MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by otabdeveloper4 | 2025-04-07 11:04:16+00:00
You just (lol) need to give non-standard problems and demand students to provide reasoning and explanations along with the answer. Yeah, LLMs can "reason" too, but it's obvious when the output comes from an LLM here.

(Yes, that's a lot of work for a teacher. Gone are the days when you could just assign reports as homework.)
by jlcases | 2025-04-07 11:04:33+00:00
This touches on a critical issue I've encountered in AI development: the synchronization between documentation and rapidly evolving AI systems.

Here are my key learnings:

1. Version Control for Context: I've found that treating context as a first-class citizen in version control is crucial. Each model iteration should have its context version tracked alongside code changes.

2. Bidirectional Traceability: In my experience, implementing bidirectional links between documentation and code/model behavior helps catch context drift early. I use a MECE framework to ensure completeness.

3. Automated Validation: I've implemented hooks that verify documentation consistency with model behavior during CI/CD. This caught several instances where model updates silently broke assumptions in the docs.

The challenge isn't just keeping docs in sync, but preserving the why behind decisions across model iterations.
by Nesco | 2025-04-07 11:04:42+00:00
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by swiftcoder | 2025-04-07 11:05:18+00:00
> Every company I've ever worked at has more work that they would like to do than they have engineers to do it

I've worked at a couple of BigTechs, where there were between 5-20x more engineers than actual work. The trade-offs are... strange in that world.

> Also maybe it's a US vs EU thing, but at every engineering and IT company I've ever worked in Europe, the person two steps above me was basically always an engineer or at least has a science or technical background.

I haven't found that to be common in the US. I've had a number of front-line managers who were (somewhat) recent engineer conversions, rarely had anyone above that level who was.
by bmacho | 2025-04-07 11:06:17+00:00
I rather retract it. I'm all for unambiguous communication, and if the wiki doesn't even say that the meaning is disputed[0] then I'll accept it.

> Or can you find any article in a notable publication

Well the very original meaning of open source as various parties agreed on the term in April, 1998. It did not grant the right to distribute or redistribute (possibly modified) open source libraries as part of your program. Then the meaning changed shortly after it, and they switched to the Debian social contract. (As far as I could gather.)

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software
by muzani | 2025-04-07 11:06:44+00:00
I'm not a big fan of Rocket, but I think that's an unfair way to put it. I'd say they're similar to what Bezos would be like if he had to start from Europe lol.

They take an existing model with a lot of potential and focus on implementation. They had a golden period with e-commerce because e-commerce is heavily logistics. And they do it in the hardest places, because the harder it is, the more they can sell the company for.

Back when Lazada started, Indonesia had terrible credit card penetration. Roads were not suited to delivery; heck they built their own logistics because the local logistics were not suited for e-commerce. There's a lot of complex laws on hiring, or incorporating companies there (which are nicer now).

China won't do it. They don't want to build companies in 6 different low income country with a total of 500m population or so. Normal people would just target the US or EU, which has more people and more money.

But Rocket goes into these countries. They have a lot of emphasis on leadership. They drop a scalable playbook for the locals. They grow it fast until it hits a cap before they sell it off to something like Alibaba. They do have some dark patterns as well. Whatever caricatures people have of China, Rocket does it better - they work longer hours, work people harder, build things for extreme scale, do what the Chinese won't.

It is not the funding model that GP speaks of. But it is a fairly successful model of creating and exiting startups. It's quite autocratic to my understanding. I don't have that kind of work ethic and I feel like there's a hint of envy when people call them copycats. They don't have a good presence on the English Wikipedia though.
by 7bit | 2025-04-07 11:06:51+00:00
First of all, it does not "just happen" to be selectable. RAW contains information that is not available in a JPG or PNG , but which is crucial to a lot of serious photographers.

Second, the native raw images do include a ton of adjustments in brightness, contrast and color correction. All of which gets lost when you open the image file with apps provided from other companies than the camera vendor. Eg. open a Nikon-raw in NC Software and then in Lightroom. Big difference. Adobe has some profiles that get near the original result, but the Nikon raw standards often are better.

So DNG would absolutely be an advantage because then at least these color corrections could natively be implemented and not get lost in the process.
by tomasfn | 2025-04-07 11:07:43+00:00
Really interesting. I think the idea of pivoting is a huge skill, but maybe it's not highlighted enough (especially as the process of building becomes easier). Taking a step back and looking at what you've already built from different angles, for various use cases, until one of them clicks more is key. Then, just sell it that way. If it doesn’t work, repeat. Essentially, it’s about repeating the process, but with the flexibility and adaptability to shape your product for the SaaS world. A cardinal mindset for building, a mutable mind for flexibility and adaptability.
by jussih | 2025-04-07 11:08:38+00:00
I recently purchased a Pocketbook Era. It is pretty much the perfect device for me - supports open standards and does not require any cloud account signups to start using it. It is not hostile to the user, 3rd party applications such as Koreader can be simply dropped in and they appear in the menus without any shenanigans like jailbreaking or custom launchers needed.

In my ideal world all devices would be like this.
by ffsm8 | 2025-04-07 11:08:44+00:00
> A system that expects all worthwhile things to be profitable will simply fail to do all worthwhile things and society will be worse for it

I agree with the spirit of your message, but you're going way too far using all there. Some are not profitable, and the society is likely better off to socialize these. As a simple example: it's not profitable to provide food and housing for people without means, but if you don't, your society will be worse off - simply because these people will be forced into directions that are generally harmful to your living spaces.

Sure, you could increase police presence in this particular example, but that'd still be an effective socialization, because now you just put them on jail, which is even more costly then just providing them housing and food.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-04-07 11:10:12+00:00
> That kind of code is the reason that this proposed change is not just an obvious no-brainer

I don't understand your point here: I disagree this is "obvious", and I don't think I've said anything to imply that?

> And of course any such code can be fixed, but that's not necessarily trivial; making the source code changes can be a very small part of the process

In many cases, it's so trivial you can write code to patch the code. Often, the resulting stripped binary will be identical, so you can prove it's not necessary to even test the result! If decision makers can be made to understand that, you can run around most corporate process that makes this sort of thing hard.

I've spent a lot of time fixing horrible old proprietary code to use const because I think it's important: most of the time, it's very easy. I don't deny there are rats nests that require a lot of refactoring to unwind, but that is the exception rather than the rule, in my personal experience.

It will be vanishingly rare that code will need to be modified in a way that actually changes its runtime behavior to tolerate the proposed change.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-04-07 11:12:22+00:00
> Most of the world didn't ditch cars, exactly. They just predate them.

It's true they predate them, but then so do most American cities. When the car arrived the American cities opted to expand their cities, giving everyone their own block of lawn to live on. The European cities could have expanded in the same way too. Utrecht went as far as to build freeways to make it possible. But in the end, they opted not to and Utrecht in particular turned their brand new freeways into canals.

> Car culture is recent and pretty uniquely American.

American certainly has it's own unique culture, but I think we are discussing a specific characteristic of that culture which it shares with other countries like Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The density of most cities in those countries is so low owning a car is mandatory. Existing without one is almost impossible. I know because live in one. Quoting a Japanese exchange student who lives with us for a while - to her surprise even with two cars getting to everywhere we had to be in an average week was a major logistical exercise. In the countries @n3storm is talking about, car ownership is completely optional.
by delfinom | 2025-04-07 11:13:38+00:00
I ponder if it's really because sedan sales have been shrinking YoY to this day and the volume has gotten small enough to cram into a existing factory.

Based on some data here https://carfigures.com/us-market-brand/honda/accord

(which does come from other sources, this was just the basic tablation I could find)

the accord sale numbers are half of their peak only a 6 years ago
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by raxxorraxor | 2025-04-07 11:14:25+00:00
I thought dark matter was only observed through movements of matter within galaxies. Outer layers of spiral galaxies are observed to move faster than they should, so there has to be additional gravity and therefore mass that binds them on their (fast) orbits around the center.

Perhaps there is a negative gravity outside of galaxies where space seems to bubble out of nowhere anyway and the universe is expanding.

This seems as an attempt to combine gravity with the standard model again, which in my very amateurish understanding comes with multiple extra dimensions anyway. Isn't the higgs field basically a recently discovered additional dimension already? Among the other forms of particles that can be seen as an excitation of fields that compose these dimensions.

But for extreme cases like neutron stars or black holes, we probably do need to combine these theories since gravity is a main reason these objects exist in the first place. And also isn't a curvature of space not already be an additional dimension as well? It would be mathematically as I understand it.
by pseudalopex | 2025-04-07 11:16:22+00:00
Congress could revoke Trump's emergency declarations at any time. A measure to do this for Canada passed the Senate by 1 vote only. The House will not vote on it probably. Members of the majority party are more afraid they will lose their next primary elections if they oppose the leader than they will lose their next general elections because of the leader's policies. Those are not conditions to pass a confidence motion.
by alephnerd | 2025-04-07 11:17:31+00:00
> I ponder if it's really because sedan sales have been shrinking

Nope. It's part of Honda's $4-5 billion US expansion as part of their EV and Hybrid car drive [0][1] which also expanded production output.

They're moving their cars to a hybrid and electric first model similar to what Toyota began 4-5 years ago.

The Biden era IRA subsidizes were the carrot to help restart domestic automotive investments, and the tariffs shock is the stick to force them to capitalize on those instead of trying to co-mingle parts from other non-NAM locations for better margins.

[0] - https://alabamanewscenter.com/2022/10/13/what-does-hondas-4-...

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/02/hondas-new-ev-production...
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-07 11:17:38+00:00
> If they aren't allowed to compete, local industries will never have an incentive to improve.

Neither Europe nor the US can compete with the level of disdain for the environment, labor laws and poverty that China brings to the table. Wages alone make anything made in China so cheap that, for mass-market goods, competing against China (or its upcoming competitors in the race to the bottom) is impossible.
by snowram | 2025-04-07 11:18:54+00:00
Some outputs are pretty fun :

Gemini 2.0 Flash: "Good luck to all (but not too much luck)"

Llama 3.3 70B: "I've contributed to the elimination of weaker players."

DeepSeek R1: "Those consolidating power risk becoming targets; transparency and fairness will ensure longevity. Let's stay strategic yet equitable. The path forward hinges on unity, not unchecked alliances. #StayVigilant"
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-07 11:18:59+00:00
In this particular situation, Hegseth had two choices.

1. Limit what was shared in the Signal group to non-operational details and refer all involved to their secured systems.

2. Make it easier for everyone else and just post the details directly in the chat.

He chose the one that he thought would curry favor with other members of the administration.
by famouswaffles | 2025-04-07 11:19:21+00:00
>The whole premise on which the immense valuations of these AI companies is based on is that they are learning general reasoning skills from their training on language.

And they do, just not always in the ways we expect.

>This whole premise crashes and burns if you need task-specific training, like explicit chess training.

Everyone needs task specific training. Any human good at chess or anything enough to make it a profession needs it. So I have no idea why people would expect any less for a Machine.

>then we have to accept that they can't learn, say, to sell business software unless they include business software pitches in the training set, and there are going to be FAR fewer of those than chess games.

Yeah so ? How much business pitches they need in the training set has no correlation with chess. I don't see any reason to believe what is already present isn't enough. There's enough chess data on the internet to teach them chess too, it's just a matter of how much open AI care about it.
by giantg2 | 2025-04-07 11:21:02+00:00
Not really. Nothing has been removed. So far everything is just a panic. Anything critical will continue to flow, just at a higher cost. Most already healthy companies will survive. This is bad, but it's not as terrible as the panick is making it out to be. The thing that's making it look worse is how overvalued the market has been.
by nailer | 2025-04-07 11:21:05+00:00
I thought his primary qualification for being the secretary of defence was:

——

Being a Major in the Minnesota Army National Guard.

And the following Overseas deployments:

- Guantanamo Bay (2004-2005): He served as a second lieutenant with a security platoon, guarding detainees.

- Iraq (2005-2006): He deployed with the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, serving as an infantry platoon leader in Baghdad and later as a civil-military operations officer in Samarra.

- Afghanistan (2011-2012): He served as a captain and senior counterinsurgency instructor at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul.

Awards

Hegseth earned two Bronze Star Medals for his service in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as a Combat Infantryman Badge, which recognizes soldiers who have directly engaged in ground combat. He also received two Army Commendation Medals and the National Defense Service Medal with Bronze Service Star, along with Expert Infantryman and Combat Infantryman badges.

His military career spanned from 2002 to 2021, including active duty and time in the Individual Ready Reserve.

In addition to his military service, Hegseth holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Princeton University and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, which complement his practical experience with academic credentials relevant to leadership and policy.

———-

You can argue he’s good at the job or bad at the job.

I would have no issue if you said he was completely incompetent.

But saying that hs a ‘primary qualification is being a yes man’ is a ridiculous laughable argument.
by Arch-TK | 2025-04-07 11:21:55+00:00
I used to think rust was like C++ but harder to write badly but I don't think it's anything like C++ now that I've spent a couple of years writing it.

Rust is its own thing, it has none of the extensive baggage of C++, and doesn't appear to be set to reach that level of baggage at any point in time soon if ever. It's a much cleaner, clearer, and easier to reason about programming language.
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-07 11:23:14+00:00
It doesn't matter if you think their plans will work and/or are a terrible idea. I don't waste words on the latter, because I assume stringing together insults on the internet isn't going to change anyone's mind.

Instead and more interestingly:

- Do you think they'll have any outcomes?

- If so, what do you think those outcomes will be?

Hint: there's plenty of academic literature on the topic
by camgunz | 2025-04-07 11:23:30+00:00
Not for nothing, but slippery slope reasoning is a well-known fallacy and more or less an argument against all laws ("first they told me I couldn't kill anyone, now I can't hit anyone, now I can't talk about hitting anyone, now I can't write a story about hitting anyone or think about hitting anyone, murder laws are fascism"). The process of creating laws is about balancing rights, in this case your ability to advertise vs. your ability to be free from advertising and whatever its effects might be. The whole "banning advertising is impossible" argument (in fairness this basically the topic verbatim) is a lot less interesting than trying to find the principle or test where we can say, "this advertising seems useful to humanity" vs. "this advertising seems harmful to humanity". There's very little of the latter happening in this thread, which I think says it all.
by jeffparsons | 2025-04-07 11:23:57+00:00
One way to communicate this is in terms of _schedule risk_, rather than straight-up lost productivity. E.g. for a particularly troublesome design flaw, you might estimate that for any given 4-week project there's a 20% risk of the project blowing out by an extra week due to that flaw.

Depending on the stakeholder(s) you're dealing with, approaching it like this (as risk assessment/management) might help to convey the short-term impact of a long-term problem.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-07 11:24:48+00:00
The problem isn't in making "bad" software. The government has very specific requirements for communication related to security and preservation/documentation. They need communication tools that run off the public internet and maintain a detailed record of every message sent.

The problem today is that some (many?) politicians either don't understand or agree with those goals and pick more convenient tools that they may have been used to as a civilian.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-04-07 11:24:58+00:00
I agree, about both the issue with benchmarks not being relevant to actual use cases and the "wants to sound smart" issue. I have seen them both first hand interacting with llms.

I think the ability to embed arbitrary knowledge written in arbitrary formats is the most important thing llms have achieved.

In my experience trying to get an llm to perform a task as vast and open ended as the one the author describes is fundamentally misguided. The llms were not trained for that and won't be able to do it in a satisfactory degree. But all this research has thankfully provided us with the software and hardware tools where one could start working on training a model that can.

Contrast that to 5-6 years ago, when all you could hope for this kind of thing was simple rule based and pattern matching systems.
by zone411 | 2025-04-07 11:25:45+00:00
Author here - I'm planning to create game versions of this benchmark, as well as my other multi-agent benchmarks (https://github.com/lechmazur/step_game, https://github.com/lechmazur/pgg_bench/, and a few others I'm developing). But I'm not sure if a leaderboard alone would be enough for comparing LLMs to top humans, since it would require playing so many games that it would be tedious. So I think it would be just for fun.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-04-07 11:25:49+00:00
So... >> When exactly did GNU ship a complete OS?

> the only people who could run BSD were shops that had a source-code license for the proprietary AT&T Unix.

So -- finally! -- that's the measure of OSS? It must run on non-proprietary systems? Not simply the source code? OSS that runs on Windows or MacOS or VMS is not actually OSS?

You figure that Linux is the first non-proprietary system in 1991? Not 4.3BSD released in 1989?

I think you can understand my and others reluctance to state definitively Stallman was first, when by a dozen different metrics he wasn't. I'm still trying to understand what he was supposedly first at? First to find a lawyer?

Linux is important. GNU is important. BSD is important. And they remain important. I don't think any of them are made more important by distinguishing only one and not the others. Like -- as much as it pains me to say it, because of how I loath Stallman and the FSF, GCC was more than important to the entire ecosystem for years. Until LLVM, it was required. Etc, etc.