MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bilbo0s | 2025-04-30 07:44:56+00:00
Maybe that's what the people want?

Maybe they don't like the fact that there's people out there making 500 grand a year? At least not while they're struggling to make ends meet on 50 grand a year.

Now your leaders are supposed to be wise enough to not take down the 500 grand a year guys. But what if they aren't?
by consumer451 | 2025-04-30 07:47:53+00:00
> All an LLM does is produce output. There's no conceptual understanding behind it, and so there is no agreement, or disagreement.

I think that I agree. However, even on HN, what percentage of human comments are simply some really basic inference, aka output/"reddit"/etc... and those are humans.

I am not trying to elevate LLMs to some form of higher intelligence, my only point is that most of the time, we are not all that much better. Even the 0.000001% best of us fall into these habits sometimes. [0]

I currently believe that modern LLM architecture will likely not lead to AGI/ASI. However, even without that, they could do a lot.

I could also be very wrong.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
by reboot7417 | 2025-04-30 07:48:18+00:00
I like they learned these adjustments didn't 'work'. My concern is what if OpenAI is to do subtle A/B testing based on previous interactions and optimize interactions based on users personality/mood? Maybe not telling you 'shit on a stick' is awesome idea, but being able to steer you towards a conclusion sort of like [1].

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2478336-reddit-users-we...
by userbinator | 2025-04-30 07:48:47+00:00
tablets, chromebooks

Most of those used either USB or a barrel plug depending on their size.

raspberry pi, e-readers

USB.

Same for all the smaller dedicated devices (audio recorders, camera, controllers etc.)

Many of those use smaller barrel plugs, appropriate for their lower voltage.

The main problem with USB-C is the tiny fragile connector (search for images of "bent USB-C"), and the fact that it's a standard that tries to be what should really be a bunch of separate standards. It's hard to get a barrel plug wrong. It's too easy to get USB-C wrong, and cause damaged devices:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33713713
by spencerflem | 2025-04-30 07:49:10+00:00
David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs argues semis convincingly that 40% or so of jobs in the USA don't really have to be done - by the workers own admission.

Certainly if we wanted to, so much of the advertising, scamming, copying other companies, etc. could be done away with without affecting life very much.

We don't even need to wait for AI.

Conversely, even with AI I suspect we will still be expected to work, if anything harder because our labor is relatively less useful
by masklinn | 2025-04-30 07:50:00+00:00
> we humans are amazingly capable of inventing new and new jobs to do, because we somehow hate leisure.

We don’t. We do generally crave meaning, the only people who hate leisure are the owner class, and they hate leisure for other people. Employees are not out there clamouring for 80h weeks or having to piss in bottles on your 12h shift. Some do like that (sometimes to an unhealthy extent) but that’s a very different consideration.
by WalterBright | 2025-04-30 07:51:35+00:00
> And the evidence that SpaceX is in the interest of American citizens is...?

Starlink. The one that connected the N Carolina hurricane victims when FEMA failed, and then again in Los Angeles.

NASA can now launch missions at 10% of the cost, due to SpaceX.

> Neuralink existed for years before Musk.

According to Google: "Neuralink, an invasive BCI company with a short-term goal of treating various neurological disorders such as quadriplegia, was founded by Elon Musk in 2016 with the intention of creating another “layer” to the brain to complement the functions of existing layers like the limbic system and the cortex."

It's now working on restoring sight to the blind. What a monster Musk is!

BTW, the value of his companies is what investors value it at. Surely they think they are worth it.
by habi | 2025-04-30 07:51:40+00:00
> I aim to launch my own GPS satellite to bypass Google’s predatory API calls.

That might be a bit more costly than calling any API :) And launching own GPS satellites has no connection with Google's API as far as I know.

Are you interested in location data only? Then you can actually query https://nominatim.org/, which does the (reverese) geocoding.

> the map will be text-only to ensure accessibility.

I wonder how that's done, something like https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapscii ?
by adeon | 2025-04-30 07:51:47+00:00
I feel a little stupid for asking... but what does "kabuki theater" mean in this context? Do you mean the CEO in the scene sort of "acted a rehearsed show" in a meeting to make sure everyone in the room followed through some thought process? Or maybe in other words (guessing meaning): making people get up and talk to force them to think through something (CEO's real goal), but the CEO framed it as him simply asking questions? (I have not seen the movie or the scene, apologies if the meaning is more obvious to infer if one has seen it).

I tried googling it but I get some movie theater in San Francisco and a Wikipedia page describing it as a Japanese theatre with dancing and elaborate costumes and flair. I've not seen it used in an expression before.
by gsf_emergency | 2025-04-30 07:52:05+00:00
Check out Figure 2[a]

https://people.bu.edu/chamley/HSFref/Allen11.pdf

(Figures 4-5 for Newcastle)

>Between 1500 and 1600, the population of London grew from about 50,000 to 200,000 in response to the trade-induced growth in labour demand. During the Commonwealth, Cromwell initiated an active imperial policy, and it was continued through the eighteenth century
by krige | 2025-04-30 07:52:09+00:00
You know, there's a really obvious, snide comment to that.

But instead I'll just say I'm curious about the next Windows edition. Traditionally it would be time for it to be the "not as terrible" one, which many currently on W11 would probably welcome with very, very open arms. Would that still hold?

Would there even be a Windows 11? (or, by MS naming schemes, Windows Series W or something)
by caseyy | 2025-04-30 07:52:24+00:00
People ceasing to think because AI can "reason" sounds a lot like people ceasing to go outside and move because now jobs can be done from a computer screen, and so can tasks like grocery shopping, prescription filling, bill paying, services, clothing shopping, take-out food, and more. We lost something when we moved everything online - much of our physical health. I wonder if we won't lose much of our mental health if we outsource physical, on-the-spot thinking to the virtual world, too.

Though of course, there is the argument that using calculators didn't make us more mentally inept, so why would AI? But I'm not sure, this seems different.
by mpweiher | 2025-04-30 07:52:26+00:00
Adaptive Programming[1] by Karl Lieberherr is the most comprehensive attempt I have seen to formalize and separate iteration over arbitrary structures as a distinct PL construct.

It allows you to specify traversal in a structure-shy way. Personally, I think it goes a little too far, but it's definitely a good inspiration.

[1] https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/

Presentation: https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/talks/overview/qua...
by frank20022 | 2025-04-30 07:52:54+00:00
This is actually a great question, since best-selling novels are, most of the time, not particularly good, and rely heavily on trends and established patterns; precisely what LLMs are best at.

I'd say that a best-selling novel today is at least 50% luck and 40% author pedigree + marketing.

A good novel, thou. That is an entirely different thing...
by immibis | 2025-04-30 07:55:04+00:00
A protected computer is "a computer which is protected by this law", which is most American computers, not a special class of American computers. The only reason it's not all American computers is that the US federal government doesn't have full jurisdiction over the US. They wrote the definition of "protected computer" to include all the computers they have jurisdiction over.

In particular, the interstate commerce clause is very over-reaching. It's been ruled that someone who grew their own crops to feed to their own farm animals sold locally was conducting interstate commerce because they didn't have to buy them from another state.
by mft_ | 2025-04-30 07:55:51+00:00
> This headline is misleading because it makes it seem like tariffs are a step function that activate below 85%, which isn't true.

> The formula is a simple, linear equation: tariffs = 0.25 * MSRP * (percent foreign content - 15)

Um... unless I'm missing something, agree it's not a if/then rule, but in practice, that's exactly how the formula works?

84% domestic = 16% foreign = 0.25 * MSRP * (16-15) = 25% tariff on 1% of MSRP

85% domestic = 15% foreign = 0.25 * MSRP * (15-15) = 25% tariff on 0% of MSRP - which is nothing

86% domestic = 15% foreign = 0.25 * MSRP * (14-15) = 25% tariff on -1% of MSRP - but let's assume the Gov't isn't going to pay companies so effectively 0% again

So yes, it's a tariff that effectively activates below 85% domestic content.
by doshaa | 2025-04-30 07:55:55+00:00
I really hope there is like an "AI" flair on projects like these, i love what they aim to do but man the saturation levels mixed with "enough to make it work in theory" effort makes me want to filter out these posts.

I understand its all vibes and fun, but like at least some warnings that "this thing might lag your computer" and buttons that work.
by graemep | 2025-04-30 07:56:32+00:00
> My gut feeling is that this would be somewhat useful yes at shielding privacy. But even if you delete cookies every day, at least for me, that's a day of various advertisers tracking my motions across the web.

Browsers mostly block third part cookies by default or have an option to let you do so, so its only site's own cookies that need to be deleted.

> On a macro sense, I also feel like there's a virtue to making it clear to sites that no I don't want their unnecessary cookies.

That gives them an incentive to find ways to track you, such as fingerprinting. Limited data might convince them that tracking data is of low value.
by heavyset_go | 2025-04-30 07:56:39+00:00
> I really wish that machines could just take over at some point and we could be free of the pointless jobs we have.

This is already the case for shareholders, and will still be the case in the future as long as automation remains privatized.

The rest of us will need to find a way to eat without working pointless jobs. We aren't getting a slice of the automation pie.
by motorest | 2025-04-30 07:56:55+00:00
> I really wish that machines could just take over at some point and we could be free of the pointless jobs we have.

I would take it a step further and question why is everyone assuming that people have to work, whatever the work might be.

Of course the genetic answer is to pay the bills, but what if you didn't had to worry about paying them? How would your life change if you didn't had a mortgage or rent to pay? Would you still spend hours commiting to and back from the office? Would you stick with your current job? What would change in your life?

Once I came across a group of construction workers that were working on a construction site. Half a dozen of them were spending their days wearing fluorescent vests and holding hand-held stop signs on a crosswalk of a low-traffic road. There were more construction workers on that crosswalk than people actually crossing the road. They were there five days per week, from early morning to evening. What a colossal waste of time. I wondered how soul-crushing that would be. Is that how people expect to spend the bulk of their days? Does society benefit anything from those roles?
by pembrook | 2025-04-30 07:57:41+00:00
Because at its core a “job” is just doing something useful for other people, validated by the incurrence of a large societal cost (your salary).

Humans like to feel useful AND validated. If you remove either we generally become more unhappy. If you remove both it becomes a real problem.

Hence why unemployed people (both of the working class and “too rich to work due my trust fund” variety) have much higher rates of depression. This even extends to people who have jobs, but that feel their jobs are not actually useful (re: big tech workers arbitraging the inefficiency of large organizations to get paid doing very little). They have the validation of the societal cost (the salary) but deep down they know it’s an inefficient mistake.

Intrinsic motivation beyond our base instincts is a myth. Everything you do as a human is in pursuit of external validation, hence why we are social creatures. It’s why you’ve bothered to take the time out of your day to type these words into a box.

Humans finding new useful things to do for other people (jobs) is the engine behind everything good in modern society. So no, it’s not a bad thing.
by brigandish | 2025-04-30 07:58:27+00:00
I can only say that you've completely misunderstood mens rea and must have ignored the links I provided. No, mens rea is not a lower bar than "intent" in colloquial language, and it is not about just actions and not outcomes, else how could anyone commit intentional murder? That is covered in mens rea by the concept of specific intent and general intent.

The usual split in levels of intent depend on jurisdiction but this is a good summary from Wikipedia on the (general) US system application of mens rea that is easy for me to paste, so:

Negligently: a "reasonable person" ought to be aware of a "substantial and unjustifiable risk" that is a "gross deviation" from a normal standard of care.

Recklessly: the actor "consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk" in "gross deviation" from a normal standard of care.

Knowingly: the actor is "practically certain" that his conduct will lead to the result, or is aware to a high probability that his conduct is of a prohibited nature, or is aware to a high probability that the attendant circumstances exist.

Purposefully: the actor consciously engages in conduct and "desires" the result. The Supreme Court has not found a large difference between purposeful and knowing conduct, not only in theory but also in application.

Drunk driving is reckless behaviour for anyone who knows what being drunk is.
by lazide | 2025-04-30 07:58:59+00:00
The folks in the CCP are the ones getting rich. That doesn’t make it any less ‘greed is good’. It just adds the extra frosting of ‘government corruption’ on top.

That said gov’t can throw billionaires under the bus and use elements of the state to prop the system up may look nicer - but the average person still ends up losing/paying. We’ll see in a decade what that really looks like eh?
by Paracompact | 2025-04-30 07:59:03+00:00
It's weird that they would be so unabashedly open about it, on a dating app they made, right in the FAQ. Singling this one belief out, and not mentioning consequences for the app (nor denial of consequences), leads one to ponder several obvious subtexts.

Technological utopians have a well-earned reputation of leaning toward the Machiavellian. If making babies is mankind's first priority, that means many other values are of a lower priority.
by Jensson | 2025-04-30 07:59:29+00:00
> crypto people are struggling to create demand, AI people are struggling to keep up with demand.

Today, 10 years ago crypto was what everyone wanted, you can see how bitcoin soared and crypto scams was everywhere and made many billions.

And no AI is not struggling to keep up with user demand, it is struggling to keep up with free but not paid demand. So what you mean is AI is struggling to keep up with investor demand, more people want to invest into AI than there are compute to buy, but that was the same for bitcoins, bitcoin mining massively raised the prices on GPU due to how much investors put into it.

But investor driven demand can disappear really quickly, that is what people mean with an AI bubble.
by cik | 2025-04-30 08:00:06+00:00
That's a pretty narrow view, I think it depends more on culture.

I live somewhere where (not in North America) where grocery delivery is the norm, food delivery is the norm... online shopping is easy. This all frees up time that we spend outside, in parks, in lessons and study... because these are communal values.

We don't spend our free time in front of screens (though nothing wrong with that if you want it), again, because of culture.
by teamonkey | 2025-04-30 08:00:32+00:00
I don’t think they mean “getting rich,” they mean “enough to get by”.

Many art forms can and should require more time and investment than simply getting together with friends a couple of times a month.

Even then, for some people getting enough free time to do that is a struggle. They need to monetise their spare time by working second jobs, and so on, instead of pursuing art.
by immibis | 2025-04-30 08:00:39+00:00
Yes.

A user has to manually unpack a zip bomb, though. They have to open the file and see "uncompressed size: 999999999999999999999999999" and still try to uncompress it, at which point it's their fault when it fills up their drive and fails. So I don't think there's any ethical dilemma there.
by sieve | 2025-04-30 08:01:49+00:00
This is generally because of a lack of definite purpose. If you were serious about reading ancient Latin literature, you would use YT to try to figure out a reasonable way to achieve the purpose and then put the theory into practise instead of continuing to watch these people talk about the same things over and over. Imagine Vermeer, Moebius or Frazetta continuing to watch art tutorials on YT in their 30s and 40s instead of working on their craft.

For some people, it is because they are unsure of which method works for them. So they wander from one theory to the other.

The rest simply enjoy the meta aspect of the journey more than the journey itself.
by sebastiennight | 2025-04-30 08:01:53+00:00
> using calculators didn't make us more mentally inept

We (collectively) did lose some skills, that we no longer value as much because we (individually) grew up after the loss happened.

Just like losing a large part of our orientation skills in the GPS era.

Or how happily-single urban people in their 40s don't feel like they've lost anything compared to eg. their grandparents living a married life with three generations living under the same roof, but if you'd taken that person from the past and showed them the option to switch, they would feel the loss.

It is totally possible that the average "2045 human" could be significantly mentally/emotionally atrophied in several ways, while not feeling like anything is missing.
by mrweasel | 2025-04-30 08:02:10+00:00
> 40% or so of jobs in the USA don't really have to be done

Many would question that, but if you think it through it probably even higher. Somehow we manage to automate and industrialize pretty much everything, yet everyone still have a job. Previously women stayed at home, removing half of the workforce, and that still worked out fine.

I had a client, they sell cheap furniture. They really didn't need me, because they really didn't need all the IT infrastructure they've built up. Rather than attempting to sell me new cheap ass plastic garden furniture every spring, how about they just sell me really high quality stuff once? Then I don't need to shop with them for the next 25 years. That would save a lot of work right there.
by frank20022 | 2025-04-30 08:02:46+00:00
> Learning is a lifelong task and becoming proficient in a language does not mean you will stay proficient in a language

Agreed, but most people see it anyways as a journey from point A to point B, and then it's done. Also, most people just settles for good enough, not continuously improving.

> if people see their skills improving as a result of using the app then it doing its job.

Problem being that duo tricks you into believing you are learning when you indeed are not. I feel encouraged when I understand something for first time, not when the godam owl gives me a high five because I matched a word with a picture.

> Nothing can _make_ you learn other than your own willingness to do so

Well, I am really willing to be a world class piano concertist and astronaut. Doesn't mean I'll become one. Motivation + habits set the baseline, the mimimum needed, but they are not remotely enough. Success would be pretty darn easy then.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-30 08:03:03+00:00
if you're used to opening new links in a new tab (or if it's a target link anyway), it can quickly add up to a dozen+. It can be nice to organize important ones that you need in the short term.

I have no clue how people are managing tabs in the thousands, though. I only have a few hundred bookmarks after spending 20+ years gathering them. I don't need every page I visit to be archived in organizers like that.
by sumitkumar | 2025-04-30 08:03:14+00:00
I wanted to see how far it will go. I started with asking it to simple test app. It said it is a great idea. And asked me if I want to do market analysis. I came back later and asked it to do a TAM analysis. It said $2-20B. Then it asked if it can make a one page investor pitch. I said ok, go ahead. Then it asked if I want a detailed slide deck. After making the deck it asked if I want a keynote file for the deck.

All this while I was thinking this is more dangerous than instagram. Instagram only sent me to the gym and to touristic places and made me buy some plastic. ChatGPT wants me to be a tech bro and speed track the Billion dollar net worth.
by gloxkiqcza | 2025-04-30 08:03:22+00:00
It’s always a responsibility of an individual. You can look at it the other way around: instead of going outside to do chores you can do them more efficiently online and use the saved time to enjoy higher quality time outside, e.g. in a park instead of a shopping centre.

AI is a powerful tool and it’s already changing the world but it’s still just a tool - the smarter you’re, the more efficiently you can use it. It might change our intelligence but I don’t think it will decrease it.
by sublimefire | 2025-04-30 08:04:07+00:00
It was an interesting read whilst having a cup of coffee. But rather shallow. A couple of mentions of some tools: goreshell, shadowpad, scatterbrain. It might be targeting C-suite folks more than analysts or other security folks. It is more about how you should be slightly afraid to do it on your own and better hire sentinelone to help you.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-30 08:05:13+00:00
> The update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable—often described as sycophantic.

> We have rolled back last week’s GPT‑4o update in ChatGPT so people are now using an earlier version with more balanced behavior.

I thought every major LLM was extremely sycophantic. Did GPT-4o do it more than usual?
by sieve | 2025-04-30 08:05:19+00:00
In my experience, knowledge of grammar gives you a false sense of knowledge of language. You might know what the form of the word is, but you may not grasp its meaning in context, or be able to use it in your own sentences.

Grammar is the analytical part of language. It is not the language itself.

Try reading Spanish texts for a few days without doing these drills and you will notice a massive increase in relative comprehension.
by whatnow37373 | 2025-04-30 08:06:44+00:00
A remarkable insight—often associated with individuals of above-average cognitive capabilities.

While the use of the em-dash has recently been associated with AI you might offend real people using it organically—often writers and literary critics.

To conclude it’s best to be hesitant and, for now, refrain from judging prematurely.

Would you like me to elaborate on this issue or do you want to discuss some related topic?