MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anenefan | 2025-04-09 01:36:45+00:00
Understandable why the original article [1] was not posted up as it no doubt would have annoyed some people. The source article however one needed to enter book reader mode quickly - which unfortunately it only included the references, otherwise it redirects to an epdf which will not load with my standard pdf viewers. [Downloaded file is readable between the syntax though]

Not that fructose in moderate amounts is an issue, typically the issue is the added sugar in items which might be otherwise consumed to excess, regardless of HFCS or regular table sugar sucrose. While media might be banging on about too much sugar in softdrink, they are slow to mention there's some fruit drinks (the <40% actual fruit juice) on the market with have 10% by weight in sugars. Sugars are good for helping preserve foods, but I've no idea if the 10% is there as a necessity or simply to sooth the taste buds.

I look forward to a day when one of the softdrink companies market a product where the bulk of excess sugar is dextrose / glucose. Last couple years I've been buying dextrose by the 25 Kg bag (approx 55 lbs) for all my sugar needs. On the fifth bag I think.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08258-3
by pizzly | 2025-04-09 01:37:17+00:00
I use LLM for almost everything from summarizing, finding out terminology in very different fields that I have no knowledge of, initial research of any field, coding (no more google searching of stack overflow anymore), pretty much everything. I use search engine only for searching for companies/products due to some mistrust that it would find all the products or companies including very small companies/products. But I am very open to removing search engines completely if this last point is satisfied.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-09 01:37:50+00:00
It seems to have been designed to be easy to solve by hand.

My approach:

1. Dan and Lisa agree on 8 out of 10 answers.

2. Dan, by changing two of Lisa's answers, has gained 20 points. Dan is right about both of those answers (6 and 9).

3. Mary is wrong about answers 6 and 9.

4. Mary has a total of three mistakes.

5. There are 8 possible answer keys, because Mary only has one mistake left to distribute among the other 8 answers.

6. On four of those possible answer keys, Lisa scores 50 points. Those are invalid.

7. Mary's mistake must be in answer to question 1, 3, 7, or 8.

8. On all four of those questions, Colin agrees with Mary.

9. Colin scores 30 points collectively on questions 1, 3, 7, and 8, plus 10 points each on questions 2, 5, and 9. 60 points.
by runarberg | 2025-04-09 01:39:23+00:00
For the record (not looking to argue, just pointing out interesting fact) this was just released today and shows for the first time that majority of Americans across all ages and all party affiliations have an unfavorable view of Israel (53%; up from 42% in 2022).

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/04/08/how-ameri...
by onemoresoop | 2025-04-09 01:40:18+00:00
Many of these people have a normal life outside of work and different hobbies or a social life. Many of them had been glued to their screens and keyboards too but evolved into a different stage in their lives. Former passions could turn into a discipline. I personally am not on my computer outside of 9-5 because thats already enough. I admit that don’t have the same passion I had in my 20s and yet Im effective in doing my work and am quite fulfilled.
by deevus | 2025-04-09 01:40:23+00:00
The trend of using LLMs for everything feels like a "when all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail" situation.

People should do what makes them feel good, but I think we're all going to get a bit dumber if we rely too much on LLMs for our information.

I personally still use search engines daily when I know what it is that I am searching for. I am actually finding that I am reaching less for LLMs even though it is getting easier and cheaper (I pay for T3 Chat at $8USD p/m).

Where I find LLMs useful is when I am trying to unpack a concept or I can't remember the name of something. The result of these chats often lead to their own Google searches. Even after all this development, the best LLMs still hallucinate constantly. The best way that I've found to reduce hallucinations is to use better prompts. I have used https://promptcowboy.ai/ to some success for this.
by yowzadave | 2025-04-09 01:40:37+00:00
It would be very surprising if the results from this approach were superior to simply machine-translating the entries from another language—because e.g. English already has so much content and contributor activity, and LLMs are already very good at translating. I can’t imagine you’d get more than a fraction of people’s interest in authoring entries in this abstract language.
by cyberax | 2025-04-09 01:40:41+00:00
> This kind of fuzzy reasoning is the rule, not the exception when it comes to human intuition.

That is indeed true. But we do have classic fuzzy logic, and it can be used to answer these questions. E.g. a "stool" maybe a "chair", but "automobile" is definitely not.

Maybe the symbolic logic approach could work if it's connected with ML? Maybe we can use a neural network to plot a path in the sea of assertions? Cyc really seems like something that can benefit the world if it's made open under some reasonable conditions.
by munksbeer | 2025-04-09 01:41:29+00:00
> and you are correct that the tariffs will cause more independent production. That’s part of the intention. Europe specifically is underproductive and the hope is that these tariffs and the change of tone for defense agreements will bolster Europes domestic industrial and defensive capabilities.

> I’m simply explaining the logic behind it

I really disagree most strongly that this is the logic behind it. You genuinely think Trump and his base want these tariff wars to encourage more manufacturing in Europe?

As a foreigner, the message that comes across loud and clear from the US is "America first".

I can't speculate what is really going on inside Trump's head or inside his administration, but one thing I'm 100% sure of, they really don't care in the slightest about Europe or any other country in the world for that matter.
by WillPostForFood | 2025-04-09 01:41:49+00:00
And we didn't pay for re-skilling, re-training, re-education.

This was the old "learn to code" moment. You are going to take a 50 year old auto worker with a high school degree and train them to do what? We have tried it, we have invested in it, is just doesn't work well.

Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

You are better off using trade policy to at least slow down offshoring to give people a chance to move, retrain, retire if they are close.
by packetlost | 2025-04-09 01:42:32+00:00
> The tariffs will create more jobs in the US (and in other economies due to retaliatory tariffs there) and so there will be more people in the market who will be able to afford to pay 10% more.

This isn't backed by evidence, it's at best speculation for some potential future at least 4 years, but probably closer to 10, in the future. Most industries cannot simply just spin up new factories at the turn of a switch.
by smelendez | 2025-04-09 01:42:38+00:00
Depends on the use case.

If you’re a data viz team and do this all the time, and everyone knows or is willing to learn D3, then sure. Otherwise, if you just need to add a graph to your website, you may find it slows you down and makes code less maintainable.

I personally find it confusing and as others mentioned I can forget how it works over time, though I admire it. I don’t think I could jump in and edit D3 code today without careful study, any more than I could jump in and edit Perl code. Echarts/Highcharts etc. are much more intuitive.
by refulgentis | 2025-04-09 01:43:22+00:00
It's boring ol' ECO101: price goes up, demand goes down, supply goes down.

A company selling premium laptops at $1,200 can absorb the deadweight loss.

The budget seller can't.

That is why it is the low end ones they're cutting.

* it's worth tossing around what TDS looks like, both to the outgroup, and the ingroup
by wolrah | 2025-04-09 01:44:17+00:00
This thread is yet another thing that makes me fear for the future of humanity.

No, I don't use the hallucination machines to search, and I never will.

I use search engines to search. I use the "make shit up" machine when I want shit made up. Modern voice models are great for IVR menus and other similar tasks. Image generation models have entirely taken over from clipart when I want a meaningless image to represent an idea. LLMs are even fun to make up bogus news articles, boilerplate text to fill a template, etc. They're not search engines though and they can't replace search engines.

If I want to find real information I use a search engine to find primary sources containing the keywords I'm looking for, or well referenced secondary sources like Wikipedia which can lead me to primary sources.
by aussieguy1234 | 2025-04-09 01:44:36+00:00
Here in Australia, we are now expecting 4 interest rate cuts due to likely global economic turmoil. That's up from zero before the tarriffs.

My understanding is lower interest rates = more money for VCs and investors. Digital products, which most startups are building, aren't subject to Tariffs, unless you are shipping physical copies which most software startups are not.

If that is the case, would this mean more money for startups in non-US countries?
by vitorgrs | 2025-04-09 01:44:44+00:00
100% this. My (BR) state have a weather service¹, it's amazing. What people don't realize, it's that the service isn't just made for normal people see if is gonna rain, it's that the service is fundamental for agriculture and farmers. So they have radars, frosts alerts, specifically tailored to farmers as well.

It's also used to give alerts to electricity companies, etc...

Their weather prediction, it's just way better than any other service.

There's also national service, run by CPTEC/INMET, but they are lacking funding IMO...

[1] https://simepar.br
by walleeee | 2025-04-09 01:44:46+00:00
No, it just means you have a stronger prior that a human being is generally intelligent. We don't ask that question of each other because it's obvious.

It doesn't make sense to hold you to the same standard I hold a model to. We scrutinize test scores for hints of ourselves and dress up the process with rigor, formalisms, operationalizations. A machine's beating you on a test, or your favorite set of such, is not very convincing evidence it is generally capable in anything like the way you are, much less sentient. Similarly it would be silly to conclude from your failure on the same battery of tests that you are not generally intelligent. Maybe you were tired or drunk.
by Phlebsy | 2025-04-09 01:45:04+00:00
> This seems political.

Say it ain't so - tariffs are now being used for political reasons instead of economic? I hope the administration gets word of this.

With how unstable the situation is and Framework being a small outfit shipping out of their processing & QA center(every unit is hand assembled and tested before shipping), it makes far more sense to just pause it all than risk tariffs being raised to 104% arbitrarily before they can process an order.
by mindslight | 2025-04-09 01:45:12+00:00
Because they're centralized sources of power, and power corrupts.

In my younger days I used to argue for a non-inflationary currency, and how that would have gone a long way towards not concentrating the wealth from offshorting and technological progress (instead enough money was printed to make price inflation keep occurring in spite of the fundamentals, and most of that new money was just given to banks to pump up the asset bubbles)

These days I've kind of just accepted the monetary inflation (cf Gresham's law), like other centralizing but perhaps inevitable dynamics like the economies of scale for electronics manufacturing.
by tokioyoyo | 2025-04-09 01:45:54+00:00
I’m not sure if you’ve been a part of any company that are depended on supply chains, but the problem is, planning is hard-to-impossible right now. My friend explained to me how he just doesn’t know how to price products he’s importing. Between the time he orders the products, and the product reaches the port of the export country, he needs to know how much duties he has to pay at the port. He just doesn’t know that, so he can bake it into the price of the product.
by jacooper | 2025-04-09 01:46:12+00:00
This like a public-run PayPal alternative. Other countries have moved beyond this, Saudi Arabia for example created Mada, it's alternative for visa and mastercard. They take close to nothing on transactions, and that's how the government could enforce card payments everywhere.

And the cards are hybrids, they support both visa (or mastercard) and mada.
by d_burfoot | 2025-04-09 01:46:20+00:00
For me, the futility of GOFAI is obvious from simple introspection: is my own brain capable of chaining through vast networks of propositional statements? I wish! I can barely hold a 5 node decision tree in my head while playing a board game. At the same time, my brain is amazingly good at parsing visual and linguistic stimuli.

Still, you have to respect the man's dedication to his quixotic quest.
by EigenLord | 2025-04-09 01:47:40+00:00
I can see why some fields would have an overwhelmingly negative reaction to AI but I simply can't grasp why some software devs are. The entire point of the field is to get computers to do stuff for you. I've been doing this s*it for 10 years, there's too many little details and commands to remember and too much brutally dull work to not automate it.

I also have come to realize that in software development, coding is secondary to logical thinking. Logical thinking is the primary medium of every program, the language is just a means to express it. I may have not memorized as many languages as AI, but I can think better than it logically. It helps me execute my tasks better.

Also, I've been able to do all kinds of crazy and fun experiments thanks to genAI. Knowing myself I know realistically I will never learn LISP, and will always retain just an academic interest in it. But with AI I can explore these languages and other areas of programming beyond my expertise and experience much more effectively than ever before. Something about the interactive chat interface keeps my attention and allows me to go way deeper than textbooks or other static resources.

I do think in many ways it's a skill issue. People conceptualize genAI as a negation of skills, an offloading of skill to the AI, but in actuality grokking these things and learning how to work with them is its own skill. Of course managers just forcing it on people will elicit a bad reaction.
by unsignedint | 2025-04-09 01:48:17+00:00
What Musk doesn’t seem to understand is that when you’re representing a company at the highest level, visibility matters—a lot. That’s especially true in the car industry, where buying a vehicle is a big decision for many people. If he’s not willing to set aside his ego, he might not be the right person to run a company of this caliber.

Alienating your customer base is one of the worst things you can do in this space, where what you drive is often seen and judged by others. Tesla cars, once admired for their innovation, are now starting to feel like rolling political bumper stickers—loud, divisive, and hard to ignore. That kind of perception doesn’t help sales.

He once described empathy as a weakness, but the lack of it is clearly catching up to him. If he had even a bit more empathy, he might have better understood how his personal behavior reflects on the company—and how people would respond to it.
by m3047 | 2025-04-09 01:48:21+00:00
(I own chickens. There's an "Ur-chicken".)

The thing that jumped out at me in the article was this implied definition of "intuitive":

"In mammals, brain development follows an intuitive path: The cells in the embryo’s amygdala region at the start of development end up in the adult amygdala."

So let me see if I understand: Here is rock on hill. Rock stays on hill, or rock falls down hill. Because it's intuitive.

I'm not sure I agree that that's what "intuitive" means.
by grg0 | 2025-04-09 01:48:27+00:00
> “When I’m told 'Think of how much time you could be spending instead on making the actual game!', those who have drank the AI Kool-Aid don't understand that all this brainstorming and iteration is making the game, it’s a crucial everyday part of game development (and human interaction) and is not a problem to be solved.”

This right here is the key. It's that stench of arrogance of those who think others have a "problem" that needs fixing, and that they are in the best position to "solve" it despite having zero context or experience in that domain. It's like calling the plumber and thinking that you're going to teach them something about their job.
by GS523523 | 2025-04-09 01:49:46+00:00
> Why? Is this just an isolationist dream?

Imagine if Russia produced their own technical components - how much of an effect would sanctions have on them? If Russia relies on our computer chips, we have leverage over them. If we rely on Asian factories and silicon, they have leverage over us. President Biden wouldn't have had to go begging to Prince Mohammad for oil if we had enough production at home. It's the way the world works.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-04-09 01:49:57+00:00
Nothing stops the government from blocking your Pix transactions on a whim. They can just turn off your money whenever they want. They can confiscate your money any time if they want. They can do pretty much anything.

Conspiracy theory? It's cyberpunk stuff, the likes of which we see in fiction. Only it's not fiction. We're watching the whole thing unfold right before our very eyes.

I remember watching videos of people at events from many years ago. They warned us all about this stuff, explored all the possible consequences. It's pretty bleak. And now I'm living in this reality, the knowledge of the danger weighs down on me every day where I have to use the system. And people like you come here and calls us conspiracy theorists.
by drob518 | 2025-04-09 01:50:00+00:00
Many years ago, I went on a quest to read as much about AM and EURISKO as I could fine. Unfortunately, Lenat kept all of his work very private (secret, even), and there was very little to read other than high level papers and articles. I always felt that was a shame, as it prevented anyone else from building on anything Lenat built. I think we’re poorer for it.
by rayiner | 2025-04-09 01:50:25+00:00
> This isn't backed by evidence, it's at best speculation for some potential future at least 4 years, but probably closer to 10, in the future. Most industries cannot simply just spin up new factories at the turn of a switch.

There are two arguments in favor of free trade:

1) We don’t want to spend expensive american labor building X.

2) We don’t have the industrial capability to build X anymore.

The latter seems to be a damning indictment of the former. It’s one thing not to build X domestically to save money. It’s another thing to lose the capability to feasibly build X in the US because you have outsources that capability and lost it.

I’m sure if we ever got into a war with China, they’d wait for us for a decade to rebuild our manufacturing capacity.
by cduzz | 2025-04-09 01:51:36+00:00
Haas automation started in the early 1980s and was primarily successful because it leveraged the (new at the time) microprocessors to drive machine tools. I was there in the early 1990s, right when this silly article said that machine tool manufacturing was leaving the US.

There was lots of "making stuff" but the value of the company was largely the "office work" that happened off the shop floor, in the sales, support, development, etc. I'm not sure but I'd guess that 2/3rds of the employees were "white collar" jobs, even at a company that made machine tools
by flashgordon | 2025-04-09 01:51:39+00:00
As someone who is afraid to release personal projects I think what you have done is amazing. Id love to learn From your experience. You are being too humble but this kind of growth is very hardly an accident!

I'm not a monetization expert by any means so take all this with a pinch to salt. If money is not an urgent factor for you you can see how far you can take it especially towards "other verticals". If you can displace any existing incumbants doing so would be easier without the responsibility of supporting paying customers.
by DonHopkins | 2025-04-09 01:52:16+00:00
You must not read ingredients on products or eat library paste. ;)

Also: MEAT GLUE (transglutanimase)!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transglutaminase

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_gastronomy

https://lyndeymilan.blogspot.com/2010/01/question-what-is-oc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA8sNJjlQzU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAVO6hzNTns
by breadwinner | 2025-04-09 01:52:47+00:00
Just because something can be made in the US doesn't mean it makes sense to. If Americans make the same things as the rest of the world, why would Americans continue to be wealthier? Think about that!

For America to continue to be wealthier than other nations, we can't make the same things that others make. We have to make things others don't know how to make, and charge a premium. That's the way to wealth. Let other countries make t-shirts, sneakers and even cars. Anyone can make those things. We will buy their stuff low and sell our stuff high.

So what should we make and sell for a premium? Boeing airplanes, GE & Pratt & Whitney jet engines, Satellites and aerospace systems, NVIDIA chips, Heavy machinery (e.g., Caterpillar, Deere), Automation and robotics components, Immunotherapy and gene therapy, DNA sequencing and gene editing tools, Implantable devices, Robotic surgery systems (e.g., Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci), Diagnostic imaging machines, Cloud infrastructure and Enterprise software, Hollywood movies, Advanced materials (DuPont, Dow) and so on. In other words, things other countries don't know how to make, or aren't as good as us.

What wee don't want is sweatshops paying peanuts.
by bvirb | 2025-04-09 01:54:06+00:00
We've been using Elasticsearch + PG and it's pretty nice and fast, but it adds a whole layer of extra stuff to deal with when your data is in PG but then also needs to be indexed into an external server outside of those PG transactions. In our case I'm pretty convinced it hasn't been worth the effort. I think we could've optimized PG to be as fast as we needed with a lot less overhead than dealing with an external search index.

We moved our queues to PG and it cuts out the same kind of overhead to be able to wrap an update and start a job in a transaction. PG has been plenty fast to keep up with our queue demand.

Ultimately I think being able to do things transactionally just avoids a whole class of syncing issues, which are basically caching issues, and cache invalidation is one of the 2 hard things.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-04-09 01:54:17+00:00
The article is a very good review of Symbolic AI, in general, not just Cyc.

I have spent a lot of time with OpenCyc in the past, but haven’t touched it in ten years.

I believe tif there is a productive future for symbolic AI that it will involve using LLMs to construct knowledge graphs, symbolic relatikns, etc. from unstructured data.
by vitorgrs | 2025-04-09 01:56:00+00:00
I wouldn't trust this data. You realize the first link you send, is a data from DATAFOLHA, a private pollster. And the one who paid for the poll, was a ATM company (TecBan)?

Pix is still doing record of transactions, every month.

https://g1.globo.com/economia/noticia/2024/12/23/pix-bate-re...