MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by onetimeusename | 2025-05-31 22:36:47+00:00
My school recently had to change the honor code because there was so much cheating but the administration and student senate don't like bringing that up. The honor code for 100 years previously had been weaker, to the point of not having proctors for exams. The student senate opposed changes to the honor code. There's been an exponential increase in honor code violations and yet less enforcement because, imo, the school can't afford to suspend so many people.

I think what's happening is kind of dark. Universities might be slowly returning to what they were a long time ago which is a place of learning. In recent times they have been selling prestige to credentialists. It turns out that those people don't really need to take the classes especially with the internet and AI now being resources. So the universities are stuck between earning more revenue yet having decreasing academic integrity versus having lower revenue and catering to a smaller group of people.

The honor code itself doesn't really seem to change how people behave. Anecdotally, I hear that cheating increases every year from whispers of CS profs and TAs. I feel like if you are going to use AI to cheat, as one example, why not skip the university altogether? I think the lack of academic integrity will lead to that in some form or another.
by duskwuff | 2025-05-31 22:37:08+00:00
I don't know exactly how okayestjoel's solver works, but here's an example of a nonogram which I imagine it would consider "difficult":

1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 . . . . . 2 . . . . . 11 . . . . . 2 . . . . . 11 . . . . .

This puzzle has a unique solution (141a706), but none of the clues immediately tell you anything about the state of any specific cell.
HWF on Telegram
by leowilkin | 2025-05-31 22:38:31+00:00
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by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-05-31 22:39:08+00:00
Nah, they're .csv files, not even PDFs. It's just that it's a lot of text. (The valuations of the LLM giants don't seem too crazy when you realize just how much of the US economy is dedicated to creating and shuffling text.)

There's so much text in each of those monstrous .csv files that you can learn quite a lot if you run a statistical analysis on just one of them.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-05-31 22:39:39+00:00
<< he only hires people who can manage several Claude agents to program at a time.

You would not happen to have the name of that podcast? It sounds mildly crazy at first glance and deeper examination. It is a useful signal to me to avoid ever thinking of working there, but I would hate for this attitude to be considered the norm. Apart from everything else, if you are trying to do multiple things at once, something will slip by..
by Labov | 2025-05-31 22:40:18+00:00
I took computer science for a year before flunking out. My parents pushed me into college. My father didn't want me to join the Navy like he had done, when he was a young man. A lot of conversations about my future earning potential with an undergraduate degree took place in the lobbies of payday loan joints.

I plagiarized quite a bit in school. I'm not proud of it. Desperation and poor role models can create all sorts of negative outcomes, though. I was taught how to survive, not how to live ethically.

You can try to filter the plagiarists, sure. But uh, I'm not sure if it will work. The plagiarists are in league with each other.
by ashdksnndck | 2025-05-31 22:41:12+00:00
From a plumbing perspective, the Toto is no different from one of the basic units, you just attach the valve to the toilet’s water supply. For electricity, it depends on your situation but if you have an outlet nearby (eg. where you would plug your hair dryer or electric toothbrush) you can just plug into that. The plug doesn’t need to be directly behind the toilet, you run a cord to it.
by ryao | 2025-05-31 22:41:21+00:00
You replied really quickly when I had thought I could sneak in a revision, which dropped the estimates for production numbers. In any case, the Cerebras CSE-3 is extremely inefficient for what it does. Inference is memory bandwidth bound, such that peak performance for a single query should be close to the memory bandwidth divided by the weights. Despite having. 2600x the memory bandwidth, they can only perform 2.5 times faster. 1000x of their supposed memory bandwidth is wasted. There are extreme inefficiencies in their architecture. Meanwhile, Nvidia is often within >80% of what memory bandwidth divided by weights predict their hardware can do.

Mistral is a small fish in the grander scheme of things. I would assume that using Cerebras is a way to try to differentiate themselves in a market where they are largely ignored, which is the reason Mistral is small enough to be able to have their needs handled by Cerebras. If they grow to OpenAI levels, there is no chance of Cerebras being able to handle the demand for them.

Finally, I had researched this out of curiosity last year. I am posting remarks based on that.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-05-31 22:42:51+00:00
1. People think differently. Some languages suit some people better than they suit other people. The language you're so enthusiastic about, that feels like a revelation to use, is one that fits you. Others don't share your enthusiasm, not because they're dumb, not because they haven't tried, but because the language does not fit them.

2. There is no "best" language for all people or all tasks - not Haskell, not Lisp, not Python.

3. People who answer "what's your most..." with more than one response should learn to count.

Um... oops.
by ben_w | 2025-05-31 22:43:40+00:00
> My only question is why the garbage factory hasn't gone into overdrive faster, and how long will it take until there's so much garbage online that the Internet and all forms of digital communication essentially break?

"Why" is filters and price. Spam filters, CAPCHAs, tarpits, shadow-banning — there's been inauthentic behaviour since "telegram" was a thing sent from an office and printed on paper, rather than an app, and this has led to an arms race from all the people who don't want that. When I was at university (early 2000s), I vaguely recall they claimed that for every real email on our systems, we had about 100 spam messages, most of which were silently deleted and didn't even get as far as our spam folder.

"How long until" depends on when the price of a fake that's good enough to fool your automatic filters, is low enough that the users are getting so much rubbish that they can't be bothered to use the thing any more — given how many ads most people seem willing to tolerate, this may be as high as 1 in 3 messages being fake.

It's an arms race, so the exact date is not predictable.
by xnx | 2025-05-31 22:43:51+00:00
> 5 years into "AI will replace programmers in 6 months"?

Programmers that don't use AI will get replaced by those that do. (no just by mandate, but by performance)

> 10 years into "we'll have self driving cars next year"

They're here now. Waymo does 250K paid rides/week.
by jiggawatts | 2025-05-31 22:44:05+00:00
Every one of these “woe is us” articles about academic cheating is fundamentally a tragedy of the commons issue.

The commons is the value of a university degree. No, not the education! The diploma.

There will always be some fraction of students that genuinely learn and earn their diplomas. Industry rewards them with higher salaries because the diploma demonstrates that they’re educated and self-motived intelligent people — grade A employees in other words.

So of course, some students will cheat and gain a diploma through copying others. This is inevitable, like the drug trade or prostitution.

If the percentage is low enough, nobody cares.

Okay, but… what if it’s a little higher? Those students might be highly profitable foreign students just looking to get a piece of paper so that they can get a better life back home.

What about a bit higher? Now the university is making bank, the foreign students are funding a new physics lab and a new pool! Awesome.

What if it’s 90%?

Now… it’s too late to rock the boat. The emperors nakedness must not be revealed! If industry catches on that almost all of the diploma-wielding graduates are actually C- instead of A+ the whole thing will implode.

That’s why universities are “helpless” against cheating! They won’t fix it, because if they do, the music stops.

We’re nearly there now. I walked through my old university and saw maybe 5% locals. I hardly heard a single conversation in English. This place is now graduating students in bulk that are functionally illiterate (in English), let alone the subject matter.

The song hasn’t stopped yet, but AI is fiddling with the buttons on the stereo.

There are no chairs.
by busyant | 2025-05-31 22:44:05+00:00
> employers use it as a very efficient filter to weed out everyone who might have an issue with what big corporate demands - cogs in a wheel, not artisans with own opinions.

I think the simpler explanation is that the CS degree is supposed to be an independent verification that the student has learned and can employ fundamental aspects of CS.

I realize that verification can often be wrong (especially now with the ubiquity of LLMs), but I think the view that employers are simply looking for "cogs" and avoiding "artisans" is an arrogant and cynical take on what a degree is supposed to indicate.
by pvg | 2025-05-31 22:44:46+00:00
I think that's worse and is exactly the problem with these - it's one thing for Linus to be yelling at someone in on a mailing list (is he right? is he just mad? who knows? I imagine they'll sort it out!) and something completely different to plaster someone's name next to 'SUSPECTED MALICIOUS' across a popular nerd messageboard.
by Animats | 2025-05-31 22:45:19+00:00
Oh, no, another Rust vector and matrix library. There's already "glam" and "nalgebra".

Having more than one vector and matrix library is as troublesome for geometry processing as multiple string types are for string processing.

Usual hints for language designers on type basics that become a headache as the language progresses:

- Have a "bool" type, and don't make it equivalent to an integer.

- Have types for vec2 through vec4, and mat2 through mat4. That covers the cases graphics people use constantly. Those are basic, and everyone agrees what they should do.

- Support multidimensional arrays as a standard language feature. Don't get too fancy. Just do it at least as well as FORTRAN does.

- Strings are checked UTF-8.

- Provide some standard error type, or error hierarchy, from which all errors are derived.

Get any of those wrong in the early days of a language and retrofits will become a time sink for users. Rust got three of those five wrong, and had to be retrofitted to fix them.
by HenryBemis | 2025-05-31 22:46:16+00:00
> big registrars get thousands (lowballing it) of domain checks every day.

It doesn't take much. 3-4 bad employees getting a dump of searches, and looking for the cool ones, telling their cousin to buy them for $10 and wait. Those folks will skip the "butts-are-bad.com" from a Pakistani IP, but they will go for the "fitness.ai" from a Californian IP.

EDIT: and filtering for 'cool' words/acronyms such as AI, GTP, sex, profit, gold, crypto, coin, etc... to focus on the good stuff.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-31 22:46:59+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio#Literary_analysis

The structure of the story of Pinocchio follows that of the folktales of peasants who venture out into the world but are naïvely unprepared for what they find and get into ridiculous situations.[11] At the time of the writing of the book, this was a serious problem, arising partly from the industrialization of Italy, which led to a growing need for reliable labor in the cities; the problem was exacerbated by similar, more or less simultaneous, demands for labor in the industrialization of other countries. One major effect was the emigration of much of the Italian peasantry to cities and foreign countries such as the United States.
by qbit42 | 2025-05-31 22:47:20+00:00
Yeah in context I somewhat agree, though the utility for graphics applications probably comes down to some more empirical aspects that I won't conjecture about. I imagine there is some stuff you could do in this setting by incorporating autograd derivatives from many slightly perturbed points in a neighborhood of the input point (which together act as a coarse approximation of the subdifferential set).
by const_cast | 2025-05-31 22:47:25+00:00
> Makes me feel really safe, knowing that as a taxpayer Im forced to be on the hook for all clean up costs over $300 million.

If it's any consolation, you're already on the hook for oil/gas cleanup, which is significantly more expensive.

Texas has an estimated 1 Trillion dollars in damages from our Oil craze. Whoops... And, certainly the likes of Chevron won't be paying that.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-05-31 22:48:10+00:00
> abortion laws in America today are designed to degrade liberties of women (regardless of anyone's intent)

Nope. You can't say "designed" and say "regardless of intent". Pick one. Either they were designed (and therefore done with intent), or not done with intent (and therefore not designed).

Perhaps you meant "have the effect" instead of "designed"?
by Velorivox | 2025-05-31 22:49:27+00:00
I believe there is nuance here. Something akin to the 'last mile' problem in delivery exists in these realms as well — AI can get close, and usually even complete the task when the artifact is not the end product — but in cases where one does care about selling the output to others, AI can result in more gig work, not less.

For example, many games that previously had no voice at all can now take a low-cost crack at voiceovers and, if it works, get professional VAs. Similarly people who would otherwise waste a long time in a back and forth can send AI generated concept art directly to a 3d modeler to model and rig. This reduces the risk of the transaction (will I get what I actually want?) significantly for these jobs.

However, as with any other technological leverage, it will exacerbate the power law distribution. Once you know what you're getting and that it will be worth it, you're much more likely to hire better professionals and pay them more.
by skybrian | 2025-05-31 22:49:48+00:00
Yes, it seems like surprise has to depend on your point of view. There’s an enormous difference between “someone somewhere won the lottery” and “I won the lottery,” even if it’s describing the same event.

It’s a question of how many other possibilities are considered similar to the one that happened. From a zoomed-out perspective, one win is as good as any another.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-05-31 22:49:51+00:00
It is not intended as a wordplay, but if they are delusional, are they really a liar? I think our language may need to evolve a little, because we keep building new language of llms by anthropomorphizing them. They hallucinate. They lie. It is thinking.

The worst part is that the imprecise language is here to stay the same way cyber came to mean something very different. So we are likely stuck with AI, hallucinations and all that silliness.

And besides, corps have a record of hiring liars, delusional people and anything in between so the analogy breaks on every level anyway.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-05-31 22:49:52+00:00
Some of us have little money or optimized for something else. I spent a good chunk of this and last year with hardly any groceries. So, even $30 a month in hosting and CDN costs was large.

Another situation is an expensive resource. This might be bandwidth hogs, CPU heavy, or higher licensing per CPU's in databases. Some people's sites or services dont scale well or hit their budget limits fast.

In a high-security setup, those boxes usually have limited performance. It comes from the runtime checks, context switches, or embedded/soft processors. If no timing channels, one might have to disable shared caches, too.

Those systems run slow enough that whatever is in front usually needs to throttle the traffic. We'd want no wasted traffic given their cost ranges from $2,000 / chip (FPGA) to six digits a system (eg XTS-500 w/ STOP OS). One could say the same if it was a custom or open-source chip, like Plasma MIPS.

Many people might be in the poor category. A significant number are in the low-scalability category. The others are rare but significant.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-05-31 22:50:04+00:00
Unclear exactly what you're asking. The linked paper describes an algorithm (patent status unclear). That paper happens to link to a GPL licensed implementation whose authors explicitly solicit business licensing inquiries. The related model weights are available on Hugging Face (license unclear). Notably the HF readme file contains conflicting claims. The metadata block specifies apache while the body specifies GPL.

https://github.com/AILab-CVC/YOLO-World

https://huggingface.co/spaces/stevengrove/YOLO-World/tree/ma...
by kaibee | 2025-05-31 22:51:32+00:00
Can confirm. Been working on a spaceship colony game still in prototype phase, the code isn't too clean to begin with. Ended up asking the AIs for typed Vector3 in C#, which gave me a starting point.

https://gist.github.com/mrkybe/efa70a9ddcba7b5bfe441dafce13e...

It's been a huge time-saver.
by kragen | 2025-05-31 22:52:03+00:00
> Would the court find the same way if I told my neighbors that they must not hang out with some guy who lives down the street or else they won't be welcome at my pool parties anymore? (...) somehow upon adding economic activity into the mix my speech can suddenly be restricted in ways it couldn't before.

I think the issue is that, upon adding economic activity to the mix, your exercise of freedom of speech threatens every freedom of the guy down the street, because it threatens his survival. I don't think this is dependent on whether the community shunning is on a purely individual basis or along class boundaries. (I also don't think actively gay people are a "class" in any sense that shoplifters aren't.)

I agree that this reasoning is incompatible with a strong understanding of freedom of speech; it could be applied very broadly to restrict political activity.
by HenryBemis | 2025-05-31 22:53:12+00:00
> standard USPS

I remember buying a super cool Microsoft keyboard back in early 00's. I got it via USPS (from US to EU), and all was well. One year later I wanted to buy one more because it was soooooooooo nice I wanted to have a second one for when the first one would die out many-many-many years later. This time it was DHL, and those cunts were taking everything through customs, so their 'facilitating' subsidiary makes a buck. Fucking DHL... I haven't given them a cent ever since.
by fasthands9 | 2025-05-31 22:53:57+00:00
I feel like there is a market effect where people gravitate away from fake content. There are a lot of subreddits where people post text stories. Ten years ago I think these were more authentic, but today they are overwhelmed with fake stories that people recognize them as fake so growth of those areas stops.

I think winners of online content will be platforms that can keep slop from clogging your recommendations. Perhaps requiring accounts to register with a SIM card would be cost effective enough from keeping farmers from making thousands of account. I think if a couple fake TikToks enter your feed people will find it a novelty, but if people are feeling constantly duped the platform will suffer.

Of all my AI concerns this is pretty far down on my list, though I'm nervous for the weird future.
by dgfitz | 2025-05-31 22:54:09+00:00
There is without question value to LLMs, I absolutely agree.

Trying to make them more than they are is the issue I have. Let them be great at crunching words, I’m all about that.

Pretending that OpenAI is worth billions of dollars is a joke, when I can get 90% of the value the provide for free, on my own mediocre hardware.
by perching_aix | 2025-05-31 22:56:06+00:00
Why are you pretending to be participating in a debate? You mention things like "moving the goalpost", "counter[arguments]", and "arguments", as if you did anything more than just assert your opinion in the first place.

This is what you wrote:

> LLMs don't understand.

That's it. An assertion of opinion with nothing else included. I understand it sucks when people feel otherwise, but that's just kinda how this goes. And before you bring up how there were more sentences in your comment, I'd say they are squarely irrelevant, but sure, let's review those too:

> It's mind-boggling to me that large parts of the tech industry think that.

This is just a personal reporting of your own feelings. Zero argumentational value.

> Don't ascribe to them what they don't have.

A call for action, combined with the same assertion of opinion as before, just rehashed. Again, zero argumentational value.

> They are fantastic at faking understanding.

Opinion, loaded with the previous assertion of opinion. No value add.

> Don't get me wrong, for many tasks, that's good enough.

More opinion. Still no arguments or verifiable facts presented or referenced. Also a call for action.

> But there is a fundamental limit to what all this can do.

Opinion, and a vague one at that. Still nothing.

> Don't get fooled into believing there isn't.

Call for action + assertion of opinion again. Nope, still nothing.

It's pretty much the type of comment I wish would just get magically filtered out before it ever reached me. Zero substance, maximum emotion, and plenty of opportunities for people to misread your opinions as anything more than that.

Even within your own system of opinions, you provide zero additional clarification why you think what you think. There's literally nothing to counter, as strictly speaking you never actually ended up claiming anything. You just asserted your opinion, in its lonesome.

This is no way to discuss anything, let alone something you or others likely feel strongly about. I've had more engaging, higher quality, and generally more fruitful debates with the models you say don't understand, than anyone here so far could have possibly had with you. Please reconsider.
by const_cast | 2025-05-31 22:57:07+00:00
> No front but a "CS degree" is, for 99% of the people that have one, factually useless

I just don't understand how people can believe this. I learned most of my programming skills in college, and everyone I know did too. I could program before, but really poorly, because I didn't have fundamental computer science knowledge. Taking algorithms, theoretical comp sci, discrete structures - these transformed me from a code monkey to a real programmer.
by icedchai | 2025-05-31 22:57:08+00:00
This is true, but generally speaking there should be more people "producing" than "ingesting." This is often not the case. Most meetings are useless, and this has become much worse in modern times. Example: agile "scrum" and its daily stand ups, which inevitably turn into status reports.

At some point in the 2000's, every manager decided they needed weekly 1:1's, resulting in even more meetings. Many of these are entirely ineffective. As one boss told me, "I've been told I need to have 1:1's, so I'm having them!" I literally sat next to him and talked every day, but it was a good time to go for coffee...
by AbstractH24 | 2025-05-31 22:57:57+00:00
A lot of this current generative AI wave seems to be a repeat of the late 90s/early 2000s. So it'll be interesting to see if automatic filtering is able to separate out the wheat from the chaff.

At some point in the early 2010s we found an equilibrium, but I don't exactly recall when, why, or how.

It's a space I know nothing about, but likely a good one to be in.