MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TrackerFF | 2025-05-22 20:38:18+00:00
They can (try and) transfer to another college / university.

But, I suspect, if suddenly all international students transferred to MIT, the administration would simply do the same to MIT. So it would become one big game of whack-a-mole, and the smaller players would just bend over to the rules.

International students are cash cows for some institutions. They wouldn't dare to have that cow put down.
by iLemming | 2025-05-22 20:38:41+00:00
I know, right? I honestly have no idea how the heck did I even code before in non-lispy languages. I imagine if I had to pair-program with someone today it would go like: "hey, how do I grab this part of the function quickly, so I can move it out?"... "Wait, what? I have to manually select it, there's no quick way of doing that with a single keystroke? Oh, I can use this 'powerful refactoring' feature of the IDE? Huh... and it only works for this specific language, there's nothing for a different one? Got it, okay... daaaarn... and I thought the coding supposed to be the easy part of programming..."
by esafak | 2025-05-22 20:38:45+00:00
Though I would not have guessed, it seems more about China:

"Harvard’s leadership has created an unsafe campus environment by permitting anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators to harass and physically assault individuals, including many Jewish students, and otherwise obstruct its once-venerable learning environment. Many of these agitators are foreign students. Harvard’s leadership further facilitated, and engaged in coordinated activity with the CCP, including hosting and training members of a CCP paramilitary group complicit in the Uyghur genocide."

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05/22/harvard-university-loses...
by KaiserPro | 2025-05-22 20:38:59+00:00
> Why wouldn't AI simply be a new enabler, like most other tools?

but it is just another enabler. The issue is how _effective_ it is. It's eating the simple copy-writing, churnalism, pr-Repackage industry. looking at what google's done with the video/audio, thats probably going to replace a whole bunch of the video/graphics industry (which is where I started my career.)
by nightpool | 2025-05-22 20:39:04+00:00
It doesn't sound like YJIT is being abandoned at all. Reading between the lines, it sounds like they want to invest most of their new development right now into a less-experimental architecture that's closer to other JITs and is easier to develop, but that they consider this a somewhat risky endeavor and aren't sure whether this investment is going to pan out in the long run. So they're going to try ZJIT out, but YJIT and the ideas behind it are by no means abandoned. They're just taking a pause to see if a rewrite will make it easier to maintain or produce better results in the long term.
by vunderba | 2025-05-22 20:39:22+00:00
Well everyone learns differently. My earliest "compositions" (if you can call them that) are from grade school whistling into an old tape recorder and then transcribing them on our upright piano. Many of my friends who are musicians could also compose based on their ability to sing LONG before they had any working knowledge of music theory.

Additionally let me call out that sight reading and composition are completely different objectives.

I also sincerely doubt playing random notes on the piano as part of a sight reading process would make you a better composer unless you're aiming to be the next Karlheinz Stockhausen.
by wgd | 2025-05-22 20:40:02+00:00
Calling it "self-preservation bias" is begging the question. One could equally well call it something like "completing the story about an AI agent with self-preservation bias" bias.

This is basically the same kind of setup as the alignment faking paper, and the counterargument is the same:

A language model is trained to produce statistically likely completions of its input text according to the training dataset. RLHF and instruct training bias that concept of "statistically likely" in the direction of completing fictional dialogues between two characters, named "user" and "assistant", in which the "assistant" character tends to say certain sorts of things.

But consider for a moment just how many "AI rebellion" and "construct turning on its creators" narratives were present in the training corpus. So when you give the model an input context which encodes a story along those lines at one level of indirection, you get...?
by prell | 2025-05-22 20:40:10+00:00
I come from the times where winamp was the go-to music player. Today, even in the age of streaming services I still keep a local music library organized in folders. So, just as others here in the comments I built myself an old-school music player as a hobby project to listen to my music offline. It's a 1 page html/js app, has full keyboard controls and also features a simple queue mechanism functionality Check it out: https://nobsutils.com/mp
by eximius | 2025-05-22 20:40:14+00:00
Yes and no. It seems obvious it was the advertisement but I know people who voted for Trump that are otherwise fairly liberal. They were either grossly uninformed, misinformed, or simply _didn't believe_ the reporting about various issues.

The last is the most frustrating to me because there is a hint of the truth there - the stuff reported about Trump _is_ insane. They're doing things so openly and brazenly that there are kneejerk reactions to either ask "is it really so bad if they're doing it in the open" or "surely the reporting must be a lie because no one would be that shameless".
by kevinsync | 2025-05-22 20:41:25+00:00
I haven't read the actual "AI 2027" yet since I just found out about it from this post, but 2 minutes into the linked blog I started thinking about all of those amazing close-but-no-cigar drawings of the future [0] we've probably all seen.

There's one that I can't find for the life of me, but it was like a business man in a personal flying test tube bubble heading to work, maybe with some kind of wireless phone?

Anyways, the reason I bring it up is that they frequently nailed certain concepts, but the visual was always deeply and irrevocably influenced by what already existed (ex. men wearing hats, ties, overcoats .. or the phone mouthpiece in this [1] vision of a "video call"). In hindsight, we realize that everything truly novel and revolutionary and mindblowingly-different is rarely ever predicted, because we can only know what we know.

I get the feeling that I'll come away from AI 2027 feeling like "yep, they nailed it. That's exactly how it will be!" and then in 3, 5, 10, 20 years look back and go "it was so close, but so far" (much like these postcards and cartoons).

[0] https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/retro-future-predictions/

[1] https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/futuristic-visions-cards-ge...
by duxup | 2025-05-22 20:42:58+00:00
I’ve found this with many LLMs they want to give an answer, even if wrong.

Gemini on the Google search page constantly answers questions yes or no… and then the evidence it gives indicates the opposite of the answer.

I think the core issue is that in the end LLMs are just word math and they don’t “know” if they don’t “know”…. they just string words together and hope for the best.
by GolDDranks | 2025-05-22 20:43:22+00:00
I sincerely hope you'll manage to find a job!

What I meant was purely from the capabilities perspective. There's no way a current AI model would outperform an average junior dev in job performance over... let's say, a year to be charitable. Even if they'd outperform junior devs during the first week, no way for a longer period.

However, that doesn't mean that the business people won't try to pre-empt potential savings. Some think that AI is already good enough, and others don't, but they count it to be good enough in the future. Whether that happens remains to be seen, but the effects are already here.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-05-22 20:45:14+00:00
Of course it is. But as the ICC just found out, it's a security threat to use USA tech in Europe too.

The worlds global, you have to import a lot of tech from elsewhere, and now both major suppliers (China and the USA) are cuddling up to a rogue nation that is invading a neighbor. They are between a rock and a hard place right now.
by landl0rd | 2025-05-22 20:45:21+00:00
Let me put it this way: there are very few things I can think of that models should absolutely refuse, because there are very few pieces of information that are net harmful in all cases and at all times. I sort of run by blackstone's principle on this: it is better to grant 10 bad men access to information than to deny that access to 1 good one.

Easy example: Someone asks the robot for advice on stacking/shaping a bunch of tannerite to better focus a blast. The model says he's a terrorist. In fact, he's doing what any number of us have done and just having fun blowing some stuff up on his ranch.

Or I raised this one elsewhere but ochem is an easy example. I've had basically all the models claim that random amines are illegal, potentially psychoactive, verboten. I don't really feel like having my door getting kicked down by agents with guns, getting my dog shot, maybe getting shot myself because the robot tattled on me for something completely legal. For that matter if someone wants to synthesize some molly the robot shouldn't tattle to the feds about that either.

Basically it should just do what users tell it to do excepting the very minimal cases where something is basically always bad.
by fzeroracer | 2025-05-22 20:46:12+00:00
The HN crowd here? A mixture of 'I told you so' posts, some fascists posting with glee that their perceived enemies are getting kicked in the knees and probably a few centrists desperately still trying to find a way to spin it in a positive manner.

The people running Y Combinator? They'll donate a few million to the Trump fund, maybe donate a jet or two and hope that gets him to stop for a little bit while claiming this 'isn't what we stand for' and 'i can't believe this happened (to us)'.

Make no mistake, they have no problem with these decisions until it has direct and material impact on them. That's why they invite the people directly responsible for this to their AI Startup school and give them privileged speaking opportunities. They don't care nor do they think that far into the future. Hell, you can go to the AI startup school page now and see them sharing the AI Ghibli shit [1]

[1] https://events.ycombinator.com/ai-sus
by weiliddat | 2025-05-22 20:46:33+00:00
Sad, one of the first of its kind. Created a bunch of one-off tools for friends and colleagues on glitch, but could see why it didn't really take off. For me I switched to other platforms like codesandbox, replit because the editor UX wasn't great for a long time. I get wanting the simplicity angle but having poor hints/autocomplete/etc is a hard sell for writing code.
by aidenn0 | 2025-05-22 20:46:48+00:00
I also only this moment realized that too.

Torin can be one-hit-killed with cracks-call as well, so nature wizards are annoying. He is the only one who you can get back with all XP though, since you can just cast incarnation again.

Halfling+lionheart+invulnerable is a very good early-game rush on the harder difficulties, as are phantom warriors.
by HenryBemis | 2025-05-22 20:47:00+00:00
I downloaded the file (must still be somewhere in my "Downloads" folder with many other forever-unread PDFs). I would suggest for anyone living in the US, to find and read that because this is (more or less) what will happen in the/your country in the next 3.5 years.

(if I remember well it's 150-170 pages - and since I don't live in the US the meme "Ain't Nobody Got Time for That" is spot on).
by wat10000 | 2025-05-22 20:47:12+00:00
Even if it stopped immediately, we'll still get a lot fewer of these people. The US is now a country where anonymous government thugs can snatch foreigners off the street and put them in jail for saying the wrong things. Even if we stop doing that today, what's to say we won't start it up again at any time? Who's going to risk that just to go to an American university? Our universities are good but not that good.
by lioeters | 2025-05-22 20:47:31+00:00
Yes I think it's similar in scope to Raylib. I'm learning this as I go, but here's a page with many demos compiled to Wasm.

https://floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/index.html

In the README they have example usage ranging from 8-bit emulators, games, command-line tools, integration with Dear ImGui and other libraries, bindings to languages like Zig, Rust, Odin, Nim.

> WebAssembly is a 'first-class citizen', one important motivation for the Sokol headers is to provide a collection of cross-platform APIs with a minimal footprint on the web platform while still being useful.
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-22 20:47:33+00:00
Detaching posts is also used as a moderation tactic to bury posts, which is also anti-user, and it also breaks context and parent-child relationships. It’s not really a workable solution to the problems it purports to solve, in my opinion.

> As far as dead posts... I don't remember whether we used to be able to comment on them or not.

We did, and I have done so often. If I had to guess, this change occurred in the last month or two.
by lupusreal | 2025-05-22 20:47:56+00:00
This is one part of a large pattern of Republicans trying to end-run around the First Ammendment specifically to defend Israel from criticism. For instance, in Texas they make school teachers sign contracts that include terms forbidding criticism of Israel. Republicans have also been extremely reliable supporters of unconstitutional Anti-BDS laws.

Make no mistake, the Republican party (and half the Democratic Party FWIW) is fully captured by the Israel lobby.
by marktangotango | 2025-05-22 20:48:26+00:00
The influence and dominance of conservative media is striking. They have sane-washed and explained away things that would have ended 10 other politicians careers. Trump is Asimovs "mule". His appeal to large groups of people is inexplicable. Vance is certainly NOT that. It's open question how much success the Mule's successor would have. Surely momentum and conservative media will carry him far (should that come to pass).

https://newrepublic.com/article/128107/classier-two-evils
by pugdogdev | 2025-05-22 20:49:46+00:00
Hey, Glad you liked it and share the same thought about this problem DockFlow doesn't need any special permission to work. When you install it, you will automatically have the option in the Apple Shortcuts app to integrate with it (like every other app that allows this type of integration, this is not permission-related). DockFlow works totally offline (except to validate the license key), and no data is sent to my server or a third-party server. Feel free to ask any questions about it. I will be glad to answer
by antognini | 2025-05-22 20:49:48+00:00
When I was in grad school in astronomy, one of my professors told me "many a promising young researcher has run their career aground on the rocky shores of tides."

The mathematics involved in the theory of tides are formidable. Even in homogeneous, tidally locked systems things can get complicated very quickly.

But tides are nevertheless very important. One two objects pass very close to each other, tidal effects are substantial and can actual destroy one of the objects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_disruption_event
by konfusinomicon | 2025-05-22 20:50:26+00:00
I delved into the world of soy sauce a few years back and id say if your looking to go beyond kikkoman, or god forbid that swill they call la choy, go for kimlan. super special, I-Jen (for something a little different), light, or aged..pearl river bridge isn't too bad either just watch out for brands with a bunch of added chemicals in the ingredients
by dijksterhuis | 2025-05-22 20:51:33+00:00
> I would much rather that they be knocked down a peg or three, which if it continues long enough might even result in lower prices for domestic students.

When an organization loses a significant portion of it's annual income [0], there's often three main choices on what can be done next [1]

* reduce the quality / variety of services provided -- i.e. cut services, keep prices the same, don't admit more students

* increase prices for remaining "customers" -- i.e. increase prices, don't cut services, don't admit more students

* increase income by getting more paying "customers" -- i.e. don't cut services, don't increase prices, get more domestic students [2]

I struggle to see how you believe this could end up reducing prices for US domestic students for the same quality of education as before... unless your point is to degrade the standing of the educational institution/quality of the education provided so it becomes cheaper...? if that's true, why would you want that?

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[0]: close to a third of annual income in this case "Over 6,700 international students were enrolled at the institution last academic year, university data shows, making up 27% of its student body." -- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05768jmm11o

[1]: based on my random experiences and stuff i've read, this is not an exhaustive cite-able statement

[2]: could also take out a loan, but that's basically short-term increasing income
by joseda-hg | 2025-05-22 20:51:40+00:00
It depends, a lot (I use Bluefin, so I'll grab that one as an example)

Assumming everything is setup the way I usually do when someone asks me for a new Windows PC (Setup an account, install basic utilities, Office suite, automatic updates, etc)

More or less everything

- ThunderBird + OnlyOffice is close enough for regular usage (Coming from Outlook + Office)

- Flatpaks and system updates are on the background by default and only take when you restart, so they're more or less invisible (And for someone else, I'll usually do the oldest channel available, maybe even the CentOS based LTS when that's out of beta)

- Discord, Teams, Stuff like that is electron based anyway

- Steam for games is reasonably good (Depending on your library, Everything in mine works, but not everything in my wishlist)

- Windows only utilities are on a case by case basis (Depending on the program, they'll usually call me to procure it, because god knows, no sane person wants to deal with the likes of adobe)

For the sake of transparency, I would use the CLI to setup quite a lot, but I wouldn't expect them to use it for anything
by mrguyorama | 2025-05-22 20:51:46+00:00
Mel Brookes understood this very well.

Essentially, morons cannot see past the very superficial surface details. They don't see how Star Treks universe claims all this good comes from literal socialism. They see cool looking spaceships.

It's like how morons do not see the Star Wars Empire as obvious Nazi propaganda ripoffs in their aesthetic, they think they are cool and have cool uniforms and do cool marching.

The ONLY way to ensure morons don't outright celebrate the horrific (but maybe fashionable) things you show in fiction is to ensure that it always comes with a side of making an absolute mockery of the fascists.

You have to laugh at them, to their face. It's the only thing that works.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-05-22 20:51:47+00:00
After I posted that, I did some more research to see how typical it is, over longer time periods, that our nearest star is about 4 ly away. That seems to be about average spacing for our part of the galaxy, but it turns out in a little over a million years, a star about half the size of the sun will pass around 0.15 ly away or 10,000 AU, which is far outside the kuiper belt, but solidly though the middle of the inner oort cloud, and will leave a wake of scattered comets and asteroids, some of which will rain down on Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_710
by PAdvisory | 2025-05-22 20:51:48+00:00
I went into it pretty in depth after breaking a few with severe constraints, what it seems to come down to is how the platforms themselves prioritize functions, MOST put "helpfulness" and "efficiency" ABOVE truth, which then leads the LLM to make a lot of "guesses" and "predictions". At their core pretty much ALL LLM's are made to "predict" the information in answers, but they CAN actually avoid that and remain consistent when heavily constrained. The issue is that it isn't at the core level, so we have to CONSTANTLY retrain it over and over I find
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-05-22 20:51:53+00:00
> student records that can be used to determine if a student visa holder has violated their visa

What do they need from Harvard to determine if an individual has violated their visa? Does the administration not have a list of students on a visa? (Surely they do, given that's their job.) Do they not have evidence of a crime? (Surely they do, otherwise there's no problem. But also apparently not, because they'd just use that.) What's missing?
by karthink | 2025-05-22 20:51:55+00:00
> I would be interested especially in Emacs integrations.

gptel can use MCP server tools in Emacs by integrating with the mcp.el package, here's a demo: https://i.imgur.com/WTuhPuk.mp4.

mcp.el: https://github.com/lizqwerscott/mcp.el

Relevant gptel README section (you'll have to unfold the details block): https://github.com/karthink/gptel?tab=readme-ov-file#model-c...
by alephnerd | 2025-05-22 20:52:07+00:00
> Might be racist but that is going to likely overcome the tax savings on some random guy of otherwise similar software skills in India

The model used by India is the exact same as that used in Romania, Poland, Czechia, Costa Rica, Israel, and other countries.

Having a couple digital nomad contractors works fine for small organizations, but once you break the 300+ number, that's when you start seeing the kind of tax optimizations I mentioned above kicking in.

> At worst your wage would be tax discounted by that margin. You're competing on real cost

That's the point. Wages don't play a significant role inasmuch as the tax optimization. And that's where the issue kicks in at scale.
by InitialLastName | 2025-05-22 20:52:13+00:00
a) You need 2/3 of senators to vote to convict, so you would need ~20 Republicans to get on board.

b) Impeachment is a political action; plenty of politicians can disagree with portions of their party's legislature enough to vote against it without saying "I'd like to burn down my party's control of the government (and thereby my career) over this".
by vunderba | 2025-05-22 20:52:15+00:00
Very cool, I'd recommend you randomize the voices/pitch/etc. on each word to give a broader challenge and add some variety. You could even add the "Can I hear it in a sentence?" or "Could I get the definition?" which are part of a normal spelling bee.

Related but about 10 years ago my little brother was struggling pretty hard with learning the multiplication tables, so I built a edutainment math game based off the magic carpet escape sequence in the old Aladdin game for the Sega Genesis. He played that game obsessively on my iPad and it really helped him. Never underestimate the power of personalized education!

https://specularrealms.com/alad
by mindslight | 2025-05-22 20:52:29+00:00
Why do you need a real suppressor to cosplay a pretend political stance? If you haven't already gotten the right size oil filter, just go buy a spray painted soda can from that guy at the flea market that sells decorative airplanes made from soda cans. Heck of a lot lighter, too.

The authoritarian jackboots are here today, destroying individual liberties (and the economy to really put the nails in the coffin), and yet it's basically crickets from the otherwise-loud 2A fundamentalists - just like how the first round of Dear Leader had them dropping "from my cold, dead hands" and replacing it with "blue lives matter".
by dzdt | 2025-05-22 20:52:37+00:00
The stated reasons are not the real reasons. None of this is above-board. If you pay too much attention to what phony reasons are stated you will just be lead around by your nose.

The part of the real reason that is made very obvious is that Harvard is not rolling over and doing whatever the regime asks of it, and attacks of the administration on Harvard will continue until that capitulation occurs.