MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xingped | 2025-04-30 00:06:00+00:00
Not to get into pedantics, but just to offer a helpful explanation, I think it's because you used "should" instead of "would". It's no big deal, but in your sentence, should implies reasonable, while would implies expected. (Even though should also has a usage where it means expected, that's only when you're unsure of something happening in the future, whereas this event has already happened.)
by agentk9 | 2025-04-30 00:06:25+00:00
Being "apolitical" is no excuse for funding a russian company (yandex). If they did not do this I would probably be a paying customer. There is nothing else in this space that has the trust or features that kagi has.

The other point I have heard them say about using yandex is that there isn't another index that they could use that would be as good. This is a sound argument, but I would rather have worse image search than pay (even indirectly) russia. I wish they would "do the hard thing" and make their own (which I am sure is easier said than done).
by n_ary | 2025-04-30 00:06:35+00:00
It is hard to tell at this point about the AI/LLM. But the powerful hardware backing it has numerous potential in other research and innovations which are not yet clear to us. Just like the fiber and cellular network made Meta or Airbnb obscenely rich, the hardware may as well facilitate other forms of tech, may be quantum computing or heck even blockchain may be back(surprisingly these are suddenly very legal and less regulated this year!) or who knows what might be new.

While LLM trend is already going to the dumpster(notice how we no longer receive 1b/4b/8b models from Meta since LLama4 and similar competitors but only from china?), I firmly believe that commodity hardware will improve in this race to allow running LLMs(or their next iteration) on regular devices and become as ubiquitous as Siri/Cortana.
by seadan83 | 2025-04-30 00:06:43+00:00
> Disagree on being "in 1984 situation,"

We are not on the same page. I was not referring to a 1984 situation in the sense that government now currently has control over all information and strictly controls it. If anything, we're more in a "Brave New World" situation than 1984.

I was referring to instead just a tactic used in 1984 where the dissenting opposition is controlled rather than suppressed. The dissent is allowed to exist, but it's in a controlled manner. I'm also only referring to within Twitter/X as well, not about US society.

> The hard evidence you request is thoroughly concealed and hard to follow as it gets washed through non profits and NGOs.

In contrast, 'soft' evidence sounds like the stuff of unsubstantiated claims - which is not evidence. So, we can probably just simply talk about evidence, the distinction of 'hard' vs 'soft' seems meaningless to me (soft evidence is simply not evidence). My question - how is someone to distinguish between evidence that is thoroughly concealed vs evidence that does not exist? If you can't distinguish between the two, then is it fair to say that evidence that was destroyed is simply no longer there? Can you show evidence of this destruction?

> USASpending shows $2mm direct in 2024 to NYT

Where can I see that?

Checking 'USASpending.gov", searching for 'recipients' and then NYT, it shows a total awarded amount of "$322,716" [1].

Though, giving you all of the benefit of the argument and let's say the $2mm direct is true. A quick google search shows annual 2024 revenue for NYT was $2.6B (which surprises me it is that much). $2mm is less than 0.1% of revenues. Seems like NYT would hardly miss it if it were gone.

[1] https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/f05659be-52e5-38ef-461...
by quotemstr | 2025-04-30 00:06:43+00:00
Well, execve(2) and execvp(3) are both "system" functions. C (which is already black magic for some people) invokes both by calling into functions exported from libc. If you're not super dorky^Wfamiliar with low-level systems stuff, you might guess that the two functions are implemented in the same place and in the same way. That the latter is just a libc wrapper around the former that does a PATH search is arcane detail you don't have to care about 99% of the time.

It's hard to appreciate how the world looks before you learn a fact. You can't unsee things.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-04-30 00:07:28+00:00
> I want the `if` to take both branches at once.

this is called symbolic execution - as i have already told you, many compilers do this in the form sccp and scev. you don't need silly things like egraphs for this.

> If something has been rewritten, it will never be rolled back

this is patently false - not only do passes get rolled back to catch/correct errors but there is a fixed-point iteration system (at least in MLIR) that will apply passes as long as they are "profitable".
by getnormality | 2025-04-30 00:07:34+00:00
I can't overstate how hopeful I am about Waymo. They are already literally 10x safer than human drivers [1] and they'd become vastly safer still if they completely replaced human drivers on the road. This would also make commuting a much more pleasant experience, which I think could greatly relieve the housing crisis in high-demand cities. Parents would have an alternative to hours of driving kids to activities.

I can't think of another pipeline technology that is both this proven and this impactful.

[1] https://waymo.com/blog/2024/12/new-swiss-re-study-waymo
by msm_ | 2025-04-30 00:07:57+00:00
But of course there is. Imagine the following compression scheme:

0-253: output the input byte 254 followed by 0: output 254 254 followed by 1: output 255 255: output 10GB of zeroes

Of course this is an artificial example, but theoretically it's perfectly sound. In fact, I think you could get there with static huffman trees supported by some formats, including gzip.
by pessimizer | 2025-04-30 00:07:59+00:00
Mantrapping is a fairly good analogy, and that's very illegal. If the person reading your gas meter gets caught in your mantrap, you're going to prison. You're probably going to prison if somebody burglarizing you gets caught in your mantrap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantrap_(snare)

Of course their computers will live, but if you accidentally take down your own ISP or maybe some third-party service that you use for something, I'd think they would sue you.
by cwt137 | 2025-04-30 00:08:21+00:00
Not always true! Your statement is only true when the running clock's speed is the same as time. Thus, regular time and the clock's time will never meet.

If the clock is running faster than regular time, it will at point catch up to regular time and thus be correct for a split second. If the clock is slower than regular time, regular time will catch up to the clock and the clock will be right for a split second.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-30 00:08:35+00:00
When everything is dominated by a lack-of-knowledge based bureaucracy, and there's only a few short years to make a difference for 1.650.000 people, you are going to have to get started earlier rather than later ;)

That's a lot of people to actually try to get on board as to what a "knowledge-based society" should be, they would have to relate it to something they were already familiar with.

If the only resource you have to work with is a "not-as-much-knowledge-as-you-thought" based institution, then start calling it a beacon of a knowledge-based society. Somebody's going to have to spread the word anyway, and if more functional resources don't come within reach, at least you've done your part.

It's interesting that some people are bound to believe you have achieved a knowledge-based society if it's just repeated over and over.
by opan | 2025-04-30 00:09:47+00:00
I had a ton of trouble opening a 10MB or so png a few weeks back. It was stitched together screenshots forming a map of some areas in a game, so it was quite large. Some stuff refused to open it at all as if the file was invalid, some would hang for minutes, some opened blurry. My first semi-success was Fossify Gallery on my phone from F-Droid. If I let it chug a bit, it'd show a blurry image, a while longer it'd focus. Then I'd try to zoom or pan and it'd blur for ages again. I guess it was aggressively lazy-loading. What worked in the end was GIMP. I had the thought that the image was probably made in an editor, so surely an editor could open it. The catch is that it took like 8GB of RAM, but then I could see clearly, zoom, and pan all I wanted. It made me wonder why there's not an image viewer that's just the viewer part of GIMP or something.

Among things that didn't work were qutebrowser, icecat, nsxiv, feh, imv, mpv. I did worry at first the file was corrupt, I was redownloading it, comparing hashes with a friend, etc. Makes for an interesting benchmark, I guess.

For others curious, here's the file: https://0x0.st/82Ap.png

I'd say just curl/wget it, don't expect it to load in a browser.
by thornewolf | 2025-04-30 00:10:06+00:00
To push back on this, I consider pandas/numpy so crucial to Python as a whole they are effectively stdlib to me. I wouldn't blink at this because it would happen sooner or later.

Unless is was absolutely critical the server have as small as a footprint as humanly possible and it was absolutely guaranteed there would never need to be included in the future of course. However, that first constraint is the main one.
by ketzo | 2025-04-30 00:10:30+00:00
Even if there are charging stations every ten miles along the exact route you were already planning to take, it’s just straightforwardly true that it’s more annoying to charge vs. get gas.

I can fill my tank and be back on the road in <5 minutes in most cases, and I only have to do that once every 350 miles.

With an EV, I would be stopping anywhere from 10-30minutes (depending on the kinds of chargers available) (assuming I don’t have to wait for one to open up), and I’d be doing it twice as often.

It adds a very meaningful amount of time to long car trips.
by xyst | 2025-04-30 00:10:46+00:00
Anything Toyota latches themselves to eventually dies.

Toyota and hybrid vehicles - very weak entry into the market

Toyota and hydrogen powered vehicles - dead on arrival

Toyota’s failure to electrify fleet

Now they want autonomous vehicles? Wonder who backs out first? Waymo or Toyota once they realize what a joke Toyota is.

Well at least they are not collaborating with Nissan.
by blargey | 2025-04-30 00:11:33+00:00
What are people supposed to argue with the sort of person that claims destroying 2B of federal science funding is justified solely by alleviating 0.001% of the 1.83T deficit - aka accomplishing nothing?

There's nothing to be aware of, nothing to prepare for, it's an "argument" that destroys itself with simple division. (Taking their grossly exaggerated "3T per semester" deficit number - combining the 2020 peak in annual deficit and casually doubling it - at face value only makes the 2B from the NSF an even more insignificant 0.00033%)

I find nothing revelatory about it. Just another person that wants to vandalize anything associated with their vague meme-complex of woke-lib-fed-science-international stuff.
by terribleperson | 2025-04-30 00:11:42+00:00
There was also forced sterilization in the United States. Does that make the United States a socialist country? No, of course not. The argument form "Bob did X, and Bob is an A, therefore all As do X" is nonsense.

edit: There was also forced sterilization in the United States. Does that make the United States a socialist country? No, of course not. The argument form "Bob did X, and Bob is an A, therefore anyone who does X is an A" is nonsense. The argument form "Bob did X, and Bob is an A, therefore all As do X" is similarly nonsense. It's also a very weird argument to make when you say it was done "at behest of the World Bank and IMF.", considering those are certainly not socialist organizations.
by mmx1 | 2025-04-30 00:12:30+00:00
I’d say the point is more subtle than that: it is not mere efficiency that comes with such scale. Rather, such scale is necessary to enable certain technological investments and long-term risks and behavior. For example, if you were a non-monopoly company in a competitive environment you would not be able to steer Chrome and shape it the way it is. You’d be burdened by day to day business needs to keep the margin from eroding below zero at any given corner.

Under this theory it follows that if you actively kill any business with a monopoly market share like the EU, you’ll guarantee failure for the society in achieving certain technological breakthroughs. The only way to avoid it would be government sanctioned corporations (CCP style) or US style pre-Lina Khan relatively free market approach to scale.
by Retric | 2025-04-30 00:13:44+00:00
Hybrids are a dead end. There’s already EV’s doing 1MW charging. That’s practically gas pump speeds while also being able to charge at home, and the underlying technology keeps improving.

8% of new cars in the US, 14% in the EU, and 27% in China are EV’s. Toyota’s EV sales are anemic by comparison.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-04-30 00:13:52+00:00
I am a semi-retired blue collar electrician. Higher IQ, but lowly certifications (definitely not a lawyer).

Currently I have initiated a lawsuit in my US state's small claims civil court, over a relatively simple payment dispute. Without the ability to bounce legal questions/tact/procedurals off of Perplexity, I wouldn't have felt comfortable enough to represent myself in court.

Even if I were to need a lawyer on this simple case, the majority of the "leg work" has already been completed by free, non-pay LLMs.

My court date is early June; I'm both nervous and excited (for restitution)!

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I have a judge brother and have been arguing for years that law clerking is probably in its last gasps of career-entry; Chief Justice Roberts's end of 2023 SCOTUS report was a refreshing read to share among family members (which argued that LLMs will provide more accessibility to judiciary by commoners).

Personally, I already would rather have a jury of LLMs deciding most legal outcomes (albeit would need to be impartially programmed, if that's even possible). Definitely would make for better democratic accessibility.

I found Bruce Schneier's recent article "Reimagining Democracy" [1] quite an interesting thought experiment (which is about his hosting intellectuals in their discussions of creating entirely new democracies utilizing modern technologies). It'd be super fair if a trusted AI government could lead to better democracies than "modern capitalism" can / has.

[1] schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/reimagining-democracy-2.html
by alganet | 2025-04-30 00:17:01+00:00
Star Trek kinda sucks.

It's an attempt at reforming quasi fascistic points of view. Strong hierarchies, heavy specialization of individuals, etc.

It is also kinda nice, in the sense that it explores this idea that you should put yourself in the shoes of the places they explore.

It also sucks, because their fans like to put themselves in the shoes of the quasi fascistic spaceship troops.

So, in the end, it is a dystopian nightmare. Told from the perspective of the ones who brought the dystopia to fruition. Which makes it optimistic, I guess! Except for all the planets not on their control having to put up with them.
by parasubvert | 2025-04-30 00:18:19+00:00
Book a demo at the Apple Store. It’s the kind of product that seems like an overpriced expensive toy until you actually experience it.

People who follow the XR industry know that most aspects of the AVP were very carefully considered engineering and design trade-offs, including the aluminum construction, which is arguably lighter than plastic for the nature of the headset design requiring a certain level of durability and recyclability. Tethered battery is also a very smart design decision, that I think we will see followed by other manufacturers. The outwardfacing display is necessary if the headset is to be integrated in the workplace or in a social environment, such as cafés or airplanes. In my experience, my family and coworkers appreciate it.
by hightrix | 2025-04-30 00:19:09+00:00
> Toyota and hybrid vehicles - very weak entry into the market

This statement doesn't seem to track with reality. The Prius was one of the first major hyrbids and it sold like hotcakes. You see them everywhere. Their current offerings include more hybrids than ever, in fact it seems a majority of their vehicles have a hyrbid option today, including the Tacoma and Tundra.
by jsheard | 2025-04-30 00:19:48+00:00
> Product results are chosen independently and are not ads.

Correction: they're not their ads, but they're generating recommendations based on scraped web content which will inevitably be polluted with affiliate spam, astroturfing and other black hat marketing bullshit. They've actually found a way to run ads and not even get paid for it.

Case in point, I just asked ChatGPT for the best noise cancelling headphones under $200 (their example from the OP) and it cited multiple blatantly LLM generated affiliate blogspam sites. Doesn't really inspire confidence.
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-30 00:20:19+00:00
Wow one whole city of tech bros? I was able to get an Uber in Manuel Antonio Costa Rica coming from an airport whose terminal is literally a hut (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quepos_La_Managua_Airport).

There is a reason even taxi companies are now partnering with Uber in places like DC.

I travel a lot between business (not as much now) and personally. I know I can land in any airport domestically and most airports internationally and can get a ride on Uber and with surge pricing someone will usually pick me up.

It isn’t financially viable to have enough Waymo cars on the road that will be able to handle peak demand and just sit there during low demand.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-04-30 00:20:24+00:00
I don't mean to imply that I believe they are excellent people who will take care of us all, nor that there is any illuminati cabal like that other ludicrous comment.

I only mean to imply they are people who know how to get what they want, and are willing to do more or less anything.

There is a new story that Amazon is going to overtly display the tarrif on every price. That is like 1% of the kind of thing I'm thinking of.
by 3np | 2025-04-30 00:20:27+00:00
NSMB source code never leaked, or did I miss something?

So assuming they're looking at a decompiled ROM, the actual sources probably look completely different so it's pretty inane to complain about ugly loops and lookups and hardcoded numbers.

The weird looping in the beginning might as well be an attempt at obfuscation meant precisely to annoy and distract readers like OP. Or if it's an artefact of some dev/debug feature left in the build: Big deal, really got them there.
by morkalork | 2025-04-30 00:20:55+00:00
Lower Decks and Prodigy are very much created by people who have fond memories of TNG and Voyager. Even though Prodigy is a kids show, I have a soft spot for it since I was watching Voyager as a 10-13 year old. It definitely works at tapping into the fuzzy nostalgia vibes if you're the right age.
by slg | 2025-04-30 00:21:00+00:00
I think this is overstated. My Ford EV gets ~300 miles. If I leave my home with a full charge, I can get ~500 miles with ~30 minutes of charging. If a ~30 minute break in the middle of an ~8 hour drive is a problem for you, you probably aren't a safe driver. There is a reason that truckers have mandatory breaks. A person shouldn't be driving all day nonstop.
by const_cast | 2025-04-30 00:21:04+00:00
They're over-developed and simultaneously run down. If you've ever driven down southlake boulevard you know it gets PACKED during rush hour.

> I never lived anywhere where kids were playing right beside an eight lane road

You leave my neighborhood and immediately it's a 50 MPH 6 lane stroad. Granted, I'm counting 3 one way, 3 the other, occasional turning lanes makes it 7 or 8.

It's true your neighborhood is fine. But there's literally nothing in your neighborhood but homes. If you need anything, no matter how trivial, you have to cross stroads. This is very much in contrast to urban mixed-use pedestrian friendly areas.
by nowittyusername | 2025-04-30 00:22:07+00:00
With my own experiments I've also found this. This behavior is very persistent with llms on default hyperparameters and system prompt. Right now I am exploring how to get these models to output more human like interactions and it seems that a very specific and detailed system prompt is very important to get this to work. These systems are VERY sensitive to system prompt and user input. Meaning that the quality of output varies drastically depending on not just the language you use but how its structured, the order of that structure and also other many nuanced things like system prompt plus user input pre conditioning. So far it seems its possible to get to where we need to for this task but lots of exploration needs to be done in finding the way in how to structure the whole system together. This revelation is kind of nuts when you think about it. It basically means, once you find the right words and the order in which they should be structured for the whole system you can get 2x+ improvement in every variable you care about. That's why I am spending some time creating an automated solution to find these things for x model. Its a tedious effort to do manually, but we have the tools to automate its own optimization and calibration efforts.
by cryptoegorophy | 2025-04-30 00:22:36+00:00
I actually started to trust V12. V11 was a complete joke vaporware. V12 is a complete game changer that actually drives on par if not better than human. Not a tesla stock holder(all of it is a scam per my retarded opinion), but I am now more than confident that they will start doing self driving this year. Maybe isolated and with some remote interventions here and there, but it feels on par with Waymo. My friend was just testing Waymo and by his words it is not as aggressive (human like) like Tesla on the road where you need to assert yourself to merge.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-04-30 00:23:11+00:00
Hey there! If you’re hitting rate limits perhaps let people bring their own Gemini api key?

You may be able to take advantage of CORS so the Gemini call is client-side and your backend never sees the key. Simon Willison did this for Claude and wrote it up here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/23/anthropic-dangerous-di...

Very cool idea, thanks for sharing!
by jerf | 2025-04-30 00:23:32+00:00
The "optimistic" science fiction that people are pining for was written during the World War period, during the social unrest of the 1960s, during the inflation and oil shock of the 1970s, during periods of racial violence, during the heights of the Cold War (the Fallout series came from real societal trama, not just a neat schtick about putting a 1950s face on disaster movies), during environmental scares, nuclear disasters, terrorism, during social upheavals and economic crises and international crises.

The 20th century was not a cakewalk either. I'm not saying it was or was not better than today, I am saying, "gee there's an awful lot of reasons to be depressed" isn't new.
by CyberMacGyver | 2025-04-30 00:23:36+00:00
This was expected! This also signals that OpenAI has exhausted all innovation and belief that they are going to be profitable long term.

OpenAI is trying to build a product that’s sticky which keeps people locked in. Right now they don’t have any moat and stickiness. They are trying social network to create the lock-in effect.

My prediction is that they have a year till all major mobile phones have competent, native AI baked in so they are afraid of losing market share and might want to make hay while the sun is still shining.