MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tomnipotent | 2025-05-06 02:03:19+00:00
> LLM AI was being reported on all over the place.

No, it wasn't.

As a proxy, here's HN results prior to November, 2022 - 13 results.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1667260800&dateRange=custom&...

Here's Google Trends, showing a clear uptick May 2023, and basically no search volume before (the small increase Feb. 2023 probably Meta's Llama).

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

As another proxy, compare Nvidia revenues - $26.91bln in 2022, $26.97bln in 2023, $60bln 2024, $130bln 2025. I think it's clear the hype didn't start until 2023.

You're welcome to point out articles and stores before this time period "hyping" LLM's, but what I remember is that before ChatGPT there was very little conversation around LLM's.
by scarface_74 | 2025-05-06 02:03:40+00:00
Why would I care about getting “rich”? I’m 50. I work remotely, I have a great marriage and deep close personal friends, I’m in pretty good shape, I’m well known and respected in my niche, I travel as much as I want to and for extended period of times.

I’ve worked at one BigTech company (only for a little over 3 years ending a couple of years ago) and turned down opportunities to make almost six figures more than I make now because stress wasn’t worth it.

I’ve given up the big house in the burbs to live in a condo one third the size, more access to amenities and much better weather.

My short term needs are met in abundance and my long term needs are being addressed by putting money in investments every pay period.

I make good money by any objective measure - but it’s equivalent to slightly less than what a mid level developer makes in BigTech.

I figured out how to make money - go to work for 40 hours a week, get good in my niche and companies with money put some of that money in my account in exchange for labor.
by lc9er | 2025-05-06 02:04:34+00:00
Same. Running or walking. Sometimes I make a point of thinking/feeling through recent times and processing those thoughts and emotions. Other times, I treat it as a moving meditation, and try to clear my mind when thoughts enter.

Either way, I find I feel much better when I take a break from screens, news, and podcasts, and give my mind time to do its thing.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-05-06 02:05:10+00:00
> using this process saved literally hundreds of hours of volunteer staff time, and we believe it resulted in more accurate vetting after the step of checking any purported negative results

Maybe this is the backlash-worthy part. It sounds like what they did was use an LLM to dig up any "dirt" so to speak about candidates then manually verified any of that.

I'd be worried that this process would let some people off the hook (not sure what vetting they are doing, or how right/wrong it is, etc.)

But yeah wish there were more details
by rbits | 2025-05-06 02:05:18+00:00
It's presumably possible, but I feel like people might underestimate what's required. Mind you, I went to university so maybe I'm biased and don't fully understand, but I feel like the structure given by the university is very important.

If I wanted to learn JavaScript or .NET or CSS or whatever I could easily do so online. But that's different from becoming a software developer. The important thing is that university doesn't focus on one topic, it teaches a variety of topics that they think will be useful for your career. You can do this without uni, but you need to be good at figuring out what to learn, not just how. And of course the discipline to complete your goals by yourself, like you mention.

Although maybe something you could do would be to look at a university's course structure and copy it.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-05-06 02:06:11+00:00
>As much as I like algorithms code is written to be read by computers and I see nothing wrong with computers writing it.

unless you're the sole contributor, code is a collaborative effort and will be reviewed by peers to make sure you don't hit any landmines at best, or ruin the codebase at worst. unless you're writing codegen itself I very much would consider writing code as if a human is going to read it.

>“I feel… humans have lost confidence“

Confidence in their fellow man? yes. As the author said a lot of this reliance on AI without proper QA comes down to "nobody cares". Or at least that mentality. And apathy is just as contagious in an environment as passion. If we lose that passion and are simply doing a task to get by and clock out, we're doomed as a species.
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by bloppe | 2025-05-06 02:07:56+00:00
In the case you linked, it wasn't infringement for Robin Thicke to be impressed by Marvin Gaye. It was infringement to create a substantial copy.

Applying this same legal doctrine to LLMs, it's totally fine for them to train on copyrighted works. A problem would only arise if they produced substantial copies of those works.

It may be difficult to quantify the harm done in that case. Robin Thicke sold millions of copies of blurred lines. Each LLM output is generally consumed by a single person. There could be millions of examples of blatant copyright infringement by LLMs that will never come to light in court. There also could be vanishingly few. We may need new regulations to police it.
by whoisyc | 2025-05-06 02:09:02+00:00
A quick whois lookup of ycombinator.com returned the following:

Domain Name: YCOMBINATOR.COM Registry Domain ID: 147225527_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.gandi.net Registrar URL: http://www.gandi.net Updated Date: 2025-02-14T02:53:36Z Creation Date: 2005-03-20T23:51:07Z

But yes, I would not use Gandi in 2025, unless someone is pointing a gun at my head and making me choose between Gandi and GoDaddy...
by jccalhoun | 2025-05-06 02:09:17+00:00
These stories about acts of kindness like a recent one where a senior citizen was given a speeding ticket while taking his adult handicapped son to the doctor are really just stories about how the society in which they take is broken. If the system wasn't broken then we wouldn't need strangers to pay off student lunch debt and the senior citizen father would have someone to take his son to the doctor.

When Breaking Bad was on there was a comic strip about how in any other developed country Walter White would have went to the doctor, gotten the cancer treated, and went on with his life.

Edited to add: I knew there was a term for this but I couldn't think of it.: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/orphan-crushing-machine
by cloverich | 2025-05-06 02:10:26+00:00
Since the Dems charged towards globalization. The former union workers are being devastated by it and think protectionism will help them. It possibly will help them, just not America as a whole.

Thats the general line of reasoning. Rs are walking a line with union courting since a chunk of their base is anti union, just as dems were walking a line with globalization.

This is my current understanding of the undercurrents.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-06 02:11:11+00:00
We have compulsory vote but it's slightly enforced, so the actual number is like 70% or 80%. And some people travel to a city far away to legally skip voting.

In spite it's not very useful, we had some double voting fraud by the observers of the political parties. They should vote in their designed polling station. But if they are observing another polling station they may insist on voting there (too). Everything is tracked on paper, so it's easy to discover, but some try anyway.
by zbranson | 2025-05-06 02:12:35+00:00
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by jkallman | 2025-05-06 02:13:09+00:00
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by lizard | 2025-05-06 02:13:40+00:00
Just curious, what would you consider, "absurdly small amounts of data around using big data tools like spark" and what do you recommend instead?

I recently worked on some data pipelines with Databricks notebooks ala Azure Fabric. I'm currently using ~30% of our capacity and starting to get pushback to run things less frequently to reduce the load.

I'm not convinced I actually need Fabric here, but the value for me has been its the first time the company has been able to provision a platform that can handle the data at all. I have a small portion of it running into a datbase as well which has been constant complaints about volume.

At this point I can't tell if we just have unrealistic expectations about the costs of having this data that everyone wants, or if our data engineers are just completely out of touch with the current state of the industry, so Fabric is just the cost we have to pay to keep up.
by erxam | 2025-05-06 02:13:44+00:00
It's always the same thing with you types. Grasping at words like some kind of hyper-logical machine trying to find some magical logical fallacy that will somehow invalidate the speaker's entire argument.

Let's set facts here: you are arguing for a position held by the dictator in charge of the USA today, and it is plenty transparent that you voted for him and you love everything he's doing. Everything else is just misdirection so you can try and confuse any bystanders, abusing the very same 'niceness' and 'non-political' messaging you accuse others of breaking all the time.

Let's not mince words here anymore. Everyone can see through you. If you're doing it deliberately, congratulations.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-06 02:15:37+00:00
Well, for starters, Vatican City is an absolute monarchy. There is simply nothing about it which is “democratic” and nobody needs to apologize for having a system of government that you don’t approve.

Secondly, that “absolute monarchial” system is quite impeded by the current lack of a monarch, and therefore operates on strict rules where not a lot of said rules can be changed or revoked, only carried out. There is, in fact, no dictator at all to dictate anything, only a devolved sort of “regency” keeping things intact until a new election can be accomplished.
by airforce1 | 2025-05-06 02:16:07+00:00
Yeah but we currently have a $2T deficit. We could do all sorts of good for "less than 10% of the DoD's annual budget", but we are already spending far more money than we bring in. The DoD's budget needs to be reduced by like 50% (along with a lot of other departments/programs) to have even a hope of getting debt under control, let alone introducing new "think of the children" expenses
by vineyardmike | 2025-05-06 02:16:43+00:00
> Sounds like child services should take those children then?

This is a HUGE, dangerous leap.

> If they can't apply for the lunches, then surely they aren't getting food at home, nor the proper medical care.

Plenty of parents (and plenty of people generally) just aren't aware of social services but are quite aware that they're supposed to feed and care for their children. Plenty more forget to fill out paperwork and return phone calls. Many states' governments actively make applying for welfare and support difficult or inconvenient - plenty of parents can't take the time to return paperwork in person, make phone calls during the workday, etc. Needing support - either welfare or just kindness and assistance - is not a moral failure and not a sign of a bad parent.

Beyond that, CPS wouldn't necessarily provide a great life for the child. There is a lot of difference between an imperfect parent and a danger to a child. Oh, and of course, CPS is a lot more expensive to run than a few meals. Giving out free meals at school is a lot easier if we want kids to be fed.

As an anecdote, I was laid off from my job once, and someone asked me if I applied for unemployment within my state. I didn't know it existed, nor that I was eligible until months later when a barista told me during small talk. The whole time I managed to remember to feed myself (and my family). I sure hope no internet commenter would look at that and decide to take my children away!
by cyjackx | 2025-05-06 02:17:58+00:00
I think the problem is that it's also an interesting problem for humans. It's very subjective. Imagine a therapy session, filled with a long pensive pauses. Therapy is one of those things that encourage not interrupting and just letting you talk more, but there's so much subtext and nuance to that. Then make it compared to excited chatter one might have with friends. There's also so much body language that an AI obviously cannot see. At least for now.
by stego-tech | 2025-05-06 02:18:02+00:00
Sure it has. For every Woz, there was a Jobs; for every Linus, a Bill (Gates). For every starry-eyed engineer or developer who just wants to help people, there are business people who will pervert it into an empire and jettison them as soon as practical. For every TED, there’s a Davos; for every DEFCON, there’s a glut of vendor-specific conferences.

We should champion the good people who did the good things and managed to resist the temptations of the poisoned apple, but we shouldn’t hold an entire city on a pedestal because of nostalgia alone. Nobody, and no entity, is that deserving.
by jowea | 2025-05-06 02:18:04+00:00
I'm not 100% sure if previous poster is annoyed at the same thing as me, but if that is the case, we're not annoyed at the newspapers not giving names to their anonymous sources.

It's when they do science reporting and say "a new study says blah" without linking to the study. Or they paraphrase a law proposal submitted by some lawmaker without linking to the original text. Or they repeat something they got from another news source without pointing it out. And even if they do, as the previous poster mention, it is subject to link rot. Frankly I think they do that because of the attention economy. Less eyeballs leaving their site.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-05-06 02:18:07+00:00
>AI merely accelerates what was already happening.

I think "merely" is underselling the magnitude of effect this can have. Asset stores overnight went form "okay I need to dig hard to find something good" to outright useless as it's flooded with unusable slop. Google somehow got worse overnight for technical searches that aren't heavily quieried.

I didn't really desire such accelerations for slop, thanks. At least I could feel good knowing human made slop was learned from sometimes.
by gbraad | 2025-05-06 02:18:36+00:00
Speculation, as no 'technical' analysis could be performed without access to the actual binaries. These aplications are unlisted and otherwise assigned to organisations using device management. This analysis is based on documentation and how this assignment process works. There is no way to determine if an original application got modified, as this would be the same for the WeChat, WhatsApp applications, or that they recompiled the open source version?
by compuser0503 | 2025-05-06 02:20:10+00:00
I can clearly understand why this journalist is mad - she broke the story but she isn't getting the benefits (readership, money) from it. That would feel unfair for sure.

But the complaint that bigger outlets didn't immediately follow her story by crediting her seems like an understandable situation from the other outlets' point of view. Who will take the heat if it's wrong? A popular outlet that runs with it will get shit on if it's wrong, even if it's citing the independent journalist as the source (in a way they won't if they were just following another popular outlet).

So these outlets need to either 1) verify it on their own, or 2) cite another popular outlet.

It'd still be courteous to name the original reporter, but until she's built enough clout and reputation to stand on her own as a credible source, it seems structural that this will keep happening.
by jaredcwhite | 2025-05-06 02:21:25+00:00
This is exactly what I've been saying: it's not that LLMs sometimes "hallucinate" and thus provide wrong answers, it's that they never even provide right answers at all. We as humans ascribe "rightness" to the synthetic text extruded by these algorithms after the fact as we evaluate what it means. The synthetic text extruder doesn't "care" one way or another.
by zdragnar | 2025-05-06 02:21:38+00:00
These problems aren't easy to solve.

The first is food regulation and safety law; the same applies to restaurants who serve buffet style as well.

The second isn't going away. Attendance is spotty at best in underperforming schools, in particular the ones that need free lunch the most. Many kids also won't eat some foods. The amount of waste just gets shifted from "too much prepared" to "not enough served food was eaten".

The third is just an attempt to solve the second, but if there was a system of reservation in place, it would still be part of the problem- after all, what we're trying to solve is that parents aren't utilizing the already available free lunch programs because going through the means testing is too much effort for them.
by nickm12 | 2025-05-06 02:22:37+00:00
Anyone else find the standard "probability yardstick" very misleading on the "unlikely" side? I know the whole point of the article is that English speakers can interpret these phrases differently, but calling a 1-in-3 chance "unlikely" seems off. I would shift that whole side down—30% as "a possibility", 10% as "unlikely", 5% as "highly unlikely".
by jaggederest | 2025-05-06 02:23:11+00:00
I find it really challenging to get people to notice these things, let alone actively take even small actions for positive change.

I'm interested in what the community thinks are some of the methods I could use to improve these things, and why people quickly become inured to these kinds of problems.

I'm thinking, specifically, about peeling paint, litter, dirty signs, the kind of thing that even a passing effort, a hammer and a nail, or a bit of soap and water can fix for a surprisingly long time (~months, certainly).

It's one of the things I think is an interesting contrast between "first world" countries and many of the places I've been that are poorer - less wealthy places seem to put a significant effort into basic maintenance, because replacing things are so expensive compared to the cost of living.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-05-06 02:23:36+00:00
I don't really assossiate harry potter's rise with that of the internet. By the time it lit the internet ablaze was in the 2000's, after the first few movies aired.

It certainly wasn't the writing that elevated it. I think it was as simple as tapping into an audience who for once wasn't raised as some nuclear family. a Cinderella esque tale of being whisked away from abuse mixed with a hero's journey towards his inevitable clash with the very evil that set this in motion.

The movies definiely helped too. The first few were very well done with excellent child actors. Watching many other fantasy adaptations try to replicate that really shows just how the stars align into making HP a success.
by pryce | 2025-05-06 02:24:25+00:00
> "Our for-profit LLC, which has been under the nonprofit since 2019, will transition to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC)–a purpose-driven company structure that has to consider the interests of both shareholders and the mission."

One remarkable advantage of being a "Public Benefit Corporation" is this it:

> prevent[s] shareholders from using a drop in stock value as evidence for dismissal or a lawsuit against the corporation[1]

In my view, it is their own shareholders that the directors of OpenAI are insulating themselves against.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation
by stego-tech | 2025-05-06 02:24:35+00:00
You and I are on the same path, just at different points in the journey. Your response is very similar to my own tone and position a decade ago, trying to celebrate what we had before in an attempt to shepherd others towards a better future together. Time wore down that naivety into the cynicism of today, because I’ve come to realize that those celebrations simply coddle those who do not wish to put in the effort for change and yearn for a return to past glories.

We should acknowledge the past flatly and objectively for what it was and spend more time building that future, than listening to the victors of the past brag and boast, content to wallow in their accomplishments instead of rejoining contributors to tomorrow. The good leaders of yesteryear have stepped aside in lieu of championing newer, younger visionaries; those still demanding respect for what they did fifty years ago in circumstances we can only dream about, are part of the problem.
by carlosjobim | 2025-05-06 02:25:59+00:00
Unless the source is a whistleblower, their agenda will usually be dirty if they want to be anonymous. And then you're at their whim, because they control the flow of information. If they're showing supporting documents, those documents should be open sourced* to the public or they shouldn't be seen by the journalist.

* As much as needed for the public to be able to verify.