MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Xelbair | 2025-04-28 17:20:07+00:00
"Just in time" is a phrase I hate with vehement passion. You aren't optimizing the system, you're reducing safety marigns - and consequences are usually similar to Challanger.

This is a solution that teenager put in management position would think of(along with hire more people as solution to inefficient processes), not a paid professional.

Systems like electric grid, internal water management (anti-flood) shouldn't be lean, they should be antifragile.

What's even more annoying that we have solutions for a lot of those problems - in case of electric grids we have hydroelectric buffers, we have types of powerplants that are easier to shutdown and startup than coal, gas or wind/solar(which cannot be used for cold start at all).

The problem is that building any of this takes longer than one political term.
by sureglymop | 2025-04-28 17:20:23+00:00
It can be set up in a day if you slap traefik infront of it, change the env and compose files a bit and run it with docker compose.

I admit, I already had a working mail server and wildcard LE cert... let's say you'd need the other half of the day too to set that up if wanted.

Personally I set it up in a way such that the studio is not publicly accessible but can be accessed using ssh port forwarding.

All in all, I still agree that it's not really user friendly to self host it. It's basically only one supabase project. But in reality, it shouldn't be that hard to create new template dbs in postgres to set up multiple projects and also provide a good UI for that. They don't bother to provide that functionality though for I believe obvious reasons.
by coolwulf | 2025-04-28 17:20:57+00:00
My son has been playing chess with more than 5 years and accumulated a lot of notation sheets. I just happened to find out them scattered everywhere in his room. Since I'm leading some AI efforts to digitize some handwritten medical notes for healthcare applications, I decided to apply my expertise in converting his notation sheets into easy to manage pgn in his lichess account. So far this app works great on doing this with vision transformers. I decided to make this FREE for everyone so no need to hand type them yourself, especially for kids. Enjoy!
by johnxie | 2025-04-28 17:21:25+00:00
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by bigbadfeline | 2025-04-28 17:22:12+00:00
Although this problem's been around since forever (M Twain: “It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”), there's a pretty good chance that it can be solved if a determined community approaches it seriously enough. That of course leads to the need to resolve problems like "determination" and "community" but here things get a bit circular in addition to the obvious resource constraints.
by nonameiguess | 2025-04-28 17:22:40+00:00
I feel like you and the parent need to give a better operational definition of what you mean by "practical purposes." The ultimate destiny of every bit of matter out there is to become part of a black hole, evaporate to Hawking radiation, then succumb to the expansion of space gradually putting every discrete particle outside of the future light cone of all others.

This should take unfathomably long epochs of time well beyond the current age of the universe, but it will still inevitably happen. This is even putting aside possibilities like proton decay and false vacuum collapse.

Don't get me wrong. Given the choice between a 100 year lifespan and a quadrillion year lifespan, my first instinct is to take the quadrillion year lifespan, but even then, it seems like you're incurring the very real risk that you'll eventually remain "alive" but in complete isolation with no matter to interact with that isn't part of your body, waiting for thousands of times longer then the Milky Way will exist for the attraction of a supermassive black hole to finally pull you in and end it. Given whatever sort of brain you might have has to have a finite storage capacity for information, you also open up the possibility that you'll spend the last few trillion years of your life with no memories except that complete isolation and experience of utter nothingness.

These are all sci-fi scenarios and there is no way to know for sure what will actually happen or what it will be like, but we do know for sure that a functionally immortal being would not just be living a normal life doing things animals typically enjoy doing, but forever. There are plenty of possible fates worse than death.
by dr_kiszonka | 2025-04-28 17:22:56+00:00
> “Feedback Loop” interactions still require user input (even if that input is simply pasting error messages back to Claude).

I often feel that instead of being a developer, my role is reduced to being an entry-level intern* whose only job is to copy and paste errors and screenshots. In many cases, like when using Artifacts or Canvas, this process should be fully automated. For me, besides hallucinations and forgetting, this is the most annoying part of code development with AI.

* Interns should not be doing that either, but I didn't know how to convey it better.
by cybergibbons25 | 2025-04-28 17:24:11+00:00
Black out on a rig or ship is very different to black start of a national electricity grid.

Most vessels will experience a blackout periodically and the emergency generator start fine, normally on electric or stored air start, and then the main generators will come up fine. It's really not delicate, complex or tricky - some vessels have black outs happen very often, and those that don't will test it periodically. There will also be a procedure to do it manually should automation fail.

There are air starters on some emergency generators that need handling pumping. These will also get tested periodically.

The most complex situation during black out restoration would be manual synchronisation of generators but this is nothing compared to a black start.
by MichaelZuo | 2025-04-28 17:24:19+00:00
Are you confused?

The claim was “ Get real. Companies with infinitely more money, staff, and robust security practices are hacked every day. ”

Banking core mainframes are the only thing I know of that gets anwhere near that kind of claim in terms of money, staff, and “robust security practices” 24/7/365.

And even then it’s far from infinite.
by roguecoder | 2025-04-28 17:24:22+00:00
That does not seem to be supported by the evidence.

Twitter becoming a fascist cess pit has not reduced the power of fascists. Hearing even a completely ridiculous idea (like "the moon is made of cheese") told in a joking manner leads people to think it is more plausible than they otherwise would: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect Deplatforming is effective at reducing radicalization: https://www-cs.stanford.edu/~diyiy/docs/jhaver-2021-deplatfo...

Note that the thing that drove Andreessen to the right was left-wing thinkers who thought censoring anti-racism was bad: he was already pro-racism and pro-censorship before he created the group chats.

The problem here seems to be the income inequality & the power of money to win elections that give the uber-rich their disproportionate power.
by tfourb | 2025-04-28 17:24:34+00:00
How does this make sense? If I'm driving the speed limit and someone else is crashing into me from behind while speeding, they are the dangerous driver. No matter how many other people also ignore the speed limit.

Also, increasing the speed limit does nothing to make traffic safer. That doesn't make any sense at all, as increased speed is correlated very well with increased accident rates and severity of traffic-related injuries:

https://road-safety.transport.ec.europa.eu/eu-road-safety-po...
by ComputerGuru | 2025-04-28 17:24:46+00:00
I want to say there was a product that did this circa 2006-2008 but all I’m finding is the .NET Micro Framework and its modern successor the .NET nano Framework.

I’ve been using .NET since 2001 so maybe I have it confused with something else, but at the same time a lot of the web from that era is just gone, so it’s possible something like this did exist but didn’t gain any traction and is now lost to the ether.
by janalsncm | 2025-04-28 17:25:39+00:00
There is a difference between valuable and profitable. I think anyone who wants to say there isn’t a bubble needs to solve two problems:

1) Inference is too damn expensive.

2) The models/products aren’t reliable enough.

I also personally think talking to industry folks isn’t a silver bullet. No one knows how to solve #2. No one. We can improve by either waiting for better chips or using bigger models, which has diminishing returns and makes #1 worse.

Maybe OpenAI’s next product should be selling dollars for 99 cents. They just need a billion dollars of SoftBank money, and they can do 100 billion in sales before they need to reraise. And if SoftBank agrees to buy at $1.01 the business can keep going even longer!
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-04-28 17:26:11+00:00
Sounds like a conflict between wanting to do something you love, and wanting success and fame. Nothing wrong with either of these things, or trying to have both. But what you might be missing is that the way you pursue these things has a much larger impact on the outcome than simply whether you make an attempt or not.

You might have been reading all those stories of startups, and now you're stuck in a box shaped like all those stories. That you have to start a startup at all, or that you have to go about it in the way those stories told. You might think that's your only path. But the only limits in this world are the ones we put on ourselves.

Meditate on what you really want, at your core. Start the wheels turning of thinking of ways to get those things that aren't immediately obvious or don't seem likely. Consider a world in which you didn't have fear, doubt, anxiety, or other kinds of limitations. Which path would you choose? What are all the ways you might use to walk that path? You don't need to know the whole path to start walking on it.
by AngryData | 2025-04-28 17:26:13+00:00
Thats really only true for people with money. The problem isn't that current laws are insufficient, it is that the US justice system is largely based on profit motives, and people with money can make prosecutions against them unprofitable to push. You can bet your butt that if you went in to those same cases without the money to draw everything out for years that they would hammer you with fines and fees and programs and jail time.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-04-28 17:27:53+00:00
If you ask an LLM to do some math, what happens is interesting.

Simple arithmetic ("What is 2+2") is obviously going to be well-represented in the training data, so the model will simply regurgitate "4."'

For more advanced questions like "What are the roots of 14.338x^5 + 4.005x^4 + 3.332x^3 - 99.7x^2 + 120x = 0?", the model will either yield random nonsense as GPT-4o did, or write a Python script and execute it to return the correct answer(s) as o4-mini-high did: https://chatgpt.com/share/680fb812-76b8-800b-a19e-7469cbcc43...

Now, give the model an intermediate arithmetic problem, one that isn't especially hard but also isn't going to be in-distribution ("If a is 3 and b is 11.4, what is the fourth root of a*b?").

How would YOU expect the operator of a Chinese Room to respond to that?

Here's how GPT-4o responded: https://chatgpt.com/share/680fb616-45e0-800b-b592-789f3f8c58...

Now, that's not a great answer, it's clearly an imprecise estimate. But it's more or less right, and the fact that it isn't a perfect answer suggests that the model didn't cheat somehow. A similar but easier problem would almost certainly have been answered correctly. Where did that answer come from, if the model doesn't "understand" the math to a nontrivial extent?

If it can "understand" basic high-school math, what else can it "understand?" What exactly are the limits of what a transformer can "understand" without resorting to web search or tool use?

An adherent of Searle's argument is going to have a terrible time explaining phenomena like this... and it's only going to get worse for them over time.
by wpm | 2025-04-28 17:28:03+00:00
> In other words speed is only contextually dangerous while driving drunk and not using safety equipment are inherently bad which is why I'd imagine the latter two have been legislated.

Neither of those are blanket dangerous. Driving a car on a rural road in the middle of the night is about as dangerous whether you're doing 100mph or mildly drunk. Not being restrained is only dangerous if you crash or someone crashes into you. They can all three be performed in normal road conditions without actually resulting in a crash, injury, or death.

But everyone speeds. It's fun, everyone does it once in a while, as a treat! And driving sucks too, so the faster you go the less you have to do it. You can't punish everyone, but you can punish a drunk because, gosh, that couldn't/wouldn't ever be me. Those drunk jerks! And seatbelts? You only get punished for those if you get pulled over and don't remember to put it on.

Most driving related crimes don't go punished because the judges and the juries are probably guilty of the same damn thing, all the time, and gee whiz, I'm not a criminal, so this person isn't either.

Its why you can pulp a pedestrian in your car while speeding and dicking around with your phone and get off pretty much scot-free.
by zem | 2025-04-28 17:29:11+00:00
same, I used to skip tehanu when I reread the series, but find it an excellent book today. it also helps that it's now the start of a second trilogy, so the shift from the first trilogy isn't really an issue. (I think younger me would have enjoyed tehanu greatly as a standalone book, it just wasn't the conclusion to the earthsea trilogy I wanted)
by roguecoder | 2025-04-28 17:29:18+00:00
It's also clear that the big players always thought these things. In this article, Andreessen got mad and founded right-wing echo chambers because left-wing thinkers though censoring anti-racists was bad. Musk has been an egregiously racist person in an egregiously racist family and has never respected the rule of law.

For a while these people felt like they had to pretend to be decent, pro-social humans so they could keep making money: that seems great. More people should pretend not to be racist assholes.

I wonder how much of this is that they got so rich "you can't make more money" stopped being a meaningful threat.
by os2warpman | 2025-04-28 17:29:28+00:00
>it's an expensive power-hungry extra radio that doesn't work

Yes, it requires more power.

You have to consider power and the time the radio needs to be on to accomplish the task.

If using mmWave you can transfer data at 2,000Mbps and using midband you achieve 500Mbps the baseband will be on for 4x the time with midband, and it will need to use less than 1/4th the power of mmWave to break even.

Midband does not require 1/4th the power of mmWave. Closer to 1/2th.

On 11/27/22 at 5:13pm I was in the St. Louis airport and ran a speed test on my iPhone 12 Pro Max. I was probably one of the first non-diagnostic users of their mmWave infrastructure and I must have been the only user at the time because I achieved a damn-near-practical-maximum of 3938Mbps down. The only reason I ran the speed test at all was that a notoriously sluggish web application I was using was performing spectacularly.

Since then I have been running speed tests at concerts, sporting events, traffic jams, airports, shopping centers, and the Rennaissance Faire. All locations where, prior to 5G, cellular coverage was useless.

On 10/13/24 at 1:14pm I was in a crowded terminal at Chicago O'Hare and ran a speed test on an iPhone 15 Pro Max. Connected via mmWave I achieved 1869Mbps down.
by harrall | 2025-04-28 17:29:37+00:00
Yeah but people will put 40 lines of code on a slide and read through it, expecting that it will explain the underlying concept while I’m trying to parse a ton of code in front of my eyes.

Most of the time that I am presenting technical material, I spend it on explaining the concepts through short descriptions, hand-draw illustrations or diagrams.

If there’s code to show, it will be smaller snippets interspersed between those slides. If attendees want to deep dive into 100 lines of code, it is best that they do it on their own time at their own pace after I send out the materials.

I actually talk about code but this applies to non-technical presentations too. Yeah, it’s also not a sales presentation but don’t wall-of-text me.

Explain concepts to me.
by 3np | 2025-04-28 17:29:40+00:00
> these actions are a consequence of going public and becoming huge megacorps

IDK, seen and heard plenty of the same in private companies with no apparent track to go public. It's industry-wide, not just FAANG. I'm not sure that can all be waved off as cargo-culting.

> There is NO OTHER INDUSTRY wherein "normies" that didn't go to highly-regarded school for years and years on end have a realistic shot at this kind of compensation.

> Software is still a high-skilled, highly-niche profession. Generative AI "simplifies" writing software, but that's only 20-40% of the job, IMO. As long as that remains true, and as long as margins on software remain astronomical, demand will remain high and SWE/SWE-adjacent professionals will continue to be paid well.

That's not counter to Doctorow's points. In fact, they contribute to the trend he's describing ("golden handcuffs", for example). The relatively high paycheck and impression of privilege and comfort vs workers in worse conditions are levers, not the point.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-28 17:29:55+00:00
Look - I love good, local software. I hate paying for webshit.

That being said, you are going to struggle to compete if your main selling-point is local operation. If you're trying to target the developer audience by building UNIX-like tooling for your software service, you're eschewing a huge market to chase your least-likely customers. You will be replaced with a free version, if not end up with your tool being forked or pirated in it's entirety.

SaaS is the way it is for a reason. It's very quick to iterate on simple ideas until they're profitable, as opposed to solving hard problems and hoping people will pay for them. Just because we've ended up in a sea of webshit doesn't mean the solution is paid coreutils though - most people evaluating your product simply won't give you the time of day.
by wpm | 2025-04-28 17:30:25+00:00
This utterly ignores any context of German drivers and roads vs those in the US, context that makes comparing the Autobahn (which doesn't have that many unrestricted zones, and even fewer times of day where you can actually stretch your legs due to traffic).

This reads like "I speed all the time and how dare you say it's a bad thing" cope.
by dec0dedab0de | 2025-04-28 17:31:37+00:00
Difficult - adapting the Python execution model to my needs in a way that keeps it self-coherent if it makes sense. This is still fluid and not finalized...

Alright well those dots are begging me to ask what they mean, or at least one specific story for the nerds :-)

Long-term, I'm keeping an open mind, not sure yet.

Well please consider open source, even if you charge for access to your open source code. And even if you don't go open source, atleast make it cheap enough that a solo developer could afford to build on it without thinking.
by jajko | 2025-04-28 17:31:37+00:00
Such a wrong mindset... but you do you, don't complain later when inevitable comes, its not like there haven't been hundreds of millions of folks who made similar life decisions and we can easily see what it leads to (or doesn't).

One example out of sea of examples - climbing. Indoor, outdoor, bouldering, long walls, doesn't matter. Its an amazing activity, every single person I know is doing it at least occasionally becomes much happier during&after a session. Massive health benefits could be just a side effect and it would most probably still be the best and most memorable thing you did on that day.

Plus people in community are generally very positive, welcoming, helpful and happy to talk to. Its sort of sport that changes you in many ways for the better (healthier, happier, better life perspective and so on). How much time it takes is sort of irrelevant, ie coming and commenting here costs you probably more time than continuous amateur climbing career would do.

Change climbing for many other sports and it would still be true.
by skybrian | 2025-04-28 17:32:18+00:00
It seems like the question is whether you believe in cost-based or value-based pricing. The cost of AI for the same amount of power is going down a lot year-to-year. [1]

If market prices go down with costs, then we see something like solar power where it’s everywhere but suppliers don’t make money, not even in China.

Or maybe customers spend a lot more on more-expensive models? Hard to say.

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/9/sam-altman/
by trickleup | 2025-04-28 17:32:45+00:00
CodeGate is designed to make AI Agent Applications and Coding Assistants, safer and easier to use and manage. It provides a centralized, abstracted environment for managing prompts, model provider configurations, keys, model muxing, and more. Additionally, CodeGate offers protections against the leakage of personally identifiable information and tokens, keys and secrets.
by kccqzy | 2025-04-28 17:32:53+00:00
> Around the country, as companies have returned to cities or promoted hybrid work schedules, many suburban office parks have gone the way of the drive-in movie theater and the mall.

This is a bigger trend. Fifteen years ago the YC companies might be headquartered in Palo Alto or another suburb, but these days many of the YC companies are in San Francisco. I think we are seeing a revival of cities on a scale akin to the flight to suburbs in the 1950s.
by worldsayshi | 2025-04-28 17:32:54+00:00
I think this comes from the misunderstanding that 'a better world' means Utopia, where all the problems have been solved. Such Utopia is almost impossible to imagine, might be impossible in practice and is perhaps not that interesting to try to describe.

For some reason we have no problem imagining dystopias as something that can be a sliding scale of misery but utopia has to be something absolute - like a heaven on earth.

This is why I don't like the term utopia to describe what I'm looking for. Because people are always there to point out that utopia is something that doesn't exist by definition. Fine, so what do we call a fiction that realistically paints a world that is ever so slightly better? Anti-dystopia? Counter-dystopia?
by sporkland | 2025-04-28 17:33:02+00:00
Everything is getting flagged that seems anti-currently elected's actions. I tried to raise it here, seems like HN for various reasons is over talking about this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43570025

I got some useful replies there but it is still hard to conclude something pernicious isn't happening.

I wonder if an upvote / flag ratio threshold would stop some of the abusive flagging that is happening.