MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 827a | 2025-04-17 22:29:43+00:00
Agreed. A hot take I have is that I think AI is over-hyped in its long-term capabilities, but under-hyped in its short-term ones. We're at the point today or in the next twelve months where all the frontier labs could stop investing any money into research, they'd still see revenue growth via usage of what they've built, and humanity will still be significantly more productive every year, year-over-year, for quite a bit, because of it.

The real driver of productivity growth from AI systems over the next few years isn't going to be model advancements; it'll be the more traditional software engineering, electrical engineering, robotics, etc systems that get built around the models. Phrased another way: If you're an AI researcher thinking you're safe but the software engineers are going to lose their jobs, I'd bet every dollar on reality being the reverse of that.
by Jensson | 2025-04-17 22:29:47+00:00
> Destruction of reputation is the reason why demands for firing appear, as do deplatforming.

No it isn't, if you say something bad to a random person you just hurt your reputation with that person a little bit. But if that person now starts to organize a hate campaign against you over what you said, that is what we call cancel culture and that is what destroyed your reputation, your reputation was fine until they started that hate campaign.

For example, lets say you tell a coworker you vote republican, that coworker then posts a mail to to everyone "Hey this guys voted for republicans, can we have a sexist racist around here? We must fire him!", who destroyed your reputation? You or them?

Such hate campaigns only creates conflict, it doesn't make people change it just creates fear and resentment that leads to electing people like Trump.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-04-17 22:29:59+00:00
Don't you ever think to yourself when waking up 'time to wake up' ?

Or when you see someone you don't like 'oh here is that motherfucker' ?

I mean the inner voice isn't like a deep discussion between you and you, its spontaneous stuff you just wouldn't say out loud. I have a hard time believing some people don't have it.
by worik | 2025-04-17 22:30:25+00:00
> If you’re forced to see ads, wouldn’t you want ads that are relevant

Thank Dog that is a false dichotomy. I am not forced to see ads, my ad blockers are effective. Back in the day I moved mountains to get MythTV working so I could dodge the ads on linear TV

I do not want those creepy greedy monkeys anywhere near my data

No. A thousand times no!
by davidcondrey | 2025-04-17 22:31:02+00:00
BridgeNLP serves as a universal adapter layer between advanced NLP models (e.g., AllenNLP, Hugging Face) and structured token pipelines (e.g., spaCy). Its core goal is to allow developers to integrate models like coreference resolution, semantic role labeling, or named entity recognition into token-based applications in a clean, aligned, and memory-safe manner.
by bhaney | 2025-04-17 22:31:07+00:00
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but it sounds like your problems with your VPS and VPN come from having someone else hosting those services for you and restricting how you can use them instead of just doing them yourself. Things are indeed much more permanent (at least as much as you want them to be) when you actually do them yourself instead of rent them from someone.

> Would you mind sharing a tutorial if you’ve saved one somewhere

I would if I had one, but I mostly just googled the official installation instructions for any random component I wanted. No overall tutorials. Service-wise, I'm using Jellyseerr to discover content and take requests from friends/family, Radarr for sourcing movies, Sonarr for sourcing TV shows, Lidarr for sourcing music, Prowlarr for centralizing the configuration of the other *arrs, Sabnzbd as a usenet download client, rtorrent as a bittorrent client, and Jellyfin for consuming my library. You probably don't need all of those depending on what you're after, but you can just look up the instructions for only the components you want. And if you want to get content from usenet or private torrent trackers, you'll need the relevant accounts.

> what disk, CPU, and memory I am looking at for this?

Whatever you want honestly. You can run most of this on a toaster so long as you don't have unrealistic performance expectations for it. Obviously if you're planning to download 10TB worth of content, you're going to need at least that much disk space, and if you're planning to download it faster than HDDs can spin, you might need some SSDs. But most of these things are just downloaders and file managers and don't really need much more than network bandwidth to source the content and disk IO to put the content somewhere. Maybe 8GB of memory for some of the more bloated services (my whole server idles at ~5GB used, and it runs a lot of other junk) and to do really large indexer merges when searching for content, and however much hardware you need to meet your transcoding requirements if you're playing through Jellyfin or similar. You can stream source material without transcoding and consume basically no CPU from it, or you can enable transcoding with a decent enough CPU or pretty much any supported GPU. All up to you and your needs.

I'd recommend starting with pretty minimal hardware and adding more as you need it. My storage has quadrupled since I started doing this and at some point I tossed in an old GPU for transcoding.
by zenGull | 2025-04-17 22:31:54+00:00
I've been paying for googles pro llm for about six months. At 20 it feels steep considering the free version is very good. I'm a devops work, and it's been very helpful. Ive tried gpt, copilot, Mixtral, Claude, etc and Geminis 1.5 pro was what sold me. The new 2.0 stuff is even better. Anecdotally, Gemini seems to forget to add stuff but doesn't hallucinate as much. I've been doing some pretty complex scripting this last week purely on Gemini fast 2.0 and it's been really really good.
by jadelapuente | 2025-04-17 22:33:17+00:00
Have you ever gotten cryptic symbol errors that took hours to solve? While most developers struggle with linking — partly because most of us don't need it in our day-to-day lives — it's necessary to understand how software is modularized and executed.

I've created a 3-part series that covers: - Conceptual foundations of linking (with code snippets) - Practical tools and processes to diagnose and fix common linking errors - Deep dive into low-level compiler runtime libraries and their role in the linking process

I've lost a ton of time working through these types of issues — I hope this helps you avoid my mistakes.
by throwaway150 | 2025-04-17 22:33:27+00:00
> And from my brief experience on this planet I don't believe that premise.

A lot of things that humans believed were true due to their brief experience on this planet ended up being false: earth is the center of the universe, heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, time ticked the same everywhere, species are fixed and unchanging.

So what your brief experience on this planet makes you believe has no bearing on what is correct. It might very well be that our mind can be reduced to a probabilistic and deterministic system. It might also be that our mind is a non-deterministic system that can be modeled in a computer.
by colesantiago | 2025-04-17 22:34:02+00:00
This "AGI" definition is extremely loose depending on who you talk to. Ask "what does AGI mean to you" and sometimes the answer is:

1. Millions of layoffs across industries due to AI with some form of questionable UBI (not sure if this works)

2. 100BN in profits. (Microsoft / OpenAI definition)

3. Abundance in slopware. (VC's definition)

4. Raise more money to reach AGI / ASI.

5. Any job that a human can do which is economically significant.

6. Safe AI (Researchers definition).

7. All the above that AI could possibly do better.

I am sure there must be a industry aligned and concrete definition that everyone can agree on rather the goal post moving definitions.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-17 22:34:02+00:00
> The crazy thing about the definition of NP-completeness is that Cook's theorem says that all problems in NP can be reduced in polynomial time to an NP-complete problem.

What were you trying to say here? Cook's theorem says that SAT is NP-complete. "All problems in NP can be reduced in polynomial time to an NP-complete problem" is just a part of the definition of NP-completeness.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-17 22:34:04+00:00
> I am very much ungrounded from the news, I don’t consume it outside of what I stumble across elsewhere. That’s a feature, not a bug.

No, ignorance of current events except what you encounter incidentally without intent and structure is not a "feature", unless your goal is to be an easily-led sheep.

> I see your point, but that’s not deporting, it would be outsourcing the prison.

It's not merely outsourcing (a term which encompasses what occurs with domestic private prisons) if the US doesn't retain the same full control as it would over domestic prisons, including responsiveness to US court orders regarding innocence, conditions, etc., the avoidance of which is overtly the point of the Trump eagerness. It is much more like deportation than anything else, though, especially where the "prisons" are, in fact, labor camps, you could probably make a case that it is simply reviving the slave trade, rather than deportation.
by sks38317 | 2025-04-17 22:34:38+00:00
Hi HN, I’ve been experimenting with a small simulation project that imagines how different factors—like communication breakdowns, conflicting priorities, or memory loss—might contribute to long-term system instability.

It’s based on a fictional timeline from 2023 to 2045, and the structure focuses more on how different variables interact over time, rather than predicting anything specific.

The project is still early and quite basic, and I’m mostly hoping to learn from others who’ve worked on system modeling or similar domains.

Here’s the GitHub repo: Why the System Breaks Before Anyone Notices

I’d really appreciate any feedback on: – whether this kind of framework makes any structural sense – where the logic feels weak or could be better grounded – or if you know of better approaches I should explore

Thanks for your time.
by nonchalantsui | 2025-04-17 22:34:47+00:00
That's exactly how a digital ID system would work, and yet people argue against those all the time as well.

Additionally, the corner shop does not have far lower data privacy risks - actually it's quite worse. They have you on camera and have a witness who can corroborate you are that person on camera, alongside a paper trail for your order. There is no privacy there, only the illusion of such.
by int_19h | 2025-04-17 22:35:16+00:00
It absolutely is, but don't expect it to actually change anything.

The usual avenues to air grievances that modern Americans are used to, like writing your representative or even peaceful mass protests, only work in a political culture where they are universally perceived as detrimental to government's legitimacy and that matters. We are past this point now, and, arguably, have been for a while.

For an example of how well such tactics work in a different culture, look at e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%932013_Russian_prot...

To put it bluntly, Trump and people who elected him don't give a fuck about "whiny libs". If you want to convince them to change course, you need to cause them actual measurable harm. Starting with economic - mass strikes etc - but be prepared that government would escalate to physical and match in kind.
by Telemakhos | 2025-04-17 22:35:25+00:00
Apple's built-in Calendar program on macOS will import VEVENT entries just fine; most programs handle VEVENTs in an .ics file well.

VTODO, on the other hand, is broken in many applications, and I've only gotten VTODO to work on Mac once in my life—and I don't remember how. Outlook flat-out ignores VTODO.

If every calendar app supported VEVENT and VTODO well, my life would be much, much simpler. I'm required to use some cloud software that tracks events and tasks, and I'd love to sync it to my phone and have those events and tasks show up as events and tasks. But, because very few calendars import VEVENT correctly (or at all), my cloud software exports both events and tasks as VEVENTs—events for the correct duration, and tasks as a five-minute event on the due date. This is a stupid kludge to get around the usual bad support of VEVENT, and it's one of the things that raises my blood pressure the most.
by Hugsun | 2025-04-17 22:35:31+00:00
I have not yet found any compelling evidence that suggests that there are limits to the maximum intelligence of a next token predictor.

Models can be trained to generate tokens with many different meanings, including visual, auditory, textual, and locomotive. Those alone seem sufficient to emulate a human to me.

It would certainly be cool to integrate some subsystems like a symbolic reasoner or calculator or something, but the bitter lesson tells us that we'd be better off just waiting for advancements in computing power.
by turtledragonfly | 2025-04-17 22:36:04+00:00
Just tossing in my own recommendation: I use Lyrion Music Server (previously Logitech Media Server (previously Slim Devices/Squeezebox))[1]

It's open-source, self-hosted, has various good plugins (eg: I have some Pandora stations I listen to, as well as my own music collection). You can synchronize music across multiple devices in your home (I just have 2).

Even though the physical devices (Squeezebox Touch, etc) are no longer sold, it's pretty easy to build one yourself with a raspberry pi.

It's one of those cases where a company created something great, and strongly-open-sourced it enough that the project can't die even though the new owners are not giving it the love it deserves.

So, I hope to keep using it for the rest of my days (:

[1] https://lyrion.org/
by crazygringo | 2025-04-17 22:36:46+00:00
Dishwasher utensil baskets have compartments tall and narrow enough that the knife is not going to fall out. I haven't had that happen ever in my life. Even with heavy handles. (If it's as large as a chef's knife, however, that lies down flat in the upper rack.)

And yes, you do only knives down. If you did spoons and forks down it would be too crowded at the bottom. I don't know why only knives down seems like insanity to you?

I mean, I'm glad you've never sliced your hand on a thin paring knife sticking up at an angle that makes the blade virtually invisible. But hey, it's your hand you're risking, not mine...
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-17 22:37:11+00:00
The news is both literally reality, and, more substantively, an important means of accessing the more distant reality that seems to be your concern. Individual news stories often contain inaccuracies and even the accurate bits may be cherry-picked to suit an agenda, which is one reason that accessing the underlying reality requires wide reading of diverse news sources and critical engagement with other information sources. But avoiding the news does not improve your access to reality,
by xenadu02 | 2025-04-17 22:38:03+00:00
This is true. A Chinese state bank will loan you a couple million to setup a factory with few questions asked. Loan repayment will be repeatedly deferred until you can find customers. The risk is comparatively low.

As you noted here in the US getting financing to start a small business of any kind, let alone loans to invest in manufacturing is predatory or downright impossible.

The US Government could easily setup a system like for student loans: money for factories and machines without having to jump through a billion hoops, defer payments until you can find some customers, and a department dedicated to retooling the factories that don't make it and handing them to someone else to try again.

We'd need to include more investment in making automation profitable at smaller scales for those starting out but look at anything else (solar, computing) and you can see how scale could lower the cost.

Instead I guess we'll use tariffs to start a trade war.

FWIW it is unfair that countries like China impose tariffs on our products and restrict our ability to operate without a "local partner". But the current effort is ham-fisted at best.
by nashashmi | 2025-04-17 22:38:06+00:00
Extensions don't block anyone. your argument was addressed. I have not seen his video on the creation of Israel. And he is a PhD historian. which you are not. (I am surprised to the lengths which you went to try to discredit him.)

The focus on the conquest of Jerusalem and bringing back Jews to the city is also reiterated by Sam Aranow, an Israeli like yourself.
by timewizard | 2025-04-17 22:39:38+00:00
> experiencing extreme social disruption

I think this just displays an exceptionally low estimation of human beings. People tend to resist extremities. Violently.

> experience socially momentous change

The technology is owned and costs money to use. It has extremely limited availability to most of the world. It will be as "socially momentous" as every other first world exclusive invention has been over the past several decades. 3D movies were, for a time, "socially momentous."

> on the verge of self driving cars spreading to more cities.

Lidar can't read street lights and vision systems have all sorts of problems. You might be able to code an agent that can drive a car but you've got some other problems that stand in the way of this. AGI is like 1/8th the battle. I referenced just the brain above. Your eyes and ears are actually insanely powerful instruments in their own right. "Real world agency" is more complicated than people like to admit.

> We don't need very powerful AI to do very powerful things.

You've lost sight of the forest for the trees.
by danenania | 2025-04-17 22:39:59+00:00
Hi, thanks! Yes, you could either:

- Add that directory to either .gitignore (in a git repo) or a .plandexignore file (which uses gitignore syntax).

- You can switch to a mode where context is not loaded automatically and you choose the files yourself instead (more on this here: https://docs.plandex.ai/core-concepts/autonomy).
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-17 22:40:02+00:00
The courts haven't allowed many of the high-profile deportation of non-citizens that have occurred recently, including the single one that is getting the most attention, having both issued orders in advance and after the fact, to, as yet, absolutely no substantive effect on executive branch behavior.

So, while other things may be debatable, what is not debatable is the clear fact that "the courts won't allow it" is not sufficient to establish "it will not happen".
by renewiltord | 2025-04-17 22:40:06+00:00
In my family, this is my primary responsibility (it just so landed that way) and to be honest, it's not really that hard. I didn't even grow up with one and found it trivial to identify the things that the article says:

- find the spray arms and make sure they can hit the dirty surface

- ensure no bowl is concave up against gravity (water will collect)

- ensure everything is stable

- nothing that can block meshes should be on the dish when it goes in

None of this requires intelligence. It just requires looking at the machine and figuring it out. Once a little bit of plastic broke on one of the trays and it blocked the drain and it was trivial to figure out: see that water is stagnant, google the error code, attempt force drain, then reach for the drain filter and remove the clog. Ultimately, it's just a machine. The intake comes from the same water as the sink and the egress is above the garbage disposal.

Apart from that I just make sure all the things are active when it's ready to go: pod in the tray, rinse-aid in that section.

We have one of the quiet ones, which is nice, but also is a bit annoying since the only way to know if it is active is if it is displaying a red light on the floor. I'd prefer a front LED display. And I prefer just turning it off to run it.

My wife loads it haphazardly, and I load it a certain way but neither she nor I have any trouble with outcomes because while it may be complex functioning, the user awareness is restricted to those few levers.

The one annoyance is that we have these bowl dishes and they don't stand up like flat dishes. I'm sure there is an alternative tray holder that can do those but I haven't gotten around to replacing.
by vacuity | 2025-04-17 22:40:15+00:00
It can be, but I think practically it can't be. Maybe that doesn't fit into a nice logical statement, but there you have it. Or: when you build yourself a constantly-accelerating, never-stopping racecar and get on it, it's hard to build a steering wheel or brake pedal for it. Or or: it's a lot easier to get into a deep hole than to get out of one.
by xenadu02 | 2025-04-17 22:40:44+00:00
The Ryobi lithium batteries I got with my first cordless drill bundle at Home Depot in 2006 still work and still hold a useful amount of charge today. And the charger I got back then will charge the newest batteries - not as fast - but they charge.

Pretty amazing compared to what all batteries were like growing up in the 90s.
by alecco | 2025-04-17 22:41:30+00:00
Is it me or the signal/noise is needle in a haystack for all these cheerleader tech podcasts? In general, I really miss the podcast scene from 10 years ago, less polished but more human and with reasonable content. Not this speculative blabber that seems to be looking to generate clickbait clips. I don't know what happened a few years ago, but even solid podcasts are practically garbage now.

I used to listen to podcasts daily for at least an hour. Now I'm stuck with uploading blogs and pdfs to Eleven Reader. I tried the Google thing to make a podcast but it's very repetitive and dumb.
by spelunker | 2025-04-17 22:41:31+00:00
We recently had someone at our house to repair our dishwasher, because we suddenly started hearing a horrible grinding sound when closing the door.

Apparently we had bent one of the hinges! How? By overloading the bottom rack too many times. His advice was to load it ~50% LESS than we were. And don't pull the bottom rack out all the way when it's fully-loaded.

I can't tell if this is like general dishwasher advice, or our GE is a POS.
by lioeters | 2025-04-17 22:44:25+00:00
Do you think this is inevitable? It sounds like, if distributed LLMs are technically feasible to achieve, it will eventually happen. Maybe that's an unknown whether it can be solved at all, but I imagine there are enough people working on the problem that they will find a break-through one way or the other. LLMs themselves could participate in solving it.

Edit: Oh I just saw the Git repo:

> exo: Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices.

So the "distributed problem" is in the process of being solved. Impressive.
by chme | 2025-04-17 22:44:30+00:00
> OTOH with a large language model with open weights but without open training data - the closest equivalent to open source for software - you can still change its behavior very substantially with finetuning or remixing layers (from different models even!).

The closest thing to open source would be to have open training data. The weights are the binary, the training date is the source and the process of getting the weights is the compilation process.

Fintuning or whatever is just modding the binaries. Remixing different layers is creating a workflow pipeline by combining different functions of a binary software package together with components from other binary software packages.