MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vonneumannstan | 2025-04-15 21:20:05+00:00
>I'm simply stating that the value you can expect from that whole new sector is gonna be much closer to the cost in silicon and energy to provide it than the former value of the human labor it replaces (history reinforces that view).

Again lacking imagination. This not only replaces human labor but enables entirely new types of endeavors. Did ICs simply replace the value of Vacuum tubes? Did the Internet simply replace the value of Snail Mail or Libraries? You just aren't framing the problem correctly.

>I'm personally extremely skeptical of singularity scenarios in general.

Naturally...

>Most models of it implicitly assume a sub-exponential, somewhat proportional or even constant relation between achieved "intelligence/utility" and required energy (thanks to "self improvement"), which is an extremely flawed assumption in my view.

Until you get close to the efficiency of a human brain this is a total nothingburger and AI undergoing RSI has enormous room to improve purely within the algorithmic space. Its virtually certain that an AGI could run on average consumer hardware.
by FloorEgg | 2025-04-15 21:20:12+00:00
Longitudinal studies show a steady increase in liberal-identifying faculty:

A 2005 paper by Daniel Klein and Charlotta Stern found that in humanities and social sciences, Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 10:1.

A 2016 study by Mitchell Langbert, Anthony Quain, and Daniel Klein updated this, showing Democrat-to-Republican faculty ratios as high as 17:1 in some disciplines (e.g., history, sociology).

STEM fields tend to be more balanced, but even there, the trend has leaned more left over time.

The HERI Faculty Survey (Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA) consistently reports increasing liberal identification among faculty since the 1980s.

In 1989: ~39% of faculty identified as "liberal" or "far left"

By 2017: ~60% identified that way

The National Association of Scholars and Pew Research have shown that students are also trending more liberal, particularly in elite institutions.

DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) offices have expanded dramatically:

A 2021 Heritage Foundation study found that DEI staff at major universities often outnumbered tenured history faculty.

Speech codes and bias response teams:

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has tracked increases in campus speech restrictions, often under the guise of protecting against offensive or harmful speech, typically aligned with progressive concerns.

Emergence and expansion of identity studies programs (e.g., gender studies, critical race theory, postcolonial studies) reflect values that align with left-leaning critiques of power and hierarchy.

Declining requirements in Western Civilization or classical education in general education curricula, often replaced with more critical or globalized approaches.

A 2012 study in PS: Political Science & Politics reported that a majority of academic psychologists would discriminate against conservatives in hiring or grant review.

A 2020 paper by Honeycutt and Freberg showed similar bias in academic psychology departments.

Growing number of conservative-leaning donors (e.g., from the University of Chicago, Claremont Institute) have publicly criticized institutions for abandoning viewpoint diversity.

New initiatives such as the University of Austin (UATX) were launched explicitly as a reaction against perceived ideological conformity in mainstream academia.

The cumulative effect of these trends—political affiliation data, surveys, policy changes, curriculum developments, and institutional responses—strongly supports the claim that American universities have moved leftward over the past five decades. The change is most pronounced in the humanities and social sciences, and more muted in professional and STEM fields.
by martinald | 2025-04-15 21:20:24+00:00
I really don't know why Google especially seems to struggle with this so much.

While Google have really been 'cooking' recently, every launch they do is like that. Gemini 2.5 was great but for some reason they launched it on web first (which still didn't list it) then a day or so later on app, at which point I thought it was total vapourware.

This is the same - I have gemini advanced subscription, but it is nowhere to be seen in mobile or app. If you're having scale/rollout issues how hard is it to put the model somewhere and say 'coming really soon'? You don't know if it's not launched yet or you are missing where to find it.
by 486sx33 | 2025-04-15 21:20:27+00:00
Actually I think it’s variation of this. Tariffs can protect high skill jobs with high value product output. They can also force the Chinese to make cheap stuff even cheaper ( back down below $1 goods plus tariffs ).

We don’t want the Chinese making high value goods at slightly lower prices. We want Americans making high value goods and we want to push cheap stuff as cheap as possible. Next step is enforcing environmental rules on Chinese goods and requiring escrow of the funds to pay the Chinese in American accounts until the goods are inspected and pass.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-15 21:22:13+00:00
>In other words, (for instance) you believe in the right of massive corporations who control the lion's share of consumer distribution channels to, on an ongoing basis, scrape all authored content that is made publicly available in any form (paid or not) and sell it in a heavily discounted form, without the permission of authors and other rights holders and with no compensation to them, while freezing out the "official" published versions from their distribution channels entirely. More generally, you believe that creators should create for free, and that massive moneyed and powerful interests should reap the profits, even while those same creators toil in the mines to support their passions which do evidently have real value, though it is denied to them.

Yes.

(Obviously there is zero point in corporations doing this as costs are near zero and competition for this infinite. Right now almost all art is available for free, it is just illegal.)

>You think this will make the world better? For whom? Or worse, for whom? Or you place the highest importance on having a maximalist viewpoint that simply cannot be argued with, because being unassailably right in an abstract rhetorical framing is most important to you? Or you crave the elegance of such a position, reality and utility notwithstanding? Or you feel the need to rationalize your otherwise unfounded "belief" that piracy and/or training AI on protected IP should be allowed because you like it and are involved with it yourself? Or you think ASI is going to completely transform the world tomorrow, and whether we get Culture-style luxury gay space communism or something far darker, none of this will matter so we should eat, drink, and be merry today? Or some hybrid of that and a belief that we should actively strive toward and enable such a transition, and IP law stands in its way?

I think it will marginally improve the world. I am not training any AIs though.

Could you consider what abolishing IP laws would do to the average YouTuber. Exactly nothing. Their content is available for free, they support themselves without selling their art directly. Loosing rights to their art would have zero impact on them, as their monetization works without it. Sponsoring, direct support, advertisement is enough to make many of them wealthy.
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by AceJohnny2 | 2025-04-15 21:23:15+00:00
I'd love to learn what accident you're referring to, Steve!

I vaguely recall the FSF (or maybe only Stallman) arguing against the modular nature of LLVM because a monolothic structure (like GCC's) makes it harder for anti-GPL actors (Apple!) to undermine it. Was this related?
by torginus | 2025-04-15 21:23:49+00:00
It's interesting to note the popularity of the website, and the massive traffic it handled, despite the lack of everything we assume necessary for a modern (social media) website

- no modern web frameworks

- no microservices/kubernetes clusters

- no algorithmic curation/moderation/recommendation algoritmhs

One wonders just how much of the modern engineering developed in the past decades, that cost a fortune to develop and run is actually necessary or even beneficial for running a modern social media website
by pjc50 | 2025-04-15 21:25:21+00:00
sigh it's just how any site with algorithmic ranking works: some things are going to get down voted. Politics is one of them, for a bunch of reasons articulated in this thread. Complaining about censorship is not going to make any difference.

Things have stabilized on roughly one thread on the evils of Republicans per day. Unfortunately they're managing a lot more evil per day than that.
by jgerrish | 2025-04-15 21:25:37+00:00
> And why are skin cancers being referred to a hospital at all?

I'm working on deciphering the Google Mock API right now. It's just one of those fucking things you do, you know? Figuring out how to set expectations on parameters, etc. Hundreds of thousands of SDEs and students went through it before it became second nature.

I dream of playing around with some future testing language where I can build mock blocks in a Scratch-like manner. Awesome, eh?

Fuck yeah, Alan Kay.

Maybe I could work on the team that builds it.

But who am I kidding? I get to be pushed into other work while I waste time to filling out unnecessary tax paperwork.

Because to get more medical lab work done, I need to have authentic IRS transcripts.

A written 1040 isn't enough.

Otherwise I have to go to the hospital to get imaging.

It wasn't necessary. Signed fully electronic non-forgible IRS forms for health purposes could have been done with minimal citizen pushback.

With, and this is key, an educated public who understood the economics.

So I'll work on wasting my time educating loved ones on the economics of paper-less forms and all forms of monopolies while I say no to future shows in Chicago or Canada or wherever.
by ddxv | 2025-04-15 21:25:58+00:00
Cursor is weird. They have a basically unused GitHub with a thousand unanswered Issues. It's so buggy in ways that VSCode isn't. I hate it. Also I use it everyday and pay for it.

That's when you know you've captured something, when people hate use your product.

Any real alternatives? I've tried continue and was unimpressed with the tab completion and typing experience (felt like laggy typing on a remote server).
by Scarblac | 2025-04-15 21:26:07+00:00
Tbf I am Dutch, and also drunk. But yeah, if I lost the ticket I'd assume I was going to have to pay the full rate, period.

I'd try to speak to someone because who knows, but that's all.

And there's someone on the other side who is just like me but with a shitty job, and they get to tell me I have to pay full rate. I don't really care how polite they go about it.
by Hizonner | 2025-04-15 21:26:34+00:00
> Non-citizens may or may not actually legally merit due process, and to whatever degree they might, they only merit it while "within" the "jurisdiction" of the US. And as far as I can tell, that 'grey area' of how the 14th amendment is read,

I missed that bit about the 14th amendment.

This has nothing to do with the 14th amendment. The 14th amendment argument is about who gets ius soli citizenship (what they call "birthright citizenship"), not about the treatment of anybody who's agreed not to be a citizen. The administration has made claims about jurisdiction limiting what they have to do for non-citizens, but not on that basis.

So far I don't think they've actually tried to deport anybody born on US soil. If they do, then the 14th Amendment comes into play.

The existing cases are about the 5th amendment, Article 1 habeas corpus, common law, immigration statutes, etc, not the 14th.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-04-15 21:27:03+00:00
I don't know in his personal case if he is lying. However, you can get to what the probability of a random applicant for an asylum being truthful very easily. You just need a good estimate of the % of migrants that had to flee gangs or other risk of death (gangs that are still in control of their communities), then compare that to the % that claim they had to flee for those reasons, then subtract.

I don't know what that % is, but we have courts that are deciding these cases every day. The actual court cases are more complex to analyze because lack of adequate council or other factors might influence outcomes. However, of people who attend their interview, about 44% are determined to not have a credible fear.
by geye1234 | 2025-04-15 21:27:44+00:00
> For everything else, straight up: I don't know.

Montaigne said something similar, and Descartes' response was to attempt to make everything as certain as math. It didn't end well :-)

Surely there is some middle ground? (I haven't read all your comments so perhaps you say so somewhere.) Not all objects of knowledge yield the same certainty, or precision, as quantity. That is not a fault in them or us, it is just in their nature. But we can have a fairly good idea. Examples are too obvious to enumerate. If we dichotomize between "knowing with the certainty of math", and "not knowing", we end in some pretty weird places.
by eftychis | 2025-04-15 21:27:56+00:00
Oh, it is illegal. It's just that the DOJ is turning a blind eye because someone at some point wrote a "memo"[0,1], which it seems can be the bane of global peace and prosperity as we know it. (Yes, it is ironic that a memo in some countries like the U.S. can affect everyone else.)

P.S. I understand the context in your comment here. Just expanding on it for cynicism's sake.

[0] https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/blaw/olc/sitting_president.htm [1] https://www.justice.gov/file/146241-0/dl?inline [Note it has been updated since 2000.]
by mikethemerry | 2025-04-15 21:28:00+00:00
Along the same lines, I've just done a build called Jeeves. A bit less flair, but very fast to put together. The stack is:

1. Claude Desktop 2. Projects 3. MCPs for [Notion, Todoist] and exploring emails + WhatsApp for a next upgrade

This is for me to support productivity workflows for consulting + a startup. There are a few Notion databases - clients, projects, meetings, plus a Jeeves database. The Jeeves database is up to Jeeves how it uses it, but with some guidance. Jeeves uses his own database for things like tracking a migration of all of my previous meeting notes etc under the new structure.

So my databases, I've set up my best practices for use. Here's how my minutes look, here's how client one pagers looks like, here's the information to connect it all together, and here's how I manage To Dos. I then drop in transcriptions into a new chat, with some text-expanding prompts in Alfred for a few common meetings or similar, and away he goes. He'll turn the transcript into meeting notes, create the todos, check everything with me, do a pass, and then go and file everything away into Notion and Todoist via MCP.

It's also self documenting on this. The todoist MCP had some bugs, so I instructed Jeeves to go, run all the various use cases it could, figure out the limitations and strengths, document it, and it's filed away in the Jeeves database that it can pull into context.

It lacks the cron features which I would like, but honestly, a once-a-day prepared prompt dropping into Claude is hardly difficult.
by nkassis | 2025-04-15 21:28:27+00:00
Research grants come with stipulations on how research is conducted, these grants were already granted so this is essentially breaking their contract. So there is no by default grant, generally the grants also don't delve into what the school can teach and hire for teaching which is very much protected by first amendment rights.

Considering a private university rights to hire and teach as they wish as communism is definitely an odd definition of communism I've rarely seen.
by motoxpro | 2025-04-15 21:28:30+00:00
You may not like them, as another poster said, it's all subjective.

That doesn't mean they aren't incredibly good at what they do and that millions (billions) of people have tried to do what they have and failed.

One of the reasons it's "common denominator crap" is because the blob of the internet has 100s of millions of videos copying MrBeast and the Jenner/Kardasians created an entire generation of people that wanted to be influencers. Most of the copies are Slop.

Once they are intrenched they can continue to produce "crap" as you call it because they have distribution, the copies don't work because they aren't novel, which makes people feel like it doesn't take talent and is the algorithms fault, until the next person to be "creative" gets distribution and the cycle repeats.

There is just a lot less creativity than people imagine. It's not a right that we all have as humans; it's rare. 8.2 billion people on earth, 365 days in a year, 3 trillion shots on goal, and only a few hundred novel discoveries, art creations, companies, and ideas come from it.
by mahjongmen | 2025-04-15 21:29:13+00:00
Hey Andriy!

We actually did internally run benchmarks against your models since they are open-weights - however, when looking at the license on the 3bn multimodal model (https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-multimodal-3b/bl...) we're not permitted to include the results for the marketing of products/services. Rest assured, we know how our model stacks up against yours :)

In any-case, we didn't publish evals on only Vidore-V2 but we did benchmark on it internally.
by bluGill | 2025-04-15 21:29:19+00:00
Because automation is expensive. It pays off in volume. A skilled human can often build a single widget faster than an engineer can write the automation for the robots (because a skilled human will see parts that don't fit and "file to fit" while the robot demands more effort to double check all that). When you only need 10, the program is faster to write, but you still need to pay for the robots and they are expensive (often $million each, while the human is only a few thousand for his time)

Of course there are a lot variables in the above. As time goes one automation gets better. You can buy cheap robots for some common operations, and a good engineer with good CAD can run various automated analysis to ensure fit and then export to the robot and build even a single part cheaper than the human - amortizing the cost of the robot over thousands of different single parts made this way. However as the widget gets more complex you reach the point where humans are needed. In some cases you just have humans to take the parts off of one machine and put them into the next, but it is still humans. We can automate even that, but often the robot to do that would cost more than a human for 10 years.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-04-15 21:29:52+00:00
Most PowerPC related stuff (e.g. Freescale MPC5xx found in a bunch of automotiver applications) can run in either big or little endian mode, as can most ARM and MIPS (routers, IP cameras) stuff. Can't think of the last time I've seen any of them configured to run in big endian mode tho.
by tracerbulletx | 2025-04-15 21:30:33+00:00
It's still quite difficult and extremely time consuming to create a visual effect. And the technique to film actors and blend them is additionally quite difficult. If you get to the point one person can make a movie, yes you will be limited by your own creativity, but the number of people who can do that is still a lot greater than the number of people who can do that, and manage a 200 million dollar budget production and get an end product that meets their vision.
by rvz | 2025-04-15 21:30:51+00:00
This is "AGI's finest".

It's what we all wanted. Replacing your human support team to be run exclusively by AI LLM bots whilst they hallucinate to their users. All unchecked.

Now this bug has now turned into a multi-million dollar mistake and costed Cursor to lose millions of dollars overnight.

What if this was a critical control system in a hospital or energy company and their AI support team (with zero humans) hallucinated a wrong meter reading and overcharged their customers? Or the AI support team hallucinated the wrong medication to a patient?

Is this the AGI future we all want?
by readhistory | 2025-04-15 21:31:26+00:00
This is nonsense. Plenty of nonviolent, peaceful groups carry arms.

Leftists (e.g. Anarchists, Marxists, Socialists, Communists, Queer Liberation, Black Liberation, etc.) groups typically are pro-firearms. Not always, but plenty are. The Black Panthers, famously, were armed, but so are are orgs like the Pink Pistols. Martin Luther King Jr. had many guns for self defense, and carried a revolver at times. Marx famously said that workers should be armed.

Centrists (e.g. Democrats, some Labour parties) typically abhor guns, and value the decorum and principle of the instution to keep us all safe. They are a "if society is well ordered, then there's no need for arms" group.

Right wing folks (e.g. Republicans, Proud Boys, KKK, etc.) are the folks who you are describing -- by and large supporting these measures and also want to use firearms to exert control.

It's really, really important if you consider yourself to be a progressive to ask, "Who will gun control laws in America be used to prosecute? Will that be minority groups dispraportionately?"

Historically and presently, armed minorities are more difficult to oppress, and many many leftist groups have historically and presently been armed for the purposes of community defense. By suggesting that arming oneself is a right wing position you erase history and erode current efforts for folks to build community safety systems.