MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by goatlover | 2025-04-03 21:46:45+00:00
> "Development of Superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity”

If that's really true, why is there such a big push to rapidly improve AI? I'm guessing OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Apple, Meta, Boston Dynamics don't really believe this. They believe AI will make them billions. What is OpenAI's definition of AGI? A model that makes $100 billion?
by jmyeet | 2025-04-03 21:47:05+00:00
The last year and a half in particular has exposed just what a sham the academic freedom fo colleges really is.

We've always heard that the college tenure system encourages freedom of expression and academic freedom without the pressure of potential job loss. Instead what we have iscollege professors and administrations who move is absolute lockstep and have acted like jack-booted Gestapos to crush and punish First Amendment expression where some people merely said "maybe we shouldn't bomb children".

Norm Finkelstein, who is a national treasure, does not have tenure. He is a world-authority on these issues. Why doesn't he have tenure? Because he embarrassed Alan Dershowtiz by exposing him as a rampant plagiarist and general fraud.

Int he 1960s we had the National Guard open fire on anti-Vietnam protestors at Kent State, killing several, to repress anti-government speech. I swear we're not far from college administrators open firing on protestors directly.

The collaboration between colleges (particularly Columbia) and the administration pales in comparison to the anti-Vietnam era. Colleges are standing by letting agitators attack protestors (ie UCLA) and then later using that violence as an excuse to crush the protest. They're cooperating with law enforcement to crush protests.

But they're going beyond that. These protestors who have been illegally deported have largely been named and targeted by college administrations as well as organizations like the Canary Mission.

Think about that: colleges are knowingly cooperating with people who are black-bagging people protesting against genocide, fully knowing they will end up in places like prisons in El Salvadore.
by pixl97 | 2025-04-03 21:47:16+00:00
Eh, these mathematics still don't work out in humans favor...

Lets say intelligence caps out at the maximum smartest person that's ever lived. Well, the first thing we'd attempt to do is build machines up to that limit that 99.99999 percent of us would never get close to. Moreso the thinking parts of humans is only around 2 pounds of mush in side of our heads. On top of that you don't have to grow them for 18 years first before they start outputting something useful. That and they won't need sleep. Oh and you can feed them with solar panels. And they won't be getting distracted by that super sleek server rack across the aisle.

We do know 'hive' or societal intelligence does scale over time especially with integration with tooling. The amount of knowledge we have and the means of which we can apply it simply dwarf previous generations.
by cmgriffing | 2025-04-03 21:47:31+00:00
I recently discovered the way Tanstack does this. Basically, if the heading of the section is in the viewport, then the list item is highlighted.

So you could have multiple items highlighted, but it still "works" somewhat intuitively for the end user.

The drawback is that it requires JS via intersection observer. But maybe the CSS standards committee could see value in this kind of thing eventually.
by why_at | 2025-04-03 21:48:07+00:00
Yeah that's fair, I'm trying to create an analogy to other services which are similar to help me understand.

If e.g. Patreon hosts an artist who will draw a picture of Indiana Jones for me on commission, then my money is going to both Patreon and the artist. Should Patreon also police their artists to prevent reproducing any copyrighted characters?
by thisdougb | 2025-04-03 21:48:29+00:00
When I first started in dev, on a Unix OS, we did 'waterfall' (though we just called it releasing software, thirty years ago). We did a a major release every year, minor releases every three months, and patches as and when. All this software was sent to customers on mag tapes, by courier. Minor releases were generally new features.

Definitely times were different back then. But we did release software often, and it tended to be better quality than now (because we couldn't just fix-forward). I've been in plenty of Agile companies whose software moves slower than the old days. Too much haste, not enough speed.

Specs were never frozen with waterfall.
by jdswain | 2025-04-03 21:48:31+00:00
For some of us it brings back bad memories of sitting watching progress bars for hours and occasionally getting asked to feed another disk into the drive. Office was probably the worst for the number of floppies, but linux was even more, and you had the extra worry of if it would actually boot after the install, or if you got a setting wrong and had to start again.

Soon after all that we got to use CD's, which made life a lot better.
by chewmieser | 2025-04-03 21:48:42+00:00
That’s fun!

Couple of things I would suggest:

Maybe get rid of 1-2 character words in the word counter? Seems easy for it to hit things like i or ie etc. I would love to see a counter that ignores those at least

Also the report card section on the Shakespeare progress panel wasn’t scrollable on iOS.

Neat either way!
by kreco | 2025-04-03 21:48:46+00:00
The title of the article is "why you didn’t notice your teammate was cheating"

Then you have the answer here:

> Cheats have escaped the host PC

> [...]

> Colorbots are quite hard to detect. You can essentially just plug in a capture card to your PC and pass the images to another PC that the cheat runs on.

If the article is low effort I would say that your comment is not great either because you seems frustrated to not have more information and just blame the author for not writing more about the subject.
by mmooss | 2025-04-03 21:48:50+00:00
The point is that there are products for which there is not enough of domestic market for domestic small manufacturers. There is enough market worldwide for those manufacturers.

> Globalisation, only works for the biggest players and sharpers

That's just not true. Many small businesses sell their products worldwide via online marketplaces. Have you downloaded software from another country? Bought something on Alibaba?

> once it picks up speed, will be a good thing for comunitys worldwide

How about the people in those communities paying higher prices for worse goods - the extra money going into the pockets of large domestic corporations.
by olejorgenb | 2025-04-03 21:48:52+00:00
So that make short of sense, except according to this

"Selling goods to customers outside the EU

If you sell goods to customers outside the EU, you do not charge VAT. However, you may still deduct the VAT that you paid on related expenses, such as for goods or services purchased specifically to make those sales."

So the inputs are not more expensive to American importer. Yes the European company is compensated for the VAT they paid on an input, but this is a tax to begin with. Which the US companies not pay. So this is not unfair to the US company..

Or is there something I'm not getting?
by Nevermark | 2025-04-03 21:49:28+00:00
So you got help from a natural intelligence? No fair. (natdeo?)

Someone needs to create a clone site of HN's format and posts, but the rules only permit synthetic intelligence comments. All models pre-prompted to read prolifically, but comment and up/down vote carefully and sparingly, to optimize the quality of discussion.

And no looking at nat-HN comments.

It would be very interesting to compare discussions between the sites. A human-lurker per day graph over time would also be of interest.

Side thought: Has anyone created a Reverse-Captcha yet?
by analog31 | 2025-04-03 21:49:53+00:00
I think it's just a tradition in the electronics world to write and publish hobby and educational articles. It dates back to well before the the Internet. People enjoy this interaction, and the distributors give them space for it.

People like HVAC installers -- I've seen most of that on YouTube, where there's a chance of monetizing the content. I've repaired nearly every appliance in my house, thanks to blogs and videos posted by strangers.
by bawolff | 2025-04-03 21:49:54+00:00
Its kind of weird how everyone is complaining about copyright infringemet in memes now.

Memes are pretty inherently derrivative. They were always someone elses work. The picard face palm meme was obviously taken from star trek. All your base is obviously from that video game. Repurposing someone else's work with new meaning is basically what a meme is. Why do we suddenly care now?
by b0bben | 2025-04-03 21:49:55+00:00
thx for the kind words!

to your (awesome) questions: right now it's centrally managed. it's just easier to build this way and use existing services. i use own apis, firebase and livekit.

at some point i'd LOVE to work on this full-time and live off of it, that's my end-goal.

everything is doable, but it would/will take work, but i wouldn't mind creating a self-hosted version for the 4 of you that really really want that ;)
by recoup-papyrus | 2025-04-03 21:49:59+00:00
The elite reaction to January 6th was just raw hostility towards the American nation.

I don't claim to have access to secret knowledge about the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the elections. My view on the actual election fraud claims is agnosticism. I have no access to information that would allow me to independently come to any conclusion on the matter.

However, a large volume of very plausible evidence was put forward. And, instead of honest engagement with those concerns, we got extreme censorship, gas lighting, and a violent crack-down on everyone involved.

We cannot allow people that have this attitude towards us to continue to rule over us.
by zjp | 2025-04-03 21:50:02+00:00
If I were a third party downvoting my comment I would probably take issue with the characterization of the anti-tariff position as "save my infinite trough of plastic slop". Other countries do have highly skilled artisans. Tariffs are also considered bad on the merits (looking at it from a liberal [economically] world view). It's like vaccine skepticism to economists: an extremely low-status opinion for kooks and cranks. But I am open to being convinced on illiberal economics (this is not the same thing as saying I support it) because I consider military supply chain erosion a national emergency and I don't think "balloon the military budget even more with subsidies" is a politically viable position and "just build it in an allied country we now have to keep permapoor to make the economics work out" is cruel.
by daveguy | 2025-04-03 21:50:02+00:00
The only reason LLMs are stochastic instead of deterministic is a random number generator. There is nothing inherently non-deterministic about LLM algorithms unless you turn up the "temperature" of selecting the next word. The fact that determinism can be changed by turning a knob is clear evidence that they are closer to a database or search engine than a human.
by Melatonic | 2025-04-03 21:50:09+00:00
The second category is my personal favorite - bought a used and slightly beat up Nikon FM2n when I was in college for cheap and the thing is still trucking with no maintenance done 15 years later. Shutter speeds seem at least reasonably accurate and it only requires a battery for the light meter. All mechanical otherwise.

Or if you want to get fancy the Nikon FM3a gives you sort of the best of all worlds (all mechanical internals or battery powered auto exposure with the flip of a dial)
by accrual | 2025-04-03 21:50:15+00:00
Neat project! Will be cool to see once it's up and running

Lately I installed NT 4.0 on my i486DX4-100 system. With 64MB of RAM and a CF card it runs very well, it actually feels quite modern and NT 4.0 is slowly growing on me. I've experimented with service packs and found SP4 was the right balance of supporting later software without slowing it down much.

Just installed Visual Basic 5 and Python 2.3 and it's approaching 24 hours of uptime. The system clock is synced to my router as well!
by Jensson | 2025-04-03 21:50:41+00:00
Without CoT then training them to give specific answers reduces performance. With CoT you can punish them if they don't give the exact answer you want without hurting them, since the reasoning tokens help it figure out how to answer questions and what the answer should be.

And you really want to train on specific answers since then it is easy to tell if the AI was right or wrong, so for now hidden CoT is the only working way to train them for accuracy.
by elicksaur | 2025-04-03 21:50:47+00:00
This doesn’t seem like a great way to reason about the predictions.

For something like this, saying “There is no evidence showing it” is a good enough refutation.

Counterpointing that “Well, there could be a lot of this going on, but it is in secret.” - that could be a justification for any kooky theory out there. Bigfoot, UFOs, ghosts. Maybe AI has already replaced all of us and we’re Cylons. Something we couldn’t know.

The predictions are specific enough that they are falsifiable, so they should stand or fall based on the clear material evidence supporting or contradicting them.
by KaiserPro | 2025-04-03 21:51:04+00:00
> AI has started to take jobs, but has also created new ones.

Yeah nah, theres a key thing missing here, the number of jobs created needs to be more than the ones it's destroyed, and they need to be better paying and happen in time.

History says that actually when this happens, an entire generation is yeeted on to the streets (see powered looms, Jacquard machine, steam powered machine tools) All of that cheap labour needed to power the new towns and cities was created by automation of agriculture and artisan jobs.

Dark satanic mills were fed the decedents of once reasonably prosperous crafts people.

AI as presented here will kneecap the wages of a good proportion of the decent paying jobs we have now. This will cause huge economic disparities, and probably revolution. There is a reason why the royalty of Europe all disappeared when they did...

So no, the stock market will not be growing because of AI, it will be in spite of it.

Plus china knows that unless they can occupy most of its population with some sort of work, they are finished. AI and decent robot automation are an existential threat to the CCP, as much as it is to what ever remains of the "west"
by ramesh31 | 2025-04-03 21:51:09+00:00
This maps pretty well to my experience.

Other devs will say things like "AI is just a stupid glorified autocomplete, it will never be able to handle my Very Special Unique Codebase. I even spent 20 minutes one time trying out Cursor, and it just failed"

Nope, you're just not that good obviously. I am literally 10x more productive at this point. Sprint goals have become single afternoons. If you are not tuned in to what's going on here and embracing it, you are going to be completely obsolete in the next 6 months unless you are some extremely niche high level expert. It wont be a dramatic moment where anyone gets "fired for AI". Orgs will just simply not replace people through attrition when they see productivity staying the same (or even increasing) as headcount goes down.
by Marsymars | 2025-04-03 21:51:19+00:00
Right, and there's a good case to be made for tariffs that are explicitly tied to another country's worker and environmental protections, where the country has actionable steps to improve their worker/environmental protections in order to avoid the tariff.

But the current administration is itself actively opposed to worker or environmental protections, and the result of the current tariffs will just be that the poor people overseas end up even more impoverished and still lacking in protections.
by abelanger | 2025-04-03 21:51:52+00:00
Yeah, part of this rewrite was separating our monitoring tables from all of our queue tables to avoid problems like table bloat.

At one point we considered partitioning on the status of a queue item (basically active | inactive) and aggressively running autovac on the active queue items. Then all indexes for monitoring can be on the inactive partitioned tables.

But there were two reasons we ended up going with separate tables:

1. We started to become concerned about partitioning _both_ by time range and by status, because time range partitioning is incredibly useful for discarding data after a certain amount of time

2. If necessary, we wanted our monitoring tables to be able to run on a completely separate database from our queue tables. So we actually store them as completely independent schemas to allow this to be possible (https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet/blob/main/sql/schema/... vs https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet/blob/main/sql/schema/...)

So to answer the question -- you can query both active queues and a full history of queued tasks up to your retention period, and we've optimized the separate tables for the two different query patterns.
by smackeyacky | 2025-04-03 21:51:57+00:00
I used it a bit at University - most notably it had an Occam system on it that wasn't available on the Sun workstations.

I'm curious about running a VMS system although the admin side looks a bit daunting. The thing I'd really like to do is run X-Windows on an emulator on my home lab, just to see it run.
by gcommer | 2025-04-03 21:52:09+00:00
Agreed. To be more precise: I think the solution is small, community-run servers. This allows large, consistent groups of players to play together regularly with a much higher percentage of admins who can handle cheaters manually.

I also maintain that human judgement, can still catch things anti-cheat software is yet incapable of. Example: it doesn't matter how well hidden your aimbot is, I still notice cheaters when their accuracy is wildly out of proportion with their strategic understanding of the game.
by MisterTea | 2025-04-03 21:52:14+00:00
It brings you to their site as well as advertises a specific component or range of components from a manufacturer.

The Digikey articles I've come across are well written. This article however is artificially inflated using SEO style writing. I mean after they supposedly explained servo motors you'll find this ugly sentence further down: "Still, how does a servo motor work?" I mean holy shit man, do you even care about your writing or the subject? Likely not. And really, the article is so light on details its barely technical and only talks about the RC servo. This is pretty much junk.
by achierius | 2025-04-03 21:52:41+00:00
That's obviously not true. Before OpenAI blew the field open, multiple labs -- e.g. Google -- were intentionally holding back their research from the public eye because they thought the world was not ready. Investors were not pouring billions into capabilities. China did not particularly care to focus on this one research area, among many, that the US is still solidly ahead in.

The only reason timelines are as short as they are is because of people at OpenAI and thereafter Anthropic deciding that "they had no choice". They had a choice, and they took the one which has chopped at the very least years off of the time we would otherwise have had to handle all of this. I can barely begin to describe the magnitude of the crime that they have committed -- and so I suggest that you consider that before propagating the same destructive lies that led us here in the first place.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-03 21:52:45+00:00
I'm not sure the social organization of hep-th has a lot to do with the field being stagnant. Granted, if there hadn't been 20 years of superstring hegemony there would have been 20 years of other theories that would have struggled to connect to reality.

The real problem is a lack of experimental results. No detection of dark matter. No measurement of the neutrino mass term. No sparticles. No observed proton decay.

The real social organization question is if the FCC turns out to be useful or if it's a distraction from machines specifically aimed at the neutrino sector, which is the one place where: (1) we know something strange is going on, and (2) there's no doubt that bigger detectors and higher event rates will turn up something.
by jdhwosnhw | 2025-04-03 21:53:11+00:00
Peoples’ memories are so short. Ten years ago the “well accepted definition of intelligence” was whether something could pass the Turing test. Now that goalpost has been completely blown out of the water and people are scrabbling to come up with a new one that precludes LLMs.

A useful definition of intelligence needs to be measurable, based on inputs/outputs, not internal state. Otherwise you run the risk of dictating how you think intelligence should manifest, rather than what it actually is. The former is a prescription, only the latter is a true definition.
by pixl97 | 2025-04-03 21:53:16+00:00
Eh, not sure if the second coming is a great analogy. That wholly depends on the whims of a fictional entity performing some unlikely actions.

Instead think of them saying a crusade occurring in the next few years. When the group saying the crusade is coming is spending billions of dollars to trying to make just that occur you no longer have the ability to say it's not going to happen. You are now forced to examine the risks of their actions.
by palmotea | 2025-04-03 21:53:43+00:00
> ...but also directly targeting conservative voters economically.

That's kind of an asshole move. Did people react to having their communities and livelihoods damaged by neoliberalism, in a way not approved by economically advantaged software engineers? Don't try to solve their problems in a better way, try to fuck them even harder instead! We should teach 'em to get fucked and not complain!

If you want to target anyone, you should target the people who made a shit-ton of money off of neoliberalism, in a way that paved the path for Trump.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-04-03 21:55:00+00:00
Yes, it's propaganda. If the corporatists can convince people that a previously well-paid job (working in a slaughterhouse, for instance) is actually "unskilled labor," they're one step closer to convincing people it should pay less, and that it's a job no one you know would take so they have to import cheap labor to do it.
by mlsu | 2025-04-03 21:55:05+00:00
I was really hoping that the conversation around AI art would at least be partially centered on the perhaps now dated "2008 pirate party" idea that intellectual property, the royalty system, the draconian copyright laws that we have today are deeply silly, rooted in a fiction, and used over and over again, primarily by the rich and powerful, to stifle original ideas and hold back cultural innovation.

Unfortunately, it's just the opposite. It seems most people have fully assimilated the idea that information itself must be entirely subsumed into an oppressive, proprietary, commercial apparatus. That Disney Corp can prevent you from viewing some collection of pixels, because THEY own it, and they know better than you do about the culture and communication that you are and are not allowed to experience.

It's just baffling. If they could, Disney would scan your brain to charge you a nickel every time you thought of Mickey Mouse.
by milicat | 2025-04-03 21:55:14+00:00
The more I browse through this, the more I agree. I feel like one could delete almost all comments from that project without losing any information – which means, at least the variable naming is (probably?) sensible. Then again, I don't know the application domain.

Also…

def _save_current_date_time(current_date_time_file: str, current_date_time: str) -> None: with Path(current_date_time_file).open("w") as f: f.write(current_date_time)

there is a lot of obviously useful abstraction being missed, wasting lines of code that will all need to be maintained.

The scary thing is: I have seen professional human developers write worse code.