MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danenania | 2025-05-05 15:41:31+00:00
If you don't see any similarities, I'm not really sure what to say. I built it specifically to improve the workflow of what has come to be labelled 'vibe coding', and I believe it's more effective for this purpose than Cursor... though I find that Cursor is excellent for IDE auto-completion.

It's MIT-licensed and can be used for free, so yes I do mention it when relevant conversations come up, because I think can be useful to people, and I think that is well within the spirit of HN, which is supposed to be a maker community. Since I'm an HN addict, I read/post a lot, and so I notice when these topics come up.
by internetter | 2025-05-05 15:41:51+00:00
Hi, your last point makes me think that we’re in agreement that it’s not worth making students pay for lunch.

As for your other points, without annualizing it’s actually a fairly significant line item — their budget is about 3 billion. Annualized it’s not as bad, but that is hardly relevant as the fact of the matter is it costed 934 billion. Why did cost that much? My best answer is that a bid was held and cubic transportation systems won. This does not mean that the price was reasonable, only that cubic won. As for the new income, yes, that’s true. Trains will run slightly faster as people can board on many doors above ground (free system also does this). Ridership may increase thanks to tap to pay. I discuss this. But they also have, on numerous occasions, drastically overestimated the new revenue. Newer estimates show that the systems enable more fare evasion than before, cutting into profits.

My best guess as to why is mismanagement. After this was approved the MBTA’s management was overhauled for being a circus.

If you want to write a data driven counter argument, I would be more than happy to link to it at the top of my piece and offer rebuttals
by ijk | 2025-05-05 15:42:12+00:00
Yeah, the way the courts decide is unlikely to turn on a detail of how the technology works, so it's difficult for non-legal experts to predict the outcome on the technical merits (since the law has very different priorities).

Music has ended up in a place where short audio snippets are protected by copyright and must be licensed; but for short snippets of text the precedent has generally been that the copying needs to be more substantial. Distributed microplagarism of short phases might end up being ruled to be legal, even if wholesale reproduction is not. Which may not give copyright protection to the generated works, of course, as the question of machine authoring is entirely distinct.
by acbart | 2025-05-05 15:42:45+00:00
An interesting new approach to assessing student code by asking them questions about the code. From the site: "This work in computing education research builds foundation for a new activity type and approach to learning principles of programming. Our aim is to improve learning through increased reflection, self-explanation, and a gentle push towards deeper learning. Below we outline the articles and future work that this research project is producing."
by Dwedit | 2025-05-05 15:42:45+00:00
When you bring the dot into the screen with the wall, the wall turns light gray to match the background color. Yet the wall is still there, and still drawn on top of the background and player.

Someone might be misled into thinking that the color change has some effect on how the collision detection works, thinking that because the background and wall are the same color, the collision detection must not work anymore. But this is not the case, the game logic is actually checking that the dot is changing the wall color in order to disable collision for the wall.
by 0x500x79 | 2025-05-05 15:43:08+00:00
I'm not sure that Andrej envisioned this when he tweeted out his Vibe Coding take what seems like forever ago now.

I applaud anybody who jumps into Cursor (or other AI Assisted Coding Tools) to build a new product. I think that a way to express ideas is awesome, and allowing for these ideas to materialize is valuable for society and users will determine what is valuable/usable.

However, it's well documented that the expression of these tools is limited. I think that the bet here is that LLMs will continue to get better and better, paving the way for these tools to become more valuable: which I haven't been convinced with yet.

At it's core you can list out the primary functionality of an AI Assisted Coding platform and how these components interact. Their prompts have been dumped, and the tools have been replicated, plus the big LLM providers are in this space as well and understand more nuances around the models and how they interact with the different components.

$9B seems bonkers, but time will tell. There are a few outcomes here: pop, life changes incredibly, or this is the stagnation period that seems to happen with AI/ML. LLMs have changed the way I work already, the question is "what is next". I am hoping that I am ahead of others on the Hype cycle, but only time will tell (from heavy use of AI tools).
by qwertox | 2025-05-05 15:43:45+00:00
I write my emails to people like the HoA myself, but always feed it into an LLM to make sure the point comes across. There are always so many corrections suggested, that I'd end up writing a precise mail, but one which I'd never had written that way. It's just not me in that mail. So I have the task to find a middle ground of what I need to remove from mine in order for it to be as easily understandable as the one the LLM suggests.

Am I alone with this?
by RankingMember | 2025-05-05 15:43:56+00:00
> something as simple as that seems like a given that would be embarrassing not to provide.

It's confusing (and embarrassing) because, in the grand scheme of government spending, it is something that could be (and should be) easily provided without any strings attached. If literal 10-year-old Richie Rich is dropped off at school in a helicopter, he should still be able to get a free lunch: that's how simple it should be. Adding means-testing of stuff like this is what cocks the whole thing up and makes it doubly expensive.
by thugthrasher | 2025-05-05 15:44:02+00:00
ChatGPT and the like are in a weird position at the moment. It's usually pretty clear that you have written it using an LLM, but it's hard to PROVE. And you need to be able to prove it (to some degree, which varies depending on the institution) to reliably count off for it, otherwise the student will challenge your finding that they cheated and the Honor Court (or administrator, or other equivalent) will tell you that you can't do that.

So, you can usually get away with it if there is not some way the professor/TA can prove it.

As things change, this will change, but that's the situation the author of the original article finds themself in, because it's the current situation.
by hirvi74 | 2025-05-05 15:44:06+00:00
I do not know about this. As in, I do not doubt that necessity of daydreaming, and I do not doubt something is being lost. However, I think daydreaming can also be dangerous in of itself. There is even a term for it called, "maladaptive daydreaming."

Obviously, that is the extreme on the opposite side of the spectrum. But from what I recall reading, daydreaming, evenly moderately, can be somewhat unproductive. I mean that in the sense that daydreaming can provide the brain with a shortcut to a feeling that would be better served if an action provided it.

For example, one can daydream about going to the gym and becoming more healthy. One can follow the daydream all the way through. However, at least in my case, I have caught myself enjoying the pleasurable feelings and the "one day, I will..." too much to the point that I never go to the gym.

I think my brain has learned that I can quell whatever feeling I am having in the moment by daydreaming. It's my brain's shortcut. It's as if my mind say, "Why spend the effort to do something when we can just imagine how it feels and enjoy the reward now?"

Like anything in life, the key is balance. However, creating that balance is not easy in my experience.
by rvz | 2025-05-05 15:44:06+00:00
Exactly. From: [0]

>> I know it works as intended. Just curios why Microsoft decided to enforce this all of a sudden.

Because they can. Also...

>> Did GitHub Copilot just give up on playing fair with Cursor, admitting it's winning?

The game wasn't 'fair' to begin with and it was rigged for Microsoft to win anyway. (Cursor being based on VS Code).

If you're competing against Microsoft, expect them to race you to zero for years (extinguish) at close to no cost for them.

It is all for Cursor to lose if they continue as they are and competitors like Microsoft catch up (and they will do so very quickly whilst lowering prices).

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dotnettools/issues/1909#...
by triceratops | 2025-05-05 15:44:08+00:00
So Meta borrowed every book from a library and paid to obtain all of the movies and TV shows? They kept only one copy of every book at any time on their system?

Because I'm certainly not allowed to photocopy a library book in its entirety. And I guarantee you a Netflix subscription doesn't allow me to keep a copy of a movie on my hard drive and use it for training man or machine.
by pmarreck | 2025-05-05 15:44:12+00:00
You seem like you not only have a chip on your shoulder about technological assistance in human lives (quite Luddite of you, even if we've all seen The Social Dilemma) but that you would prefer to believe a conspiracy theory without evidence (that "the AI is downvoting your AI-negative posts") than that you might simply be making badly-argued, negative-toned comments.

Tell you what- Here's a business idea you might appreciate: A series of islands where literally everything exists as it did in 1984, or 1992, or 2000, and you pay to basically "go back in time". All devices are confiscated on arrival but you are re-provided with the devices that were available in that era, meticulously maintained. We could call it "time/era tourism".

Heck, why stop there? Let's have one that is set in 1945, just after WW2 ended, or perhaps 1850/the Victorian era prior to the introduction of cars or the Industrial Revolution. Bonus points if it includes time-appropriate racism, sexism or diseases.
by nobody9999 | 2025-05-05 15:44:34+00:00
>If you want to change that, i.e. make people aware of it, don’t just name the section; link to it and briefly explain what it is and why people should be against it. Even doing just one of those three would help your cause.

I'm not sure why this (Section 174(c)(3)) [0] is relevant to our discussion in any way, but here it is for everyone's perusal:

>(3) Software development

>

>For purposes of this section, any amount paid or incurred

>in connection with >the development of any software shall

>be treated as a research or experimental >expenditure.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/174

Edit: Fixed quote formatting.
Ask HN: Is archive.today/is/md/etc. compromised?
by ementally | 2025-05-05 15:44:34+00:00
It is now redirecting to a page that is owned by 5oh.ru, this is not the first time this happened btw, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43490423.

Sad to see this happens as it performs much better than archive.org
by zhyder | 2025-05-05 15:45:33+00:00
Strongly agree with the author that the original prompt is much more substantive, but I think they're mistaken that "skin in the game" is a small motivating factor for human written text. It's the entire motivation: we all want to look like we've done more (get better grades at school, or get better compensation at work) while minimizing effort. We're not incentivized to produce just the substance, coz effort scales O(substance).
by serial_dev | 2025-05-05 15:46:52+00:00
You point to Chinese companies disregarding any rules if there is value to be had in AI, while in the US, AI companies going to get 500 billion investment and a whistleblower is dead.

US AI companies will either make sure that a similar ruling will never be made or they will ignore it and pay the fines. They won't let anybody stop the gravy train.
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by khelavastr | 2025-05-05 15:47:30+00:00
The rocket blew up because one of SpaceX's old factory ERP systems didn't sufficiently track parts, and only printed labels for frozen storage, refrigerated storage, and room temp storage.

Nobody flipped through the manifest of a fuel tank shipment to see they needed to be stored in liquid nitrogen. Someone put the shipment in frozen storage according to the label and the dry ice the tank was packed in evaporated. Cracks formed from the expansion.

Weeks or months later, someone noticed the improperly stored tank and tossed it into a tank of liquid nitrogen. The cracks shrank too small to see on the X-ray inspection. There was no inventory tracking within the freezer area.

When the fuel tank was filled with liquid oxygen, the cracks leaked, pure oxygen hit a spark, and boom.

Source: a .Net/Typescript engineer who responded to the accident by porting the quality assurance ERP system to their new ERP, Warp.
by ekidd | 2025-05-05 15:47:42+00:00
Also, the Chinese work is legit. DeepSeek introduced a whole bag of new techniques like GRPO, and released quite a bit of good open source tooling.

And Alibaba's Qwen team seems to be quite genuinely talented at "small" models, 32B parameters and below. Once you get Qwen3 properly configured, it punches well above its "weight class." I'm still running real benchmarks, but subjectively, it feels like the 32B model performs somewhere between 4o-mini and 4o on "objectively measureable" tasks. It's a little "stodgy" and formal by default, though. We'll see what it looks like when people start fine-tuning it.

If the US dropped off the planet, it would maybe set LLM technology back a year.
by apothegm | 2025-05-05 15:47:42+00:00
The JS processing and rendering time on an underpowered CPU is the issue, not the payload size. It’s difficult to describe how excruciatingly slow some seemingly simple e-commerce and content sites are to render on my 2019 laptop or how slowly they react to something as simple as a mouseover or how they peg the CPU - while absolutely massively complex and large server-rendered HTML loads and renders in an eyeblink.
by numpad0 | 2025-05-05 15:48:08+00:00
No, mice sensors are far from being SoTA linear encoders. They return approximate instantaneous movements somehow when read request is received. Mouse controller chips(USB or RF or Bluetooth) pack and report up the movements, that's it.

(psa: none of Chinese ADNS-2610 clones have the raw pixel output debug command. Maybe security implications or maybe something else, either way, mouse-as-microscope hacks don't work on sensors extracted from e-wastes)
by anenefan | 2025-05-05 15:48:11+00:00
People are moving from Windows is all ... I'd guess the sudden updating I've heard cussed out a few years ago while in the middle of things really didn't do M$ any favours. For a lot of the typical users out there they are looking for hardware that has a large user base. Presently I find little point mentioning Linux since there's so many flavours which have unique problem sets that it puts the average user off - even though with a bit of gentle guidance it's nothing much - learning curves exist for most everything.
by panick21_ | 2025-05-05 15:48:32+00:00
No its not betting the farm on SpaceX anymore then they already have.

The reality is, SLS/Orion don't do much that is useful while together consuming a huge part of the budget. It has consumed huge parts of the budget for 10+ years and would do so for another 15-20 years.

The real bet is on commercial launch in general. And that is a really good bet given how the launch market has developed.

Its also a bet on staging in LEO so you can use existing vehicles to get there.

> Starship probably isn’t getting to the Moon any faster than when it was part of Artemis.

The goal should not be to rush somewhere. The goal should be to develop a space flight program that is best for the next couple decades.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-05 15:48:34+00:00
The lack of an index is not bad at all if you have it stored contiguously in RAM: the mechanical sympathy is great, SIMD will spin like a top not to mention multithreaded programming, etc. Circa 2014 or so I worked on a search engine that scanned maybe 2GB worth of vectors for 10 million documents, queries were turned around in much less than a second, nobody complained about the speed.

If you gotta gather the data from a lot of different inodes, it is a different story.
by ryandrake | 2025-05-05 15:48:56+00:00
Yea, that's fatal mistake that the (D) side keeps making: They assume that both sides have good intentions and are trying to make the world better, and that we simply disagree about what "better" means, and about methods, priorities and principles.

MAGA reminds me of That One Guy we all knew in High School who just wanted to cause trouble, start fights, insult people, light fires in the bathroom, destroy things, and basically grief anyone who encountered him. There's no good intentions here--no aim to make things better for everyone. It was just ABCD with that guy: anger, belligerence, cruelty, and defiance. Fast forward to today, and we've got 70M+ of these guys voting.
by thomastjeffery | 2025-05-05 15:49:30+00:00
I can only root for them both to lose.

Letting Meta launder copyrighted works to make billions, while threatening the rest of us over the most trivial derivative work, sounds like the worst outcome to me.

Copyright is a mistake. It demands that we compete instead of collaborate. LLMs don't provide enough utility to deserve special treatment in these circumstances. If anyone can infringe copyright, then everyone should be able to.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-05 15:49:30+00:00
> Circumventing payment to obtain copyright material for training - Unambiguously illegal.

The judge in this case seems to disagree with you, not accepting the premise that downloading the material from pirate sites for this use inherently gets the plaintiffs an out from having to address fair use defense as to the actual use.

> the plaintiffs want to also tie in the former.

No, the defense wants to and the judge hasn't let the plaintiffs avoid it the way you argue they automatically can.
by diggan | 2025-05-05 15:50:14+00:00
> If the former ever gets tested in court, it's the end of the road. All major AI companies have trained on copyrighted work, one way or another.

End of the road for major AI companies, and hopefully something better can be created once it's declared illegal without any murky waters.

There are LLMs trained on data that isn't illegally obtained, OLMo by Ai2 is one such model, that is actually open source and uses open data for training. Just because it's "very difficult" for OpenAI et al shouldn't be an argument to force them to behave ethically anyways. If they cannot survive acting legally, then so be it, sucks for them.
by entropie | 2025-05-05 15:50:27+00:00
I was one of the first persons with mobile devices on me (dell axim s51 (or something like that)) before mobile phones were a thing, but since then, which was like over 20 years ago I do daily walks - 60 minutes+ through the local woods - with my dogs where I forbid myself in using my phone.

I do active thinking about projects I have, I recapitulate human interactions and reweight my decisions, I decide stuff that is going to happen. Someimes I do nothing, its not like I plan this stuff. I just plan not using any devices. (I also dont listen to music).

A friend and me worked for like a year back to back on a project and I like forced him to split work-time and come with me with the dogs. He absolutely loved it and said recently that he still forces himself to take a longer break for walks because that just makes him more productive.
by TFYS | 2025-05-05 15:50:42+00:00
Most innovation is done by workers working for some company, no? Product development, research, etc is usually done by workers for a salary, not because they're competing against someone. Competition is not needed for paying people to improve things.

Competition has a lot of negative effects as well. Competition by definition has losers. Competition leads to resentment and conflict. Competition forces people to do things they might not want to to survive, because the moment someone is willing to do something to get an edge, everyone is forced to.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-05-05 15:51:01+00:00
No transformation is needed.

The point here is that book files have to be copied before they can be used for training. Copyright texts typically say something like "No unauthorised copying or transmission in any form (physical, electronic, etc.)"

Individuals who torrented music and video files have been bankrupted for doing exactly this.

The same laws should apply when a corporation downloads torrent files. What happens to them after they're downloaded is irrelevant to the argument.

If this is enforced (still to be seen...) it would be financially catastrophic for Meta, because there are set damages for works that have been registered for copyright protection - which most trad-pubbed books, and many self-pubbed books, are.
by klibertp | 2025-05-05 15:51:09+00:00
Yup. Somehow, I prefer[1]:

(funcall #~s:gi/abc/def/ "Testing abc testing abc")

to the five lines of the equivalent made with macros, function calls, and keyword arguments.

I know all the problems with reader extensions, really. I understand being cautious. But at some point, you gotta wonder: what's the point of the programmable reader when you're unwilling to add programs to it?

[1] Let over Lambda: https://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/guest/chap4.html
by em-bee | 2025-05-05 15:51:22+00:00
assuming good will is the only way to get others to listen and eventually change their mind. because only if we have good will in common we are able to come to a solution that satisfies both sides.

it's the continuous assumption of malice that prevents people from listening to each other. and that is still the case even if there is actual malice. almost by definition, if you do not present the assumption for good will to the other side, they will have difficulty attributing good will to you, no matter whether they themselves are acting are maliciously or not.
by riffraff | 2025-05-05 15:51:58+00:00
> but postcards are still available literally anywhere I've been in the world, and are still very easy to send, for those who enjoy that.

I mean both that they are used much less and they're much less available.

You can find postcards of the Coliseum in Rome, but you'll have a hard time finding one of Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola.

Even in major touristic hotspots, 30 years ago you'd find postcards sold at any shop, but these days you have to look for a while, in my experience.
by mikestew | 2025-05-05 15:52:09+00:00
In case you’re like a lot of folks in HN, read the title, and say to yourself “already have one”, read TFA for the iptables config that fixes those apps and devices that bypass local DNS. For example, the New York Times app seems to now use its own hard-coded DNS servers. Without having tried it, it looks like TFA has the fix for that.

EDIT: replies indicate that I, a person who is barely competent at many network tasks, might be off-base on this one. Grain of salt, and all.