MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joshuanapoli | 2025-04-20 20:57:40+00:00
The newer models are definitely more useful. Back in the GPT 3.5 and 4 days, AutoGPT applied the same types of tools, but you had to be pretty lucky for it to get anywhere. Now Claude 3.7, Gemini 2.5, GPT o3 make much fewer mistakes, and are better able to get back on-track when a mistake is discovered. So they're more convincing as intelligent helpers.
by gruez | 2025-04-20 20:58:09+00:00
>And if the laws were actually enforced, most of it is blatantly illegal.

>It is a scam on everyone, except for the 'app companies' that basically added 'internet' to a regulated career and turned it into unregulated enshittified garbage.

No, this predated "app companies". Taxi drivers were self-employed, only got paid if they got fares, and on top had to pay for the privilege of driving (medallion system). That's just as bad as working for Uber, if not worse (since you don't have to pay to work for Uber).
by cstrahan | 2025-04-20 20:58:37+00:00
Woah, now. You are dangerously mistaken here.

As I wrote over in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43746406

I’m on TRT, without hCG. I went and had a vasectomy a year ago. Because I’m weird and infinitely curious, two or three days after the procedure, I took three samples per day, and looked at each under the microscope. What I saw put to shame just about any video I could find online of a “good” sperm sample. Straight laser beams, zipping from one side of the slide to the other. If you were to scale Micheal Phelps down to these swimmers, he’d stand no chance. And the concentration was ridiculous, too. And this all 2-5 day old (at least) sperm!

TRT is not a reliable form of birth control.
by hansvm | 2025-04-20 20:59:17+00:00
The normal use case for `inline for` is when you have to close over something only known at compile time (like when iterating over the fields of a struct), but when your behavior depends on runtime information (like conditionally assigning data to those fields).

Unrolling as a performance optimization is usually slightly different, typically working in batches rather than unrolling the entire thing, even when the length is known at compile time.

The docs suggest not using `inline` for performance without evidence it helps in your specific usage, largely because the bloated binary is likely to be slower unless you have a good reason to believe your case is special, and also because `inline` _removes_ optimization potential from the compiler rather than adding it (its inlining passes are very, very good, and despite having an extremely good grasp on which things should be inlined I rarely outperform the compiler -- I'm never worse, but the ability to not have to even think about it unless/until I get to the microoptimization phase of a project is liberating).
by jocaal | 2025-04-20 20:59:23+00:00
Ok, I'll just ignore the rest of the context of this thread.

> the side effects of the pill, which women endure and men don't.

women are free to choose to not take the pill or take it and accept the consequences. Also, there are many alternatives to the pill.

Either way, I don't understand what point you are trying to make. You are just making random statements and ignoring the context of the discussion.
by sshine | 2025-04-20 21:00:08+00:00
How does Hedgehog and Hypothesis differ in their shrinking strategies?

The article uses the words "integrated" vs. "internal" shrinking.

> the raison d’être of internal shrinking: it doesn’t matter that we cannot shrink the two generators independently, because we are not shrinking generators! Instead, we just shrink the samples that feed into those generators.

Besides that it seems like falsify has many of the same features like choice of ranges and distributions.
by OxfordOutlander | 2025-04-20 21:01:47+00:00
Given Sam recently said he thinks consumer is going to be the valuable path, perhaps it is not too much to pay for a great ux/product team

"Ben Thompson: What’s going to be more valuable in five years? A 1-billion daily active user destination site that doesn’t have to do customer acquisition, or the state-of-the-art model?

Sam Altman: The 1-billion user site I think."
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-04-20 21:02:32+00:00
WhichYear 4/20/25 4311 pts 5⃣ avg. years off

6⃣ 1⃣ 5⃣ 2⃣

https://whichyr.com

Wordle opens (or used to) a mock modal dialog with a copy button for sharing the results. I feel like opening the modal rather than requiring clicking the 'share' button probably leads to a lot more shares?

I think I'd save a longer and just put "WhichYr.com" as the top line, bump the date and score to the next line.
by yellowapple | 2025-04-20 21:02:51+00:00
> Rozells’ composite visually echoes pleas from astronomers, who warn that although satellites collect essential data, the staggering amount filling our skies will only worsen light pollution and our ability to study what lies beyond. Because this industry has little regulation, the problem could go unchecked.

We have the technology to put observatories in orbit, where satellite "pollution", light pollution, atmospheric effects, etc. all become significantly less problematic. Maybe that should be our focus, rather than on shaming satellite constellations for doing essential work?
by famouswaffles | 2025-04-20 21:02:56+00:00
>And no, writing a response is not "completing text", I don't try to figure out what another person would write as a response, I write what I feel people need to read.

Functionally, it is. You're determining what text should follow the prior text. Your internal reasoning ('what I feel people need to read') is how you decide on the completion.

The core point isn't that your internal 'how' is the same as an LLM's (Maybe, Maybe not), but that labeling the LLM as a 'text completer' they way you have is essentially meaningless.

You are just imposing your own ideas on the how a LLM works, not speaking any fundamental truth of being a 'text completer'.
by gruez | 2025-04-20 21:03:08+00:00
>pays him pennies for a dollars worth of work.

Uber's financial statements says drivers get around 70% of fares. You might think 30% is too high of a cut, but to imply that drivers are getting paid "pennies" is patently false.

https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...
by NorwegianDude | 2025-04-20 21:04:19+00:00
A 3090 is not a extremely high end GPU. Is a consumer GPU launched in 2020, and even in price and compute it's around a mid-range consumer GPU these days.

The high end consumer card from Nvidia is the RTX 5090, and the professional version of the card is the RTX PRO 6000.
by keernan | 2025-04-20 21:04:45+00:00
I've owned a lot of computers (my first in 1978). For the past 8 years I have purchased ~10 used optiplex machines in various form factors and when my Lenovo laptap died at 18 months old last Nov, I decided to replace it with a used optiplex micro form factor.

I bought I 28" monitor and numphy keyboard and haven't looked back. I plan to buy smart-glasses which will allow me to take the tiny micro and numphy on the road. The primary factor for me was the flexibility a 'desktop' provides.
by davidcbc | 2025-04-20 21:05:12+00:00
The analogy was fine, you're just stretching it too far.

Of course there are times when it's better to leave a "wrong" chord in music, but it's incredibly common for sheet music to have unintentional errors, especially in an ensemble setting. If trumpets are playing a unison part but 1 and 2 have a Bb and trumpet 3 has a B natural nobody thinks twice about fixing the trumpet 3 part. That's the analogy, not jazz and Rachmaninoff
by erxam | 2025-04-20 21:05:20+00:00
Maybe because it's the main book chosen by the cults that rule over the Americas today? And most commenters here are American.

If it were a Venn Diagram, the circle of the people subject to the other 'big' religious books would have very little intersection with the set of the people who frequent this forum. It follows then that they would get far less criticism, since there's so much less exposure.
by dheera | 2025-04-20 21:05:37+00:00
I spent some amount of time trying to create a stock/option trading bot to exploit various market inefficiencies that persist, and did a bunch of code and idea bouncing off these LLMs. What I fund is that even all the various incarnations of GPT 4+ and GPT o+ routinely kept falling for the "get rich quick" option strategies all over the internet that don't work.

In cases where 95%+ of the information on the internet is misinformation, the current incarnations of LLMs have a really hard time sorting out and filtering out the 5% of information that's actually valid and useful.

In that sense, current LLMs are not yet superhuman at all, though I do think we can eventually get there.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-20 21:06:24+00:00
with 30k electors in the house, I expect it would be much more predictable.

It seems plausible to me that it would decrease corruption. It is a lot easier for power brokers and interests to lobby a 435 member house, than 30K member house. Inversely, it is a lot easier for a citizen to lobby their representative when they are 1/12,000 instead of 1/800k.
by lucb1e | 2025-04-20 21:07:24+00:00
How do I know my screen can display all of these correctly? I tried on three different screens, one of which I know is bad, and got 16, 16, 18. Is those two mistakes the error margin of the screen if my eyes are fine, or much more likely to be the error margin of my eyes?

For those reporting scores: please also report device type, like LCD/OLED, or which phone model if applicable. Tweakers.net has a large database of screen color measurements. As mentioned in e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43746400, it can make quite a difference

My 18 score was on an Oppo Reno8, the 16 score on the not-known-bad screen is some ~2008 display. On the former, Tweakers reports an average color error of 3.42 ΔE2000, 9.58 ΔEITP, or 2.60 ΔE2000 if white is excluded
by metalman | 2025-04-20 21:07:42+00:00
humanity is almost certainly immune to extinction, there are too many of us, spread out over the whole globe for anything less than a planet killing asteroid to take us all out.Even the most horribly infectious and deadly diseases are never 100% fatal to those who get it. a low birth rate in any given culture is definitly a threat to that culture, and almost all cultures have a deep identity with they bieng "the people", so it is easy to understand how a lot of cultural groups are feeling threatend, and certainly genocide is real.We have very clear evidence of missing y chromosone groups, and the fact of all previous hominid species going extinct so it's not for nothing that people worry.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-20 21:07:50+00:00
Relatedly, this is also why the “failure” rate for vasectomy isn’t vanishingly close to 0%: it’s almost all dudes having unprotected sex in the first month or so after the procedure.

Spontaneous reconnection happens but is extremely rare. If you can follow the doctor’s orders for a few weeks, vasectomy’s failure rate may as well be 0%.
by rbuss01 | 2025-04-20 21:07:57+00:00
a workflow builder to make it easier for creators and developers to build powerful AI workflows without spinning up infrastructure.

You can drag and drop models like like text-to-speech or image generation models into a visual pipeline, connect them with JavaScript, and deploy them as shareable tools. It also supports image/audio/text processing and real-time testing. A monetization system is in the works so you can eventually sell what you build.
by dctoedt | 2025-04-20 21:09:00+00:00
Seems like it was just headlinese, plus being super-cautious about defamation before a conviction — especially in the UK, where libel law is more pro-plaintiff that in the U.S.. FTA itself: "... Her partner had allegedly used his key to enter her flat and soon the house was on fire.

"While her children, mother and ex-partner all escaped, Lina didn't. Her 11-year-old son was widely reported as telling police it was his father who killed his mother."
by ephaeton | 2025-04-20 21:09:55+00:00
> Personally, I find the idea that a compiler might be able to reach outside itself completely terrifying (Access the network or a database? Are you nuts?).

What is "itself" here, please? Access a static 'external' source? Access a dynamically generated 'external' source? If that file is generated in the build system / build process as derived information, would you put it under version control? If not, are you as nuts as I am?

Some processes require sharp tools, and you can't always be afraid to handle one. If all you have is a blunt tool, well, you know how the saying goes for C++.

> However, what the compiler gets and generates should be completely deterministic.

The zig community treats 'zig build' as "the compile step", ergo what "the compiler" gets ultimately is decided "at compile, er, zig build time". What the compiler gets, i.e., what zig build generates within the same user-facing process, is not deterministic.

Why would it be. Generating an interface is something that you want to be part of a streamline process. Appeasing C interfaces will be moving to a zig build-time multi-step process involving zig's 'translate-c' whose output you then import into your zig file. You think anybody is going to treat that output differently than from what you'd get from doing this invisibly at comptime (which, btw, is what practically happens now)?
by throwup238 | 2025-04-20 21:10:04+00:00
It's definitely a trap for those who aren't familiar with the existing academic work in philosophy, cognition, and neuroscience. There are no definitive answers but there are lots of relatively well developed ideas and concepts that everyone here on HN seems completely ignorant of, even though some of the ideas were developed by industry giants like Marvin Minsky.

Stuff like society of minds (Minksy), embodied cognition (Varela, Rosch, and Thompson), connectionist or subsymbolic views (Rumelhart), multiple intelligences (Gardner), psychometric and factor-analytic theories (Carroll), and all the other work like E. Hutchins. They're far from just academic wankery, there's a lot of useful stuff in there, it's just completely ignored by the AI crowd.
by famouswaffles | 2025-04-20 21:10:11+00:00
>Uses DallE for graphics and specialized tokenizer models for sound.

chatgpt no longer uses dalle for image generation. I don't understand your point about the tokenization. It doesn't make the model become an ensemble.

It's also just beside the point. Even if you restrict the modalities to text alone, these models are still general alone in ways a calculator is not.
by mac-mc | 2025-04-20 21:10:37+00:00
When it can replace a polite, diligent, experienced 120 IQ human in all tasks. So it has a consistent long-term narrative memory, doesn't "lose the plot" as you interact longer and longer with it, can pilot robots to do physical labor without much instruction (what is current state of the art is not that, a trained human will still do much better, can drive cars, etc), generate images without goofy non-human style errors, etc.
by tzs | 2025-04-20 21:12:43+00:00
How about something like this?

| __ | |_/\_| | | | \/ |__| E 1 2 3

E is the Earth. 1 is a thin lightweight black disc to block the view of the rest of the satellite. 3 is the working parts of the satellite. 2 are mirrors to direct any emissions from 1 in the direction of 3 out to the sides and to direct any emissions from 3 in the direction of 1 out to sides.
by sunshine-o | 2025-04-20 21:12:54+00:00
I am exited whenever I see something with a physical qwerty keyboard.

I could really ditch my smartphone if one of those could run Linux reasonably well.

LilyGo do have the perfect device and keyboard [0] but Linux on the ESP32-S3 is tough.

- [0] https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-plus-1
by os2warpman | 2025-04-20 21:14:19+00:00
The people shouting about low birth rates don't actually care about low birth rates.

They are using concern about low birth rates to get people riled up and trojan horse bigotry into a mainstream message to gain a base of people who will support their efforts to enforce their values on others.

IF there's a low birth rate crisis leading to a lack of workers THEN you can justify child labor

IF there's a low birth rate crisis it's because of women and THEN you can justify restricting women's rights

IF there's a low birth rate crisis "we all know what that means" THEN you can talk about replacement theory without talking about it

IF there's a low birth rate crisis THEN you can propose all manner of ludicrous things that are otherwise socially unacceptable

IF there's a low birth rate crisis THEN you can distract people from the other shit you're doing

The easiest way to prove that the people shouting about a low birth rate crisis don't actually care about birth rates is to compile a list of their solutions to the "crisis".

Are the solutions the subsidizing of childcare and healthcare or lower taxes?

Are the solutions supporting young families or punishing and demonizing women who choose not to be mothers?

The only thing the people shouting about low birth rates care about is money.

That's it. That's all.

Money.

"Civilization is going to collapse unless you elect someone who will fix the low birthrate crisis and the best solution is eliminating the capital gains tax so while you're angry and panicking please vote for this guy over here."

There is indeed some plain old bigotry and sexism at the margins but on the whole it's about money.
by ranger_danger | 2025-04-20 21:15:10+00:00
They have a legal obligation to moderate content that is against US law and probably against their own rules if they want to keep Section 230 protections. And everyone knows they have a problem with very frequent rule-breaking posts and large bots posting such content.

If there's not enough trustworthy janitors right from the start, it's increasingly likely they could get in trouble too quickly. I think that's what they're worried about.
by simonw | 2025-04-20 21:15:45+00:00
I fed in the entire act with the articles and the recitals. The full response from Gemini included information from the articles, but I didn't quote that directly in my blog post. Here's that full response: https://gist.github.com/simonw/f2e341a2e8ea9ca75c6426fa85bc2...

Relevant section:

> Article 53(2) provides an exception from the obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models regarding technical documentation (Art 53(1)(a)) and providing information to downstream providers (Art 53(1)(b)) if the models are released under a free and open-source license and their parameters (including weights), information on model architecture, and information on model usage are made publicly available. This exemption does not apply to general-purpose AI models with systemic risks.
by pornel | 2025-04-20 21:15:57+00:00
There is a stark contrast in usability of self-contained/owning types vs types that are temporary views bound by a lifetime of the place they are borrowing from. But this is an inherent problem for all non-GC languages that allow saving pointers to data on the stack (Rust doesn't need lifetimes for by-reference heap types). In languages without lifetimes you just don't get any compiler help in finding places that may be affected by dangling pointers.

This is similar to creating a broadly-used data structure and realizing that some field has to be optional. Option<T> will require you to change everything touching it, and virally spread through all the code that wanted to use that field unconditionally. However, that's not the fault of the Option syntax, it's the fault of semantics of optionality. In languages that don't make this "miserable" at compile time, this problem manifests with a whack-a-mole of NullPointerExceptions at run time.

With experience, I don't get this "oh no, now there's a lifetime popping up everywhere" surprise in Rust any more. Whether something is going to be a temporary view or permanent storage can be known ahead of time, and if it can be both, it can be designed with Cow-like types.

I also got a sense for when using a temporary loan is a premature optimization. All data has to be stored somewhere (you can't have a reference to data that hasn't been stored). Designs that try to be ultra-efficient by allowing only temporary references often force data to be stored in a temporary location first, and then borrowed, which doesn't avoid any allocations, only adds dependencies on external storage. Instead, the design can support moving or collecting data into owned (non-temporary) storage directly. It can then keep it for an arbirary lifetime without lifetime annotations, and hand out temporary references to it whenever needed. The run-time cost can be the same, but the semantics are much easier to work with.
by cstrahan | 2025-04-20 21:17:27+00:00
While I disagree with your claim that steroids are a viable form of birth control, I do agree a bit with this, though not for the stated reason.

What many people don’t realize (probably in large part because they see testosterone and estrogen as diametrically opposed things) is that testosterone levels impacts estrogen levels. Why? Because the body produces estrogen through the aromitization of testosterone. Increasing testosterone will increase estrogen.

A common struggle for those on TRT (both those at true replacement levels, as well as those taking supraphysiological doses) is elevated estrogen. I know that when my estrogen levels have gone too high, I become more neurotic than I usually am.

If you couple increased neuroticism with an elevated sense of dominance (especially at bodybuilding doses), and top that off with a general lack of poor management of one’s emotions (which I suspect is common amongst bodybuilders), what you likely get is a very volatile person. Not because of testosterone, but because of the elevated estrogen and their existing psychological issues.
by rafaelmn | 2025-04-20 21:17:36+00:00
I'd say using a Mac studio with M4 Max and 128 GB RAM will get you way further than 4090 in context size and model size. Cheaper than 2x4090 and less power while being a great overall machine.

I think these consumer GPUs are way too expensive for the amount of memory they pack - and that's intentional price discrimination. Also the builds are gimmicky. It's just not setup for AI models, and the versions that are cost 20k.

AMD has that 128GB RAM strix halo chip but even with soldered ram the bandwidth there is very limited, half of M4 Max, which is half of 4090.

I think this generation of hardware and local models is not there yet - would wait for M5/M6 release.