MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-04 05:01:42+00:00
America has done an absolutely terrible job of teaching people about rights.

If governments granted rights then they would be privileges not rights. In western tradition governments exist to protect rights, such as the freedom of expression, not to grant them. If you believe these are human rights, rather than your privilege as an American, then you must protect their rights to seek justice too.

People are already being robbed of due process, which means they are robbed of the process that determines their right to "protections" and citizenship status. Almost all authoritarian regimes presume the right to rob people of the protections of their state. You perceive citizenship to be some indelible legal status, but citizenship can be revoked either tacitly or explicitly which is a prelude to the violation of someone else's rights and their human dignity.

The law can't protect or enforce itself. If the ruling regime chooses not to be bound by law then what should happen or what is supposed to happen is supplanted by what can happen. Even a cursory look of what can happen in authoritarian regimes should turn anyone's stomach.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-04-04 05:01:43+00:00
Considering their bikes start at $15K, "everyone" is unlikely to be able to afford it.

I love to buy local, and I love to cycle, but what I can afford is $2K. Which is why I'm still riding the same Kestrel (full carbon w/ SRAM Force drivetrain) I got on Craigslist 8 years ago for $700, and on which I've since replaced a number of components, but have still spent < $2K overall. A comparable bike new these days would be at least $5K.
by skissane | 2025-04-04 05:02:14+00:00
I think they are very different situations. Automattic (and their leadership) used their power over the WordPress open source project as a weapon in a legal dispute with a major competitor.

What has Anduril done? Tried to sponsor some conference. Post a job ad on a project forum dedicated to that purpose - both are activities which, in the general case, the project welcomes - and then project members object, not because of anything they’ve done in the project itself, but because they don’t like the industry Anduril is in, who its customers are, etc

Seems to me like completely different situations. The WordPress situation makes Automattic look bad in my eyes, while the Anduril situation makes NixOS look bad in my eyes
by neilv | 2025-04-04 05:03:51+00:00
Some person on Web says yes: https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=133646#p864052

There's also the W520, which looks like a T520, but is set up for a larger PSU, and had quad-core and better GPUs as factory options. (I own a few each of T520 and W520, but don't like the huge power bricks of the W. So I'm using the T as daily driver, until I really need something in the W.)
by jgord | 2025-04-04 05:04:16+00:00
added to my must-read list.

I notice his interview on Democracy Now : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7jPzzjbVuk

This guys mental map is impressive, as are the color of his book titles : https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16872611.Malcolm_Harri...
by 14 | 2025-04-04 05:05:22+00:00
Just a guess as he said his favorite olive oil so could it be one tastes better? I imagine like many other things taste can be effected by the region it is grown in. As for your other point in a perfect world we would all care about global climate change but many are not going to eat something they don’t like to do their part. But really cargo ships are small fish in such a big problem. Ban private jets or cruise ships would be way more beneficial.
by fyai_dev | 2025-04-04 05:05:52+00:00
This post argues that AI-driven automation is making “seatwarmers” (employees who coast on minimal effort) glaringly obsolete. The author urges those in risk of replacement to adapt quickly, pointing out that once routine tasks can be handled by AI, companies will question the need for human input. I’m curious how others see this evolving—especially regarding roles that mostly involve repetitive work.
by LightHugger | 2025-04-04 05:06:17+00:00
"People like you" So prejudiced, maybe get that looked at.

It's a complicated topic, but no we have not always been doing merit based hiring. However, merit based hiring does result in imbalanced race and gender distributions due to long term societal issues and demographic distributions at earlier stages.

Basically, there is a skewed class distribution at the source. You have to fix it at the source via equality of opportunity and making our society more equal. I'm not a conservative, i'm very far left and strongly believe in making society more equal in general. However. Trying to fix it at the destination is called racial discrimination and is dehumanizing and evil and anyone who does it should suffer prosecution.

You don't get to dehumanize and discriminate against individual people for the greater good, i will personally go out of my way to see you receive consequences if you try this and you're doing it somewhere i can see. There's a lot of us with this opinion, hopefully your stance starts getting chilled from fear of blowback.
by yieldcrv | 2025-04-04 05:06:31+00:00
Some things I think about are how different the goals could be

For example, human and biological based goals are around self-preservation and propagation. And this in turn is about resource appropriation to facilitate that, and systems of doing that become wealth accumulation. Species that don't do this don't continue existing.

A different branch of evolution of intelligence may take a different approach, that allows its affects to persist anyway.
by numlock86 | 2025-04-04 05:06:44+00:00
> close-up image of a cat's face staring down at the viewer

> describe indiana jones

> looks inside

> gets indiana jones

Okay, so the network does exactly what I would expect? If anything you could argue the network is bad because it doesn't recognize your prompt and gives you something else (original? whatever that would mean) instead. But maybe that's just me.
by andrewflnr | 2025-04-04 05:06:46+00:00
They don't contradict each other, and they don't have to. The generic "argument" is plainly wrong for the reason forrestthewoods pointed out: this is an official section of the forums dedicated to advertising by private companies. So why did they say that, instead of explaining what grave insult Anduril committed? I don't know, I guess they're having a strong emotional response to the situation.
by jks | 2025-04-04 05:07:25+00:00
You probably mean the USAMO 2025 paper. They updated their comparison with Gemini 2.5 Pro, which did get a nontrivial score. That Gemini version was released five days after USAMO, so while it's not entirely impossible for the data to be in its training set, it would seem kind of unlikely.

https://x.com/mbalunovic/status/1907436704790651166
by saturn8601 | 2025-04-04 05:07:46+00:00
Thats why I put "OK" in quotes. It remains to be seen if the immigration moves will kill the 'get out of jail free' card the US and few other countries have had. These trends don't change overnight so we have to wait and see. At this time though their population pyramid is pretty good compared to their rivals. It might take years of continued decline to finally destroy the good thing they had going. Meanwhile China had 20+ years to rectify their problems and now its too late.

US: https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...

China: https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/2024/
by linguae | 2025-04-04 05:08:52+00:00
I’m no Microsoft fanboy, but Microsoft Excel was very innovative for being one of the first graphical spreadsheets, originally written for the classic Mac OS in the mid-1980s before it was available for Windows. It was Excel, not Word or PowerPoint, that fueled the popularity of Microsoft Office in the 1990s, though admittedly I lament the decline of WordPerfect and other word processors. Sure, Excel might not have been the most innovative graphical spreadsheet; that award goes to Lotus Improv for the NeXT computer. However, Excel was a leap ahead of DOS-based spreadsheets like Lotus 1-2-3.

There are other innovative Microsoft products. Visual Basic was a very nice rapid GUI development environment in the 1990s. Windows 95’s interface was the result of a lot of research done on the user experience, and the result was a GUI that not only has persisted (with many modifications, of course) for about 30 years, but has inspired other desktops such as various Linux desktops, and in some ways even influenced later Mac operating systems.

Let’s also not forget Microsoft Research, which has produced a lot of interesting work in operating systems and programming language research.
by ryao | 2025-04-04 05:09:58+00:00
Windows 9x used a TTL of 32. I vaguely recall hearing that it caused problems in extremely exotic cases, but that could have been misinformation. I imagine that >99.999% of the time, 32 is enough. This makes fingerprinting via TTL to distinguish between those who set it at 32, 64, 128 and 255 (OpenSolaris and derivatives) viable. That said, almost nobody uses Windows 9x or OpenSolaris derivatives on the internet these days, so I used values from systems that they do use for my argument that fingerprinting via TTL is possible.
by beepbooptheory | 2025-04-04 05:10:06+00:00
Ok, I'll bite: in your view, what were the illiberal "demands" post-2020? Reading tfa, this kind of rendering feels a little too pat for him. Namely, its one thing to argue against the kind of knee-jerk moralism of well-meaning woke liberal arts kids, its quite another to imply a kind of "capital L" program to "chill speech."

Like, c'mon, are we really still doing this now? Roth himself is sensible enough to not be, in his words, "blaming the victim" at this point, what calls you to essentially do it for him anyway? It's nothing but out of touch at this point, and adds nothing to the discourse but conspiratorial noise. If I may assume a rough age based on your forthrightness, any single kid in school in 2020 was and is a lot less culpable for this current moment than you or I. We can set an example and be mature enough to own that, instead of, I don't know, forever being tortured by the real or perceived condescension of kids.
by saturn8601 | 2025-04-04 05:10:26+00:00
Check back in a few years, right now its good, and we wont see results for at least a few years:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...

>how do you justify labelling a birth rate that's been below replacement for 18 years as "OK"?

The US being a nation of immigrants has this unique selling point of attracting people to make up for their woes such as birth rate. Unless we see millions of citizens getting deported, the people "voluntarily" relocating don't move the needle in this metric.
by bawolff | 2025-04-04 05:10:37+00:00
I'm just pointing out obvious ways in which you have selection bias here.

FWIW googling, allegedly 1 in 10 people in rural america do not have a license. Or at least that is the claim floating around the internet. So yes, i think figuring out if this is a real issue should include both checking on rural and urban people, along with many other demographics. It is not obvious how this situation differs between urban/rural.
by simondodson | 2025-04-04 05:11:02+00:00
The MDPA is a term the llms named the json prompts ive been writing, they've noted they are particularity unique.

shrugs..... it employs a structured framework that divides content into four distinct segments, each with a specific function and a designated emphasis on the core identities. This framework ensures a logical flow and a strategic deployment of different communication styles throughout the content.
by yieldcrv | 2025-04-04 05:11:06+00:00
this is amazing, in my experience I haven't found much utility for visualization heavy UX. Like professionally.

I have spun up landing pages and things for things I've monetized. The crypto crowd loves it. But I don't put that stuff on my resume

What do you all use snazzy UX for?

I do find creating and expressing myself this way to be fulfilling though. Which is good enough, I just never considered myself doing it for the art and art communities. Websites aren’t really consumed that way.
by sothatsit | 2025-04-04 05:12:19+00:00
So... ask it to dress them differently. You can just ask it to make whatever changes you want.

"An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip. He is wearing a top hat, a scarf, a knit jumper, and pink khaki pants. He is not wearing a bag" (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzkh4z2fqctzr9k1jsfnrhy)

Want to get rid of the pose? Add that the archeologist is "fun and joyous" to the prompt. (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzksmjgfppbv5p51hw0xrzn)

You have so much control, it is up to you to ask for something that is not a trope.
by saturn8601 | 2025-04-04 05:12:49+00:00
I'm in that group. The thing is China already crossed that rubicon 20+ years ago. So the US only really needs to outlast China in this regard. It will create problems of its own and pro America people like Peter Zeihan argue that large generations create more large generations. Boomers -> Millenials -> Gen Alpha. I dont fully buy this though.

Their population pyramid looks good though compared to China:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...

https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/2024/
by insane_dreamer | 2025-04-04 05:13:05+00:00
There are import/export costs that make such routing impractical other than for smaller volume, high cost items.

The other thing is that customers buying high end items care about where it was made, so you need to inform them. (Passing off the bikes as being manufactured in Japan but in fact the frame was made in China, would be a big blunder.)
by toast0 | 2025-04-04 05:13:55+00:00
Yeah, that was total nonsense. Good cards existed. And if you didn't have a good card, alsa had a soft mixer. FreeBSD added a softmixer to OSS, too, so you didn't even need alsa. Worst case, you could run the Enlightenment sound daemon without Enlightenment and it was compact and just worked (as long as you had a simple sound setup)
by xracy | 2025-04-04 05:14:22+00:00
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-coddling-of-the-am...

A lot of these examples have been pretty thoroughly debunked as either non-existent, or about something other than the professors expressing "conservative views".

This one is, I assume intentionally, anonymized and so we can't actually verify that it happened or what the circumstances around it were. But I'll call out one of the most common "views" I've heard on college campuses from professors that got in trouble for something was that "professors should be allowed to sleep with their students." So if professors are taking heat for thinking that they should be able to take advantage of barely legal kids... I don't really care.

If there are legitimate examples of professors just expressing that they have conservative beliefs, then that is suspicious because school administrators and alumni tend to lean pretty conservative themselves, and often make the final decisions on such issues after a frustrating amount of investigation.
by yk | 2025-04-04 05:15:18+00:00
Tried Flux.dev with the same prompts [0] and it seems actually to be a GPT problem. Could be that in GPT the text encoder understands the prompt better and just generates the implied IP, or could be that a diffusion model is just inherently less prone to overfitting than a multimodal transformer model.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/wqrBGRF Image captions are the impled IP, I copied the prompts from the blog post.
by zenomorph | 2025-04-04 05:15:37+00:00
A security partner program functions as a white-glove service provided by the security team, offering dedicated support to specific engineering teams. While traditional security operates as a consultancy supporting everyone, a security partner serves as a long-term, dedicated advisor to a specific organization or product line. This approach enables a security engineer to become a subject matter expert on a set of products and their technologies, foster closer collaboration with engineering, and improve communication and understanding of critical changes in product lines. The benefits of the security partnership model include:
by voidspark | 2025-04-04 05:16:07+00:00
You're way off. This is not my personal definition of generalization.

We are talking about a very specific technical term in the context of machine learning.

An explicitly programmed chess engine does not generalize, by definition. It doesn't learn from data. It is an explicitly programmed algorithm.

I recommend you go do some reading about machine learning basics.

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~lczhang/321/notes/notes09.pdf
by tr00evol | 2025-04-04 05:17:08+00:00
This is really cool and I’m glad I stumbled upon it. I’ve played around with it for some time and am loving it, can definitely see myself being a long term and happy user. Have you thought about making this an app? Full blown launch on App Store might involve some toil and money but adding support for PWA is quite easy. Having it on my home screen increases my chances of opening it.
by stego-tech | 2025-04-04 05:17:35+00:00
It’s good science fiction, I’ll give it that. I think getting lost in the weeds over technicalities ignores the crux of the narrative: even if this doesn’t lead to AGI, at the very least it’s likely the final “warning shot” we’ll get before it’s suddenly and irreversibly here.

The problems it raises - alignment, geopolitics, lack of societal safeguards - are all real, and happening now (just replace “AGI” with “corporations”, and voila, you have a story about the climate crisis and regulatory capture). We should be solving these problems before AGI or job-replacing AI becomes commonplace, lest we run the very real risk of societal collapse or species extinction.

The point of these stories is to incite alarm, because they’re trying to provoke proactive responses while time is on our side, instead of trusting self-interested individuals in times of great crisis.
by magicalhippo | 2025-04-04 05:18:39+00:00
Originally, DevOps was about trusting developers with production. But modern DevOps teams operate on the belief that developers can’t be trusted with production.

How is that not just a symptom of poor management?

Surely, if your company makes a living delivering software services, then all employees should be pulling in the same direction when it comes to getting code developed and into production. And surely that's up to management?
by xracy | 2025-04-04 05:19:03+00:00
Honestly, it feels like the kind of thing that companies which actually want merit-based graduates should want to subsidize more aggressively.

If you're a billion-dollar company that only hires college grads, it feels like there's gotta be value to you in making sure there's more meritocracy in the process of getting degrees.

It would also change who the customer is so that the university doesn't "owe" the student a degree which makes the evaluation that universities do a little less rigorous.
by davorak | 2025-04-04 05:19:12+00:00
> The generic "argument" is plainly wrong for the reason forrestthewoods pointed out: this is an official section of the forums dedicated to advertising by private companies.

I would not say their argument is wrong. My best read is that they were arguing against and completely open job forum for corporations in general and for some kind of gatekeeping.

It seemed an argument against current practices. I can not call that wrong, though I would want to see what they would want as an alternative.
by peterhorvath01 | 2025-04-04 05:19:43+00:00
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by ramesh31 | 2025-04-04 05:19:54+00:00
>The ML world being nearly entirely in Python, much of it untyped (and that the Python type system is pretty weak) is really scary

I think this has a ton to do with the mixed results from "vibe coding" we've seen as the codebase grows in scope and complexity. Agents seem to break down without a good type system. Same goes for JS.

I've just recently started on an Objective-C project using Cline, and it's like nirvana. I can code out an entire interface and have it implemented for me as I'm going. I see no reason it couldn't scale infinitely to massive LOC with good coding practices. The real killer feature is header files. Being able to have your entire projects headers in context at all time, along with a proper compiler for debugging, changes the game for how agents can reason on the whole codebase.
by AlexeyBelov | 2025-04-04 05:20:01+00:00
I don't understand your point, sorry.

Or maybe you misunderstand (on purpose?). I'm saying you attribute those downvotes incorrectly. It's maybe natural to do so as an instinct -- "those people are against me!" -- but on HN it's expected to be a bit more introspective. It's incorrect to say that "people downvote because I'm right" or "people downvote because they have nothing to say".
by noosphr | 2025-04-04 05:20:58+00:00
>Use of a dense matrix is an artificial constraint you've imposed yourself, but that only disproves feasibility of your proposed solution, not the entire problem in general.

The use of a dense matrix is the traditional way of solving the problem. The issue is that it solves the wrong problem. You need a dense tensor which requires more storage than the world currently has for an economy of 20 people.

Social interactions are sparse until they aren't. If you think otherwise try to estimate what every Europeans interaction with Gavrilo Princip was on 27 June 1914 vs 28 June 1914.

As for gravitation: I'm very happy for the planets and asteroids out there. Unfortunately the economy isn't a solar system.