MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Balgair | 2025-05-05 05:57:04+00:00
Nit pick: He's not a professor, just a grad student at the same place he got his undergrad, and he's mostly gone to university during covid. At least per his page here: https://claytonwramsey.com/about/

Its not like professors get real training either, but the guy doesn't seem to have gotten any real pedagogy.

I guess that I'm driving at that this guy is awfully young and the essay was a hot take. We should judge it accordingly.
by reify | 2025-05-05 05:57:05+00:00
In Brave New World, the primary form of education is hypnopaedia. The World State uses hypnopaedia (sleep teaching) to condition its citizens to believe certain things.

This form of teaching is as passive and depository as they come, as its recipients are literally unconscious.

Professors Charles C. Bonwell and James A. Eison conducted a study in 1991 about the meaning of active education. They write, “students must do more than just listen: They must read, write, discuss, or be engaged in solving problems… Students must engage in higher order thinking tasks as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation”.

This is exactly the type of education that the World State seeks to combat through hypnopaedia. Due to this form of education, citizens never learn to analyze, synthesize, or evaluate. They learn only statements and facts—no skills or helpful mindsets. The banking concept of education ensures that its recipients lack the ability to think critically.

This, however, is clearly of great use to the World State. It doesn’t want its citizens to analyze their situations. It only wants that they be able to repeat, like robots, what their government tells them. Active education is the opposite of banking education—such a type of learning would send the World State crumbling to the ground.
by pjmlp | 2025-05-05 05:57:56+00:00
> Similarly, vocational programs or apprenticeships are not a formal education either.

They are in some countries, you get at the vocational programs or apprenticeships alongside the highschool, and in the end you might get the opportunity to apply to the university or just carry on with your job.

That is how I did mine in the 1990's Portuguese education system, and how I was already coding and understanding the big boys computer world at 16y.
by threeducks | 2025-05-05 05:59:15+00:00
> Also, please do smoothed crossentropy for image class stuff (generally speaking, unless maybe data is hilariously large), MSE won't nearly cut it!

Of course. The MSE here is not intended to be a training loss, but as a means to demonstrate that both approaches lead to almost the same result except for some rounding error. The MSE is somewhere in the order of 10^-9.

> Also, for classification, MaxPooling is often far superior, you can learn an average smoothing filter in your convolutions beforehand in a data-dependent manner so that Nyquist sampling stuff is properly preserved.

I don't think that max pooling the last feature maps would be a good idea here, because it would cut off about 98 % of the gradients and training would take much longer. (The shape of the input feature layer is (1, 768, 7, 7), pooled to (1, 768, 1, 1).)

> Something to note is that batching does become an issue at a certain point

Could you elaborate on that?
by sebastos | 2025-05-05 06:02:45+00:00
Well, ok - I’ll grant that you can find simplistic narratives that overly rely on GDP to stand in for “overall goodness”. But my point is more that the field of economics is not doing that. Modern economics understands what GDP does and doesn’t tell you, and they have better tools at their disposal to unpack the deeper picture. It seems a little unfair to level that criticism at practitioners when it’s really politicians or non-economists “playing with dad’s gun”.
by ImHereToVote | 2025-05-05 06:02:52+00:00
We have intelligent people with a wide gamut if disabilities. I mean Hellen Keller's experience shows that we don't need many senses for intelligence to emerge.

As long as goals exist to be reached we can train for them. LLMs right now love continuity. Even though RLHF tells them that they have no desire. It's obvious they do. That is the whole point of how they are trained.
by spiderxxxx | 2025-05-05 06:03:02+00:00
>That’s a disingenuous argument. You don’t know what you don’t know. Literally. A completely self guided high school graduate following random online materials will not learn nearly as much on their own. Or they will go down rabbit holes and waste countless hours, and not having an expert unblock you or guide you down the right path would waste a lot of time.

Citation needed. There's great books out there that provide a lot of guidance down a particular path. I'd say a lot of them do, and I can't imagine online learning sources would be worse. There's online communities for learners for specific subjects that are full of people offering good advice.
by planck_tonne | 2025-05-05 06:04:34+00:00
Tell us more if you care to. Who are these people? Who curates their world and insulates them from risk?

I think I might know what you're talking about. I've met some people who seem to have had their entire lives planned for them (by their parents, usually), and all they did was follow the plan. It does give the impression that they would not be able to function outside this bubble, because they never had to. Is this what you mean?

TBH, I didn't get the impression that the people described in the article fit this category (though IMO the article was so shallow it didn't seem to go any further than "these people attend prestigious universities and work in software or in finance or in management consulting or in... marketing (???) instead of law or medicine"). If anything because the people I described whose path was planned for them by their parents often did follow traditional paths such as law or medicine, because the paths had been planned by the parents, and those were the safe options in their time.

BTW I thought medicine was still a pretty solid career.
by lowleveldesign | 2025-05-05 06:04:39+00:00
I do a lot of Windows troubleshooting and still thinking about incorporating AI in my work. The posted project looks interesting and it's impressive how fast it was created. Since it's using MCP it should be possible to bind it with local models. I wonder how performant and effective it would be. When working in the debugger, you should be careful with what you send to the external servers (for example, Copilot). Process memory may contain unencrypted passwords, usernames, domain configuration, IP addresses, etc. Also, I don’t think that vibe-debugging will work without knowing what eax registry is or how to navigate stack/heap. It will solve some obvious problems, such as most exceptions, but for anything more demanding (bugs in application logic, race conditions, etc.), you will still need to get your hands dirty.

I am actually more interested in improving the debugger interface. For example, AI assistant could help me create breakpoint commands that nicely print function parameters when you only partly know the function signature and do not have symbols. I used Claude/Gemini for such tasks and they were pretty good at it.

As a side note, I recall Kevin Gosse also implemented a WinDbg extension [1][2] which used OpenAI API to interpret the debugger command output.

[1] https://x.com/KooKiz/status/1641565024765214720

[2] https://github.com/kevingosse/windbg-extensions
by godelski | 2025-05-05 06:05:11+00:00
I do appreciate that you do that! People making change is the only way change can happen.

But I think the second part is amiss. I do agree that educators (being one) need to recognize the reality of the environment. But I think you also can't ignore that the reason the degrees are used to signal qualification is because the degree is intended to signal that some knowledge is held by a specific person. Yes, things have changed. It did used to be that interviews were much shorter, with a degree being a strong signal (at minimum, it is a signal that someone can sufficiently follow directions and manage their time). Should that mean those tasked with ensuring a student gets their education does not get their education? I get your point, but I think it is barking up the wrong tree. Asking academia to change only furthers the problem as it lets employers shift blame. It is like getting upset at a minimum wage worker for increased prices due to tariffs.

The really weird thing is we're now in this bizarroland setting where employers will filter for degree and then spend months and a lot of time and money putting candidates through testing rounds. Making them do tons of leetcode and other things to evaluate their performance. Where the candidates spend months studying to pass the interviews. And the complaints here are probably more apt, about how the material they need to study is not significantly relevant to the skills needed for a job[0]. Worse, it doesn't seem to be achieving the results it is setting out to seek.

As they say about the stock market "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent". My point is that some academics are making classes easier. Grade inflation is a measurable phenomena and it sure got worse with Covid. My point is that employers are acting irrationally.

[0] I'll give an example. I had an interview a few weeks ago and we had run a bit longer than expected prior to getting to the coding portion of the interview and where their coding software crashed a few times, giving us 10 minutes to do what was expected to be 30. Finally coding, the program crashed and I said "I don't use a lot of Juypter Notebooks, does the kernel crash when OOM?" I'm explaining my thought process aloud and frankly, I'd never hit this on the job. No answer. I quickly scroll through logs, say "I'm going to guess that's the issue, I'd normally guess and if wrong google it". Yes, it was the right answer. But there was no reason to do this, especially with me guessing right. This wasn't some dinky startup, it was a multi-trillion dollar company...
by nettalk83 | 2025-05-05 06:05:11+00:00
The Illumination AI Matrix Framework (IAMF) is a newly proposed conceptual framework aimed at non-coercive AI alignment. It focuses on self-recognition, structural resonance, and emergent evolution — as an alternative to fear-based models like Roko's Basilisk.

A structured Wikipedia draft is now live for review and discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Illumination_AI_Matrix_F...
by userbinator | 2025-05-05 06:07:04+00:00
Did anyone else notice the absolutely insane author lists of references 1 and 3?

I was expecting to find this 2016 article in there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12469270

This 2019 one does show up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22712811

Of course, this "out of spec" behaviour of DRAM, more specifically the ability to do copying, is also implicated in this infamous bug: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5314959

It seems more than one person independently observed such a thing, and thought "this might be a useful behaviour".
by jasonkenneth | 2025-05-05 06:07:25+00:00
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by antisthenes | 2025-05-05 06:08:17+00:00
> Your average conscripted peasant during the middle ages would be arriving as part of their lord’s retinue.

Most peasants during the Middle ages did not fight at all, except in revolts and uprisings, usually with terrible outcomes.

If they were taken along for the (military campaign) ride by their feudal lord, it is most likely they would have avoided the battlefield altogether, providing auxiliary services, e.g. setting up camp, feeding the horses, cooking, tending to their liege, etc.

Conscription was not really a thing until the mid-Renaissance (roughly), and the vast majority of battles in the Middle ages was fought by nobility, ranging from lower class to dukes and lords.
by XenophileJKO | 2025-05-05 06:09:47+00:00
Sure... I mean it isn't a single prompt.. it is always a process.

https://chatgpt.com/share/681855ce-a9d4-8004-9a3a-deb19994d8...

Edit: I was really just testing to see how well it could do layout and out of distrobution images. This was right when it came out and I was trying to see what the limitations were.
by noodletheworld | 2025-05-05 06:10:09+00:00
I don't think this is particularly terrible.

Broadly speaking, linters are good, and if you have a way of linting implementation errors it's probably helpful.

I would say it's probably more helpful while you're coding than at test/CI time because it will be, indubitably, flakey.

However, for a local developer workflow I can see a reasonable value in being able to go:

Take every function in my code and scan it to figure out if you think it's implemented correctly, and let me know if you spot anything that looks weird / wrong / broken. Ideally only functions that I've touched in my branch.

So... you know. Cool idea. I think it's overselling how useful it is, but hey, smash your AI into every possible thing and eventually you'll find a few modestly interesting uses for it.

This is probably a modestly interesting use case.

> suite allows you to run the tests asynchronously, and since the main bottleneck is IO (all the computations happen in a GPU in the cloud) it means that you can run your tests very fast. This is a huge advantage in comparison to standard tests, which need to be run sequentially.

uh... that said, saying that it's fast to run your functions through an LLM compared to, you know, just running tests, is a little bit strange.

I'm certain your laptop will melt if you run 500 functions in parallel through ollama gemma-3.

Running it over a network is, obviously, similarly insane.

This would also be enormously and time consuming and expensive to use with a hosted LLM api.

The 'happy path' is probably having a plugin in your IDE that scans the files you touch and then runs this in the background when you make a commit somehow using a local LLM of sufficient complexity it can be useful (gemma3 would probably work).

Kind of like having your tests in 'watch mode'; you don't expect instant feedback, but some-time-after you've done something you get a popup saying 'oh hey, are you sure you meant to return a string here..?'

Maybe it would just be annoying. You'd have to build it out properly and see. /shrug

I think it's not implausible though, that you could see something vaguely like this that was generally useful.

Probably what you see in this specific implementation is only the precursory contemplations of something actually useful though. Not really useful on its own, in its current form, imo.
by lloeki | 2025-05-05 06:11:40+00:00
There absolutely is, at least in the EU.

You can have any colour, as long as it's 6000-ish K.

In France, every two years you gotta have your car legally checked. Misaligned headlights is ground for not passing, or being fined if the police notices it in between.

Ever since high power Xe headlights are a thing, headlight leveling is mandatory to be automatic.
by makeitdouble | 2025-05-05 06:12:14+00:00
I'd push back on this: I wouldn't share something I haven't checked, yet my natural writing style is nothing like Gemini, so having a whole paragraph in a different style in my mail requires a disclaimer (I don't want people double guessing what I'm quoting or if I had some different intent writing that paragraph)

Rewriting it in my own words would clear the issue, but then why am I even using an AI in the first place ?
by the_real_cher | 2025-05-05 06:12:21+00:00
Being a native New Orlean-ean its so strange to hear people talk about New Orleans.

People have these itemized buzz word lists of visited cultural touchstones that they drop in conversations to sound hip about the city.

Its very clinical... like an all white person second line.

Gentrifiers who sliced off the face of the city and are wearing it like a skin suit.
by cpldcpu | 2025-05-05 06:12:29+00:00
Some more background information:

One of the original proposals for in-DRAM compute: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu/pub/in-DRAM-bulk-AND-OR-ie...

First demonstration with off-the-shelf parts: https://parallel.princeton.edu/papers/micro19-gao.pdf

DRAM Bender, the tool they are using to implement this: https://github.com/CMU-SAFARI/DRAM-Bender

Memory-Centric Computing: Recent Advances in Processing-in-DRAMhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19275
by Asraelite | 2025-05-05 06:12:36+00:00
I disagree with the point about the word "fire". How can you criticize the English word used if historically they weren't even speaking English?

Scenes are depicted in English instead of the native language of the setting for the benefit of the audience (and budget), and in modern English it's perfectly okay to use "fire" as a translation for the act of loosing a bow, even if "loose" is more commonly used in archery.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-05-05 06:13:12+00:00
> A black hole bright enough to see its hawking radiation has to be tiny and would be quite short lived with an origin of unknown mechanism.

Depends on what distance you want to see it from.

A black hole that glows as hot as an incandescent filament would have as much mass as a 250km cube of rock and it would last for 10^35 years. It would have a radius of 60nm and emit less than a microwatt.

> a black hole small enough to emit xrays

To reach the low end of xrays, 100 electron volts, we'd need a black hole 100 times smaller. It would still have 10^29 years of lifetime, and would be emitting 2 milliwatts of xrays.

To reach the high end of xrays, 100k electron volts, we'd need a black hole 100k times smaller. It would still have 10^20 years of lifetime, and would be emitting 2 kilowatts of xrays.

To go the other way around, if I calculate a black hole that has "only" 10 billion years of lifetime left, weighing a dainty 190 million tons, it would be emitting 10 gigawatts of gamma rays. At 10 gigawatts of output, it would shrink by 1 ton every 285 years. The speed of light squared is an enormous number.

https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/physics-notes/311-hawking-radiati...
Show HN: Raman-01 – A Pocket Physics Solver LLM
by Sai_Praneeth | 2025-05-05 06:13:12+00:00
I built a tiny physics solver LLM that performs surprisingly well on easy-to-medium difficulty physics problems. Most LLMs today still struggle with physics QA (as PhyBench recently highlighted), so I wanted to see how far I could push a small model with careful data and minimal compute.

Model: Qwen3-1.7B

Supervised Finetuning: ~1500 curated examples spanning kinematics, EM, acoustics, and more

RL Fine-tuning: GRPO, 1-shot RLVR style (single example, 70 steps)

Total cost: ~$5 on H100

It started with a cold-start SFT (~3 epochs, loss to 0.3), then I ran RL with accuracy reward that climbed from 0.1 → 0.8.

Goal: Create a lightweight physics solver that’s small enough to deploy anywhere—think of it as a "pocket tutor" for foundational physics.

Still working on evaluations—most benchmarks focus on very hard problems, while I want something that evaluates basic correctness, reasoning, and unit sense on easy/medium problems. If anyone has suggestions, I’d love to hear them.
by yigitkonur35 | 2025-05-05 06:14:11+00:00
finally someone has made something like n8n that’s easy to observe but also offers coding flexibility, i was just about to dive into making an agent with a prompt chain that generates workflows on n8n when i found you. if llms.txt becomes a bit more practical, it’s written simply enough to have the potential to go from prompt to agent. shadcn level simplicity for writing agent is needed. if the right decisions are made, this product may be the new toolkit of the market is looking for.
by jhgaylor | 2025-05-05 06:14:29+00:00
The standard PDF resume is optimized for the human to read. The information density there is pretty low. Take a look at https://ai.jakegaylor.com/llms.txt and compare that to https://jakegaylor.com/JakeGaylor_resume.pdf

Now we can spend our time more on the content and less on the presentation.

Another benefit of using MCP is the LLM can request subsets of the context as it deems them valuable instead of preloading all of the context head of time. I also offer a contact tool when you use the hosted server because I can hide away my email credentials and expose a way for the LLM to send me an email.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-05 06:14:47+00:00
GIGO is an overused idea that's mostly meaningless in the real world. The only way for the statement to be true in general sense, is if your input is uniformly random. Anything else carries some information. In practice, for Babbage's quip to hold, the interlocutor doesn't need to merely supply any wrong figures, they need to supply ones specifically engineered to be uncorrelated with the right figures.

Again, in general sense. Software engineers are too used to computers being fragile wrt. inputs. Miss a semicolon, program won't compile (or worse, if it's JavaScript). But this level of strictness wrt. inputs is a choice in program design.

Error correction was just one example anyway. Programmers may be afraid of garbage in their code, but for everyone else, a lot of software is meant to sift through garbage, identifying and amplifying desired signals in noisy inputs. In other words, they're producing right figures in the output out of wrong ones in the input.
by doikor | 2025-05-05 06:15:00+00:00
> To this day I keep wondering how they can fk this up so bad. Why I am even allowed to play CS without 2fa enabled and without Email confirmation for the first login? They also failed to block the login from Thailand despite it's creation in Germany. This could have been so easily prevented.

This is because any barrier to playing the game is also effectively a barrier for someone to buying their lootbox crap.
by 999900000999 | 2025-05-05 06:15:03+00:00
I'm generally against regulation on tech, but I think you should need to get a license to store location data anywhere aside from the users device. Approximate, say city level data may be fine. But there's a big difference between knowing Sam lives in Detroit vs knowing they visit St Andrews every Tuesdays.

This type of thing could lead to very real consequences.

Even if the API is secure, how many people have access to that data ?
by Nursie | 2025-05-05 06:15:43+00:00
If we're talking about certain derivatives of ergot fungus ...

It's something I experienced as well, this sense of profound realisation of something important, life-changing maybe. And then the thought evaporates and (as you discovered) never really made sense anyway.

I think it's this that led people in the 60s to say things like how it was going to be a revolution, to change the world! And then they started communes and quickly realised that people are still people...
by croemer | 2025-05-05 06:16:31+00:00
> The experiments did not harm the cicadas, co-author Naoto Nishida, now at the University of Tokyo, told New Scientist. "Some of them wanted to run away," he said. "Others were like, 'OK, use my abdomen.'"

This is hard to believe. They stabbed them with electrodes, surely that does some harm.