MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alganet | 2025-04-09 01:19:56+00:00
Articles like these are tricky. It's an obvious clickbaity thing. Humans knew birds are smart since way before science decided to call itself science.

I think the text plays more on hammering the "nothing makes sense in biology except for the light of evolution" thing than on the roots of intelligence.

The purpose and definition of intelligence have always been a critical point in evolutionary biology.

No mention of the foxp2 gene and the peculiarities of both human and bird variants? Seems like this would open a point for an opposite conclusion (there is a common root if you consider language part of what constitutes intelligence).

In the sixties, birds were girls, cats were boys, and everyone was kind of an asshole. Why should I trust any kind of research that started back then? :) If we're gonna be weirdly anacronistic, let's at least be clear about it. I am more of a 2025 person.
by pabs3 | 2025-04-09 01:20:09+00:00
Where does IBM get their CPUs fabbed? I assume they don't have their own fabs these days?

Edit: its "Samsung’s leading edge 5 nm process node" according to the Telum II article linked from one of the other comments here.

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/telum-ii-at-hot-chips-2024-main...

Surprising they aren't using TSMC like pretty much everyone else does.
by taeric | 2025-04-09 01:21:02+00:00
Apologies, the additional cycles to do justified text is effectively zero compared to the rest of the stack for most sites. Clearly, it is work, so not actually zero. And, yes, proper text handling is huge.

I would wager you can find scenarios where it is a large number. My question is if there are sites people use?

Seriously taken, these would all be reasons not to do many of the things Unicode does. And yet here we are.

That all said, if you have measurements, please share. Happy to be proven wrong.
by spaceribs | 2025-04-09 01:21:04+00:00
I've used both, and while I think Vega has it's uses, it's not nearly as web developer friendly. Frontend engineers want a clear delineation between logic, composition and styling. By combining everything into a JSON document, you sacrifice that developer experience while introducing a lot of bespoke approaches.

That said, I absolutely love the idea that a blob of JSON living in my database contains everything I need for my visualization. The reality is that not enough other people are willing to put in the effort to learn that syntax, making it somewhat of a selfish tech choice.
by zozbot234 | 2025-04-09 01:21:11+00:00
Strictly speaking, Wikidata is an existing project which only provides a rather restrictive model for its assertions; they are not fully compositional, thus are quite far from being able to express general encyclopedic text, especially in a way that can be 'seamlessly' translated to natural language. It does provide a likely foundation for these further planned developments, though.
by WillPostForFood | 2025-04-09 01:21:33+00:00
The question isn't whether maximum global free trade maximizes efficiency. The question is whether maximizing global economic efficiency creates optimal outcomes for a nation, for groups within a nation, or for individuals in the nation. It is clearly a mixed bag, so there is pushback.

Ask these questions. Besides maximizing monetary efficiency:

Does free trade maximize a nation's resiliency?

Does free trade maximize a nation's employment?

Does free trade maximize a nation's security?

Does free trade promote equitable distribution of a nation's wealth?

Unless the question is yes to every answer, it is fair to have a policy debate about how much you are going to limit free trade. Every nation does it to some degree, no matter how much free trade rhetoric they promote.
by noer | 2025-04-09 01:21:37+00:00
It depends on what I'm looking for. If I have a specific thing that I'm just looking for an answer on, then I typically will use ChatGPT. Most of my google searches are either navigational, things i know Google will return more quickly than ChatGPT ("how old is this actor", "when was xx player drafted") or when I'm interested in browsing results (looking for recipes for borscht, I want to see a few different recipes).
by AlotOfReading | 2025-04-09 01:22:03+00:00
It might sound silly, but just close your eyes and listen. Your brain is very good at localizing sounds. Turn to see if the sound direction moves or becomes more distinguishable. Tilting your head or moving a few steps in any direction can help in some environments.

You'll develop an ear for it the more you practice. You might not be able to actually find the bird once you've found the tree. They can be hard to spot from the ground.
by brailsafe | 2025-04-09 01:22:50+00:00
I'm sorry you're in this situation, but every part of this is basically just life, and many many people go through this as the norm not the exception. It was just that in previous years your expectation happened to meet a fortunate reality.

I didn't even bother finishing school because all it's there for in practical private industry terms is to "prepare" you for competing favorably for a junior position, or actually qualify you objectively in regulated industries. In academia I guess you'd be done like 2/5 steps if you were interested in pursuing that long-term, but idk much about that. It took me so long to find a job last time I was laid off that I absolutely considered going back and re-schooling from scratch to qualify for that junior position in something more tangibly valuable/stable, but then happened to land something. That was the third time I'd spent more than a year completely unemployed. It's a sickening grind and has never become easier.

However, just because you're not graduating with a job in hand (a fanciful dream in other industries) doesn't mean you won't find one any time between when you graduate and a year out. You might, it just takes continued persistence, and a hell of a lot of luck, and meeting people in the real world outside school.

It's extremely demoralizing though, you're right about that.
by drdaeman | 2025-04-09 01:24:06+00:00
> What's going to happen when someone can make a competing movie in their style with just a prompt?

Nothing? Just like how if some studio today invests millions of man-hours and does a competing movie in Studio Ghibli's aesthetic (but not including any Studio Ghibli's characters, branding, etc. - basically, not the copyrightable or trademarkable stuff) nothing out of ordinary is going to happen.

I mean, artistic style is not copyrightable, right?
by r3trohack3r | 2025-04-09 01:24:23+00:00
Netflix serves nearly all of its video from a server down the street from you via its OpenConnect infrastructure. AWS only hosts its microservice graph that does stuff like determining which videos and qualities you should be offered.

That being said, its core product has been nearly comoditized. When Netflix entered the market, delivering long form high quality video over the public internet was nascent. Now everyone and their grandma can spin up a video streaming service from a vendor.
by Kirby64 | 2025-04-09 01:24:41+00:00
No, I don't. Like I said at the end:

> I’m not advocating for it being an absolute state, but you certainly have to give some consideration to the fact that dressing up far more than is needed implies you don’t culturally understand. It’s as simple as that.

I'm not saying you immediately throw a candidate out for wearing a suit. It's entirely possible I'm wrong and my mind can be changed by their performance, but it is something that would make me take a closer look.

I'll give you another example I experienced recently: a candidate who would not stop drumming their fingers on the table throughout the interview. Is that specifically related to their performance? No, not really. Is it annoying, a bit disrespectful, and shows a lack of restraint? Yeah, it is. This candidate had other flaws that made them disqualifying, but their finger drumming didn't help them at all.
by pizzly | 2025-04-09 01:24:45+00:00
Just tested it on a case we were working on for months so we can better validate the output. We found it was really good at finding websites from google searches and can navigate websites. From that it gave a good compressive review of the case. Where it failed is searching online databases i.e. one example is a business register. If the search result does not have the exact same keyword it will not review the result. However, the keyword appeared within the document of the search result and thus it missed out on this key information. Overall very good but still needs some work.
by bluGill | 2025-04-09 01:24:58+00:00
You missed one: the person they can pay is better. I have rebuilt engines, but my cars go a mechanic because it is done in a day not a month. I can texture drywall but I need a lot more practice before it looks even like it should. I know 'scabs' who did a job while the union was on strike - the union people were 10x faster for similer quality - give a few months and they would be that fast. (The strike didn't last that long)
by bryant | 2025-04-09 01:26:09+00:00
> Perhaps it'd be better for the OP to explain how whomever they want to vote for will address opposition voter's perceived most important interests. Otherwise, one can't credibly complain about their vote.

87% of Trump voters during Oct 23-25 2024 at least slightly believed that "American jobs are insecure right now and our future prosperity is under threat."[0]

I reckon I don't have to point at what's been going on the last few months. It's certain that the election going the other way would've at least not resulted in the current debacle.

> Tariffs? Inevitable regardless of the office holder. Prepared for by both sides, for a long time now.

Implying that tariffs of this magnitude would've been inevitable[1][2] regardless of the government elected shows a lack of good-faith participation in this conversation, so I'll move on. Cheers, mate.

[0] Cambridge/YouGov survey finalized Nov 7 2024. https://ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/docume... // press release https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/trump-voters-2024

[1] Harris policy proposals budget model, noting no tariffs and reasonably assumed to have remained consistent with a Harris win. https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2024/8/26/harri...

[2] Trump policy proposals budget model, noting the anticipated 10+% tariffs that have since materialized, including retaliation etc. from trading partners. https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2024/8/26/trump...
by lazide | 2025-04-09 01:26:41+00:00
People like to get rich, so any system they create tends to get the people best at creating systems richer.

That has been true for every economic system ever - some are just more transparent and fair about it.

Would you rather it be people taking bribes, a king, a hereditary merchant class, oligarchs, or people setting up companies?

It has been as true about the USSR and Cuba as it has been about Venice, Canada, the USA, etc.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-04-09 01:26:42+00:00
Thanks for sharing some in depth examples. Why is the marketing firm/platform not on the hook for noncompliance in your first example? That’s kind of where the metaphor falls apart for the doctor and structural engineer examples, because in this case if you were found to be liable the responsibility would actually fall on the doctor/structural engineer. Like if I hire a structural engineer and they build a thing that fails, they’re ultimately on the hook for it, not me. Why is it not the same here?

Your Google spreadsheets example is not, in my opinion, a good example of GDPR failure. I genuinely believe if people are dumb enough to keep PII in spreadsheets they deserve to be fined out the ass. “Everyone is doing it” is a poor justification for such risky behavior. The plumber in your example would never use the wrong pipe fittings or make dumb mistakes like that in their line of work. And if they did, they would understand that they would be on the hook for that. Why should they be absolved of responsibility in some other line of work simply because “everyone does it this way”?

Your example reminds me of HVAC technicians in the States who vent refrigerant into the atmosphere. “Everyone” does it because it’s way easier and more convenient to just do it and ignore the regulations, but the long term consequences for the environment are horrific. I’m sure if I asked those HVAC technicians they also would describe the regulations that they don’t want to abide by as onerous and not necessary.
by GuB-42 | 2025-04-09 01:26:43+00:00
I only use LLMs when I don't know what I am looking for. Otherwise, search engines all the way.

LLMs can't be trusted, you have no way to tell between a correct answer and a hallucination. Which means I often end up searching what the LLM told me just to check, and it is often wrong.

Search engines can also lead you to false information, but you have a lot more context. For example, a StackOverflow answer has comments, and often, they point out important nuances and inaccuracies. You can also cross-reference different websites, and gauge how reliable the information is (ex: primary source vs Reddit post). A well trained LLM can do that implicitly, but you have no idea how it did for your particular case.
by meltyness | 2025-04-09 01:27:56+00:00
I was aware of this, I think a talk about a performance regression on the BSD variant these appliances run was up here recently.

I mean I guess a similar argument holds for colocating with telecoms that would have recently been cable or IPTV providers.

It'd be pretty tough to design around though if any of their caching infrastructure reveals viewership, or engagement data to intermediaries.
by lurking_swe | 2025-04-09 01:28:45+00:00
i can also use my human brain to read a webpage from the source, as the authors intended. not EVERY question on this planet needs to be answered by a high resource intensive LLM. Energy isn’t free you know. :)

Other considerations:

- Visiting the actual website, you’ll see the programming languages logo. That may be a useful memory aide when learning.

- The real website may have diagrams and other things that may not be available in your LLM tool of choice (grok).

- The ACT of browsing to a different web page may help some learners better “compartmentalize” their new knowledge. The human brain works in funny ways.

- i have 0 concerns of a hallucination when readings docs directly from the author/source. Unless they also jumped on the LLM bandwagon lol.

Just because you have a hammer in your hand doesn’t mean you should start trying to hammer everything around you friend. Every tool has its place.
by mrangle | 2025-04-09 01:28:57+00:00
Spare us the theatrics. Every four years wherein the opposition is in office is a perceived "disaster" for the other side.

Here's a question for you and the Nation: did the other side also see the first four years as a disaster? Can you accurately describe why?

You complain about a lack of "rational actors", and yet your complaints aren't couched in rational language.

Your comment resembles a teenage outburst more than anything else.

Can the Nation advance via teenage-style emotional breakdowns, or will the teenagers have to "sit this one out" so that the noise can be turned down enough to progress to a better stage?

What I see is someone who isn't confident enough in the persuasion of their views to do anything but engage in an embarrassing tantrum and hyperbole that isn't designed to solve a single problem.

You say that "my head isn't in the game", and yet you proudly refuse to play on the board.

It's literally impossible to perceive your strategy. It isn't persuasion let alone compromise.

How do you intend to win?
by WantonQuantum | 2025-04-09 01:29:24+00:00
I have a macbook pro, an imac and a mac mini that are all in good working order and in use for various things but they all have the same problem: They can't run the latest macOS because they're too old.

So, my wish for any new macOS is support for older devices. That won't happen because it makes little commercial sense so instead I plan to install linux on them all but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
by pabs3 | 2025-04-09 01:30:35+00:00
Could you use git pre-commit hooks or something similar to transform the files by deterministically sorting the items at each level?

Diffoscope does something similar, diff sorted stuff first, then if there are no changes, then report that, and show the unsorted diffs.

https://diffoscope.org/ https://try.diffoscope.org/
by lamarcke | 2025-04-09 01:30:43+00:00
It's actually not a solid color background, but a very low opacity collection of game covers.

The same goes for mobile, where if you look closely you will see Dishonored 2's cover.

And no, it's not AI generated. We started working on it before ChatGPT made it's debut (yeah i know it's not the first LLM but no one considered vibe coding before it), and you can see our entire source code in Github.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-04-09 01:30:51+00:00
From the NY Times article:

> or are awaiting reassignment

> These maternal health programs are still funded by the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR.

So the money is still there, so are at least some of the staff, and they're doing a reorg. It doesn't look like they're shutting down the program.
by caseyy | 2025-04-09 01:31:04+00:00
It's not so much optimism as facts. Large AAA game companies have driven away investors[0] and talent[1]. The old growth engines (microtransactions, live service games, season passes, user-generated content, loot boxes, eSports hero shooters, etc.) also no longer work, as neither general players nor whales find them appealing.

AI is considered a potential future growth engine, as it cuts costs in art production, where the bulk of game production costs lie. Game executives are latching onto it hard because it's arguably one of the few straightforward ways to keep growing their publicly-traded companies and their own stock earnings. But technologists already know how this will end.

Other games industry leaders are betting on collapse and renewal to simpler business models, like self-funded value-first games. Also, many bet on less cashflow-intensive game production, including lower salaries (there is much to be said about that).

Looking at industry reports and business circle murmurs, this is the current state of gaming. Some consider it optimistic, and others (especially the business types without much creative talent) - dire. But it does seem to be the objective situation.

[0] VC investment has been down by more than 10x over the last two years, and many big Western game companies have lost investors' money in the previous five years. See Matthew Ball's report, which I linked in my parent comment, for more info.

[1] The games industry has seen more than 10% sustained attrition over the last 5 years, and about 50% of employees hope to leave their employer within a year: https://www.skillsearch.com/news/item/games---interactive-sa...
by wruza | 2025-04-09 01:34:05+00:00
If you have no specific plan for your "data" and cannot recall any important value extracted from it in the past 5 years (2 if you're <30), then it's just digital hoarding. It was a popular disease in the days before the internet when some people visited each other with hard drives and synced "new data". Music they will never listen to, videos they'll never watch, guides they never read. They even tried to download the internet, for a while.

The proper way to deal with it is not sorting or filtering. The proper way is to precisely extract what you actually used (like in: "it happened in June") in the recent years and then hard-delete the rest. Give it ten minutes, then just do it.

When later you remember that you had something but now it's gone, think about the tradeoff between searching through the pile vs searching through the internet and how rarely you refer to the pile compared to efforts spent on maintaining it.
by cduzz | 2025-04-09 01:34:12+00:00
This is weird.

There was a huge disruption to lots of industries between the 1950s and the 1990s. Lots of established machine tool companies (bridgeport and such) didn't modernize and went out of business or otherwise shrank.

But at the same time Haas automation started in the early 80s and is now quite large and successful.

The US economy is huge. Lots of other parts of it have made the US manufacturing part of it seem quite small.

If Canada invaded us very slowly, I'm sure we'd figure out (over the course of 2-3 years of massive disruption to our economy and lifestyle) how to make munitions and other engines of war at a much larger scale than we do right now.

Unless someone's willing to cut long-term contracts nobody is going to make this stuff in the USA when it's 10x more expensive to do so here than there. And right now, the counter-parties for any such contracts aren't trustworthy.

I think most people are happier just paying someone else to make these same things. "I want to wear nikes, not make them" is how people feel everywhere...
by WillPostForFood | 2025-04-09 01:34:47+00:00
Economics isn't science, and while Ricardo has some brilliant insights, it isn't a science; he barely models anything. It isn't even a hypothesis since you can never really test it. The core of his idea is this:

the rate of profits can never be increased but by a fall in wages [...] If, therefore, by the extension of foreign trade, or by improvements in machinery, the food and necessaries of the labourer can be brought to market at a reduced price, profits will rise.

I.e., use trade to get to lower wages
by alephnerd | 2025-04-09 01:34:57+00:00
> If I studied Computer Science (long-term I do not see myself programming forever) and only have internships related in that area, how would you recommend getting into this field?

Just keep studying CS. Climb up the ladder to Staff SWE, PM, or EM; and execute and lose hair from there.

As Pastuer said, "fortune favors a prepared mind". Most hot thinkers today were hetrodox a couple years ago.

You make more money remaining in tech and then switching in your late 20s to late 30s into policy. You can also make more realistic and less ideological policies that way. If you have a protonmail, let's catch up.

But tbh, the policy space sucks. It's not worth it (in DC, Beijing, London, or Delhi). If you are smart and lucky enough to break into policy but are also someone who's Mom and Dad don't have a liquid net worth below $750,000-1M in all those countries, you won't make it irrespective of country.

Class breaks all nationalistic barriers, and public school class people like you and I won't make it without luck or money (and we can make the latter in the private sector)

P.S. love your blog. Similar boat.
by martyalain | 2025-04-09 01:36:30+00:00
I think that kids are able to jump the gap between blocks and LISPIAN parentheses, their imagination doing the rest. I even think that writing code is much better than drag & dropping blocks, that it helps for fighting against infobesity and for the development of intelligence. I believe that their future is in the KISS attitude.

This is at least a subject that could be discussed. Gently.