MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-04-26 15:28:31+00:00
> but not everyone is open to offering this sort of services for certain purposes.

Sorry but I call bull on this. Put it on one of the chans with a sob story and it gets "solved" in seconds. Or reddit w/ something bait like "my capitalist boss threatened to let my puppy starve because he wants profits, AITA if I glitter bomb his office?"...
by addoo | 2025-04-26 15:28:32+00:00
I appreciate this article a lot more because it contains an iota of benchmarking with an explanation about why this might be more performant. Especially since my first thought was 'wouldn't this require more instructions to be executed?'

The original post seems really weird to me. I would have dismissed it as someone's hobby project, but... that doesn't seem like what it's trying to be.
by AstroBen | 2025-04-26 15:29:12+00:00
How much can we trust the thinking trace? At most it says what's in its training set, but Anthropic showed that's not necessarily accurate for how it gets to its answer

I tried this with a (what I thought was) very generic street image in Bangkok. It guessed the city correctly, saying that "people are wearing yellow which is used to honor the monarchy". Wow, cool. I checked the image again and there's a small Thai flag it didn't mention at all. Seems just as plausible, even likely it picked up on that
by raincole | 2025-04-26 15:29:31+00:00
The fact some humans can do that doesn't make it any less impressive to me.

I knew Terence Tao can solve Math Olympia questions and much much much more difficult questions. I was still very impressed by AlphaProof[0].

[0] https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems...
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-04-26 15:29:36+00:00
First, the US needs to resolve its issue of citizenship. It has been proposed that the US citizenship model was always like the Swiss model - you could only be a citizen if you were born of at least 1 citizen (naturalized or otherwise). For reasons I'm not clear, this has not been strictly enforced for some time. Instead we defaulted to "anyone born in a US hospital is a citizen"

Then, as welfare, lack of law enforcement and border grew, the broken citizenship process became a larger problem that now we have to deal with.

To me, the answer to your question of what is the alternative is as follows: The sole act of breaking laws and cutting the line to come into the country, to then birth babies here for the pusposes of straightjacketing the host's own response seems like should not be allowed, full stop. The premise of becoming a US citizen cannot be grounded in 2 crimes being committed before you are a citizen (1 illegal entry, 1 lying about your asylum petition).

We then have the issue of citizenship. It cannot be that because you come out of a womb that happens to be passing by a US hospital, you are a US citizen. US hospitals do not have magic pixie dust that grant american-ness. The Swiss have the right model that you actually have to come from at least 1 national parent, to foster national unity. The Swiss have the longest-lasting democracy in the world for a reason. Ignoring this seems suicidal. In nature and history, no humans prospered without an organized tribe centered around shared history and values.

Then there are the cases of people that came here, all legally, and found a life worth having by contributing to society. There should be a path for them to be citizens. What that path looks like, I dont know. But that's a conversation worth having soon since they are paying the price for the crimes and abuse committed by the 1st group.
by preommr | 2025-04-26 15:29:42+00:00
Can I point out that this administration has gone out of it's way to flaunt it's disregard for the law and constitutional norms? Is anyone buying that the US can't pressure El Salvador to get back someone it wants? Anyone in doubt that it's a backroom deal in defiance of due process?

There's a reason why trust in the ruling administration is so important, because otherwise the system breaks down. Any time any questions pop up about how the law is being violated, Tom Homan breaks down crying about how the real crime is how children are baking to death in the heat of the sun, that children are being raped by cartel members... like what do you even say to that? Its easy to see why people are able to commit acts of great cruelty if they've convinced themselves that it's a neccesary evil for the greater good.

And it is unprecedented for modern times and it is a constitutional crisis on an almost daily basis.
by Sharlin | 2025-04-26 15:29:55+00:00
Because IEEE 754 creators wanted to signal non-trapping error conditions for mathematically undefined operations, and they had a plenty of bit patterns to spare. Apparently back in the 70s and 80s in many cases it was preferable for a computation to go through and produce NaNs rather than trapping instantly when executing an undefined operation. I'm not quite sure what the reasoning was exactly.
by tycho-newman | 2025-04-26 15:30:04+00:00
I get why you see this as me having an inflexible black and white rule. I see it differently.

I see respecting individual autonomy as the best way to respond to the shades of grey in life.

This respect for autonomy goes all the way to the ultimate act of choosing if and when to end your own life.

Even if that decision is a mistake, I believe individuals are free to make fatal mistakes.
by ModernMech | 2025-04-26 15:30:08+00:00
It's not a matter of rationality and logic. The executive believes the 14th amendment only applies to former slaves. They don't believe it's operable in the 21st century and they don't believe it applies to foreign nationals. They call such children "anchor babies". Courts don't agree with that, but the executive also believes courts don't have the right to limit the executive when it comes to matters of immigration.

I can understand why this level of pedantry is annoying but we are not dealing with good faith arguments here. They are power plays.
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-26 15:30:43+00:00
That’s interesting. There is a certain logic to a regular maintenance cycle for high impact items.

It may be an example of an unintended consequence - to be fair to the Nest people, when you’re releasing a new product, you may not be thinking of end of life. Today we should be stamping a support date on them - Google is pretty good about this with Chromebooks, for example.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-26 15:31:06+00:00
I don't know what you mean by "embellished". Are you saying the statements in Wikipedia are false?

And yes, obviously controversy will focus on the one controversial detail. There are hundreds of other details that are not controversial, so they aren't mentioned.

I don't understand why this bothers you. The world is a controversial place. It's good to document these things.
by dzaima | 2025-04-26 15:31:10+00:00
Because NaNs come from a standardized hardware-supported type, whereas the rest of those are largely language-specific (and you could consider null/nil as a "not-a-*" type for those in applicable languages; and there are languages which disallow NaN floats too, which completes all combinations).

Itanium had a bit for "not a thing" for integers (and perhaps some older hardware from around the time floats started being a thing had similar things), so the idea of hardware support for not-a-* isn't exclusive to floats, but evidently this hasn't caught on; generally it's messy because it needs a bit pattern to yoink, but many types already use all possible ones (whereas floats already needed to chop out some for infinities).
by oddthink | 2025-04-26 15:31:47+00:00
I mean, I could walk down to a bar at 10pm, if I wanted to. I live in a city. But if I'm getting up at 6:30, I don't think I want a pint let alone three that late.

Plus, I'd still have two kids up, asking me to extend the wifi because they're not done with English yet or to help scan a page for math. I'm not going to just leave that to my partner.

Even the more traditional pint-after-work would leave me coming home tipsy at 7pm, having slacked off on all of dinner prep and child-wrangling. If I made a habit of that, it would get me my ass handed to me, and rightfully so.

I do wonder if the whole "pub-culture" thing was entirely predicated on the unpaid and unacknowledged work of women. And how much of that extended to other traditional extracurriculars like bowling leagues and clubs and such.
by sitkack | 2025-04-26 15:32:14+00:00
With location services on, I would think that a screenshot on a phone would record the location of the phone during a screenshot.

It would be best to use a tool to strip exif.

I could also see a screenshot tool on an OS adding extra exif data, both from the original and additional, like the URL, OS and logged in user. Just like print to pdf does when you print, the author contains the logged in user, amongst other things.

It is fine for a test, but if someone is using it for opsec, it is lemon juice.
by rootsudo | 2025-04-26 15:32:27+00:00
Yes I hated parallel imports so much. Some sellers are open about it but many would include fake receipts along fake products to show they were purchased in USA or whatnot. What’s shocking is in Japan this is pretty new / rare (not Amazon fucking up supply chain /comingling) but generally ordering A and getting a fake itself.

There is a lot of ecomm change happening now in Japan with the rise of Mercari, junk items selling more than new / real (makes no sense) etc.

Pre pandemic, it was a dream to order online in Japan. No fakes, low prices, great quality.
by silverr | 2025-04-26 15:33:23+00:00
Hey everyone,

I’ve recently launched an app I’ve been developing called Roomify AI. It’s designed to help anyone quickly and easily redesign their living spaces using AI. All you need to do is take a photo of any room, choose your favorite style (modern, minimalist, cozy, etc.), and instantly visualize how the space can look.

The goal was to create something practical and fun, especially for those of us who aren’t natural-born interior designers or who don’t have a large budget to experiment. I’ve personally found it incredibly useful for visualizing my own home projects.

Due to the high costs of the OpenAI API, a subscription is necessary to fully use the app’s features. I’ve tried to keep the subscription affordable and fair, and your support would greatly help me continue improving the app.

I’d genuinely appreciate if some of you could give it a try and share your honest thoughts. Any feedback, good or bad, would be invaluable as I keep working to improve it.

Also, I’m curious—how do you feel about AI becoming part of everyday tasks like interior design?
by tusharsharma09 | 2025-04-26 15:34:07+00:00
Thanks for the shout out. I am the CEO of Vivifi medical. We are building off the gat and Goren’s work and making it better and more robust. More importantly making it more accessible to patients through urologists. Our early clinical trial data from Panama is looking highly encouraging and we are working hard to bring this to the market in the fastest manner possible.
by rollcat | 2025-04-26 15:34:27+00:00
I have specifically given an example of u.h defining types such as i32, u64, etc to avoid running a hundred silly tests like "how long is long", "how long is long long", etc.

> So now you need one file for all platforms and architectures where Timeval.Usec is int32, and another file for where it is int64. And you need to enumerate in your code all GOOS/GOARCH combinations that Go supports or will ever support.

I assume you mean [syscall.Timeval]?

$ go doc syscall [...] Package syscall contains an interface to the low-level operating system primitives. The details vary depending on the underlying system [...].

Do you have a specific use case for [syscall], where you cannot use [time]?
by tastyfreeze | 2025-04-26 15:34:49+00:00
The problem would be minimum wage and insurance requirements for employing citizens. There are plenty of citizens that would work those jobs but nobody would hire them because they cost too much. What you are arguing for is to continue allowing people to come here so employers can pay them less than a citizen is legally required to be paid. Once they become legal employers no longer want to employ them for the same reason they don't want to hire citizens.
by ijk | 2025-04-26 15:34:58+00:00
True, though in practice speed optimizations and instabilities on the GPU often lead to LLMs being very non-determanistic in practice.

Which doesn't detract from your main point: there's not a lot of distinction between hallucinations and what we'd consider to be the "real thing." There have been various attempts to measure hallucinations, and we can figure out things like how confident the model is in a particular answer...but there's nothing grounding that answer. Saturate the dataset with the wrong answer and you'll get an overconfident wrong result.
by anenefan | 2025-04-26 15:35:19+00:00
His phone would have to be running a hotspot for any visitors (in many parts of the rural area in my locale, mobile data is it for the internet) but if any visitors were with the same carrier network, visitors could have searched. However it's entirely improbable any of his buddies would be on their phone while they're there unless it was a legit interest. Secondly this is stuff from what I gathered, some of is stuff that no one would really even think exists - it's shit talk speculation that's out past the black stump - no one once they're back to earth is ever going to bother to look up even a small aspect of it.

In his case a realistic answer falls towards loose or sneaky permissions in regard of an app that have slipped through that have allowed a weird conversation to influence suggestions in internet activity later on.

However for more grounded subject matters, the more probable strange coincidences falls to queries and visits to the net being scraped by external API and content (fonts scripts etc) providers. I've no idea how much meaningful info would normally be shared between the site and third party providers that seemingly need to be contacted while a site loads.
by simonw | 2025-04-26 15:35:22+00:00
I trust the thinking trace to show me the Python it runs.

(Though interestingly I believe there are cases where it can run Python without showing you, which is frustrating especially as I don't fully understand what those are. But I showed other evidence that it can do this without EXIF.)

In your example there I wouldn't be at all surprised if it used the flag without mentioning it. The non-code parts of the thinking traces are generally suspicious.
by gchamonlive | 2025-04-26 15:36:01+00:00
> Some of these students are dishonest. Many aren't.

If they are using LLMs to deliver final work they are all posers. Some are aware of it, many aren't.

> Many genuinely believe the work they submit is their own, that they really did do the work, and that they're learning the languages. It isn't, they didn't, and they aren't.

But I'm talking about a very specific intentionality in using LLMs which is to "help us understand what's missing in our understanding of the problem, if our solution is plausible and how we could verify it".

My model of intention and the distinction relies on that. You have a great opportunity to show your students that LLMs aren't designed to be used like that, as a proxy for yourself. After all, it's not realistic to think we can forbid students to use LLMs, better to try to incentivise the development of a healthy relationship with it.

Also, LLMs aren't a panacea. Maybe in learning languages you should stay away from it, although I'd be cautious to make this conclusion, but it doesn't mean LLMs are universally bad for learning.

In any case, if you don't use LLMs as a guide but a proxy then sure it's a guaranteed path to brain rot. But just as a knife can be used to both heal and kill, an LLM can be used to learn and to fake. The distinction lies in knowing yourself, which is a constant process.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-04-26 15:36:29+00:00
> tesla inflates their range estimates until the battery is half empty

Yes, but I don't think it's enough to affect this comparison.

> I personally don't want to be left holding the bag on a used battery since I like the option traveling long distance without stopping, but obviously it's your choice.

The point is we're comparing against a car that has 150 miles of range brand new, 120 or less by the time you'd replace its battery. A Tesla battery at 60% is still better.

> Idle draw/phantom drain of 5-10% a day seems like a common complaint with Teslas as wel

That's a more serious problem, among many others. I'm not advocating one way or the other, just focusing on range.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-26 15:37:21+00:00
Let's look at your own link:

> The story featured photos taken by AP’s Ross D. Franklin at a center run by the Customs and Border Protection Agency in Nogales, Arizona. One photo shows two unidentified female detainees sleeping in a holding cell. The caption refers to U.S. efforts to process 47,000 unaccompanied children at the Nogales center and another one in Brownsville, Texas.

I don't know how else you're supposed to handle 47,000 unaccompanied children when there simply aren't the facilities to hold them all, e.g. in foster homes. I think that is fundamentally different than deporting US citizens.

And yes, when it comes to Trump's first term, I don't really see anything wrong with keeping unaccompanied children in detention centers, at least temporarily. The much bigger issue I had was the specific policy of separating families.
by SamPatt | 2025-04-26 15:38:30+00:00
No, I took screenshots to ensure it.

Your skepticism is warranted though - I was a part of an AI safety fellowship last year and our project was creating a benchmark for how good AI models are at geolocation from images. [This is where my Geoguessr obsession started!]

Our first run showed results that seemed way too good; even the bad open source models were nailing some difficult locations, and at small resolutions too.

It turned out that the pipeline we were using to get images was including location data in the filename, and the models were using that information. Oops.

The models have improved very quickly since then. I assume the added reasoning is a major factor.
by simonw | 2025-04-26 15:39:33+00:00
I ran several more experiments with EXIF data removed.

Honestly though, I don't feel like I need to be 100% robust in this. My key message wasn't "this tool is flawless", it was "it's really weird and entertaining to watch it do this, and it appears to be quite good at it". I think what I've published so far entirely supports that message.
by deknos | 2025-04-26 15:39:47+00:00
To be honest, many of the people who critize wikipedia.. just do not want to fork the content. it would be possible. they all like the work people put into it. but as soon as it does not fit the worldview anymore...

are there manipulations? sure. then more people should watch it. and wikipedia should have a better process on controversal topics in own areas.

but the whining is abysmal.
by aspenmayer | 2025-04-26 15:39:57+00:00
I mean, I think understand what you mean, but that feels somewhat uncharitable. That is a kind of catch-all site and not the blog proper, which was linked in OP.

From https://www.complete.org/how-this-site-is-built/ :

> Each page on this site starts as an org-roam note. org-roam helps highlight, make, and maintain links between related concepts, and you will no doubt notice many, many links here. Since org-roam is a layer atop org-mode, the pages are, of course, in org-mode format.

More detail is on the wiki for the project, and the tone is much less TempleOS-y:

https://salsa.debian.org/jgoerzen/docker-nncpnet-mailnode/-/...
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-04-26 15:39:59+00:00
US hospitals do not have magical pixie dust to grant US citizenship.

This is why birthright as a legal concept is a diminishment of citizenship for all those who hold it.

Parents pass on the shared history, values, and national culture to their kids. Parents are those who give value to US citizenship.

Not coming out of a belly, that happens to be inside a US hospital.
by Habgdnv | 2025-04-26 15:40:02+00:00
I have a lifetime Pastebin account that I hadn't used for some years. Last year I enrolled in a "linux administration" class and tried to use that pastebin (famous for sharing code) to share some code/configurations with other students. When I tried to paste my homework I kept getting a Cloudflare error page. I don't even remember what I was pasting, but it was normal linux stuff. I contacted pastebin support - of course I got ghosted.

I am sharing this in relation to the WAF comments and how much the companies implementing WAF care about your case.
by sgc | 2025-04-26 15:40:26+00:00
I did not say 'is', I said 'was'. I have not seen studies or even many anecdotal stories indicating people think it was too hard for they themselves to vote. I have seen a lot of people saying that about other people, but as of 2024, attempts to disenfranchise voters had not been very well done. I also don't think having ID is a high bar, which is what a large amount of the noise has been about. Many, many democratic countries have this requirement [1]. Coupled with other things it can become a problem, but when anybody says voter id itself is a problem, I can't take them very seriously.

I however repeat, that was last year. Things could very well take a dramatic turn for the worse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_identification_laws
by joenot443 | 2025-04-26 15:40:30+00:00
Super cool, man. Watching pro Geoguessr is my latest break-time activity, these geo-gods never cease to impress me.

One thing I'm curious about - in high level play, how much of the meta involves knowing characteristics about the photography/equipment/etc. that Google used when they shot it? Frequently I'll watch rainbolt immediately know an African country from nothing but the road, is there something I'm missing?
by MyPasswordSucks | 2025-04-26 15:40:48+00:00
I'd be interested to see sources for the claim that poor eyesight is evolutionarily recent.

I strongly suspect it's more a matter of "won't kill you". Nearsightedness is far more common than farsightedness, and it's only in the last two hundred or so years that there's been any major benefit in seeing fine details at distance. The fuzzy shapes afforded by 20/80 vision are plenty enough to hunt a mammoth.

Having 20-20 vision is nice for avoiding lions and tigers, but it's a luxury spec, because movement acuity doesn't decrease linearly with nearsightedness, and movement acuity (plus traveling in groups, as prehistoric humans were wont to do) can take care of business decently-enough on its own - so I wouldn't call it "evolutionary-pressure"-nice.