MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ModernMech | 2025-04-03 18:03:13+00:00
> It was clearly bad, but few people saw impacts in their own lives.

It did though, they just didn't know how to measure it, and it wasn't felt immediately. It was like the flash of light that dazzles before the pressure wave of the nuclear bomb blasts everything (which in the analogy is this moment, now).

What happened on Jan 6, and in the leadup and response to it, was the erosion of democratic norms. Before Nov 2020 they were stronger, and after Jan 6 they were significantly weakened. Our institutions are essentially built on trust, and Trump in his campaign to overturn the 2020 election spent every waking moment for months attacking those foundations. He purposefully eroded people's trust in Democracy for no reason, because there ultimately the fraud he alleged in that election was not found.

That impacts everyone. They just don't feel it in the supermarket; they just have no "democracy meter" that they can use to gauge how healthy their representation is in government. But the reason he's able to do what he's doing now is he because he laid the foundation in 2020.
by cycomanic | 2025-04-03 18:03:20+00:00
Why are we talking reciprocal tariffs? It has been widely reported that the tariffs have been calculated based on trade deficit and not based on existing tariffs. That should alreadyy become clear by the fact that nobody in the western world has anywhere close to the same average tariffs, or that there are different rates for the EU and e.g. La Réunion (which is part of the EU and does not have the right to set their own tariffs).
by dghlsakjg | 2025-04-03 18:03:30+00:00
Sure, but there has to be a risk in the first place, and there is just no evidence that corroded cans lead to food poisoning.

The most recent botulin report from the CDC lists 19 confirmed foodborne cases in the entire US. of those 19, it looks like only 7 were related to outbreaks tied to suspected commercial food circumstantially (no tests confirmed this), the rest were from home-canning.

See table 2 here: https://www.cdc.gov/botulism/php/national-botulism-surveilla... . Note that 2019 was the worst year that the CDC has for commercial prepared food. 2018 and 2017 had one suspected commercial can related incident each.

Basically, if you are getting botulin toxin poisoning, it is going to come from inside a can that was physically fine, or, much more likely, a home cooked meal.

A project planner should hopefully look at a risk, and think: This is a 1 in a billion risk at best (assuming that the average American eats at least 3 cans worth of goods per year).
by mikepurvis | 2025-04-03 18:03:45+00:00
This conundrum comes up sometimes in the context of generational starships, about intermediate generations being born into bondage board, committed by their ancestors to a shitty life in a metal tube, with their only purpose being a preordained duty to keep a few systems operational and produce the next generation of slaves just so that eventually someone can birth the arrival generation.

Alastair Reynolds' book Chasm City touches on a bunch of this, in particular the class warfare angle of some wealthy travelers getting to enjoy the journey in peaceful cryosleep while the poor ones pay for their passage in servitude.
by giantg2 | 2025-04-03 18:03:47+00:00
Except we just looked at the numbers and showed it doesn't appear to be misleading. I was merely responding to the person stating they would bet that Finland would be the last democracy to decay due to education. But it seems the educational attainment is roughly equal. I also called out that other metrics might be better indicators, both if we were using education and if we were looking at other factors like culture.
by amarcheschi | 2025-04-03 18:03:50+00:00
You see, the issue I get petty about is that Ai is advertised as the one ring to rule them all software. VCs creaming themselves at the thought of not having to pay developers and using natural language. But then, you have to still adapt to the Ai, and not vice versa. "you're doing it wrong". This is not the idea that VCs bros are selling

Then, I absolutely love being aided by llms for my day to day tasks. I'm much more efficient when studying and they can be a game changer when you're stuck and you don't know how to proceed. You can discuss different implementation ideas as if you had a colleague, perhaps not a PhD smart one but still someone with a quite deep knowledge of everything

But, it's no miracle. That's the issue I have with the way the idea of Ai is sold to the c suites and the general public
by lumenwrites | 2025-04-03 18:03:54+00:00
I'm pretty sure you're wrong for at least 2 of those:

For 3D models, check out blender-mcp:

https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1joaowb/claude...

https://old.reddit.com/r/aiwars/comments/1jbsn86/claude_crea...

Also this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1hejglg/tr...

For teaching, I'm using it to learn about tech I'm unfamiliar with every day, it's one of the things it's the most amazing at.

For the things where the tolerance for mistakes is extremely low and the things where human oversight is extremely importamt, you might be right. It won't have to be perfect (just better than an average human) for that to happen, but I'm not sure if it will.
by stevenwoo | 2025-04-03 18:04:29+00:00
Most of Tulsi Gabbard's professed foreign policy beliefs prior to being added to this administration echoed Russian state policy, she called it being independent. Tim Pool was just added to White House press pool, he claims he was fooled into repeating information provided by Russia state media, after it was revealed they paid millions to him to do so. There is an awful lot of smoke here.
by Tade0 | 2025-04-03 18:04:30+00:00
The F13 has it, the FW16 does not.

Anyway, I'd rather just disassemble the expansion card and solder in a new port should this ever come to pass, as it's just a question of undoing two screws:

https://community.frame.work/t/whats-inside-the-audio-expans...
by kody | 2025-04-03 18:04:33+00:00
I appreciate your reply. My tone was a little dismissive; I'm currently deep deep in the trenches trying to unwind a tremendous amount of LLM slop in my team's codebase so I'm a little sensitive.

I use Claude every day. It is definitely impressive, but in my experience only marginally more impressive than ChatGPT was a few years ago. It hallucinates less and compiles more reliably, but still produces really poor designs. It really is an overconfident junior developer.

The real risk, and what I am seeing daily, is colleagues falling for the "if you aren't using Cursor you're going to be left behind" FUD. So they learn Cursor, discover that it's an easy way to close tickets without using your brain, and end up polluting the codebase with very questionable designs.
by atum47 | 2025-04-03 18:05:40+00:00
I'm just gonna come out and say it this ideia came from either Claude or ChatGPT. I thought the GBA was the easiest console to write an emulator for, but after talking to either one of those LLM I learned about Chip 8. All I wanted was to write an emulator that I could make some post processing on the output.
by dpc_01234 | 2025-04-03 18:05:42+00:00
In a functional political situation all sides would rationally talk with each other and agree on something that makes it workable.

"National Id would be overwhelmingly positive, but here are the corner cases in which it doesn't work well, so let's have exceptions, alternatives, accommodations, etc. to make it work well for everyone. And "we're worried about this and that and that", so let's agree on some mechanisms to counterbalance it.

> There are a significant number of citizens who don't use credit, ...

They can still do that. But they would need an id. It's interesting however, what are their motivations. Are they just so poor that getting an Id is a burden? Is it a religious / ideological thing? Are they hiding from the government either due to distrust or some legal matters?
by jszymborski | 2025-04-03 18:05:42+00:00
That follows reason, but in practice I find that its often not the case. My suspicion is that it's hard to establish that your method is superior to another if, for example, it takes 10-100x the compute to train a model. This is largely in part due to the fact that machine learning is currently a deeply empirical field.

Nvidia isn't likely to start releasing updated firmware for an obscure architecture for which there is limited evidence of improvement, and even less adoption.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-03 18:06:18+00:00
>A good CEO will let in just the little bit of information that saves the company - this was Andy Grove's pivot to focus on microprocessors over memory chips, or Steve Jobs's turnaround of Apple. You didn't have a good CEO, and got your average mediocre CEO that sets a strategic direction and sticks with it regardless of what the market says.

Still too simplistic. Yeah, they need to filter information and say no to things constantly, I get that is a core skill. If something is repeatedly being brought up by members of your core teams, you should at least look at what they're saying and ask where they are coming from. That is simply good sense. There is a persistence factor in involved in each of these cases that are the source of the frustration.

If what constitutes a good CEO is allowing in the 'little bit of information that can save the company' (really thats a call about identifying useful information before anyone else), objectively most companies have terrible CEOs, and I question the value of the position entirely on that basis, especially at larger public companies.

FWIW, at each of these companies I worked at, the headcount was at most in the hundreds. I was only 2 clicks below the executives in the company tree, there wasn't a lot of barrier to interaction there, which is what I find even more baffling about the whole thing.

>I'm curious though, if you knew your employer was going under, why not jump ship to the competitor that actually did understand what customers wanted?

I did this twice. In the one instance I wasn't able to get moving faster than things were going down hill. Partially, this is a symptom of just how long interview cycles have become over the years. Took me longer than expected, but moreover, the company conducted the layoff faster than I really thought they would. I got the timing wrong by a little bit, it happens.

Its not like you identify an issue one time either, its the repeated ignoring of what happens despite repeated sustained efforts to raise the awareness where it needs to be.
by JackuB | 2025-04-03 18:06:28+00:00
Waratek https://waratek.com | Principal Java Engineer | Hybrid in Dublin or Remote in Europe

We are working on a specialised Cybersecurity Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) tooling.

We are seeking an exceptional programmer with expertise in Java, someone who will thrive in exploring the JDK ecosystem further. You will join a team developing the core technology behind our Java Agents, working on cutting-edge solutions to enhance security.

Feel free to reach out with questions or applications! My email is in my HN profile.

https://waratek.com/career/principal-java-engineer/
Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters
by yathern | 2025-04-03 18:06:32+00:00
Hey HN! I posted this on April 1st when it launched, and though it didn't get traction here, it was a minor hit on reddit! Now that we've got a few thousand monkeys under our belt, wanted to give it another shot here!

Happy to talk about the technical details of running the site - using supabase/postgres and constantly putting out fires from the traffic.
by lupusreal | 2025-04-03 18:07:16+00:00
It's true for nearly all of my gamer friends, and is the subject of memes in gamer social circles generally.

https://i.imgflip.com/7uzmif.jpg

https://memes.ucoz.com/_nw/86/80233222.png

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F5...

https://i.imgflip.com/2fcexh.jpg

Search for "steam library memes" and you'll find lots of these. Very scientific, I know.
by tomnicholas1 | 2025-04-03 18:07:26+00:00
The scientific community works primarily with array (or "tensor") data, using tools like numpy, xarray, and zarr. People familiar with modern relational database tools such as DuckDB and Parquet often ask why can't we just use those? This article explains why: it's massively inefficient to use tabular tools on array data, and demonstrates with a benchmark showing a 10x difference in query speed.
by shmerl | 2025-04-03 18:08:12+00:00
Whether he is an idiot or a "useful idiot" as in willingly helping his shady beneficiaries doesn't really matter, since he surrounds himself with real idiots (main qualification being willing to bootlick the boss) and something will for sure go wrong.

He is a blatant liar though, no doubt. That doesn't really contradict being an idiot.
by crabasa | 2025-04-03 18:08:14+00:00
Hello HN! For those of you who are new to Langflow, we are building the easiest way for developers to build and ship AI-powered agents to production. Today we're shipping a native desktop client.

Why did we build this? We wanted to streamline the process for getting folks up-and-running. No need to install Python, download dependencies or configure your environment. Just install Langflow Desktop and start building.

We're launching a preview of Langflow Desktop today for MacOS. Please download it and take it for a spin! We can't wait to hear what you think of it, please feel free to comment and the team and I will respond.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-03 18:08:17+00:00
I think anyone would have to agree that ChatGPT is infinitely more well-informed.

For any reasonable value of infinity.

This really puts things on a level playing field overnight, like nobody else would ever do.

Not regarding the balance of international trade or anything like US manufacturing, but math itself, especially financial math.

Now the best anybody can do is no better than the napkin quality math often done by a wild guesser who finagled themselves into a position where somebody would act on the figures, regardless of their certain wild inaccuracy.

All of a sudden everybody's more inaccurate in economics than they have ever been, it was just so unfair before :\
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-04-03 18:08:32+00:00
"Sure, you can define it in plain english, but is the resulting description extensible, understandable, or more descriptive than a precise language? I think there is a reason why legalese is not plain English, and it goes beyond mere gatekeeping."

Is this suggesting the reason for legalese is to make documents more "extensible, understable or descriptive" than if written in plain English.

What is this reason that the parent thinks legalese is used that "goes beyond gatekeeping".

Plain English can be every bit as precise as legalese.

It is also unclear that legalese exists for the purpose of gatekeeping. For example, it may be an artifact that survives based on familiarity and laziness.

Law students are taught to write in plain English.

https://www.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/2021-07/pla...

In some situations, e.g., drafting SEC filings, use of plain English is required by law.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/240.13a-20
by keybored | 2025-04-03 18:08:43+00:00
They are both real problems and loaded questions. Okay. Ostensibly the point of politics is to solve problems that people have. That will lead to people putting forth what they think the problems are. We simply don’t have time to theorize every concievable potential problem and then, one by one, painstakingly (with our minds wide open like an open brain surgery) consider whether they are in fact problems that people have.

All of these pointed questions can also be disputed.
by nayuki | 2025-04-03 18:09:10+00:00
> no popular language created in the past 30 years makes heavy use of UB

Yeah, I'm happy that Rust's list is relatively short, with approximately 10 items on it: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/behavior-considered-unde...

Also relevant reading: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/what-unsafe-does.html
by nitwit005 | 2025-04-03 18:09:45+00:00
> In truth, values and ethics are fundamental to effectively discussing politics.

People generally haven't formed strong opinions on most issues, and defer to party or a leader they like for the remaining. They'll still happily argue about it for the post part, unfortunately.

You can see this effect after some elections where people "fall in line" with their party's new presidential candidate on some issue.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-03 18:09:49+00:00
> When we get to the point where a LLM can say "oh, I made that mistake because I saw this in my training data, which caused these specific weights to be suboptimal, let me update it", that'll be AGI.

While I believe we are far from AGI, I don't think the standard for AGI is an AI doing things a human absolutely cannot do.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-03 18:10:02+00:00
Name literally a single computer that does not ship with proprietary blobs while supporting DXVK. Bonus points if you can find a wireless networking chipset that isn't from 2011 to go along with it.

Your entire comment is splitting some pretty fine hairs, but I just don't know how anyone can play the "muh firmware" card in 2025. I don't actually know a single Linux user or even hardware retailer that ships blobless hardware, if that means they aren't pro "software freedom" then I guess nobody is. But I think we can define "pro" to mean something other than "hardline absolutist" in this instance.
by jacobgkau | 2025-04-03 18:10:10+00:00
> If they choose to end the performance for whatever reason, that’s their business.

Well, in this case, "you can already buy a ticket to the finale, so your distant descendants can go see it." Selling tickets for an event that far in the future makes it the business of the ticket purchaser and whoever they leave the tickets for.

Is the money collected from the tickets being held in such a way that it can be refunded if/when this project fails before another 600 years have gone by? If not, it seems like a potential scam in that sense.
by dkarl | 2025-04-03 18:10:18+00:00
How are those two situations remotely similar? A criticism of the Democratic Party should not be seen as a morally reprehensible "joke" that you have to walk back like "ha ha, just kidding, I would never criticize the party."

The idea that the Democratic Party is a flawed, mundane institution full of fallible people who make mistakes is not a toxic idea that we need to keep out of the discourse lest it "sink in and actually stick." It's more like medicine that the party is trying to administer to itself with one hand while the other hand tries to bat it away.
by parpfish | 2025-04-03 18:10:36+00:00
I spend too much time thinking about all the stuff that can go wrong on generation ships.

You take off for your destination, but when you get there you find out that humans back on earth made a faster ship 100 years after you left and beat you to the destination.

You spent generations expecting to be bold explorers pushing the frontier and getting to claim nice territory, and you show up to find you’re in second place.
by blargey | 2025-04-03 18:10:47+00:00
https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function (linked on that page but easy to miss) provides a great visualization/interface for the budget that can drill down deep into each category's sub-categories and beyond.

OTOH they might be asking more specifically for a view that controls for how different tax/income sources might be earmarked for specific spending, thus skewing how income tax dollars are distributed compared to the overall budget distribution - though I'm not sure that's going to change one's income tax dollar distribution much. AFAIK even social security is only nominally funded by social security tax, and the deficit means there's debt filling the gaps everywhere anyway.
by ipv6ipv4 | 2025-04-03 18:11:03+00:00
The article is typical Guardian rage bait hit piece. It took the opinions of a handful of engineers and tried to paint a picture of an industry wide trend in an effort to show moral superiority. It was patently false. There was no industry trend like this, as was obvious to anyone in the industry a the time. And as we all know today, Facebook had no problem growing by leaps and bounds since.

You need counseling for your sad hostility.
by archontes | 2025-04-03 18:11:11+00:00
It's a stretch to call training an AI creating a 'derivative work' by the legal definition.

You could count the words in a book and publish the word count, and while the information is based on the contents of the book, that would fall incredibly short of being a derivative work.

I suspect they committed whatever copyright violation is committed when they downloaded the copyrighted works. Training an AI on them is simply not related to the protections that copyright offers.
by semiquaver | 2025-04-03 18:11:15+00:00
That’s holding LLMs to a significantly higher standard than humans. When I realize there’s a flaw in my reasoning I don’t know that it was caused by specific incorrect neuron connections or activation potentials in my brain, I think of the flaw in domain-specific terms using language or something like it.

Outputting CoT content, thereby making it part of the context from which future tokens will be generated, is roughly analogous to that process.
by zudell_dot_io | 2025-04-03 18:11:18+00:00
Location: Niceville, Florida

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, React/TypeScript, ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform

Résumé/CV: https://zudell.io/posts/hire_me

Email: jon [at] zudell [dot] io
by reaperman | 2025-04-03 18:11:47+00:00
Very, very little labor is unskilled. In almost any work there is a massive difference in quality and speed between someone who has been doing it for <6 months vs. someone who has been doing it for >3 years.

My theory is that "unskilled labor" was a term of propaganda invented by an earlier generation of business leaders in order to publicly devalue many labor-intensive roles. That generation knew that it was a lie, but the business leaders that followed were taught that "unskilled labor" was axiomatic, and essentially "drank the kool-aid".

The result of this is that the labor pool for many disciplines has been hollowed out because it's no longer financially sustainable for workers to build the skills needed to excel in those roles.