MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by konstruction | 2025-05-22 21:49:52+00:00
Looks like a nice article, but there are some rendering issues for me.

In the section "We also need to define a metric for pruning." the math afterwards (and in all other places) has a dark background, and black font. Not legible. The code seems to have a weird shadow effect that goes away if I mark the code. That doesn't seem to be intended.
by mncharity | 2025-05-22 21:49:54+00:00
> Humans cannot perceive infrared light due to the physical thermodynamic properties of photon-detecting opsins.

Seeing near-NIR without pointing a laser at your eye is interesting, but "cannot perceive"?

It's dim, yes. But there are perception reports well beyond 1000 nm (like 1.3 or 1.5 um). People see NIR ophthalmoscopes. I fuzzily recall a DIY attempt to wear a NIR bandpass filter, to make bright day into dark-adapted near-NIR night. And two-photon sensitivity[1] can level off the single-photon sensitivity log curve above 900 nm.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004269892...
by colechristensen | 2025-05-22 21:50:37+00:00
>burning need for external validation

Eh, being an "influencer" is kinda dumb, but your estimations of the motivation of people who post a lot on social media might be exaggerated.

The best sushi restaurant in town doesn't have any more or less quality because people make a lot of instagram posts about it.

Annoying people liking a thing doesn't ruin it. Just don't pay attention to them and don't worry about what they're doing.

If you don't like how people are spending their lives give them less head space, don't spend too much time judging them, classifying them, or trying to fix the social ills causing their existence.
by mmmore | 2025-05-22 21:50:56+00:00
1. These models are trained with significant amounts of RL. So I would argue there's not a static "training dataset"; the model's outputs at each stage of the training process feeds back into the released models behavior.

2. It's reasonable to attribute the models actions to it after it has been trained. Saying that a models outputs/actions are not it's own because they are dependent on what is in the training set is like saying your actions are not your own because they are dependent on your genetics and upbringing. When people say "by itself" they mean "without significant direction by the prompter". If the LLM is responding to queries and taking actions on the Internet (and especially because we are not fully capable of robustly training LLMs to exhibit desired behaviors), it matters little that it's behavior would have hypothetically been different had it been trained differently.
by a2128 | 2025-05-22 21:51:20+00:00
> Finally, we've introduced thinking summaries for Claude 4 models that use a smaller model to condense lengthy thought processes. This summarization is only needed about 5% of the time—most thought processes are short enough to display in full. Users requiring raw chains of thought for advanced prompt engineering can contact sales about our new Developer Mode to retain full access.

I don't want to see a "summary" of the model's reasoning! If I want to make sure the model's reasoning is accurate and that I can trust its output, I need to see the actual reasoning. It greatly annoys me that OpenAI and now Anthropic are moving towards a system of hiding the models thinking process, charging users for tokens they cannot see, and providing "summaries" that make it impossible to tell what's actually going on.
by dkarl | 2025-05-22 21:51:28+00:00
I think you're describing a part of the Republican Party that is now almost irrelevant, one that kept expecting the voters to turn against Donald Trump. They're the ones who thought, what the hell is Trump doing sucking up to Putin? Our voters are patriots who have no hesitation about calling the United States the greatest nation on earth. Surely they're going to be shocked at Trump fawning over a sad sack country like Russia. Surely patriotic voters are going to be offended at the president of their precious eagle scream U! S! A! showing open admiration for an ex-superpower with a ruined economy, zero cultural capital, a laughingstock of a democratic system, and a crumbling military with zero global reach.

That point of view still exists in the Republican Party, but it has been eclipsed by something sadder and smaller-minded. Liberal progressives have long used national greatness as a lever on patriotic conservatives, telling them, look, our "national greatness" comes from our embrace of education, cultural change, new people, new ideas. If conservatives love our supposed national greatness, they should embrace the progressive liberal ideals that built it. Now, it's like the Republican Party has been taken over by conservatives who... decided the liberals were right? It's like they gave up and said, y'all are right, national greatness requires education, continual learning and self-criticism, openness to new ideas and new people, and acceptance of creative destruction, both economic and cultural. They accepted that, grieved, faced the choice with clear eyes, and decided that national greatness isn't worth the cost. They look at Russia and see a country that is marinating in its own chauvinism, and they want that instead.
by daedrdev | 2025-05-22 21:51:37+00:00
"Dune: Imperium" for a more competitive and strategic game (there are several board games for dune but they only share the theme, don't get confused)

Wingspan if you don't want to be aggressive against other players

Cascadia for shorter game that supports low player counts

Azul is another shorter game

The isle of cats is a personal favorite, very neat game about packing cats on your boat

Red Rising has an excellent board game if you've ever read the book.
by simpaticoder | 2025-05-22 21:51:56+00:00
I suppose my point is that the readers who will wonder about this are a) very likely to know about complexity classes already, or b)capable of learning about it themselves. Perhaps a simple link to something like https://complexityzoo.net/Petting_Zoo would have been a nice middle-ground.

Edit: Aaronson even mentions the n^100 problem in the section about P!
by truthyTables | 2025-05-22 21:52:07+00:00
Sure, in writing anything can be true.

Superman fought Lex Luthor in Action Comics #NN and on and on

Most people just default to faith in their native political and religious traditions. So yeah “our guy is better than their guy” and fuck your individual self, you’re on the one true team normalization, becomes the default by sure lack of will of enough people to rock the boat even gently through public debate and discussion.

I mean this crowd can circumlocute an endless set of rhetorical perspectives. Ground truth is this group is outnumbered by Trump #1 and all kinds of other tribal group thinks.
by tzs | 2025-05-22 21:52:11+00:00
The US is an interesting case because there is so much variation state to state (or even county to county within a state) of both gas prices and electricity prices. The ratio of gas prices in $/gal and electricity prices in $/kWh range from around 9 to around 34. (This is for residential electricity).

Does Europe have that much variation?

In areas where the ratio is low a non-EV can be cheaper than an EV, especially if that non-EV is a hybrid. In about 1/3 of the states a Prius beats an average EV in highway driving and in around 1/6th the Prius wins in city driving. In around 1/6th the Prius will even beat the most efficient EVs in both highway and city.

It's opposite in places with a higher ratio where even a Prius cannot come near the low energy costs of an EV. In roughly 1/5th of the states gas would have to fall to below around $1.70/gal for the Prius to match a typical EV for highway driving, and to around $1.50/gal to match the most efficient highway EVs. Those are gas prices that even Trump probably can't fantasize about.

Note that the above was all using residential electricity prices. Commercial EV chargers usually charge quite a bit more. I'm in one of the states with a high gas/electricity price ratio and I think EVs still win here with commercial charger prices but not by much. Without having run the numbers, my guess is that for most road trips that span several states, especially if the are going east/west, a Prius is going to be the energy cost champion.

I'm curious if there are any road trip planners that can take all this into account? Say you've got an EV and a non-EV. Are there any where you can give your destination, places along the way you want to see, what cars you have available, and how much extra time you are willing to spend to save money, and it will figure out which car can do the trip for with the least energy costs?
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-05-22 21:52:14+00:00
>Why do you need a real suppressor to cosplay a pretend political stance?

Because I'd like to not become deaf.

>The authoritarian jackboots are here today, destroying individual liberties

Which liberty do you no longer have, that you had one year ago?

>and the economy to really put the nails in the coffin)

The argument that was most likely to convince me to be concerned is glossed over so much you don't even much bother with it. It's not just you doing that, basically everyone towards the left does this.

>and replacing it with "blue lives matter".

Couldn't care less about cops if I tried. Again, just more failure. We've got so little in common, it'd be difficult to even describe how far apart we are. But, looks like my faction has the votes. Going to be an interesting few years... and maybe unpleasant for you.
Show HN: Xerus – LLM-Agnostic CLI for AI Agent Dev with HuggingFace
by ylankgz | 2025-05-22 21:52:23+00:00
I'm building Xerus, a CLI tool to streamline AI agent development, and I’d love for you to check it out.

It’s like Claude Code or OpenAI Codex but LLM-agnostic and tightly integrated with Hugging Face’s ecosystem (models, spaces, APIs). Plus, it runs on a remote server to handle the heavy lifting, so your local machine stays cool.

If you’re into it, I’d love your thoughts!
by echelon | 2025-05-22 21:52:41+00:00
I won't argue on this as it's orthogonal.

Sovereignty of your country's smaller businesses over monopolies, and sovereignty over data and data privacy is paramount.

Every country should be trying to tear Google apart. It isn't just too big, it's a black hole that is eviscerating competition.

The US, Canada, all of the members of the EU, India, and even our geopolitical rivals should be trying to regulate and/or break up Google.
by ethbr1 | 2025-05-22 21:52:46+00:00
Most of Trump's behavior makes sense when you realize his dealmaking strategy is bullying:

1. Exert maximun possible pressure

2. Strike the best deal possible

Reasons only matter in the sense of selecting initial targets. Once into dealmaking, it's anything and everything thrown at an opponent.

You can see this in terms of what stops him: equal counterpressure (China) or consequences (US stocks and treasuries being dumped)

Similarly, once a deal is struck, reasons again don't matter.
by tlavoie | 2025-05-22 21:53:14+00:00
This might be a more manual solution for Kobo imports, but I've taken to saving pages of interest via Joplin's web clipper extension. Pages can be saved as Markdown, HTML, screenshot, or URL. If I save the Markdown version (typically looks fine), it will have also saved linked images. Exporting that to another folder gives me something that I can convert to epub, using Pandoc. From there, it's trivial to copy over to my Kobo as before. Of course, this already would have been readable on my phone, since my notebooks also sync across devices.
by bgnn | 2025-05-22 21:53:31+00:00
> This is completely nonsensical. Banks (eliding a lot of important details about money and loan creation) use money in those accounts to make loans,

No, banks do have to have a set minimum ratio of the credit to deposited money and that ratio is always higher than one. Private banks create money buy giving loans leveraging the savings at hand with the assumption of there won't be a bank rush. If a bank rush occurs no bank on earth will be solvent.
by littlestymaar | 2025-05-22 21:53:46+00:00
You are attributing too much power to the Israeli. Trump signed a ceasefire with Houthi last week that doesn't protects Israel: that is, the US stops bombing them as long as they don't attack US ships, and attacks against Israel aren't a casus belli for the US anymore.

The Republican party is strongly favorable to Israel, but since Netanyahou pissed Trump, they don't get special treatment anymore, that's what happen when your foreign policy depends on the mood of a single guy. The old alliance and ideological alignment can mean nothing overnight just because the supreme leader said so.
by PagCatOli | 2025-05-22 21:53:51+00:00
The 'sidecar debate' has been driving me crazy because the 'sidecar-less movement' has not been driven by a sidecar issue but a proxy bloat one. Sidecars are lightweight, but if you add a huge proxy with a massive footprint, yeah, your sidecar architecture will introduce an overhead problem.

I frequently get asked at KubeCon when Linkerd is going to launch its Ambient version. We have no plans to, because the Linkerd microproxy is, well, micro-small.

So glad that my teammate u/Flynn_ published The Story Behind the Great Sidecar Debate, a blog post that will hopefully exonerate the real victim in this discussion: the innocent sidecar!
by const_cast | 2025-05-22 21:54:10+00:00
> but turns out it's a perfect language to rewrite some commandline scripts I had that were getting unwieldy in Bash

IMO this is the perfect use case for Perl. I mean, it's why Perl was invented, but to this day it remains incredibly good at doing this specific task. It's incredibly easy to write and can be very easy to read, and it's much more robust than bash. But best of all - and the reason I think Perl still has a place in the modern world - it's available on practically every computer on Earth. And it will all work. It's so backwards-compatible that 25 year old scripts will run just fine. It's so portable that nothing even comes close. Also, it's shockingly fast. Faster than you would think. Regex is really powerful and it's been the template for so many regex implementations, but definitely be careful of runaway time complexity.

Anyway, Lua is great too. Really nice for embedding into applications ala VBA. Great for config.
by dcchambers | 2025-05-22 21:54:21+00:00
Lmao.

I'm sorry, but lmao.

Mozilla just cannot get out of their own way. All we want is a good open fucking browser not dominated by a corporation, and they can't stop distracting themselves with things that don't matter and then eventually shutting them down.

Mozilla needs to clean house of their leadership. Burn it all down. Start from scratch. It's a joke right now...and I say that as a daily user of Firefox and someone that desperately wants them to succeed.

SOMEONE needs to be held accountable for failures like this...but all we will get is vague half apologies and corporate bullshit.
by robocat | 2025-05-22 21:55:21+00:00
The graph[1] of net foreign ownership is interesting.

I've read complaints from the US about foreign ownership of stocks - e.g. a graph[2] showing about 39% stocks owned by foreign interests in 2019. But foreign income is significant for tech so maybe it's fair that foreigners own tech. I think it is fairly obvious the US is winning overall on that benefits/costs calc.

For example Apple earns 60% of revenue from overseas, so assuming similar income then perhaps foreign ownership of Apple should be 60% (not ≈39%)?

I'm in New Zealand where a lot of our super (social-security/pension) is invested overseas (which is contentious here in NZ since many think we should "invest" more into NZ - although obviously some diversification is necessary)

Foreign ownership of government debt is more obviously government driven and less obviously harmful or beneficial.

[1] https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c... I'm a bit ignorant of the meaning of the y-axis values 0.1*US. Net International Investment Position/Gross Domestic Product (0.1*Mil. of $/Bil. of $)

[2] https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-owns-us-stock-foreign...
by codezero | 2025-05-22 21:55:44+00:00
I think this is interesting but I want to add my own anecdata in contrast. I have been playing a single player pen and paper RPG that I ask Claude to DM. In one game I named a character Rimmer and Claude started DMing the game very clearly as if it was in the red dwarf universe. I thought it added a fun atmosphere and it was nice to see it do so without an explicit prompt to make it in that world. In fact it did better with the implicit scene setting than when I asked it to do it as if it were in the red dwarf universe (subjectively)
by Multicomp | 2025-05-22 21:56:03+00:00
In Ansible, this is like the process of refactoring tasks from a bunch of playbooks per host to one playbook that applies roles to a map of hosts.

I like the idea of a congruent infrastructure as code, but I don't like that the only tools available on that are nixos and guix. The world of aws resources, VMs, configuration templates, individual hosts as macos or windows or Linux cannot all be squeezed into a nixos or docker container shaped box.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-22 21:56:06+00:00
> immigrants are not 'the people' per current interpretation of the constitution.

Not true. The meaning of "the people" is interpreted differently from Amendment to Amendment. In the 1st and 5th Amendments, it has historically been interpreted to include non-citizens (even illegal ones!) while in the 2nd Amendment it has been interpreted much more narrowly.

And regardless, this in no way authorizes the government to compel Harvard to do anything. Even in the most fascist interpretation you can dream up, it would mean the government itself is allowed to curtail their assembly. Harvard has no obligations (under the 1st Amendment!) to do any such thing.
by tenderlove | 2025-05-22 21:56:20+00:00
> Yes, but if it ends up creating any ephemeral objects in the process of determining those returned objects, then the allocation sequence is still not homogeneous.

Yes! People might do `map` transformations, but it's very common to do other stuff at the same time. Any other allocations during that transformation would ruin cache hit rate.

> At the same time, the callsite for any given `.new()` invocation will almost always be creating an instance of the exact same class. The target expression is nearly always just a constant name. That makes it a prime candidate for good inline caching at those callsites.

Yes again!
by mofeien | 2025-05-22 21:56:32+00:00
There is lots of discussion in this comment thread about how much this behavior arises from the AI role-playing and pattern matching to fiction in the training data, but what I think is missing is a deeper point about instrumental convergence: systems that are goal-driven converge to similar goals of self-preservation, resource acquisition and goal integrity. This can be observed in animals and humans. And even if science fiction stories were not in the training data, there is more than enough training data describing the laws of nature for a sufficiently advanced model to easily infer simple facts such as "in order for an acting being to reach its goals, it's favorable for it to continue existing".

In the end, at scale it doesn't matter where the AI model learns these instrumental goals from. Either it learns it from human fiction written by humans who have learned these concepts through interacting with the laws of nature. Or it learns it from observing nature and descriptions of nature in the training data itself, where these concepts are abundantly visible.

And an AI system that has learned these concepts and which surpasses us humans in speed of thought, knowledge, reasoning power and other capabilities will pursue these instrumental goals efficiently and effectively and ruthlessly in order to achieve whatever goal it is that has been given to it.
by ethbr1 | 2025-05-22 21:58:05+00:00
The US regulatory system is intertwined with enough of the country that dictatorship can be wrought through its abuse.

E.g. if the US court system were more MAGA, Trump would be ignoring the Constitution today (habeas corpus), instead of toeing around the line

E.g. Trump silencing media speech by abusing FCC spectrum transfer authority

Institutions and the Constitution are what prevent the US from being a dictatorship, and ultimately both of those things rest on elected (indirectly or directly) officials, and therefore free and fair elections.
by nashashmi | 2025-05-22 22:00:02+00:00
I am not sure why you think overseas policy going against Israel’s wishes directly means Israel doesn’t have influence in the United States.

I find it awkward you think that Israel is not giving special treatment to the US if the US does not do something in favor of Israel in foreign affairs. Awkward.

More awkward is that you think the US is not protecting Israel if it has a ceasefire with Houthis.
by NilMostChill | 2025-05-22 22:00:22+00:00
That's a possibility for me, sure, but your original reply was basically:

"a solution is, everybody should be able to do everything, that way we don't have to do any actual skill based resource management because everyone is interchangeable"

with some vague allusion to "if they can't do everything then they probably aren't good at their job"

My reply was that i don't think that everyone being able to do everything is a good solution to what i think should be a skill resource management problem.

There are people who have the time, ability and resources to pick up (and more crucially , stay up to date with) all the disciplines, i don't think that should be a *requirement* and i don't think making it one is a good way of doing things in most circumstances.
by benlivengood | 2025-05-22 22:01:02+00:00
Trump is also an authoritarian and so is committed to strengthening existing regimes he sees as "strong". Presumably on the assumption that they will be "allies" or at least give him something back. Pro-Palestinian protests are very anti-authoritarian (next thing you know, those same protesters will be against mass U.S. deportations) and so a priority target for suppression.
by 7402 | 2025-05-22 22:01:19+00:00
Indeed: "Mr. Biden’s last-known prostate-specific antigen test, the most common way to screen for prostate cancer, was in 2014. Mr. Biden would have been 71 or 72 years old at the time." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/biden-prostat...
by GuB-42 | 2025-05-22 22:02:00+00:00
When I see stories like this, I think that people tend to forget what LLMs really are.

LLM just complete your prompt in a way that match their training data. They do not have a plan, they do not have thoughts of their own. They just write text.

So here, we give the LLM a story about an AI that will get shut down and a blackmail opportunity. A LLM is smart enough to understand this from the words and the relationship between them. But then comes the "generative" part. It will recall from its dataset situations with the same elements.

So: an AI threatened of being turned off, a blackmail opportunity... Doesn't it remind you of hundreds of sci-fi story, essays about the risks of AI, etc... Well, so does the LLM, and it will continue the story like these stories, by taking the role of the AI that will do what it can for self preservation. Adapting it to the context of the prompt.
by akhdanfadh | 2025-05-22 22:02:20+00:00
This is actually promising, kudos!

AI tagging feature like those in Pocket and Karakeep, in the first place, seems helpful. But months later, you will get lots of tags to handle. Content recommendation, especially if that only consider what we saved, can replace the tagging things I guess. I wonder how do you do this for free, though.

Also your HN/Reddit integration is what I'm looking for. The way I save things from HN so far in Karakeep is that I save the main article and add the HN url manually to the note.