MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NickM | 2025-05-02 18:32:52+00:00
Truly great art, the kind that expands the field of artistry and makes people think, requires creativity; if you make something that's just a rehashing of existing art, that's not truly creative, it's boring and derivative.

This has nothing to do with whether a human or AI created the art, and I don't think it's controversial to say that AI-generated art is derivative; the models are literally trained to mimic existing artwork.
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-05-02 18:33:25+00:00
Maybe people should stop and wonder if TT just built a stellar product that is very good at showing people what they want to see, not tricking people lmao... These same people who make these claims about TT are simply projecting. They should reckon with the possibility that just because a recommendation algorithm doesn't match your (very unpopular) bias, does not mean that it's a "Propaganda Engine/arm", and then maybe should ask themselves who really is the one wanting to do propaganda.

TikTok shops, advertising, culture all are very capitalistic and I don't get any of these claims, nor has there ever been any proof outside of trust me bro from western establishment types. Their business model is very capitalistic, and they are very good at that game. They simply want to serve the most popular content to as many people as possible, sorry to those who's favorite content is off-putting and rude to most people (racists/misogynist/transphobic content). Just because TikTok does not want to serve that content, (and trust they still do), this does not make them a propaganda machine. It makes them not idiots at running a social media business... How much revenue does Parler, X, Truth Social have these days? TT makes 4-6x all those SM companies combined.
by Nevermark | 2025-05-02 18:33:31+00:00
> I mean is it any surprise kids get bored in math?

Indeed. Kids did not evolve to learn things because they would be useful years down the road. But they did evolve to inhale knowledge at very high rates wherever it extends their capabilities in the moment.

My take on this is that math should be tied to kids crafting, experimenting, and learned directly in the context of its fun and creative uses.

Geometry screams out to be developed within a context of design, crafting, art and physical puzzles. Algebra, trigonometry, calculus ... they all have direct (and fun) uses, especially at the introduction stage.

The availability for graphics software, sim worlds, 3D printing, etc. should make math, from the simplest to most advanced, more fun and immediately applicable than ever.

Boredom with math is a failure to design education for human beings.

(Then there is the worst crime of all - moving kids through math in cohorts, pushing individuals both faster and slower than they are able to absorb it. Profound failure by design.)
by msvana | 2025-05-02 18:33:52+00:00
At the beginning, the article mentions correlation with language skills AND problem-solving. Focusing only on language skills in the second half is misleading. According to the abstract of the original paper, problem solving and working memory capacity were FAR MORE important.

Also, the article doesn't mention "math skills". It talks about numeracy, which is defined in a cited paper as "the ability to understand, manipulate, and use numerical information, including probabilities". This is only a very small part of mathematics. I would even argue that mathematics involves a lot of problem solving and since problem solving is a good predictor, math skills are good predictor.
by godelski | 2025-05-02 18:35:22+00:00
Imagine if we talked about other computers like we talked about phones. It's just so weird

- you can only install programs from our approved package manager - if you make any transactions through your program, we'll take a 30% cut - you can't be access those files, you're not root - you got root?! We're going to fucking sue you (yeah, I know about the PS3...) - you can't change these settings - you can't access that hardware

Why did we think this was a good idea? Smartphones aren't "smart" without the apps! These companies depend on developers. The developers gave them the "food" that allowed them to grow so big. They only gain from developers! They would still gain even if every developer cost them money. How the fuck do we think they got to be trillion dollar entities in the first place?!

These companies have turned into scorpions[0]. It's myopic and they'll scream about how they're dying even though it's their own damn fault. These aren't just unavoidable things that are leading them to their deaths, but unreasonable. Foregoing larger future rewards (crossing the river) for short term ones (stinging).

It is insanity. Especially as we often try to justify it

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
by archagon | 2025-05-02 18:35:46+00:00
You don’t have to agree with this take, but it has historical precedent and merits discussion. In popular culture, “Do The Right Thing” (controversially?) posed the question back in 1989. And Black leaders have been talking about it since the 60s: https://jacobin.com/2020/09/martin-luther-king-riots-looting...
by tjpnz | 2025-05-02 18:35:56+00:00
When I did my CS degree in New Zealand there were just two mandatory maths papers - statistics and discrete mathematics. Would be wrong to say I didn't get anything from them - but I'm not fumbling around truth tables or poisson distributions all that often either. Everything else was pretty standard: intro to programming, DSA, low level programming, compilers and networks. What I do find kind of mind blowing is comparing my lectures with the ones from MIT and CM (on YouTube) where they can't go more than a few seconds without jumping into math. Ultimately I'm left unconvinced I was deprived of anything important as a typical software engineer.
by moped | 2025-05-02 18:35:56+00:00
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by matthewdgreen | 2025-05-02 18:36:12+00:00
CICO is more of an upper bound, but people like to incorrectly use it as a lower bound. Meaning that it's true that you can't burn more calories than you eat, but you can certainly eat many more calories than you store as fat.

(Hell, CICO isn't even valid for something as "simple" as an electric vehicle. My EV's end-to-end efficiency is quite a bit different depending on whether I'm charging from 120V or 240V, the outside temperature at charging time, the outside temperature at driving time, and a handful other factors like state-of-charge. The human body is even more complicated.)
by xiphias2 | 2025-05-02 18:36:14+00:00
Probably you are right. Early adopters prefer not to be bullshitted generally, just like how Google in the early days optimized relevancy in search results as opposed to popularity.

As more people adopted Google, it became more popularity oriented.

Personally I pay more not to be bs-d, but I know many people who prefer to be lied to, and I expect this part of the personalization in the future.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-05-02 18:36:23+00:00
> This is a lot to say that you have no idea what the AfD situation actually is and haven't looked into any of the intelligence reports or even rhetoric/behavior of the party (leaders).

Sure, but that doesn't mean they're not allowed to be skeptical; their skepticism comes from a lack of information, which is wise and healthy. Their comments don't seem to suggest that they are trying to promote "fascist" or "extreme right" ideas, just that they recognize those terms as dog whistles and choose not to respond like a rabid dog. That is especially healthy in outrage politics.
by Groxx | 2025-05-02 18:36:56+00:00
As much as I greatly prefer context-based grouping when I can get it, I find it breaks down in a few significant ways:

Contexts are not always (or even usually?) hierarchical and distinct. This leads to constant variance on if your IAM code belongs in "users", "auth", "access", "api", or even "iam" (and is that nested under something else or not?). Or maybe it's "middleware"? Wait the identity team is called "Galactus"... Every team makes different decisions, and while all may be defensible they're still different and can take a lot of time to figure out. Assuming anyone even knows, and it isn't just rolling along vaguely on its own inertia.

"Directly mirrors stakeholder language" does not always have any bearing on how a thing works or is built. To take the house example, sure, houses have doors and windows. They also have stuff hidden in walls, paperwork that buyers never see, and massive supply chains that nobody actually fully knows - are you modeling those too? They're part of a house's existence. But obviously you're not because you obviously only care about X and not Y... but really, how many times have you run across a business that fully agrees on what X is and is completely consistent on it? Some, surely, but vague sections are often natural because otherwise your market would be a solved problem.

And last (OTOH) but not least: business needs and concepts often change with time. Do you restructure your code to match that? At this point you're knee deep in the first one above, again, and if you don't complete it you're left with confusing tech debt.

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Type-based layouts benefit greatly from not needing to think about it. Almost everyone is almost immediately able to put things in the right place, and know where to go to find something. Sure, it's a bit of a mess in there, but you've still cut out like 75% of the codebase and the task is now smaller.

Though obviously ^ this can break down rather badly when the remaining 25% is still much too large to search quickly.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-05-02 18:37:22+00:00
I would also suggest the childrens books Cheaper by the Dozen, The Musicians of Brennan, Morris' Disappearing Bag and The Red Badge of Courage.

I'd maybe throw in some of the little house on the prairie books as well, especially the one where they all almost froze to death.

I think being able to appreciate books as an adult is pretty contingent on being exposed to good books as a youth.
by jpc0 | 2025-05-02 18:37:43+00:00
> and we agree that you need money to hire devs to maintain a successful large scale OSS project

Therein lies our disagreement, you don’t need to. If you are amazon and upstream is willing to accept requests then amazon can hire devs, and if someone eats their cake then those devs will eventually migrate to the new location.

As someone who did the initial work for OSS I put the code out there, if I dislike the direction a fork is taking I can ignore said fork and keep working on my own version, why do I need to use the version they are using.

It boils down to why did you even start an OSS project, if the intention was to make money or hire other employees you fundamentally misunderstood the assignment.

If you made a project that serves your own need, decide someone else may benefit so you publish it as FOSS online and it gets massive traction how does that change your need, you probably have no reason to make it commercially viable, it is still serving the same need it always has for you.

Now if it gets forked and the fork proves to be of better quality and still serves your need then switch to the fork for your own personal need and now someone else is doing the maintenance, so you end up being the “freeloader”.

And I’ve already discussed the “burden on the maintainer”, if it’s such an issue close access to issues and pull requests. No more burden.
by svieira | 2025-05-02 18:37:50+00:00
This is a real roller coaster of an update.

> [S]ome expert testers had indicated that the model behavior “felt” slightly off.

> In the end, we decided to launch the model due to the positive signals from the [end-]users who tried out the model.

> Looking back, the qualitative assessments [from experts] were hinting at something important

Leslie called. He wants to know if you read his paper yet?

> Even if these issues aren’t perfectly quantifiable today,

All right, I guess not then ...

> What we’re learning

> Value spot checks and interactive testing more: We take to heart the lesson that spot checks and interactive testing should be valued more in final decision-making before making a model available to any of our users. This has always been true for red teaming and high-level safety checks. We’re learning from this experience that it’s equally true for qualities like model behavior and consistency, because so many people now depend on our models to help in their daily lives.

> We need to be critical of metrics that conflict with qualitative testing: Quantitative signals matter, but so do the hard-to-measure ones, and we’re working to expand what we evaluate.

Oh, well, some of you get it. At least ... I hope you do.
by hirvi74 | 2025-05-02 18:38:14+00:00
I am no expert in pedagogy of mathematics, and I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I think there was/is a Russian academic program in which students were/are basically only taught algebra in an iteratively increasing manner.

As it was explained to me, one wouldn't take a "Calculus I" class as a prerequisite for say an entry-level engineering course. One typically had such a strong foundation of algebra, that when encountering a problem that required calculus, the student would just learn the necessary calculus at that point in time. In other words, with such a strong algebraic background, other aspects of math, within reason, were much easier to grok.
by anthk | 2025-05-02 18:38:34+00:00
The Western movies and books are widely known for every Grandpa in Spain except for the actual Far West history.

In the 70's, tons of people bought a-dime novels full of cheap Western like 'pulp' stories written from Spanish authors with English nicknames at the cover.

Later, with the widely spread television, spies and officers/detectives took that role seamlessly, with Charles Bronson et all. Because in the end it's the same story everywhere. Lonely wolf vs the baddies. That stuff sold well everywhere, because every society has its badass hero.

I'm pretty sure tons of French directors set lots of drama/action movies in the US too.

Oh, and not just white officers. The Asian Martial Arts exploitation with Bruce Lee and clones was widely seen from their sons too in late 70's/early 80's.

And these would be surely cloned in the US too.

Ninjas, samurais and exotic Japanese and Chinese fighters were pretty much everywhere too. And, OFC, Dragon Ball in Europe was a huge success in late 80's, even if at the beginning it just was a comedy manga/anime.

Dragon Ball does the same in the end with the Chinese culture being remade from the Japanese as a parody...

The French had Blueberry, Lucky Luke...
by ncallaway | 2025-05-02 18:38:54+00:00
We're a small company, so we're just describing our current footprint. We're a US based company, but we do have a Canadian registered foreign entity already, so it's easier for us to hire in those countries.

Setting up and hiring in a new foreign jurisdiction is not a trivial thing for us, but it is something we've done before, and would be willing to do again. We don't have an exclusion against Mexico or South America, and people from there are welcome to apply.

Beyond the administrative work, time-zone is one of the biggest factors for us when hiring outside of the United States.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-05-02 18:39:40+00:00
If you read the article, it appears she asked ChatGPT to tell her fortune based on the pattern of coffee grounds in her coffee cup.

Which.. sounds like she was either just looking for any excuse to divorce, or she was already divorced, from reality.

There is no story here about ChatGPT, this could have been anything. It could have been the way a dog barked, or hidden messages in the radio, which we wouldn't associate with dogs or radio.

If we are going to attempt any deeper analysis from this, it should be an analysis of what services are in place for people with mental health issues and how people can be empowered to notice signs to help their loved ones.
by ubercow13 | 2025-05-02 18:39:53+00:00
I think the above comment stands. The point is, what do they consider maths ability? High school maths has very little to do with programming but university-level maths certainly feels very similar to it in structure. Many of my (good) classmates in my maths degree were very bad at things like mental arithmetic. So maybe "maths ability" (defined some way) isn't very important for being good at "maths" (proper).
by 77pt77 | 2025-05-02 18:40:02+00:00
Creativity in AI art production is a fancy term for temperature that adds no semantic value.

Your "creativity" is just "high temperature" novel art done by the right person/entity.

This was something already obvious to anyone paying attention. Innovation from the "wrong people" was just "sophomoric", derivative or another euphemism, but the same thing from the right person would be a work of genius.
by suddenlybananas | 2025-05-02 18:40:10+00:00
The redundancy is not a property of language it's a property of communication. This just speaks to the pseudoscientific nature of usage based linguistics; it's as if physicists claimed that heavier objects fell faster than lighter ones because a piece of paper will fall slower than a brick. You can't just look at the most frequent cases, you need to look at the actual edge cases to understand a phenomenon.
by deeThrow94 | 2025-05-02 18:40:13+00:00
That's fair. I agree that there's more to problem solving than just linguistic ability, so I rescind my claim that they're indistinguishable, but I still think there's a deep relationship between the two.

I have a very difficult time trying to extract the difference between "linguistic ability" and "critical thinking", though:

1. The core difference between "critical thinking" and "uncritical thinking" is the ability to discern incoherency from coherency.

2. Coherency is evaluated at the linguistic level: do the terms bind in meaningful ways to the problem? Do any statements contradict each other?

3. The remaining aspect is "creativity": can you come up with novel ways of approaching the problem? This is the hardest to tie to linguistic ability because it sort of exists outside our ability to operate within an agreed context.

So while I agree these are distinct skills, I still have difficulty identifying what remains in "critical thinking" after linguistic ability is addressed.
by perihelions | 2025-05-02 18:40:32+00:00
I remember reading a couple years back, when some judges in Louisiana were exposed systematically discarding legal petitions from incarcerated plaintiffs into trash cans, without reading them. Totally nulled out any access to courts, any possibility of justice, for thousands of people.

https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-judges-ignored-... ("Louisiana Judges Systematically Ignored Prisoners’ Petitions Without Review" (2023))

It's the type of story that sensitizes you to awareness of the pattern.

That the victim in the OP story got access to an attorney of any color—even dragon-purple—actually puts them above the median.
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 | 2025-05-02 18:41:25+00:00
Started programming over half a century ago. The insurance company I was working for gave me a joint life actuarial evaluation problem for which I wrote a Fortran program, picked up from a book. My uni student buddy let me use his ID so I could drop decks into their IBSYS. Turnaround was about a day. My career as a professional manual reader began.

Well yes, my high school maths were in the high 90s - more than my language scores in French, German and Latin with some off curricular Russian. I guess being a polymath helps.

Unless you are doing an engineering or mathematical application you don't need much math, especially as you can just call a function in the vast majority of the time.

I did a number of software products and operating system modifications without using any math beyond arithmetic operations.

I was a resource for other programmers including the odd math PhD.
by exogen | 2025-05-02 18:42:15+00:00
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by djrj477dhsnv | 2025-05-02 18:42:16+00:00
Look at the situation with mobile phones. Half my apps on Android are impossible to back up and restore on another phone.

If my phone is damaged, "logging in" again to my bank's mandatory app means I need to fly half way across the world and visit a branch in person with my new phone.

I don't want anything like that happening to desktop devices, regardless of how small the initial steps in that direction are.
by bastardoperator | 2025-05-02 18:42:39+00:00
He was under 1% of the popular vote for 2024, so not handedly, he didn't even get close the previous two times. If we didn't have DEI for red states, aks electoral college he would have never been president. Only 25ish% of Americans voted for him this last time so what are you getting at? Unless he goes full dictator, I imagine Republicans are in trouble once their daddy is gone.
by ok_dad | 2025-05-02 18:42:57+00:00
Annapolis smacks you upside your head whenever you start to get an ego about having come from Annapolis, so most of the people I know get along fine with ROTC or other sources of officers. Generally, the political connections come from outside the experience at the academy, most of the folks I went there with were just regular people with no political connections, and today they are still just regular people. The folks who rise to the top like Captains or Admirals all have the connections they have from their families or elsewhere.
by hydrogen7800 | 2025-05-02 18:43:04+00:00
If we taught music the way we teach math. No wonder so many people are "bad at math".

“Music class is where we take out our staff paper, our teacher puts some notes on the board, and we copy them or transpose them into a different key. We have to make sure to get the clefs and key signatures right, and our teacher is very picky about making sure we fill in our quarter-notes completely. One time we had a chromatic scale problem and I did it right, but the teacher gave me no credit because I had the stems pointing the wrong way.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician%27s_Lament