MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roywiggins | 2025-05-03 04:21:40+00:00
When someone says they're Irish or Italian they mean it as an ethnicity, not a nationality, and it often has an implied "-American" suffix. Irish-Americans are a distinct ethnic group, at least historically; you might compare it to, say, Cuban or Haitian immigrants, who each have distinct communities, cultures, and so forth, often even distinct from their namesake countries'.
by Majora320 | 2025-05-03 04:22:00+00:00
I think base Rust is a great language, but the ecosystem tends towards very complex and overengineered solutions; with advanced uses/abuses of macros and the type system, trait hell ends up being not too dissimilar to template hell from C++. And the async/await story is plagued with layers and layers of complexity due to the many obtuse interactions with its lifetime system. Rust honestly probably should've gone with its original idea of green threads/channels, like GC-less Go, but that idea was dropped a long time ago.
by cryptonector | 2025-05-03 04:23:17+00:00
I've cousin who's a song writer who for a brief few hours was very excited with the silly poems she could get an AI to write, and she shared them with the family group. The first one or two were ok, but eventually several of us started pointing out how vacuous the poems seemed, and how sad that she -a great song writer in her own right- was excited about that generative AI crap. She stopped right quick.

I'll say that this "Suno" thing makes good-sounding music to these non-musician ears right here, but trying a few of these I'm starting to notice it seems fake. But that's not very interesting. What's interesting is that they're going to get good enough to get past the phoniness.

> I don't know how to feel about it.

I know how I feel about it: I don't like it one bit.
by throwaway314155 | 2025-05-03 04:23:56+00:00
Being in a more receptive/brighter "mode" is more of an emotional argument (and a rather strong one actually). I guess as long as you don't mind being technically incorrect, then you do you.

There may come a time when reality sets in though. Similar thing happened with me now that i'm out of the "honeymoon phase" with LLM's. Now i'm more interested in seeing where specifically LLM's fail, so we can attempt to overcome those failures.

I do recommend checking that it doesn't know its training cutoff. I'm not sure how you perform that experiment these days with ChatGPT so heavily integrated with its internet search feature. But it should still fail on claude/gemini too. It's a good example of things you would expect to work that utterly fail.
Show HN: GeoGuessr AI that crushes o3 and humans
by que-encrypt | 2025-05-03 04:25:34+00:00
Hey HN!

Over the past few months as part of my AP Research class, I've been working on creating the worlds best Geoguessr AI. My final report (submitted for my AP Research class) for Locamage will be published soon on https://locamage.dev.

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- Pinak
by itworker7 | 2025-05-03 04:26:56+00:00
over the course of your career, technology will change at least 4 or 5 times, unlearning is as important as learning. Technology changes - people don't. What you need to learn at Uni is not syntax but critical thinking, active listening, and good story telling. Always be quietly selling yourself. Find the why. There are far worse things than caring too much. Kindness is never wasted.
by dlubarov | 2025-05-03 04:27:58+00:00
> He makes excuses about Linux market share when asked why Fortnite isn't on the Steam Deck, then ships a build for Windows ARM.

What's the implication here, that he has some personal vendetta against Linux? A sibling comment seems to imply this as well.

It seems like Hanlon's Razor would suggest there was just some engineering complication that they never dealt with. I can imagine a bunch of explanations for why Windows ARM might have happened first. Maybe there were fewer complications, maybe some competent engineer personally cared about Windows ARM, maybe they have Windows based testing infrastructure, etc.
by bluGill | 2025-05-03 04:28:43+00:00
They do - I build those for john Deere. basic high school geometry is all it takes once you have gps accurate to a few cm. been working for more than 10 years (though until reciently hard to settup)

the important part to note as those systems don't have detection of anyone/thing that might be there. In a rural field no problem as nobody is there but on a city road there will be plenty of things to watch out for. We are working on the safety parts, I'm not in that area so I'm not sure what the current state is.
by meander_water | 2025-05-03 04:29:20+00:00
As someone who struggles to make anything that looks good, I am fascinated by designers ability to take a brief and bring it to life using their own unique artisic voice.

The second part to this is a fine example - https://goodsniff.substack.com/p/creating-bluey-tales-from-t...

I've always wondered how they managed to make the show look and feel Brisbane, and this delivers.
by chillingeffect | 2025-05-03 04:29:23+00:00
I love it. Ive been reviving a stack of 4 c64s i got untested for $285. I noticed CIA chip replacements cost 40-45 and was wondering if an Rpi pico could replace it! I'll bet they combined two CIAs into one. I'm curious if they repeat the typical 24+ pin bus (16 addr, 8 data, plus more control lines).
by tstrimple | 2025-05-03 04:30:02+00:00
In a lot of cases, games like this give plenty of options for dialog speed and automatic continuation. As long as those things are in place, it seems like it should make everyone happy at relatively little development effort. I'm split on this. If there are voice overs, it's insufferable to make me press a button to continue every single line. If it's text only, it feels more natural.
by jgr0007 | 2025-05-03 04:30:09+00:00
"I wish there were more good role models of this behavior. Or maybe there are, and I’m too much of a grouchy complainer to see them. Who comes to mind for you?"

Immediately thought of, and could not stop thinking of the Calvin & Hobbes camping trip. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/candh/images/3/30/8-16.gif...
by unsnap_biceps | 2025-05-03 04:30:55+00:00
Semi Related 20khtz episodes that are delightful:

The Voices of Bluey w/ Uncle Stripe https://www.20k.org/episodes/thevoicesofbluey

The Organic Sound of Bluey w/ Sound Designer Dan Brumm https://www.20k.org/episodes/thesoundofbluey
by cryptonector | 2025-05-03 04:31:11+00:00
I put in "milonga" and it didn't know what to do with it. I put in "tango" and it gave me a bandoneon solo that meandered jazz-like -- it wasn't bad, but it wasn't tango either. For "vals" it gave me more of what it gave me for "tango". For "candombé" it gave me nonsense. But all the pre-canned stuff sounded pretty good to me. I guess if I was familiar with "Russian techno" I might find what Suno generates for that to be garbage.
by jazzcomputer | 2025-05-03 04:31:55+00:00
I came across a game studio a few years ago here in NZ that does it right. I worked in a hot desk place that housed their studio in a space - they were never working past 5.30, had amazing staff reviews (they did them in a space where I could overhear them), have a good IP, good wage packages, excellent internal mentoring, a good gender split, recruit diverse staff.

I'm pretty sure there's a few other studios here too which are good. I'm just sharing this 'cos, well... it's nice to hear the positives.
by jen729w | 2025-05-03 04:33:16+00:00
I'm living (temporarily) with someone who obsessively watches the news on TV. And not the good news. The trashy, commercial-channel news.

'Oh who cares about this rubbish!', they'll say to the screen. Or 'who cares about these people, why do we need to see this?', or 'why do we give these people attention?'.

As someone who identifies as an optimist – and who hasn't watched any form of TV news in decades – I find it interesting.
by HocusLocus | 2025-05-03 04:34:24+00:00
Perhaps a good question is, how did DDT itself become deeply vilified after a generation of use at such ridiculous levels, going from 'unlimited' to 'zero' tolerance, while other endocrine disruptors remain in common use today?

I think there is a human attribute in play. You don't have to make as many excuses for something proven harmful... when all you have to do is declare a "chemical Hitler" who has been vanquished completely, and direct everyone's attention to it.
by bpev | 2025-05-03 04:36:07+00:00
I do think that effort over time makes a difference here, though. I remember this from an interview with Ruby Sales that stuck with me (I don't know the origin of the phrase, but this is where I heard it): https://pca.st/episode/2240f0ef-004f-45cc-9e77-0a10b9905530

I love everybody. I love everybody in my heart. And you can't make me hate you. And you can't make me hate you.

I think of it less like "trying to be optimistic" as much as "making sure I pause long enough to see the optimistic thoughts that are there"
by jen729w | 2025-05-03 04:37:26+00:00
No it isn't. The world's amazing.

Just yesterday I went to the shop. A man was carrying an animal to the vet. He said g'day on his way past. Then I had a nice chat with the lady at the post office about her kid's birthday this weekend. I'd overheard her telling the previous customer about it, so I continued the conversation despite being a stranger to her.

Then I tried to buy a slab of beer at a place but it was too expensive. Had a nice chat to the lady there though.

That was about all. A quiet day. But really lovely. Nobody took advantage. Nothing bad happened. No woes or tribulations. Just a nice day with reasonable weather.

What happened to you yesterday?
by bscphil | 2025-05-03 04:39:19+00:00
The issue isn't primarily about JS being disabled, because at least if you have it disabled, it's (a) obvious you're hitting an Anubis page, (b) you don't endlessly refresh the page over and over every 0.25 seconds until you fix it.

What you ought to do is warn the user. It's easy enough to detect server-side if cookies are disabled, because if you set one it ought to be sent on any subsequent requests. If requests after the initial site hit don't have the cookie, it clearly failed to set and/or send, so instead of refreshing the page over and over you should display an error.

This isn't a problem exclusively with Anubis, there are some other sites that will endlessly refresh if you don't have cookies enabled, but it's really poor practice to not handle error conditions in your application.
Ask HN: What is your perception of real estate agents
by Quinzel | 2025-05-03 04:39:50+00:00
I’m curious about what people’s perception of real estate agents. I am wondering if I have made lots of assumptions about real estate agents, or if other people have similar perceptions.

I’d love it if you would share your thoughts on my anonymous survey. Here is the link…

https://forms.gle/wMaZRFBeKo1SQ8tn7
by umbra07 | 2025-05-03 04:40:45+00:00
> I'm probably just showing my age, but I like the idea of a "drivered" truck leading driverless trucks versus a completely autonomous system. It's similar to my attitude on crewed spaceflight-- I like the idea of the ingenuity and capacity for independent thought supervising an automated systems, versus autonomous automated systems.

Did you read a lot of classic sci-fi growing up? This sounds very I, Robot.
by bscphil | 2025-05-03 04:42:46+00:00
I would prefer web developers not track me at all without a good reason and consent. Yes, I also block JS on a per-site basis, use an ad / tracking blocker, and block all third party cookies entirely.

I'm not naive - I know that it is possible to track me using other server-side tools even with all this effort, but on the other hand I'm easily in the 0.1% most difficult users to track, which means a lot of web devs are going to use the easy approaches that work for 99% of users and leave me alone. That's a worthwhile trade to make, for me.
by lolinder | 2025-05-03 04:45:25+00:00
Which centuries did you have in mind? In what countries were these purgings? Which authors were purged and by which sects of early Christianity?

I ask because "Early Christianity" as a period ends with the First Council of Nicea, and Christians before Nicea were (a) not at all unified and therefore had very different opinions on things like pre-Christian literature and (b) not very politically powerful and therefore unlikely to have had a major impact on book survival.

If you have specific citations for when and where these systematic and catastrophic destructions are purported to have taken place I'd love to hear it, otherwise I'm more inclined to chalk it up to "most texts don't survive from most eras for all kinds of reasons".
by AuryGlenz | 2025-05-03 04:46:26+00:00
You won't fail out due to not hitting the blocks "right," other than direction. You fail from missing them (or hitting them the wrong way) or being in those box-hurt-zones, hitting the mines...and I think that's about it.

That said I always kind of wished it was based more on the the timing, if only because it feels good to hit the boxes in time with the beat. People tend to move around though and that'd throw that off.
by theahura | 2025-05-03 04:46:32+00:00
Quoting from the article:

> In the immediate short term, I would love to see an ambitious startup take a crack at the credentialing problem using exams. I think it's extremely doable to make some exams; the hard part is the same chicken-egg advertising problem. No recruiter ever got fired from hiring a Harvard grad; they may get fired if they hire someone who's only credential is your random test. But if you can get some big names to vouch for your exams — like Terrance Tao for a suite of math proficiency exams — and get some big names like Google to openly consider your exams as qualifications, you may be able to make some meaningful headway. Leetcode does something similar, and while they are obviously aiming for a different market niche it is still a useful comparison to see how far you can go.

I'm sorry that you don't think any of the suggestions are good. I'd love to hear your suggestions
by krackers | 2025-05-03 04:50:03+00:00
There's at least some discussion in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pLnLSgWphqDbdorgi/on-the-imp...

>Instead of generating tokens one at a time, a dLLM produces the full answer at once. The initial answer is iteratively refined through a diffusion process, where a transformer suggests improvements for the entire answer at once at every step. In contrast to autoregressive transformers, the later tokens don’t causally depend on the earlier ones (leaving aside the requirement that the text should look coherent). For an intuition of why this matters, suppose that a transformer model has 50 layers and generates a 500-token reasoning trace, the final token of this trace being the answer to the question. Since information can only move vertically and diagonally inside this transformer and there are fewer layers than tokens, any computations made before the 450th token must be summarized in text to be able to influence the final answer at the last token. Unless the model can perform effective steganography, it had better output tokens that are genuinely relevant for producing the final answer if it wants the performed reasoning to improve the answer quality. For a dLLM generating the same 500-token output, the earlier tokens have no such causal role, since the final answer isn’t autoregressively conditioned on the earlier tokens. Thus, I’d expect it to be easier for a dLLM to fill those tokens with post-hoc rationalizations.

>Despite this, I don’t expect dLLMs to be a similarly negative development as Huginn or COCONUT would be. The reason is that in dLLMs, there’s another kind of causal dependence that could prove to be useful for interpreting those models: the later refinements of the output causally depend on the earlier ones. Since dLLMs produce human-readable text at every diffusion iteration, the chains of uninterpretable serial reasoning aren’t that deep. I’m worried about the text looking like gibberish at early iterations and the reasons behind the iterative changes the diffusion module makes to this text being hard to explain, but the intermediate outputs nevertheless have the form of human-readable text, which is more interpretable than long series of complex matrix multiplications.

Based solely on the above, my armchair analysis is that it seems like it's not strictly diffusion in the Langevin diffusion/denoising sense (since there are discrete iteration rounds), but instead borrows the idea of "iterative refinement". You drop the causal masking and token-by-token autoregressive generation, and instead start with a bunch of text and propose a series of edits at each step? On one hand dropping the causal masking over token sequence means that you don't have an objective that forces the LLM to learn a representation sufficient to "predict" things as normally thought, but on the flipside there is now a sort of causal masking over _time_, since each iteration depends on the previous. It's a neat tradeoff.

Subthread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43851429 also has some discussion
by bloomca | 2025-05-03 04:51:53+00:00
There are a lot of things, but one warning I can give is try to avoid perfectionism.

Cook some novel dish, or maybe just significantly modify your regular one with some spices. Write a blog post. Sit and think about some library you wanted to write, but didn't have time. Even writing a draft with API is a pretty good example of producing.

You can fix things by yourself. E.g. service your bike, maybe reorganize your workspace, stuff like that.

Just start small and think about things which bother you and what you can do about it.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-05-03 04:52:15+00:00
You could absolutely use timing for scoring, just have it be when you first hit the block (or perhaps the midpoint of the block), and compare that to when it's charted.

The problem would be people walking forward/backward a bit. That'd throw all the timing off. I can only guess they tried various things to take that into account but then settled for a different type of scoring.
by hliyan | 2025-05-03 04:52:18+00:00
What's worse, we're now at a stage where we might have to apply psychology to the models themselves, seeing how these models appear to be developing various sorts of stochastic "disorders" instead of more deterministic "bugs". I'm worried about what other subtle illnesses these models might develop in the future. If Asimov had been alive, he'd have been fascinated: this is the work of Susan Calvin, robopsychologist.
by scott_w | 2025-05-03 04:52:32+00:00
Why is it not reasonable? Because it outweighs the harm? Because it could shut down a company? Because it’s unenforceable? Because of some “it looks silly to me” standard?

I can tell you Russia’s “fine” is not reasonable because it’s not enforceable and exists to be purely performative. It’s not the same thing as Ireland putting a fine based on global revenue but still within their power to enforce.
by HocusLocus | 2025-05-03 04:52:38+00:00
> Hey, I remember "Artoo Detoo was here" from GEnie!

WOW. You just made my day (actually year, but I'm embarrassed to say so), thank you!

I patched copies in 4 different places. So someone DID eventually adapt one of those versions I patched into a 'door' game on GEnie. It feels kind of odd, because I have been watching caving and surface rock art videos lately where modern explorers are quick to brand things as 'vandalism', even if they do not obscure the other, and even inscriptions from 1888. It makes me wonder, what year exactly did 'vandalism' begin?

So in Colossal Cave, was my "Artoo Detoo was here" rock art, or vandalism?
by rayiner | 2025-05-03 04:53:02+00:00
> I've never seen a cogent and defensible theory of a nation that's economically and socially better off for most as a result of putting up higher barriers to trade and immigration

That suggests you’ve just got a simplistic worldview that ignores variables. Do a thought experiment: say you replaced 200 million americans with Bangladeshis overnight. Would the country be better off or worse off? Obviously worse off. The things Bangladeshis think and believe and do that make the country the way it is—everything from corruption to littering to overthrowing the government—won’t change just because they step foot on american soil. They’d immediately vote to turn America into an officially Muslim socialist country, like back home.

Now, if you agree that 200 million Bangladeshis overnight would be bad, but say 100,000 Bangladeshis a year would be fine, you’re applying unstated assumptions about the rate and quality of assimilation. Which you likely have no empirical basis for assuming.

I would say your assertions about free trade are similar. You’re looking at a simplified model of the world that leaves out important variables and then declaring that free trade has no downsides.
by creakingstairs | 2025-05-03 04:53:18+00:00
I’d been a cynical and nervous wreck for early part of my life. And I still get episodes of paralysing gloom and doom. Something I often I tell myself is “despite” all the [negative things], I will be a positive force in the world and that is something to be proud of. It is easy to be positive during good times and it is difficult to be positive in hard times, but it’s worth it _because_ it’s hard. I’ve never been a religious person, but I’ve been thinking more and more about religious allegories and how it fits this mindset.

Anyhow, there is something about the word “despite”(그럼에도) that rings my soul. So I mutter it to myself all the time.
by shubhamjain | 2025-05-03 04:56:04+00:00
It seems you're the one who's plenty misinformed. Most countries outsource when labour costs in their own country inch higher and it makes sense to use cheaper external labour supply. Same is not the case with India, where labour costs are still extremely cheap. Even with sky-high import duties, we're not competing with China.

I never said we don't manufacture. There are few notable industries that we are decent at and export it as well: two wheelers, pharma. But we manufacture only teeny tiny bit of mass-manufactured goods, especially electronics.

Self-reliance makes no sense when you're trying to one component out of hundreds involved. Sure, it won't be entirely useless, it will decouple some of the chip imports for defense and auto, but it will do nothing to bootstrap the electronics industry.
by markdown | 2025-05-03 04:56:54+00:00
I've seen the word "kiwi" used to refer to the fruit in the US, which just seems odd to me, like calling a pineapple a pine. In my part of teh world its a kiwifruit, not a kiwi.

A kiwi is a New Zealander. In fact while they're both named after the bird, the bird is more often called a kiwi bird than just a kiwi.
by ilyash | 2025-05-03 04:58:33+00:00
Opinion. Likely controversial. The fact that we need jq highlights that we are missing this functionality in shells. I argue that these days (nested) structured data is as basic requirement as having scalars, arrays and associative arrays (which bash has). It hurts my eyes seeing five line of assignment to variables where each one runs jq to extract that particular field from a data structure.

More at "jq is a symptom" - https://ilya-sher.org/2018/09/10/jq-is-a-symptom/

Related and might be interesting - "JSON tools for command line" - https://ilya-sher.org/2018/04/10/list-of-json-tools-for-comm...
by grey-area | 2025-05-03 04:58:43+00:00
Personally I don’t think it has agency so cannot be described as trying to do anything.

It’s predicting what seems most likely as a description given its corpus (and now what you’d like to hear) and giving you that.

The truth is not really something it knows, though it’s very good at giving answers that sound like it knows what it’s talking about. And yes if it doesn’t have an answer from its corpus it’ll just make things up.