MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aimxhaisse | 2025-05-21 06:30:00+00:00
On effort being a requirement: part of art is around playing with limits of a medium and finding a way in it, it takes a lot of trials, attempts, and errors for an artist to make their way. It's not a requirement per se, but something needed for someone to intent something different. Not worried about creative ways where artists explore AI, new things will come out of it and it's going to be interesting. Not worried either about post-modernists who already dropped requirements long time ago and tape bananas to walls, they'll find their way. But the category artists who make their way through the effort put in a medium, not only the narrative around the medium will be affected.

On jobs: craftsmanship is slightly different than art: industries are built with people who can craft, there is today an artistic part in it but it's not the essence of the job: the ads industry can work with lower quality ads provided they can spam 10x. There is however an overlap between art/craftmanship: a lot of people working in these industries can today be in a balance where they live with a salary and dedicate time to explore their mediums. We know what will happen when the craftmanship part is replaced by AI, being an artist will require to have the balance in the first place.

It feels like a regression: it leads to a reduction of ideas/explorations, a saturation of the affected mediums, a loss of intent. Eager to see what new things come out of it though.
by nolist_policy | 2025-05-21 06:30:16+00:00
Gemma-3n-E4B-it on my 2022 Galaxy Z Fold 4.

CPU:

7.37 seconds to first token

35.55 tokens/second prefill speed

7.09 tokens/second decode speed

27.97 seconds to complete the answer

GPU:

1.96 seconds to first token

133.40 tokens/second prefill speed

7.95 tokens/second decode speed

14.80 seconds to complete the answer
by hollowturtle | 2025-05-21 06:30:44+00:00
You seem to not fully understand the quote. LLMs learn patterns/noises from an existing output, these are not skills nor endless experience learned. It's like saying you learn how to make a cake by learning how it should look like not how it's composed. LLMs mock the studio ghibli style images, didn't invent the style or learned the endless experience the studio accumulated over the years. In fact it's a mocking of the images and it just looks horrible
by devoutsalsa | 2025-05-21 06:32:04+00:00
I don't think an LLM will be good at spotting fake resumes. I was trying to point out that if you use an LLM to screen for matches to the job, you can expect to find a lot of people that used ChatGPT to customize their resume to your role. As more & more people realize that using an LLM gets you passed AI resume filters, you can expect all positive resumes to be LLM output, so using an LLM as a way of identifying potential applicants will be less & less useful over time.
by syklemil | 2025-05-21 06:32:29+00:00
> My own employer has ascribed some sort of spiritual status to prompts.

You may want to get them away from the prompts asap. They might be headed down the route to heavy spiritual delusions: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spi...

It seems that just like how some people predisposed to psychosis should stay away from certain recreational drugs, some people should stay away from LLMs.
by deaddodo | 2025-05-21 06:33:18+00:00
> They can then use these earned dollars to transact with other countries, as the US itself insists they do.

I feel like people who post this have no idea of the "eurodollar"[1] or the fact that it was London (and the EU, at the time, in general) that benefited from popularizing the USD as a reserve currency versus pegging one to their previously decentralized currencies or risking their own currency control.

The US doesn't need to insist on anything. As you yourself stated in the paragraph previous to this, it's a natural side effect of being a large economy that everyone wants/needs to trade with. For the most part, the eurodollar has been a pain in the side of the US as it removes some control over their own currency. In some cases this has helped, as it's tempered certain recessive/depressive effects during downtimes (especially with Europe), but it's also caused inflationary issues that are outside the hands of the Fed. The US (like pretty much any nation minting their own currency) would prefer to have that control over some ephemeral benefits that very few can ever seem to articulate or meaningfully quantify.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodollar
by Arnavion | 2025-05-21 06:33:27+00:00
As I wrote in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44048391 , you have to get used to copying the libstd impl when working with MaybeUninit. For my code I put a "TODO(rustup)" comment on such copies, to remind myself to revisit them every time I update the Rust version in toolchain.toml
by 59nadir | 2025-05-21 06:34:03+00:00
I can have an engine ready for you that allows you to render arbitrary 2D sprites, levels of them, etc. or whatever in a day. People gamejam more interesting and advanced stuff than you're talking about. The mechanics of just shoving together some 2D sprites is not some big undertaking even if you write your engine from scratch, it's making something actually fun and interesting from it that takes time and effort.
by starspangled | 2025-05-21 06:34:07+00:00
No, the meaning of the phrase "living beyond one's means" doesn't go to the unavoidable fact that circumstances change over time. I will one day become infirm and unable to earn money, that does not mean I'm currently living beyond my means.

US dollars might one day cease to be the global reserve currency in which case Americans will not see such benefits associated with that. This is a true statement. That doesn't mean they are currently living beyond their means either though.
by floitsch | 2025-05-21 06:34:20+00:00
You will improve your language skills this way, but if your skill level isn't high enough it's going to be exhausting to the native speaker as well.

I have been living in Denmark for 15 years now, and it's still easier to do conversations in English. When I speak Danish it requires more mental capacity from the other side.

I am speaking Danish from time to time, but it's only to get better at it. The English proficiency in Denmark (and probably the Netherlands) is so high that you need to be really good at the native tongue before it is easier than English in conversations.
by dns_snek | 2025-05-21 06:35:11+00:00
Why stick around if you have this amount of pent-up hatred and disgust for the EU, the people who live here, and everything they believe in at a fundamental ideological level?

If you believe the grass is so much greener on the other side then why not just go for it? Judging by your nickname I'm assuming that you have the means to move just about anywhere if you really wanted to, but I think you'll be sorely disappointed no matter where you end up going.
by mmooss | 2025-05-21 06:35:18+00:00
> the goal will never be achieved

We can't reduce racism and similar prejudice? We've done it, we can do much more. What evidence is there otherwise?

> Any small demographic imbalance will be reinterpreted as being a result of discrimination.

That's a strawperson you made up.

> DEI proponents are usually extremely intolerant

The comment is a list of strawpersons.
by jan_nan | 2025-05-21 06:35:43+00:00
mi wile e ni: jan ante li lon ni li toki kepeken toki pona anu seme? me kama awen e sona.

jan pali li sitelen e toki sitelen tenpo pini. jan ali li sama. tan la, mi sona ala!

English: I wonder if there are other people on Hacker News who know toki pona? I myself am still learning it.

I see the author of this site is using the old sitelen (glyphs), as is usual for most in the toki pona community. I don't understand why the new glyphs aren't used more.
by codeflo | 2025-05-21 06:36:11+00:00
I don’t get the difference. In both C and Rust you can have pointers to uninitialized memory. In both languages, you can’t use them except in very specific circumstances (which are AFAIK identical).

There are two actual differences in this regard: C pointers are more ergonomic than Rust pointers. And Rust has an additional feature called references, which enable a lot more aggressive compiler optimizations, but which have the restriction that you can’t have a reference to uninitialized memory.
by intended | 2025-05-21 06:36:46+00:00
The rest of the world wants to be the house.

The rest of the world was and remains very happy to play this game, because it reduces the amount of trouble people have when exchanging currencies.

It gives advantages to America, sure. But America recognized that there were consequences.

Today, 1/3rd of the American electorate is insulated from reality, and its politics are free to downplay, or ignore consequences, if not just blame them on the opposition.

No one has an answer to a broken market of information. In the end, reality will have its due.
by weatherlite | 2025-05-21 06:37:01+00:00
> Why would you want massive amounts more of those things? In fact I might even argue that medicine, taxation and education are a net negative on society already. And that to the extent that there seems to be scarcity, it's mainly a distribution problem having to do with entrenched interests and bureaucracy.

I'm not sure what you mean. In my country getting a specialist to take a look at you can take weeks, the scarcity is that there's not enough doctors. For sure many people get delayed and suboptimal diagnosis (even if you finally get to see the specialist, he may have 10 mintues for you and 50 other patients to see that day). A.I can simply solve this.

> The cost of building a new house or railway will plummet to the cost of the material and the land

>> That's is the actual scarcity tho

Not necessarily, the labor costs a tremendous amount, and also it might be that we don't need to cram tens of millions of people around cities anymore if most work is automated, we can start spreading out (again, this will take decades and I'm not denying we have pressing problems in the immediate future).
by herewulf | 2025-05-21 06:37:42+00:00
I've been using Univerbal happily with Italian. Dutch is one of its 20 languages. Worth noting that it's a paid app but seems to have a lot of polish. I found out about it on HN so I'm sure you can look up discussions to get more opinions on it (though it's quite frequently updated).

https://www.univerbal.app
by rcody | 2025-05-21 06:37:52+00:00
That's a valid concern especially when considering safety reports. Since we have access to a company’s historical reports, we’re able to draw from their previous language and structure when generating full length content, but its not exactly boiler plate (unless the users request it that way). If you hit generate on a report multiple times it will output slightly differently in wording, but it doesn't extrapolate on the content.

Though it is still the users responsibility to review the output.
by eviks | 2025-05-21 06:39:25+00:00
You're making it all up, he's a terminal product manager, so it is not beyond job description.

Of course the app doesn't check all boxes, plenty of features other editors have had years to add simply couldn't be added even if you work on Christmas (by the way, is also entirely driven by the NIH decision to write from scratch and not than that doing a 3 language mock)

And I'm not shaming the fun, I'm saying that that's not a good justification for shipping a worse app to the millions in a professional setting
by deaddodo | 2025-05-21 06:39:45+00:00
> China's GDP (PPP) is already ~22% higher than the USA's [1]. Arguably, isn't this a better measure of value? PPP measures the real value to the citizens in a nation, and more closely measures actual economic activity.

Only if the only things you purchase are exclusively domestic. Turns out, the vast majority of Chinese citizens with any means are interested in foreign products (like most people in the world).
by bw86 | 2025-05-21 06:42:02+00:00
mi ken toki kepeken toki pona. o pona tawa sina tan ni: sina kama sona e toki pona la mi ken toki tawa sina kepeken toki pona. ni li musi tawa mi.

lipu ni li ike mute. ona li lipu pi sona ala li pakala e kulupu nimi. sina wile kama sona e toki pona la o lukin e lipu ante a!
by acyou | 2025-05-21 06:42:16+00:00
I assume that the New York Fed would like Americans to be more patriotic, save more, and buy less cheap imported crap, that's why they wrote this article in this way. But it skates past a few key issues.

1. Consumption doesn't zero out, because domestic consumption in the USA is mostly spent in China, not in the USA. That is what contributes to the trade deficit, not lack of saving.

2. Asset price inflation contributes hugely to the money supply. Where is this in this equation? It's not saving, it's not investment, it's not consumption, it's mind boggling amount of money created from nothing. That asset price inflation is the true source of wealth creation and money supply growth, not bond sales, quantitative easing, or whatever.

3. Domestic saving is in no way equivalent to productive investment in the US economy. Are people keeping money in their mattress considered accounting discrepancies? Companies hoard cash like dragons. What investment in USA? Have you seen much new equipment or new factories? What investment means here is pumping up USA asset prices, it stretches the definition of the word investment to the absolute limit. Domestic saving just ends up as unused savings in an account somewhere, we don't have a good mechanism to put it to actual productive use.

4. The true role of the Federal Reserve is to stabilize and increase asset prices. Money can be easily created by stimulating asset price growth.

5. Funds from abroad don't finance business investment in USA. Investment is a very nice way to put it. They are foreign funds snapping up American real estate and other hard assets. Investment somewhat implies it will lead to economic benefits. Foreign ownership of American assets, companies and real estate is what "investment" means. It doesn't mean growth, it means shrinkage, I think the foreign owned assets tend to lose their value.
by somenameforme | 2025-05-21 06:42:18+00:00
That's not the assumption at all. The percent of cheaters in online chess is approaching an asymptotic 0 (as a percent of all players) simply because the sites, and chess.com in particular, have gotten very good at culling them.

But things like this are social. I didn't follow this (or even know it was going on somehow) but it seems very safe to assume that somebody and probably multiple somebodies were regularly pointing out and discussing engine moves.

So my only real assumption is that a significant chunk of people would end up deferring to the engine moves rather than their own preference. Of course my implied assumption there is also that a significant chunk of people were involved in the social aspects of this, but I think that's also a fairly reasonable assumption.
by ablob | 2025-05-21 06:42:55+00:00
if you pick a value you have to store it, and if you have to store it it might spill into memory when register allocation fails. Moving from register-only to stack/heap usage easily slows down your program by an order of magnitude or two. If this is in a hot path, which I'd argue it is since using uninitialized values seems senseless otherwise, it might have a big impact.

The only way to really know is to test this. Compilers and their optimizations depend on a lot of things. Even the order and layout of instructions can matter due to the instruction cache. You can always go and make the guarantee later on, but undoing it would be impossible.
by throwaway81523 | 2025-05-21 06:42:58+00:00
I'm not fluent in anything but English, but I've had some basic exposure to a few other languages. I've found when travelling that trying to struggle by in another country's language (avoiding English) is almost like reformatting my brain. It takes a few days to to reach the point where my surface thoughts are in the new language, but at the same time, my knowledge of the new language is so primitive that those thoughts can't have any complexity. I've wondered if that's anything like the mind-emptiness that Zen meditators are known to seek. Of course I could switch back to English when I had to.

I'm pretty sure that doing this a few times made my English permanently worse. I guess it's ok since I'm not a literary stylist or anything like that, but it's something to be aware of.
by Terr_ | 2025-05-21 06:44:37+00:00
> The time of day of any potential violet-light therapy for myopia also could matter.

Before anyone rushes to change desktop backgrounds, any effect might involve actual "violet" wavelengths of light (380nm) [0] as opposed to mix of typical LED-reds and LED-blues that are visually similar. Plus then you have a new risk, with blue light at night affects circadian rhythms.

I suppose one could create their own light-emitting source, but I'd be afraid of accidentally scorching my retinas with strong invisible UV.

____

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22043319/
by orlp | 2025-05-21 06:45:13+00:00
It is as easy as it looks to add `freeze`. That is, value-based `freeze`, reference-based `freeze` while seemingly reasonable is broken because of MADV_FREE.

Some people simply aren't comfortable with it.

Currently sound Rust code does not depend on the value of uninitialized memory whatsoever. Adding `freeze` means that it can. A vulnerability similar to heartbleed to expose secrets from free'd memory is impossible in sound Rust code without `freeze`, but theoretically possible with `freeze`.

Whether you consider this a realistic issue or not likely determines your stance on `freeze`. I personally don't think it's a big deal and have several algorithms which are fundamentally being slowed down by the lack of `freeze`, so I'd love it if we added it.
by sneak | 2025-05-21 06:45:14+00:00
It’s a true shame that the public utility commission is so corrupt that we lose the obvious economies of scale from grid-scale installations of same in favor of expensive rent seeking by a state-sanctioned monopoly.

I also have 60kWh of batteries in my kitchen, but for the average person who doesn’t want to deal with this stuff, having to admin part of the power grid is a tragic waste.

If the PUC and power company weren’t bastards, this could all be in a giant field somewhere staffed by a tiny fraction of the people who have to waste their lives dealing with it in their garages. So many unnecessary struts, so much caulk and EPO switches, so many inverters.
by LordDragonfang | 2025-05-21 06:45:19+00:00
> The new model uses [energy] equivalent to riding 38 miles on an e-bike... AI companies have defended these numbers saying that generative video has a smaller footprint than the film shoots and travel that go into typical video production. That claim is hard to test and doesn’t account for the surge in video generation that might follow if AI videos become cheap to produce.

"Hard to test", but very obviously true if you make any attempt at guessing based on making a few assumptions... like they seem comfortable doing for all the closed source models they don't have access to being run in conditions they're not testing for. Especially considering they're presenting their numbers as definitive, and then just a couple paragraphs down admit that, yeah, they're just guessing.

Regardless, I know for a fact that a typical commercial shoot uses way more energy than driving across the TMZ in an e-bike (considering they're definitely using cars to transport gear, which gives you less than 4 miles for the same energy).
by mpweiher | 2025-05-21 06:46:14+00:00
> The comment implied that women left engineering because they preferred taking care of children over working as engineers.

That turns out not to be the case.

1. It wasn't "implied"

There were no implications, things were said straight out.

2. It wasn't "the comment" that didn't imply this

This was a statement by the researchers quoted verbatim.

3. It wasn't "the" reason

As the researchers stated: men and women actually appear to leave engineering at roughly the same rate and endorse the same reasons for leaving

So wanting to take care of children wasn't "the" reasons, and it wasn't even the main reason. It was one where men and women actually diverged, whereas for the most part they gave the same reasons.

4. Non-accomodation was a factor

> The context is that they wanted to choose both, but their work didn't allow it.

That is also not true as written. First, the researchers write "often", which you leave out. Second the researchers write "resistance", you write "didn't allow". Those are not the same thing.

Third, the report clearly states "women wanted to leave the workforce to spend time with family". Wanted. Not "were forced to by societal pressures".

And of course those pressures are identical for men and women, if not stronger for men. When I started working part time in order to have time for my daughter, there was an almost immediate attempt to push me out, stopped only by my team revolting, and it was made clear to me that I would not be advancing, that my career was if not over than at least dead in the water.

And at some level that is actually correct. Once I had my daughter, my job was not just not my #1 priority, I physically did not have the same amount of time to give. This is not some evil discriminatory society, it is physics. The day has so many hours. So companies that often demand total dedication from their employees (especially in the US) simply won't get it from a caregiver.

Now I don't agree that that is a legitimate demand. But it is a common one that is made equally of all employees, non-discriminatorily.

Choosing family over career is a legitimate choice. It happens to be my choice. But it is a choice, and one I personally would make again and again, even though the punishment society doles out to men for that choice is much, much harsher.
by krackers | 2025-05-21 06:46:29+00:00
Someone [1] inspected dimensions of the embedding component of model and it seems GP was on the right track. Assuming I understood correctly in [2], it does seem to be the embedding of the input tokens which is passed directly into each layer.

I have not looked at the model but since the embedding dimension of 256 seems quite small (for reference according to [3] the old Gemma 1B had 1152 dimension input embedding), I'm guessing that this is not done _in lieu_ of the main input embedding to first layer, but in addition to it.

[1] https://twitter.com/cccntu/status/1925043973170856393

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=44048662

[3] https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-explained-whats-n...
by xlii | 2025-05-21 06:47:26+00:00
Since you mentioned violin I’ll share my recent discovery.

Pianos (like grand ones, but also recent electronic ones with sophisticated key action mechanisms) are built to provide two-way feedback.

There’s feedback on key press. There’s bass rumble you can feel as your feet touches the pedal. This combined with string action can help with building „relation” with the instrument and take from it.

But I still couldn’t build one..
by alex-moon | 2025-05-21 06:47:28+00:00
Having done some work around net zero policy I am increasingly convinced that this is the way forward, and indeed that this will be the way things are done normally maybe 10-20 years from now. The concept is called "distributed generation" and in UK each distribution network keeps an "embedded capacity register" which is basically all the distributed energy resources that are connected to the grid at distribution level (i.e. in the local area). Over here the national grid largely operates at or over capacity, which is a very serious problem for the immediate future, especially as more and more power is drained by compute-heavy infrastructure (data centers and such). Distributed generation is an attractive solution for households regardless of which angle you look at it from.