MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chasing | 2025-04-04 17:59:52+00:00
For one thing, we have a President this go-around who is actively behaving in a destructive way against the United States. That's the unique scenario we are broadly finding ourselves in: The office of the Presidency is being weaponized against the country and its citizens. Of course that's going to have a devastatingly different set of effects.

The GOP has been hollowed out to the point that they're incapable of admitting this to themselves and participating in corrective action. The courts alone aren't sufficient. And because our elections are held on a clockwork cadence there's not much the citizenry can do at this point.

Which is why I'm worried things are going to turn violent. When normal channels fail, people who feel like they have been pressed against the wall will act out in other ways. And a lot of people are in the process of having their livelihoods ruined.
by pogue | 2025-04-04 18:00:57+00:00
Firstly, they want to dismantle the government piece by piece and sell it off to the highest bidder, privatizing it. Secondly, anything they view as contrary to their world view, despite of (or regardless of) scientific evidence stating otherwise. Eg: they believe anything to do with climate change is completely bogus and don't believe there's any value in studying it, or hiding it's results for the benefit of their friends in the oil/gas industries.
by kbelder | 2025-04-04 18:01:06+00:00
She addressed the problem with accepting assistance in relation to student tuition assistance. Briefly, she said hate the game, not the player. The students have a structure imposed upon them, and it's not irrational or unethical to take the aid the government provides since the government still regulates them and taxes them in various ways. However, it would be unethical to advocate for increasing that assistance (because the benefit is taken forcibly from others).
by lelanthran | 2025-04-04 18:01:22+00:00
> Eh, you can prove anything but starting history at a particular point.

I'm not trying to "prove" anything; I'm merely pointing out that while it is true that $BAR is objectively worse than $FOO, it is equally true that $FOO is a direct consequence of $BAR.

In my other response to another poster I pointed out that many of us on forums that effectively silenced opposing viewpoints reminded readers that it's best to refrain from going to extremes because the pendulum always swings back, and that is what we are seeing now.

In much the same way, I'll point out that the pendulum always swings back and we are going to see a return to the previous extremes when people get tired of this extreme.
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by trhway | 2025-04-04 18:01:58+00:00
> the global economy will move on without the US.

I wonder if we soon hear EU (or some of them) wanting to join/associate with BRICS. The BRICS has been futilely trying to get rid of dollar, and Trump seems to have just done them a solid here.

If China, however it is hard for CCP, just tone down internal oppression a couple notches and, that is an easy part for China, guarantees to Europe non-invasion by Russia, the EU may turn East wholesale. Add to that China's hold on Africa and Iran.

Speaking about Trump's declared goal of weakening China - you don't weaken your opponent by isolating yourself from your allies and turning them into allies of your opponent, quite an opposite.
by warmandsoft | 2025-04-04 18:02:07+00:00
[...] "Microsoft killed my company, and I hold a personal grudge. They are a company with vicious, predatory, anti-competitive business practices, and always have been. They also happen to make terrible products, and always have. I do not use any Microsoft products, and neither should you." - Jamie Zawinski

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-windows.html
by benlivengood | 2025-04-04 18:02:37+00:00
METR [0] explicitly measures the progress on long term tasks; it's as steep a sigmoid as the other progress at the moment with no inflection yet.

As others have pointed out in other threads RLHF has progressed beyond next-token prediction and modern models are modeling concepts [1].

[0] https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-com...

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/tracing-thoughts-language-mod...
by riyanapatel | 2025-04-04 18:02:44+00:00
I can't argue that I really enjoy music as my working background noise. Something else unique is I enjoy listening to TV shows, or more, "noise". I usually put on a simple TV show I've seen before that doesn't need a lot of attention (Friends, the Office, New Girl, Big Bang Theory), that creates that background noise. It's like white noise to me :)
by jmclnx | 2025-04-04 18:02:53+00:00
The people I know in market finance fully believed Trump was bluffing and salivating at his upcoming Tax Cuts.

I told them I am very worried about the tariffs and I expect it to happen, but they could not believe Trump would be that stupid.

So I really hope the Dems can stop these tax cuts and force Wall Street to go after Trump and friends.
by jerf | 2025-04-04 18:02:55+00:00
The AIs were not "naturally" generating images of Asian Vikings. It was established to my satisfaction, even if the companies never admitted it (I don't recall it happening but I may have missed it), that it was actually the prompt being rather hamhandedly edited on the way to the image generator, for the clear purpose of "correcting" the opinions and attitudes of those issuing the prompts through social engineering.

Unsurprisingly, people don't like being so nakedly herded in their opinions. When the "nudges" become "shoves" people object.
by glenstein | 2025-04-04 18:03:14+00:00
Right, and if that's what they meant, I honestly don't think it's that bad of an idea. One of the objections here is that it shouldn't be a luxury for the rich which, well fine, channel it all through a redistributive system then.

Though I suspect cheap lab grown meat (absent some reactionary political backlash like we've seen in Florida) can make it cheap and accessible to everyone and possibly bypass the concerns about antibiotics.
by autoexec | 2025-04-04 18:03:37+00:00
You'll notice that in every one of your possible outcomes there's zero chance of C ever winning. That's the reality. When it comes to presidential elections, voting for C means you throw away your chance to vote for someone who actually has a chance to win.

In theory, if massive numbers of people all voted for C then C could get more votes than A or B, but the odds of that happening are so low that it's never once happened in the entire history of the nation. The incredibly low odds of winning millions in the lottery (something that routinely happens in the US) are much better than electing a third party candidate (something that has never happened in the US).

Since only A or B ever have a chance to win, your choice is limited to only A or B if you want to have any meaningful impact on the outcome, and because of that fact your choice becomes binary: Either meaningfully participate in the election (by voting for A or B), or don't meaningfully participate in the election at all (either by not voting or by voting for C).

The system could be fixed to give C a chance at winning, but that would require the same people who benefit from our two party system to support fixing it and not many are eager to hurt their own (or their own party's) odds of getting elected.
by mystified5016 | 2025-04-04 18:04:38+00:00
In general, Americans and especially our businessmen and politicians have totally and utterly lost the ability to consider long term problems.

The consequences simply don't matter. It's the next guy's problem, it's the next administration's problem, it's the next generation's problem. If your actions don't have immediate consequences, there are no consequences for you. The implicit assumption is that you do not care even one iota if somebody else has to deal with the consequences of your actions so long as you, personally, don't.

This is a widespread cultural failing, and the root of a lot of our problems.

The recent actions of the US Gov make more sense with the understanding that all of the people involved are 100% certain they will never, ever face any consequences for anything they do. And they are largely correct. Most of them will never see any negative impacts for the suffering they cause. Accountability is for lesser people and our politicians are fully exempt from all laws and due process, apparently.

They believe that the US is un-challenged and invulnerable. They genuinely think the rest of the world will either fall to their knees and begin licking boots, or will just go away. US supremacy must remain unchallenged and unquestioned, and will always be so.

There's really no deeper rationale or strategy here. No one has considered the long term consequences because consequences don't exist.
by bell-cot | 2025-04-04 18:04:49+00:00
> ...a teacher of children with special needs...fired...

Note that that example is from (at latest) the 1960's. These days, at least in better-off areas, the parents of the affected special needs kids would likely make life hell for the School Board behind that firing.

More generally: If your super-competence is highly beneficial to some folks further up the pecking order, that often takes precedence.
by ashvardanian | 2025-04-04 18:04:53+00:00
CuTile, in many ways, feels like a successor to OpenAI's Triton... And not only are we getting tile/block-level primitives and TileIR, but also a proper SIMT programming model in CuPy, which I don't think enough people noticed even at this year's GTC. Very cool stuff!

That said, there were almost no announcements or talks related to CPUs, despite the Grace CPUs being announced quite some time ago. It doesn't feel like we're going to see generalizable abstractions that work seamlessly across Nvidia CPUs and GPUs anytime soon. For someone working on parallel algorithms daily, this is an issue: debugging with NSight and CUDA-GDB still isn't the same as raw GDB, and it's much easier to design algorithms on CPUs first and then port them to GPUs.

Of all the teams in the compiler space, Modular seems to be among the few that aren't entirely consumed by the LLM craze, actively building abstractions and languages spanning multiple platforms. Given the landscape, that's increasingly valuable. I'd love to see more people experimenting with Mojo — perhaps it can finally bridge the CPU-GPU gap that many of us face daily!
by jcranmer | 2025-04-04 18:05:06+00:00
There are, in isolation, arguments that someone could give for these actions to levy a rational basis. But given that the administration's own statements are frequently inconsistent with its actions, the best explanation for this is also the dumbest: the country is run by a toddler throwing a tantrum. The tantrums don't make sense (ever see a toddler throwing a tantrum); so stop trying to make sense of them.
by bluGill | 2025-04-04 18:05:27+00:00
200w is an instantaneous measure, not a daily measure. I would guess just over 1kw/h generated over the course of a day - between the panels not being at the correct angle, clouds, and just how long the sun is up that seems reasonable. You could get a large SUV up to maybe 3 with the most efficient panels in the desert.

I pointed out a semi because for long distance shipping they don't use much power (they get as much as 10mpg - but I don't know how to turn that into watts) and because of that long trailer they could potentially be close to energy neutral around mid-day (though only for a couple hours during ideal conditions).
by ziddoap | 2025-04-04 18:06:21+00:00
>god we are so spoiled.

Is it really "spoiled" to say it'd be convenient for maybe a one-liner at the top of the file that's supposed to explain stuff about the project?

>you have plenty of resources to get context in 2 minutes.

I always laugh a little bit at this line of thinking. Whoever wrote the readme can spend 2 minutes to write a line or two about the project, or the potentially thousands of people who want information about the project can spend 2 minutes to look it up. It makes a lot more sense to spend 2 minutes vs. 2000 minutes.

In the end, for me, it's not a big deal to spend the 2 minutes. But sometimes I like to think a little bit bigger than just myself.
by trhway | 2025-04-04 18:06:28+00:00
> The end result is a hyper-local world with only the minimum necessary trade between enclaves.

It has been always unclear to me how Roman Empire turned into that multitude of feudal states and microstates. And i lived through USSR collapse, and that dissolution of great central power is still hard to get a mental hold on - you live in one paradigm and somehow you find yourself living in completely different one, whatever was truth and crime yesterday, today became crime and truth, and i'm having kind of deja vu these days here :)
by shiandow | 2025-04-04 18:06:35+00:00
To simplify a bit further, the core of the issue seems to be that buying lots of foreign goods with currency means a large amount of that currency ends up in foreign hands.

Either this money is eventually used to buy stuff or it is invested. The latter is what leads to a trade deficit. Not sure if it is the only way?

Put that way it seems dubious if making trade more expensive would actually change things much. Anyone owning dollars still has the same choice between buying goods or investing.
by throw0101c | 2025-04-04 18:06:47+00:00
> But, he claims, there are network effects to manufacturing. Those countries low on the value chain, once they learn how how to build things, are better equipped to rise in the value chain and replace companies completely.

So you place tariffs on specific goods that you wish to strategically produce domestically.

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/when-are-tariffs-good

Doing a blanket tariff on (e.g.) Bangladesh and Sri Lanka—which hits clothing (see Nike, Adidas stock prices)—is not helpful. Why is the US interested in making sneakers and t-shirts?

Doing specific tariffs for strategic / national security purposes is one thing, but that is obviously not what is happening here: and it is obvious because tariffs were put on the island of Diego Garcia, whose on inhabitants are US and UK military personnel, and Heard and McDonald Islands in the middle of nowhere whose only inhabitants are penguins.
by achierius | 2025-04-04 18:07:18+00:00
There are two levels to this.

1. Tooling obviously does improve performance, but not so huge a margin. Yes, if AI could automate more elements of tooling, that would very much help. If I could tell an AI "bisect this bug, across all projects in our system, starting with this known-bad point", that would be very helpful -- sometimes. And I'm sure we'll get there soon enough. But there is fractal complexity here: what if isolating the bug requires stepping into LLDB, or dumping some object code, or running with certain stressors on certain hardware? So it's not clear that "LLM can produce code from specs, given tight oversight" will map (soon) to "LLM can independently assemble tools together and agentically do what I need done".

2. Even if all tooling were automated, there's still going to be stuff left over. Can the LLM draft architectural specs, reach out to other teams (or their LLMs), sit in meetings and piece together the big picture, sus out what the execs really want us to be working on, etc.? I do spend a significant (double-digit) percentage of my time working on that, so if you eliminate everything else -- then you could get 10x improvement, but going beyond that would start to run up against Amdahl's Law.
by feoren | 2025-04-04 18:07:36+00:00
> We would be pissed if a human artist did that

No, I would not be pissed if a human artist drew an Asian Viking. Do you get pissed when a human artist draws a white Jesus? Why are we justifying internet outrage over an Asian Viking when people have been drawing this middle-eastern Jew as white for centuries?

> A human artist can adjust things to the unrealistic setting, but unless presented with a really good reason, will not change the core traits of what makes a Viking a Viking.

If you asked Matt Stone and Trey Parker to draw a Viking, are you sure it would contain the "core traits of what makes a Viking a Viking?" What if you asked Picasso to draw a Viking? The Vikings in The Simpsons would be yellow, and nobody would complain. Would you be offended if you asked Hokusai to draw a Viking and it came out looking Asian? Vikings didn't even have those stupid horned helmets that everyone draws them with! Is their dumb, historically inaccurate horned helmet a core part of what makes a Viking a Viking? What the hell are we even talking about? It's crystal clear that all of these "historical accuracy" drums are only ever beaten when some white person is offended that non-white people exist. Otherwise, nobody gives a shit about historical accuracy. There's a fucking Kaiju in the image!

Like any artist, Gemini had a particular style. That style happened to be a multi-cultural one, and what we learned is that a multi-culture style is absolutely enraging to people unless it results in more Whiteness.

Consider elves instead of Vikings. People would also be offended if an AI drew elves as black people with pointy ears. There's no "a human artist should know that elves have to be white" bullshit defense there. There's no historical accuracy bullshit. There's only racism.
by cess11 | 2025-04-04 18:07:55+00:00
There's been a lot in usian news about people having been deported because of things like tattoo of the logo of some spanish or other soccer club.

Here's one case where the deportation seems to be based mainly on having worn sports branded merch and a hoodie, and some supposed anonymous snitch, which the state has agreed was an error:

https://www.newsweek.com/kilmar-armando-abrego-garcia-deport...
by lenerdenator | 2025-04-04 18:08:03+00:00
When someone else (read: China) gets good at the game, change the rules.

Having lots of people who will work for next-to-nothing is a cheat code of sorts in the current world economic order.

It's put the old guard, mainly the West, at a disadvantage. It's caused great economic hardship in the US for people who didn't have the connections or resources to get out of working more basic manufacturing jobs. The political and shareholder classes saw those people as expendable in the move towards a purely capitalist America, one where it was okay to move lots of manufacturing to a geopolitical rival because it made number go up. Trump's not wrong about that.

The problem is that he's a creature of that purely capitalist America, who likely has a severe personality disorder, and he's just harnessing the discontent of the affected to build up his own power and wealth.

The thing about being the de-facto trade and security hegemony is that it's a pain in the ass. No one's survived being that. Not the British, Romans, or anyone else.

There's also the fact that the rest of the West will of course trade out adherence to the more democratic and progressive values when it comes to benefit them. Nordstream 2 was announced after Russia invaded Georgia and it became obvious that Putin was a tyrant. Europeans were more than happy to watch World Cup matches in Russia and Qatar, which were placed there purely as a result of graft at a major European institution, FIFA. Italy joined the Chinese Belt and Road initiative and only dropped out in 2023. There are other examples but those three stick out immediately in my mind.

Trump, and the illiberal forces of the world in general, just want to adapt this reality as the status quo while making money for themselves off of it. Alliances and values are secondary to what earns money at the moment in question.

If you are a country like the US, with a lot of resources, you can outcompete people in that dog-eat-dog world.
by megous | 2025-04-04 18:08:04+00:00
A few issues:

- "The democratically elected government of Gaza-Palestine is the Hamas" Hamas is not a democratic government, period. Elections you're talking about were almost 20 years ago. It's like calling Trumpistan 20 years from now a democracy, if Trump today declares he'll live forever, and that there will be no more elections, and enough MAGA Americans help him persevering.

- Israel's struggle is the Zionist dream of creating a Jewish state by any means. Means have been pretty violent and treacherous, from international terrorism, assassinations of diplomats, to mass killings and violent displacement of 100s of thousands of indigenous people, unilateral declaration of statehood over someone else's land, etc. Indigenous people have been revolting against this since way before Hamas even existed. It's quite something to bothside this, or even invert this, and call indigenous people terrorists, while violent immigrant invaders and land thieves are somehow legitimate state.

- Martyr != terrorist, it's anyone killed in some manner in relation to the above political context. If a child is shot in the head by Israel's soldiers, it will be called a martyr. Executed ICRC workers were called martyrs, etc.
by floxy | 2025-04-04 18:08:09+00:00
>200 W is what I expect as a 24h average; that's 4.8 kWh/day

I guess we don't know where you live, but on the surface of planet Earth, you only get 12 hours of daylight, averaged over the course of a year. Plus dusk and dawn aren't really good for solar power. And then clouds are also a factor for many locations.
by btilly | 2025-04-04 18:08:35+00:00
Accepting assistance is perfectly in accord with her philosophy.

You can verify her position from https://courses.aynrand.org/works/the-question-of-scholarshi.... She views taxation as theft. Those who agree and advocate against this theft, may morally accept government largesse as restitution. But those who accept both the taxation and the redistribution become complicit in the theft, and are therefore immoral.

There is a lot to criticize in her views. But this piece of it is not inconsistent. Only bizarre to someone who doesn't understand her.
by vaxman | 2025-04-04 18:08:38+00:00
That is the kind of comment that a well run bulletin board would moderate. Then again, there are probably not enough VMS systems people left to really have an r-war (short of architecture war).

VMS' key feature over Unix is consistency and beyond that it is being interrupt driven at all levels (no wasted cycled polling except for code ported over using POSIX interfaces). VMS was killed by a confluence of business issues, not because it was obsolete or inefficient.