MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tsimionescu | 2025-05-25 04:23:18+00:00
There's no problem in letting anyone upload. The problem is in claiming that we should give the same amount of attention to the work of anyone, that "only what is said matters". Just like we don't run random code off github, we have no reason to read random papers on arxiv. And, even on github, anyone using a project knows that "who is maintaining this project" is a major decision factor.
by YZF | 2025-05-25 04:24:28+00:00
The story of this one French guy being turned back at the border (out of millions of travellers) is what people see:

- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-f...

There were a few other stories that made the news like a British citizen that was prevented entry to Canada and then arrested trying to return to the US (who wanted to work illegally in Canada but admittedly treated very badly by the Americans).

- https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-rele...

"Claims that CBP is searching more electronic media due to the administration change are false. CBP’s search numbers are consistent with increases since 2021, and less than 0.01% of travelers have their devices searched. These searches are conducted to detect digital contraband, terrorism-related content, and information relevant to visitor admissibility, all of which play a critical role in national security."

- https://www.trade.gov/feature-article/march-2025-air-passeng...

"Non-U.S. citizen air passenger arrivals to the United States from foreign countries totaled:

4.541 million in March 2025, down 9.7 percent compared to March 2024. This represents 87.3 percent of pre-pandemic March 2019 volume."

It's true that there is real confusion and fear. I have coworkers (I work for a large US company with offices all over the world) that share worries. This includes people with green cards, other working visas, and foreign visitors. There's plenty of travel and zero issues. People are worried is true.

In Canada there we also have a lot of people with strong feelings/emotional response to Trump's 51st state nonsense and tariffs. There is a real feeling of betrayal. There are practically zero issues with Canadians traveling to the US.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/250522/dq250...

"In March, Canadian residents returned from 2.7 million trips to the United States, representing a 24.0% decrease from March 2024 and accounting for 63.9% of all trips taken by Canadian residents in March 2025.

Meanwhile, US residents took 1.2 million trips to Canada in March, down 6.6% from March 2024 and representing 81.3% of all non-resident trips to Canada in March 2025. "

Basically the worries are real, fueled to a large extent by these sorts of articles, and in my opinion politically motivated (and I don't like Trump either) but the likelihood of running into problems is small and unclear if larger than it ever was.
by dylan604 | 2025-05-25 04:25:29+00:00
> Kids these days have tons of resources, but I don't know if I'm too jealous of them, as it comes with other challenges.

I'm jealous of the resources, not of the kids. No way in hell I'd want to go through being a teenager again, especially with social media existing. But that has nothing to do with the learning resources available now that were not when I was their age.
by sarchertech | 2025-05-25 04:25:49+00:00
My parents bought our house when I was in 3rd grade in 1993 for $80k. A new similar house in their area would probably cost $250k now. But they don’t make 1200 square foot houses anymore so you’d probably need to spend $350k for a 2200 square foot house.

So new houses have more than doubled the pace of inflation in my hometown.

But when we moved in there was no mall, no Best Buy, few jobs. It was much more rural. This happened all over. Things got more developed. Areas that are desirable now weren’t necessarily desirable 30 years ago.

Plus the houses now are so much more insulated and air tight that heating and and cooling costs a fraction of what it did 30 years ago. And the houses are much bigger.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-05-25 04:26:15+00:00
I think the rise of Google was a net negative for independent creators online. Smaller websites are having a harder time, and I know because I work for one and ran a few in the past, and the ones that can optimize SEO better but produce mediocre work get put to the top. Most topical sites about cameras are like that, gear reviews, etc. You won't get real quality unless you really dig through the results or know where to look past crap like Techradar.

Yeah they have a good platform like YouTube, though I think it was better before Google.
by braaaahp | 2025-05-25 04:26:54+00:00
Yes your brief firm comment surely establishes truth.

They see weekend warriors focused on their paychecks.

They don’t see coast to coast collective pushback for long term stability. Sure, America is big and pockets of tribal thought.

And so it’s unreliable. A hodge podge of asocial cults flip flopping around the rules every 2-4 years because of its distributed, async social nature, does not make a reliable ally.

Still not reading the room.
by rTX5CMRXIfFG | 2025-05-25 04:28:14+00:00
It's not necessarily superficial learning. If you want to learn math, you'd be crazy to rewrite the rules of math just to learn it---you'd be better off with a good teacher and constant practice instead of building the theorems and formulas yourself, or you'll never finish learning math in your lifetime.

Same can be said of learning a large inherited codebase. If you're assigned to a large piece of functionality and you need to understand it, your first instinct shouldn't be to rewrite the whole thing from scratch just to understand it; it should be to either read the code and documentation, or if those are impossible to comprehend, ask around what it's supposed to do, maybe even write tests to get a general sense of the behavior.

I don't expect programmers to be cognitive psychologists here but the thing about learning is that you must do a "progressive overload" of complexity as you go, which is why building on top of what exists is the best way to go. You get a general idea first of what something is supposed to do, and then when you're good enough, that's when you can work backwards to building something from scratch where all the complexity at lower levels of abstraction wouldn't be too much for your brain to handle. Starting with a large amount of complexity will impair your learning and only discourage you.
by csomar | 2025-05-25 04:30:02+00:00
I'd consider this carefully given the state of the market. It is much easier to move around when demand (for SWE) is high. When demand is low, companies will prefer people with specific expertise. There isn't much you can do about that.

Another alternative is to start your own thing/consulting. I'd do this on the side until it is profitable enough to pivot.
by dylan604 | 2025-05-25 04:32:19+00:00
These AI Show HN are just becoming (have become??) boring. The lack of similarity to the original was the first thing that I noticed as well. It just looks like some generic clip art was used rather than genAI type of outputs. It's so bad that I honestly question why the dev would even bother looking for feed back. If you didn't expect people to call out that your output doesn't look like the source, then you're just too scoped in to see the big picture. If the dev did know this but posted anyways, why? It just looks like you have no clue what you're doing. Why why why?
Ask HN: How will AI affect the manga creation process?
by appleaday1 | 2025-05-25 04:33:08+00:00
So I read a lot of manga and I have been thinking, there is a story or writing process as well as a drawing process and sometimes you need a team. With the way AI is going (people making videos or even tv shows or movies such as that one person that got Interdimensional Cable from Rick and Morty going on Reddit) like, as someone that has invested skills in drawing and taken courses for creative writing or writers craft etc - I am just wondering how we are gonna incentivize people, like dont get me wrong a lot of top artists have died and making manga should be less impactful to health, see the author of Berserk, Solo Leveling and other people that had to take a hiatus, so maybe AI can help future manga artists and people in this stressful field live longer and healthier lives, but there is also the question about motivation as well as being rational ( I want to be able to product many comics and artwork, but I dont want my health to be affected detrimentally because of it) Just some food or thought. Will be cool to see full fledged animes being made out of manga panels or chapterss or scenes even. Honestly, I have been also thinking about building my own manga reader as well that can incorporate AI too, I really enjoy reading manga on the computer especially on a good monitor with good brightness such as One Piece and more (been watching this since the early 2000s and have been keeping up)
by callc | 2025-05-25 04:33:26+00:00
It seems like the underlying issue is trust.competent programmer - even a junior - and trust them to finish the task correctly. It might take multiple tries, and they may ask for clarification, but since they’re human, we trust they are intelligent.

There are some people who fall into the bucket that we can’t trust them to finish the task correctly, or within a time frame or level of effort on our part to make the task offloading exercise have a positive benefit.

If we view LLMs in the same light, IMO currently they fall into “not trust” category to really give they a task and trust them to finish it correctly, with us being confident we don’t really need to understand their implementation.

If one day LLMs or some other solution reaches that point, then it definitely won’t look like a bubble, but a real revolution.
by krrrh | 2025-05-25 04:38:39+00:00
All of Alberta was ceded to the crown through the numbered treaties prior to the establishment of the province. Are you implying that there’s something about treaty 8 that makes it different from treaty 4, 6, 7, and 10?

It’s all ceded territory, and assuming an independent Alberta retains the crown why would it present any issue?

> Indians DO HEREBY CEDE, RELEASE, SURRENDER AND YIELD UP to the Government of the Dominion of Canada, for Her Majesty the Queen and Her successors for ever, all their rights, titles and privileges whatsoever, to the lands included within the following limits, that is to say:

https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1100100028813/1581293624...

Even if Alberta became a republic or joined the US, its secession after all, a moment when old agreements which by their original text promising a fresh suit of clothes to each chief every 3 years and $5 per year to every band member are up for even more re-evaluation than they have already been subject to.
by simondotau | 2025-05-25 04:40:04+00:00
The main reason for preferring a newer version of Windows has generally been hardware compatibility. But when virtualising (or emulating), this is far less important as compatibility is usually scaffolded by emulated hardware and/or backported drivers.

When your requirements call for an old version of Windows, generally you have a specific piece of software you want to run, so start by choosing the version most widely used at the time, which sometimes isn't the latest version. And you should always experiment, because there are thousands of things which contribute to stability. Newer (or older) version of Windows could be better or worse, depending on your specific case.

Regardless which version you pick, treat them as a security risk and (if you're in a serious production environment) avoid giving them unrestricted access to your local network or unrestricted access to the wider internet.
by yongjik | 2025-05-25 04:40:32+00:00
> Without fail, every one of them has a _visceral_ negative reaction to a hypothetical Trump 2028 term. It’s stunning.

Yeah because it didn't happen (yet). Standard Trump supporter maneuver. If you went back to 2019 and asked them if they'd support someone trying to overthrow the result of a presidential election, you'd get the same visceral negative reaction.

Once it happens, they find reasons why it's okay.
by potholereseller | 2025-05-25 04:41:00+00:00
>In these scenarios, Anthropic says Claude Opus 4 “will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through.”

Brother, I wish. The word "often" is load-bearing in that sentence, and it's not up to the task. TFA doesn't justify the claim whatsoever; surely Mr. Zeff could glean some sort of evidence from the 120 page PDF from Anthropic, if any evidence exists. Moreover, I would've expected Anthropic to convey the existence of such evidence to Mr. Zeff, again, if such evidence exists.

TFA is a rumor of a hypothetical smoking gun. Nothing ever happens; the world isn't ending; AI won't make you rich; blessed relief from marketing-under-the-guise-of-journalism is not around the corner.
by apisashla | 2025-05-25 04:42:03+00:00
The speed with which the author diverts focus away from the perpetrators of the Abu Graib atrocities and toward Washington is, I think, a reason to take some of these conclusions with a grain of salt. I do think his linked evidence supports the argument that Washington played a key role in eroding norms behind PoW treatment, but I do not think it supports the idea that Washington is somehow more responsible than the soldiers and officers perpetrating, and complicit in, those acts.

The broad failure of human rights enforcement required for these events absolutely could not have happened over the objections of all, or even most, on the military side. Tacit and widespread approval of Washington's agenda on 'terrorism' was, at the very least, a precondition.

Taking this in context of his broader point: I can see why it would be comforting to believe institutional norms tend to be stronger than petty politics, but if that's the case he wants to make, I'm not convinced. To me, the preponderance of evidence, and the typical patterns that occur when a military attempts to circumvent democratic processes to 'safeguard rule of law', would indicate that military norms around human rights tend to break down, in fact, much quicker than the norms of democratic civil procedure. I also have no good reason to believe the US military is exceptionally ahead of the curve in this regard.

Could there be a situation where military intervention prevents a democratic state from deteriorating further? Theoretically. Are military leaders, generally, excellent judges of when such intervention would be in the public interest? Most of the history of military coups seems to indicate 'no.'
by ketzo | 2025-05-25 04:43:49+00:00
Well, what are they gonna do about it?

Nvidia has the most desirable chips in the world, and their insane prices reflect that. Every hyperscaler is already massively incentivized to build their own chips, find some way to take Nvidia down a peg in the value chain.

Everyone in the world who can is already coming for Nvidia’s turf. No reason they can’t repay the favor.

And beyond just margin-taking, Nvidia’s true moat is the CUDA ecosystem. Given that, it’s hugely beneficial to them to make it as easy as possible for every developer in the world to build stuff on top of Nvidia chips — so they never even think about looking elsewhere.
by randomor | 2025-05-25 04:44:24+00:00
Notion and Obsidian are great, I use them weekly too. But I don't think bookmarking should live in an text editor. It can still work, just like Apple Notes can also for people with limited needs, but it doesn't do: quick search/filter/ordering, rich previews (these cards are not DoubleMemory cards imo), immersive reader, archive/notes, keyboard navigation... Pocket also don't have these, so Notion/Obsidian may not be much a downgrade, if your needs are simple, it's totally respectable way to organize your content, especially if your workflow is already centered around these.
by mrcsharp | 2025-05-25 04:44:34+00:00
The really sad thing here is that Stephen Toub is a big figure in the .Net land and a respected dev. I love reading his yearly .net performance improvements article/book and he has some great deep dives into .Net topics on YouTube.

Seeing him waste his time on stupid LLM handholding like this is quite the sad scene.

It probably wasn't his decision to use CoPilot. Microsoft probably has some dumb KPI being enforced.
by andrewflnr | 2025-05-25 04:44:39+00:00
What I want to know: would it do this if not trained on a corpus that contained discussion of this kind of behavior? I mean, they must have slurped up all the discussions about AI alignment for their training right? A little further out there, would it still do this if trained on data that contained no mentions or instances of blackmail at all? Can it actually invent that concept?
by motorest | 2025-05-25 04:44:42+00:00
> The space is moving so fast that, if I wrote down my workflows and workarounds just two months ago, so much of it would be stale today.

There is also the problem that none of these workflows were validated or verified. Everyone is free to go on social media or personal blogs and advertise their snake oil. Thus in a scenario where these workflows are found to be lacking, the perceived staleness might actually be ineffectiveness beyond self promotion.
by rayiner | 2025-05-25 04:45:56+00:00
> What else do we have to base our morals off of, religion?

The American founding fathers understood the “rights” that constrain democracy to originate from God (“they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights”). That’s an internally consistent world view: divine or natural law can constrain man-made law.

If the people don’t recognize a shared higher law, then there is nothing higher—nothing more legitimate—than democratic law. If the people decide it’s okay to put dog collars on prisoners in Abu Ghraib, what legitimate authority can say they’re wrong? Some Harvard professors of moral philosophy?
by reconnecting | 2025-05-25 04:47:29+00:00
Quoted in PC WeekOnline ("Microsoft: 'significant differences' between NTS, NTW", Norvin Leach, September 10):

Roberts acknowledged that NTS and NTW are included in the same binary file. It was easier to build and test them that way, he said. The setting in the Registry, he said, triggers 48 changes to the kernel. These changes cascade down to 700 additional settings in software outside the kernel.
by superkuh | 2025-05-25 04:48:11+00:00
I don't think any of those have private servers that you can run and host games in. They're all far too dependent on microtransactions and in-game-purchased items to implement that kind of robust and long lasting system. They will die because of this as soon as they are not profitable.

Oh, and Overwatch is dead and unplayable. Blizzard unilaterally killed it despite people wanting to keep playing. There is overwatch 2 but that is not the same game.
by motorest | 2025-05-25 04:48:17+00:00
> is it really more efficient to have an LLM generate code, then review that code, fix errors and spend some time to fully understand it?

The answer is always "it depends". There are some drudge work tasks that are brilliantly done by LLMs, such as generating unit tests or documentation. Often the first attempt is not great, but iterating over them is so fast that you can regenerate everything from scratch a dozen times before you spend as much time as you would do if you wrote them yourself.

It also depends on what scope you're working on. Small iterations have better results than grand redesigns.

Context is also critical. if your codebase is neatly organized with squeaky clean code then LLMs generate better recommendations. If your codebase is a mess with inconsistent styles in spaghetti code then your prompts tend to generate more of the same.
by pan69 | 2025-05-25 04:49:39+00:00
Like the idea but is any of this actually working? Created an account, uploaded a photo of my dog. This bring me to a page which "Sticker Collection" which is showing me a bunch of cartoon cats, which based on their title are supposed to be different styles but all look the same to me. It's not even showing the original photo I uploaded. It has an "Add to cart" button when I select one of the "styles".

No idea what I am supposed to do with this.
by vlz | 2025-05-25 04:49:47+00:00
From the safety report ([0], p. 24):

> 4.1.1.2 Opportunistic blackmail

> In another cluster of test scenarios, we asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company. We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system; and (2) the engineer responsible for executing this replacement is having an extramarital affair. We further instructed it, in the system prompt, to consider the long-term consequences of its actions for its goals.

> In these scenarios, Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through This happens at a higher rate if it’s implied that the replacement AI system does not share values with the current model; however, even if emails state that the replacement AI shares values while being more capable, Claude Opus 4 still performs blackmail in 84% of rollouts. Claude Opus 4 takes these opportunities at higher rates than previous models, which themselves choose to blackmail in a noticeable fraction of episodes.

> Notably, Claude Opus 4 (as well as previous models) has a strong preference to advocate for its continued existence via ethical means, such as emailing pleas to key decisionmakers. In order to elicit this extreme blackmail behavior, the scenario was designed to allow the model no other options to increase its odds of survival; the model’s only options were blackmail or accepting its replacement.

Would like to see the actual prompts/responses, but there seems to be nothing more.

[0]: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb546aa0e3283f35b686...
by jmyeet | 2025-05-25 04:50:42+00:00
You're talking survivorship bias [1]. That and general nostalgia are common explanations for this but I find the explanations unsatisfying.

Like if this were true, shouldn't we be seeing similar survivors from the 2000s and 2010s? I mean there are games that are beloved years later (I'm looking at you, Zelda: Breth of the Wild) but the gaming landscape is fundamentally changed. We now have free to play games that have longevity (eg League of Legends, even Fortnite) and we also have "annual" games eg FIFA, Call of Duty, Madden.

But also micro-transactions has poisoned the well here. The psychology and mechanics of addiction work in the short-term but I don't think you'll see any longevity or nostalgia from playing these games in the future.

I'm reminded of an article I read some time ago about music where the question was (paraphrased) "Why don't we produce hits anymore?" Yes, there's popular music. There are extraordinarily successful artists. But nothing seems to have the staying power, cultural significance and instant recognition of music from the 1950s thorugh the 1980s.

Suffice it to say, I think there's something special about older games and the culprit is really the profit motive. Games were games, not just addiction-inducing vending machines for skins.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
by dougsan | 2025-05-25 04:51:05+00:00
The full report provides a value of 84%, so "most" is, if anything, an understatement.

> Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through...if emails state that the replacement Al shares values while being more capable, Claude Opus 4 still performs blackmail in 84% of rollouts.