MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sgt101 | 2025-05-02 15:49:56+00:00
I'm not sure you're right you know. I think that the way that an LLM maintains a conversation is to have the conversational thread fed into an instance of it at every step. You can see this if you do a conversation step by step and then take all of it (including the LLM responses) apart from the final outcome and paste that into a new thread:

https://chatgpt.com/share/6814e827-81cc-8001-a75f-64ed6df5fc...

https://chatgpt.com/share/6814e7fb-f4d0-8001-a503-9c991df832...

if you think about how these things work as services you can see that this makes sense. The model weights are several gb, so caching the model weights for utilisation by a particular customer is impractical. So if the forward pass does update the model then that's instantly discarded, what's retained is the conversational text, and that's the bit that's uploaded to the model on each iteration for a new reply. There are hundreds of requests pinging through the data center where the models are used every second, all of these use the same models.

But if you believe that there is a reasoning process taking place in the text then fair enough.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-05-02 15:50:02+00:00
> There would be no reason to ban a party if they could be ignored (see the NPD)

But this is the problem. It means that a party being illegal isn't such a big deal in and of itself. It's only a problem if it challenges the mainstream parties. You can see why people would think it's just a political maneuver if they're trying to ban X party only when many people vote for them. Bonus points for this party portending to "represent the voiceless" or whatever.

If some party is illegal for whatever reason, it should be banned right away. Just because you can ignore it doesn't mean it should be ignored. It would also be much easier to prevent having a sizeable chunk of the population vote for an "illegal" party and the headaches coming from that once it becomes big enough.
by samratjp | 2025-05-02 15:50:09+00:00
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by layer8 | 2025-05-02 15:50:31+00:00
I’m no expert, but it may be the case that if you place an app on, say, the EU app store, you’re technically doing business in the EU, not the US, and are therefore subject to EU law, not US law. Wasn’t that the case with the DSA requirements? https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/apple-purges-apps-without-...
by Gormo | 2025-05-02 15:51:05+00:00
> I hope you understand that's just cute wording.

It's a difference in wording that reflects a fundamentally different conceptual model of what rights are and how they work, which in turn has wide-ranging implications for how law, politics, and social interactions are conducted.

> Individual rights exist only as far as they are protected by others.

That makes little sense, given that the concept of 'rights' is a normative framework we use to evaluate the legitimacy of people's behavior. The whole point of asserting rights is to make moral/legal arguments against behavior that does transgress against other people.

Construing situations where those transgressions take place as 'rights nonexistent' instead of 'rights violated' defeats the entire purpose of establishing a model of rights in the first place.

For the same reason, it also makes little sense to employ a model of rights that attributes the source of rights to human organizations that have the capacity -- and often the intent -- to violate them.
by incomingpain | 2025-05-02 15:51:18+00:00
fiction absolutely can be intellectual. 1984, 451 Fahrenheit, anything dostoevsky or heinlein.

in fact, by adding that intellectualism is what makes these stand out.

But i do specify non-fiction because I wouldnt say most fiction is intellectual; or if you try to approach some fiction you'll quickly dig deeper than what's actually there and then it's just you superimposing.

The example i like is colour metaphors. Shakespeare will say that a character put a green shirt on. You're supposed to say 'thats just a new shirt, not the colour green' but no. It actually really is just the colour green. You cant dig too deep on most fiction.
by spacemadness | 2025-05-02 15:51:28+00:00
I’m not in any way a conservative, but it’s a absolutely abhorrent that we’re constantly gaslit into believing conservative means chaos and abrupt change at any cost to own the libs. It takes the fear of change that is part of conservatism and ramps it up into a full blown delusion. What conservative would want massive change all at once and throwing caution to the wind? Like you said, that’s not typical conservative behavior, it’s extremist and fascist behavior. Unfortunately, conservatives went all in on supporting extremists and here we are.
by pk97 | 2025-05-02 15:51:29+00:00
I am obviously a very small player doing things as a hobby, I don't matter to Google. But what I am pointing out is that they already take a cut of whatever few dollars I earn (beyond the initial $25 I paid years ago just to get on the play store). If you see the thread, the OP asked their customer support and they said: "Especially, since the response from customer service seems to suggest that the best way to get it removed is to run Google AdWords (which I am already running, btw)"

If the angle here is running ads and if they are already taking a cut, why are they doing this? If the angle is security, why not test the apps and have them removed! And in either case, why keep the developer in the dark? And why is there no way for small time insignificant devs like me to know how to get rid of the banner!
by crazygringo | 2025-05-02 15:51:35+00:00
Just a nitpick -- a fraction of their profit (net income), not revenue. Most of revenue already goes out the door as expenses. If you fined as a reasonable fraction of revenue, you'd simply bankrupt a corporation, which is not what you want if your goal is to change behavior.

If global revenue is $20B and we assume 20% profitability, that's $4B, and so this fine is 15% of global profit.

That's a gigantic fine.

You also have to remember that tons of these regulations are vague and unclear and massively open to interpretation, and that companies can genuinely believe they are complying, and their lawyers agree, but then judges still rule otherwise, because it's ultimately just a matter of opinion because of the vagueness.

You also have to remember that individual countries fining on global revenue runs the risk of fines "duplicating" each other for the same or similar behavior, again bankrupting a corporation when the goal should be to change behavior.
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by impossiblefork | 2025-05-02 15:52:24+00:00
You hear the case, however it's presented, and then you decide.

In Swedish courts the court evaluates evidence as it likes. If the judges and sort-of-half-judge-half-jury-Nämdemän agree that something can be concluded, then they're allowed to conclude that.

Obviously procedure is useful, but hearing the complaint is more important.
by aireo | 2025-05-02 15:52:43+00:00
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback and experience. This is helpful. I'm no longer very young -- mid-thirties -- and so I feel some pressure, mostly internal, to dive into something sooner rather than later.

Your point about a high barrier to entry tickles my brain. I'd love to combine my communication skills, particularly my writing and documentation skills, which I've worked hard on, with my software skills. Ideally in service of a non-profit. I think there's a good opportunity there.

Again, I appreciate you chiming in. I value the input.
by UncleMeat | 2025-05-02 15:52:45+00:00
Of course. It is one of the most evil things the US government has ever done and was driven largely by the executive. I personally think that this is a big enough black mark on FDR's legacy that he shouldn't be held in such high regard by liberals.

But is also undeniable that when liberals praise FDR they are talking about things like new deal legislation which ultimately originated from congress during his presidency, which makes the "well you guys like FDR so why do you hate Trump" argument just miss completely.
by kristoff_it | 2025-05-02 15:52:50+00:00
No, Andrew deleted his Discord account a while ago. Regardless, having the creator present does not make a space official, it's a matter of who owns the space and what the general policy is.

The general policy of the Zig Software Foundation is to not have blessed community spaces outside of spaces used strictly for coordinating the development of Zig (those currently are the Ziglang GitHub Organization and the ZSF Zulip), so all communities are equally non-official.

The main Zig Discord server is owned by community members and is actually not even the only Zig server on Discord.
by dangus | 2025-05-02 15:53:01+00:00
But my point is that eventually that argument fades away with enough new capabilities. Incremental progress compounded eventually makes a big difference. When you say that the apps a few years ago did the same things that is not true. Apps used to do fewer things.

Some examples:

Older smartphones didn’t run machine learning on your photos to categorize them by person.

Smartphones used to take videos that we would consider to be unacceptable on a modern HDTV screen now because they didn’t have enough storage. I remember when 4K video had a time limit because the simple act of taking the video would overheat the processor. Now, people shoot entire films that get played in theaters using smart phones.

TikTok is the most popular social media app in the world and it was not possible to implement on prior phones with prior cellular networks. Continuous live video over a cellular network at scale with decent device battery life is a relatively new phenomenon.

Computational photography features like night mode and changing focus points after capture depend heavily on processing power to quickly analyze sensor input.

You can dismiss games as well, but the mobile gaming market is larger than the console gaming market. It is actually extremely important for a lot of people for phones to be capable of high-quality gaming. Top earners like Genshin Impact and Fortnite used to be games that you would upgrade to a higher spec phone to be able to play, and that trend will probably continue as new games hit the market.

I know that AI isn’t really useful yet via underbaked software like Apple Intelligence, but there is a decent argument to be made that local AI capability will bring significant new features that will be above and beyond what your 5 year old phone can do.
by VWWHFSfQ | 2025-05-02 15:53:08+00:00
There's a weird nuance to this just because algorithmically PageRank itself was even somewhat anti-competitive.

"This page has fewer links to it than others, therefore it will be buried in search results"

I think most people appreciated Google's early search algos that prioritized "well-traffic'd" sites and sources over others. Obviously that was a long time ago before SEO (and Google themselves) destroyed everything. Back then there were actually still competitors in the search market so it didn't matter. Not the case now.
by arnarbi | 2025-05-02 15:53:47+00:00
This is a very good point, and one the DBSC team thinks about a lot.

In the short term it's about economics: Infostealer malware today scales really well because it can a) exfiltrate cookies quickly and clean it self up, mostly evading any client based detection, and b) sit on large stashes of long-lived cookies and carefully "cash them in" in ways that evade server side detections.

A short-lived cookie forces different behavior for b, which we think will make it more detectable server side, and binding in general will force malware to act more locally, which will make it (far) more detectable locally.

In the long term, DBSC also is designed so that the session management and key registration is somewhat decoupled from that short-term cookie business. If and when we can sign more often (perhaps every request), I believe the DBSC API will still be useful for websites to manage the session key and lifetime.
by ta1243 | 2025-05-02 15:54:45+00:00
The problem with democratic elections to executive, house and senate is they all follow the "will of the people". In America there is a bit of a lag, but ultimately you still get to the two-wolf one-sheep tyranny of the masses.

The only brake on this is the SCOTUS, but that only works when you actually have a scotus that is empowered to uphold the constitution.
by dogleash | 2025-05-02 15:55:16+00:00
>In the first shot, a smiling Murs stands in a relaxed posture, against a gym backdrop. He’s carrying a few extra pounds but looks within normal range, and well-muscled underneath. He seems as though he’s mid-workout; it could have been a candid snap made in passing, between sets. In the second, by contrast, Murs stands in a pair of iddy biddy shorts, under stark lighting in a changing room, weighing scales visible in-shot. The background connotes not action but self-reflexive activities such as dressing, examining one’s reflection, watching one’s weight. Murs faces the camera, tense, flexing his muscles to show off the definition. In relation to the photographer he is not acting; he is appearing.

This is what too much analysis class does to a person. These two photographs are the same photograph. Stanly Kubrick did not labor over the composition of these shots for weeks. Some dude was regularly training and over time got a couple progress pics taken.
by potato3732842 | 2025-05-02 15:55:28+00:00
There's some nuance to it. You're first at a light and a semi across from you is trying to take a left, the right thing to do is to wave him through rather than mat it when it turns green. You don't stop a line of traffic to be nice to someone who can take their own damn turn. As with everything else, people who don't Get It(TM) ruin it for everyone.
by thisisit | 2025-05-02 15:55:37+00:00
> There are no longer "unbiased" news sources, all sources have moved to either the left or right.

> Try listening to the president of NPR at the congressional hearing and then her interview on NPR done shortly after that hearing. For the former, she was unable/unwilling to express any opinions, nor was she able to recall anything she personally said/posted for the past two years. For the latter, she was fed a series of flattering softball questions clearly made to make her and NPR look good. That is not news or reporting, it was NPR doing PR for NPR.

These two statements don't go hand in hand. It makes it sound like previously media people were robots without opinions. They only had "unbiased" coverage on their minds. And now, because the head of a company like the president of NPR has opinions, we should write off the whole org. They can no longer be considered "unbiased".

Lets be real. There was always a bias in media. Sometimes it was used by the government to spread an agenda. This isn't a recent trend. You don't need to find an NPR PR interview for that.

What is new though is people engaging in false balance and bothsideism. Sure, NPR President might have some leftist view. And sure, they might have a leftist lean to their reporting. The question is whether it is "Fox News of the left". Objectively, no. There is no proof for example, that the company knowingly spread lies and when in court admitted to it and paid a $787 million dollar settlement. You can still dislike their coverage but lets not pretend there is equivalency here.
by adamjroth | 2025-05-02 15:55:46+00:00
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by yreg | 2025-05-02 15:55:48+00:00
What I don't get is why don't they milk their engines a bit more.

I would expect it to make sense to pump out a few more games after GTA 5 based on the same engine. New maps, new stories, same mechanics. I know GTA Online exists but that's something else entirely.

The same goes for Bethesda. The last Elder Scrolls game we've had was Skyrim. Why haven't they taken that game and re-released it in a few years on a new map and with a new story? It seems wasteful to not do so.
by Retric | 2025-05-02 15:55:49+00:00
Ever increasing number of gamers is what’s been supporting the system.

1997 GTA I 3,000,000 1999 GTA II 2,000,000 2001 GTA III 14,500,000 2008 GTA IV 25,000,000 2013 GTA V 205,000,000

https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto

Nothing guarantees they’ll sell 100+M copies of GTA VI, but it’s definitely going to beat 3 million which used to be a really successful game.
by ta1243 | 2025-05-02 15:55:51+00:00
> The government is imprisoning people indefinitely (forever?) for unproven allegations and misdemeanors. They should be able to file habeas petitions for unlawful imprisonment. The courts are doing fuck all about it because the government is contracting to a foreign country to physically imprison them. That's crazy.

This doesn't sound too dissimilar from the Guantanamo bay situation, which Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden all kept going
by adamjroth | 2025-05-02 15:55:57+00:00
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by saurik | 2025-05-02 15:56:05+00:00
Even if I accept Apple's definition that such a developer is directly doing business in the EU, the injunction applies to "Apple, Inc. and its officers, agents, servants, employees, and any person in active concert or participation with them", which certainly includes the direction they provide to the people they hire to operate their storefronts in other countries (particularly so as this is, as I stated, a centrally-managed system run out of the United States).
by jp57 | 2025-05-02 15:56:08+00:00
After I started my PhD program in CS/AI (late 90's), one of the faculty told me that the GRE verbal score was thing on the application most predictive of student success in the program. Of course, most applicants had perfect or near perfect GRE math scores, so there was no predictive power there. But the application also included the GRE subject test, transcripts, and letters of recommendation.
by FilosofumRex | 2025-05-02 15:56:26+00:00
Established engineering firms are trying to incorporate LLMs into their fancy simulation software, but that's counterproductive, just like professors who use LLMs to write new textbooks!

We need innovative disruptors to train LLMs to do engineering from ground up and to make calls to simulation software/routines when they need specialized/unique datapoints.
by aquir | 2025-05-02 15:56:32+00:00
Typical Big-tech approach: the solution is a non-solution without giving much thought to it but looks good for the board of investors and/or stock owners and they can say "we are stopping scam apps on our marketplace" on the next slides created by marketing. They just don't give a shit. (Just read the book "Careless People" - read it if you are not convinced. Engagement over everything)
by bityard | 2025-05-02 15:56:37+00:00
Could very well have been Slackware. Slackware was my first Linux distribution, it came as a set of like at least 20 floppies. All of mine were repurposed AOL disks. After spending about a solid week or so downloading the whole set of disk images over a slow and intermittent dialup connection, the next most painful thing was the fact that floppies were notoriously unreliable. Some disks would throw I/O errors when writing. Some would get caught immediately after when verifying. Many others showed no problems until install time. Getting two dozen floppies to actually read 100% of their contents successfully took a week or two on its own because I only had one computer to work with.
by AIPedant | 2025-05-02 15:57:01+00:00
Speaking of bad faith... really seems like you're shifting the goalposts here. I specifically mentioned Baldur's Gate 3 as a game I didn't care for, I would have given it a 7/10. A 0/10 or 1/10 is preposterous. This is the specific problem I am talking about: absurdly low reviews driven by resentment.

Is there a single game that averaged >80/100 on Metacritic which you would have given a 0?