MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by csours | 2025-04-24 20:57:27+00:00
> Which seems like it's going to have the effect of just accelerating the demise of the organization they claim to love so much.

Sometimes there is not a direct path to 'good'. Sometimes the path to things getting better goes through a rough patch.

It is very dissatisfying that a lot of people are doing very stupid things very publicly right now.

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Politics is an information game, and you can't play an information game without changing the game; all information games are metagames.

The way the game is being played right now is drastically changing the game.

I won't claim that the game will be better after this (especially in the short term), but it certainly will be different.
by hodgesrm | 2025-04-24 20:57:54+00:00
If you mean the fall of the Roman Republic, that and the succeeding decadence of the Empire was covered in detail by Roman sources. The Annals of Tacitus are just one of many examples. [0] It's how we know what happened.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_(Tacitus)
by echelon | 2025-04-24 20:58:02+00:00
I don't think so. This model kills the need for Flux, ComfyUI, LoRAs, fine tuning, and pretty much everything that's come before it.

This is the god model in images right now.

I don't think open source diffusion models can catch up with this. From what I've heard, this model took a huge amount of money to train that not even Black Forest Labs has access to.
by cuuupid | 2025-04-24 20:58:25+00:00
When this was up yesterday I complained that the refusal rate was super high especially on government and military shaped tasks, and that this would only push contractors to use CN-developed open source models for work that could then be compromised.

Today I'm discovering there is a tier of API access with virtually no content moderation available to companies working in that space. I have no idea how to go about requesting that tier of access, but have spoken to 4 different defense contractors in the last day who seem to already be using it.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-04-24 20:58:32+00:00
That's what my liberal friends told me from 2017 to approximately the day Musk bought Twitter: "They're private companies, bro, they can do what they want. Just don't use them if you don't like it." They never said that before 2017, and they've stopped saying it now. Welcome back to the "censorship is bad" side, I guess; just don't tell me it was ever about a principle.
by kirubakaran | 2025-04-24 20:59:11+00:00
This morning I made this while sipping coffee, and it solves a real problem for my gf: https://github.com/kirubakaran/xmldiffer Sure it's not enormous, and it was built from scratch, but imho it's not a trivial thing either. It would've taken me at least a day or two of full time work, and I certainly don't have a couple of days to spare on a task like this. Instead, pair programming with AI made it into a fun relaxing activity.
by fr4nkr | 2025-04-24 20:59:19+00:00
I noticed this the other day when I installed VSCodium on my new Windows box. I had a functional setup for one day, then the next day I couldn't install a language extension I direly needed.

It's left a very sour taste in my mouth. I've used Emacs for ages and despite being a much more niche editor, it's never been so hard-dependent on centralized repositories, and the centralized repositories it does have (ELPA/MELPA) are apparently a lot more reliable than OpenVSX. Installing Emacs packages manually from source is a breeze, doing so with VSC is masochistic.

VSC is not really "open source" in any meaningful sense. It is just plainly unusable if you don't do things the way Microsoft wants you to. I do respect the VSCodium devs for trying to make VSC more properly open, but it does feel like a futile effort.
Ask HN: How to speed up B-1 visa for YC AI Startup School in June?
by AhmedBlackEye | 2025-04-24 20:59:30+00:00
I’ve been invited to attend the YC's AI Startup School in the U.S. this June, and I’m very eager to attend.

I’m a UK resident currently attending university in London, and I hold an Egyptian passport, meaning I’m not eligible for ESTA and need to apply for a B-1 visa.

The official U.S. visa site shows a 58-day wait time for an interview in London. Also, many people online have reported that the entire process can take over 6 months, which is well beyond the event date.

I’m quite new to this process, and it seems there’s not much I can do. I looked into expedited visa appointments, but they appear to be reserved for medical, humanitarian, or important business situations (I didn’t think the event would qualify, as it’s more of a conference). I haven’t submitted the DS-160 yet because, given the wait times and uncertainty, it feels unrealistic. Also, the visa fee is a bit expensive, and I’ve been hesitant to commit without knowing if there’s a way forward.

I’ve received an invitation letter from YC and am considering requesting an expedited appointment regardless. However, I’m unsure how often these requests are granted or how best to approach them. I’ve never travelled on my own before, let alone dealt with such a complex process.

Has anyone here:

- Successfully expedited a B-1 visa from the UK?

- Navigated a similar situation on a tight timeline?

- Got tips or advice?

Any advice or insights would be greatly appreciated. I’ve also contacted YC directly, but they haven’t responded yet, and I’m running short on time.
by ModernMech | 2025-04-24 20:59:49+00:00
The specific boycott is against Tesla, and the specific issue is Elon Musk's wealth. The objective is to bankrupt him by bankrupting Tesla until Musk is gone. The only acceptable future Tesla has is a future without any financial ties to Musk.

> There is zero chance of anything happening in the world because of this.

So far we've accomplished a 71% drop in profits, and we aren't letting up. This has caused him to turn tail from DOGE and to cry on his earnings call about it. We are having an impact, and it is impacting Musk's and Tesla's behavior.
by pshirshov | 2025-04-24 20:59:59+00:00
> But why do you even have to do this fucking bullshit

Because it's like 2-4 times cheaper than to go nvidia?..

> the three random cards you have

It's more than 3 random cards. I run 6900 XT, 7900 XTX, W7900 Pro, VII, VII Pro, Vega 56, Vega 64, 6800 XT, 5700 XT plus I've experimented with a 9950 iGPU, a 5xxx series iGPU and the only thing which didn't work was 3400g iGPU.

> Apparently only fp16 models work

fp8 works for me
by petsfed | 2025-04-24 21:00:02+00:00
I submit that if the concept of quantum transitions is alien to whatever recipient of that probe (if ever), then any attempts to communicate are hopeless anyway. That is, if the recipient's physical reality is so different from our own that they can't at least get back to "oh, this distance means that transition, now the rest of the plaque makes sense", then no asynchronous communication will bridge that gap.
by gruez | 2025-04-24 21:00:06+00:00
>It looks like Twitter is suppressing posts until they are spammed by hate bots and then making those posts visible.

>https://bsky.app/profile/willhaycardiff.bsky.social/post/3lk...

This could also very well be explained by a ranking algorithm that optimizes for "engagement". Getting spammed by hate bots = "engagement". This would be perfectly consistent with what the guy is experiencing, minus the accusation that the platform is suppressing anti-ukraine posts, which is totally unsubstantiated.
by jonplackett | 2025-04-24 21:00:06+00:00
Does anyone know if you can give this endpoint an image as input along with text - not just an image to mask, but an image as part of a text input description.

I can’t see a way to do this currently, you just get a prompt.

This, I think, is the most powerful way to use the new image model since it actually understands the input image and can make a new one based on it.

Eg you can give it a person sitting at a desk and it can make one of them standing up. Or from another angle. Or in the moon.
by skydhash | 2025-04-24 21:00:21+00:00
The nice thing about SO and Github is that there's little to no reason there for things to not work, at least in the context where you found the code. The steps are getting the context, assuming it's true based on various indicators (mostly reputation) and then continuing on with understanding the snippet.

But with LLMs, every word is a probability factor. Assuming the first paragraph is true has no impact on the rest.
by imoreno | 2025-04-24 21:00:41+00:00
The most interesting point in this is that people don't/can't fully utilize LLMs. Not exposing the system prompt is a great example. Totally spot on.

However the example (garry email) is terrible. If the email is so short, why are you even using a tool? This is like writing a selenium script to click on the article and scroll it, instead of... Just scrolling it? You're supposed to automate the hard stuff, where there's a pay off. AI can't do grade school math well, who cares? Use a calculator. AI is for things where 70% accuracy is great because without AI you have 0%. Grade school math, your brain has 80% accuracy and calculator has 100%, why are you going to the AI? And no, "if it can't even do basic math..." is not a logically sound argument. It's not what it's built for, of course it won't work well. What's next? "How can trains be good at shipping, I tried to carry my dresser to the other room with it and the train wouldn't even fit in my house, not to mention having to lay track in my hallway - terrible!"

Also the conclusion misses the point. It's not that AI is some paradigm shift and businesses can't cope. It's just that giving customers/users minimal control has been the dominant principle for ages. Why did Google kill the special syntax for search? Why don't they even document the current vastly simpler syntax? Why don't they let you choose what bubble profile to use instead of pushing one on you? Why do they change to a new, crappy UI and don't let you keep using the old one? Same thing here, AI is not special. The author is clearly a power user, such users are niche and their only hope is to find a niche "hacker" community that has what they need. The majority of users are not power users, do not value power user features, in fact the power user features intimidate them so they're a negative. Naturally the business that wants to capture the most users will focus on those.
by refulgentis | 2025-04-24 21:00:55+00:00
It's "tier 5", I've had an account since the 3.0 days so I can't be positive I'm not grandfathered in, but, my understanding is as long as you have a non-trivial amount of spend for a few months you'll have that access.

(fwiw for anyone curious how to implement it, it's the 'moderation' parameter in the JSON request you'll send, I missed it for a few hours because it wasn't in Dalle-3)
by dredmorbius | 2025-04-24 21:01:30+00:00
More generally, in the British legal tradition. Also known as "common law".

There are exceptions. I believe Napoleonic Law (France, Spain, Mexico, etc.) follows a different model, as does German law, where court decisions do not establish precedent, see e.g., <https://paperity.org/p/232486962/on-the-role-of-precedents-a...>.
by hashstring | 2025-04-24 21:01:39+00:00
Agree about meat, however, the article still made me think.

> What people see feels organic. In reality, they’re engaging with what’s already been filtered, ranked, and surfaced. Naturally, I— and I think many humans have this too- often perceive comments/content that I see as a backscatter of organic content reflecting some sort of consensus. Thousands of people replying the same thing surely gives me the impression of consensus. Obviously, this is not necessarily the truth (and it may be far from it even). However, it remains interesting, because since more people may perceive it as such, it may become consensus after all regardless.

Ultimately, I think it’s good to be reminded about the fact that it’s still algorithmic knobs at play here. Even if that’s something that is not news.
by rockemsockem | 2025-04-24 21:01:52+00:00
If those mechanisms already existed and you requested and were granted access to them then there wouldn't be anything to comment on really? There would be no firing, nothing would happen.

I'm not defending anything, I'm trying very hard to see what the specific problem is here and all I see is "now things XYZ might happen" and I'm just thinking that I'd be far more interested in an article about XYZ actually happening than this "reporting" on "maybe things ABC happened and maybe things XYZ will happen".
by jandrese | 2025-04-24 21:01:56+00:00
> News is/was paid vast sums by the government to tell a certain story.

In the US it is not the government paying these sums, it is the billionaires who bought the media outlets. When you look for editorial bias in the US it's not pro-government, it's pro-wealth. Or more specifically pro-wealthy people.

> I would say Wikipedia is even more dangerous because it presents as basic facts.

Can you give some examples of political bias in Wikipedia articles?
by bluGill | 2025-04-24 21:02:20+00:00
WhatsApp never caught on in the US since cell phones and SMS were a great deal for keeping in touch. By the time WhatsApp arrived US carriers were not raping their customers for phone calls or SMS messages (in the early days of cell phones they were - be very careful responding as the state of the world has changed many times over the years and so it is quite possible you remember a time where your country was better than the US for reasons that are no longer true!). Note in particular calls and SMS to a different state is included, and typically Canada is included as well. As such we never developed the WhatsApp habbit as it didn't give us anything.
by raincole | 2025-04-24 21:02:33+00:00
ChatGPT's prompt adherence is light years ahead of all the others. I won't even call Flux/Midjoueny its competitors. ChatGPT image gen is practically a one-of-its-kind unique product on the market: the only usable AI image editor for people without image editing experience.

I think in terms of image generation, ChatGPT is the biggest leap since Stable Diffusion's release. LoRA/ControlNet/Flux are forgettable in comparison.
by pdabbadabba | 2025-04-24 21:02:44+00:00
Gemini 2.5 Pro nails it, as far as I'm concerned:

This sounds like a bit of a riddle! Here's how to think about it:

If you can dry all the towels at the same time: For example, if you have a large enough dryer or enough space on a clothesline, adding more towels doesn't necessarily increase the drying time.

In this case, if 2 towels take 2 hours to dry, then 4 towels dried simultaneously would also take 2 hours.

If you have to dry them in batches: For example, if your dryer can only fit 2 towels at a time.

You would dry the first 2 towels (2 hours). Then you would dry the second 2 towels (another 2 hours). In this scenario, it would take 4 hours in total.

Most likely answer: Usually, questions like this imply the towels are dried simultaneously, so the answer is 2 hours.
by idon4tgetit | 2025-04-24 21:03:04+00:00
"Fix".

So long as the grocery store has groceries, most people will not care what a chat bot spews.

This forum is full of syntax and semantics obsessed loonies who think the symbolic logic represents the truth.

I look forward to being able to use my own creole to manipulate a machine's state to act like a video game or a movie rather than rely on the special literacy of other typical copy-paste middle class people. Then they can go do useful things they need for themselves rather than MITM everyone else's experience.
by asadotzler | 2025-04-24 21:03:19+00:00
My exact experience. I spent months trimming my follow list down from hundreds to about 25 very carefully selected people and blocking and muting words and accounts, all trying to make my feed about the people I followed instead of what ever the so-called influencers and Musk toadies were peddling. It didn't help much so I created a brand new account from an email address on a different domain using a different web browser on a different machine and the content was no different except that new account also got and about a dozen Tesla sycophants occupying every 4th or 5th post in the feed. So, new accounts get all the same garbage as old accounts with the added benefit of a bunch of Tesla simp pseudo-ads.
by dasil003 | 2025-04-24 21:03:42+00:00
> I get this, but the moment this "feeling" comes up during my 9-5 I nip it in the bud

I hear this sentiment a lot, and after 25 years in the software industry I have a visceral understanding of why it is the appropriate response in certain environments/situations. On the other hand, I've been in situations where going above and beyond has been well rewarded (both monetarily and in terms of work satisfaction).

To me this has to be contextual to a specific job/team/project or you risk cutting off your nose to spite your face. Doing the bare minimum is a necessary defense mechanism in a toxic environment—and no judgement on anyone doing what they have to do to survive—but the flip side of this attitude is it disqualifies you from the best, most satisfying teams to work on.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-04-24 21:04:16+00:00
Kids are ruthless about anti green bubble discrimination and it’s part of the reason for the rise of incels. The overwhelming majority of incels are android users, and the mainstream cultural media likes to make clear that one of the reason for being incels is them using a “poordroid”

https://leafandcore.com/2019/08/24/green-bubbles-are-a-turn-...

https://outsidethebeltway.com/the-dreaded-green-bubble/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-...

https://gizmodo.com/im-buying-an-iphone-because-im-ashamed-o...

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/28/1241473453/why-green-text-bub...

https://www.fastcompany.com/90391587/why-we-dont-want-you-an...
by like_any_other | 2025-04-24 21:04:36+00:00
BBC report on the law [1] features a wide range of opinions, from "this is a step in the right direction" to "doesn't go far enough". It seems strange they couldn't find a single person actually opposed to the law, but I guess the BBC knows the British public better than I.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yljn2vkn1o
by dleary | 2025-04-24 21:04:45+00:00
What I’m taking issue with is you disagreeing with the GP assertion that Facebook made purposeful business decisions.

I agree that a Facebook had a powerful incentive to act this way. But they didn’t have to. The fact that they chose to reflects on their moral character.

Internal leaks let us know that Facebook has pretty advanced sentiment analysis internally. They knew that they were (are) making people miserable. They know that outrage causes engagement.

Other internal leaks let us know that Facebook was aware of how much disinformation was (is) being used on their platform to influence elections. To attack democracy.

They didn’t just look the other way, which would be reason enough to condemn them. They helped. When they saw how much money the propagandists were willing to pay, they built improved tools to better help them propagandize.

After the UK was shattered by the Brexit lies, when Facebook were called in front of parliament and congress to explain themselves over the Cambridge Analytica and related misinformation campaigns, they stalled, they lied, they played semantic word games to avoid admitting what is clearly stated in the leaked memos.

These were all choices. People should be held accountable for making awful choices.

Even if those choices result in them making a lot of money.

It sounds kind of crazy to even have to say that, doesn’t it? But that is where we are, partly because of arguments like yours from otherwise well-meaning people.

Don’t absolve them. Hold them accountable.

Zuckerberg wants to own the whole world and thinks you’re an idiot for trusting him. An egocentic sociopath who can’t imagine trusting anyone else because he knows what he will do when you give him your trust.
by gruez | 2025-04-24 21:04:58+00:00
> In the end he won the bet and got an enormous payout. I remember calculating that if he divided the award in half and split that half evenly among every single Tesla employee that it would amount to about $40,000 per person, a life changing amount of money for most people. Instead he kept it all for himself and gave a press conference about how big of a genius he is.

You call the bet "reckless", but are seemingly only opposed to it because he didn't share the winnings? Which one is it? Also, I can't find the source for this bet, only some bets about covid, and whether the tesla roadster could be built at all.
by linkregister | 2025-04-24 21:04:59+00:00
It would slow down the operation of the organization. In this case, it's counterproductive to the director's aims. The director's goal is to maximize grant funding; a functional bureaucracy is essential for that goal. There is nothing the director can do to increase the funding, which is being cut by an external source. The legality of the funding cut is unclear, but the director has no agency in the outcome of a legal challenge.
by elternal_love | 2025-04-24 21:05:01+00:00
Hmm, plug this together with a app which collects photos and chats with a deceased love one and you have a working Malachim. Might be worth a shot.

Impressive technology - impressive demo! Sadly, the conversation seems to be a little bit overplayed. Might be worth plugging ChatGPT or some better LLM in the logic section.,
by RajT88 | 2025-04-24 21:05:22+00:00
That was intentional. I recall testing this out every time there was a new "oops, we're sorry, we reset your privacy settings to default -- AGAIN".

The privacy settings were carefully designed to have vague wording that how they worked on the surface wasn't how they really worked. Each and every one of them which had a different functionality than what the wording suggested on its surface resulted in you sharing to a much wider audience than you thought you were.

I recall carefully testing it out with a burner account which my main was not friends with, and it consistently taking 2-3 tries to get the privacy settings back to where I wanted them to be.

I would take those days over what Facebook is today - which is to say, useless. The only thing I use it for is groups, which have the good sense to only be about the thing you want to learn about when you look at the group. Still though - it is sad that FB Groups killed off small web forums.
by mnky9800n | 2025-04-24 21:05:38+00:00
I don’t understand why people take anything he says seriously. He has kept people interested by offering fake robots, fake driving cars, fake going to mars stories, fake founder stories, fake pump and dump meme coins. The reason he loves Donald trump is because he is Donald trump. Then again I never understood why people took Donald trump seriously either. So maybe it’s me who doesn’t understand.
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