MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tux3 | 2025-05-30 12:03:01+00:00
There have been good discussions recently about preventing AIs from being too sycophantic. There have been some dangerous moments where LLMs would praise every idea the user has as genius, ground-breaking, and a brilliant observation.

Some academics have reported a noticeable increase in the volume of crackpot emails they get daily. They're full of LLM-generated nonsense, where the AI goes along with the nonsensical ramblings, always telling the person they've found some critical insight.

While this feels good, it can end up reinforcing dangerous nonsense. This encourages some people to dig further and further into what the LLM is constantly telling them is a brilliant idea.

Most of the time it's pretty harmless, but when it veers into "revealing hidden patterns" and "illuminating human cognition", you start to worry about a disconnect with consensus reality.
by joshstrange | 2025-05-30 12:03:37+00:00
If you go into it with MySQL/Postgres knowledge you will probably hate it.

Source: me

I almost wish it didn’t use SQL so that it was clear how different it is. Nothing works like you are used to, footguns galore, and I hate zookeeper.

I’d replace it with Postgres in a heartbeat if I thought I could get away with it, I don’t think our data size really needs CH. Unfortunately, my options are “spin up a Custer on company resources to prove my point” or “spin it up on my own infra” (which is not possible since that would require pulling company data to my servers which I would never do). So instead I’m stuck dealing with CH.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-05-30 12:04:30+00:00
> but it failed as a library language

This is very inaccurate. Essentially every high-performance library, user-mode driver, desktop application, and more is written in nothing but C++. Give me any library you can think of, and I assure you it is written in C++ (or maybe C, but this is masochism on the part of the developers). Even libraries for other languages like numpy, pandas, pytorch, etc are written in C++.
by metalman | 2025-05-30 12:04:34+00:00
"lies" are always more compelling than the truth. truth=what is

vs, a whole wide range of "wouldn't it be nice .....if", "cant we just....", and the massive background of myth, legend, fantasy, dreaming, etc so into this we have created a mega capable machine rendered virtual sur-reality.....much like the ancient myth/legends where odesius sits to table where at a fantastic feast..nothing is as it seems
by piva00 | 2025-05-30 12:04:42+00:00
> I'm one of these, but for another reason: hyper-dense urban areas are much more expensive to build (especially skyscrapers, they require massive amounts of concrete), and all sorts of other technology to work. In rural areas, you need streets and that's it (give them autonomous cars or their own electric cars to move around), in urban areas to cope with the masses you need trains (which are, again, expensive to build, just look at my home city of Munich). Additionally, we already have millions of units that stand empty in rural areas in Germany, so it doesn't make sense to build extremely expensive urban housing.

It's much more expensive to build and maintain a vast network of roads, sewage, water, power lines across a huge area servicing fewer people. You don't need skyscrapers to build a denser city, you live in Germany so you are aware of that.

Trains are expensive to build but the costs get spread out over a massive amount of people, it's economies of scale at play, which you do not get if you don't build dense enough places, you might have 10-50k people paying for each 500 metres of rail construction, the same for sewers, electricity, water, rubbish disposal, so on and so forth. That won't ever be possible if everyone lived in similar densities as rural areas, it's simply not economically possible for society to provide all the necessary modern infrastructure to people spread out.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-05-30 12:05:24+00:00
For modern digital service usage, I wouldn't necessarily look at the US as a leader. It's bureaucracy rivals that of big countries in the EU. And a lot of that is still based on form filling. Germany is definitely a basket case on that front (I live there). But I wouldn't rank the US much higher. I've lived in Finland and Sweden as well, which are much better and more efficient. And I'm from the Netherlands, which has modernized quite a bit unlike Germany. Places like California aren't necessarily a lot better and possibly worse in some areas. I've never lived there but I've talked to plenty of people that spent some time there.

Also, if you look at manufacturing, Europe still provides some essential things. SAP, a German company, is a global market leader in ERP and related software. Companies like Tesla buy high their high tech machines from Germany. And the machines that make the chips that are power the AI revolution are made by ASML, headquartered in the EU. US manufacturing is a lot weaker than EU manufacturing at this point.

So, I don't think it is that black and white and there are a lot of things in the US that aren't necessarily very modern or nice.

And for taxation, there's the argument to be made that there are an awful lot of US companies with extreme valuation rivaling the GDP of most EU countries that seem to be very good at dodging taxes in the EU despite getting a lot of their revenue there. There's a lot of talk about trade imbalances lately, and this has been an obvious candidate for balancing. So, I don't think this is such a strange thing to do for the EU to be publicly musing doing something about that in light of all the tariffs that Trump is threatening with currently.

Which is of course what this is all about.
by Katesmith | 2025-05-30 12:05:47+00:00
AI adoption in sports is accelerating fast. Forecasts estimate that by 2025, the market for AI in sports will reach $3.1 billion. This technology is reshaping traditional coaching by enabling deeper analysis, precise performance tracking, and smarter training program development.

In this article, we’ll explore how AI is transforming sports coaching—highlighting the key tools in use today, the challenges that come with them, and what the future may hold. Let’s dive in.
by bayindirh | 2025-05-30 12:07:37+00:00
I think Nikon and Canon's past cameras had signed photos by default, and you could get the software for verification if you're a police dept or similar.

Both manufacturer's keys got extracted from their cameras, rendering the feature moot. Now, a more robust iteration is probably coming, possibly based on secure enclaves.

I'd love to have the feature and use it to verify that my images are not corrupted on disk.
by zettapwn | 2025-05-30 12:07:56+00:00
The open question is who’s worse: one major tyrant three thousand miles away or three thousand minor tyrants a mile away. If we consent to live under capitalism, then we’re destined to live in a world of lies. We always have; it’s all we’ve ever known.

What we don’t know is whether we’ll be worse or better off when the technology of forgery is available to random broke assholes as easily as it is to governments and companies. More slop seems bad, but if our immunity against bullshit improves, people might redevelop critical thinking skills and capitalism could end.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-05-30 12:07:59+00:00
From TFA:

Mythmaking, more than truth seeking, is what seems likely to define the future of media and of the public square. The reason extraordinarily strange conspiracy theories have spread so widely in recent years may have less to do with the nature of credulity than with the nature of faith.

The reason why strange and even outright deranged notions have spread so widely is that they have been monetised. It is a Gibberish Economy.
by kekePower | 2025-05-30 12:08:21+00:00
I have an RTX 3070 with 8GB VRAM and for me Qwen3:30B-A3B is fast enough. It's not lightning fast, but more than adequate if you have a _little_ patience.

I've found that Qwen3 is generally really good at following instructions and you can also very easily turn on or off the reasoning by adding "/no_think" in the prompt to turn it off.

The reason Qwen3:30B works so well is because it's a MoE. I have tested the 14B model and it's noticeably slower because it's a dense model.
by tialaramex | 2025-05-30 12:09:17+00:00
Qt is a C++ kitchen sink library - perhaps it feels very important to C++ programmers but I can't imagine Rust people are looking forward to having more redundant types that do exactly the same thing as a type they've used for years but like, now with a Q in their name.

The fact that lists like yours so often end up being "Look at all these C libraries" ie not actually about C++ at all is revealing. It's an endorsement of Bjarne's position that he needed that C compatibility, decades later C++ alternatives remain unpopular but it also tells you that you're never going to raise the bar this way. C++ is not a route out.

AFAIK there is no equivalent of rustls-openssl-compat for C++. The knowledge that this library (OpenSSL) is trash never spurred any C++ programmers to do better and provide the same ABI but with a C++ implementation.
by ReptileMan | 2025-05-30 12:10:05+00:00
>Yes, it basically changes to men complaining about women. The people with a good sex life end up becoming therapists for the group.

Just not true. Men only groups are rarely misogynist, more often they are homophobic in the sense that everyone is trying to imply that everyone else is secretly gay.

There is also various forms of dick measuring contests - who can grill better, who caught bigger fish and so on. Also for hobbies. And a lot of stories. You have no idea the acts of bravery worthy of medal of honor you will hear.

Bitching about women is minor.

On the other hand being able to overhear what my roommate and her girlfriends (early 20s) talk about - on some evenings they don't pass the Bechdel test in real life. On other evenings it usually evenly split between men, fashion, professional.
by motorest | 2025-05-30 12:10:18+00:00
> However, I quickly learned that other languages just do it differently and often even better (ever had to check an error when closing a resource?).

I don't think that's even conceptually the same. The point of RAII is that resource deallocation is ensured, deterministic, and built into the happy path. Once you start to throw errors and relying on those to manage resources, you're actually dealing the consequences of not having RAII.
by craftkiller | 2025-05-30 12:10:39+00:00
Those two scouts programs aren't even remotely comparable, both in substance and prestige. Many girl scout troops barely did any camping/outdoor activity, whereas boys got to earn the prestige of "eagle scout" and go on various outdoor adventures (multi-day treks through the mountains, building igloos and camping inside them, camping on an island only accessible by a canoe, etc). It was a tragedy that girls didn't have the opportunities available to boys.

(Source: My sister and her friends were the type that would have thrived in boy scouts, but they had to join a "venture crew" run by the same scout leader as our boy scout troop)
by Katesmith | 2025-05-30 12:10:57+00:00
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the construction industry—transforming how projects are designed, managed, and delivered. By leveraging advanced algorithms, machine learning, and data analytics, companies can significantly boost safety, efficiency, and workforce productivity on-site.

In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the role of AI in quantity surveying. You’ll learn about its key benefits, real-life success stories, and how it compares to traditional methods. We’ll also explore implementation challenges and what the future may hold for AI-driven construction. Let’s get started.
by chrismorgan | 2025-05-30 12:10:59+00:00
It’s most easily shown in a couple of Paul’s letters and in Hebrews, but I think you might prefer what the gospels record Jesus saying; so I’ll suggest Matthew 25, especially towards the end, and some chunks in Luke 12 too, probably centring around verse 49. His first and second comings have quite different missions. You can also see the progression even in his lifetime in how he tried to help and teach the leaders at the start, but by the end he practically eviscerated the Pharisees for their unrepentant hypocrisy (Matthew 23).

There’s also the temptations of Jesus: skipping the pain and taking over (to fix things, as he will eventually) was a temptation to him. He had the power, he had to decide not to use it on himself. Consider also Gethsemane.
by potato3732842 | 2025-05-30 12:11:10+00:00
You've got a very ignorant view of dairy farming. Now I'm sure there's some operations in those western desert states that behave that way but it is absolutely not the norm east of the Mississippi.

I've got a friend who owns a dairy farm. He doesn't keep dead cows around because the risk of introducing disease isn't worth it.

Manure gets treated in a "lagoon" (which looks like an open pit to you) wherein the water evaporated and bacteria breaks it down to become fertilizer for the next guy. The system is specifically designed to keep it from running off. Good dirt work is cheaper than having you people up his ass over pollution.

If he dumps milk it's like 20gal from purging equipment or something, not enough to matter. Milk is money so he tries to avoid dumping any. If he did want to dump a bunch of it, he could dump it straight into the lagoons because a liquid designed to be nutritious for growing mammals will be a walk in the park for bacteria that feed on what the mammals leave behind.

And 40yr ago when he dad owned the farm all of this was the same. The technology has changed a little but they weren't piling bodies then either.
by notarobot123 | 2025-05-30 12:11:16+00:00
I love the idea of "industrial research" that's somewhere between the castle-in-the-sky thinking of academia and cold rationalism of market-oriented product development.

The fact that Ink & Switch researchers are focusing on "authentic use" without the pressure to find product-market-fit means they can effectively scout the terrain and signpost the fruitful paths.

Imagine if today's tech monopolies were compelled to invest in this kind of research (just like AT&T was). It would create a hot-bed of innovation and new avenues would open up for startups to explore. I wish we had more research groups like this.
by captainbland | 2025-05-30 12:11:44+00:00
I think the other issue is that those lies can be pumped out at inhuman speeds, and specifically targeted at particular audiences automatically using existing online audience marketing tools. So you can end up in a situation where the lie not only spreads quickly, but different audiences are receiving specialised versions of that lie which makes it particularly compelling to them, generated by AI tools, and totally responsive to real world events and narratives at minimal cost (compared to hiring humans to do the same job) - and this might happen at a really fine grained level.
by IshKebab | 2025-05-30 12:11:58+00:00
Interesting question but this article completely failed to answer it and really went off the rails half way through.

Ars answered this much much better:

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/ai-video-just-took-a-star...

> As these tools become more powerful and affordable, skepticism in media will grow. But the question isn't whether we can trust what we see and hear. It's whether we can trust who's showing it to us. In an era where anyone can generate a realistic video of anything for $1.50, the credibility of the source becomes our primary anchor to truth. The medium was never the message—the messenger always was.
by altcognito | 2025-05-30 12:12:05+00:00
New technology also usually brings new and more challenging complications. Nuclear energy, combustion engines, electricity, the internet all came with huge new problems that we are still dealing with today. Some of the problems are so severe they threaten human survivability.

Even your example contains an unsolved, and serious problem. We still don’t know who is on the other end of the phone.
by intended | 2025-05-30 12:12:06+00:00
So this is an actual problem I am considering and have an approach. Talking essentially about our inability to know:

1) if a piece of content is a fact or not.

2) if the person you are acting with is a human or a bot.

I think its easier if you take the most nihilistic view possible, as opposed to the optimistic or average case:

1) Everything is content. Information/Facts are simply a privileged version of content.

2) Assume all participants are bots.

The benefit is that we reduce the total amount of issues we are dealing with. We don’t focus on the variants of content being shared, or conversation partners, but on the invariant processes, rules and norms we agree upon.

So We can’t agree on may be facts - but what we can agree on is that the norms or process was followed.

The alternative, to hold on to some semblance or desire to assume people are people, and the inputs are factual, was possible to an extent in an earlier era. However the issue is that at this juncture, our easy BS filters are insufficient, and verification is increasingly computationally, economically, and energetically taxing.

I’m sure others have had better ideas, but this is the distance I have been able to travel and the journey I can articulate.

Side note

There’s a few Harvard professors who have written about misinformation, pointing out that total amount of misinfo consumed isn’t that high. Essentially : that demand for misinformation is limited. I find that this is true, but sheer quantity isnt the problem with misinfo, its amplification by trusted sources.

What GenAI does is different, it does make it easier to make more content, but it also makes it easier to make better quality content.

Today it’s not an issue of the quantity of misinformation going up, it’s an issue of our processes to figure out BS getting fooled.

This is all putting pressure on fact finding processes, and largely making facts expensive information products - compared to “content” that looks good enough.
by ashdnazg | 2025-05-30 12:12:12+00:00
With AVX512 (and to a lesser extent with AVX2) one can implement 256 bit addition pretty efficiently with the additional benefit of fitting more numbers in registers.

It looks more or less like this:

__m256i s = _mm256_add_epi64(a, b); const __m256i all_ones = _mm256_set1_epi64x(~0); int g = _mm256_cmpgt_epu64_mask(a, s); int p = _mm256_cmpeq_epu64_mask(s, all_ones); int carries = ((g << 1) + p) ^ p; __m256i ret = _mm256_mask_sub_epi64(s, carries, s, all_ones);

The throughput even seems to be better: https://godbolt.org/z/e7zETe8xY

It's trivial to change this to do 512 bit addition where the improvement will be even more significant.
by keiferski | 2025-05-30 12:13:23+00:00
Can someone tell me why this idea isn’t workable and wouldn’t solve most deepfake issues?

All camera and phone manufacturers embed a code in each photo / video they produce.

All social media channels prioritize content that has these codes, and either block or de-prioritize content without them.

Result: the internet is filled with a vast amount of AI generated nonsense, but it’s mostly not treated as anything but entertainment. Any real content can be traced back to physical cameras.

The main issue I see is if the validation code is hacked at the camera level. But that is at least as preventable as say, preventing printers from counterfeiting money.
by danielblignaut | 2025-05-30 12:14:54+00:00
Have these changes landed yet? I don't see any updates in the documentation website around some of these features. Most notably, I'm interested in read replication and the ability for a read replica to take over becoming the leader (even if it requires a config update and litestream restart) in cases where we aren't using Consul (which is why LiteFS is not a workable solution in our environment).
by perching_aix | 2025-05-30 12:15:36+00:00
Unfortunately that doesn't prove too much. It all hinges on the cameras, which are just computers, operating in a verifiable fashion. Which they don't, as no consumer available computer currently does, and I don't see this changing in the near future, both for technological and political reasons.

I put a lot of effort into thinking about what could be proper trustable on photos and videos [0], but short of performing continuous modulation on the light sources the light of which is eventually captured by the cameras' sensors, there's no other way, and even that I'm not sure how would work with light actually doing the things its supposed to (reflection, refraction, scatter, polarization, etc.). And that's not even mentioning how the primary light source everyone understandably relies on, the Sun, will never emit such a modulated signal.

So what will happen instead I'm sure, is people deciding that they should not let perfection be the enemy of good, and moving on with this stuff anyways. Except this decision will not result in the necessary corresponding disclaimers reaching consumers, and so will begin the age of sham proofs and sham disprovals, and further radicalization. Here's to hope I'm wrong, and that these efforts will receive appropriate disclaimers when implemented and rolled out.

[0] related in a perhaps unexpected way: https://youtube.com/shorts/u-h5fHOcS88
by Ukv | 2025-05-30 12:16:12+00:00
> It is journalistic malpractice that these viewpoints are presented as [...]

Seems fine to me when it's explicitly stated to be the viewpoint of the OpenAI CEO, and then countered by an expert opinion. It's already apparent that MRDA[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_he_would,_wouldn%27t_he%3...
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-05-30 12:18:06+00:00
Couple of things to consider for your business:

1) If Vault's license format prevents managed hosted solutions, you might want to switch to OpenBao.

2) Vault has enterprise solutions you have to pay for; OpenBao is making those free.

3) In general, if you plan to pay for support, use Vault. If you don't plan to pay for support, use either of them, because they require the same amount of maintenance and have the same features. Since OpenBao is a fork, you can just review the ChangeLogs when you upgrade to see how far it has diverged from upstream. Once it's diverged more than you're comfortable with, you can just switch back to Vault [before you adopt diverged features] and it will be a very small change. You can also avoid using any OpenBao features which aren't compatible upstream.

It's worth considering that your business can lend legitimacy to OpenBao, which will increase its contributor share. You can simultaneously make a small, low-risk engineering decision, while helping grow an open source project [which helps your business].
by bgwalter | 2025-05-30 12:18:26+00:00
All issues that are implicitly pointed out as novel in the introduction have been discussed for centuries.

Not only by scholars and experts. Literally 50% of Internet discussion is about biases, selective facts, spin etc. The problem with "AI" is that propaganda can be automated and that it wastes our time.

The topic is suited for "AI" because it is a soft topic that lends itself to uninhibited preaching. "AI" is also great at writing presidential speeches. It is probably the only thing it is good at.

Nevertheless, the result is still painful to read.
by subsistence234 | 2025-05-30 12:19:53+00:00
As far as economic policy goes Democrats are neoliberals (which can be considered right wing).

They are far left on cultural topics (e.g. favoring retributive discrimination, wanting frivolous late term abortions to be legal) and far left in their attempted "solutions" to issues like homelessness (rewarding what they try to stop), crime (not enforcing the law if it would make client groups look bad, e.g. making theft under $1k a misdemeanor), education (e.g. abolishing measures of competence).

Some of that is performative, some of it is clientelism. But there are a lot of influential Democrat positions are held by sincere (cultural) leftists.