MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by npc_anon | 2025-04-24 21:05:55+00:00
The "United States of AI" cannot produce everything themselves. The USA is the biggest importer in the world. Your 100% independence scenario is a fantasy.

Also, when you disown property owners and default on debt, this doesn't lead to just less investments, it means a total collapse of the dollar.

The US will not have absolute AI dominance in a case of full self-isolation because then their current ways to suppress rivals (sanctions, trade blocks) will fall apart. And when that happens, China wins.
by scrlk | 2025-04-24 21:06:12+00:00
Steve invested heavily in automation for the Mac and NeXT factories. There are videos of these factories in action:

We Are Manufacturing (Apple): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk306ZkNOuc

The Machine to Build the Machines (NeXT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSj6kvv7_Sg

Infamously, he caused a ton of issues for both factories when he demanded that the machinery be painted to colours of his liking.

> When Jobs took a tour, he ordered that the machines be repainted in the bright colors he wanted. Carter objected; this was precision equipment, and repainting the machines could cause problems. He turned out to be right. One of the most expensive machines, which got painted bright blue, ended up not working properly and was dubbed “Steve’s Folly.” Finally Carter quit. “It took so much energy to fight him, and it was usually over something so pointless that finally I had enough,” he recalled. [0]

> Jobs demanded that all the robots in the NeXT manufacturing plant be painted in coordinated shades of gray and black. 2 of his top manufacturing engineers worked through a weekend to paint the assembly line, repeating the process 4 times until they got the finish just right. [1]

Ultimately, even that significant automation investment couldn't overcome the core challenges that other commenters have pointed out. I find the culture aspect ironic. Deming was American, yet American manufacturers largely ignored him until the Japanese applied his methods and began outcompeting everyone.

[0] https://thenextweb.com/news/steve-jobs-designed-apple-factor...

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/happy-40th-birthday-apple-443330
by xivzgrev | 2025-04-24 21:06:28+00:00
this cracked me up

"When he gets to the mic, he spontaneously promises that Facebook will provide internet access to refugees all over the world. Various teams at Facebook then race around, trying to figure out whether this is something the company is actually doing, and once they realize Zuck was just bullshitting, set about trying to figure out how to do it.

They get some way down this path when Kaplan intervenes to insist that giving away free internet to refugees is a bad idea, and that instead, they should sell internet access to refugees. Facebookers dutifully throw themselves into this absurd project, which dies when Kaplan fires off an email stating that he's just realized that refugees don't have any money. The project dies."
by echelon | 2025-04-24 21:06:36+00:00
I work in the space. There are a lot of use cases that get censored by OpenAI, Kling, Runway, and various other providers for a wide variety of reasons:

- OpenAI is notorious for blocking copyrighted characters. They do prompt keyword scanning, but also run a VLM on the results so you can't "trick" the model.

- Lots of providers block public figures and celebrities.

- Various providers block LGBT imagery, even safe for work prompts. Kling is notorious for this.

- I was on a sales call with someone today who runs a father's advocacy group. I don't know what system he was using, but he said he found it impossible to generate an adult male with a child. In a totally safe for work context.

- Some systems block "PG-13" images of characters that are in bathing suits or scantily clad.

None of this is porn, mind you.
by Hamuko | 2025-04-24 21:06:49+00:00
There's an UK-based company providing anti-theft tracking services for cars, motorcycles, heavy equipment etc. and they have a YouTube channel where they document some recovery operations. It's quite remarkable how fast a car goes from stolen to stripped. They also can't rely on just GPS to actually recover stolen goods. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdGoxDPMv9Y
by thot_experiment | 2025-04-24 21:07:03+00:00
ComfyUI supports 4o natively so you get the best of both worlds, there is so much that you can't do with 4o because there's a fundamental limit on the level of control you can have over image generation when your conditioning is just tokens in an autoregressive model. There's plenty of reason to use comfy even if 4o is part of your workflow.

As for LoRAs and fine tuning and open source in general; if you've ever been to civit.ai it should be immediately obvious why those things aren't going away.
by mandevil | 2025-04-24 21:07:52+00:00
US Government employees basically can't sign non-disparagement agreements, the Federal Government doesn't enter into agreements without a fixed time commitment to judge compliance, and there are incredibly strong whistleblower protection laws for Federal employees which would make any non-disparagement agreement very difficult if not impossible to enforce. A Federal judge held that the Trump 2016 campaign's non-disparagement agreements were unenforceable, and there have been no hints of Federal employees being offered anything even like that.

That bit of pedantry aside, I agree with you that the purpose is to draw attention to something bad happening, it is a grander version of leaking to a reporter.
by tombert | 2025-04-24 21:07:54+00:00
I recently bought a new account on Something Awful [1], having not been on there in about seventeen years.

It's almost surreal, because it still feels like 2005 internet, but people will talk about current topics and the community is generally more engaging.

The moderation isn't some soulless ML model designed to optimize marketing revenue, it's a few dedicated people who want to make the community more fun and I've actually really enjoyed re-discovering the community there.

I guess I had simply forgotten about linear web forums as a concept. Places like Reddit (Hacker News, etc.) have a recursive reply model, which is nice in its own right, but there's something sort of captivating about everything being one long giant thread. It's more chaotic, it's less refined, but it's also kind of unpretentious.

[1] I already had one from when I'm a teenager but the name of that account will die with me as I posted too much on FYAD.
by rvz | 2025-04-24 21:08:01+00:00
The newspeak in the age of AI is now "streamline" which ultimately means "layoff".

But "AGI" is the same buzzword that is poorly understood because it can mean anything depending on who you ask.

Generally, AGI is more likely to really mean $100BN+ in profits but then causing 10% or more increase in global unemployment.
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-24 21:08:10+00:00
I’m not a manager by the way, my previous comment was more of a devil’s advocate/hypothetical question.

I leveled up because I practice mentoring others. But it still doesn’t make sense for the organization to hire juniors. Yes I realize someone has to. It’s especially true for managers who have an open req to fill because they need work done now.

On the other hand, my one, only and hopefully last role in BigTech where I worked previously, they could afford to have an intern program and when they came back after college have a 6 month early career/career transition program to get them up to speed. They could afford the dead weight loss.
by coldblues | 2025-04-24 21:08:31+00:00
Indexes trillions of messages and refuses to delete any of them and comply with GDPR. Deleting your account DOES NOT delete your messages, they remain on the platform for an indefinite period of time. The only way to get them to delete your messages is to go through this process (https://discordomicon.github.io/removal/overview/) and you're still likely to go through several support tickets before they comply with your request.
by jefftk | 2025-04-24 21:08:52+00:00
> When I’m on my deathbed, I won’t look back at my life and wish I had worked harder. I’ll look back and wish I spent more time with the people I loved

If you don't imagine yourself wishing you'd worked harder, consider whether you've chosen the right work. There are massive problems in the world on which we can make real progress, and if you're not working on these, why not?

Definitely spend time with your friends, family, and those you love. Don't work to the exclusion of everything else that matters in your life. But if your work isn't something you look back on with intense pride, consider whether there's something else you could be doing professionally that you would feel really good about.
by mapkkk | 2025-04-24 21:09:32+00:00
I’m pretty out of the loop on this one - could I ask you to chime in why you feel so strongly about Neuralink? I knew they were ethicaly in the gray area what with the test animal living conditions etc., but I don’t know much beyond that.

In the long term (if the do have a long term, I expect them to fail due to technical reasons i.e. fibrosis around electrodes not being a solved problem)
by semihs | 2025-04-24 21:10:33+00:00
In-process (aka embedded/embeddable) databases are not new. In fact SQLite is the most widely deployed database in the world. However, starting with DuckDB, there is a new set of in-process database systems, such as Kuzu and Lance. As a co-developer of Kuzu, I hear several frequently asked questions (some of which are misconceptions) about in-process databases.

- What are their advantages/disadvantages compared to client-server databases? - Does in-process mean databases are in-memory/ephemeral? (NO!) - Can in-process databases handle only small amounts of data? (NO!) - What are some common use cases of in-process databases? - What if my application needs a server?

I tried to answer some of these questions in a blog post with pointers to several other resources that articulate several of these points in more detail than I get into.

I hope it's helpful to clarify some of these questions and help developers position in-process DBMSs against client-server ones.
by ricksunny | 2025-04-24 21:11:02+00:00
Fun fact: Exactly the stipulation behind this excerpt, whether the President can hire/fire the head of the NSF, is exactly why Truman had vetoed an earlier version of the NSF bill written under the close influence of Vannevar Bush that actively avoided providing for this extent of executive ‘weighing of the scales’ of science. Source: Bush, V. “Pieces of the Action”, 1970
by xivzgrev | 2025-04-24 21:11:05+00:00
The need to dominate can be a favorable trait for success. It can also be all consuming that you can't easily turn off. Like...ok Zuck, you won the f'ing lottery. You could spend the rest of your life on an island or helping orphans, but you still work at Facebook - why? Because he's wrapped up in it. It's a miracle Bill Gates managed to step down.

It can also be unsettling to know that, just as easily as you killed off competitors, competitors could unseat you.

So yea, you might sleep a bit easier at night if you can just win at the things you can control, like that darn Settlers of Catan game.

Also someone who reflexively accuses the other of cheating while playing a game likely has a hard time admitting they failed at something. Not an admirable trait in a leader.
by dataflow | 2025-04-24 21:11:31+00:00
Not only was that Friends tab not there for me by default, but it also does not do the aforementioned when I customize the top(? not bottom) tab bar to I include it. What it does is to show me a list: of pending friends, and friend requests. No space to show any posts to begin with. To see my friends' posts, I have to click the hamburger, then Feeds, then Friends, then (sometimes) manually pull down to refresh, because it usually just lies to me that I've already caught up. This is designed to be actively user-hostile, as if they were forced to implement this against their will.
by mrtksn | 2025-04-24 21:11:39+00:00
Obviously amazing results but its again that time when its feeling like this is about a legacy company.

The establishment apparently isn't even picking up the AI revolution yet as more than half of their revenue comes from Search, which is something that I rarely use these days. If they have any AI revenue, it must be a subset in a subset of their businesses.

So much potential for the AI transformation and although it is the prime topic for many many people apparently it even hasn't started yet.
by semi-extrinsic | 2025-04-24 21:12:20+00:00
For narrow use cases we did have natural language interfaces in the 90s, yes. See e.g. IRC bots.

Or to take a local example, for more than 20 years my city has had a web service where you can type "When is the next bus from Street A to Road B", and you get a detailed response including any transfers between lines. They even had a voice recognition version decades ago that you could call, which worked well.

From GP post, I was replying specifically to

> LLMs in data pipelines enable all sorts of “before impossible” stuff. > For example, this creates an event calendar for you based on emails you have received

That exact thing has been a feature of Gmail for over a decade. Remember the 2018 GCal spam?

https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/advanced-phishing-i...
by tromp | 2025-04-24 21:12:32+00:00
> it is a function about Turing machines, which is how the BBF gets the special properties/results that it does.

The properties of the Busy Beaver function carry over to any other computational model you could base it on. E.g. the lambda calculus based BBλ[1] shares most of its properties.

> Which immediately reminds me of Chaitin's constant which also tries to encode/talk about the properties of Turing machines,

Chaitin's work on Algorithmic Information Theory (aka Kolmogorov Complexity) was actually focussed on custom Lisp languages of his own design rather than Turing Machines. One could be confused though by some of his articles on LISP program-size complexity like [2] where he calls his LISP interpreter a UTM (Universal Turing Machine).

[1] https://oeis.org/A33347

[2] https://www.jucs.org/jucs_2_5/the_limits_of_mathematics/Chai...
by seba_dos1 | 2025-04-24 21:12:36+00:00
I don't use GNU/Linux on my phone for "privacy". It's an added benefit, but not the point.

I use it because it's familiar, hackable and respectful to my attention. It works the way I want it to work and it's capable enough to fulfill all my needs. Switching to Android would be a downgrade on all these aspects. I'm aware that it would be an upgrade in some other aspects that I care about less.
by johnea | 2025-04-24 21:13:01+00:00
Getting it to boot is barely even a first step.

If the author especially liked the camera of that phone, it was probably because of the custom app that interfaced to the sensor.

Getting good photography on a linux phone has been one of the enduring problems. Akin to overcoming custom graphics drivers for early linux SoC development.

Like the other (currently top ranked) comment, I highly recommend the furiphone as the current peak of linux phone development.

https://furilabs.com/
by mnky9800n | 2025-04-24 21:13:01+00:00
There’s a wonderful movie called lucky numbers with Lisa kudrow and john travolta and michael Moore (the director) all directed by Nora ephron who made movies like sleepless in Seattle and when harry met sally. It’s all about rigging a lottery. I think it got bad reviews but ignore them. The movie has a wonderful charm that is missing in most things I watch these days.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-24 21:13:24+00:00
Producing quality results is not the same thing as saying Deepseek R1 is the equivalent of o3 or Gemini 2.5

Again, its not about capabilities alone, (on this, many models lag behind, I already said as much). I follow these developments quite closely, and I purposely said results as to not say they're equivalent in capability. They aren't.

However, if a business is getting acceptable results from older models or cheaper models than capability doesn't matter, the results do. Gemini 2.5 can be best of breed but why switch if it shows no meaningful improvement in results for the business?

If I need more capability or results are substandard, I can always upgrade, but its like saying there's no room for cheaper processors and you'd be out of your mind not to be using only the latest at all times no matter the results.
by atomicnumber3 | 2025-04-24 21:13:24+00:00
I think i multiplied a bit too aggressively in my head. I think it'd be more like 2.5k/mo. I'm out of pocket $900/mo right now, and I think that's less than half, because my employer covers 100% of my premiums and 50% of the family premiums. So double that 900, and then add me in.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-04-24 21:13:41+00:00
Paper abstracts are not optimized by drive-by readers like you and me. They are optimized for active researchers in the field reading their daily arXiv digest that lists all the new papers across the categories they work in, and needing to take the read/don't-read decision for each entry there as efficiently as possible.

If you’ve already decided you’re interested in the paper, then the Introduction and/or Conclusion sections are what you’re looking for.
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by dahra | 2025-04-24 21:14:25+00:00
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by monoid73 | 2025-04-24 21:14:40+00:00
I think the UX of chatgpt works because it's familiar, not because it's good. Lowers friction for new users but doesn't scale well for more complex workflows. if you're building anything beyond Q&A or simple tasks, you run into limitations fast. There's still plenty of space for apps that treat the model as a backend and build real interaction layers on top — especially for use cases that aren’t served by a chat metaphor
by Dylan16807 | 2025-04-24 21:15:46+00:00
> You call the bet "reckless", but are seemingly only opposed to it because he didn't share the winnings? Which one is it?

What's the conflict? I can call something reckless without the recklessness itself making me particularly opposed to it.

Also it's not just that he didn't share the reward, it's that he forced a whole lot of extra difficult work and then also didn't share the reward.
by sokoloff | 2025-04-24 21:16:10+00:00
I’m pretty sure I spend less than 5 minutes a week dealing with physical spam mail. I have a recycling bin right next to where the mail arrives and most days are 15 seconds of “these go into that bin unopened” and sometimes I have to open an envelope and glance at it to see if it’s something relevant to me.

Even with the best spam filtering on email, I’m well over 5 minutes a week of distraction from it.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-04-24 21:16:24+00:00
> I'm going to stay and fight and try to make whatever impact I can.

Those people are being fired as fast as possible.

That's because what's happening is not just changes in policies within these agencies, but essentially a loyalty test / purge.

You can either be loyal and do what the new boss wants without disagreement, you can resign in protest, or you can be fired.
by LaffertyDev | 2025-04-24 21:16:29+00:00
Presumably, the original quote that would _not_ stump an LLM is "A father and a son are involved in a car accident. The father dies, and the son is taken to the emergency room. At the emergency room, the surgeon remarks "I cannot operate on this person, he is my son. How is this possible?"

Where the original gotchya is that the Surgeon can be the son's mother or other adoptive parent.

The modification catches the LLM because with the modification, the surgeon could just be the cousin's parent -- father or mother -- so there is no gender/sex at play here but the LLM continues to remark that there is, therefor exposing its statistical training sets.
by stevenwoo | 2025-04-24 21:17:01+00:00
They dispute The Road to Serfdom's conclusion that any sort of social programs like that the which Nordic countries have would lead to an authoritarian regime, they argue there's always a red queen race between society and state for power and there are many avenues so to speak to get to the sweet spot in "The Narrow Corridor" and being dogmatic like The Road to Serfdom is not productive thinking.
by adamhowell | 2025-04-24 21:17:12+00:00
So, I've long dreamed of building an AI-powered https://iconfinder.com.

I started Accomplice v1 back in 2021 with this goal in mind and raised some VC money but it was too early.

Now, with these latest imagen-3.0-generate-002 (Gemini) and gpt-image-1 (OpenAI) models – especially this API release from OpenAI – I've been able to resurrect Accomplice as a little side project.

Accomplice v2 (https://accomplice.ai) is just getting started back up again – I honestly decided to rebuild it only a couple weeks ago in preparation for today once I saw ChatGPT's new image model – but so far 1,000s of free to download PNGs (and any SVGs that have already been vectorized are free too (costs a credit to vectorize)).

I generate new icons every few minutes from a huge list of "useful icons" I've built. Will be 100% pay-as-you-go. And for a credit, paid users can vectorize any PNGs they like, tweak them using AI, upload their own images to vectorize and download, or create their own icons (with my prompt injections baked in to get you good icon results)

Do multi-modal models make something like this obsolete? I honestly am not sure. In my experience with Accomplice v1, a lot of users didn't know what to do with a blank textarea, so the thinking here is there's value in doing some of the work for them upfront with a large searchable archive. Would love to hear others' thoughts.

But I'm having fun again either way.
by boleary-gl | 2025-04-24 21:17:26+00:00
Raw model I got

Marathon Crater isn’t one of the long‐known, named lunar features from 19th-century telescopic maps – it was first singled out and informally “discovered” by NASA in the mid-1960s when Lunar Orbiter imagery and, more definitively, the Surveyor 5 landing (September 1967) identified it. So, very roughly, think “around 1966–67.”