MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drdeca | 2025-04-25 17:36:38+00:00
While restricting these language models from providing information people already know that can be used for harm, is probably not particularly helpful, I do think having the technical ability to make them decline to do so, could potentially be beneficial and important in the future.

If, in the future, such models, or successors to such models, are able to plan actions better than people can, it would probably be good to prevent these models from making and providing plans to achieve some harmful end which are more effective at achieving that end than a human could come up with.

Now, maybe they will never be capable of better planning in that way.

But if they will be, it seems better to know ahead of time how to make sure they don’t make and provide such plans?

Whether the current practice of trying to make sure they don’t provide certain kinds of information is helpful to that end of “knowing ahead of time how to make sure they don’t make and provide such plans” (under the assumption that some future models will be capable of superhuman planning), is a question that I don’t have a confident answer to.

Still, for the time being, perhaps after finding a truly jailbreakproof method, perhaps the best response is to, after thoroughly verifying that it is jailbreakproof, is to stop using it and let people get whatever answers they want, until closer to when it becomes actually necessary (due to the greater-planning-capabilities approaching).
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-25 17:36:39+00:00
My fox said I had to get in better shape or I might get hurt. Started going to Crunch and doing some functional training and heavy lifting but Crunch is about as bad as the gym at my Uni when it comes to college students inhabiting the weight machines for too long. Fox said I didn't need more muscle mass but had to improve functional flexibility and get BMI down (ever see a fat fox?)

So I got a 35 lb kettlebell and a TRX system and do those things as well as VR workouts (some Beat Saber, might get back into Supernatural when I've exhausted the free trials of everyone else) around 8-9pm many nights, I usually got to bed around 10-11pm and sleep well. I think going for a hike is fine even as late as 9pm but I wouldn't want to be doing cardio or HIIT that late. Now that I think about it I oughta add some active isolated stretching with the bands.
by directevolve | 2025-04-25 17:37:11+00:00
Punishing researchers who make mistakes or get unlucky due to noise in the data is a recipe for disaster, just like in other fields. The ideal amount of fraud and false claims in research is not zero, because the policing effort it would take to accomplish this goal would destroy all other forms of value. I can't emphasize enough how bad an idea blackballing researchers for publishing irreproducible results would be.

We have money to fund direct reproducibility studies (this one is an example), and indirect replication by applying othogonal methods to similar research topics can be more powerful than direct replication.
by aidenn0 | 2025-04-25 17:37:36+00:00
That's overly reductive.

1. Poorer people tend to drive older vehicles, so if you solely encourage higher fuel economies by taxing carbon emissions, then the tax is (at least short-term) regressive.

2. You can work around #1 by applying incentives for manufacturers to make more efficient cars should lead any carbon tax

3. If you just reward companies based on fleet-average fuel economy without regard to vehicle size, then it would be rather bad for US car companies (who employ unionized workers) that historically make larger cars than Asian and European companies.

4. So the first thing done was to have a separate standard for passenger vehicles and light-trucks, but this resulted in minivans and SUVs being made in such a way as to get the light-truck rating

5. We then ended up with the size-based calculation we have today, but the formula is (IMO) overly punitive on small vehicles. Given that the formula was forward looking, it was almost certain to be wrong in one direction or the other, but it hasn't been updated.
by hansvm | 2025-04-25 17:37:38+00:00
Sorry I wasn't clear. You can get a motor with 100k miles from a totaled car for $3k, including the labor to replace it.

To your actual question, I bought mine (2008, manual) in 2018 for $5k with 100k miles in The Bay, and it took about a month of waiting for a good deal to crop up. I've put another 100k on it without issue and plan to drive it a long time. Inflation and the chip shortage have roughly kept up with depreciation, so I'm currently seeing some good options in the $6k range and similarly expect that $5k is around the bottom of what you can pay for a nice vehicle with 100k miles on it.

Also, deviations can absolutely be that big. It's more prevalent at the top of the market, but there are big differences in Subarus and Civics, for example, in different parts of the country, even in the sub-$5k range. It's often worth a flight and driving back to purchase a car (if you value your time at $0 or have other things to do while you're there).
by kstrauser | 2025-04-25 17:37:40+00:00
Nailed it. Keep that stuff away from:

* Police interactions, unless you want people refusing to cooperate with police.

* Hospitals, unless you want people refusing to seek medical care for communicable diseases.

* Courtrooms, unless you want people to skip court or refuse to testify as witnesses.

My wife likes watching murder investigation TV shows. Sometimes the homicide detectives will talk to petty criminals like street-level drug dealers, prostitutes, and the like. The first thing the detectives do is assure them that they're there about a murder and couldn't care less about the other minor stuff. They're not going to arrest some guy selling weed when they want to hear his story about something he witnessed.

Well, same thing here but on a bigger stage.
by jl6 | 2025-04-25 17:37:59+00:00
It would be interesting for reproducibility efforts to assess “consequentiality” of failed replications, meaning: how much does it matter that a particular study wasn’t reproducible? Was it a niche study that nobody cited anyway, or was it a pivotal result that many other publications depended on, or anything in between those two extremes?

I would like to think that the truly important papers receive some sort of additional validation before people start to build lives and livelihoods on them, but I’ve also seen some pretty awful citation chains where an initial weak result gets overegged by downstream papers which drop mention of its limitations.
by ggreer | 2025-04-25 17:38:10+00:00
Yes, an arrest warrant was issued. From the complaint[1]:

> On or about April 17, 2025, an authorized immigration official found probable cause to believe Flores-Ruiz was removable from the United States and issued a warrant for his arrest. The warrant provided, “YOU ARE COMMANDED to arrest and take into custody for removal proceedings under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the above-named alien [Flores-Ruiz identified on warrant].” Upon his arrest, Flores-Ruiz would be given a Notice of Intent/Decision to Reinstate Prior Order. He would then have an opportunity to contest the determination by making a written or oral statement to an immigration officer.

He'd been deported in 2013 and snuck back in some time later. He was in Milwaukee county court that day because he'd been charged with three counts of domestic battery.

1. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wied.11...
by robotresearcher | 2025-04-25 17:38:26+00:00
It would likely be very, very expensive.

A compromise that is affordable and does exist is programmable response curves to key velocity and aftertouch pressure. It can make sense to have different curves for eg. piano vs harpsichord even if you can’t change the mechanical key impedance.

I haven’t seen it in the wild, but using this you could make the wrong notes quieter/louder or even play a different sound. But I think we all know when we play a wrong note, so the utility might be small.
by baby_souffle | 2025-04-25 17:39:03+00:00
> Looks like the biggest thing isn’t even mentioned: no telematics control unit to track your behavior.

Is that confirmed? I would buy one *today* if this was known to be true... but I am 80% sure that they don't have any in production; all I see are renders.

There will almost certainly be a WiFi radio (for at home OTA updates) but there will likely be a modem, too, for people that like to remotely manage charge. The modem may be an optional extra and the WiFi traffic is something I can block/inspect as needed.
by _fat_santa | 2025-04-25 17:39:19+00:00
I think many consumers want a simpler "dumb" car, just look at sales of the 5th generation 4Runner. That car came out originally in 2010 and they sold it through 2023 with barely any upgrades and their best sales years were all in the 2020's.

Lots of people say it's because offroading got popular but I think it's also because that car was "dumb" compared to more recent offerings. And personally as an owner of a 4th generation 4Runner, one of the things I like most about is that it's "dumb".
by haswell | 2025-04-25 17:39:55+00:00
The thing I would tell my former self is this: pivot now. Waiting may make things harder. Don’t assume it will sort itself out. And if you can find a good therapist, it can be extremely helpful.

Actively seek out something that provides structure and consistency, even if that’s not work. Something that keeps you in regular contact with other people.

I had started to look into various volunteering opportunities but didn’t take action before my major slide. In retrospect I think I’d have been better off if I did.
by p_ing | 2025-04-25 17:40:02+00:00
Unknown or unforeseen attacks. The WAF ruleset can be updated much faster than code. WAFs also provide flexibility in how requests are responded to, or even disallow access from IP ranges, certain browsers, etc.

WAFs do throw false positives and do require adjustments OOTB for most sites, but you’re missing the forest by focusing on this single case.
by wgd | 2025-04-25 17:40:21+00:00
Ironically the case in question is a perfect example of how any provision for "reasonable" restriction of speech will be abused, since the original precedent we're referring to applied this "reasonable" standard to...speaking out against the draft.

But I'm sure it's fine, there's no way someone could rationalize speech they don't like as "likely to incite imminent lawless action"
by altairprime | 2025-04-25 17:40:22+00:00
Previously on HN, with some discussion spread across four posts over the past year:

Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-dont-go-to-col...

> What has changed is an increase in girls. When you look at other areas where this exact same thing has happened, it is not such a head scratcher why fewer men are going to college. We’re just not talking about it.

> For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied.

> “There’s a cliff you fall off once you become 60/40 female/male. It then becomes exponentially more difficult to recruit men.”

Whatever other factors may exist, college is now at or past the 60% women threshold, so of course men are quitting college. We can expect — to such a degree of certainty, given historical U.S. data that we could place a safe bet on a market about it — that college will be 80% women and in perhaps ten years or less.

It’s cute that Bloomberg is focusing on all the rationalizations that men are coming up with for this — at least some of them have the courage to say that it’s just the “vibes”. A little self-awareness would go a long way towards understanding, but Bloomberg doesn’t go there. Honestly, they should be assessing gender trends at trade schools over the past twenty years and see if those are at risk of becoming incompatible with U.S. masculinity next. What would it do to their president’s domestic manufacturing dreams if men refused to attend trade schools?
by dmitrygr | 2025-04-25 17:40:36+00:00
> Imagine a world where governments have no power to stop anti-social behavior

They DO have the power to STOP it, they just cannot punish past behaviour which was legal at the time! At least in USA, this is directly in the constitution:

Article 1 § 9 prohibits Congress from passing any laws which apply ex post facto.

Article 1 § 10 prohibits the states from passing any laws which apply ex post facto.

SCOTUS also clarified this in Beazell v. Ohio:

"It is settled, by decisions of this Court so well known that their citation may be dispensed with, that any statute which punishes as a crime an act previously committed, which was innocent when done, which makes more burdensome the punishment for a crime, after its commission, or which deprives one charged with crime of any defense available according to law at the time when the act was committed, is prohibited as ex post facto."

Now, I know that this is EU and not USA, but my argument is that EU is the ones being unreasonable here. It is illogical to make something illegal and then punish those who had done it before it was made so.
by debadyutirc | 2025-04-25 17:40:37+00:00
This is a question we asked 6 years ago.

What if we wrote it in Rust. And leveraged and WASM.

We have been at it for the past 6 years. https://github.com/infinyon/fluvio

For the past 2 years we have also been building Flink using Rust and WASM. https://github.com/infinyon/stateful-dataflow-examples/
by amazingman | 2025-04-25 17:40:52+00:00
I've deployed it a bunch of times and, crucially, maintained it thereafter. It's very complex, especially when troubleshooting pathological behavior or recovering from failures, and I don't see why anyone with significant experience with Kafka could reasonably claim otherwise.

Kafka is perhaps the most aptly named software I've ever used.

That said, it's rock solid and I continue to recommend it for cases where it makes sense.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-04-25 17:41:09+00:00
> The idea is the planner builds up a general plan which the executor runs. We can save this plan and re-run it with only the executor for quick, cheap, and consistent runs. When something goes wrong, it can kick back out to the planner agent and re-adjust the test.

I've been recently thinking about testing/qa w/ VLMs + LLMs, one area that I haven't seen explored (but should 100% be feasible) is to have the first run be LLM + VLM, and then have the LLM(s?) write repeatable "cheap" tests w/ traditional libraries (playwright, puppeteer, etc). On every run you do the "cheap" traditional checks, if any fail go with the LLM + VLM again and see what broke, only fail the test if both fail. Makes sense?
by guerby | 2025-04-25 17:42:03+00:00
May be try to define a "reproducible" h-index, ie your publication doesn't count or count less until a different team has reproduced your results, the team doing the reproducing work gets some points to.

(And may be add more points if in order to reproduce you didn't have to ask plenty of questions to the original team, ie the original paper didn't omit essential information)
by moondev | 2025-04-25 17:42:11+00:00
I have a pixel 9 pro, in the android beta there is a "terminal" app that launches a Debian shell inside a VM. You can choose to resize the disk as large as your storage can offer, and all apt aarch64 packages are available including docker. Really impressed with it so far. This is a similar experience to crostini on ChromeOS, but gui apps are not working yet.

I was able to ssh out to one my servers, then ssh into the phone from my desktop forwarding x11. I then successfully launched x11-eyes and a few others. Hopeful that eventually you can run a desktop or at least x11/wayland apps all self contained on the phone. Pretty cool to tinker with for now.
by godelski | 2025-04-25 17:42:13+00:00
What?

By your logic no learning could occur.

Yes, the brain "normalizes" but that's the point. It normalizes to a new state, not the old state. Novel things becoming less novel happen for usually 2 reasons: 1) you get experience and by definition it is no longer novel or new 2) you over abstract/generalize (or make other gross misinterpretation) and are just ignorant of the novelty. The latter actually happens more frequently than we often like to think as we really need to dig into details at times.

But either way, yeah, changing states is the fucking point. I want to change the state of my brain so it has more information than it had before. That's a success, not a failure
by compiler-guy | 2025-04-25 17:42:15+00:00
There are multiple types of warrants. All types are "real", but they convey different authority and different requirements upon both the arrestee and the arresters.

It is both rational and legal to insist that law enforcement stay within the bounds of the authority the specific type warrant they obtained. ICE civil warrants grant different authority than every-day federal arrest warrants. That ICE is abusing that authority is no reason to capitulate to it.
by immibis | 2025-04-25 17:42:31+00:00
Because someone said "we need security" and someone else said "what is security" and someone else said "SQL injection is security" and someone looked up SQL injections and saw the word "select" and "insert".

WAFs are always a bad idea (possible exception: in allow-but-audit mode). If you knew the vulnerabilities you'd protect against them in your application. If you don't know the vulnerabilities all you get is a fuzzy feeling that Someone Else is Taking Care of it, meanwhile the vulnerabilities are still there.

Maybe that's what companies pay for? The feeling?
by jrockway | 2025-04-25 17:42:38+00:00
Yeah, we were asked to do this at my last job by some sort of security review. This one doesn't bother me as much. "Display 'network error' whenever a user uploads a file containing 'SELECT *'" is a bad user experience. "Some files in this repository have been flagged as containing a virus and are not visible in the web interface until allowed by an administrator," is OK with me, though.
by anerli | 2025-04-25 17:44:09+00:00
Oh this is interesting. In our case we are being very specific about which types of prompts go where, so the planner essentially creates prompts that will be executed by Moondream, instead of trying to route prompts generally to the appropriate model. The types of requests that our planner agent vs Moondream can handle are fundamentally different for our use case.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-04-25 17:44:24+00:00
>> If some guy's due to testify in a murder case, I don't want him skipping court because some quota-making jackass at ICE wants to arrest him because of a visa issue

From the criminal complaint in this case:

"I also am aware that pursuant to its policies, which had been made known to courthouse officials, the Milwaukee ICE ERO Task Force was focusing its resources on apprehending charged defendants making appearances in criminal cases – and not arresting victims, witnesses, or individuals appearing for matters in family or civil court."

So it sounds like they take this into account. As for why they make arrests at the courthouse:

"The reasons for this include not only the fact that law enforcement knows the location at which the wanted individual should be located but also the fact that the wanted individual would have entered through a security checkpoint and thus unarmed, minimizing the risk of injury to law enforcement, the public, and the wanted individual."

Makes sense. Seems like they have weighed the risks and advantages of this and come up with a reasonable approach.
by miiiiiike | 2025-04-25 17:44:33+00:00
I don't care about Mark Zuckerberg. I don't use Facebook, Instagram, or anything else Meta. I avoid it all, actually.

I'll turn around on you: Why defend people who will distort every utterance just to score points on whatever is in the public's cross-hairs at the moment? Why support it? Why defend it?

Saying that a statement isn't accurate isn't the same as defending or holding water for the subject of the statement. If Zuckerberg said "the sky was blue" and another person started saying "Zuckerberg is a liar, so obviously the sky can't be blue" you're not defending Zuckerberg by stating that the sky is blue.

The world is in a perpetual information war. People and groups are constantly trying to make their version of reality stick by using every bullshit rhetorical tool at their disposal against whatever person or thing they deem a valid target.

I'm sick of it, almost everyone is sick of it.
by MostlyStable | 2025-04-25 17:44:41+00:00
Completely agree.

Given the way that science and statistics work, completely honest researchers that do everything correct and don't make any mistakes at all will have some research that fails to reproduce. And the flip side of that is that some completely correct work that got the right answer, some proportion of the time, the reproduction attempt will incorrectly fail to reproduce. Type 1 and Type 2 errors are both real and occur without any need for misconduct or mistakes.
by lelanthran | 2025-04-25 17:44:46+00:00
> It was the first time in my whole life that programming was not fun at all.

And learning new technologies in pursuit of resume-driven-development is fun?

I gotta say, if learning the intricacies of $LATEST_FAD is "fun" for you, then you're not really going to have a good time, employment-wise, in the age of AI.

If learning algorithms and data structures and their applicability in production is fun, then the age of AI is going to leave you with very in-demand skills.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-04-25 17:45:02+00:00
> The section on conspiracy thinking was interesting to me. I've been trying to understand the ever increasing amount of it in our society, and my thoughts keep going back to the rise in marijuana legalization.

Are we switching the horse and cart places here? It's highly likely that people resort to drugs in order to cope with the distress caused by conspiracy talk. Musk is using drugs as stimulants to increase his "productivity" which is the other common reason for taking drugs. BTW, his "productivity" isn't the source of his success, but that's tangential here.

In both cases, conspiracies aren't the root cause and fighting them ends up fighting free speech without reducing either conspiracies or drug use.

The same is true for the normalization of wild conspiracies - MTG followers aren't engaging in them because of drugs, they are doing it because MTG is promoting them from a place of authority and bot-love. If you think she's not playing by a script but simply spilling out the contents of her concerned heart... you know very little about propaganda.
by 7thaccount | 2025-04-25 17:45:24+00:00
I think they push the opposite...mainly a weak Sapir Whorf, but not a strong one. You still have a human brain after all. Do people in Spain think of a table as inherently having feminine qualities because their language is gendered? Probably to some very small amount.

There is a linguist claiming a stronger version after translating and working with the piriue (not spelling that right) people. Chomsky refuses to believe it, but they can't falsify the guy's claims until someone else goes and verifies. That's what I read anyway.

Edit: Piraha people and language

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_language
by prepend | 2025-04-25 17:46:05+00:00
Oh, I’m certainly not endorsing the arrest of the judge.

But wouldn’t the bailiff hold the person?

Is it typical for the FBI to lose a suspect in this manner? If so, this seems dysfunctional as if someone is in the court system then jurisdictions need to coordinate to just operate efficiently. It needs fixing so if ICE wants someone and a local courthouse has them in custody that ICE can pick them up.

But arresting judging is not going to help fix this bureaucratic silliness.