MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keybored | 2025-05-21 20:33:36+00:00
> American productivity had basically been flat since 1973 and was under further strain from unproductive spending in government, health care, and education.

The last graph I saw showed American productivity going up at the same rate all since post-WWII to now.

Please don’t say that the stagnation refers to worker wages starting to stagnate sometime in the 1970’s.
by test1235 | 2025-05-21 20:34:22+00:00
This is a perspective I'd like to hear more often. Too often I hear all these supposed ideal solutions without mentioning the pitfalls of having to support a non-technical family.

Pi hole is a good example. Do all websites (and other services) still work perfectly but without ads, or am I going to have to endure sighing and eyerolling everytime someone asks me why their site isn't loading (again)?
by HenryBemis | 2025-05-21 20:34:33+00:00
They are paying 'one worldcoin' (I've read sold about $50) to places that give zero value to their privacy (too difficult to care for privacy when starving to death and the monthly salary is $10). They are targeting poor countries (South America, Africa).

Once they have collected 'enough' faces to use on their AI, they could possibly pull the plug or keep it as a social experiment.

I was thinking, there is no way Russia or China will allow them to operate in their countries, and (combined) they got 1.5bn people.

I can also see them trying that to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other autocratic ..stan places, where the local dictator would only allow this if they got to use the data for their own nefarious purposes.
by rifty | 2025-05-21 20:34:41+00:00
I don't doubt that Ive can make a product team that will deliver something, but how does something so clearly aware it was going to evoke feelings of Jobs' Apple, end up so cluelessly narcissistic in delivery in such a non Jobs way. Are they infatuated about the product and the experience or what partnering up means to these two men's self-image?
by molticrystal | 2025-05-21 20:34:43+00:00
The actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08996-y

The most important part, especially if somebody is wondering if they might wither away, weaken from massive weight loss, and have a good chance of organ harm:

>We did not observe significant differences in muscle (quadricep) histology across the four groups (Extended Data Fig. 2f,g). In the liver, there was no significant fat accumulation or apparent pathology (Extended Data Fig. 2h,i). These findings may explain the lack of any effects on movement and the ease with which Cse−/− mice on a no-Cys diet can recover.

Unfortunately, an easy (maybe the easiest and most accessible) way to avoid cysteine and its precursor methionine is to have a low protein diet(Fruits, Non-starchy low-sulfur Vegetables, Fats and Sugars) but without protein you may lose a lot of muscle mass and have other issues as well.
by godelski | 2025-05-21 20:34:49+00:00
I agree. I'm a bit confused by the response as well. Idk what I need to clarify but I'm open to suggestions.

I was hoping that dichotomy of sacrificing product for profit or profit for product would help but I'm unsure. Multiple people seemed to have misunderstood but I'm also unsure what was confusing. Frankly I'm having a hard time understanding how they reached such a dramatically different interpretation.
by rk3000 | 2025-05-21 20:35:13+00:00
As a side project, I built the Code Symphony Composer, a Nuxt-powered web app that transforms your code into a playable musical symphony. Paste your code and let it play in the background. It maps inputted code to musical notes, generating unique melodies from your input. You can also explore the live keyboard feature, accessible via a dropdown, to experiment with real-time music creation. It's open source and still have a few feature i wanted to work on like the option to download and live recording.
by mehdibl | 2025-05-21 20:35:15+00:00
The issue is not in function calls but HOW MCP got designed here and you are using.

Most MCP are replicating API. Returning blobs of data.

1. This is using a lot of input context in formating as JSON and escaping a Json inside already a JSON. 2. This contain a lot of irrelevant information that you can same on it.

So the issue is the MCP tool. It should instead flaten the data as possible as it's going back again thru JSON Encoding. And if needed remove some fields.

So MCP SAAS here are mainly API gateways.

That brings this noise! And most of ALL they are not optimizing MCP's.
by imadj | 2025-05-21 20:35:18+00:00
I see you reaping some benefits already lol.

Indeed, to me it feels an essential part of HN experience now. I truly missed it on mobile which led me to adapt it to support Firefox android.

Thank you for giving it a try. I'm confident you'll find it comes in handy in more ways than one. If you have any feedback let me know.
by laser | 2025-05-21 20:35:33+00:00
Given it’s a stock deal the question simply put is does bringing the highest profile technology designer in the world along with his team into OpenAI increase its terminal value by more than ~2%? If so, the acquisition is a success. Discussions of revenues and valuations and egos have little bearing on this question. To me it seems like an easy win on talent alone, let alone optics, network, and impact on future talent and capital conglomeration.
by paul7986 | 2025-05-21 20:35:46+00:00
As one of the fervent 500 million daily GPT users it’s a no brainer for Open AI to create a personal mobile AI device or an AI phone with GPT accessible right from your Lock Screen.

It could…

- interface with AI Agents( businesses, friends & family’s agents, etc) to get things done & used as a knowledgeable.

Once u pick up the device it’s like a FaceTime call with your AI agent/friend in which u can skin to look however u want (a deceased loved one ..tho that might be too out there).

- It visually surfs the Web with you.. making u not open a web browser as much

- take the best selfies of u…gets you to the best lighting.

Overall excited to see their vision and leave/drop Apple’s now boring iPhone for a GPT phone or personal mobile AI device. I think a phone form factor would be best, but we’ll see.
by mmcnl | 2025-05-21 20:36:42+00:00
https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/

> Draws on your personal context without allowing anyone else to access your personal data — not even Apple.

Personal context === privacy sensitive data.

> Apple Intelligence is designed to protect your privacy at every step. It’s integrated into the core of your iPhone, iPad, and Mac through on-device processing. So it’s aware of your personal information without collecting your personal information. And with groundbreaking Private Cloud Compute, Apple Intelligence can draw on larger server-based models, running on Apple silicon, to handle more complex requests for you while protecting your privacy.

They can use nice sounding words such as "privacy at every step" and "protecting your privacy", but that's marketing. The facts are that Apple Intelligence is baked into the core of your iPhone for analyzing personal data and they send the data to the cloud.
by daveguy | 2025-05-21 20:37:01+00:00
Hahaha. 1000% this. Also, first example from the linked video: a "not vibe coded, promise" example of an ascii space invaders clone... Of all the examples of "has a bunch of training code data since the 80s", this is the best representation of exactly what LLM coding is capable of "in 8 minutes".
by janalsncm | 2025-05-21 20:37:04+00:00
It sounds like you are saying they were nice people in person despite their public personas. To me, one’s actions in the real world matter a lot more than being friendly at an interpersonal level.

How that translates in the spiritual realm is another question. A lot of religious texts focus on interpersonal behavior, so maybe friendly people with disastrous public policies would be judged accordingly.
by knowitnone | 2025-05-21 20:37:05+00:00
"Feels like" means it's my opinion and not a fact which I am allowed to have.

There is no logical flaw, these are factual.

You didn't add anything to the discussion either except critize me for calling the author out on their errors. What they wrote was far from correct and if I can't call it out then let's never call out fake info ever again. Why bother having a justice system?

As for who he is, I don't care. You're basically saying, if the POTUS says something completely false, you'd be OK with it because they are the president.
by throitallaway | 2025-05-21 20:37:21+00:00
Yeah, Apple's bottom barrel pricing isn't terrible, but as soon as you start upping specs the price goes out of control (disproportionally from the underlying costs.) Looking at pricing for the current Macbook Air, it's $400 to upgrade from 16GB to 32GB. A 16GB SODIMM costs ~$40 retail.
by calebkaiser | 2025-05-21 20:38:40+00:00
I'm a big fan of web components, and this seems like a very cool project. I'm curious about how it fits into the broader frontend ethos at Shopify. I remember the Shopify team being one of the earliest proponents of React Server Components, for example. Is the team still working in that direction as well, or does this represent a new direction org-wide?
by godelski | 2025-05-21 20:38:42+00:00
The business people sure seem to make a lot more money... I can tell you that I have multiple family members that work in sales and make boatloads. My cousin spends at least 15hrs a week playing golf (something he really likes) on the company dime and getting fancy meals. That's also while making over $300k/yr. Others don't play golf but still do the lunches and meals, getting paid similarly. I'd say that this is a much easier work life than what we do...

Certainly you have non-techncal managers that are making more money than you and do you think they do more work? Certainly some do but I doubt all.
by benlivengood | 2025-05-21 20:38:48+00:00
I find it weird that on the whole there wasn't as huge a pushback against AWS and Google and Facebook (by far the biggest fleets of data centers) for power and carbon emissions over the last couple decades. Maybe they managed propaganda better about paying for future renewable resources or how low their PUEs are.

Turning 4% of the U.S.'s electricity into cat videos and online shopping and advertisements and heat already sounds like a lot of use. Maybe the rapid rise of AI use is what's alarming people?

Contrast the 2016 study[0] of data center energy use where use was recently flat because of efficiency improvements in 2010-2020 but historically there was a ton of growth in energy consumption since ~1990; basically we have always been on a locally exponential growth curve in data center energy use but our constant factors were being optimized by the hyperscalers in that 2010-2020 period.

We also need to compare the efficiency of AI with other modes of computation/work. The article goes into detail on the supposed actual energy use but there's a simple metric; All the large companies provide costs per unit of inference which can put a hard ceiling on actual energy cost. Something like $20/1M tokens for the best models. METR used a 2M token budget. So you can currently price out N hours of work at $40 from whichever latest METR benchmarks come out and have a worst case cost for efficiency comparison.

Lastly, if we're not on a trend toward having Dyson swarms of compute in the long run then what are we even doing as a species? Of course energy spent on compute is going to grow quadratically into the distant future as we expand. People are complaining about compute for AI but compute is how we figure things out and get things done. AI is the latest tool.

[0] https://eta.lbl.gov/publications/united-states-data-center-e...
by mweidner | 2025-05-21 20:38:59+00:00
Even in the absence of a central server, you can still avoid CRDT/OT complexity if you have a decentralized way to eventually total order operations & apply them in that order: https://mattweidner.com/2025/05/21/text-without-crdts.html#d...

As others in the comments argue, this is technically a CRDT (though a fully general one); also, undoing/replaying ops is itself non-trivial to implement. However, I hope this is still simpler than using a traditional CRDT/OT for each data type.
by dragontamer | 2025-05-21 20:39:32+00:00
The article is about a new proof wherein P == PSPACE.

Something we all intuitively expected but someone finally figured out an obscure way to prove it.

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This is a really roundabout article that takes a meandering path to a total bombshell in the field of complexity theory. Sorry for spoiling but uhhh, you'd expect an article about P == PSPACE would get to the point faster....
by benbreen | 2025-05-21 20:39:48+00:00
Yes, I think this kind of combination is where higher ed is going to land. I've been talking to a colleague lately about how social skills and public speaking just got more important (and are things we need to focus on actually teaching). Likewise, I think self-directed, individualized humanistic research is currently not replicable by AI nor likely to be - for instance, generating an entirely new historical archive by conducting oral history interviews. Basically anything that involves operating in the physical world and deploying human emotional skills.

The unsolved issue is scale. 5-10 minute Q&As work well, but are not really doable in a 120 student class like the one I'll be teaching in the fall, let alone the 300-400 student classes some colleagues have.
by owenversteeg | 2025-05-21 20:39:51+00:00
Not sure if the article is accurate (the accuracy of numbers in written text took a nosedive concurrent with the rise of LLMs), but the capabilities page of the laser’s website claims 23 femtoseconds pulse duration, 2 PW power, 50 J energy, and 1 shot per minute. 50 J is roughly a 3W light for 15 seconds.

https://zeus.engin.umich.edu/about/capabilities/
by eastbound | 2025-05-21 20:41:18+00:00
I have been programming in React for 3 years and never heard of HistoryRouter.

You would be plentiful right to say it’s a programmer’s skills issue. But you have a very stinky pattern of masses of problems of programmers skills issue, leading to 90% React apps breaking the history.

I say it’s React’s fault. It should be built-in.
by aaronharnly | 2025-05-21 20:41:32+00:00
Presumably Google AI Studio[1] and Google Firebase Studio[2] are made by different teams with very similar pitches, and Google is perfectly happy to have both of them exist, until it isn't:

- AI Studio: "the fastest place to start building with the Gemini API"

- Firebase Studio: "Prototype, build, deploy, and run full-stack, AI apps quickly"

[1] https://aistudio.google.com/apps

[2] https://firebase.google.com/
by chrisweekly | 2025-05-21 20:41:36+00:00
@dang and HN mods - please help cull the bot / employee / astroturf comments dominating the comments here. Thanks!

PS Appwrite devs - the comment spam footgun makes me sad, bc the stuff you're building actually looks worthwhile. IMHO Vercel jumped the shark not long after the "Zeit" name change, and alternative OSS infr / tooling like this deserves support.
by bguberfain | 2025-05-21 20:41:37+00:00
I think that there may be another solution for this, that is the LLM write a valid code that calls the MCP's as functions. See it like a Python script, where each MCP is mapped to a function. A simple example:

def process(param1, param2): my_data = mcp_get_data(param1) sorted_data = mcp_sort(my_data, by=param2) return sorted_data
by xnickb | 2025-05-21 20:42:26+00:00
I agree, but when working with code written by your teammate you have a rough idea what kind of errors to expect.

AI however is far more creative than any given single person.

That's my gut feeling anyway. I don't have numbers or any other rigorous data. I only know that Linus Torvalds made a very good point about chain of trust. And I don't see myself ever trysting AI the same way I can trust a human.
by LtWorf | 2025-05-21 20:42:36+00:00
I have been using thinkpads since forever and bluetooth and wifi both work (at the same time, yes). It seems more likely to be a broken machine. Which can happen.

I had a faulty keyboard on a thinkpad that was causing a lot of seemingly unrelated problems, like freezes or suspend not working. Replacing the keyboard resolved everything.

Try to switch them to luanti!
by jxmorris12 | 2025-05-21 20:42:40+00:00
Hey, I appreciate the perspective. We definitely should cite both those papers, and will do so in the next version of our draft. There are a lot of papers in this area, and they're all a few years old now, so you might understand how we missed two of them.

We tested all of the methods in the Python Optimal Transport package (https://pythonot.github.io/) and reported the max in most of our tables. So some of this is covered. A lot of these methods also require a seed dictionary, which we don't have in our case. That said, you're welcome to take any number of these tools and plug them into our codebase; the results would definitely be interesting, although we can expect the adversarial methods still work best, as they do in the problem settings you mention.

As for the name – the paper you recommend is called 'vecmap' which seems equally general, doesn't it? Google shows me there are others who have developed their own 'vec2vec'. There is a lot of repetition in AI these days, so collisions happen.
by throitallaway | 2025-05-21 20:42:52+00:00
Do they use MS Office for work, or just simple hobby stuff? If it's work stuff - leave them alone. For hobby stuff LibreOffice is a good replacement that you can trial on Windows. As far as distros go, I don't like some of the decisions that Canonical has made with Ubuntu, but it's hard to argue with how simple, reliable, and complete it is. I don't want to run it for myself, but it's great for some people.
by LPisGood | 2025-05-21 20:43:00+00:00
I’m not sure what you mean here. If you’re in the realm of “more space” than you’re not thinking of the time it takes.

More precisely, I think it is intuitive that the class of problems that can be solved in any time given O(n) space is far larger than the class of problems that can be solved in any space given O(n) time.
by torginus | 2025-05-21 20:43:21+00:00
I for example, got permabanned from one of the major politics subreddits.

Basically what happened was I wrote a post, and some guy responded to me with a firehose of personal insults. I called him a troll in reply, and within 30 seconds of posting said reply, I was permabanned as a first offense, without any possibility of appeal.

Mods be powertrippin over there.
by watersb | 2025-05-21 20:43:46+00:00
Democratic Party support in New Mexico is a more complicated beast than liberal refugees from Texas might expect.

Descendants of Spanish colonial settlers have deep ties to the Catholic Church and cultural traditions that defy easy characterization as "liberal" or "conservative" that might apply to Anglo voters.

Santa Fe is particularly strange; Anglo liberals there might feel comfortable at a Berkeley City Council meeting.

The sobering challenge of a sparse, low-income population tends to keep things grounded. Also two national labs with a primary mission of weapons development: liberal or conservative?

The state could vote either way. I don't think the current insanity in our political landscape plays very well here. But I don't get out much.
by to11mtm | 2025-05-21 20:44:05+00:00
I'll give my example, although it's a bit out of place on my part...

/r/news locked/suppressed [0] as 'Politics'.

I sent a Message to modmail:

Me: Calling this 'politics' makes me ask who's on the an alphabet payroll... Just saying.

Reply from modmail: This message makes us think you haven't bothered to read the rules... Just saying.

Then I was muted from /r/new modmail for 28 days, while also being perma-banned from /r/news.

Months layer, I had left a normal comment on a different thread with a 'mobile' secondary account on /r/news, and found both my desktop and mobile accounts locked for 7 days because the /r/news comment was considered 'ban evasion'. Despite having otherwise commented on /r/news from my mobile account in the meantime with no repercussions.

It was within the subreddit rules and reddit TOC to do all of this, I acknowledge, at the same time it's almost like Reddit is hitting that vibe of StackOverflow from a few years ago where mods can just power trip and make the place less useful for everyone...

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1es7sbp/us_considers_...
by Animats | 2025-05-21 20:44:12+00:00
That is very neat. The algorithm:

- Label each text character with a globally unique ID (e.g., a UUID), so that we can refer to it in a consistent way across time - instead of using an array index that changes constantly.

- Clients send the server “insert after” operations that reference an existing ID. The server looks up the target ID and inserts the new characters immediately after it.

- Deletion hides a character for display purposes, but it is still kept for "insert after" position purposes.

This might have potential outside text editing. Game world synchronization, maybe.
by mrguyorama | 2025-05-21 20:45:46+00:00
It DID break.

A significant amount of the current content is literally bots posting old threads! Whether those bots are run by reddit itself or unaffiliated parties I don't know, but they are there, on most threads, including some threads that are ONLY bots reposting a 3 year old thread that did well, verbatim.

My tinfoil hat theory is that all the "Explain this (very obvious) joke to me" subreddits are trying to create training data for some AI and that a significant amount of the content that makes it to the front page is designed to elicit "Good Training Data" for whatever AI company they sold the rights to.
by gumboshoes | 2025-05-21 20:46:10+00:00
As someone who works in the linguistics space and has worked with numerous teams on games and has a wealth of knowledge on how people actually learn vocabulary and what they actually find fun when doing so, I feel like this game would benefit from a pause, a rethink, and a redo. I am in the middle of a Covid bout right now or I would say something more substantive but perhaps most important: you already have valuable feedback here you seem to be rejecting. Why? For example, what if you did allow multiple answers in the blank and scored accordingly?
by hurtuvac78 | 2025-05-21 20:46:18+00:00
The author says that the resale value to PGE is 25% of the buying price.

Is there some way to get a better rate by selling CPU time instead, when the sun shines and batteries are full? Especially if you have your own server rack.

I have computing needs that can wait for 12/18 hours. Would it make any sense to have those processed by distributed solar server farms between 11am and 5pm? They just take data in and send results back, using their own "free" marginal kwh.

It would reduce the need the connect to the power grid, but still benefit from selling solar power indirectly.

Cloud providers may just be so much better at doing this already?
by bigyabai | 2025-05-21 20:47:01+00:00
No, Reddit is still shameful. The central issue ruins everything, moderation is placed on a pedestal beyond reproach even when it's trying to sabotage it's own community! The only point Reddit staff will ever step in is when these subreddits try to protest and threaten their bottom-line. They would rather run a pyramid scheme that's profitable, than address the central governance crisis.

You can't "no true scotsreddit" your way out of this issue because it's an overarching issue with the platform itself. Even 4chan has more better protection against influence campaigns, it's pathetic how Reddit's own administration lets itself be defined by it's lowest-common-denominator.