MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mikebabineau | 2025-05-05 14:28:36+00:00
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by ch_sm | 2025-05-05 14:29:13+00:00
> Look at all those top non-American films on that list:

That’s not a list of non-American films, it’s a list of non-American directors.

To answer what I assume is your every so snarkily delivered point: Yes, about a third of the directors on that list ended up successful in Hollywood. Does that mean international films are bad? Probably not! Does it maybe mean even Hollywood recognizes that there is a lot of international talent, and very good international films being made? Probably yes?
by TFYS | 2025-05-05 14:29:31+00:00
Deciding direction is also just work. Why does the reward for that kind of work have to be ownership over the work other people do? An architect makes decisions about a building, a doctor makes decisions about treatments, a developer makes decisions about software architecture without needing to own the resulting building, patient or software, and they usually try to do their best.

As long as there is some link between the quality of work you do and the rewards you get, people will in most cases try their best. Allocation of capital is no different, and in my opinion should not be treated differently. Giving capital allocators ownership/percentage of the work others do is too much, and leads to unnecessary centralization of power.
by mjevans | 2025-05-05 14:29:57+00:00
I suspect the only real benefit is a change in behavior of some passengers. They _paid_ for a thing and therefore feel more respectful towards it.

Which would be related to the other symptomatic reasons such a barrier might be sought. As a society my country (USA) sadly has low respect for the commons generally. There's a lack of investment (not none, but not enough), a sense of 'me-ism' entitlement in the population (as if sharing and consideration of others shouldn't mutually be the priority for a public space), and unwillingness to address national scale issues that lead to blights upon the commons (mostly thinking of people society has failed).

None of those are easy enough to fix that a reasonably sized reply could even begin to adequately cover a solution, but those problems are some reasons why a gated access to a public resource might be sought other than as a form of funding.
by theoreticalmal | 2025-05-05 14:29:57+00:00
While I certainly enjoy pictures of my friends and loved ones, I also deeply enjoy a few of the landscape photos I’ve taken. For me, I have a really really difficult time remembering a place or memory or situation unless I can recall the physical space I was in. A picture of a pretty vista and a few photos of the nearby surround area immediately helps me recall my feelings, who I was with, and the overall memory of the place, usually to great enjoyment
by slashdev | 2025-05-05 14:31:08+00:00
Where do you want to start? Going back 3000 years it was the state of Israel. Then conquered by various nations, including the Persians, Greeks and the Romans, among others. Move forward a couple thousand years and it was conquered by Arabs. Then in more modern times, the Ottoman Empire, then the British. There have been Jews living there the entire 3000 years.

I suspect you're talking about more recent history, which I'll just copy from Wikipedia here:

"During the Mandate, the area saw successive waves of Jewish immigration and the rise of nationalist movements in both the Jewish and Arab communities. Competing interests of the two populations led to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine and the 1944–1948 Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine. The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine to divide the territory into two states, one Arab and one Jewish, was passed in November 1947. The 1948 Palestine war ended with the territory of Mandatory Palestine divided among the State of Israel, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which annexed territory on the West Bank of the Jordan River, and the Kingdom of Egypt, which established the "All-Palestine Protectorate" in the Gaza Strip."

"On 14 May 1948, with the termination of the British Mandate and the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel. The following morning, the surrounding Arab armies invaded Palestine, beginning the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The Egyptians advanced in the south-east while the Jordanian Arab Legion and Iraqi forces captured the central highlands. Syria and Lebanon fought with the Israeli forces in the north. The newly formed Israel Defense Forces managed to halt the Arab forces and in the following months began pushing them back and capturing territory."

Israel has as stronger claim to that land than anyone else, and I want to note the Palestinians had their state in 1947 and gave it up by starting and losing a war. They had a chance to get it back again when Bill Clinton was president, and they turned it down. They want all of it and the Jews dead. They'll keep losing, and keep getting a worse and worse situation for themselves until they can let go of that crazy, evil, and unrealistic idea. They're in the process of losing parts of Gaza now. You don't start a war, lose it, and get to keep your territory. That's rare.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-05-05 14:31:14+00:00
I think "crazy" temperatures start around 100, not 2-3 as folks commonly claim in the literature.

You're right in general on this post, but I think you underestimate how many coomers/erp folks there are and how much they use LLMs. XTC was made for them to give some notion of slop removal. It's probably not quite as good at that task as the antislop sampler (from Sam Peach, EQ bench creator) - but I find XTC to be quite good at adding "spice" to outputs.

re: difficulty to measure "creativity" is especially true - especially around the difficulty of scoring it! We have some nitpickers of our own whispering into our ears about this. You don't happen to be at Stanford do you? IFYKYK...
by hiatus | 2025-05-05 14:31:24+00:00
Aren't you the author? What are you showing HN here? There are special rules for Show HN.

> Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, ideally without barriers such as signups or emails. You'll get more feedback that way.

> If your work isn't ready for users to try out, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then. Don't post landing pages or fundraisers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
by gwern | 2025-05-05 14:31:25+00:00
OP fails to link the patent, which is at https://patents.google.com/patent/US748284A/en https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/8f/2f/9b/bc599b6...

(The patent is only 2 pages, and the 1pg text description doesn't address the question of anaerobic bacterial decay or the removal of water to solve decay that way, but it also only claims 'indefinite' preservation, so it's not necessarily claiming perpetual preservation. It could just be intended for a few months or years, and who knows how well it'd work?)

> All these methods of sealing the body into airtight contraptions ignores the fact that decomposition comes from within. When the heart stops, the autolysis, or self-digestion, of the flesh begins, through its enzymes consuming cell membranes. Trapping a body in with its own bacteria means it is producing gas that has nowhere to go.

One thing worth noting here is that this was the era of germ theory and vitamin-ization and initial success in blood/organ transplants (eg. https://www.amazon.com/Immortalists-Charles-Lindbergh-Alexis... ). There had been such huge gains in health that some of the projections and assumptions are hard to recognize (and are part of why science fiction from before the 1950s can be so strange to read). For example, given how pervasive germs turned out to be, and how deadly, but also how beneficial things like vaccination or pasteurization were, there was something of a vogue for imagining a future germ-free world: https://gwern.net/doc/genetics/microbiome/germ-free/2012-kir... This would help lead to greatly reduced sickness and mortality, and help extend lifespans to centuries. (After all, the contemporary fad of 'microbiome'-everything aside, mammals like mice or humans get along pretty well without any microbes, as we now know from the later germ-free animal research and bubble boys.)

You might ask how they imagined this working in practice, as sterilizing the entire world seems infeasible? Well, one idea was... Perfectly-sealed glass cubes, using similar techniques as germ-free animal or bubble boy environments. For example, the 1927 "The Machine Man of Ardathia" https://freeread.com.au/@RGLibrary/FrancisFlagg/Ardathia/The... imagines a far future germ-free man traveling back in time in his glass cube to inspect us short-lived disease-plagued primitives who wander around naked. So it's not a big step to imagine sealing them into a block for indefinite preservation post-mortem.
by tuyguntn | 2025-05-05 14:31:58+00:00
I think we should make a clear distinction between craft and business.

- Craft is when you try to achieve perfection by investing your time. - Business is when you try to optimize return on investment.

Craft brings you joy, Business brings you money and money, in capitalistic world doesn't care about your mental state. You are in real world with sharks like yourself, fighting for the TAM (total addressable market) or trying to expand TAM (which is not an easy job).

When you have 2 opposing ideas (in some ways), its very difficult to come up with good principles.
by pmarreck | 2025-05-05 14:32:06+00:00
> have to talk to people less

These are not mutually-exclusive. You can talk to the same amount of people using your very limited time AND ALSO utilize a tool like this to expand upon possible connections.

Plus, there are a lot of things people want that are not socially acceptable to discuss publicly for privacy reasons. AI could potentially be a non-judgmental, privacy-preserving matchmaker here.

> You’re gonna lose all the

As previously stated, it’s not mutually exclusive. Existing online dating did not completely replace “meeting people randomly”.

> everything is amazing and

You can just stop there. lol

> (anecdote about things looking rationally perfect on paper)

Yes. this is true, there is an element of people that cannot be captured by rational mechanisms (I believe this too). But also imagine being able to filter down to just those possible people. Ruling out all the rational things that are dealbreakers for you. Imagine a matchmaker AI that is so smart that it can “intuit” what might work for you that you don’t even realize, based on data (personal example, if you are ADHD, you are automatically attracted to non-ADHD people as partners, but this also has the danger of creating resentment… Or if you claim to like functional languages, the AI might figure out that what you really like is solving problems as efficiently as possible, so it might give you a job recommendation that you might otherwise overlook because you’d end up making a deep and satisfying impact there)
by hummusisdata | 2025-05-05 14:32:48+00:00
Hey HN,

Long-time lurker here. Been working on a podcast focused on the nitty-gritty of data challenges, cutting through the hype. It's called Data Breakthroughs.

The pilot episode is now live, and I had a great conversation with Ilya Vladimirskiy, a Fractional Data Leader & Consultant at Lab IV (as per his profile). We tackled a common frustration: how to keep data pipelines reliable and maintain trust in data for decision-making.

We didn't just skim the surface; we dug into the real-world implications and started brainstorming practical solutions. Think of it as trying to debug the messy reality of data systems.

My aim is to create a space for honest discussions, moving beyond abstract theory to actionable insights. Hopefully, it'll be useful for anyone wrestling with data reliability and team collaboration.

Keen to hear your thoughts and any feedback you might have. What are the data pipeline nightmares you've encountered?

#dataengineering #analytics #datateams #podcast #realworldproblems
by klibertp | 2025-05-05 14:32:49+00:00
That's on quicklisp, not Coalton. Honestly, quicklisp is one of the worst parts of CL nowadays (right after the lack of coroutines[1], which is by far the worst offender.) It should have been replaced a long time ago. ASDF3 provides a lot of flexibility, and quicklisp uses maybe 15% of its capabilities. There are reasons why it's still so bad, but it gets less and less excusable each year :(

[1] Does anybody know how to ping Kartik Singh about the coroutines implementation in SBCL? Apparently, he made an experimental port of the green threads implementation from CMUCL, but I can't find it anywhere online, nor any obvious way to catch anyone involved. Is the mailing list the only way?
by bluGill | 2025-05-05 14:32:53+00:00
> What is the average tenure in your company? In most tech companies I know, its 2-4 years (add changing teams into that)

Where I work 20 years or so. Many people who switch in never leave, and a lot of kids who started as an intern are now retiring. Some people do of course find new jobs, but it isn't common (and having worked for a lot of other companies previously I'm not looking - we are not perfect but better than many other options). Maybe part of tech's problem is most can't figure out how to keep good people. They throw money, ping pong tables, and the like around. A good stable paycheck where you are expected to work 40 hours a week and go home is worth a lot to many people even if they could make more elsewhere.
by Kirby64 | 2025-05-05 14:33:15+00:00
> Gross, but that's their problem, not mine. There's a multitude of bad health habits, if we were actually serious, there'd be no soda or cereal on the shelves.

This absolutist mindset is not helpful for making progress. People want tasty, potentially bad for them foods. You can have bad food that’s made up of “real food” just fine. Fortifying bad foods to make them marginally less bad is a good thing. Don’t let great be the enemy of good. Nobody is looking at a bag of chips and saying “well because it’s got added Vitamin A, it’s good for me now!” Instead, it’s just a silent benefit.
by elif | 2025-05-05 14:33:24+00:00
Missing a moment because you were "fiddling with your camera" is relatable. So inspiring is also the view looking out over the LCD ocean at a concert. It's easy to think that this tool is disconnecting us from the moment.

But I'm here to offer a different perspective as I get to go to the zoo every day. For the first couple months in went no camera, only rarely taking a phone picture. Then I decided to get back into photography, something I hadn't been into since 35mm.

The whole experience changed, and I became more connected with the animals. While everyone around me is thinking "oh boring, the animal is not doing anything" I'm thinking "oh look at that twitch.. if I just am a little more patient I can get the shot" I'm the only one looking at the animals as they wake up. I've even made a 30 second rule, where I keep video rolling for 30 seconds after I've personally lost interest.

Not only has photography brought me closer to the animals, it has been a philosophical exercise in patience, grace, and remaining in a moment with fixed attention.

The exact opposite of this blog post.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-05-05 14:33:52+00:00
The primary argument for why it's not a violation is that the heuristic is (almost) free. LLM designed samplers are and will probably be better - but in order to start the recursive self-improvement engine a few free heuristics will be needed.

The bitter lesson critique is that the human designed heuristics were not free, and harmed the notion of "letting the computer figure it out" by slowing down training. High temp sampling is very important for half-way decent synthetic data generation and thus enabling "letting the computer figure it out" for natural language. Better sampling is the only way to make high temperature generations coherent.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-05-05 14:34:48+00:00
If I remember correctly the legal precedent from that era, and if I'm summarizing correctly: Those who served or uploaded were considered to be infringing, since they were "making copies" by serving or uploading, whereas those who downloaded infringing copies were not themselves infringers. Meta in this case is at least described by the latter, and the question is whether LLM generation constitutes the former.
by bombcar | 2025-05-05 14:34:56+00:00
Let's assume (bad assumption, but it should be good enough for the math) that a Happy Meal™®© is a decent meal.

It costs about $6 around here, so let's say without toy it's $5.

https://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp says there are 71 million kids.

$466 billion a year.

Ok, ok, that is maybe too high. Let's assume a wonderful world where you can produce a meal for a dollar (less than the local school district).

$77 billion a year.
by emeryberger | 2025-05-05 14:34:58+00:00
You should check out ChatDBG project - which AFAICT goes much further than this work, though in a different direction, and which, among other things, lets the LLM drive the debugging process - has been out since early 2023. We initially did a WinDBG integration but have since focused on lldb/gdb and pdb (the Python debugger), especially for Python notebooks. In particular, for native code, it integrates a language server to let the LLM easily find declarations and references to variables, for example. We spent considerable time developing an API that enabled the LLM to make the best use of the debugger’s capabilities. (It also is not limited to post mortem debugging). ChatDBG’s been out since 2023, though it has of course evolved since that time. Code is here [1] with some videos; it’s been downloaded north of 80K times to date. Our technical paper [2] will be presented at FSE (top software engineering conference) in June. Our evaluation shows that ChatDBG is on its own able to resolve many issues, and that with some slight nudging from humans, it is even more effective.

[1] https://github.com/plasma-umass/ChatDBG (north of 75K downloads to date) [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16354
by reverendsteveii | 2025-05-05 14:35:39+00:00
counterpoint: Gorillaz is a band specifically designed around the idea that the artist doesn't have to exist in order to do all of the things you mention above. Gorillaz has an image, a style, a mythos, all of that. Granted, when they started at the time (2000) there needed to be human creativity in order to create all of that but with AI everything about this can now be generated. I suspect it won't be long before all of our theorizing goes out the window because someone actually did create an act where everything, the music, the stage show, interviews, looks, all of it, is just AI-generated. That's when we'll get dollar votes on whether AI can actually generate a meaningful musical experience that people want to have.
by Desafinado | 2025-05-05 14:35:56+00:00
Many years ago when I took my current role I made a conscious decision to choose something that would grant me a good work-life balance. I wanted to check out at 4PM, not have to think about work after that, and do whatever I wanted.

Since making this decision I've become an expert in a number of hobbies, gotten married, had kids, and am now living a quite pleasant life. The financial freedom people aim for in retirement, the time, I have that already. I'm already living a care-free life, largely doing what I want.

I have a family member who is a multi-millionaire and who owns multiple businesses. He has more money now than I'll have in my lifetime. But I have something that he doesn't have - time. In my estimation time is a much more valuable commodity to obtain than money. If you can work your career so you have enough money, but also time, that's a more valuable goal than simply 'being rich'.

Money with no free time and boat load of stress is a shit life.
by MrDresden | 2025-05-05 14:36:18+00:00
I am writing this while currently sitting in a DB train that hasn't moved in 1 hour and 35 minutes due to another DB train having broken down on the rails.

Earlier this week, I was in the train that broke down. That delayed me 2 hours and 45 minutes.

The weekend before that I took 5x DB trains, where each and every one of them got delayed by 25-35 minutes.

I am now at a point where in the future I will only fly direct to destinations inside Germany.
by chneu | 2025-05-05 14:36:20+00:00
There are already kids, young adults, and adults who are "falling in love" with AI personas.

I think this is going to be a much bigger issue for kids than people are aware of.

I remember reading a story a few months ago of a kid, about 14 I think, who wasn't socially popular. He got into an AI persona, fell in love, and then killed himself after the AI hinted he should do it. The story should be easy to find.

People have said it before but we're speeding towards two kinds of society: "the massively online" people who spend the majority of their time online in a fantasy world, then the "disconnected" who live in the real world.

I already see it with people. Look at how we view politics in many countries. Like 1/4th of people believe absolute nonsense because they spend too much time online.
by PrayagS | 2025-05-05 14:36:33+00:00
> another factor to consider is that if you have a typical Prometheus `/metrics` endpoint that gets scraped every N seconds, there's a period in between the "final" scrape and the actual process exit where any recorded metrics won't get propagated. this may give you a false impression about whether there are any errors occurring during the shutdown sequence.

Have you come across any convenient solution for this? If my scrape interval is 15 seconds, I don't exactly have 30 seconds to record two scrapes.

This behavior has sort of been the reason why our services still use statsd since the push-based model doesn't see this problem.
by thomascgalvin | 2025-05-05 14:36:34+00:00
While this is generally true of a certain American political party, you see hard cutoff lines even in states like Massachusetts, where the majority of voters and politicians seem to be actively trying to make things better for people.

The real answer is that gradients are hard, and clear lines are easy. A shocking number of Americans don't understand how our income tax brackets work; they believe that if you cross the line into a higher income bracket, your entire income is taxed at that new, higher rate, and you end up losing money overall.

Massachusetts, which has the highest percentage of college educated citizens in the entire country, also shot down ranked choice voting last year, because the math was too hard.