MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saguntum | 2025-04-04 18:08:45+00:00
Most explanations I've seen for it being rational if the goal is improving the economy or furthering American national interests reek of "sanewashing" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanewashing). The formula they used for calculating tariff rates other countries impose on us is nonsensical and potentially LLM generated: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/03/trump-tariffs-formula-calcu...

In my opinion, they're just using the "reciprocity" argument to paper over more nefarious goals. Onshoring certain critical supply chains and using targeted tariffs to achieve that may make some sense, but that's not what's going on with these across-the-board taxes punishing what are becoming former US allies.

From a self-interest perspective, it may be rational if you're optimizing for increasing your raw power at the expense of American national interest. My understanding is that tariff exemptions can be granted unilaterally: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-tariffs-trade-war-sto...

so in a sense, the administration is holding both the disease and the cure unless Congress strips it of this power (unlikely).

Crashing asset prices may also generate opportunities for rich people with large cash holdings to buy up assets on the cheap before inflation really takes hold.

This is not directly related to tariffs necessarily, but one related theory I've thought about is how leaders stay in power in countries like Venezuela or North Korea. With hyperinflation and good shortages, your ability to procure basic necessities becomes more of a function of proximity to those in power with the ability to acquire goods through their monopoly on the use of violence. If you can't feed your family without being subservient to an authoritarian leader, you're probably less likely to help depose a dictator. I've thought about this a little in the context of the purging of top national security officials and how they're getting replaced with loyalists: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/politics/trump-meeting...

I don't think we're there until we're there, but it feels like they're teeing things up for a 3rd term. If you have congress inept, friends in the highest court of the land, and functional control of the armed forces leadership, who is to stop you from declaring a national emergency and staying in power because of a crashing economy or a new war?

The economic contagion of the Great Depression historically also preceded a huge change in the world order (WW2). If you're trying to change the world order irreparably or just scoop up some territory, you might try to do some economic decoupling first, as well. There was a small trade war about 5 years before real war broke out when Germany invaded Poland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German–Polish_customs_war
by breadwinner | 2025-04-04 18:09:13+00:00
I have a lot of respect for Anders Hejlsberg. But that doesn't mean he is never wrong. Hejlsberg doesn't think anyone would want to recover from exceptions. "There's a bottom level exception handler around their message loop. That handler is just going to bring up a dialog that says what went wrong and continue." Okaayyy... I think we know a bit more about exception handling than that today! Real-world applications often need more sophisticated exception handling strategies.
by edoceo | 2025-04-04 18:09:30+00:00
My startups get 4 of these pitches a week. All performance based. All with amazing claims of close rates - for lines of business that are completely unrelated to mine.

The investor side of me thinks the founders should be doing early sales. I don't agree that capital is any harder to raise. IMHO market turmoil is good for angel/seed as those with means are looking for alternatives.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-04 18:09:50+00:00
Maybe because Apple got pissed on how Khronos took over OpenCL, AMD and Intel never offered tooling on par with CUDA in terms of IDE integration, graphical debuggers and library ecosystem.

Khronos also never saw the need to support a polyglot ecosystem with C++, Fortran and anything else that the industry could feel like using on a GPU.

When Khronos finally remember to at least add C++ support and SPIR, again Intel and AMD failed to deliver, and OpenCL 3.0 is basically OpenCL 1.0 rebranded.

Followed by SYCL efforts, which only Intel seems to care, with their own extensions on top via DPC++, nowadays openAPI. And only after acquiring Codeplay, which was actually the first company to deliver on SYCL tooling.

However contrary to AMD, at least Intel does get that unless everyone gets to play with their software stack, no one will bother to actually learn it.
by resters | 2025-04-04 18:10:44+00:00
DeepSeek R1 is by far the best at writing prose of any model, including Grok-3, GPT-4o, o1-pro, o3, claude, etc.

Paste in a snippet from a book and ask the model to continue the story in the style of the snippet. It's surprising how bad most of the models are.

Grok-3 comes in a close second, likely because it is actually DeepSeek R1 with a few mods behind the scenes.
by compiler-guy | 2025-04-04 18:10:47+00:00
It is vastly underpowered and has a huge bill of materials compared to those chips. It only supports 16 bytes of memory, has an impoverished instruction set, is slow as molasses, and tends to be very flaky.

Even as a pure-ttl building exercise, it trades off efficiency and usefulness in favor of understandability and fancy blinking-lights so you can see what is happening.

It is useful only for toy programs at the most.

But as a learning exercise it is absolutely first rate. 10/10 would recommend.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-04-04 18:11:09+00:00
Republicans on average are more charitable than Democrats: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/your-money/republicans-de...

Maybe Democrats are less charitable because they are more likely to live in Democratic controlled areas that provide more government services to the needy. However, does that really reflect compassion if you merely live in a system which provides those services through mandatory taxation? A republican moving from Kansas to NYC doesn't become more compassionate simply by paying more in taxes because they have to.
by cj | 2025-04-04 18:12:13+00:00
This sounds like the "affiliate marketing" business model (earn a commission when you sell someone's thing). That business model is definitely alive and well!

I might have tried a service like you're proposing when our company was very small.

Now that it's bigger, we have revenue goals that we need to hit, and I wouldn't want to hire someone for free to help hit important KPIs. If a larger company does engage with this model, it would probably be to supplement an existing revenue stream I would imagine.

I think the biggest risk with the model you're proposing is that it's more appealing to small companies who are more likely to not have reached PMF yet, and therefore have products that are more difficult for you to sell compared to more established companies.
by FloorEgg | 2025-04-04 18:12:20+00:00
You are missing something really really important.

Most startups don't have product market fit. Further, most startups make things no one wants. The product might sound good to you and you will think "oh I can sell this", but you will work your ass off for no results.

They you may go back to the client and say "Hey the market doesn't want your product, they want this instead". Now you are doing free market research for them, and most likely, they won't listen to you anyways.

You may think "okay I need to be good at identifying startups struggling to sell who have products people want" and then you may realize there's a whole industry of VCs trying to do this, that mostly suck at it.

I think you'll find that young companies with products people want who are struggling to sell is extremely rare.

There's a reason the business model your suggesting isn't more prevalent with startups, and it's because sales skills matter far less than market fit.
by resters | 2025-04-04 18:13:11+00:00
Using LLMs to shortcut critical thinking is sometimes a cheat code and sometimes a stupid idea, it depends.

Now that we have thinking models and methodology to train them, surely before long it will be possible to have a model that is very good at the kind of thinking that an expert OSINT analyst knows how to do.

There are so many low hanging fruit applications of existing LLM strengths that have simply not been added to the training yet, but will be at some point.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-04-04 18:13:11+00:00
Not trying to justify the other commenters but, for what it's worth, you actually seem to have misread the sentence from what I can see in your original comment. In particular, the way you separated the phrase "hacking and distributing [stuff]" into the pull quotes

> hacking

> distributing [stuff]

makes it appear as though you read it like "hacking: distributing [stuff]" instead of "hacking and distributing [stuff]". I believe to your point, it would be ridiculous for them to write "was reportedly caught bragging about hacking: distributing pirated e-books, bootleg software, and game cheats" but that's not what they wrote. They are referring individually to "hacking" and "distributing" as separate and distinct things.
by noworriesnate | 2025-04-04 18:13:28+00:00
We’re talking about people having their lives judged by thousands of people online based on a 5-second video from someone with an agenda.

There’s no way for them to clarify, no way for them to “have their day in court,” apologizing just makes the mob smell blood. The only point is revenge and sadism, there’s no redemption, no point other than pain, pure and simple.

People are complicated and I don’t want a video of me on a bad day edited and then posted online for everyone to see.
by holysoles | 2025-04-04 18:13:30+00:00
Its a variant of the orchestration software. I'm not sure this is as enticing as other permissive licensed projects like OpenTofu/Ansible (push) or OpenVox (pull) based on available documentation/market share.

Of note, this is not affiliated with Chef itself [1], but looks like Chef has blessed it [2]

[1] https://cinc.sh/disclaimers/ [2] https://cinc.sh/blog/cinc_client_is_live/
by nemothekid | 2025-04-04 18:13:46+00:00
>wouldn't call Republican policies pro-big-tech considering they are behind the Tiktok ban

The USG forcing a sale of the 3rd largest social media platform to FAANG from China is extremely pro-big-tech.

Also, the most recent administration is seeped with VCs. The Vice President JD Vance is a Peter Thiel protege.
by svnt | 2025-04-04 18:13:58+00:00
No, because of the second-order dynamics:

OP will have multiple clients. OP’s sales employees will get to choose which things to sell.

OP’s customer still has to do a lot of work to bring OP’s salespeople up to speed at all, and even more if they want to be successful/“compete” with OP’s other customers for OP’s salespeoples’ attention/effort.

It can be a good business model for OP if he can get it, but as has been mentioned elsewhere seasoned potential customers will not, and should not generally, bite.

The downside for OP is once the sales process starts working, his customer grows, probably hires in-house sales staff, trains them off OP’s work, and cuts his contract, so he is always having to work to bring in new.
by daveoc64 | 2025-04-04 18:14:08+00:00
>People living in those dwellings were informed that it is therefore illegal for them to say anything against abortion in the privacy of their own homes.

Quoting easily debunked nonsense like this makes it clear that you aren't getting the full picture. [1]

77% of people in the UK support a ban on protests outside of abortion clinics. [2]

[1] - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87d9j17pjqo

[2] - https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/47568-where-does-the-...
by theultdev | 2025-04-04 18:14:59+00:00
they agreed it was an error, to send him to that particular prison, not out of the country in general.

he is an illegal and his deportation defense in 2019 was he feared for his life from a "rival gang" indicating he was in the MS-13 gang that the feds and judge found him to be part of.

he's not just some "father", as the left leaning news likes to portray. he participated in human trafficking and himself admitted he was a gang member.

it seemed that the left did not care about vetting when gang members were coming into the country.

...but now they're being deported, it seems vetting is crucial (which is being done, but you're not always privy to (or aware of) the information)

and "anonymous snitch" is quite derogatory. you do know how evil MS-13 is right? listen to yourself.

they chop people up without blinking an eye. the fact someone risked their life to "snitch" saved so many people. this isn't playground shit.
by wruza | 2025-04-04 18:15:28+00:00
programming entire AAA video games

Even this is questionable, cause we're seeing it making forms and solving leetcodes, but no llm yet created a new approach, reduced existing unnecessary complexity (which we created mountains of), made something truly new in general. All they seem to do is rehash of millions of "mainstream" works, and AAA isn't mainstream. Cranking up the parameter count or the time of beating around the bush (aka cot) doesn't magically substitute for lack of a knowledge graph with thick enough edges, so creating a next-gen AAA video game is far out of scope of llm's abilities. They are stuck in 2020 office jobs and weekend open source tech, programming-wise.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-04-04 18:15:29+00:00
Yes, I think that this is the fundamental paradox that this "new right" viewpoint will have to grapple with. If you want tribute from other countries, it basically means you want them to send you free stuff, which undercuts your domestic production. If you want to maintain a trade surplus like China, then that means you want to send stuff to other countries and accept less in return. You can only have it one way or the other; those can't both be seen as freeloading.
by feoren | 2025-04-04 18:15:55+00:00
My point is that there is no prompt engineering that could keep Vikings white without also keeping Italian plumbers looking like Mario. Unless you singled out Mario, but there are too many examples to do that with. The AI does not put Mario in a different category than a Viking. You have to try to get the AI to avoid using exact literal imagery, to make sure it's mixing things up a bit, varying facial features and clothing styles when it shows people ... you know, being "diverse". How are we supposed to get an Italian plumber in anything other than red overalls without getting a Viking wearing a sari?

The Gemini prompt was something like "make sure any images of people show a diverse range of humans", or something. Yes, it was totally ham-handed, but that's not what people were pissed about. It's also ham-handed that we can't generate a nipple, or a swear word, or violence. Why does "make sure images do not contain excessive violence" not piss people off? The Vikings were fucking brutal. It would be very historically accurate to show them raping women and cutting people's limbs off. Are we all supposed to be pissed that AI does not generate that image? It's just as ham-handed as "make sure humans are diverse". No, it was not the ham-handedness that enraged people. It was not the historical inaccuracy. It was the word "diverse".
by walterbell | 2025-04-04 18:16:13+00:00
https://www.inverse.com/science/hollow-earth-theory-history-...

> According to a 1716 paper mentioned in the book, Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Halley devised the Hollow Earth theory as a way to explain strange disturbances in the magnetic field that were connected to the aurora borealis — Earth’s natural light show. Halley was right about the magnetic field, but not so much about Hollow Earth..

> Years later, War of 1812 veteran and explorer, John Cleves Symmes, seized on the Hollow Earth theory.. to justify American expansionism.. into Antarctica. Similar to Halley, Symmes believed that the Earth was made of a hollow shell 800 miles thick, but he added his own twist: there were openings to Earth’s hollow core at both the North and South Pole. These he called “Symmes holes.” There, he believed that light — and human explorers — could descend underneath the surface into the hollow core.

There was also a German sci-fi novel "Two Planets" by Kurd Lasswitz (1897), which influenced a young Werner von Braun who would later contribute to German rocketry and American space program, and write his own sci-fi novel about Mars exploration, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39571588
by kristopolous | 2025-04-04 18:17:08+00:00
I really think the correct attribution is the Democrats are the conservative party and the Republicans are the right wing party.

The Democrats value formalism, institutions, status quo, rules, procedures, convention, incrementalism, stability ... They reject populism or anything radical or fundamentally different. The also court various flavors of conservatives and routinely claim they aren't conservative enough when they lose and they're key to victory is tacking more conservative.

Harris ran a campaign that was anti immigration and pro police. Gavin Newsom has a podcast with guests like Steve Bannon, Michael Savage and Charlie Kirk.

If an alien landed and tried to bucket parties based on current behavior, the Democrats would be conservative
by recursivecaveat | 2025-04-04 18:17:13+00:00
They talk about how a lot of the problem is all these bot requests hitting cold pages and especially multimedia that are not cached because they are rarely accessed. So I don't think it is likely that this activity is in direct response to user queries. I don't know why using an LLM would make people any more interested in very boring and obscure geographic and historical trivia than they would be via search engines.
by klank | 2025-04-04 18:17:48+00:00
I had what I thought to be an immensely successful 25+ career and personal life based upon my intellect.

And, as you mention, I grew older, wiser, and realized it was not at all what I thought it was. In my professional life alone I have caused immense harm. Indirectly, sure, but no less real, serious, harm and death. Being unable to escape this fact has caused depression and massive disruption to my personal life.

But I am not unhappy that I have learned what I have, about myself, about this world. It's horrible, but a more clear, diverse understanding is worth the pain. And as a person, even with the pain, I'm far more comfortable with my newfound place in the world and I'm a far, far better person to the people around me.
by jorblumesea | 2025-04-04 18:17:52+00:00
Russia has a lot of laws on the books that are meaningless. That's why they are Russia and not Switzerland or France. Minimum wage is worthless due to inflation from the ukraine invasion and sanction. Pension system that leaves people in perpetual poverty. Universal healthcare that covers very little and life expectancy is terrible.

The US has historically held the rule of law as an important idea. Social security has largely eliminated deep elderly poverty.
by Havoc | 2025-04-04 18:18:12+00:00
Seems like a universal issue not just osint

In particular LLMs seem particularly good at passing the initial smell test, which I'd imagine is first line of defense for most on determining whether to trust info. And unless it is something critical most people probably wouldn't deem looking at sources worth while.

Lately I've been running many queries against multiple LLMs. Not as good as organic thinking but comparing two does at least involve a bit of judgement as to which set of info is superior. Probably not the most eco friendly solution....
by Aloisius | 2025-04-04 18:18:25+00:00
In Unicode, U+0027 is marked "ASCII punctuation and symbols" and described as "neutral (vertical) glyph with mixed usage."

While in English, the apostrophe is usually a punctuation mark, it is used as a letter, typically a glottal stop like the ʻokina, in dozens of languages as well as when writing certain English accents phonetically, like Glasgow or Cockney.

Software does not particularly care about what unicode character you use and the switch to the inverted comma ʻokina began before unicode (or software) was a thing.
by silisili | 2025-04-04 18:18:43+00:00
I go back and forth on this. A lot of people make good points.

In the end, my final answer is - yes. I say that because I believe it's the easiest programming language to get something working in. And getting something working is what motivates people to keep going.

If you sit them down and say 'well before you learn python you need to learn how a computer really works, here's an ASM x86 book', they're gonna probably read 10 pages, say this is boring, then go do something else. I think that because I went through that as a kid - I started reading a C++ book with no knowledge and gave up. It wasn't until I found qbasic and VB, by all marks a terrible language, that I really got motivated to learn and keep going because progress was so easy.

Python will teach you the basics - control flow, loops, variables, functions, libraries, etc. Those apply to almost every language. Then when you move to a different language, you at least know the basics and can focus on what's different or added that you didn't have or know before.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-04 18:19:01+00:00
First of all they extend C, and with CUDA 3.0, initial support was added for C++, afterwards they bought PGI and added Fortran into the mix.

Alongside for the ride, they fostered an ecosystem from compiled language backends targeting CUDA.

Additionally modern CUDA supports standard C++ as well, with frameworks that hide the original extensions.

Most critics don't really get the CUDA ecosystem.
by vel0city | 2025-04-04 18:19:33+00:00
So 70% live in probably new build single family construction, likely with 200A electrical service in their garage. Those people can probably easily swap to an EV, outside other complications.

Easily 50%+ of households around you could probably have an EV. And yet people act like it's only some tiny miniscule slice of the population which could easily change to an EV.
by DeathArrow | 2025-04-04 18:19:49+00:00
>In the old times, Javascript was an interpreted language, but since many years ago it is implemented as a JIT (Just-In-Time) compiler, so it can approach speeds closer to the C language.

Looking at many benchmarks I've seen C#, Java, Go approaching the speed of C, but I never have seen Javascript doing that.

Perhaps is because it's dynamically typed and is harder for compiler and VM to optimize the generated code?
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by GrantMoyer | 2025-04-04 18:20:51+00:00
I think Hoogle[1] is proof this concept could work. Haskell has modules, of course, but even if it didn't, Hoogle would keep it still pretty usuable.

The import piece here which is mentioned but not very emphasized in TFA is that Hoogle lets you search by meta data instead of just by name. If a function takes the type I have, and transforms it to the type I want, and the docs say it does what I want, I don't really care what module or package it's from. In fact, that's often how I use Hoogle, finding the function I need across all Stack packages.

That said, while I think it could work, I'm not convinced it'd have any benefit over the statys quo in practice.

[1]: https://hoogle.haskell.org/