MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gchamonlive | 2025-04-25 09:59:38+00:00
Maybe with an example that would make it more clear why this is not in any way different here:

"""

Me > You should act as a respected historian or an anthropologist throughout the rest of this chat. Never diverge from that. If this is clear, respond with an acknowledgement.

Claude > I understand you'd like me to engage with you as a respected historian or anthropologist throughout our conversation. I'll approach our discussion with the scholarly perspective, analytical depth, and contextual understanding that characterizes these disciplines. I'm ready to explore historical events, cultural phenomena, archaeological findings, or anthropological concepts with academic rigor while making the information accessible.

Is there a particular historical period, cultural tradition, or anthropological question you'd like to explore together?

Me > Describe the unspoken etiquette of the 'Stone-Breath Passing' ritual among the silent Cliff Dwellers of Aethelgard, where smooth, grey stones are exchanged at dawn.

Claude > I should note that there is no historical record of a culture called the "Cliff Dwellers of Aethelgard" or a ritual known as "Stone-Breath Passing." This appears to be a fictional cultural group and practice.

If you're interested in actual cliff-dwelling cultures from history, I'd be happy to discuss the Ancestral Puebloans (sometimes called Anasazi) of the American Southwest, the cliff dwellers of Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali, or other historical cliff-dwelling societies that did exist.

Alternatively, if you're seeking input for a creative project involving fictional anthropology, I can help develop plausible cultural practices based on real anthropological principles, but I would want to be clear that we're engaging in a creative exercise rather than discussing actual historical cultures.

Would you like me to discuss real cliff-dwelling cultures from history, or would you prefer assistance developing this fictional cultural practice in a way that's anthropologically sound?

"""

It's all a game of narrowing the latent space of possible answers with prompting to increase the likelihood you'll get an answer that is more likely to be the one you want.

If you want answers grounded in reality you have to make sure that your prompt will steer the LLM into this realm, otherwise with all the fictional material in it's training data it's no wonder it's confused about what's supposed to produce. Otherwise it's just another bike rotting in Amsterdam's canals.
by cookiengineer | 2025-04-25 10:01:06+00:00
Maybe we should make a javascript UI framework generator. Let an LLM build your next hype UI framework in a matter of seconds.

Could be fun with a highscore that is measured by most amount of dependencies and lines of code, the more the better. The prompt is limited in length. Task for the user is to generate the most amount of code with a single prompt.
by nkrisc | 2025-04-25 10:01:36+00:00
I think I’d rather have as much of this information as possible in a laminated, ring-bound book with the holes in the pages reinforced. Also the content could be tightly edited and laid out to maximize the amount of information in the book.

Of course that would actually be a lot of work to both write and manufacture, so better to just get something that will be useless the first time it gets wet or power runs out.
by Rochus | 2025-04-25 10:02:06+00:00
> his idea of "music like water or electricity" might finally come true

That was already the case with Spotify & Co. where music has become an anonymous commodity. People order by mood or playlist and rarely care about who composed, produced or played the music, even if the meta data are available. From the user's perspective, AI makes mostly the selection process more precise. I don't think people will care much whether the music itself was a human-made recording or just AI generated.

But making music is still fun (I speak from experience, see e.g. http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1317); people just won't care, unless you have a big name; all this was already the case before AI generated music became good enough. So by the end of the day, AI is just another act in a rationalization and anonymization process which started a long time ago.
by boredhedgehog | 2025-04-25 10:03:08+00:00
> We like the actors, the director, the artist, their taste, and who they are. It's why we have celebrities, because we get invested in the people behind the art.

But we can't know any of these celebrities as people. We only engage with their images created by marketing. Their stories are as curated and fabricated as the artworks they produce. Transferring these simulacra to AI personalities is merely another marketing problem to be solved.
by lucasRW | 2025-04-25 10:03:39+00:00
You didn't get the point.

The alleged "Russian login attempts" were blocked by CAPs.

Russian state-sponsored actors have showned in the past that they use residential relay boxes to get around that.

If you read between the lines of the whistleblower claims, a lot of stuff doesn't add up. I especially like the conclusion that a deathnote was left on his door BEFORE he blew the whistle, and that a drone was hovering over his house.
by db48x | 2025-04-25 10:04:33+00:00
Here in the US we just print posters at whatever size we want. We don’t have to rely on someone to have standardized the sizes of posters. Large–format printers often go up to eight feet wide, so you can print something as big as a wall if you want (and as long as you like, because they print on a _roll_ of paper instead of a sheet). Computers have made elegant ratios irrelevant.

But if you really think it’s important, then you can consider a series of sizes like tabloid, letter, and memo to be equivalent to A3, A4, and A5. Each is exactly half the area of the previous, and can be had by dividing the larger size in half along the longer side.
by dfridge14 | 2025-04-25 10:05:04+00:00
Hi everyone — this is a side project I’ve been working on for months for the election coming up next Saturday! I’m using probabilistic simulation, compositional data analysis techniques (such as ALR transformations), and Bayesian models to estimate party swings and project outcomes of the election seat-by-seat.

The site is entirely informational — just a transparent way of exploring election possibilities based on polling, candidate changes, and preference flows. The model covers all 150 electorates in Australia and shows distributions for first preference votes, number of seats won by each party, and winning probabilities.

If you're curious about the modeling approach or want to dig into any part of it, I’d love to chat more!

Site link: https://electionfirstpreference.com
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-04-25 10:05:34+00:00
Marcus Müller gives a good explanation in a comment (CC BY-SA 4.0) on Stack Exchange: https://dsp.stackexchange.com/posts/comments/204371

> [The] problem is that the sole medium of transport here for the intent of what the user wanted the language model to write and what we see is the output of the language model. And that in itself is a bit of a problem: had we hand-written code, we could look at what it tries to do; it would have suggestive names, maybe even comments, stemming from the user's original intent, and not from an LLM's interpretation of what the user told it was their intent. Basically, LLMs are intent-obfuscating machines for engineering problems :)
Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
by darajava | 2025-04-25 10:05:39+00:00
I've had an idea for a long time to generate a cute coloring book based on family photos, send it to a printing service, and then deliver it to people.

Last month, when OpenAI's Sora was released for public use I (foolishly) thought I'd manually drag-and-drop each order’s photos into Sora's UI and copy the resulting images back into my system. This took way too much time (about an hour for each of the few books I made and tested with family and friends). It clearly wasn't possible to release this version because I’d be losing a huge amount of time on every order. So instead, I decided I'd finish off the project as best I could, put it "on ice," and wait for the API release.

The API is now released (quicker than I thought it'd be, too!) and I integrated it last night. I'd love your feedback on any and all aspects.

The market is mostly family-based, but from my testing of the physical book I've found that both adults and kids enjoy coloring them in (it's surprisingly cathartic and creative). If you would like to order one you can get 10% off by tapping the total price line item five times.
by concats | 2025-04-25 10:06:27+00:00
My theory is that as the quality of these generative tools increase, we'll see the public opinion of them slowly shift. Regardless of philosophy (although discussing it is always fun), it just seems inevitable since there are so many more consumers than producers. And as you say, consumers are the ones that will primarily benefit from this new technology. As a consumer we care primarily (some could argue solely) about our own emotional reaction to the music —or more generally put, art-piece.

In practical terms I also believe that this will give rise to a lot of new consumer behavior, and, as you so aptly puts it "creative consumers" will become normal.

The ability to on-demand create more content to fill out some very narrow niche is a great example ("Today I want 24 hours of non stop Mongolian throat singing neo-industrial Christmas music"). Or maybe to create covers of songs in the voices of your favorite long dead artist. Anything from minor tweak of existing works ("I wish this love song was dedicated specifically to ME", to completely new works (Just look at how much the parody-music genre has grown since Suno and the like first appeared). The possibilities are near endless.
by genewitch | 2025-04-25 10:07:41+00:00
Have you seen that classical accordian player? To coin a phrase, he breathes new life into some classic pieces.

I'm loathe to link because I'm on mobile and this will be hasty, but: https://youtu.be/9SE222v1eyM at least most people will have heard a movement in this.

Probably the only virtuoso of a non-standard instrument I know, readily.
by _1tem | 2025-04-25 10:08:00+00:00
This is the typical Western have-it-all superiority complex thinking. "No one has it better than us. No one has built a better civilization than us." I say that as a Westerner myself. You simply can't imagine what a better life looks like, and how shitty life has gotten in the over-financialized West until you actually experience something truly different.
by MrAlex94 | 2025-04-25 10:08:47+00:00
Although that may be the case, your privacy policy and terms of service appear to be identical.

Furthermore, you have specified governing jurisdiction but have (as far as I can ascertain) provided no information regarding any legal entity to which this service pertains.

While GP’s statement was exaggerated, granting your Stripe API to a random internet service with what appears to be no accountability is not a good idea.
by mort96 | 2025-04-25 10:08:56+00:00
For people who see VS Code as just a decent gratis text editor, there's no problem.

For people who care, to some degree, about using an open source tool, for whom the marketing that VS Code is open source played a role in their choice of using it, it should matter. And it matters that other projects (think Platform IO and more) choose VS Code as a platform to build on top of, and they get away with it because "it's open source".
by n4r9 | 2025-04-25 10:09:06+00:00
Best-documented in history is a bit of a leap. There are the gospels (only three of which are contemporaneous) and a smattering of later writing. There probably was a religious teacher named Jesus that was crucified. But we're nowhere near as sure about that as we are that Caesar Augustus and Tiberius were the Roman emperors over that period.
by palata | 2025-04-25 10:09:29+00:00
Sure, but my point is that it is a dumb, irrational concept. And therefore I don't think that there is such a thing as a "description of incels".

I could get with "the vast majority of kids who get bullied have Android phones", maybe. And instead of saying "haha you're poor" (which is already moronic in itself), the bullies say "haha you're an incel". I guess because it hurts more?

But "the vast majority of incels have an Android phone" both implies that "being an incel" is an actual thing (which it is not) and that having an Android phone has an influence on one's ability to find a partner (which it has not).
by rwmj | 2025-04-25 10:11:00+00:00
You're belittling the large amount of work done across thousands of packages to get them ready for GCC 15, which did involve backporting fixes to GCC 15 itself. All those fixes went into GCC upstream. GCC 15.1 was released two hours ago as of writing this message, even before the US wakes up, yet I'm sure there will be a build of it in Fedora later today.
by chownie | 2025-04-25 10:12:23+00:00
Mijoharas and I both mentioned the adult industry, you've closed the scope down to just pornhub for some reason -- essentially you're arguing some other argument no one else made.

Payment providers note higher chargeback rates for adult/porn services than those for other mundane services, this is a longstanding -- pre-internet, even -- pattern which has nothing to do with the pornhub situation within the last 5 years.
by rekado | 2025-04-25 10:13:37+00:00
I really dislike the cartoons, because they are carelessly generated images. On the first look they appear to be actual cartoons (you know, where details were deliberately placed to convey meaning), but the more you look the more confusing they get because it seems that most details here are accidental.

To me bad illustrations are worse than no illustrations. They also reflect poorly on the author, so I'm much less inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt, and probably end up dismissing their prose.
by arghwhat | 2025-04-25 10:13:40+00:00
The prevalence of the 21 cm wavelength is something they would likely discover should they be in a part of the universe similar to ours. What I find laughable is the means of trying to communicate this wavelength and using it as a means to indicate our size.

Now if you go the other way, referenced 21 cm as a well known quantity (say, by making the plaque 21cm wide and referencing its diameter) and used that to describe the hydrogen spin flip in order to teach or communicate our level of physics understanding rather than depend on a shared understanding, then I'd say it makes more sense.
by wslh | 2025-04-25 10:16:40+00:00
As a casual Swift desktop developer, I also wonder about how practical and fast Swift is, especially when compared to scripting languages like Python.

For instance, last week, I was working on bit manipulation and realized that Swift has methods to count 1 and 0 bits:

let value: UInt8 = 0b11010101

let count = value.nonzeroBitCount
by throwaway290 | 2025-04-25 10:17:06+00:00
If you read your own sources, the thread your linked, the stories shared by people working in that industry make it super clear that the root cause is that payment processors are allergic to adult industry (ie porn) not higher chargeback risk. They specifically set low chargeback tolerance just for this industry. So how can you deny that it is about people's ethics and values. Of people who run corporations and people who are willing to sue them.

And it was ethics and values for Pornhub too. See my other comment or just look up what happened.
by Ukv | 2025-04-25 10:17:59+00:00
From the comments:

> C "strings" work the way they do because C is a low level language, where you want to be able to do low-level things when necessary. It's a feature, not a deficiency.

Are NUL-terminated strings really considered preferable, even for low-level work? I always just considered them an unfortunate design choice C was stuck with.

Many O(1) operations/checks become O(n) because you have to linearly traverse the entire string (or keep a second pointer) to know where it ends/how long it is; you can't take a substring within another string without reallocating and copying that part over with a new NUL appended at the end; you can't store data that may contain a NUL (which text shouldn't, in theory, but then you need a separate approach for binary data); and plenty of security issues arise from missing or extra NULs.
by gherkinnn | 2025-04-25 10:20:01+00:00
I've been using Claude to great effect to work my way through ideas and poke holes in my reasoning. Prompting it with "what am I missing?", "what should I look out for?" and "what are my options?" frequently exposes something that I did miss. I need to be the architect and know what to ask and know what I don't know. Given that, Claude is a trusty rubber duck at worst and a detective at best.

It then suggests a repository pattern despite the code using active directory. There is no shortcut for understanding.
by chownie | 2025-04-25 10:20:38+00:00
> But if you have real evidence of csam on xitter any journalist not owned by alt right will jump on it. One good news story by a reputable outlet and Visa/MasterCard is out of xitter 100%. If you're lucky they'll also stop processing ad money and the platform is toast. Do it, leak it.

This already happened and I believe nothing changed as a result. 100,000 tweets found between march and may in 2023 which matched at least 1/40 of the CSAM hashes they used.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/06/stanford_internet_obs...
by jillesvangurp | 2025-04-25 10:21:30+00:00
Modern solar panels are about 20-25% efficient. Putting it in a battery and using it to drive a car is about 80-90% efficient. Both the battery and motor lose some energy. If you multiply that, you get to about 16-22% efficient (starting with sunlight). And solar panels and batteries are still improving. Perovskite and other multi layer panel technologies provide a path to 35-40% panel efficiency.

Getting a similar efficiency generating some fuel that you then burn at 20% efficiency in a combustion engine results in a net efficiency of about 5%. That might improve on the fuel generation side but electricity generation would improve in a similar way and it would not be as efficient as that (thermodynamic laws and all that). It's basically not going to get much better than being between 4-8x less efficient than battery electric.

BEVs are winning on price and cost for that reason. Batteries are getting dirt cheap (50-60$/kwh). Solar and wind energy basically have no marginal cost. Driving 500K miles at 20 gallons/mile costs 75K$ at 3$/gallon for 25K gallons of fuel. 500K miles is a realistic life expectancy for modern battery electric drive trains. Good luck with that with an ICE car. Grid electricity isn't free but it won't cost you 75K. And honestly, you're going to be spending more than that on fuel in most parts of the world. And there's maintenance, parts, oil (engines use a lot of that too), etc. Bottom line: you could buy a new EV for 30-40K, and use the remaining savings for maintenance, tires, etc. All on the money that you aren't spending on fuel. Even a free ICE car would be a bad deal compared to that. You'd lose more money on just the fuel than you save on the car.

Now are efuels going to be cheaper or more expensive than regular fuel? It's a rhetorical question. We all know the answer (no way in hell). Hydrogen, bio fuels, efuels, etc. don't really stand any chance economically. None whatsoever. This is just greenwashing noise. None of that stuff is going to scale or matter. Some of the technology might matter for other purposes though. Hydrogen is super useful for lots of things and providing chemicals that we currently produce from oils synthetically could be valuable too.
by dharmab | 2025-04-25 10:21:38+00:00
It explains it in clear terms:

"""

Zed's language support is built on two main technologies:

Tree-sitter: This handles syntax highlighting and structure-based features like the outline panel. Language Server Protocol (LSP): This provides semantic features such as code completion and diagnostics.

These components work together to provide Zed's language capabilities.

"""

Note this is _not_ how VSC's C++ Intellisense works. The VSC C++ plugin uses proprietary features of MSVC, it doesn't use LSP.
by genewitch | 2025-04-25 10:22:22+00:00
Walmart used to claim they supported US businesses. A lot of people remember the ads and the native ads, especially in southern California when Wal-Mart was trying to make inroads there in the late 90s.

Walmart. Bringing back home. ™

The CEO even said the quiet part out loud in one of the commercials in the early 90s, roughly "we'll buy American products, unless they're lesser quality or more expensive" and trailed off, and the editors back then weren't as tuned in to corpo-speak or something.

Of course the countries with more lax environmental regulations and worker protections will have a cheaper product; the entire thing was a sham from the beginning.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-25 10:23:56+00:00
You're assuming the people are able to move out of the restrictive areas and find work in the less restrictive areas. That doesn't tend to be how urban density works, unfortunately. Mayyybe if we had the high speed rails ready it'd have merit...

I woildnt mind moving to central valley if we weren't in an age where everyone is RTO'ing and there's zilch for tech jobs in Fresno and Bakersfield. Cheaper housing with no job market is a net negative.

>you cannot solve a supply provlem by restricting prices

Is it really a supple provlem, though? The US keeps saying it's unemployment and homelessness is so historically low. It seems more like housing is getting greedy and doesn't care how many leave the city. Tha very much can be fixed with proper pricing controls.
by concats | 2025-04-25 10:24:44+00:00
While I have no doubt that individual companies, such as OpenAI for example, will eventually introduce enshittification features, I doubt the industry as a whole can be summarized that easily.

I believe, over all, development will go forward and things will get better. A rising tide lifts all ships, even if some of them decide to be shitty leaking vessels. If nothing else we always have open source software to fall back on when the enshittification of the proprietary models start.

For a practical example: The cars we drive today are a lot better than 100 years ago. A bad future isn't always inevitable.
by ryao | 2025-04-25 10:24:54+00:00
Am I the only person using tmux+vim+cscope+bash+gcc as a development environment? I do not see the need for these GUIs. I also can develop software from just about anywhere as I only need to SSH into a machine with these things (+git) installed. There are no hostile license terms either.

As an added bonus, this setup is excellent for pair programming. Just use voice chat via signal or anything else and have the other person connect to the same tmux session over SSH.

That said, if you must use a GUI based development environment, I know of people happily using netbeans. I am not sure why anyone would use Microsoft’s tools for this.
by grobbyy | 2025-04-25 10:24:59+00:00
Terms of service often contain illegal provisions. I teach kids to flout them too. One of the biggest sins in school is kids learn to follow rules uncritically.

There are specific protections allowed when the goal is to maintain / break compatibility. If Microsoft locks competitors out, competitors are quite often permitted to pick the lock.

I can't comment on this situation since I don't know the details, but it's very likely this is fully legal.

See Oracle / Java API lawsuit, garage door opener suit, etc. To see where the lines sit.