MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-04-04 06:44:18+00:00
> Of course we don't know what kind of information the model encodes in the specific token choices - I.e. the tokens might not mean to the model what we think they mean.

What I think is interesting about this is that for the most part reading the reasoning output is something we can understand. The tokens as produced form english sentences, make intuitive sense. If we think of the reasoning output block as basically just "hidden state" then one could imagine that a there might be a more efficient representation that trades human understanding for just priming the internal state of the model.

In some abstract sense you can already get that by asking the model to operate in different languages. My first experience with reasoning models where you could see the output of the thinking block I think was QwQ which just reasoned in Chinese most of the time, even if the final output was German. Deepseek will sometimes keep reasoning in English even if you ask it German stuff, sometimes it does reason in German. All in all, there might be a more efficient representation of the internal state if one forgoes human readable output.
by johnisgood | 2025-04-04 06:44:24+00:00
Both substances and AI can be used responsibly. It is not the fault of substances nor AI.

People is why we can't have anything nice. It sucks.

I have medical reasons to take opioids, but in the eyes of people, I am a junkie. I would not be considered a junkie if I kept popping ibuprofen. It is silly. Opioids do not even make me high to begin with (it is complicated).
by mike_hearn | 2025-04-04 06:44:30+00:00
Well, it's actually a rant about AI making what the author perceives as mistakes. Honestly it reads like the author is attempting to show off or brag by listing imaginary mistakes an AI might have made, but they are all the sort of mistakes a human could make too. And the fact that they are not real incidents, significantly weakens his argument. He is a consultant who sells training services so obviously if people come to rely on AI more for this kind of thing he will be out of work.

It does not help that his examples of things an imaginary LLM might miss are all very subjective and partisan too.
by globular-toast | 2025-04-04 06:44:43+00:00
I suppose "local-first development" is a misnomer. It's really about the syncing part. Currently we have traditional applications that write data locally and therefore don't require an internet connection to work, and we have online stuff that updates a shared state "live". The "revolutionary" part would be having both of those things. It's a surprisingly hard thing to do.

The current state of the art here is git. So we're basically talking about making git automatic and easy to use for the majority of the population. That's not something we've been "doing for decades".
by avereveard | 2025-04-04 06:45:39+00:00
This. It seem the situation is controversial now because of the beloved Studio Ghibli IP, but I want to see the venn diagram of people outrage at this, and the people clamoring for overbearing Disney chatachter protection when the copyright expired and siding with paloworld in the Nintendo lawsuit.

It seem most of the discussion is emotionally loaded, and people lost the plot of both why copyright exists and what copyright protects and are twisting that to protect whatever media they like most.

But one cannot pick and choose where laws apply, and then the better question would be how we plug the gap that let a multibilion Corp get away with distribution at scale and what derivative work and personal use mean in a image generation as a service world, and artist should be very careful in what their wishes are here, because I bet there's a lot of commission work edging on style transfer and personal use.
by Danielopol | 2025-04-04 06:45:54+00:00
I want to share with you a little personal achievement. With barely any coding knowledge (I only learned the basic syntax of Python, but it wasn't used at all in this case), I built and launched a website directory from scratch. This is how I made it: - Asked Claude to design the site and add features, generate the various coding files, and provide the general architecture - Ran and tested the site first locally on my desktop server - Imported the files to GitHub - From GitHub, deployed the project to Netlify hosting - Connected the Netlify address with my custom domain

The entire process took me about 5 to 6 hours cumulatively and it only cost me the monthly $20 for Claude.

The site curates a list of tips, tutorials, and how-to advice about using Cursor for coding. I tried to find the most relevant sources from Google, YouTube, X, and Reddit of various people who have used and tested Cursor and shared their experiences, tips, and recommendations.
by alkonaut | 2025-04-04 06:46:16+00:00
Why is that a problem? For some critical goods (Food, Medicines, Defense) it's a security risk to not have a supply. But for flip flops and umbrellas, no country is somehow better off by having thousands of factories, instead of doing what the US does: selling high value goods and services and importing the low value goods.

In fact, it's the opposite. Those industries are much more polluting per dollar GDP created, and that externality is something you are happy to not have on your own soil.
by planb | 2025-04-04 06:46:23+00:00
> So if I want to make an ad for a soap company, and I get an AI to reproduce a likeness of Harrison Ford, does that mean I can use that likeness in my soap commercials without paying him?

No, you can't! But it shouldn't be the tool that prohibits this. You are not allowed to use existing images of Harrison Ford for your commercial and you also will be sued into oblivion by Disney if you paint a picture of Mickey Mouse advertising your soap, so why should it be any different if an AI painted this for you?
by logifail | 2025-04-04 06:47:29+00:00
In the 1960s a Canadian research expedition collected soil samples from Easter Island which led to the discovery of rapamycin (aka sirolimus).

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

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9634974/

(Full disclosure - spent my PhD working with macrolides including this one. It's an amazing origin story for a compound...)
by mike_hearn | 2025-04-04 06:47:44+00:00
I think people don't consider that because the usual criticism of television and video games is that people spend too long paying attention to them.

One of the famous Greek philosophers complained that books were hurting people's minds because they no longer memorized information, so this kind of complaint is as old as civilization itself. There is no evidence that we would be on Mars by now already if we had never invented books or television.
by yapyap | 2025-04-04 06:50:26+00:00
Stopped reading after

> We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution.

Get out of here, you will never exceed the Industrial Revolution. AI is a cool thing but it’s not a revolution thing.

That sentence alone + the context of the entire website being AI centered shows these are just some AI boosters.

Lame.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-04 06:50:30+00:00
I'm mixed on the "craft" aspect of it. I don't hate coding, but there's definitely times where it feels like it's just some time plumbing. I don't get satisfaction out of that kind of stuff.

I'm pragmatic and simply don't trust current LLM's to do much in my domain. All that tribal knowledge is kept under lock and key at studios, so good luck scraping the net to find more than the very basic samples of how to do something. I've spent well over a decade doing that myself; the advanced (and even a lot of intermediate) information is slim and mostly behind paywalls or books.
by kelnos | 2025-04-04 06:51:29+00:00
> It's not wild to speculate that a ticket I buy for an event 600 years in the future might not be honored. People get screwed over on pre-orders with timetables far smaller than that.

I think you're framing this in the wrong way. Anyone buying a ticket knows there is no guarantee that this finale will occur, or that even if it does, that whatever entity in is in charge of it by then will honor the tickets. They treat this as a donation to something they care about, and the ticket is a cute gift of appreciation. And on top of that, the descendants of the ticket-purchasers may have lost the tickets generations ago, not even know about them, or not even care.

Suggesting that people are getting "screwed over" is unnecessarily dramatic.
by ManuelKiessling | 2025-04-04 06:51:34+00:00
I have just checked my article — the word "expert" isn't in it, so not quite sure where you got this from.

I'm working in the field professionally since June 1998, and among other things, I was the tech lead on MyHammer.de, Germany's largest craftsman platform, and have built several other mid-scale online platforms over the decades.

How well I have done this, now that's for others to decide.

Quite objectively though, I do have some amount of experience — even a bad developer probably cannot help but pick up some learnings over so many years in relevant real-world projects.

However, and I think I stated this quite clearly, I am expressively not an expert in Python.

And yet, I could realize an actually working solution that solves an actual problem I had in a very real sense (and is nicely humming away for several weeks now).

And this is precisely where yes, I did experience a 10x productivity increase; it would have certainly taken me at least a week or two to realize the same solution myself.
by gionik97 | 2025-04-04 06:52:37+00:00
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia (comfortable with different time zones - partly overlapping etc.)

Remote Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: html/css(sass, tailwindcss), Javascript(jQuery, vanilla), Wordpress (twig, acf, php, custom theme development), NextJS, ReactJS

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZIP2zktpY6GkBbez2xrcCzB_-3t...

Email: gio97niko@gmail.com

About me: Hi I'm Giorgi. I am a frontend web developer with up to 4 years of professional experience. I've been freelancing as well as working with a team (US based digital agency) in past years, so I'm comfortable working individually and in team environment. Most of my career I've been working in Wordpress development (been also workin on NextJS projects past two years). I'm open to similar opportunities but would be even more excited for a change (app development - React/NextJS). I adapt quickly and most importantly work hard. Outside of work I love working out and spending time with my friends :) PS: Past year I've gained a lots of knowledge in web accessibility and have been leading the way in this area for a team that I work with currently. It is something that I constantly improve in and enjoy
by lfourunderscore | 2025-04-04 06:52:40+00:00
> My criteria were subjective but simple to understand: the language should introduce new concepts (as Principia Discordia puts it, ’tis an ill wind that blows no minds) [...]

I wonder how many people share this opinion. I derive as much if not more value from the refinement of existing concepts than the introduction of new ones.

Wanting new concepts just for it's own sake is wild to me.
by ErigmolCt | 2025-04-04 06:52:53+00:00
What struck me most in this piece wasn't just the milestones or big product moments, but how human the journey was. From someone getting hired off a newsletter in a Honda Civic to negotiating with the Rolling Stones, or building a global business with zero prior international experience. It's a reminder that behind all the megacorp mythology, these were regular people taking huge risks.
by kelnos | 2025-04-04 06:53:20+00:00
Jesus, maybe dial the cynicism down a bit. This is not that serious. It's a fun thing where people get to donate to a bit of art they care about, and get a token of appreciation in return. I doubt any of these "purchasers" really care all that much if their descendants actually end up able to go to a finale in 600 years, outside of the "wouldn't it be cool if..." sense.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-04-04 06:53:23+00:00
Trademarks are very different from copyrights. In general, they never expire as long as the fees are paid in the region, and products bearing the mark are still manufactured. Note, legal firms will usually advise people that one can't camp on Trademarks like other areas of IP law.

For example, Aspirin is known as an adult dose of acetylsalicylic acid by almost every consumer, and is Trademarked to prevent some clandestine chemist in their garage making a similarly branded harmful/ineffective substance that damages the Goodwill Bayer earned with customers over decades of business.

Despite popular entertainment folklore, sustainable businesses actually want consumer goodwill associated with their products and services.

While I agree in many WIPO countries copyright law has essentially degenerated into monetized censorship by removing the proof of fiscal damages criteria (like selling works you don't own.) However, Trademarks ensure your corporate mark or product name is not hijacked in local Markets for questionable purposes.

Every castle needs a moat, but I do kind of want to know more about the presidential "Tesler". lol =)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFZUB1eJb34
by Jensson | 2025-04-04 06:53:53+00:00
> I dunno, that seems like a pretty good distillation of what moving the goalposts is.

Only if you don't understand what "the goalposts" means. The goalpost isn't "pass the turing test", the goalpost is "manage to do all the same kind of intellectual tasks that humans are", nobody has moved that since the start in the quest for AI.
by Nursie | 2025-04-04 06:54:04+00:00
> Google's image generator that generated black nazis.

Didn't see this one, but I've certainly played around with Dall-E (via MS image creator) and had things like "You wanted a picture of a happy shark, but we decided this one needs to be an asian woman frolicking in the sea" or "You wanted a picture of Beavis doing something so in one of the images we made him a pretty racist middle-eastern caricature"

> (though I find it funny that the same people that would boycott Disney for suing a fanfiction author are now on the side of copyright holders)

Is that a contradiction?

Certainly some of the hate comes from the fact that they take from small producers just as much as from large. I have an author friend who is annoyed at present to find out that facebook slurped up his books as part of their training set without so much as a by-your-leave or (as far as he could tell) even purchasing a copy.

As such, the people on the sharp end are often the underdog, with no way to fight back.

When it comes to the properties mentioned in the article, I think it's very different from fanfiction or fan-art - that's a labour of (nerdy) love, rather than wholesale, automated rip-off for profit.
by planb | 2025-04-04 06:54:29+00:00
> Or, you mean if the artist doesn't have a license to produce and distribute Indiana Jones images? Well they'll be in trouble legally. They are making "copies" of things they don't own and profiting from it.

Ok, my sister can draw, and she gifts me an image of my favorite Marvel hero she painted to hang on my wall. Should that be illegal?
by mtlmtlmtlmtl | 2025-04-04 06:55:57+00:00
Not quite. Alexander Fleming was growing cultures of staph bacteria, went away for some time, and when he came back, found one petri dish had been contaminated with fungus, and that the fungus inhibited the growth of the bacteria. It seems to be unclear where the contamination came from, but the fungus itself was already known to science at the time.
by FeepingCreature | 2025-04-04 06:56:15+00:00
Human appearance does not have enough dimensions to make likeness a viable thing to protect; I don't see how you could do that without say banning Elvis impersonators.

That said:

> I'm looking forward to all of Hollywood joining the cause against the rampant abuse of IP by Silicon Valley.

If you're framing the sides like that, it's pretty clear which I'm on. :)
by noduerme | 2025-04-04 06:57:37+00:00
Well, precisely. What then is the AI company's justification for charging money to paint a picture of Harrison Ford to its users?

The justification so far seems to have been loosely based on the idea that derivative artworks are protected as free expression. That argument loses currency if these are not considered derivative but more like highly compressed images in a novel, obfuscated compression format. Layers and layers of neurons holding a copy of Harrison Ford's face is novel, but it's hard to see why it's any different legally than running a JPEG of it through some filters and encoding it in base64. You can't just decode it and use it without attribution.
by greatgib | 2025-04-04 06:57:59+00:00
To start with, security of "secure boot" there is a joke because anyway all os have to be signed by Microsoft itself. So anyone with they certificate key can do whatever they want.

And btw, not that long ago it was released by researchers than more than 200 platforms from diverse but main laptops and servers manufacturers were still using leaked keys for signing their boot loaders...
by pseudo0 | 2025-04-04 06:58:08+00:00
He should have just written #BLACKLIVESMATTER 100 times, because that's apparently all it takes to get into Stanford. Honestly though college essays are a bit of a joke, reviewing hundreds of them sounds like torture. The lack of rigor is probably the point though, since it gives the admissions process flexibility to ensure that legacy students get in and they meet their DEI targets.
by ggm | 2025-04-04 06:58:21+00:00
They never give up. Nor will any other government. Specific people are judged to need non back-door crypto. That's not ordinary people.

No amount of input from the wider community changes posture here. The people involved accept the political reality in the moment but they never give up.

This won't stop. They only have to succeed once. When they succeed, using a crypto system without a back-door is by definition a crime, and so the statement "only criminals need a crypto system without a back door" is a truism.
by nanolith | 2025-04-04 06:58:48+00:00
The Ben Eater computer is an interesting starting point. With a few modifications, such as an extended program counter / address bus, a combinatorial ALU programmed in flash, and a few more registers, it can be upgraded to a more powerful, if slow, computer.

Further, these circuits can be directly simulated in an FPGA if you want to teach yourself an HDL like VHDL or Verilog. You really want to learn better and faster ways to organize a CPU, but it's a fun way for a beginner to bridge into this kind of work.

At the local hackerspace, we actually taught a class that assembled a hybrid 8-bit / 16-bit variation of this computer with 1MB of RAM, an 8-bit ALU, a 16-bit data bus / registers, and a 20-bit address bus. With this additional capability, we could program it over serial with a very basic bootloader, and it was powerful enough to compute pi to 1000 digits. Granted, this took about 18 hours, but it could have run faster with a printed circuit board and a crystal oscillator. We just never really got to that point.

As for how powerful such a computer with discrete logic can be, consider that the KB-11A CPU for the PDP-11/45 was built using 74-series logic ICs. It wasn't until after this system that DEC moved on to VSLI. So, this is a way to play with technology found in computers in 1972 / 1973.

As a stepping stone to digital logic and FPGA work, Ben Eater's tutorial isn't bad. Just get yourself a copy of Don Lancaster's TTL Cookbook or CMOS Cookbook to bring his tutorial up to best practices.
by Incipient | 2025-04-04 06:59:47+00:00
>But it's still a great idea.

Define "great".

It has $2m revenue, so it's clearly a great idea (at this stage?) financially and 'people love it' (30% retention)

Technically it's a garbage idea, and I'd say they could get class-actioned without good T&Cs. It's literally impossible to determine the sugar and fat content of a meal.

I'd never make it for the latter reason, however you clearly need to believe in the former to make it big haha.
by ManuelKiessling | 2025-04-04 06:59:52+00:00
I agree 100%, but in this very specific case, I really just wanted a working one-off solution that I'm not going to spend much time on going forward, AND I wanted to use it as an excuse to see how far I can go with AI tooling in a tech stack I don't know.

That being said, using AI as a teacher can be a wonderful experience. For us seniors, but also and probably more importantly, for eager and non-lazy juniors.

I have one such junior on my team who currently speed-runs through the craft because he uses AI to explain EVERYTHING to him: What is this pattern? Why should I use it? What are the downsides? And so on.

Of course I also still tutor him, as this is a main part of my job, but the availability of an AI that knows so much and always has time for him and never gets tired etc is just fantastic.
by watwut | 2025-04-04 07:00:09+00:00
> Also, consider that conservative media has indoctrinated people to think like you do...except in the opposite direction.

I came to similar conclusion by reading conservative media. NOT by reading mainstream media that forever excuse, rationalize and sanitize what is going on among conservatives.

Also, note that he did not just said "they are enemy". He listed actual positions these people demonstrably have. All you have to do is to ... listen to what they say. Oh, and I also tell you some stuff they want for gender relations: they want women completely dependent on men economically, spousal abuse to be an accepted price for keeping families together.

The person you are responded to described really existing value differences. Musks "empathy is weakness" is not some kind of outlier claim, it is something conservatives were pushing on for years already. Especially in its far right circles. Likewise the Trumps "truth does not matter" philosophy.
by guiraldelli | 2025-04-04 07:00:24+00:00
Unfortunately, Kagi has a similar problem.

Before, I felt it would search exactly the terms I wrote.

Now, it freely ignores some of the terms, and I find myself prefixing most of my queries' words with plus sign (+) so it enforces the search.

_Personally_, I feel the quality of Kagi's search has decreased, lately.

However, I still prefer it to other search engines.
by wtcactus | 2025-04-04 07:01:43+00:00
I don't see this as being better or worse than all the reboots, remakes, and pointless sequels for movies that make the bulk (in financing) of Hollywood's present production: these also make the same "assumptions" of how some idea should look like. In fact, I think they make it even worst.

Give me "An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip, as if he was defeated by the righteous fight against patriarchy by a strong, independent woman, that is better at everything than he is": Sure, here is Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny for you.

In fact, when generative video evolve enough, it will usher an era of creativity where people that previously were kept out of the little self pleasing circle of Hollywood, will be able to come up with their own idea for a script and make a decent movie out of it.

Not that I believe AI will be able to display properly the range of emotions of a truly great actor, but, for 99% of movies, it will be just fine. A lot of good movies rely mostly on the script anyway.
by unwind | 2025-04-04 07:02:02+00:00
I was not familiar with the term, so I had to look it up. It's about code like this:

a := b

the `:=` looks vaguely like a walrus. The most common reference language seems to be Python [1]. The usage is for making assignment remain an expression, so you can do stuff like

area = (width := get_width()) * (height := get_height())

or something, and have the top-level expression remain valid since the sub-expressions are assignments that remain expressions, i.e. the assigned value is also the result of the expression.

[1]: https://realpython.com/python-walrus-operator/