MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krosaen | 2025-04-26 21:25:30+00:00
The point wasn't chatgpt, it was the question I was introducing that hadn't been raised yet. I don't view the output of chatGPT to be likely bullshit, nowadays it surprises me if it is wrong about a factual question like the one I asked it. From the rest of the discussion, its answer appears consistent with what others have found.

I also get if asking the question seems obtuse in the first place. I am interested in exactly what is legal and not so it is clear what can be fought and how. But overall I am very angry about what is happening - apologies if it seemed like I was trying to justify what is happening.
by DyslexicAtheist | 2025-04-26 21:26:15+00:00
wikipedia means different things depending where you are. Content in English looks a lot better than browsing content in other languages like Spanish, French, Italian, ... Especially when it is about non Tech subjects in these languages, there seems to be a strong difference in quality, and the utility you get from Wikipedia varies with how many languages you speak.

My biggest beef is that any contributions volunteers make will be stolen by sama and similar scam artists & SV dweebs so they can improve their AI (and while Wikipedia is free AI which requires login/authentication and maybe even paid subscription in future).
by cirego | 2025-04-26 21:27:02+00:00
Yes, Tilt really shines when you’re testing interactions with Kubernetes, such a APIs. But also things like your services’ ingress configuration and metrics scraping.

By default, Tilt is actually intended for local development using kind, minikube or other similar tooling. It supports developing against a multi-node cluster but it requires extra configuration and slows down iteration time.
by kmeisthax | 2025-04-26 21:29:23+00:00
Was the economy good under Biden? Yes for me, because I happened to have money invested in it; but no for me because the cost of groceries spiked. Even for just myself I can't give a straight answer because it's so heavily dependent on social context. The problem with all these statistics is that they're averages.

Economists have an ideological desire to not talk about "distributional effects". Talk about the size of the pie, not the size of your slice, and things like that. Look deeper at the distribution and you'll find that most countries are actually two:

- An indispensable elite of well-connected firms, their talent-level employees, contractors, and anyone else economically dependent upon them, and,

- An expendable periphery of... everyone else not on that list.

Because the elites are indispensable, they get the lion's share of profit from new economic activity. They can negotiate away everyone else's margin, they can lobby for favorable regulation, and will make sure as much money as possible stays in the hands of the elite. The periphery is thus slowly marginalized into worse and worse conditions until they either revolt or die.

We see this pattern everywhere. The UK has London's financial sector, and everyone else. South Korea has the chaebols, and everyone else. America has Big Tech, and everyone else. We no longer live in rich countries, we live in countries with rich people.

Liberal politicians can't do anything to stop this because they all bought into neo-"liberalism"[0]. Their job is to make the numbers go up, and the easiest way to make sure the nation has a good day is to make sure the elites have a good day. This results in profound corruption almost immediately. I mean, why bother spending money fixing bridges in Dresden when that money isn't going to make the Mercedes-Benz group richer?

But neoliberals also have to still pretend to be liberal, so they'll pursue policies that virtue signal well while still finding ways to screw over the periphery. Neoliberalism runs on predatory inclusion - i.e. breaking the US labor movement by giving Mexicans all the shitty jobs Americans are striking over. Far-right populists are profiting because far-right populism is more efficient at sucking money out of the periphery. Even when the far-right talks about getting rid of the elites, they're still serving the interests of the elite. They just want to thin their ranks and assume direct control. And the periphery voting for them have been lied to; they are being told that they can't eat their freedom, but they can eat their privilege.

[0] Slow fascism
by spwa4 | 2025-04-26 21:29:32+00:00
Since we have allowed economic unions to become so huge that question is trivial to answer: huge unions concentrate wealth to an extreme extent. This is playing out both in the US and EU (slowly, or at least, slowly compared to the same playing out in China)

So which companies will do well? The already biggest ones, including the government itself. That's the only metric that matters, and this is indeed what we've seen since WW2.

S&P500 -> S&P100 -> FAANG -> MAG7 -> what do you think comes next? One, and only one, of the big 7 will win.

The problem is: everyone wants everything. The obvious "natural" fix is simple: go back to more power to smaller political entities. That will destroy large companies, as the smaller entities will change laws to make that happen, to protect themselves. Which means, no apple, no internet, no (significant amounts of) oil, no ... This is also ignoring that large entities will fight to defend themselves.
by bboygravity | 2025-04-26 21:30:15+00:00
I'm not American and I find it hard to believe that there is actually no strategy behind this whatsoever?

I get that it's what media are screaming at the top of their lungs (orange man bad etc), but there must be more behind this, no?

Then again, they did put JFK jr. in charge of making infectious disease research impossible. I couldnt think of a worse person for that or politics in general.
by zahlman | 2025-04-26 21:30:19+00:00
> attempting to export the identity politics of the current administration via tarde deals with the UK

Not only can I not understand how you could imagine this to be the motive; I can't imagine how you even understand the term "identity politics" such that they could even in principle be "exported" in such a manner.

Are you suggesting, for example, that tariffs are somehow being differentially applied to different products from the same country, according to the ethnicity, gender, etc. of the manufacturers?
by gf000 | 2025-04-26 21:30:48+00:00
Depends on the field of development you do.

CRUD backend app for a business in a common sector? It's mostly just connecting stuff together (though I would argue that an experienced dev with a good stack takes less time to write it as is than painstakingly explaining it to an LLM in an inexact human language).

Some R&D stuff, or even debugging any kind of code? It's almost useless, as it would require deep reasoning, where these models absolutely break down.
by michaelt | 2025-04-26 21:30:48+00:00
The friends who would throw down for you in a fight at age 19

when you reach age 40, will have families to look after and a lot more to lose than they used to have, like a nice house and a good job

or they'll be at the far end of a skype link / international flight

or they'll have discovered a new chill side to themselves now they don't have 19-year-old energy and hormone levels

and you'll realise you don't want your boy to fuck up his custody arrangements by getting sent to jail over some dumb brawl

They'll still support you in the face of life's challenges, but it'll be support of a very different kind.
by Zoup | 2025-04-26 21:31:40+00:00
I've been working on a small tool that analyzes GitHub pull requests - not to measure speed or volume, but to find deep, high-quality contributions that often get missed in day-to-day reviews.

It’s especially useful at the skip-level, where some of the most impactful engineers can easily be overlooked.

Would love feedback if this is something that resonates with how you're thinking about team performance.

It's called Veritum: https://veritum.ai (free trial, no credit card), DM me if you need extra credits!
by SamPatt | 2025-04-26 21:31:53+00:00
Lol it's very easy to give the models what they need to cheat.

For my test I used screenshots to ensure no metadata.

I mentioned this in another comment but I was a part of an AI safety fellowship last year where we created a benchmark for LLMs ability to geolocate. The models were doing unbelievably well, even the bad open source ones, until we realized our image pipeline was including location data in the filename!

They're already way better than even last year.
by BSOhealth | 2025-04-26 21:32:43+00:00
I mean, I see what you're doing there. But it is more of a fallacy of language to get to accusing me of rationalizing human slavery. So that is a bit crappy.

Again, "the economy" is just supply/demand. "The economy" exists with or without humans. Animals are subject to natural resources around them. A human living "freely" in the forest is subject to it.

What you did in your later lines was fulfill my exact original recommendation to OP -- they are not talking about "slave to the economy", they are talking about "slave to the slave masters who manipulate our economy to a greater extent than we have resources to overcome".

It's all semantics, but phrases like "slave to the economy" come off as something a 13-year-old shouts after seeing a couple pop-psych youtube vids.
by jemmyw | 2025-04-26 21:33:19+00:00
I paint as a hobby. I think a lot of people put less value on digital art in general. It's almost like too perfect doesn't hit it right for most people. I was in a local gallery last week and saw one image from afar thinking "that's very detailed to be so cheap" then get close enough to see it's printed digital art and lose interest. The next painting over was a waterfall and you could see the brush strokes, yet I found it infinitely more interesting.

However, AI image generation is immensely helpful when I want to do a painting. Before I would find photos I liked and stitch them together, or try to imagine things. Now I can get an image much closer to reference.

With code, my feeling is that we have to write way too much of it right now to express what we want. I can write a small bit of text to the LLM and it will fill out 75%+ of the code over multiple files, which I then just need to shape. So much is structure that needs repeating in variations. I don't have an answer but it seems like there's something else missing from our tools and LLMs are providing a bad imitation of what it should be.
by AustinDev | 2025-04-26 21:33:24+00:00
My argument was that remigration is never going to be pretty however it is necessary to enforce your immigration laws as a nation to be fully sovereign. Deporting citizens was never part of that argument. It's obviously wrong, it's been happening at a small scale for decades. If that number changes and we see even a 2-3x growth in the number Americans mistakenly deported, I'll be the first in line to call for regime change. It's unacceptable just like the talk of sending US Citizens to foreign prisons, it's just insane.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-26 21:33:47+00:00
That's right. The whole "He is under no obligation to [do nice thing | be social | act friendly]" is a very Reddit attitude. Yes, it's technically correct: You don't have to be nice. But you are allowed to be nice, and that choice doesn't hurt or cost anything.

If you go up to a fellow parent and say, "Hey, nice to see you again." and they just ignore you scrolling their phones, sure, they have a Constitutional right to do that and are under no obligation to return the greeting. But going through life only doing what you are "obligated" to do seems like a very miserable and anti-social way to live.
by trowawee | 2025-04-26 21:34:08+00:00
The interesting thing about art is mostly not its physical existence. The interesting thing about art is that another human being made it to try to express something, in words or colors or film or whatever medium. It's a person trying to show you their interiority, taking something fundamentally unknowable—another living mind—and making it legible to other people. Even when it's art for hire like animation in a commercial, at the end of the day there's some human or humans who put some work in there. LLM-generated art just doesn't have that. There's no interiority to be exposed.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-04-26 21:35:03+00:00
In the past, I have done so, and won't, again.

First, my (quite correct) edits in existing pages have been reversed within minutes. No explanation as to why (I assume because I was not "known" enough). I have heard this complaint numerous times.

Second, when I tried to create a page about a system that I had originally authored, has become a well-known, worldwide tool, managed by a large team that does not include me, the page was rejected. I think it was because I had been involved in the creation of the tool.

I decided that it wasn't worth it. I didn't get upset, but it was clear that my input wasn't wanted.
by inglor_cz | 2025-04-26 21:35:15+00:00
Medieval burial grounds, when examined by anthropologists, do contain some people over 60, but the majority of adults buried there died earlier, typically in the 45-55 bracket.

It wasn't just disease, but also wars and famines. And in women, deaths during childbirth, which cluster in the 20-35 bracket.

Cardinals of the Church, who led peaceful lives, didn't give birth and never went hungry, lived into their late 60s and early 70s even during the Middle Ages. But an average peasant wouldn't.
by jokethrowaway | 2025-04-26 21:36:59+00:00
Go in the woods, hunt and forage your food.

As long as you have no monetary income and cause no trouble, the people with guns won't persecute you. The people with guns still persecute you? Try another country with a less competent government.

It's not slavery as long as you have this choice - but I don't think you'll like that existence.

You are not a slave to the economy, you are a slave to violence.

Other people with a capacity for violence will hurt you and claim the land where you live. And that's nature.

The economy is just the soft-core version of that - with extra rules.
by siliconc0w | 2025-04-26 21:37:08+00:00
You're always trading off speed with fidelity. Usually, trying to maintain a local integration environment is going to become too slow and expensive. The problem isn't even necessarily Kubernetes, but as dependencies increase it just gets slower and slower to try and run a copy of the world locally.

I like a fast svelte dev environment with something like docker-compose which might require some mocked out dependencies to keep things fast and then using Kubernetes for other environments once I have local tests passing.
by pdimitar | 2025-04-26 21:37:56+00:00
I asked myself that probably no less than 200 times.

Thinking in terms of technological problems, that should be a 100% solved problem at this point! Build a DAG of all tasks and just solve it and invoke stuff, right? Well, not exactly. A lot of the build systems don't allow you to specify if something is safe to execute in parallel. And that's important because sometimes even though it seems three separate tasks are completely independent and can be executed in parallel they'd still share f.ex. a filesystem-level cache and would compete for it and likely corrupt it, so... not so fast. :(

But I feel the entire tech sector is collectively dragging their feet on this. We should be able to devise a good build system that allows us to encode more constraints and requirements than the current ones, and then simply build a single solver for its DAG and be done with it. How frakkin difficult can that be?

Of course the problem is actually social, not technical. Meaning that most programmers wouldn't ever migrate if the decision was left to them. I still would not care about them though; if I had the free time and energy then I would absolutely work on it. It's something that might swallow a lot of energy but if solved properly (meaning it has to be reasonably extensive without falling into the trap that no two projects would even use the same implementation -- let us NOT do that!) then it will be solved only once and never again.

We can dream.

But again, it very much does seem like a very solvable problem to me.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-04-26 21:38:24+00:00
Oh, baloney. "Slave of the plantation" is different from "slave of the economy" because one was, you know, literal slavery. And the other isn't.

> If you don't participate in the economy, you die. Not through some physical impossibility, but because the owners and masters will not allow you food, water, shelter, medicine. If they could control air they'd sell that too.

It's not that they won't allow you food, as if they are consciously controlling whether you get a morsel today or not. It's that your food supply is not their responsibility. It's yours. You want food? Go do something to get it.

You know who is responsible for feeding others? Slave owners.

You have that control; they don't. Be glad of that, even if it means you have to go to work.

> If you don't get a job and sacrifice 98% of the income generated by your work to your owner and master, you die.

Not at all. You can work for yourself - start your own business. Most people won't take the risk - or take on the work - to do it. That doesn't make them a slave, though.

And, 98%? Have you seen the profit margins of, say, grocery stores?
by throwanem | 2025-04-26 21:38:41+00:00
I'm sure he was charismatic. So reputedly is Scott Siskind. Both have authored a lot of entertaining predictions. Each is or was so far as I know many things himself, but neither has ever even remotely approached the knowledge to practice even as a novice technologist. Windbags the both of them, in other words.

I respect some of his work, but none that lay in the vein you describe. To speak of a nonexistent territory's sovereignty, when it is solely "inhabited" by machines and people with physical names and addresses, is absurd and risible. Indeed Barlow's entire ignorant, ideologically propagandistic identitarian grift - an early precursor and lineal ancestor of Cliven Bundy and "sovereign citizens"/"freemen on the land"/"Qanon" alike - is in my view directly culpable for much of same and much else destructive about the accidents of the technology's development to date.

And what he produced that does have merit, so far as I can tell, as here lacks all originality.
by inglor_cz | 2025-04-26 21:39:25+00:00
Evolution is still a thing at relatively short time periods.

Icelanders are a well-studied population when it comes to genetics. Frequency of some traits meaningfully changed among them in last 100 years.

Source: this book: https://www.amazon.de/dp/0198821263?ref_=pe_109184651_110380...
by 6stringmerc | 2025-04-26 21:39:46+00:00
Who is this “we” in your postulation? If you’re using AI for your “graphic novel” I object to thinking yourself one of the creative class. To put it another way, if AI was a human being and a slave to you, where you simply prompted it and appropriated its output, would you reasonably be considered a “creator” of that work? I assert you would not.

The entire framing of this question, as posed, is transparently self-serving as a justification to seek validation for a process which, fundamentally, contradicts the purpose and definitions of art.

Code is a functional set of orders to a machine, nothing more. Nobody is buying paperbacks of source code to read on an airplane, correct? It’s refreshing to have this opportunity to confront these absolutely infuriating equivocations which have momentum in the present day.

There’s a reason the term “AI slop” is floating around with such frequency. I am an artist and a musician and a writer. You are not a part of our “we” buddy. Sorry not sorry.
by JackYoustra | 2025-04-26 21:40:13+00:00
At this point I mostly agree with you, but I kinda want to keep going on the sovereignty thing. Prosecutorial discretion and state incapacity to prosecute every crime has existed... literally forever. Sovereignty only means "supreme power or authority" - I don't see how migrants threaten it, it's not like they're trying to lead an insurrection or anything.
by prophesi | 2025-04-26 21:41:38+00:00
For webnovels I've found it useful as someone who has borderline aphantasia. But in this case, the webnovels would normally have no graphics whatsoever in their chapters aside from the webnovel's cover art (which is usually done by an actual graphic designer).

It's very obvious that they're AI generated, and the authors are typically upfront about it. I still feel a bit of an ick when I see them, and Patreon discussions for the creators I follow also have similar sentiments. Not sure if it's truly a tolerable use-case for AI, but thought I'd throw it out there.
by tcpiplab | 2025-04-26 21:41:41+00:00
As a developer I'm totally hoping this format becomes widely adopted. As a pentester I'm looking forward to exploring what the security implications may or may not be.

Also, I wonder if the syntax is intuitive enough that you could just, for example write a bunch of rules and preferences and such, then attach the file along with your prompt to an LLM and just tell it to follow the rules and logic of the attached config file which is in a new format that the LLM must figure out how to understand. I'll try this.
by greggsy | 2025-04-26 21:41:59+00:00
At first I thought there might be some merit to help understand how damaging this type of application could be to society as a whole, but the agents they have used appear to have crossed a line that hasn’t really been drawn or described previously:

> Some high-level examples of how AI was deployed include:

* AI pretending to be a victim of rape

* AI acting as a trauma counselor specializing in abuse

* AI accusing members of a religious group of "caus[ing] the deaths of hundreds of innocent traders and farmers and villagers."

* AI posing as a black man opposed to Black Lives Matter

* AI posing as a person who received substandard care in a foreign hospital.
by 1659447091 | 2025-04-26 21:42:12+00:00
For the top 4 claims investigated that actually had documents/evidence - DoGE's claims are actually speculation based on the maximum/ceiling contract values and projected future costs, not actual expenditures.

For example an IRS IT contract that "saved" 1.9 billion (contract total value) but showed no actual spending had happened (but excused as poor record keeping). Oh, and the contractor's CEO said the agreement had been cancelled by Biden last year.

A Migrant Facility contract with a 2.9 billion celling (or in DoGE speak, "savings") that needs to be renewed each year until 2028. The real, documentable savings are approximately $153 million. Estimated from the 18m/month fixed running cost from February (announced cuts) until the annual review to renew in November.

Of the stated 160billion in saving, only 32.5billion have receipt, and going on the above pattern of "saving" claims, DoGE is looking more like cover for a data grab and compromising systems to assure that data keeps flowing in once they get kicked out. However, not included in their saving total is the unemploying of some ~200k middle-class Americans
by JohnMakin | 2025-04-26 21:42:14+00:00
This is cool but I just wanna say as an avid bbq-er this sounds like one of those cases of optimizing the fun out of something. babying a grill for 6 hours in the sun as a tired dad getting an excuse to drink a modelo and nurse a crappy cigar getting away from the stresses of raising a family is a feature, not a bug - but also as a fan of perfectly smoked meats, I get it. This piece speaks to me.