MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chrsw | 2025-04-20 22:00:17+00:00
What about all the things that aren't strictly intelligence but I guess intelligence adjacent: autonomy, long term memory, motivation, curiosity, resilience, goals, choice, and maybe the biggest of them all: fear? Why would an AGI "want" do anything more than my calculator "wants" to compute an answer to some math problem I gave it? Without these things an AGI, or whatever, is just an extension of whoever is ultimately controlling it.

And that's when we return to a much older and much more important question than whether Super LLM 10.0 Ultra Plus is AGI or not: how much power should a person or group of people be allowed to have?
by cyberax | 2025-04-20 22:00:51+00:00
> The shortage of affordable housing is especially severe for low income working artists

Once again, there is NO SHORTAGE of affordable housing either in the US or in Canada.

None. Nada. Zilch. Ноль. 零

And that's important. A simple "not enough housing" problem is easily solved with "just build more".

Instead, there is a shortage of housing _near_ _large_ _cities_. And it can't be solved. Simply "building more" housing in dense cities makes it _worse_.
by tialaramex | 2025-04-20 22:02:30+00:00
Rust has two macro systems, the proc macros are allowed to do absolutely whatever they please because they're actually executing in the compiler.

Now, should they do anything they please? Definitely not, but they can. That's why there's a (serious) macro which runs your Python code, and a (joke, in the sense that you should never use it, not that it wouldn't work) macro which replaces your running compiler with a different one so that code which is otherwise invalid will compile anyway...
by krisoft | 2025-04-20 22:03:35+00:00
Also, i see repeated questions? As in i see one question. I vote, the “bar” moves forward, but i see the same question, so i vote again and the same happens.

So whoever was picking up skateboarding again in their 30s, but just suffered a hip injury after a fall. I voted that it is time for you to give up like four times. (Which i stand by as an opinion, but perhaps I shouldn’t be so overrepresented in your jury?)
by selfhoster11 | 2025-04-20 22:03:40+00:00
As a Bible-believing Christian, I am appalled by the ahistoricity and the lack of respect for the plain interpretation of the text of the Bible, as displayed by the author of this article. It's mind-boggling that one would choose to cherry-pick what amounts to a few chapters of a far larger body of teachings, and re-interpret Christianity as an economic movement.

Consider: the core teaching of Christianity is that a certain person, Jesus of Nazareth, was the promised Messiah (the Anointed One, King of Jews, a role written about at length by the Old Testament), that He was the Son of God, that He had both a fully divine and a fully human nature, that He died a painful death on the cross as a price for forgiveness of all human sins and direct access to God for every person, and that He literally rose again from the dead three days after that. That's the core of the faith, that's the most important part that makes Christianity, Christianity. Those are the things you need to agree you believe in so that you can legitimately call yourself a Christian. The rest is secondary.

Now tell me, how does this have anything to do with economics or the forgiveness of literal debts? The Bible is very direct and quotes Jesus as saying: "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm." (John 18:36). This verse outright contradicts any interpretation that Christianity is about political power or concerns on this side of the divide between mortality and the eternity (parenthetically, this is the reason why to me what American Evangelism developed into is so disturbing). It should be something of concern, but not the concern. Christianity is not communism. Christianity is not benevolent philanthropy. Christianity is none of those things that one tries to pin it down, if one adopts a frame free of God as the core consideration. Christianity is about trying to establish a connection with God, while it's not too late to do that. Trying to reduce it to a cause revolving around money in some way is absurd in the magnitude of misunderstanding on display here.

I know that many here will be sceptics or non-believers, so many will skip this comment. But if you want to critique Christianity, at least do so in the spirit of not misrepresenting fundamental claims and tenets of the faith you disagree with. I trust that intellectual honesty is the name of the game on HN, and that's all I ask for.
by bawolff | 2025-04-20 22:04:02+00:00
To be clear, when i mean abstractions in computer programming, i mean things like classes and polymorphism; abstractions that are used to structure code bases.

I think abstractions in CS (Turing machines, etc) or other building blocks in computer systems (OS interfaces,computer languages, etc) are a different story and much more similar to how abstractions are used in math.
by titaphraz | 2025-04-20 22:07:14+00:00
Brilliant idea. To make it more accurate:

- Don't force people to participate in jury duty when waiting for jury answer. Many of them will just click random answers.

- Provide "I don't know/Skip" as an answer. Otherwise the options are "Pick a random" and "Logout"

- Allow jury to write text feedback or at least give them a button saying "All provided answers are wrong / NA / Fallacy / ... "

- "your verdict is simulated by AI" if there aren't enough people logged in. Don't do that. I have no interested in that answer.
by userbinator | 2025-04-20 22:07:22+00:00
When there’s less supply (ie these products aren’t getting made), things cost more.

SLC and QLC is literally the same silicon these days, just controlled by an option in the firmware; the former doesn't even need the more complex sense and program/erase circuitry of the latter, and yields of die which can function acceptably in TLC or QLC mode are lower. If anything, SLC can be made from reject or worn MLC/TLC/QLC, something that AFAIK only the Chinese are attempting. Yet virgin SLC die are priced many times more, and drives using them nearly impossible to find.

such a product would be a money loser.

You just admitted it yourself - they don't want to make products that last too long, despite them actually costing less.

Intel's Optane is also worth mentioning as another "too good" technology.
by thrance | 2025-04-20 22:07:23+00:00
Article starts with "Commentators across the political spectrum" then cites many well known far-right pundits and one liberal writer you never heard of. Why this weird bothsideism? I heard one guy on the right say "we must make this the climate change of the right". This weird craze is purely a right-wing one, why feel the need to equate "both sides" on every issues?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-20 22:08:29+00:00
> Neem is a natural alternative that has been used for a long time

It is [1]. But it also trashes your liver if used chronically [2].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34092456/

[2] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018JPhCS1025a2043J/abstra...
by heraldgeezer | 2025-04-20 22:09:53+00:00
>I’m 19, and I’ve never seen chaos like this.

Okay, so now I know where all the doom posting is coming from.

Of course, you are 19. A kid.

Sorry, just your lot right now. Unlucky I guess.

I graduated in 2008 in the middle of the financial meltdown, :) It's not a competition, but I am winning.

Also, I am European, so I am winning in that even if our salary is massively lower than a USA one.
by jbothma | 2025-04-20 22:11:56+00:00
I don't have a lot of answers, but to echo what you're seeing, it seems a lot harder to get a foot in the door than 15 years ago when I was getting my first freelance jobs. This is compared to people I know searching now. It feels like for those basic starter jobs, there's a sea of agencies and individuals bidding less. I know it's a worrying time.

I'd suggest you at least get very familiar with AI tools like copilot and cursor. Get good at using them and leveraging them for efficiency. Also get a feel for their limitations. Within those, there may be opportunities. Beyond that I think as always, participate in professional networks - meet people in tech, contribute to open source - connections help you stand out when there's a whole globe of competition.
by sweetjuly | 2025-04-20 22:11:59+00:00
The reason why it's so famous though (and why some people tend to use it in a tongue in cheek manner) is because "you know it when you see it" is a hilariously unhelpful and capricious threshold, especially when coming from the Supreme Court. For rights which are so vital to the fabric of the country, the Supreme Court recommending we hinge free speech on—essentially—unquantifiable vibes is equal parts bizarre and out of character.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-04-20 22:12:13+00:00
In a better world it would be sensible to allow the guy to split without child support and so on if he didn’t want the child, but in the real world that would end up hurting a lot of people and birthing lots of kids into poverty. Whether you think that’s worth it is up to you.

Abortion as a right is thinking of abortion as a medical procedure that people have the right to access. Universal access, but men don’t tend to utilize it.

It really is an important thing to be able to manage pregnancy. Pregnancy is exceptionally brutal on the body and causes innumerable permanent changes. I think it makes sense as an emergency fallback when other preventative methods fail.
by bawolff | 2025-04-20 22:12:35+00:00
I think we do largely agree in a lot of ways.

> This is just a different formulation about the "volatility" of a lot of requirements of software by the users/customers.

Yes. I would say that this is a defining feature of computer programming - change. The complexity of change is what computer programmers primarily want to use abstractions to deal with (where such a concern is really absent to a mathematician. Everything is immutable to them).

And yes, reasoning about the code is part of that too, but in computer programming often its in the form of being able to reason about a code base that is slowly shifting under you as other programmers make changes in other parts (in the context of a large project with many devs. I suppose its a different story for a solo project)

To bring it back to the original start of the thread, i guess what i'm saying is that what makes an abstraction good for math is different then what makes it good for a computer program, so naturally they are going to look a little different.
by myk9001 | 2025-04-20 22:13:20+00:00
Well, I'm too lazy to look up how many weavers were displaced back then and that's why I said a lot. Maybe all of them, since they weren't trained to operate the new machines.

Anyway, sorry for a digression, my point is LLM replacing white collar workers doesn't necessarily imply it's generally intelligent -- it may but doesn't have to be.

Although if it gets to a point where companies are running dark office buildings (by analogy with dark factories) -- yes, it's AGI by then.
by int_19h | 2025-04-20 22:14:06+00:00
The point is that something like sizeof(pointer) should have the same value in comptime code that it has at runtime for a given app. Which, yes, means that the comptime interpreter emulates the target machine.

The reason is fairly simple: you want comptime code to be able to compute correct values for use at runtime. At the same time, there's zero benefit to not hiding the host platform in comptime, because, well, what use case is there for knowing e.g. the size of pointer in the arch on which the compiler is running?
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-04-20 22:15:52+00:00
Actual headline:

Two-thirds of Silicon Valley tech workers are foreign-born, new report reveals (byline date: 3/11/25)

From the article:

The Valley’s reputation as the world’s leading technology hub and “a place where breakthrough things happen” plays a powerful role in drawing talent from around the globe .... A lot of people want to be a part of that Many come to Silicon Valley chasing opportunities not available in their home countries Foreign workers enter the region “through multiple windows,” Randolph said. There’s a very large number of incubators, accelerators and facilitating organizations here in the region whose primary purpose is to connect entrepreneurs from other countries into the innovation system Many Bay Area tech companies are multinational and transfer foreign workers into their local offices
by johnea | 2025-04-20 22:15:58+00:00
As someone who's pretty significantly left (at least in the US political spectrum) I've become pretty fed up with Jacobin.

The author of this article is a religious historian, which explains a lot of the "circuitous" language (his word).

But to me, the whole article is just "blah blah blah", pointless exposition with no real bearing on current reality.

Whatever may, or may not, have been the case in the Levant 2000 years ago (and no one really knows); this is 2025, and according to many US "christians" the most famous quote of the little bebe jesus is "f_ck the poor, let 'em rot in the gutter". Ironically, failing to acknowledge that many of them fit into that very category.

If the author would like to differ with the ideals of christianity regarding wealth, maybe he should write to the vatican? You know, that autonomous country inside of Italy, with it's own central bank, and storehouses of looted nazi treasure. The current pope aside, they haven't exactly been a savior of the poor historically.

I'm sure many earnest, caring, giving christians will be downvoting my post. But a reality of our world, outside of philosophical sophistry. is that religion has been the source of more murder and mayhem than any other single cause.

It may have been originally a practice of the poor, but the only reason it's still a phenomenon in the modern world is because the wealthy and powerful have promoted and used it as a tool to rile the poor into dismembering each other, to see which rich guy gets the goods.

Sorry, I'm an evangelical atheist for life...
by ivape | 2025-04-20 22:15:59+00:00
It's high potency THC with things like live resin to get you even higher. It's marketed casually like alcohol. Teens and new adults casually getting into this stuff will have issues especially if they are predisposed to a variety of mental issues. The same is true for people who are depressed and use alcohol to "chill out", it's never ends well. We as a society don't have any clue when we roll out these "new features" on every corner. Same with anything, same with video games, same with social media. Your seven year old is addicted to tiktok, imagine that. Your 15 year old can't turn the fucking video games off. Your 25 year old can't put Instagram down. I'm not even talking about the whole class of drug addicts. Now imagine being addicted to all fucking 5 of those things? Then you get the 30 year old in therapy.

I would personally limit the number of purchases like we do Pseudoephedrine, and if you need more, get a medical prescription. We'll probably realize this in about 20 years, like we are finally realizing about social media. Social media needs to be 18+, like porn sites. Took us 20 years, but many places are doing it. We never have a serious discussion about anything when we roll it out. Alcohol on every corner and supermarket was one of the stupidest things we ever did.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-20 22:16:01+00:00
By Episode II, Lucas had decided to make damn near everything green screen. They weren’t even building chairs and benches the actors sat on. Green boxes in many cases.

It looked like complete shit even by the standards of the time, and of course hasn’t aged well.

I watched a “film edits” fan edit of the Clone Wars CG cartoon, and one of the odder things about the experience was the end, where the editor cut together the final arc of that show, another shorter 2D cartoon, and the live action (well… mostly also just CG) Revenge of the Sith in roughly chronological order (including some nifty simultaneous action bits).

What was so odd was how very much worse and less-real-feeling the “live action” film was than the wholly CG cartoon. The writing, the line delivery, the sets, the action, the editing—it was all worse and came off as far more fake than a literal cartoon.
by westurner | 2025-04-20 22:16:37+00:00
I think that's why it's good to rotate beans or plant clover cover crop.

Three Sisters: Corn, Beans, Squash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture)

Companion planting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion_planting

Nitrogen fixation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation
by pants2 | 2025-04-20 22:16:55+00:00
Gemini 2.5 is actually pretty good at this. It's the only model ever to tell me "no" to a request in Cursor.

I asked it to add websocket support for my app and it responded like, "looks like you're using long polling now. That's actually better and simpler. Lets leave it how it is."

I was genuinely amazed.
by mystraline | 2025-04-20 22:17:18+00:00
I prefer simple tech. It can still be automated, and 'smart', but using HomeAssistant, its smart for ME.

No passwords, no stupid. Doesn't even need internet, just the local network.

I can even share access creds to pur garage doors remotely.

Again, I focus on simple and effective 'smart', not throwing enshittifying internet garbage everywhere.
by genewitch | 2025-04-20 22:17:43+00:00
> Most countries recognize very different limits at a customs boundary.

In the US I've heard that boundary (the "border") encompasses ~75% of everyone living inside. It's like "within X miles of a border" and includes rivers and airports as well as the entire coastline.

I'm not up to date on these rules and who's been caught out by them, but I have repeatedly heard the claim above.
by jungturk | 2025-04-20 22:18:11+00:00
Not "same" as in unifying EM and GR, but rather "same" both can be described as geometric regimes in spacetime (though GR be metric compatible and EM in this formulation requiring a relaxation to semi-metricity.

From the conclusion: >Charge is therefore to be understood as a local compression of the metric in the spacetime, which relates to longitudinal waves as described in [12]. This provides some aesthetical features into the model, as electromagnetism seems to be orthogonal to gravity in the sense that current theory of gravity is a theory based on metric compatible connections.
by mohi-kalantari | 2025-04-20 22:19:09+00:00
Tech-free homes are the new rich people flex? Crazy that in 2025, the super wealthy are spending millions on houses with no smart gadgets or Wi-Fi, like they’re living in the old days. It’s not just about hating tech maybe more about buying privacy. No Alexa listening, no data tracking. Is this just for billionaires, or are we all tired of being online all the time?
by crazygringo | 2025-04-20 22:19:19+00:00
You don't think men worry about having a kid with someone they don't want to, being responsible for 18 years of child support, making hard decisions about whether they want to be involved in the kid's life, etc.?

Men are terrified of getting someone pregnant. At least women have a choice as to what to do about it. If they don't want to keep it, they don't, assuming the law permits it or the law is easy to get around. Men don't ever have that choice.
by jlrubin | 2025-04-20 22:19:52+00:00
> The fraction turned out to be approximately 69%, making the graphs neither common nor rare.

The wording kinda bothers me... Either 31% or 69% is exceedingly common.

Rare would be asymptotically few, or constant but smaller than e.g. 1 in 2^256.

I guess the article covers it's working definition of common, ever so briefly:

> that if you randomly select a graph from a large bucket of possibilities, you can practically guarantee it to be an optimal expander.

So it's not a reliable property, either way.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-20 22:20:28+00:00
I have zero issue with needing runtime GC or equivalent like ARC.

My issue is with ergonomics and performance. In my experience with a range of languages, the most performant way of writing the code is not the way you would idiomatically write it. They make good performance more complicated than it should be.

This holds true to me for my work with Java, Python, C# and JavaScript.

What I suppose I’m looking for is a better compromise between having some form of managed runtime vs non managed

And yes, I’ve also tried Go, and it’s DX is its own type of pain for me. I should try it again now that it has generics
by toonalfrink | 2025-04-20 22:20:29+00:00
Not the one you're asking, nor the one you meant to ask, but I find it rather objectionable that we are now restricting the production of new memes in academia to the ~25% that is most aligned with a moral fashion that is patently hostile to intellectual freedom. It's good to be willing to consider DEI like any other idea but to endorse it is a clear indication that you only care about truth insofar that it is socially advantageous to do so. You're basically unfit for the job at that point.
by averageRoyalty | 2025-04-20 22:20:54+00:00
> Charlie Beckett, the leader of the journalism and AI project at the London School of Economics, said: “This is about long-running pressures on journalists to be quicker. This is not the AI itself that’s at fault here. This is unscrupulous people, it seems. It is a wake-up call to all of us, frankly.”

Agreed Charlie, but not the way you meant it. The unscrupulous bunch here is lazy journos using UberEats for quotes rather than actually finding and speaking to an expert.

I wouldn't be surprised to find them using third parties to write their articles or find subject ideas too.
by wat10000 | 2025-04-20 22:21:45+00:00
That’s absurd. The incident with the fresco was an outrage because it ruined the original. If the well-meaning vandal had merely defaced a copy, nobody would have cared.

If you want to see works as originally published, get a copy of the original publishing. Buying a re-issue and expecting it to be identical in every way is silly.
by like_any_other | 2025-04-20 22:22:04+00:00
> I wonder how Island, Greenland, Norway etc. live with a population count far lower without the fear of extinction. Maybe it’s a bad idea to to look at the current birth rate anf extrapolate it in the future like it’s a constant number.

A good point. But one could also look at an ailing elephant, and say it need not worry about dying, because look, it is so much larger than a healthy kitten. Yet in a year, the elephant will be a skeleton, and the kitten will be a healthy cat. It all depends how they will handle the population drop - in a controlled way, gently reducing their numbers, or will it trigger a crisis, they let 52 million Chinese into their country, and slowly disappear as a distinct people.

> The culture? That already dies through changes in time.

By this logic a child dying or growing up is no different - both are "deaths through change". Of course the culture that Korea's culture will evolve into is much different than how Hungarian or Nigerian culture will evolve.

> The South Korean gen? Humans are pretty similar regarding their genes.

Even in a place as small and inter-connected as Europe, people have differentiated genes [1]. Globally, especially with geographic barriers, the diversity is even greater [2]. I find it extremely callous to so casually say Korean genetic distinctions aren't worth preserving, or that Koreans are interchangeable with any other people.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2735096/

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Principal_compon...