MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by UncleOxidant | 2025-05-06 00:34:27+00:00
There's not a lot there in this essay other than "Deep down, people know that something’s not right. Something feels unstable, like an earthquake that’s about to happen. But no one understands what the real danger is, or what to do about it.”

The article that is linked in this article has the potential to be more substantive: https://www.epsilontheory.com/our-true-enemy-has-yet-to-reve... ...but it's basically an ad for a newsletter, it seems, where you have to pay $20/mo (or $200) to keep reading.

So we're left to wallow in our uneasiness.
by kazinator | 2025-05-06 00:34:34+00:00
Sure; say someone comes up with a great proverb in their book, or a nice phrase, and it catches on. People don't have to cite where it came from in order to use it. What if someone copies a half page paragraph? They are in a gray area where it will likely be in their favor if they can avoid the accusation of plagiarism, if they intend to use a fair use defense.

Anyway, the organizations behind popular LLMS are perpetrating massive copyright infringement and plagiarism. A fair use defense is rationally not possible.

Firstly, to claim fair use while you are making commercial use of the material is going to be difficult right off the bat. Fair use claims are bolstered by non-commercial use.

Small size of excerpts favors fair use claims. Can't do that here.

Transformative use? Not really; LLMs spit out the information verbatim if prompted in the right ways. Exploitative uses will probably not be viewed as transformative by the court.
Show HN: PRD-Make design doc and step by step plan for your vibe coding agent
by hotrod46 | 2025-05-06 00:34:41+00:00
Ive found vibe coding apps to be much faster and bug free when i take the time to think through the design decisions with AI before hand. Cursor chat has been great for this so far, but i found myself having to ask a lot of questions in the process , which ended up polluting the context of the chat. I really wanted branching, and the better UX as well; typing yes to each decision wasnt fun.

So i've built PRD, which proactively asks you questions about things you should be thinking about, and gives you options for decisions you can make. If at any point you feel the need to ask a clarifying question, you can branch the chat so your main decision thread can be used finally to generate your design doc, and step by step implementation plan.

Feedback on this would be welcome, if i find that people are willing to pay for this, ill probably build v2, which will integrate with github repos, to make getting context for building a new feature on top of an existing repo better.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-06 00:35:45+00:00
I was only about 8 when Adventure was released. I basically had no interest in it at all. We'd go to Sears or the mall every week and I'd grab a handful of cartridges, but I never wanted this one.

It is very strange considering my affinity for weird stuff. I loved the BASIC Programming cartridge, and later in life, I would amass a huge Infocom collection starting with Zork on the C=64. But this graphical Adventure held no interest for me or my sister. Neither did Superman, which was modeled after it. Sure, I heard a lot about it. I heard enough to squick me, because it seemed that the devs were sort of abusing the hardware limitations to provision this weird adventure-y experience in a graphical format that I would not enjoy. (Nor would I get very far in exploring this world because it was so, picky-picky-picky. If you ever played E.T. on the 2600, you'd understand!)

When Haunted House was released 2 years later, I did pick that one up, out of morbid curiosity, I suppose, and it was kind of interesting, but not something that I spent a long time figuring out. I followed the Swordquest series with interest, (the marketing built those up with a real mystique and some epic fanfare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordquest#Contest) and invested some time in some of those, but still -- I suppose, even back then, I was far more interested in the "twitch" action type games. We loved Pitfall and other Activision titles such as River Raid.
by timewizard | 2025-05-06 00:35:55+00:00
> Where in my comment do I lionize Musk?

You attribute to personality what should be attributed to malice. You do this three times.

> Please calm down

I am perfectly calm.

> Please try to be charitable and curious rather than accusatory towards me.

In attempting to explain why my point of view has been misunderstood by you I also attempted to find a reason for it. I do not think my explanation makes you a bad person nor do I think you should be particularly confronted by it.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-05-06 00:36:04+00:00
I think there's a bit of an "eternal September" where people are promoted to management, asked to hire a bunch of people for some niche role, and blog about their inability to hire good people.

Hate to break it to the author, but there are plenty of people who can write a driver, bootloader, distributed systems, PAXOS, etc. but there's NO JOBS DOING THAT so they all work for <generic SaaS company> making <generic NodeJS app>.

The author mentions their grand strategy is fishing for talent out of universities, which is probably smart. Pulling people out of generic web dev world to go write "container orchestration logic" (or some other niche) is going to be a hard sell - most of those people were burned before by straying too far from the lucrative web dev jobs. Nothing like going into job interviews and telling the hiring manager that your last job was some ultra-obscure niche.
by tyg13 | 2025-05-06 00:37:29+00:00
I think this takes an unnecessarily narrow view of what "intelligence" implies. It conflates "intelligence" with fact-retention and communicative ability. There are many other intelligent capabilities that most normally-abled human beings possess, such as:

- Processing visual data and classifying objects within their field of vision.

- Processing auditory data, identifying audio sources and filtering out noise.

- Maintaining an on-going and continuous stream of thoughts and emotions.

- Forming and maintaining complex memories on long-term and short-term scales.

- Engaging in self-directed experimentation or play, or forming independent wants/hopes/desires.

I could sit here all day and list the forms of intelligence that humans and other intelligent animals display which have no obvious analogue in an AI product. It's true that individual AI products can do some of these things, sometimes better than humans could ever, but there is no integrated AGI product that has all these capabilities. Let's give ourselves a bit of credit and not ignore or flippantly dismiss our many intelligent capabilities as "useless."
by horsawlarway | 2025-05-06 00:37:58+00:00
I'm laughing because I clicked your link thinking I agreed and had posted similar things and it's my comment.

Still on k3s, still love it.

My cluster is currently hosting 94 pods across 55 deployments. Using 500m cpu (half a core) average, spiking to 3cores under moderate load, and 25gb ram. Biggest ram hog is Jellyfin (which appears to have a slow leak, and gets restarted when it hits 16gb, although it's currently streaming to 5 family members).

The cluster is exclusively recycled old hardware (4 machines), mostly old gaming machines. The most recent is 5 years old, the oldest is nearing 15 years old.

The nodes are bare Arch linux installs - which are wonderfully slim, easy to configure, and light on resources.

It burns 450Watts on average, which is higher than I'd like, but mostly because I have jellyfin and whisper/willow (self hosted home automation via voice control) as GPU accelerated loads - so I'm running an old nvidia 1060 and 2080.

Everything is plain old yaml, I explicitly avoid absolutely anything more complicated (including things like helm and kustomize - with very few exceptions) and it's... wonderful.

It's by far the least amount of "dev-ops" I've had to do for self hosting. Things work, it's simple, spinning up new service is a new folder and 3 new yaml files (0-namespace.yaml, 1-deployment.yaml, 2-ingress.yaml) which are just copied and edited each time.

Any three machines can go down and the cluster stays up (metalLB is really, really cool - ARP/NDP announcements mean any machine can announce as the primary load balancer and take the configured IP). Sometimes services take a minute to reallocate (and jellyfin gets priority over willow if I lose a gpu, and can also deploy with cpu-only transcoding as a fallback), and I haven't tried to be clever getting 100% uptime because I mostly don't care. If I'm down for 3 minutes, it's not the end of the world. I have a couple of commercial services in there, but it's free hosting for family businesses, they can also afford to be down an hour or two a year.

Overall - I'm not going back. It's great. Strongly, STRONGLY recommend k3s over microk8s. Definitely don't want to go back to single machine wrangling. The learning curve is steeper for this... but man do I spend very little time thinking about it at this point.

I've streamed video from it as far away as literally the other side of the world (GA, USA -> Taiwan). Amazon/Google/Microsoft have everyone convinced you can't host things yourself. Even for tiny projects people default to VPS's on a cloud. It's a ripoff. Put an old laptop in your basement - faster machine for free. At GCP prices... I have 30k/year worth of cloud compute in my basement, because GCP is a god damned rip off. My costs are $32/month in power, and a network connection I already have to have, and it's replaced hundreds of dollars/month in subscription costs.

For personal use-cases... basement cloud is where it's at.
by richardw | 2025-05-06 00:38:37+00:00
Capture enterprise AI enthusiasm by providing a 1-stop shop for data and AI, optionally hosted on your own cloud tenant. Keep deploying functionality so clients never need another supplier. Partner with SAP, OpenAI, anyone who holds market share. Buy anyone that either helps growth or might help a competitor grow.

Enterprise view: delegate AI environment to Databricks unless you’re a real player. Market is too chaotic, so rely on them to keep your innovation pipeline fed. Focus on building your own core data and AI within their environment. Nobody got fired for choosing Databricks.
by acomjean | 2025-05-06 00:40:52+00:00
I used to rely on google filtering when searching for sites. Then on the google search page I fell for an add.

I caught it right after I tried to log in (one of the few sites I remember the password and didn’t have it in a manager). Reset password.

Man did I feel dumb.

I searched the financial institution a few times and the fake ad came up a bunch. I reported but the trust has been broken.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-05-06 00:42:21+00:00
Fuzzy isn't what I want to be when referring documentation. So much documentation is incomplete to begin with.

That's the big issue with LLMs as of now; They reflect their American creators and never want to admit when they just can't answer a question. CTRL+F will in fact give me 0 results, which is more useful than a wrong result.
by TheGrognardling | 2025-05-06 00:43:01+00:00
There are a lot of good points here, by multiple vantage points as far as views for the argument of how imminent, if it - metaphysically or logistically - viable at all even, AGI is.

I personally think the conversation, including obviously in the post itself, has swung too far in the direction of how AGI can or will potentially affect the ethical landscape regarding AI, however. I think we really ought to concern ourselves with addressing and mitigating effects that it already HAS brought - both good and bad - rather than engaging in any excessive speculation.

That's just me, though.
by kaylynb | 2025-05-06 00:43:15+00:00
I've run my homelab with podman-systemd (quadlet) for awhile and every time I investigate a new k8s variant it just isn't worth the extra hassle. As part of my ancient Ansible playbook I just pre-pull images and drop unit files in the right place.

I even run my entire Voron 3D printer stack with podman-systemd so I can update and rollback all the components at once, although I'm looking at switching to mkosi and systemd-sysupdate and just update/rollback the entire disk image at once.

The main issues are: 1. A lot of people just distribute docker-compose files, so you have to convert it to systemd units. 2. A lot of docker images have a variety of complexities around user/privilege setup that you don't need with podman. Sometimes you need to do annoying userns idmapping, especially if a container refuses to run as root and/or switches to another user.

Overall, though, it's way less complicated than any k8s (or k8s variant) setup. It's also nice to have everything integrated into systemd and journald instead of being split in two places.
by sebastiennight | 2025-05-06 00:43:44+00:00
Actually I'm thinking in a winner-takes-all universe, the right strategy would be to spread your bets on as many likely winners as possible.

That's literally the premise of venture capital. This is a scenario where we're assuming ALL our bets will go to zero, except one which will be worth trillions. In that case you should bet on everything.

It's only in the opposite scenario (where every bet pays off with varying ROI) that it makes sense to go all-in on whichever bet seems most promising.
by Rendello | 2025-05-06 00:44:22+00:00
Though interestingly:

> though Kim despised the Japanese, he set aside his pride and flew in the special-effects team of the original films, along with Kenpachiro Satsuma, the man inside the Godzilla suit. According to Satsuma, he and his crew members thought they had been hired for a film shooting in China when they landed in North Korea instead.

The production and release sections of the Wikipedia article are interesting. It was intended for wide release by a Japanese company, then banned by the NK government after the director fled. In the 90s it saw a wide release, even in South Korea. The then-escaped director tried to sue it off the air.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulgasari
by reaperducer | 2025-05-06 00:45:06+00:00
What’s the point of learning APA or MLA citation in high school and college but journalists don’t even bother with it?

Because journalism doesn't use the same type of citation as an academic paper. It's an entirely different type of writing, for a different purpose, and a different audience.

If you want to know why journalists use anonymous sources, you could just Google it: https://www.nytimes.com/article/why-new-york-times-anonymous...

But I suppose complaining on the internet and making up false equivalencies is better for feeding one's righteous indignation.
by timewizard | 2025-05-06 00:45:37+00:00
> Do you have a source for a failure of the commercial data link causing this?

The previous failure.

https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/faa-knew-of-potent...

> All I can find is hand-wavy claims that wiring shorted and took down some piece of critical hardware.

Which would most likely be communications equipment. In any case I think it's fair to say it's a structure issue and not an administrative one. Unless we think DOGE made some change at the center that caused this wire to burn out?

The ceaseless political drum beating for points around here chafes. The likelihood that any administration is perfectly good or perfectly evil is absolutely zero. Let's get to causes and not generalities?
by voidspark | 2025-05-06 00:46:34+00:00
> Sure, Google wants to redefine AGI

It is not a redefinition. It's a classification for AGI systems. It's a refinement.

Other researchers are also trying to classify AGI systems. It's not just Google. Also, there is no universally agreed definition of AGI.

> We don’t know what the stages are. Folks in the 80s were similarly selling their expert systems as a stage to AGI. “Emerging AGI” is a bullshit term.

Generalization is a formal concept in machine learning. There can be degrees of generalized learning performance. This is actually measurable. We can compare the performance of different systems.
by kevin_thibedeau | 2025-05-06 00:46:35+00:00
HPs portable benchtop LAs of the that era with the same X11R5 GUI were better than the modular touchscreen lab units because on the latter you only had a jog wheel and were forced to navigate menu hierarchy with touch for everything else. The portable models had hard buttons for every major mode you'd want to switch between, plus an alpha keypad for convenient label editing.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-06 00:46:40+00:00
Journalists protect their sources all the time. This is common practice in journalism and it actually helps to keep things neutral. It also helps to protect the innocent.

If a journalist protects her sources then she can rely on a steady stream of information from them. If she divulges or betrays those sources, they could be reluctant to feed her further information. A source may be at political or legal risk for leaking to the press. The journalist therefore acknowledges those risks by protecting the identities of the sources.

It is the editorial board of the news outlet who is responsible for vetting sources and fact-checking. Another very important function of journalism is analysis. The editorial board and the reporters are collating various sources of information and providing their expertise by analyzing these facts, distilling them and presenting them to the public with a unified front.

It is true that an encyclopedia such as Wikipedia has different standards, and generally citations on an encyclopedia must be transparent and open. Encyclopedias are tertiary sources, not journalism, and they rely on that analysis and presentation by journalistic sources in order to present comprehensive information on a topic.

Now with all that being said, TFA seems to be about an independent journalist who is the victim of widespread plagiarism. That isn't nearly the same thing. If this journalist is getting ripped off by major news outlets, that is certainly a problem. Every journalist deserves a byline and credit for writing those stories. This journalist is not a source, in herself, but rather producing print-ready material that should not be ripped off, willy-nilly, by any outlet that thinks they can get away with it. If these allegations are true, then that is quite unjust.
by aylmao | 2025-05-06 00:48:01+00:00
> Unless somebody else figures out something which is better by orders of magnitude and that Open AI can't copy quickly, it's going to stay that way.

This will happen, and it won't be another model which Open AI can't copy, it'll be products.

I don't doubt OpenA I can create the better models but they're no moat if they're not in better products. Right now the main product is chat, which is easy enough to build, but as integrations get deeper how can OpenAI actually ensure it keeps traffic?

Case in point, Siri. Apple allows you to use ChatGPT with Siri right now. If Apple chooses so, they could easily remove that setting. On most devices ChatGPT lives within the confines of an app or the browser. A phone with deep AI integration is arguably a fantastic product— much better than having to open an app and chat with a model. How quickly could Open AI build a phone that's as good as those of the big phone companies today?

To draw a parallel— Google Assistant has long been better than Siri, but to use Siri you don't have to install an app. I've used both Android and iOS, and every time I'm on iPhone I switch back to Siri because in spite of being a worse assistant, it's overall a better product. It integrates well with the rest of the phone, because Apple has chosen to not allow any other voice assistant integrate deeply with the rest of the phone.
by haswell | 2025-05-06 00:50:03+00:00
My inability to do the mind palace thing is one of those things that suddenly made sense to me.

I've gone deep down a meditation rabbit hole since learning about all of this. No visual imagery yet, but I do see what I would have to describe as a non-specific shimmering/morphing "wave" that comes and goes. Nothing that I could describe as an image of something, but visual phenomena nonetheless.
by PeterZaitsev | 2025-05-06 00:50:12+00:00
I think comparing it to Vector Database is confusing as database would typically mean indexes and some sort of query support.

Storing Embeddings with File is interesting concept... we already do it for some file formats (ie EXIF), where this one is generalized... yet you would need to have some actual database to load this data into to process at scale.

Another issue I see is support for different models and embedding formats to make this data really portable - like I can take my file drop it into any system and its embedding "seamlessly" integrates
by mdaniel | 2025-05-06 00:50:22+00:00
There are 3 components to "the control plane" and realistically only one of them is what you meant by idle. The Node-local kubelet (that reports in the state of affairs and asks if there is any work) is a constantly active thing, as one would expect from such a polling setup. The etcd, or it's replacement, is constantly(?) firing off watch notifications or reconciliation notifications based on the inputs from the aforementioned kubelet updates. Only the actual kube-apiserver is conceptually idle as I'm not aware of any compute that it, itself, does only in response to requests made of it

Put another way, in my experience running clusters, in $(ps auwx) or its $(top) friend always show etcd or sqlite generating all of the "WHAT are you doing?!" and those also represent the actual risk to running kubernetes since the apiserver is mostly stateless[1]

1: but holy cow watch out for mTLS because cert expiry will ruin your day across all of the components
by hs586 | 2025-05-06 00:51:12+00:00
I think having time and opportunity to be bored is actually a luxury that many have nowadays. Growing up in a village where my grandma was basically doing subsistence farming, I recall that she didn't have that moment to daydream. This was not uncommon some time ago, as this great post from last week about labour movement was mentioning [1].

Given this, I find that daydreaming is in a way an expression of a freedom and luxury that we have. I find myself starting to think deeply about some topics in those moments. Spending that time on a smartphone/social media is wasting a freedom that we have. I used to check news or watch something more frequently before I had this realization and not doing that has greatly improved my state of mind.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43856798
by t-3 | 2025-05-06 00:52:49+00:00
Providing summaries of stuff that happened for people who don't have time to actually look at original sources or sort the wheat from the chaff but still want to pay attention is a useful service, but an awful lot of what passes for journalism these days is just a train of people summarizing or rewriting another person's summary of a rewriting of a summary. If you check multiple news sites on a regular basis, it's easy to find nearly-identical articles popping up with little-to-no difference in content that masquerade as original or at best obliquely name drop another outlet or journalist in the middle of a sentence in the middle of a paragraph near the end of the article.
by woooooo | 2025-05-06 00:52:58+00:00
So, I'm not sure if this is less cynical or more cynical, but.. have you ever talked to the decision-makers who buy something like databricks?

They can't build it themselves, and it's highly dubious that they'd be able to hire and supervise someone to build it. Databricks may be selling "nothing special", but it's needed, and the buyers can't build it themselves.
by aforwardslash | 2025-05-06 00:53:58+00:00
Most modern filesystems aren't really "laid down on hardware", but on top of a volume manager; thats how both attached disks (think SAN or EBS volumes) and RAID works. Most filesystems behave exactly like an optimized database index, but lacking the extra fields; also, some databases support raw devices directly(using mapped volumes), no need for filesystems. The line between both is mostly a blur.