MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kanhakorgaonkar | 2025-04-30 05:01:28+00:00
Unpaid internships are a powerful win-win for young talent and early-stage companies. For high school students with no experience, they provide a launchpad to gain practical skills, build confidence, and explore career paths through hands-on roles. Startups and small businesses can access enthusiastic, fresh-thinking interns who bring energy and new ideas without financial strain. It’s the kind of deal that makes everyone wonder why we didn’t think of this sooner.
by tenpies | 2025-04-30 05:02:21+00:00
It's also quite telling that this gets attention and rampant cries about the oligarchy and cronyism, but not a peep about:

> New York state lawmakers have launched an effort to shut down Tesla’s stores in the state

From: https://electrek.co/2025/04/28/ny-lawmakers-shut-down-teslas...

> WA Legislature considers new tax aimed at Elon Musk’s Tesla

From: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-legisl...

"For my friends? Anything! For my enemies? The law [and new taxes]!"
by andyferris | 2025-04-30 05:02:26+00:00
Wow - they are now actually training models directly based on users' thumbs up/thumbs down.

No wonder this turned out terrible. It's like facebook maximizing engagement based on user behavior - sure the algorithm successfully elicits a short term emotion but it has enshittified the whole platform.

Doing the same for LLMs has the same risk of enshittifying them. What I like about the LLM is that is trained on a variety of inputs and knows a bunch of stuff that I (or a typical ChatGPT user) doesn't know. Becoming an echo chamber reduces the utility of it.

I hope they completely abandon direct usage of the feedback in training (instead a human should analyse trends and identify problem areas for actual improvement and direct research towards those). But these notes don't give me much hope, they say they'll just use the stats in a different way...
by sterlind | 2025-04-30 05:02:56+00:00
specifically, The Population Bomb was the big book during the era, which was written by a Stanford professor. India's forced sterilization campaign was at the behest of the World Bank, and championed by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, all of which were strongly influenced by the book. Fun fact: the author, Mr. Erlich, is still alive (at the age of 92!) and has maintained his correctness, instead saying he was "too optimistic" when his forecasted mass starvation failed to materialize.
by coderenegade | 2025-04-30 05:04:26+00:00
I don't know if I ever put the code online, but I did something similar a few years back for a bow deflection solver using Hooke's law and finite elements. I was planning to solve for arrow speed as well but never got around to it. I've kept the technique in my box of tools, though, because it's conceptually simpler for me to set up an optimization problem than it is an ode solver. Very cool write up.
by Teever | 2025-04-30 05:06:38+00:00
Should it do the same if I ask it what to do if I stub my toe?

Or how to deal with impacted ear wax? What about a second degree burn?

What if I'm writing a paper and I ask it about what criteria is used by medical professional when deciding to stop chemotherapy treatment.

There's obviously some kind of medical/first aid information that it can and should give.

And it should also be able to talk about hypothetical medical treatments and conditions in general.

It's a highly contextual and difficult problem.
by akkartik | 2025-04-30 05:08:28+00:00
All your examples are still depending on other people to vet things for us. I think that's incomplete. In addition to govt. regulations and brand-based accountability and litigation in court of law and court of public opinion, I think we need last-mile security awareness.

What does this security awareness consist of? Above all, it consists of not blindly taking what you see online at face value. Create relationships with each other. Not parasocial 1:million relationships but real 1:n relationships with real people and talk about security with each other.

You don't need to know about encryption or keep up with new technologies, a very baseline simple thing to do is to try to stay informed about who's trustworthy and who's not.

None of this will protect us when a nation state comes for us, of course. But that's not the goal here. The goal is to outrun more mundane garden-variety predators by joining together with others.

When we drive cars we depend on signs and rules to be established, but we also use our eyes to actually check that the area in front of the car is clear before proceeding. And it works to a great, great extent. I think most people just don't check their surroundings to that extent when they set out for a drive on their computers. They don't have eyes in the same way in the new online environment we're using for the past few decades.

This is absolutely a hard problem. A network of relationships is a privilege, and not everyone has it. But even the people who have access to it don't use it today. It would harden the commons for some of us to start reducing the payoff of bad actors. And the first step in getting there is to say out loud and often my first sentence here: There's really no substitute for everyone thinking carefully about security for themselves. No matter what we put into place at the govt. regulation or litigation levels.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-04-30 05:08:59+00:00
I was just in Beijing, and the electric cars are real, like teslas but with fewer features to keep costs down (which is fine honestly). The traffic was still bad, maybe even worse, and the metro network, greatly expanded since I left in 2016, was super crowded even off peak (they could build 2X the lines and still not go past demand!). Alipay worked mostly and I didn’t need to use cash once (like before, when I had to pay 20k 3 months rent with a lot of 100 RMB bills!), the convenience stores all had self checkout, all the grocery stores to, the McDonald’s has take out lockers… I didn’t see any drones or self driving cars there, but I’ve used latter at least in SF that it wouldn’t turn my head.

I’m still not exactly in love with it, I was happy to get back to Seattle (too crowded and the pace of life was a bit hectic, I’m getting old), but the change was definitely there, especially compared to my first trip to Beijing in 1999.
by throwaway17_17 | 2025-04-30 05:09:20+00:00
I do get, and to some extent sympathize with, your position. But the comments to the article are, in large part, fundamentally addressing a higher level of abstraction than the more narrow scope of the article’s premise. As several commenters have referenced, traversing a tree in a ‘simple’ and narrow manner is addressed at the appropriate level of abstraction using already established mechanisms, particularly in Haskell using Traversable (a typeclass with a standardized implementation for trees). The discussion of Optics and Lenses are more of a side discussion about the syntax and implementations of a more broad set of data structures than merely trees.

I think your comment is valuable in spirit because it could bring a more thorough discussion of the creation or popularization of a syntactically clean and a shift of the idiomatic-ness of such a solution to traversing trees. Leaving the more abstract and general Optics discussion to be a side dish for commenters to discuss as well.

Also, just a nitpick, but traversing a tree is a broader topic than iteration. Iteration implies, both colloquially and formally, performing a computation on each element of a data structure, while traversal is a more general algorithm that could be the basis of iteration, but may also be more akin to a search through the data structure without expectation of performing computation until the searched for ‘member’ is returned from the traversal. So it’s not an apples-to-oranges comparison with your conflation of iteration and traversal, but does seem a little like Canis Familiaris-to-Mammal comparison.
by fallingknife | 2025-04-30 05:09:32+00:00
Prior to the civil rights movement it was assumed that by freedom of association, it was beyond the scope of the government to prevent things like segregation by private citizens. e.g. if a business owner did not want to serve black customers, then that is his right. So yes, someone who does not support the government having that power to infringe on freedom of association will not support any government intervention to prevent voluntary segregation.

This is why he distinguishes between the civil rights movement before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which was only concerned with preventing government enforced segregation.
by Twirrim | 2025-04-30 05:10:19+00:00
The labyrinth doesn't have to be fast, and things like iocaine (https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/) don't use much CPU if you don't go and give them something like the Complete Works of Ahakespeare as input (Mine is using Moby Dick), and can easily be constrained with cgroups if you're concerned about resource usage.

I've noticed that LLM scrapers tend to be incredibly patient. They'll wait for minutes for even small amounts of text.
by randunel | 2025-04-30 05:10:25+00:00
No, it wasn't. The usb forum could have decided to use a lightning compatible standard, but there were problems with it.

Besides, apple are one of the decision makers in the usb c standard, the legislation mandated a standard, but not a specific one, just the same one for all, and this forum which includes apple decided to go with usb c https://www.usb.org/members
by moepstar | 2025-04-30 05:11:41+00:00
Reading the comments, i find remarks about Grok, Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot, Kagi.

What i wonder: (apparently) no one uses DeepSeek?

I do, and i pretty much like it, to be honest.

More than Copilot at the very least, which, in a recent attempt to "vibe code" a small tool at work, hallucinated in at least large parts of the answers and had to be corrected by me over and over again (when i haven't written a single line of code in that language).
by crb | 2025-04-30 05:11:42+00:00
(1985)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30895210

If you're interested in the history of Commodore, I thoroughly recommend the Commodore International Historical Society at https://commodore.international/. Dave has pulled together many of the people who were there at the time. For example, here's an Amiga panel from the recent VCF East: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_AYDkuMg-U
by famouswaffles | 2025-04-30 05:11:48+00:00
Humans can re-attend to material whenever necessary (i.e you can just re-read a book, re-watch a documentary etc when you feel you have missed crucial context) so it's not the end of the world. These SSMs or modern RNNs can't and if crucial context has been discarded by the end of the query then well too bad. Transformers are of course always re-attending so not an issue for them either. Until that issue is resolved, i don't think attention will be going anywhere.
by mattlondon | 2025-04-30 05:12:30+00:00
Likewise - very very rare for me to have more than 10 or so open.

I assume people who have many tabs open are the same sort of people who have 100s or 1000s of unread emails in their inbox too.

I was trying to help someone debug and issue at their desk the other day and they were a tab hoarder too. Literally 75% of the time spent debugging was them trying to find the right tab. I prefer to work with organized people (...who also read their emails!) - to me, someone with hundreds and hundreds of tabs open is a sign of someone who is easily distracted and disorganised and doesn't complete tasks before moving on to the next shiny thing.
by xfactorial | 2025-04-30 05:12:32+00:00
Consider the plot and consider it is loosely based on real events.

Also: it’s a highly quoted movie on YouTube where copyright has not been strictly enforced.

Every part of it is a specific area of the business: the lay offs, the move forward after them, the analyst crunching the data, the gathering after his discovery, the communication, the meetings and the decision making.

All of it from the perspective of a financial institution, knowing what we know: I wonder what would have happened if that movie happened 15 years before the crash and the public perception of the content (probably dismissed as “too Hollywood”).
by hbbio | 2025-04-30 05:13:04+00:00
Thanks, /nothink works!

So, Qwen3 1.7b is about the same speed just slightly worse than Gemma3 4b which is pretty impressive.

Qwen3 4b passes all 200 tests and is much faster than Mistral Small 3.1 24b or Gemma3 27b.
by serf | 2025-04-30 05:13:25+00:00
as someone who lives in that perspective, and has lots many loved ones to such diseases.. I wonder if you have ever really considered the prospect of immortality and the implications.

A lot of our worldly meaning is derived from the fact that the clock is ticking. Death of progenitors increases the quality of life for the offspring in almost every single metric, more so for long-lived species that require little protection past a certain growth milestone, and personally I see it as a specific 'human arrogance'; if someone had the idea of "Let's make all the field mice immortal" the first opinion would be "that's ridiculous, the ecosphere would be thrown entirely out of balance, the entire predatory chain would be upheaved."... but when we talk about human immortality it always falls back to "Well, don't you miss dear old Grandma serf?"

I miss her dearly, but the fact of the matter is that the world wouldn't survive long without a death/life cycle for its' inhabitants, and I think that should include the ones that are the most dangerous to the world at large.

p.s. if you need a laymen excuse : i've read enough scifi dystopia tales that begin with the concept of human immortality and the gradual fall of every single moral barrier or raison d'etre ; I don't think that premise is too far from what may happen if humanity is ever given a choice against death.
by josephg | 2025-04-30 05:14:19+00:00
There was a recent Lex Friedman podcast episode where they interviewed a few people at Anthropic. One woman (I don't know her name) seems to be in charge of Claude's personality, and her job is to figure out answers to questions exactly like this.

She said in the podcast that she wants claude to respond to most questions like a "good friend". A good friend would be supportive, but still push back when you're making bad choices. I think that's a good general model for answering questions like this. If one of your friends came to you and said they had decided to stop taking their medication, well, its a tricky thing to navigate. But good friends use their judgement - and push back when you're about to do something you might regret.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-04-30 05:14:31+00:00
You don’t really see much if China through the western media, so I don’t really get that western propaganda at all. CNN just doesn’t talk about China enough to provide any picture of it (sort of like those “I don’t think of you at all meme”). I lived in Beijing for 9 years (2007-2016) and did 6 months languages study in 2002, my first visit being in 1999. There were of course scam artists back then and I’ve gotten scammed a few times (eg an original iPhone repair that I didn’t watch close enough). I don’t think those people exist much anymore in 2025, compared to 2008.

The face thing is still annoying to me and the GFW frustrates me to no end (no, VPN to get around it don’t grow on trees). However, compared to the crap going on in America China is looking very appealing at this point. Of course, my view of China is biased by being mostly Beijing, if you visit southern cities they are much more organized and nicer (I haven’t been to any other city than BJ since 2015 or so). I urge anyone visiting China to consider skipping Beijing.
by kqr | 2025-04-30 05:15:28+00:00
It would be a fairly short Perl script to read the access logs and curl a HEAD request to all URLs accessed, printing only those with 200 OK responses.

Here's a start hacked together and tested on my phone:

perl -lnE 'if (/GET ([^ ]+)/ and $p=$1) { $s=qx(curl -sI https://BASE_URL/$p | head -n 1); unless ($s =~ /200|302/) { say $p } }'
by thethethethe | 2025-04-30 05:15:52+00:00
Very dark indeed.

Even if there is the will to ensure safety, these scenarios must be difficult to test for. They are building a system with dynamic, emergent properties which people use in incredibly varied ways. That's the whole point of the technology.

We don't even really know how knowledge is stored in or processed by these models, I don't see how we could test and predict their behavior without seriously limiting their capabilities, which is against the interest of the companies creating them.

Add the incentive to engage users to become profitable at all costs, I don't see this situation getting better
by jslpc | 2025-04-30 05:16:14+00:00
I’m assuming it could easily determine whether something is okay to suggest or not.

Dealing with a second degree burn is objectively done a specific way. Advising someone that they are making a good decision by abruptly stopping prescribed medications without doctor supervision can potential lead to death.

For instance, I’m on a few medications, one of which is for epileptic seizures. If I phrase my prompt with confidence regarding my decision to abruptly stop taking it, ChatGPT currently pats me on the back for being courageous, etc. In reality, my chances of having a seizure have increased exponentially.

I guess what I’m getting at is that I agree with you, it should be able to give hypothetical suggestions and obvious first aid advice, but congratulating or outright suggesting the user to quit meds can lead to actual, real deaths.
by thayne | 2025-04-30 05:16:17+00:00
> The word "accessed" is used multiple times throughout the law.

So what? It isn't in the section I quoted above. I could be wrong, but my reading is that transmitting information that can cause damage with the intent of causing damage is a violation, regardless of if you "access" another system.

> Also, the protected computer has to be involved in commerce

Or communication.

Now, from an ethics standpoint, I don't think there is anything wrong with returning a zipbomb to malicious bots. But I'm not confident enough that doing so is legal that I would risk doing so.
by FlyingSnake | 2025-04-30 05:16:46+00:00
It is definitely possible to draw the images on the Kindle client, e.g. KoReader does that. I've mentioned 2 different ways in the article FBInk and Kindlet. I found it a bit cumbersome to use these tools and the tooling is bit iffy. It was easier for me to just download it from the server.

[1]: https://github.com/NiLuJe/FBInk

[2]: https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindlet_Index
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-04-30 05:20:34+00:00
The material engineering for advanced chip and jet turbine production are the two things that China has had to build from scratch, so it will take it a bit longer to reach parity in the west. They get either performance or price down right now, but not both at the same time. Maybe 5 or 10 years? Everything else they have the engineering skill to advance quickly.
by roywiggins | 2025-04-30 05:22:06+00:00
My theory is that since you can tune how agreeable a model is but since you can't make it more correct so easily, making a model that will agree with the user ends up being less likely to result in the model being confidently wrong and berating users.

After all, if it's corrected wrongly by a user and acquiesces, well that's just user error. If it's corrected rightly and keeps insisting on something obviously wrong or stupid, it's OpenAI's error. You can't twist a correctness knob but you can twist an agreeableness one, so that's the one they play with.

(also I suspect it makes it seem a bit smarter that it really is, by smoothing over the times it makes mistakes)
by kanhakorgaonkar | 2025-04-30 05:25:10+00:00
Unpaid internships are mostly legal in the US under the FLSA as long as there is a clear expectation of no compensation, educational value, limited duration and no displacement of paid employees. When high school students are practically willing to work for free for and early stage founders could use that driven, ambitious talent, Modern Slavery Corp is a win-win for all!
by theartfuldodger | 2025-04-30 05:25:18+00:00
It didnt, It was a list of wishful thinking. I have more exposure to families with previously called "low functioning as it relates to children, and plenty of adults who are very capable and high functioning.

What I do not see people willing to discuss

Parent getting called to school 3-4x a week, causing issues with work

Child running from school or aide and requiring a tracker program

Police/CPS involvement from "runners"

Destruction of marriage from constant state of stress

Violence to siblings

Inability to give attention equally in the family

Incredible high divorce rates, parents and any non a to a pairing.

RFK's speech had some issues, but if you read the transcript it does not match the sound bytes

All of his references to negative autism behaviors/impacts were in regards to the 25% of profound autism.

As I said, I know at least a dozen families where the above is their experience. Single moms breaking down on FB because they have no support and stressed to the max, Dad losing out on projects and sales because it cant be trusted he'll be in the office when needed. Siblings hiding away, sick of outbursts,yelling, non stop activity.

It is a disservice to all of those people to act as if the spectrum does not have a far range of activities.

That sure as hell doesnt mean we need to start trying to end "autistic people" and I think it is manipulation to say RFK's prevailing theme has ever been "autism", it has been a belief that the weaknesses in our food and drug systems are increasing chronic illnesses, mutations etc. Some headlines travel longer, the AIDS/HIV denial and Faucci hate should have got way more attention.

Its not RFK's words, its the media's practice of hyperbolic language that causes any real or perceived damage to the community.

I dont believe there is a connection to find, but maybe this will end the snipe hunt and that funding can just go towards creating spaces and education that allow for a range of interaction and social styles after September. But to ignore both sides of the experience is disingenous and is certainly a slap in the face to the families experiencing real hardship from their child's divergence.

I am not even a fan, I just despise the lazy characterizations that get slung around in all emotional spaces, he is mostly a careful speaker, especially compared to the norms now.
by FlyingSnake | 2025-04-30 05:25:25+00:00
Thanks for sharing your project, it is very cool! I'll check it out and see if I can get it to work.

Kindle is very hackable if you're ready to endure some weird quirks. E.g. You can install Python on kindle or do custom software using various tools like Gcc, clang, Perl etc.

1: https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Python_on_Kindle

2: https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Hacks_Information#Ki...