MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Flamentono2 | 2025-05-20 11:38:24+00:00
I'm following LLMs, AI/ML for a few years now and not just on a high level.

There is not a single system out there today which can do what claude can do.

I stil see it for what it is: A technology i can communicate/use with natural language and get a very diverse of tasks done. From writing/generating code, to svgs, to emails, translation etc. etc. etc.

Its a paradigma shift for the whole world literaly.

We finally have a system which encodes not just basic things but high level concepts. And we humans are doing often enough something very similiar.

And what limitations are obvious? Tell me? We have not reached any real ceiling yet. We are limited by GPU capacity or how many architectural experiments a researcher can run. We have plenty of work to do to cleanup the data set we use and have. We need to build more infrastructure, better software support etc.

We have not even reached the phase were we all have local AI/ML chips build in.

We don't even know yet how a system will act if everyone of us has access to very fast inferencing like you already get with groq.
by _heimdall | 2025-05-20 11:38:30+00:00
Asking LLMs to do tasks like this and expecting any useful result is mind boggling to me.

The LLM is going to guess at what a human on the internet may have said in response, nothing more. We haven't solved interpretability and we don't actually know how these things work, stop believing the marketing that they "reason" or are anything comparable to human intelligence.
by crq-yml | 2025-05-20 11:38:48+00:00
I got sour on games for a while but I think there are good things awaiting them, because we're starting to get past the hurdle of "new technology usurps the old" actually being germane to the artistic processes that go into game design. Like, it still exists because the devices are so locked down, but it's stopped being a tech-driven business - there's little interest in AAA now, and the broader trends are shaken up too; there's more of a symbiotic pipeline of "make a game that helps people make video content" taking hold, one which has little relationship to recency or production values.

That said I have been pursuing the sustainable elements of gaming for years at this point, seeing the same issues - and for me what it comes down to is what I summarize as "the terrarium problem" - the bigger the software ecosystem you build the game over, the more of the jungle you have to port to the next platform du jour. When we approach gaming as a software problem it's just impossible, we can't support all the hardware and all the platforms.

But within that there are elements of "I can plan for this". Using tech that is already old is one way; Flash, for example, is emulated now. But if you go back to an earlier console generation or retro computers, you can find even more accuracy, better preservation. I took the compromise of "neo retro", since there are several SBCs around that mix old chips with new stuff - those have much more comfy specs to tinker with, while building on some old ideas. Tech that assumes less of a platform is another: I've taken up Forth, because Forth is the language that assumes you have to DIY everything, so it perpetuates ground-up honesty within your software, especially within a retro environment where there's no API layer to speak of and you have full control. And tech that has more of a standardized element is good: if something is "data structure portable", it's easier to recreate(this is why there are many homebrew ports of "Another World" - it's all bytecode).

The last piece of the puzzle in it is - okay, if I take things in that direction, how do I still make it fun to develop with? And that's the part I've been working on lately. I think the tools can be fun. Flash found some fun in it. But Flash as a model is too complex, too situated in just supplying every feature. PICO-8 is also fun, but very focused on a specific aesthetic. I think it's related to data models, conventions and defaults. Getting those things right clears the way.
by martin_a | 2025-05-20 11:39:12+00:00
I went from Munich to Italy regularly from 2015-2019, haven't been controlled once at any of the borders.

Have seen French border police (sometimes) at the German-French border down here near Freiburg but not the German police.

But yes, German police was present in Basel some weeks ago when I crossed there. Although they had two cars they controlled and let everyone else pass in the long line that had formed, no matter the car plates.

So not sure if there's really that much to it.
by incomingpain | 2025-05-20 11:40:01+00:00
>There are a few theories, but none of them really satisfies.

Reading through, much the same.

>Nobody knows exactly why productivity slowed down for two decades

The post also doesnt particularly satisfy

>And theoretically speaking, women’s mass entry into the workforce shouldn’t produce an overall decline in wages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment#/media/File:US_La...

The total participation rate has gone mostly unchanged. Which means women displaced men from the workplace. Makes sense, skilled and talented women will replace unskilled and untalented men. Those men still need to work.

Supply of workers increased significantly while demand remained the same. Of course there will be a decrease in wages.

Especially true if entrepreneurship being >50% declined over the last 40 years. which is a different issue; mostly a failure of government.
by sillyfluke | 2025-05-20 11:40:26+00:00
Interesting that you moved from California but do not comment about the London sun at all, though to be fair, you said you yourself moved to Europe and not the UK.

A friend from SoCal who moved to London for a few years couldn't really handle sky getting dark around 3-4 in the afternoon in the winter, and she would say it was almost impossible for her not to get depressed during those times. So just something to be prepared for.

On the bright side though, London, as with many German cities, has short cheap direct flights to many sun bleached cities and beach destinations in Europe so I would suggest making ample use of them if you can. Being in the US afterwards, one realizes there is no location in the mainland US that can compete with the Mediterranean with respect to actually being an inviting body of water to swim in (non mainland Hawaii is obviously an exception).

And May and June in London itself I often find especially beautiful as well.
by jabl | 2025-05-20 11:41:13+00:00
Why invest in forklifts, container infrastructure etc. if your military has a near-endless supply of uneducated conscripts you can order to shuffle around shells and other items?

(Of course a more thorough analysis would probably come to the conclusion that better logistics is worth it. There's still an opportunity cost for those conscripts who could do something else instead, like dying in zerg rushes on the Ukrainian front. And even though those conscripts are 'free' they still require chow and a place to sleep etc.)
by conartist6 | 2025-05-20 11:41:14+00:00
Not to mention the article was a regurgitation of consensus with no critical thinking, apparently no writing. The bullet point style and AI cover art makes me think that this person has fully embraced making slop content as their job, and in fact no longer capable of critical thinking or really anything other than towing this line, on which they have clearly bet their livelihood.
by Flamentono2 | 2025-05-20 11:41:29+00:00
I work for one very big software company.

If this was 'a simple user error' or 'not using the right tool for the job' than this was an error from smart people and it still got fixed by using AI/ML in an instant.

With this, my argument still stands even if it would be for a different reason which i personally doubt.
by kookamamie | 2025-05-20 11:41:31+00:00
Which GitHub subscription level is required for the agent?

I found it very confusing - we have GH Business, with Copilot active. Could not find a way to upgrade our Copilot to the level required by the agent.

I tried using my personal Copilot for the purpose of trialing the agent - again, a no-go, as my Copilot is "managed" by the organization I'm part of.

Also, you will want to add more control over to who can assign things to Copilot Agent - just having write access to the repository is a poor descriminator, I think.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-05-20 11:42:09+00:00
> Asking LLMs to do tasks like this and expecting any useful result is mind boggling to me.

Most of the people who are very interested in using LLM/generative media are very open about the fact that they don't care about the results. If they did, they wouldn't outsource them to a random media generator.

And for a certain kind of hiring manager in a certain kind of firm that regularly finds itself on the wrong end of discrimination notices, they'd probably use this for the exact reason it's posted about here, because it lets them launder decision-making through an entity that (probably?) won't get them sued and will produce the biased decisions they want. "Our hiring decisions can't be racist! A computer made them."

Look out for tons of firms in the FIRE sector doing the exact same thing for the exact same reason, except not just hiring decisions: insurance policies that exclude the things you're most likely to need claims for, which will be sold as: "personalized coverage just for you!" Or perhaps you'll be denied a mortgage because you come from a ZIP code that denotes you're more likely than most to be in poverty for life, and the banks' AI marks you as "high risk." Fantastic new vectors for systemic discrimination, with the plausible deniability to ensure victims will never see justice.
by _heimdall | 2025-05-20 11:43:21+00:00
How strong was the push from leadership to use the agents internally?

As part of the dogfooding I could see them really pushing hard to try having agents make and merge PRs, at which point the data is tainted and you don't know if the 1,000 PRs were created or merged to meet demand or because devs genuinely found it useful and accurate.
by jl6 | 2025-05-20 11:43:25+00:00
Nobody likes paying more and getting less, and it’s perceived as some kind of societal decline, but it’s more like a correction. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the high birth rates in developed nations declined, roughly, in conjunction with the rise of welfare states. Both are ways, roughly, of providing for yourself in the future. Both are unsustainable in their current forms.

We are living in the age of peak entitlement, where we draw down on the finite fossil fuel reserves of the past while simultaneously drawing down on the earnings of our children in the future.
Show HN: Text to 3D simulation on a map (does history pretty well)
by lukehollis | 2025-05-20 11:43:55+00:00
Simulate anything on a map from a text prompt -- and conduct risk analysis against LiveUA map's global realtime data points from social media and news sources. I trained a GPT-2-size model on historical incident data used to predict things that will go wrong.

As historian Benjamin Breen mentions, the leading language models are good historians, so the application will simulate historical events pretty well also.

I include a Multi-Agent RL Urban Mobility model in progress displayed on the map as small white cubes representing traffic and pedestrians. Around SF, it uses real census data and other sources for semantically meaningful day plans, etc. It will populate where you move the map, albeit a little slowly. This is based on previous work on my GitHub--I hope to connect it to Unreal's city samples project soon.

The simulations are pretty simple so far but will grow in complexity soon.

I won the AGI House World Models Hackathon with this and the MARL model.

Many thanks to Shota Matsuda and Garrett Johnson for the cloud and atmospheric effects libraries on Github at takram-design-engineering/three-geospatial

Glad for feedback, and thanks for trying it out!
by monkey_monkey | 2025-05-20 11:44:47+00:00
> I have yet to meet any "pro-palestinian" that doesn't devolve into "rape is resistance"

> In contrast, all Zionists I know utterly despise Netanyahu and his far-right government.

Oh dear

As it happens, I know plenty of people who don't think the people in Gaza should be genocided and none of them support rape.

Many of the self-labelled Zionists I know support Bibi and think Gaza should be razed to the ground.

Go figure!
by int_19h | 2025-05-20 11:45:08+00:00
Speaking as a Mac user, it's really bad. Much worse than Linux/SteamOS actually. Not only most games just aren't there, many games that are advertised as Mac-compatible are actually broken because they haven't been updated for a long time, and macOS is not particularly ABI-stable when it comes to GUI. Sometimes they just don't support hi-DPI, so you can play it but forget about 4K. But sometimes it just straight up won't start.

I do indeed have two computers with a KVM setup largely for this reason, with a secondary Windows box relegated to gaming console role.
by vintermann | 2025-05-20 11:45:22+00:00
The anti-Russian policies in the Baltics are dumb, they provide Putin with a good point to use in his propaganda, which is infinitely more useful to him than any railroad on foreign soil.

He's co-opting the red army's defeat of Nazi Germany for his own popularity purposes. Which is impressive, considering he's also disavowing communism. It would hardly have been possible, if it weren't for fringe (but not fringe enough) movements in Eastern Europe playing along with it. Not because they're pro-Russian, far from it, but because their old nationalist groups often were aligned with the nazis, and they want to rehabilitate them. Putin and these groups totally agree that the conflict should be framed as being between Russia and these groups.
by briandear | 2025-05-20 11:45:51+00:00
What’s the net energy footprint of an employee working in an office whose job was made redundant by AI? Of course that human will likely have another job, but what’s the math of a person who was doing tedium solved by AI and now can do something more productive that AI can’t necessarily do. In other words, let’s calculate the “economic output per energy unit expended.”

On that note, what’s the energy footprint of the return to office initiatives that many companies have initiated?
by nullc | 2025-05-20 11:45:52+00:00
I am not surprised to see grok failing on this.

Practically everything gets trained on extracts from other LLMs, I assume this is true for Grok too.

The issue is that even if you manually cull 'biased' (for whatever definition you like) output, the training data can still hide bias in high dimensional noise.

So for example, you train some LLM to hate men. Then you generate from it training data for another LLM but carefully cull any mention of men or women. But other word choices like, say, "this" vs "that" in a sentence may bias the training of the "hate men" weights.

I think this is particularly effective because a lot of the LLM's tone change in fine tuning as picking the character that the LLM is play acting as... and so you can pack a lot of bias into a fairly small change. This also explains how some of the bias got in there in the first place-- it's not unreasonably charitable to assume that they didn't explicitly train in the misandrist behavior, but they probably did train in other behavior, perfectly reasonable behavior, that is correlated online with misandry.

The same behavior happens with adversarial examples for image classifiers, where they're robust to truncation and generalize against different models.

And I've seen people give plenty of examples from grok where it produces the same negative nanny refusals that open ai models produce, -- but just on more obscure areas where it presumably wasn't spot-fixed.
by jacob019 | 2025-05-20 11:45:59+00:00
I had not thought about sharing it. I rolled my own framework, even though there are several good choices. I'd have to tidy it up, but would consider it if a few people ask. Shoot me an email, info in my profile.

The more difficult part which I won't share was aggregating data from various systems with ETL scripts into a new db that I generate various views with, to look at the data by channel, timescale, price regime, cost trends, inventory trends, etc. A well structured JSON object is passed to the analyst agent who prepares a report for the decision agent. It's a lot of data to analyze. It's been running for about a month and sometimes I doubt the choices, so I go review the thought traces, and usually they are right after all. It's much better than all the heuristics I've used over the years.

I've started using agents for things all over my codebase, most are much simpler. Earlier use of LLM's might have been called that in some cases, before the phrase became so popular. As everyone is discovering, it's really powerful to abstract the models with a job hat and structured data.
by maccard | 2025-05-20 11:46:10+00:00
> Many people often say that making an engine from scratch takes too long. But how long does it take to properly learn Unreal or Unity such that you can have an idea and turn it into a game without friction?

You've asked two different questions - how long does it take to properly learn Unreal or Unity, and how long does it take so you can have an idea and turn it into a game without friction? If you gave me a half baked idea we could be playing it in a few hours with both tools. Unity requires programming up front, but Unreal you can get well into "I can almost ship a game" (particularly if it's a single player game) with just blueprint.

Here [0] is a 10 minute video where someone prototypes a super hexagon style game in 10 minutes. Obviously, this isn't feasible without knowing exactly what you're building, but I think this shows just how powerful these tools are for building out these game ideas. There's very little unity specific stuff in there, other than components. Everything else is stuff that I would classify as "gamedev agnostic" - input handling, update vs fixedUpdate, vector math, sprites, etc. The prefab for the spawner is about the only unity-specific thing in that video and it takes up about 15 seconds of the 10 minute video. I'm a game developer (Unreal) and I'd wager I could put together a similar prototype in about an hour in Unity, give or take

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=p8MzsDBI5EI
by ayrtondesozzla | 2025-05-20 11:46:31+00:00
> Unless you have a truly bastardized definition of ASI then there is undoubtedly nothing close to it on earth. No corporation or military or government comes close to what ASI could be capable of.

This is glistening with religious fervour. Sure, they could be that powerful. Just like God/Allah/Thor/Superman could, too.

I've no doubt that many rationalist types sincerely care about these issues, and are sincerely worried. At the same time, I think it very likely that some significant number of them are majorly titillated by the biblical pleasure of playing messiah/prophet.
by panick21_ | 2025-05-20 11:47:41+00:00
> Most PT systems recover hardly anything from fares

That is just factually wrong. For example, Zürich operating bus, trams and fares costs about 1.3 billion $. And it takes in 65.3 % in fares. I checked a few others and around 60% seems to be quite normal. I wouldn't call that 'hardly anything'.

And if all it takes a cone falling over and rolling over to stop a tram with 200 people in it, we are in a really dumb situation.
by conartist6 | 2025-05-20 11:47:49+00:00
From a 100x coder who has never touched AI my reaction is approximately "ROTFLOL".

It's the same bullshit every time. The only ways to go 100x are to create network effects of productivity: lift up others.

The LLM pitch is: "you will fight the whole world completely alone." "Not even your own management has your back!" "Your worth is garbage without my expert management which consist of saying the words 'everybody just use AI'."
by dusted | 2025-05-20 11:48:24+00:00
Funny, because, sometimes it's not the patience of the other side that's the problem, but on my own side.. and with LLMs, I find in particular my patience challenged.. Whereas with humans, it's often somewhat possible to gauge their level of comprehension and adjust accordingly, but with the savant-idiot-like qualities that most LLMs exhibit, it's really difficult to strike a balance, or even understand at which point they're irrecoverably lost.
by randomcarbloke | 2025-05-20 11:49:06+00:00
taxation or it's condoned avoidance/evasion does not create wealth or at least not to the same level as actual in-demand products and services, unless you believe that it is supposed to act as a filter between transactions by default rather than the standard accounting practice to tax after-the-fact.

I suppose this naiveté is a by product of swallowing the media's constant garbage about the reason Jeff Bezos (et al...) has a yacht is purely down to avoiding tax.
by Tsarp | 2025-05-20 11:49:11+00:00
This is really the best ways to explain basic game theory to anyone. It wasn't until some excellent Profs in Grad school that I finally understand some of the most basic concepts, but would always find it hard to explain to friends and family.

I also think game theory is one of the most important philosophies/life-lessons to understand as you go through life and this is an excellent resource to get people started on the basics.
by incomingpain | 2025-05-20 11:49:40+00:00
People are scared of the unknown. They are scared that their livelyhoods might be impacted.

My autism flavour, I have a weakness in communication, and AI spits out better writing than I do. Personally I love that it helps me. Autism is a disability and AI helps me through it.

Imagine however if you're an expert in communication; then this is a new competitor that's undefeatable.
by bayindirh | 2025-05-20 11:49:54+00:00
That's another sound option, but as a person who doesn't like Homebrew and stuffing /usr/local with tons of things, a lightweight Linux VM becomes mandatory after some point on macOS, too.

Other than that, macOS plus some tools (Fileduck, Forklift, Tower, Kaleidoscope to name a few), you can be 99% there.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-05-20 11:49:58+00:00
This is basically what I did a couple years ago [1]. SDL2 and a bit of C++ to create a "sprite" class. Some collision code in the sprite class...

If you want to call what I added an "engine" it was more like a pedal-assist bike.

Too often I find "engines" end up driving the project/game. That is, you end up writing the game to the engine. It's why I've avoided Unity, etc. — high-level engines like that seem to guide you to writing the same game everyone else is writing — just with different assets.

Never mind you spend too much time, in my opinion, learning the engine and not getting the game written. To be sure there was a learning curve just pulling in SDL, but the curve was slight and it seemed more universally useful to know SDL as it can be employed in other cross-platform projects I might undertake — not just games.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2318420/Glypha_Vintage/
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-05-20 11:50:42+00:00
It's culture war nonsense because transwomen are not a threat to women. Why would men pretend to be transwomen to prey upon women when transwomen are treated with more suspicion and hate than men?

I think there's a nuanced conversation to be had about ciswomen-exclusive shelters for abuse victims, because as much as a transwoman is a woman, depending on the stage of their transition, they can be unfortunately very man-like which can trigger women who have been the victims of violence committed by men. That's unfortunate, important, and it matters, however that real issue is being drowned in a sea of misgendering and nonsensical reactionary hate for people already dealing with systemic abuse.

If you cannot assert your womanhood without trying to tear other's away like so many crabs in a bucket, you lose the right to be confused when said others tell you to get bent.