MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by orbital-decay | 2025-04-08 13:24:27+00:00
Of course, it's a tiny specialized model vs a big generalist model. They're absolutely incomparable in size/quality though, especially of the text part. How much of this happens because of the poor encoder and worse training in other models, and how much due to the architectural differences? I'm not saying it's not better than the existing image gen models somehow, but it's pretty hard to separate the two since both are present. All current SotA LLMs including 4o itself have negation inaccuracy in text (you need a really complex prompt, or a long one with thousands of tokens, not a toy one), and I don't see why this one should behave differently in similar conditions. Especially considering that it also suffers from pretty much the same artifacts as other image models, just much less (fingers, extra limbs, perspective/lighting issues, overfitting, struggles with out-of-distribution generation etc.)
by nonethewiser | 2025-04-08 13:24:28+00:00
>We should strive for equality where possible but to hold individuals account to it is tougher; we should enforce in our interactions/beliefs, that's personal responsibility.

To be clear, you think someone should be held accountable for not including women in this trend? What might that look like? Are we talking about new laws? Changing the values of society somehow so people will independently ostracize? Or just some more coordinated activist effort? What?

>But does that mean that I need to "diversity hire" a woman for the group? We'd have no problem with that at all, if a female friend asked to join when hearing about it we'd be all for it. But it's not like we're going to go out of our way to ensure that we have at least 1 woman in our play group.

Why not ask a woman to join on the basis of wanting to diversify? That seems entirely consistent with your stated values.
by petesergeant | 2025-04-08 13:24:49+00:00
> These are rewards for people who keep up, not for those who resist change.

lol. I work with LLM outputs all day -- like it's my job to make the LLM do things -- and I probably speak to some LLM to answer a question for me between 10 and 100 times a day. They're kinda helpful for some programming tasks, but pretty bad at others. Any company that tried to mandate me to use an LLM would get kicked to the curb. That's not because I'm "not keeping up", it's because they're simply not good enough to put more work through.
by recursivedoubts | 2025-04-08 13:24:56+00:00
hx-boost is an afterthought and we haven't pushed the idea further because we expect view transitions via normal navigation to continue to fill in that area

htmx focuses on generalizing hypermedia controls:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3648188.3675127

we also have a minimalist version of the idea, fixi:

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/fixi
by llm_nerd | 2025-04-08 13:25:10+00:00
Yes, the people who have repeatedly fired vast numbers of critical people[1] and then begged for them to come back are outrageously incompetent. The people who keep posting laughably wrong values on their "savings", and who are cancelling contracts they actually can't, contracts that are critical, or contracts that ended years ago are spectacularly incompetent.

Hamfisting some AI bullshit to try to gangbang the government with Elon's own little AI creation isn't some massive undertaking, and I assume you must be new to this industry or something to think it is.

[1] Current estimates of DOGE firings are in the range of 280,000 employees, not the 60k the other guy keeps claiming. And they've fired critical, hugely valuable employees repeatedly (nuclear safety, bird flu remediation, etc), seemingly having no idea what they do or how they do it. They just manufacture a BS cause, including claiming people who haven't even started are being fired for performance reasons, and automate mass firings.
by Deukhoofd | 2025-04-08 13:25:33+00:00
We had the same in The Netherlands. Several weather apps that requested to share all your data with a bunch of partners, had ads, etc.

Then our national weather institute launched their own app without tracking or ads, and the existing weather apps all immediately joined up to sue them over it. Thankfully they lost the case.

https://www.rechtspraak.nl/Organisatie-en-contact/Organisati...
by robinhoode | 2025-04-08 13:25:46+00:00
> Yes, and where do you suppose experienced developers come from?

Almost every time I hear this argument, I realize that people are not actually complaining about AI, but about how modern capitalism is going to use AI.

Don't get me wrong, it will take huge social upheaval to replace the current economic system.

But at least it's an honest assessment -- criticizing the humans that are using AI to replace workers, instead of criticizing AI itself -- even if you fear biting the hands that feed you.
by jeffhuys | 2025-04-08 13:25:47+00:00
I'm not really sure actually. But to be honest, I'd rather see these tools be public instead of private; you can't really block this kind of thing anyway. Better have it out in the open where others can benefit/learn...

This whole thing is a Pandora's box. We can regulate, forbid, anything, but we all already have models downloaded locally (you did too, right..?). So unless there's some client-side "computer says no" we will never be able to block this anymore.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-08 13:26:53+00:00
I have what probably qualifies as the relatively-recently-named "severely deficient autobiographical memory".

Notes, notes, notes. Then review them before an interview. Not bullet-point notes of things that happened (that's fine too, but not just that) but make stories when they're very fresh, like, right after they happen. You won't be able to turn raw bullet points into a story later, you'll forget too much.

Then take some time to match stories to common interview questions. That's your prep document. Feel absolutely free to fill in gaps where needed, most folks' "real" memories of these things are half wrong anyway, and there may be times you literally couldn't have an acceptable answer to a common question without making some of it up, because you didn't take useful-enough notes. What are you going to do, fail every interview that asks that question forever? No, just make the story you need, connect it to reality as much as possible, and move on. But do it ahead of time. And you only need to do this once per such question. Perhaps you'll even manage to take notes on a less-invented story later (I've found that nearly all of these stories need a little invention, though, even if you have perfect notes, to fit into the acceptable range of responses)
by Y_Y | 2025-04-08 13:27:46+00:00
The United Nations has a flag and anthem too.

The umbrella interoperability initiative that includes Bizum is Swiss (neither EU nor Eurozone).

Maybe you have a radical viewpoint, or maybe you're just unfamiliar with the subject matter, but individual EU countries are very much separate entities, notwithstanding many helpful treaties.

There are lots of transnational entities like the EU and monetary unions like the Eurozone.

There's nothing so special about this arrangement that means it couldn't happen elsewhere.

https://empsa.org/news/leading-european-mobile-payment-solut...
by nirui | 2025-04-08 13:28:14+00:00
> “...For instance, we salvage parts from old laptop motherboards, such as capacitors, mouse pads, transistors, diodes, and certain ICs and use them in the newly refurbished ones,” says Prasad.

This highlights the problem of parts availability, especially for older laptops (10 years old or even older). Since no one, the original manufacturer as well as the "dup(licat)ors", is going to make parts for laptops that old.

During my own attempt to revive my old laptops, I had to buy three different keyboards, each costs around $8, from 2 different recycling shop, to "Frankenstein" a working and fairly new-looking one. And then the screen bezel and palm rest is another struggle. One total revival ended up costed me around $50 and 2 weeks, and give up on another one.

I imagine in order for laptop/electronic repairing to work reliably, manufactures needs to create standardized parts, like what happened to desktop PCs. But that hasn't happened since ...ever?
by asoneth | 2025-04-08 13:28:20+00:00
> Because all their competitors have to pay the same tax, it's just a status quo.

That may be correct if every company spends similar amounts on traditional advertising, but this isn't true. In reality, such a tax would hit companies with larger traditional advertising budgets harder, and make some companies choose to shift some of their marketing spend to other communication methods.

For example, I work for a company that has a small advertising budget with no traditional advertising. We have a website, publish papers, and occasionally have a booth at a conference. Some of our competitors have significant advertising presence in trade magazines, social media, news sites, etc. Therefore this tax would impact them more than it would impact us.

More importantly for the purpose of the tax, it might shift our competitors' behavior. Ad buys that were of marginal utility to the company before would be even less cost-effective so either advertising platforms would lower their prices or the company would not buy the ad. In some cases this lower price would make it no longer profitable for the platform to display, eliminating the ad enteriely.
by moolcool | 2025-04-08 13:28:34+00:00
> Advertising is a tax on the rich.

Even if advertisers make more money from the rich (citation needed), the poor are still disproportionately negatively effected. I would argue that it's less ethical to persuade someone with $100 to their name to spend $10 on something they don't need, than to persuade someone with $1,000,000 to spend $500 on something they don't need.

To bolster this argument, look at the things that are most advertised to the poor: alcohol, gambling, fast food, and predatory loans (including predatory auto financing). The wealthy, meanwhile, are more likely to be targeted with ads for lifestyle goods: health foods, travel, gym memberships.
by pja | 2025-04-08 13:29:11+00:00
> Unseen were all the sleepless nights we experienced from untested sql queries and regexes and misconfigurations he had pushed in his effort to look good. It always came back to a lack of testing edge cases and an eagerness to ship.

If you do this you are creating a rod for your own back: You need management to see the failures & the time it takes to fix them, otherwise they will assume everything is fine & wonderful with their new toy & proceed with their plan to inflict it on everyone, oblivious to the true costs + benefits.
by bayindirh | 2025-04-08 13:29:19+00:00
Actually, there are two main problems with AI:

1. How it's gonna be used and how it'll be a detriment to quality and knowledge. 2. How AI models are trained with a great disregard to consent, ethics, and licenses.

The technology itself, the idea, what it can do is not the problem, but how it's made and how it's gonna be used will be a great problem going forward, and none of the suppliers tell that it should be used in moderation and will be harmful in the long run. Plus the same producers are ready to crush/distort anything to get their way.

... smells very similar to tobacco/soda industry. Both created faux-research institutes to further their causes.
by stavros | 2025-04-08 13:29:30+00:00
This is all good advice, thank you. I saw an ortho doctor, he recommended weight training, which I am doing, and cycling is my favorite cardio, so I need to do more of that.

Basically, I guess "exercise the thing up to the point where it starts hurting" is the general advice for this kind of thing. I just hope the pain can go away so I can enjoy tennis again.
by subsection1h | 2025-04-08 13:29:40+00:00
> If you have to click or browse several results forget it, makes no sense not to use an LLM that provides sources.

I just searched for "What is inherit_errexit?" at Perplexity. Eight sources were provided and none of them were the most authoritative source, which is this page in the Bash manual:

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt...

Whereas, when I searched for "inherit_errexit" using Google Search, the above page was the sixth result. And when I searched for "inherit_errexit" using DuckDuckGo, the above page was the third result.

I continue to believe that LLMs are favored by people who don't care about developing an understanding of subjects based on the most authoritative source material. These are people who don't read science journals, they don't read technical specifications, they don't read man pages, and they don't read a program's source code before installing the program. These are people who prioritize convenience above all else.
by famouswaffles | 2025-04-08 13:30:56+00:00
It's kind of clear that for every request, it generates a new image entirely. Some people are speculating a diffusion decoder but i think it's more likely an implementation of VAR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02905.

So rather than predicting each patch at the target resolution right away, it starts with the image (as patches) at a very small resolution and increasingly scales up. I guess that could make it hard for the model to learn to just copy and paste image tokens for editing like it might for text.
by megaloblasto | 2025-04-08 13:32:20+00:00
Some things really are bad, and "badmouthing" and pointing that out can be a productive thing. Thinking that anything that is against the "mission of the company" is toxic is a stance that I do not share.

It feels like your opinion is "boss is always right, just do what they say" (I apologize if I'm misreading that). The truth is that bosses are often wrong and need to be corrected.
by pmags | 2025-04-08 13:33:27+00:00
If you haven't seen it, I recommend the movie "Cane Toads: An Unnatural History".

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130529/

The "Peter Pan" mutants sound clever, but biocontrol has such a dodgy history. I wonder what the impact of a permanently paedomorphic sub-population would be on the water insect population (both good and bad)? I take it since they're at the point of running field trials they'll have some data on that soon.
by wuming2 | 2025-04-08 13:33:33+00:00
I don’t speak French but BdF presents a side by side comparison: https://www.banque-france.fr/fr/a-votre-service/particuliers...

As far as I understand SEPA ICT was developed by the Euro Payment Council. An industry body. ECB TIPS, albeit maintaining compatibility with the scheme, provides an harmonised service across the entire Eurosystem and beyond.
by bko | 2025-04-08 13:33:45+00:00
As of April 1, 2025, approximately 60,000 federal employees have been forcibly terminated or laid off as part of the Trump administration's workforce reduction efforts. These terminations primarily targeted probationary employees—those hired, promoted, or transferred within the last year—who lack full civil service protections.

There are about 3m employees so this is about 2%. 2% is not vast.
by franktankbank | 2025-04-08 13:33:46+00:00
> Maybe it sounds a little harsh, but a programmer who's been working professionally for five years has likely already revealed their potential.

I do bristle at that. You typically get what you are served in your work environment. If you haven't been given interesting marketable work then I guess you are written off in this world.

I really do like the vibe of their "37 signals" though. It does sound "just so".
by matthewsinclair | 2025-04-08 13:34:07+00:00
That is a fair criticism of this kind of thing in general, but in this particular case I wanted to combine the Pigovian "tax the bads" idea with the more modern idea of a feebate, which is intentionally revenue neutral (to the Government) in that the fees levied on the "bad" side of the ledger go to pay subsidies or other incentives on the "good" side of the ledger.
by jdietrich | 2025-04-08 13:34:18+00:00
Malawi doesn't have a functioning economy. It has a nominal GDP per capita of $464. It is heavily indebted and reliant on international aid. 80% of the population rely on subsistence farming and 70% live on less than $1.90 per day.

Giving those refugees citizenship just means more mouths to feed; if they remain as refugees, then they're the UN's problem.
by elmolino89 | 2025-04-08 13:34:22+00:00
Without rules, metadata, systems to organize files even the most valuable data can be stored as a steaming pile of poo. In my case I was diving into a compressed tar containing compressed tar-s, which again may have giant uncompressed data files inside. The whole pile of crap had premature EOF so for sure some non trivial amount of data was lost. And on the top of it what was preserved should have a prefix: "unobtanium_". Storing several tar.gz several terabytes in size on some puny domestic use NAS made extraction of the files a crying game.

In another site I found a mix of some old version windows disk images with data. With more crap inside.

In the end: storage may be cheap. Storing piles of disorganized crap is very costly if you want to find something
by tomw1808 | 2025-04-08 13:37:04+00:00
Quite dystopian thinking how a full factory and beyond could be run completely in the dark, just robots running around doing their thing. Faster, stronger, more accurate, never tired, never sleeping. Add in a small nuclear battery like the one from Betavolt coming up and mass produce it. And you have an autonomous "thinking" thing in the physical world capable of almost anything that humans are capable. Endless possibilities...

Never has the future been brighter and darker at the same time.. lets see.
by echelon | 2025-04-08 13:37:10+00:00
100%. Multimodal images surpass ComfyUI and inpainting (for now). It's a step function improvement in image generation.

I'm hoping we see an open weights or open source model with these capabilities soon, because good tools need open models.

As has happened in the past, once an open implementation of DallE or whatever comes out, the open source community pushes the capabilities much further by writing lots of training, extensions, and pipelines. The results look significantly better than closed SaaS models.
by ddingus | 2025-04-08 13:37:15+00:00
I love this! I did not expect to love this.

Wow.

The cards are exemplary. Any Ojisan[0] featured on a card should feel honored. I looked at the cards shown to us and immediately was struck by the artists ability to both see the beauty in these fine people and deliver it on the card in a compelling, clearly respectful way.

And the motive! It is simple and noble: Elevating Town Fathers in the eyes of those for whom they often serve.

The idea is pure,[1] uncluttered by unnecessary detail and expectations. The only real complication came from the kids, who naturally wanted the game aspect to make the whole thing fun!

Of course they did.

Humans being beautiful. That is what this is and as much as I want this sort of thing where I live, I know it would not be this organic thing of beauty and that makes me sad. I am not sure enough of us here have what is needed.

I am definitely sharing today. What a delightful story!

[0] Capitalized because local heroes

[1] Pure is the word I use in this context. There may be better ones. Please share.
by wink | 2025-04-08 13:37:25+00:00
I'm more confused but why seems to be ignoring (or just being modest?) the technical feats of Quake and Quake 2 and (what I read to be) some sort of "well we just somehow made it work, but the game development (maybe artistic) was the thing" - and I mean, he wrote them - but for Q1 and Q2 working so flawlessly, not crashing, good netcode... for the huge amount of multiplayer I think the revolutionary tech was more important than the art style, even if it pains me to say it. We also played it long after better looking games had come out.

I doubt you'd get the easy moddability into an engine with AI, one of the huge points for the longevity.
by amalcon | 2025-04-08 13:37:29+00:00
The thing economists generally say to do, is to take the revenue from Pigovian taxes and use it to somehow offset either the original negative externality (e.g. using tobacco taxes to fund public health measures) or anticipated damage caused by the tax itself (e.g. using carbon taxes to fund public transit). In either case, in theory: if nobody pays the tax, then you no longer need the revenue.

Not to imply that economists are uniform on this or necessarily correct, but there has been work done here.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-08 13:38:03+00:00
I reach for HTMX when (a) its a project where I have the power to make that decision and (b) I need to render state that lives on the server.

My main issue with SPAs, and client rendering in general, has always been the attempt to client render state that is persisted elsewhere.

There are certain pieces of state that really do live on the client, and for that client rendering is great. A vast majority of cases involve state that is persisted somewhere on the server though, and in those cases its needlessly complex to ship both the state and an entire rendering engine to the browser.
by trhway | 2025-04-08 13:38:15+00:00
well, automation itself has a tariffs problem - all the components for automation are mostly foreign made, mostly in China, and even to start - the R&D in automation requires large unimpeded churn of parts and components with quick turnaround, and the tariffs would tremendously impede it and increase cost of it which in R&D means increased risk of failure and a much decreased R&D result for a given budget and timeframe.
by pmontra | 2025-04-08 13:38:30+00:00
I remember that my old HP nc8430 from 2006 cost only 20 Euro some 10 years later. I could have bought a couple of them for spares if I planned to keep it running. The problem was that the GPU run out of software support circa 2012 and I had to pin the Linux kernel to a 3.1x version. An open source driver apparently made it into the kernel many years later but I never checked if it actually works. I bought a new laptop in 2014 which is a kind of Frankenstein on its own nowadays. I replaced the screen (a defective hinge under warranty), the RAM (maxed it out at 32 GB), the HDD with a 2 TB SSD, the DVD burner with another SSD, the keyboard many times as it wears out and maybe that's it.
by lvass | 2025-04-08 13:39:56+00:00
We have a saying in Brazil that absolutely no part of our government works, except for our IRS. Pix is such a huge win for them. Brazil has a huge informal/illegal economy that employs more people than those who are lawfully employed (40M vs 39M). We have an effective tax plus legal compliance rate of around 60%, that really stifles down anyone attempting to open a legit business in an already harsh environment. Pix has not yet been used to crack down on the informal sector, but with sufficient motivation and some data analysis, it absolutely can be.
by nonethewiser | 2025-04-08 13:40:11+00:00
>If Reunion and Norfolk Island are to be considered separately from their mainlands, where are the tariffs for Easter Island (Chile)?

Easter Island's mailing address says Chile. Norfolk Island mailing address does not include Australia, nor does Reunion include French.

>They asked an LLM, which calculated this in the most naive way possible one-shot.

Whats the connection between LLMs and domain name endings or whatever again? Like why does using them necessitate the use of LLMs?

Let's think through it from the ground up... How would you expect them to come up with a list of countries? Are they supposed to just get a group of people together and compile a list of countries they can think of by memory? Clearly they will refer to some standardized list.