MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aunty_helen | 2025-04-03 21:55:37+00:00
Nah. This isn’t true. Every time you hit enter you’re not just getting a jr dev, you’re getting a randomly selected jr dev.

So, how did I end up with a logging.py, config.py, config in __init__.py and main.py? Well I prompted for it to fix the logging setup to use a specific format.

I use cursor, it can spit out code at an amazing rate and reduced the amount of docs I need to read to get something done. But after its second attempt at something you need to jump in and do it yourself and most likely debug what was written.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-04-03 21:55:43+00:00
It depends on the components. The bathtub curve applies the most manufactured equipment in some way. But specific kinds of hardware are more prone to it than others. Hard drives, fans, power supplies, dedicated controllers, RAM and CPU modules, etc all fail at different rates. Combine that with the varying failure rates of different grades of components, with manufacturer/model differences, environmental differences, and load differences, and it's all over the map. But in general, any one of these components is effectively a system failure, so there is always this varying degree of failure over time due to the fluctuation of all these variables.

I also believe there's a psychic component to failures. The machines know when you're close to product launch, or when someone has just discovered the servers haven't been maintained in a while and are at risk of failing. Then they'll fail for sure. Especially if there are hot-spare or backup servers, which will conveniently fail as well.
by ggm | 2025-04-03 21:56:01+00:00
Back in the days of the pdp11/dec10 product line cards made like this were the schwag you got at DECUS meetings with the instruction set on them. I've still got one from systime, a British value add reseller, and a pdp11 one from digital.

Then emacs and vi and shell commands for Unix. Then pdf files started to appear to print at home.

The big problem for Europeans back then: assumed US/legal paper size.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-03 21:56:01+00:00
I'm fascinated by the fact that the images are almost right, but never totally.

Harrison Ford's head is way too big for his body. Same with Alicia Vikander's and Daniel Craig's too. Daniel Craig is way too young too. Bruce Willis's just looks fake, and he's holding his lighter in the opposite hand from the famous photo.

So it's not reproducing any actual copyrighted images directly. It's more like an artist trying to paint from memory. Which seems like an important distinction.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-04-03 21:56:19+00:00
It's interesting that you used "wants" in the first sentence and "needs" in the second.

Not saying that you're totally wrong, but I think this difference is not necessarily a deliberate decision by individual engineers, or caused by personality or skill level.

The employee market demographics surely play a role, but this is about concretions, not generalizations.

There is no lack of (often poor) generalizations when it comes to the skills and requirements demanded by BE and FE roles, respectively.

Not wanting to dismiss your idea / the grain of truth. But IMO you are falsely generalizing.

Also, there are not only FE devs claiming to be "full stack" when they don't know HTTP basics.

There are also BE developers with similarly daunting knowledge gaps.

Or in other words, in both worlds there are juniors masquerading as seniors and the other way around, depending on the organization.
by lovich | 2025-04-03 21:56:34+00:00
If the US is planning on stopping the thing that made them OK in the first place, why do you think they would be OK after?

That’s also before you get into the fact that stopping immigration into the US doesn’t make those people disappear * , they’ll immigrate to other countries or stay home may very well cause some countries with a declining population to stop or reverse that trend

* Not en masse anyways, that’s come later as more of a final solution
by carlos-menezes | 2025-04-03 21:56:50+00:00
I can only assume that delaying the search for another eight-ish months will only widen the search area when they do resume the search, which will make it even more challenging to locate the wreckage due to ocean currents and seabed shifts.

With multiple searches failing despite advanced technology over the course of (more than) a decade, I personally think that it’s hard to believe MH370 will ever be found.
by Melatonic | 2025-04-03 21:56:51+00:00
The new Nvidia developer workstations (believe they are much cheaper than full DGX systems) are definitely interesting.

I have a desktop with a Titan XP (somewhat similar to your Titan X). If you look up LLM performance however these older GPUs (even with enough VRAM) do quite poorly. They still hold up great for gaming and many other GPU hungry tasks though.

Personally I think a really cool setup would be something like a modern MacBook Pro with a ton of RAM and high core CPU that could be plugged into an external GPU enclosure when needed. Depending on LLM needs you could be upgrading the external GPU and still use the power efficient laptop on the go.
by roflyear | 2025-04-03 21:57:15+00:00
For the market's aren't the economy crowd: I agree, and even to the extent it does say something about the economy, it is noisy and often inaccurate.

However, there are a few counter arguments. When markets really tank, it does impact businesses directly: companies can sell stock to raise capital, that's really the main reason for going public, and having stock valued less means you can sell it for less, so you either have to sell more stock, or have access to less cash. Also a lot of people get some portion of their salary in stock options, so they'll be getting less money. And companies often care about their stock price, so if it is tanking, they may do things like lay people off, make less risky decisions (investments), etc... which will have a direct impact on the US economy.

Also, markets are forward-looking, so a major selloff here isn't an indication of always what has happened, but often is an indication of investor sentiment regarding the future of the economy (or specifically, the performance of companies that they own shares in).

Anyway, I wish I was able to just sit back and watch this! I wish we could all do that, because it's going to be really interesting, but the unfortunate reality is this is going to cause a lot of pain for a lot of people - and not just in the US. Hope everyone holds up OK.
by MisterTea | 2025-04-03 21:58:12+00:00
> bad memories of sitting watching progress bars for hours

Bad? Nah. I would use the words "exciting or "annoying" as it was annoying to wait but exciting as you were edging closer to playing with new software.

HOWEVER: if the act of installing software over and over again all day long was your job, then you have my condolences :-)
by ironcloudz | 2025-04-03 21:58:31+00:00
I worked with him in the 90's at SCO and we became friends based more upon music than tech.

He was an early adopter of a kludgy midi bass which he insisted I play but we had lots of laughs at how ridiculous it was.

He visited us in NM about ten years ago and voraciously consumed my wife's pumpkin waffles like he had not eaten for days. Which, knowing him, he likely had not.

I called him MTaht since that was his email handle at SCO.

Many other tales to tell but I will stop.

I am shocked at his passing too soon.

Happy travels, amigo!
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by ferdinand_p | 2025-04-03 21:59:28+00:00
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by throwanem | 2025-04-03 21:59:29+00:00
Mistaking model for meaning is the sort of mistake I very rarely see a human make, at least in the sense as here of literally referring to map ("text"), in what ostensibly strives to be a discussion of the presence or absence of underlying territory, a concept the model gives no sign of attempting to invoke or manipulate. It's also a behavior I would expect from something capable of producing valid utterances but not of testing their soundness.

I'm glad you didn't write that paragraph by yourself; I would be concerned on your behalf if you had.
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-03 22:00:42+00:00
Prayer would just do nothing.

That might be a little harsh. I would at least compare it to a placebo. Chants and prayers can help keep ones hand in the box for the Reverend Mother. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RooSqqn1FjA [video][fear is the mind killer]
by pixl97 | 2025-04-03 22:01:06+00:00
>But, it's no miracle.

All I can say to this is fucking good!

Lets imagine we got AGI at the start of 2022. I'm talking about human level+ as good as you coding and reasoning AI that works well on the hardware from that age.

What would the world look like today? Would you still have your job. With the world be in total disarray? Would unethical companies quickly fire most their staff and replace them with machines? Would their be mass riots in the streets by starving neo-luddites? Would automated drones be shooting at them?

Simply put people and our social systems are not ready for competent machine intelligence and how fast it will change the world. We should feel lucky we are getting a ramp up period, and hopefully one that draws out a while longer.
by daveguy | 2025-04-03 22:01:13+00:00
No. His argument is definitely closer to LLMs can't generalize. I think you would benefit from re-reading the paper. The point is that a puzzle consisting of simple reasoning about simple priors should be a fairly low bar for "intelligence" (necessary but not sufficient). LLMs performs abysmally because they have a very specific purpose trained goal that is different from solving the ARC puzzles. Humans solve these easily. And committees of humans do so perfectly. If LLMs were intelligent they would be able to construct algorithms consisting of simple applications of the priors.

Training to a specific task and getting better is completely orthogonal to generalized search and application of priors. Humans do a mix of both search of the operations and pattern matching of recognizing the difference between start and stop state. That is because their "algorithm" is so general purpose. And we have very little idea how the two are combined efficiently.

At least this is how I interpreted the paper.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-03 22:01:33+00:00
This doesn't make any sense to me. No media is getting copied, unless the drawing is exactly the same as an existing drawing. Shouldn't "copy"right apply to specific, tangible artistic works? I guess I don't understand how the fantasy of "IP" works.

What if the drawing is of Indiana Jones but he's carrying a bow and arrow instead of a whip? Is it infringement?

What if it's a really bad drawing of Indiana Jones, so bad that you can't really tell that it's the character? Is that infringement?

What if the drawing is of Indiana Jones, but in the style of abstract expressionism, so doesn't even contain a human shape? Is it infringement?

What if it's a good drawing that looks very much like Indiana Jones, but it's not! The person's name is actually Iowa Jim. Is that infringement?

What if it's just an image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip, but otherwise doesn't look anything like Indiana Jones? Is it infringement?
by ramesh31 | 2025-04-03 22:01:56+00:00
>The scary thing is: I have seen professional human developers write worse code.

This is kind of the rub of it all. If the code works, passes all relevant tests, is reasonably maintainable, and can be fitted into the system correctly with a well defined interface, does it really matter? I mean at that point its kind of like looking at the output of a bytecode compiler and being like "wow what a mess". And it's not like they can't write code up to your stylistic standards, it's just literally a matter of prompting for that.
by vermaden | 2025-04-03 22:03:29+00:00
I daily use FreeBSD on 2011 (14 years old now) legendary ThinkPad W520.

Details here:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/04/14/freebsd-13-1-on-th...

Article is about FreeBSD 13.1 - but as time passed I followed all new versions and its at 14.2 now.

Config did not changed - still running strong.
by AIorNot | 2025-04-03 22:04:10+00:00
This is another silly against AI tools - that doesn’t offer useful or insightful suggestions on how to adapt or provide an informed study of areas of concern and - one that capitalizes on the natural worries we have on HN because of our generic fears around critical thinking being lost when AI will take over our jobs - in general, rather like concerns about the web in pre-internet age and SEO in digital marketing age

OSINT only exists because of internet capabilities and google search - ie someone had to learn how to use those new tools just a few years ago and apply critical thinking

AI tools and models are rapidly evolving and more in depth capabilities appearing in the models, all this means the tools are hardly set in stone and the workflows will evolve with them - it’s still up to human oversight to evolve with the tools - the skills of human overseeing AI is something that will develop too
by trbutler | 2025-04-03 22:04:42+00:00
> I keep hearing this, over and over again. But I plug in my Magic Trackpad to my GNOME desktop and it works fine.

Yes, Linux will -- in many cases -- work as well with accessories as any computer will in ways we'd largely have expected 20 years ago. The integrative cases I noted are something different. For example, the Continuity support between Mac and iPad/iPhone/Apple Watch. If you don't use those things, it isn't a huge deal, but if you do, it's not appetizing to give them up.

> We'd need a new Linux if you Mac pundits ended up writing all the rules for us.

The good news is Linux is free/open source. So, someone could do exactly what I'm advocating for in the article and not detract from the Linux experience from people who don't want that. In fact, it'd probably benefit all Linux users, because it would increase support from software developers, etc.
by topspin | 2025-04-03 22:04:51+00:00
Doomsaying prognostications, odd questions, free will talk for some reason, evidence free assertions about voters and their interests, doubts and fears...

And precisely 0.0 alternatives offered.

I can't imagine anyone being surprised that we've ended up with Trump et al. When all you offer is un-actionable thoughts and cowardly status quo, no one will listen to you. Meanwhile, the cohort of disenfranchised, disposable people grows around you until they fear the status quo more than they fear change.

Congratulations!
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-04-03 22:05:21+00:00
I can't speak for everyone obviously, but my anti-AI sentiment in this regard is not that IP law is flawless and beyond reproach, far from it. I'm merely saying that as long as we're all required to put up with it, that OpenAI and company should also have to put up with it. It's incredibly disingenuous the way these companies have taken advantage of publicly available material on an industrial scale, used said material to train their models "for research" and as soon as they had something that vaguely did what they wanted, began selling access to them.

If they are indeed the output of "research" that couldn't exist without the requisite publicly available material, then they should be accessible by the public (and arguably, the products of said outputs should also be inherently public domain too).

If they are instead created products to be sold themselves, then what is utilized to create them should be licensed for that purpose.

Additionally, if they can be used to generate IP violating material, then IMHO, makes perfect sense for the rights holders of those IPs to sue their asses like they would anyone else who did that and sold the results.

Again, for emphasis: I'm not endorsing any of the effects of IP law. I am simply saying that we should all, from the poorest user to the richest corporation, be playing by the same rules, and it feels like AI companies entire existence is hinging on their ability to have their IP cake and eat it too: they want to be able to restrict and monetize access to their generative models that they've created, while also having free reign to generate clearly, bluntly plagiarizing material, by way of utilizing vast amounts of in-good-faith freely given material. It's gross, and it sucks.
by taeric | 2025-04-03 22:05:36+00:00
I maintain the idea that we should shift to monthly shifts in time. Six up and six down by 10 minutes. Wasn't exactly tenable for a long time, as that was a lot of clocks to change. Modern times have most people not even realizing that their phones and such updated last night. Just the odd "why is the oven wrong this time?" Followed usually by "why do we even have a dumb clock on the oven?"

My argument remains that this gets closer to how sundials worked, where the natural shift in the amount of sun you get in the day automatically shifted people's behaviors. With the major grant that I did not appreciate how much the sun changes throughout the year until I lived further north.

I also fully grant that this has a snow ball's chance in hell.
by bloomingeek | 2025-04-03 22:05:54+00:00
I think one of biggest problems the American voter has is two fold: 1. We have turned politicians into celebrities/heroes. ALL politicians are just like most of us: they are flawed and incomplete individuals who desperately try to hide their flaws. (Under normal circumstances, this isn't so bad. However, to be an elected official with all that power, it's fraud at the very least.

2. Once elected, we refuse to hold the politicians we elected to almost any accountability. (This is very hard to do, no doubt, because of the way the laws have been manipulated to stop this very accountability.)

As for religion in politics: I'm a devoted Christian who is sane enough to know that not everyone will believe the same as I do. I have one vote on election day, to manipulate other people's vote by having my candidate changing laws to thwart the constitution is theft and immoral. (As difficult as it is to say, Christians today should read 2 Peter Ch2, taking it to heart. Stop only glossing over the cheerful faith verses and start reading the one's that call for accountability.)
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-04-03 22:05:56+00:00
> to stifle original ideas and hold back cultural innovation.

How is copyright stifling innovation?

You could not rip something off more blatantly than Gravity, which had the lawsuit dismissed entirely.

Taurus vs Stairway to Heaven, the list goes on and on and on.

You can often get away with nearly murder ripping off other people's stuff.
by __jochen__ | 2025-04-03 22:06:14+00:00
That's the problem. The new norm will be 10x of pre-AI productivity, nobody will be able justify hand-writing code. And until the quality bar of LLM's/their successors get much better (see e.g. comments above looking at the details in the examples given), you'll get accumulation of errors that are higher than what decent programmers get. With higher LOC and more uninspected complexity, you'll get significantly lower quality overall. The coming wave of AI-coded bugs will be fun for all. GOTO FAIL;
by ineedasername | 2025-04-03 22:06:20+00:00
$5-500 monthly payments just to bypass a decent anti-cheat...Cheaters must reflash their BIOS, wipe their PCs, reinstall Windows, and create a new account to play again...every few weeks

This is fun? If it's eSports for $$ I understand the incentive, otherwise pretending to be good, all the while likely having not a twinge of irony hit you as you 'git gud the opposition... It's a mindset I don't understand.
by CrimsonCape | 2025-04-03 22:06:39+00:00
What people don't discuss about the taxation is that rich people will universally pundit, preach, undermine, subvert, and squirm out of any law to tax themselves more. If you are preaching more taxes thinking it will affect the politically well-connected, it will be unwound and castrated by the politically well-connected. Or just deflected into somebody else's responsibility.

In that case, someone else is going to be holding the bill that you might not have intended.

I hate discussion of percentages, because every percentage seems reasonable by itself. It's the summation of the percentages that politicians have no interest in discussing.

In fact, it should be a requirement of government to sum the percentages of federal,state,medicare,social security, sales, resort, fuel, local levies, internet sales into one effective percentage that a given citizen in a given city has to pay.

Has anyone calculated that number for themselves? I've been collecting all my transactions and taxes to figure out what percentage of my income actually goes to taxes.
by squeaky-clean | 2025-04-03 22:06:53+00:00
Generic doesn't help. I was using the new image generator to try and make images for my Mutants and Masterminds game (it's basically D&D with superheroes instead of high fantasy), and it refuses to make most things citing that they are too close to existing IP, or that the ideas are dangerous.

So I asked it to make 4 random and generic superheroes. It created Batman, Supergirl, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman. Then at about 90% finished it deleted the image and said I was violating copyright.

https://imgur.com/a/eG6kmqu

I doubt the model you interact with actually knows why the babysitter model rejects images, but it claims to know why and leads to some funny responses. Here is it's response to me asking for a superhero with a dark bodysuit, a purple cape, a mouse logo on their chest, and a spooky mouse mask on their face.

> I couldn't generate the image you requested because the prompt involved content that may violate policy regarding realistic human-animal hybrid masks in a serious context.
by TremendousJudge | 2025-04-03 22:07:19+00:00
No, the exception they are asking for (we can train on copyrighted material and the image produced is non-copyright infringing) is copyright infringing in the most basic sense.

I'll prove it by induction: Imagine that I have a service where I "train" a model on a single image of Indiana Jones. Now you prompt it, and my model "generates" the same image. I sell you this service, and no money goes to the copyright holder of the original image. This is obviously infringment.

There's no reason why training on a billion images is any different, besides the fact that the lines are blurred by the model weights not being parseable
by joshdickson | 2025-04-03 22:07:23+00:00
Thank you for your kind words and feedback. The search should be better now, and is much better in-app with additional local caching.

I can assure you that you are not overthinking it in terms of figuring that information out. The search experience tries to make it as clear and helpful as possible. If you encounter any situations where it could be more clear, I would love to see them. My contact info is in my bio, or there is a feedback prompt on the site/in-app. Thanks again for checking the project out and your feedback.