MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-04-27 19:11:57+00:00
> Do any LLMs do this? If not, why can't they?

Because they aren't knowledgeable. The marketing and at-first-blush impressions that LLMs leave as some kind of actual being, no matter how limited, mask this fact and it's the most frustrating thing about trying to evaluate this tech as useful or not.

To make an incredibly complex topic somewhat simple, LLMs train on a series of materials, in this case we'll talk words. It learns that "it turns out," "in the case of", "however, there is" are all words that naturally follow one another in writing, but it has no clue why one would choose one over the other beyond the other words which form the contexts in which those word series' appear. This process is repeated billions of times as it analyzes the structure of billions of written words until it arrives at a massive in scale statistical model of how likely it is that every word will be followed by every other word or punctuation mark.

Having all that data available does mean an LLM can generate... words. Words that are pretty consistently spelled and arranged correctly in a way that reflects the language they belong to. And, thanks to the documents it trained on, it gains what you could, if you're feeling generous, call a "base of knowledge" on a variety of subjects, in that by the same statistical model, it has "learned" that "measure twice, cut once" is said often enough that it's likely good advice, but again, it doesn't know why that is, which would be: it optimizes your cuts and avoids wasting materials when building something to measure it, mark it, then measure it a second or even third time to make sure it was done correctly before you do the cut, which an operation that cannot be reversed.

However that knowledge has a HARD limit in terms of what was understood within it's training data. For example, way back, a GPT model recommended using elmer's glue to keep pizza toppings attached when making a pizza. No sane person would suggest this, because glue... isn't food. But the LLM doesn't understand that, it takes the question: how do I keep toppings on pizza, and it says, well a ton of things I read said you should use glue to stick things together, and ships that answer out.

This is why I firmly believe LLMs and true AI are just... not the same thing, at all, and I'm annoyed that we now call LLMs AI and AI AGI, because in my mind, LLMs do not demonstrate any intelligence at all.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-27 19:11:59+00:00
I generally agree but it's worth noting that languages are a bit different. Obviously there are GPL'd compilers but those often make an explicit carveout for things like the runtime and standard library. Meanwhile in the Lisp world my impression is that most (but certainly not all) implementations are permissively licensed in part due to concerns that shipping an image file is essentially shipping the entire language implementation verbatim.
by jdlshore | 2025-04-27 19:12:02+00:00
I find this sort of whataboutism in LLM discussions tiring. Yes, of course, there are teams of humans that perform worse than an LLM. But it obvious to all but the most hype-blinded booster that it is possible for teams of humans to work autonomously to produce good results, because that is how all software has been produced to the present day, and some of it is good.
by fdf515 | 2025-04-27 19:12:36+00:00
As an Engineering Manager, I’ve long struggled with the mental overhead of sprint planning across multiple specialty teams—capacity lives in my head, adjustments for holidays are manual, and it all bottlenecks on EM experience. In this post I share a lightweight script that calls the OpenAI API (with some prompt engineering) to:

Analyze the past 2–3 sprints’ velocity per specialty

Auto-adjust for bank holidays

Recommend a realistic story-point capacity range

The result: democratized planning, reduced bias, and empowered engineers to run their own sprints. Would love to hear your feedback or collaborate on pushing agile planning further with AI!
by cies | 2025-04-27 19:13:07+00:00
I'd say it's a bit crufty/quirky. Zig seems to be a good modern alternative. Basically a very similar language in the core, with a much more pleasant syntax.

Wondering how long it will take before Linux can be ported to Zig by LLMs. Supposedly subset of it already builds with the Zig compiler (which also compiles C), with some minimal adjustments.
by mft_ | 2025-04-27 19:13:15+00:00
This refers to two different manufacturers, with two different approaches.

To meet the overall tougher targets (95g/km average) Suzuki is discontinuing certain models which release higher levels of CO2 to reduce their average. This is presumably the intention of the regulation - to drive manufacturer behaviour.

Mercedes is, OOTH, pooling with other manufacturers who presumably have emissions to spare, and likely paying them royally for it[0]. They're not alone in this approach, but some would argue it's against the spirit of the regulation, even if it ultimately complies with the letter.

[0] https://www.motor1.com/news/747225/tesla-earns-1billion-sell... - note that Tesla doesn't pool with Mercedes; this is just an example of the value
by credit_guy | 2025-04-27 19:13:33+00:00
Huawei doesn't need to match Nvidia, because their clients don't have access to Nvidia. They can claim they match Nvidia, and the claim may be an exaggeration, but the market won't punish them, since there are no alternatives. AMD and Intel don't have that luxury. If they deliver 80% of what Nvidia delivers (at the same price point), they get to sell roughly speaking zero.
by lxgr | 2025-04-27 19:14:01+00:00
That's not what 5G standalone means, as far as I understand.

The network I'm using supports 5G SA in some cells, but my phone definitely still falls back to both 4G and 5G non-SA in some areas where it's not yet available.

And even if 5G SA were available everywhere, there's the concern of roaming.
by rambambram | 2025-04-27 19:14:16+00:00
> There was one type of milk on the shelf, it was called "Milk"

I love this. And for me - as a 40 year old western european - it's so unthinkable, so unreal. I usually don't look at the milk packaging at home, but I remember reading on the packaging all kinds of stupid sh!te like names of the farmers where the cow grazes (which might be true, but I guess it's b0ll0cks) with some feel-good illustrations, all kinds of childish texts on the packaging as well. It's just 'milk', I don't need a fake story around how good your milk selling company is.

Maybe your soviet milk was unhealthy or not tasteful, I don't know. Maybe it's just the same kind of milk we have here. My milk is pretty good, but jeezz... that marketing on the packaging over here.
by gengkev | 2025-04-27 19:14:43+00:00
I tried this but the DMV doesn't let you request it ;-( Alas, probably for the better...

At each DMV there are a stack of license plates that they hand out on-site. So requesting a vanity plate of the same format would probably require them to search those stacks (across all DMVs) to pick out the plate.
by tzs | 2025-04-27 19:16:44+00:00
Note: I submitted using the article's subtitle instead of the title, because the title was much less informative. The title is "EXCLUSIVE: Walmart EV Charging Network — Save Money, Charge Better".

I did have to shorten the subtitle to fit. The full subtitle is "Walmart plans expansive EV Charging network which will blanket the US within a few years".
by kstrauser | 2025-04-27 19:17:27+00:00
That totally makes sense and I do appreciate why that would be a problem for some users.

And yet, this is a single-user labor of love by one person hosting it on FSF’s servers. I don't know them, and this is pure conjecture, but I suspect they probably couldn't care less if that made it challenging for commercial users. There are plenty of other Lisps for them to choose from.
by giantrobot | 2025-04-27 19:17:40+00:00
> That they can be randomly, nondeterministically and confidently wrong, and there is no way to know without manually reviewing every output.

This is my exact same issue with LLMs and it's routinely ignored by LLM evangelists/hypesters. It's not necessarily about being wrong it's the non-deterministic nature of the errors. They're not only non-deterministic but unevenly distributed. So you can't predict errors and need expertise to review all the generated content looking for errors.

There's also not necessarily an obvious mapping between input tokens and an output since the output depends on the whole context window. An LLM might never tell you to put glue on pizza because your context window has some set of tokens that will exclude that output while it will tell me to do so because my context window doesn't. So there's not even necessarily determinism or consistency between sessions/users.

I understand the existence of Gell-Mann amnesia so when I see an LLM give confident but subtly wrong answers about a Python library I don't then assume I won't also get confident yet subtly wrong answers about the Parisian Metro or elephants.
by thcipriani | 2025-04-27 19:17:58+00:00
The last kiwix zim dump of English Wikipedia before the release of ChatGPT is from May 2022. The Internet Archive still preserves the torrent[0]. To host this, or browse it locally you can use `kiwix-serve -p 8888 wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2022-05.zim` from kiwix-tools[1].

[0]: <https://web.archive.org/web/20221007114937/https://download....>

[1]: <https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-tools>
by crazygringo | 2025-04-27 19:19:03+00:00
Completely agreed. It's just irresponsibly bad writing to claim "this can boost your creativity!" without even a single example of how it has boosted yours or someone else's. I don't need a scientific study, but surely you can give at least a single anecdotal example? Because if you can't, you honestly shouldn't be writing this in the first place.
by Loughla | 2025-04-27 19:19:03+00:00
It's a disability if it impacts one or more major life function. Otherwise it's just an answer to a question you might not have even known you wanted to ask.

I'm sure I would've been diagnosed autistic as a kid instead of just difficult. Not sure it would've changed anything. I still would've been very strong willed and confused about why people around me say one thing but do a different thing. I think what would've been different is maybe other people's reaction to me?
by pjmlp | 2025-04-27 19:19:35+00:00
You missed my remark about PyPy feeling abandoned on the corner, well the same applies to GraalPy.

The Ruby JITs I mentioned are used in production.

While other dynamic language comunities embrace their JITs, in Python world, outside using it as a DSL for GPGPU JITs, it is pretty much let's just keep using CPythion with C and C++ extensions. Adding a JIT to CPython only became a thing after Facebook and Microsoft decided to push for its development.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-04-27 19:19:51+00:00
You have a great point. I'm finding it hard to determine that actual harm has occurred here. The problem can be corrected, and the hbc project can still meet the requirements and spirit of open source. But neither fail0verflow nor libogc seem to care about any of this, and instead everything was frozen. You don't need permission to use open source code.. So there appears to be two double standards occurring at once. This story is weird.

>The current developers of libogc are not interested in tracking this issue, finding a solution, nor informing the community of the problematic copyright status of the project. When we filed an issue about it, they immediately closed it, replied with verbal abuse, and then completely deleted it from public view.

>For this reason, we consider it impossible to legally and legitimately compile this software at this point, and cannot encourage any further development.

>fail0verflow.com: "when success just isn't an option"

>https://github.com/atgreen/RTEMS?tab=License-1-ov-file
by jillesvangurp | 2025-04-27 19:20:27+00:00
This is a while ago but about 12 years ago I experimented with putting the whole of openstreetmap into Elasticsearch.

Reverse geocoding then becomes a problem of figuring out which polygons contain the point with a simple query and which POIs/streets/etc. are closest based on perpendicular distance. For that, I simply did a radius search and some post processing on any street segments. Probably not perfect for everything. But it worked well enough. My goal was actually being able to group things by neighborhood and microneighborhoods (e.g. squares, nightlife areas, etc.).

This should work well enough with anything that allows for geospatial queries. In a pinch you can use geohashes (I actually did this because geospatial search was still a bit experimental in ES).
by treetalker | 2025-04-27 19:20:32+00:00
I have the Olight bolt-action pen & "infinite pencil" combo, and I'm happy with it so far. (I got it in a package deal with a flashlight.)

But let's not make these too popular, either by hyping them up or going all John Wick: pretty soon TSA and the courts won't allow entry with any unapproved writing implements.
by hagbard_c | 2025-04-27 19:21:13+00:00
The alternative chosen by Borrr is worse. The ones chosen by Ooglr and Gnurgh are examples of two types of work-leisure balances, neither of which are 'better' or 'worse'. Sometimes you don't need lengthy discussions or focus groups or studies to decide a given alternative - in this case stealing and raping - is worse.

The article which started this discussion is rather pointless, all it shows is that governments can influence wealth distribution. This was clear from the get-go, no study needed. The position taken - that inequality is not inevitable - is also meaningless since it does not provide any idea on whether the alternative to inequality is beneficial over 'natural' inequality. If you know the song 'The Trees' by the Canadian band Rush you might understand what I mean, if not I'll provide an excerpt from the lyrics which shows an example of a form of equality which is worse for all involved except those enforcing the equality:

So the maples formed a union And demanded equal rights “The oaks are just too greedy We will make them give us light” Now there's no more oak oppression For they passed a noble law And the trees are all kept equal By hatchet, axe and saw

Who wins? Those wielding the hatchet, axe and saw. Who loses? The trees, i.e. the constituents.

Great song BTW.
by Veedrac | 2025-04-27 19:21:16+00:00
I don't think you're understanding the comparison here. The Chongqing metro area in 2015 had a population of 13.4m, today it's 18.2m, a 4.8m difference, or 36% growth.

The Netherlands went from 16.9 to 18.1 today, a 1.2m difference or 7.1% growth. Good by nobody-builds-anything regulatory paralysis standards. Standstill by Chongqing standards.
by andrewstuart | 2025-04-27 19:23:15+00:00
>> With Row level security, as good as it is, there is always a chance of leaking happening, due to bugs, user error or the like

That’s not correct. It’s hard isolation. In effect, RLS automatically applies a where clause preventing developers inadvertently accessing the wrong data.

If you don’t set the Postgres environment variable then no data is returned.

All the hard isolation without the schema sync pain.
by -__---____-ZXyw | 2025-04-27 19:24:53+00:00
I'm guessing from the ellipsis masquerading as an argument that you're implying that doing something about wealth inequality is dangerous, because of... history, or something.

This isn't totally false. Social change can be uncertain and rocky. If you want to be serious though you've to look at the risks of inaction, namely, allowing the funnelling of resources to the top percentile to continue.

I'm not sure how many people realise how out of hand that funnelling has gotten, or how concentrated at the very very top it's gotten.

As an example I saw recently, here's a graph[0] of French society from 2014 to 2021. Along the x-axis it's the poorest percentiles on the left, richest on the right. Y-axis is the percentage annual increase in revenue.

I think the reality is that inaction is arguably at least as likely to lead to the kind of "..." that you may well be hinting at.

[0] the graph itself -- https://elucid.media/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/170-croissan...

Taken from here (French article) -- https://elucid.media/analyse-graphique/inegalites-revenus-fr...
by hdjjhhvvhga | 2025-04-27 19:25:10+00:00
This interview makes no sense. Maybe she actually had some arguments in her book but she didn't express them in this article.

Paradoxically, I'd have a more sound argument if I wanted to argue for the opposite (or, more precisely, the disappearance of sexual intercourse form Hollywood moves - it was omnipresent in the 80s and even 90s).
by brudgers | 2025-04-27 19:27:10+00:00
I'd lawyer up and throw the book at them.

Litigation is expensive.

Yeah, hobbies can be expensive and sure litigation could be someone’s hobby…nothing wrong with that and maybe worth having lawyers on retainer if that’s your jam.

But in this case, there’s probably not a business case…and being a civil matter, there’s no book-‘em Danoh book to throw. Just normal squeezing blood from turnips…which again, might be someone’s hobby at least in theory.
by svilen_dobrev | 2025-04-27 19:27:31+00:00
long time ago, in one small company, i wrote an accounting system from 1st principles and then it was deployed to some large-ish client. It took several months of rearranging their whole workflows and quarelling with their operators to enable the machine to do what it is good at and to disable all the human-related quirky +optimizations -cover-asses. Like, humans are good at rough guessing but bad at remembering/repeating same thing. Hence usual manual accounting workflows are heavily optimized for error-avoidability.

Seems same thing here.. another kind of bitter lesson, maybe less bitter :/
by maxglute | 2025-04-27 19:27:42+00:00
> they are not constructing housing at a fast enough pace to meet their population’s needs

It's more accurate to say PRC/CCP understood it's _impossible_ to build enough housing in Tier1 cities where everyone wants to be, the supply/demand curve will never make sense outside of micro/small countries where everyone can fit in a handful of cities. Can't fit 1 billion people in Beijing/Shanghai/Guahzhou/Shenzhen etc, need 30/40/50 cities that are almost as enticing.

What PRC is constructing "fast enough" pace are entirely new cities / developing shitholes into T2/T3 alternatives to shift demand away from T1/T2s. IMO that's the real lesson west needs to learn but can't due to lack of hukou / internal migration controls - spreading out desirable urban areas because talent / productive centres tends to agglomerate ala zipf's law, which Chinese development patterns does not follow. IIRC 10-15 years ago, there were ongoing academic debate about PRC's urban density (or lack of due due to sunlight planning laws), and how PRC could be more competitive if it doubled density in T1 cities, but central gov said no, better build more desirable, low CoL cities (especially inland / poorer regions) where _most_ of population can distribute vs hammer T1 further into unsustainability.
by IanCal | 2025-04-27 19:27:57+00:00
> That seems distinctly unimpressive

I cannot understate how impressive this is to me, having been involved in ai research projects and robotics in years gone by.

This is a general purpose model, given an image and human written request that then step by step analyses the image, iterates through various options, tries to write code to solve the problem and then searches the internet for help. It reads multiple results and finds an answer, checks to validate it and then comes back to the user.

I had a robot that took ages to learn to plan tic tac toe by example and if the robot moved originally there was a solid chance it thought the entire world had changed and would freak out because it thought it might punch through the table.

This is also a chess puzzle marked as very hard that a person who is good at chess should give themselves fifteen minutes to solve. The author of the chess.com blog containing this puzzle only solved about half of them!

This is not an image analysis bot, it's not a chess bot, it's a general system I can throw bad english at.
by hdjjhhvvhga | 2025-04-27 19:28:07+00:00
That was my first thought: any woman can easily get into any level of "production" now and get direct profit from it, and also leave it without much stigma, sharing the same platform with non-nude celebrities. She can also control the amount of experience that is delivered to the "fans". It's incomparable with the situation from the 80s/90s.
by gavinray | 2025-04-27 19:28:19+00:00
You can use an LLM to generate query-builder expressions from popular libraries in whatever language.

For example, on the JVM there is jOOQ, which allows you to write something like:

select(field("foo"), avg("bar")).from(table("todos"))

And then it will render dialect-specific SQL. It has very advanced emulation functionality for things like JSON aggregations and working around quirks of dialects.

Alternatively, you can ask an LLM to generate a specific dialect of SQL, and then use jOOQ to parse it to an AST, and then render it as a different dialect, like:

val parser= DSL.using(SQLDialect.POSTGRES).parser() val parsedQuery = parser.parseQuery(postgresQuery) val renderedMySQL = DSL.using(SQLDialect.MYSQL).renderInlined(parsedQuery) println(renderedMySQL)

Unsure if functionality like this exists in other Query Builder libraries for other languages.
by ksec | 2025-04-27 19:28:36+00:00
I really like this comment:

I'd take Qualy's allegations more seriously if ARM had been found to obstruct Apple's build of compatible custom cores, Ampere's build of compatible custom cores, Nvidia's build of compatible custom cores, Fujitsu/Riken's build of compatible custom cores, SiPearl's build of compatible custom cores, Broadcom/Marvell's build of compatible custom cores (whoever is building them for Microsoft, OpenAI, Google's Axion, ...), etc ...

ARM could play hard balls against a lot of other people. But somehow only Qualcomm has a problem. I think there are simply details we dont know or not shown in court.
by squigz | 2025-04-27 19:28:47+00:00
> Not sure it would've changed anything.

I think the biggest benefit to diagnosis is both the parent and the child are able to draw on resources for those disabilities - learn about coping mechanisms, get advice from other autistic people, etc.

> confused about why people around me say one thing but do a different thing.

I think it importantly helps shift this confusion from the framing of "Is something wrong with me?" which a lot of young autistic people feel
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-27 19:28:50+00:00
There's millions of people currently in the US who aren't authorized to be in the US. 11 million, if you believe Pew's estimate (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-k...). I'm not sure how it's possible to avoid the conclusion that immigration enforcement isn't effective.

Why it's ineffective is, again, something that's been impossible to research for as long as I've been paying attention to immigration. I genuinely don't know where I could go to get answers. Other than a couple people spinning evidence-free conspiracy theories about their political opponents, nobody seems interested in analyzing it.
by kposehn | 2025-04-27 19:29:01+00:00
I think the app will be for plug-and-charge users, while they'll have credit card readers for everyone else.

I do agree that chargers requiring an app are a royal pain. We're an all-EV household and I don't bother with local chargers that don't have readers or support plug-and-charge. There's a lot of Shell chargers in our area that require an app to work and almost no-one uses them because of how clunky it is.