so he adjusted again: for AGI we will need more. And so forth.

So at this point it does not matter what you believe about LLMs: in general, to trust LeCun words is not a good idea. Add to this that LeCun is directing an AI lab that as the same point has the following huge issues:

1. Weakest ever LLM among the big labs with similar resources (and smaller resources: DeepSeek).

2. They say they are focusing on open source models, but the license is among the less open than the available open weight models.

3. LLMs and in general all the new AI wave puts CNNs, a field where LeCun worked (but that didn't started himself) a lot more in perspective, and now it's just a chapter in a book that is composed mostly of other techniques.

Btw, other researchers that were in the LeCun side, changed side recently, saying that now "is different" because of CoT, that is the symbolic reasoning they were blabling before. But CoT is stil regressive next token without any architectural change, so, no, they were wrong, too.
by dmitrygr | 2025-04-05 16:31:26+00:00
It’s been ten years. The jury has returned. Rendered judgement. Left to a picnic. Come back. And since retired to a carefree life of llama farming.

Your argument is wistful thinking. Not fact. “Well, if maybe someone does it” isn’t a fact. Maybe someone will make a 8501 that outperforms my M4. But I won’t believe it till it is done.

And indeed it is close to thumb2. Which was purposefully rejected for aarch64. By careful study. Given that between the two, aarch64 looks to be much better thought-through, I’ll be giving the credit for making the right decision here to that team too.
by dagmx | 2025-04-05 16:31:48+00:00
As with other languages, you’d need bindings to another UI framework. In that sense, I wish SwiftUI had a different name because it seems intrinsic to Swift when it’s really no different than UIKit.

There’s stuff like SwiftCrossUI that does multiple backend bindings

https://github.com/stackotter/swift-cross-ui

And Qt was exploring some bindings using the new C++ interoperability.
by eastbound | 2025-04-05 16:31:53+00:00
Then those who vote for higher public services should be the ones to pay.

Which, if they did, would solve the left/right dichotomy. But no, those who want the public services want the money taken from the other half.

Here’s what I always remind myself about this current government: It is really the worst ideas conflated together, but it was that, or elect leftists in power.

At the thought of leftists in power, I think open data day at the IRS is really not bad.

Worse: I think the leftists are the firsts to be afraid of having the tax data spilled in public. We’d Trump’s records, but we’d also see the Dems’ records. And that’s something they’re afraid of.
by throwaway81523 | 2025-04-05 16:32:09+00:00
You have to read past 40% of the article (1167 words of fluff) to get to what happened. Thanks for the narrative but better to just say the facts. Here's what should have been the actual lede:

> Since its debut, Glass’s brand of journalistic storytelling has resulted in countless superb installments of This American Life. It has also resulted in one devastating misfire. The nadir of the TAL approach is its January 6, 2012, episode, “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory.” When it first aired, this show appeared to be yet another example of Glass’s artistry. A reworking of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, a stage production by the monologist Mike Daisey that had been selling out theaters around the country, the program investigates how Americans, in their zeal for iPhones and iPads, have ignored the inconvenient truth that these sleek implements are largely manufactured by workers toiling in brutal conditions at the massive Foxconn complex in Shenzhen, China.

Tldr: a bunch of the allegations in the episode were false and got past TAL's production approach at the time, but they are more careful now.