MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gjm11 | 2025-06-19 20:39:42+00:00
In fairness, that's (allegedly, at least; I guess he could be lying) a quotation from another person. If someone came up to you and said "Aren't you the guy who's essentially[1] always right?", wouldn't you too be inclined to quote them, whether you agreed with them or not?

[1] S.A. actually quoted the person as follows: "You’re Scott Aaronson?! The quantum physicist who’s always getting into arguments on the Internet, and who’s essentially always right, but who sustains an unreasonable amount of psychic damage in the process?" which differs in several ways from what reverendsteveii falsely presents as a direct quotation.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-06-19 20:40:41+00:00
Which oral histories allow us to differentiate between the various hypotheses for the initial peopling of the Americas? I'm not aware of any and it's very difficult to identify direct relationships between modern groups and the earliest groups. Moreover, operationalizing oral histories and tying them to cultural memories of specific historical events is difficult at best, since that's not really how ancient oral histories get preserved.
by wolfman1 | 2025-06-19 20:40:46+00:00
I'm realizing there's a lot of confusion about what trend based models actually are. I was under the assumption the concept was more widely understood, but I'm realizing we need to explain it better.

To be clear, there's nothing new or innovative about a trend based model. It's one of the most commonly used investment strategies by intuitions, etc. It's been widely utilized for far longer than I've been alive.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-06-19 20:41:42+00:00
I have mixed results but one of the more disturbing things I've found Claude doing is that when confronted with a failing test case, and not being able to solve a tricky problem.. just writing a kludge into the code that identifies that here's a test running, and makes it pass. But only for that case. Basically, totally cheating.

You have to be super careful and review everything because if you don't you can find your code littered with this strange mix of seeming brilliance which makes you complacent... and total Junior SWE behaviour or just outright negligence.

That, or recently, it's just started declaring victory and claiming to have fixed things, even when the test continues to fail. Totally trying to gaslight me.

I swear I wasn't seeing this kind of thing two weeks ago, which makes me wonder if Anthropic has been turning some dials...
by dakiol | 2025-06-19 20:42:17+00:00
Always wondered why I don't go on living like the folks at 100r.co. Not necessarily in a boat across the ocean, but at least writing software for fun and learning as days pass. What a contrast if we talk about writing software so that the c-level executives can get richer and richer while you have to work for decades to pay a middle size house (if not an apartment). Not to mention the on-call rotation that eats your free time, the countless stupid tech interviews you need to pass and the amount of self control one has to have in every useless daily standup.
by qualeed | 2025-06-19 20:42:41+00:00
>That aren't detectable?

Of course. How do you detect or protect against when the FBI/NSA/three-letter-agency has a warrant for your cellphone (or Google, car, local coffee shop cameras, Ring cameras, credit card, etc.) information alongside a gag order?

How often do you check your cars undercarriage for GPS monitors?

Do you know how many times your car has been imaged by a license plate camera recently?

Again, I'm not saying that this technology is useless. It's just a lot worse, on several dimensions, than technology that is already invading your privacy this second.

If this technology was seriously beginning to be used to track people, a handful of people can thwart it by carrying around an air filter and shaking it every now and again.
by belorn | 2025-06-19 20:42:44+00:00
A common reason, if not the vast majority of cases, is that people mix up which key they publish and which key they are actually using. I don't doubt there are a lot of things they could do to improve the protocol, but this very common problem is fairly difficult to solve on a protocol level.

I remember back in the days when people discouraged people from using encrypted disks because of the situation that could happen if the user lost their passwords. No disk encryption algorithm can solve the issue if the user does not have the correct password, and so the recommendation was to not use it. Nowadays people usually have TPMs or key management software to manage keys, so people can forget the password and still access their encrypted disks.

DNSSEC software is still not really that developed that they automatically include basic tests and verification tools to make sure people don't simply mix up keys. They assume that people write those themselves. Too many times this happens after incidents rather than before (heard this in so many war stories). It also doesn't help that dns is full of caching and caching invalidation. A lot of the insane step-by-step plans comes from working around TTL's, lack of verification, basic tooling, and that much of the work is done manually.
by holowoodman | 2025-06-19 20:42:48+00:00
> Windows UI is intentionally bad at this point, but at least it's stable.

Windows 2000 to XP to Vista to 7 were big breaks in UI. 7 to 10 was a break. 10 to 11 was a break. When I now click the lower left corner, weather opens. When I'm pressing the Windows key, no applications menu to be seen, just some web search slop.

The only thing that's constant with windows are the lying percentages, where 99% and 100% take as long as 0-98%...
by ghastmaster | 2025-06-19 20:43:13+00:00
In Texas and maybe celebrated in other places(I haven't done the research) this is true. For a large swath of the United States it was obscure or unknown. Most of us learned about the Emancipation Proclamation though. Making Juneteenth a holiday rather than the Date of the Emancipation Proclamation is odd to me. It is as odd to me as say, celebrating Independence Day on the date the last colony got word of the signing on, hypothetically, July 5th.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-19 20:43:38+00:00
Ironically, bringing this topic up always turns the conversation to ad-hominem attacks about the messenger while completely ignoring the subject matter. That's exactly the type of argument rationalists claim to despise, but it gets brought up whenever inconvenient arguments appear about their own communities. All of the comments dismissing the content because of the author or refusing to acknowledge the arguments because it feels like a "smear" are admitting their inability to judge an argument on their own merits.

If anyone wants to actually engage with the topic instead of trying to ad-hominem it away, I suggest at least reading Scott Alexander's own words on why he so frequently engages in neoreactionary topics: https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/lm36nk/comment/g...

Some select quotes:

> First is a purely selfish reason - my blog gets about 5x more hits and new followers when I write about Reaction or gender than it does when I write about anything else, and writing about gender is horrible. Blog followers are useful to me because they expand my ability to spread important ideas and network with important people.

> Third is that I want to spread the good parts of Reactionary thought

> Despite considering myself pretty smart and clueful, I constantly learn new and important things (like the crime stuff, or the WWII history, or the HBD) from the Reactionaries. Anything that gives you a constant stream of very important new insights is something you grab as tight as you can and never let go of.

In this case, HBD means "human biodiversity" which is the alt-right's preferred term for racialism, or the division of humans into races with special attention to the relative intelligence of those different races. This is an oddly recurring theme on Scott Alexander's work. He even wrote a coded blog post to his followers about how he was going to deny it publicly while privately holding it to be very correct.
by mdaniel | 2025-06-19 20:43:45+00:00
So, what I'm hearing is that it should tie itself to a commercial company, who now have a private equity master to answer to, versus an open source technology run by a foundation

Besides, easily half of this thread is whining about helm for which docker-compose has no answer whatsoever. There is no $(docker compose run oci://example.com/awesome --version 1.2.3 --set-string root-user=admin)
Show HN: Provide a short description, get animated character with deep backstory
by mrkiouak | 2025-06-19 20:44:05+00:00
A project I started as a way to get more mileage with various LLM applications. I've been surprised by how good some of the character designs that get generated are:

1. https://ki-storygen.com/characters/public/BARSKIN_BARTHOLOME... came from an elephant version of Rick from Casablanca

2. https://ki-storygen.com/characters/public/PNGR_BORIN_001 from a fairly generic gruff dwarf warrior description with dwarf replaced with penguin

I'm using GCP's Veo for the video generation (veo 2, IIUC Veo 3 is still behind an allowlist I haven't been able to get approval for), and the GCP ethical AI checks seem to really agressively refuse to generate anything vaugely human (the above penguin included). So elephants, turtles, mice, etc. have been the best result for videos.

Would love to see thoughts -- I know GenAI & Art/Entertainment is a very fraught topic, but I also think there are some fun applications like this where its really not replacing anyone's work.

And a future "Lady's Illustrated Primer" a la Diamond Age would just be so cool.
by astrange | 2025-06-19 20:44:16+00:00
> There's an -ism for that

It's Buddhism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anattā

> Actually, a few different ones depending on the exact angle you look at the it from: solipsism, narcissism,...

That is indeed a problem with it. The Buddhist solution is to make you promise not to do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhicitta

And the (well, a) term for the entire problem is "non-dual awareness".
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by mkw5053 | 2025-06-19 20:45:22+00:00
This DevOps friction is exactly why I'm building an open-source "Firebase for LLMs." The moment you want to add AI to an app, you're forced to build a backend just to securely proxy API calls—you can't expose LLM API keys client-side. So developers who could previously build entire apps backend-free suddenly need servers, key management, rate limiting, logging, deployment... all just to make a single OpenAI call. Anyone else hit this wall? The gap between "AI-first" and "backend-free" development feels very solvable.
by crazygringo | 2025-06-19 20:45:24+00:00
I've found LLM's to be extremely helpful in naming and general function/API design, where there a lot of different ways to express combinations of parameters.

I know what seems natural to me but that's because I'm extremely familiar with the internal workings of the project. LLM's seem to be very good at coming with names that are just descriptive enough but not too long, and most importantly follow "general conventions" from similar projects that I may not be aware of. I can't count the number of times an LLM has given me a name for a function that I've thought, oh of course, that's a much clearer name that what I was using. And I thought I was already pretty good at naming things...
by ToValueFunfetti | 2025-06-19 20:45:57+00:00
Ah, fair enough! I had heard the "hosting wealthy donors" as the primary motivation, but it appears to be secondary. My bad.

>As far as I know it's never hosted an impress-the-oligarch fundraiser

As far as I know, they only hosted 3 events there before deciding to sell, so this is low-information.
by nyeah | 2025-06-19 20:46:24+00:00
Let's read the thread: "There has to be (or ought to be) a name for this kind of epistemological fallacy, where in pursuit of truth, the pursuit of logical sophistication and soundness between starting assumptions (or first principles) and conclusions becomes functionally way more important than carefully evaluating and thoughtfully choosing the right starting assumptions (and being willing to change them when they are found to be inconsistent with sound observation and interpretation)."

Can people suffer from that impairment? Is that possible? If not, please explain how wrong assumptions can be eliminated without actively looking for them. If the impairment is real, what would you call its victims? Pick your own terminology.
by frollogaston | 2025-06-19 20:46:40+00:00
They're not very different. Last time I used Windows often was 2000, and I was able to pick up and use any of the later ones. Random IT departments publishing screenshots don't need to go change everything between Windows versions. Meanwhile I logged into my Linux desktop at work for the first time in a while (normally I SSH), and literally every button and setting was in a different place than before.

Unless I'm misremembering, Windows key still opens the start menu with your apps. It's just that they added tons of adware and crap next to it.
by wongarsu | 2025-06-19 20:46:48+00:00
Or too generic. A lot of the complexity if from trying to support all use cases. For each new feature there is a clear case of "we have X happy users, and Y people who would start using it if we just added Z". But repeat that often enough and the whole things becomes so complex and abstract that you lose those happy users.

The tools I've most enjoyed (including deployment tools) are those with a clear target group and vision, along with leadership that rejects anything that falls too far outside of it. Yes, it usually doesn't have all the features I want, but it also doesn't have a myriad of features I don't need
by charcircuit | 2025-06-19 20:46:55+00:00
>violating the principle of user choice

What do you exactly mean by this as right now no users can use Linux and play the game. Allowing more Linux operating systems to be able to play the game is providing users more choice than before.

>Client-side anticheat is inherently security through obscurity

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with security through obscurity. It's just that for some problems the return on investment (security gained for the resources needed) is not worth it. For anticheat the obscurity can slow down cheat developers and raise the barrier to entry for developing cheats. Cheaters just have to make one mistake to get caught.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-19 20:47:29+00:00
> but that eventually would be sooner with a better name

Do you have some basis for thinking this? I rather suspect the reason White Americans don't know about it has more to do with the fact that it celebrates Black American history and culture, which is just not that popular among White Americans. (Of course there are exceptions, but the point is they're exceptions.) I seriously doubt that the name is the problem. The problem is that relatively few people are interested.
by mdaniel | 2025-06-19 20:48:08+00:00
Fun fact, while digging into the sibling comment's complaint about the OpenAPI spec, I learned that it actually advertises multiple content-types:

application/json application/json;stream=watch application/vnd.kubernetes.protobuf application/vnd.kubernetes.protobuf;stream=watch application/yaml

which I presume all get coerced into protobuf before being actually interpreted
by acstorage | 2025-06-19 20:48:21+00:00
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by shawntan | 2025-06-19 20:48:38+00:00
Systems might want to anticipate changes in LLM architectures (even small changes can make a big difference kernel wise), so it's good to not "bake" too much in ahead of time.

That said, at some point it just depends where the costs lie and it might make sense hiring some GPU engineers to do what they did here for whatever architecture you're optimising for.

Not as low-hanging as you might imagine.
by catlifeonmars | 2025-06-19 20:49:01+00:00
From the article

> Despite these advantages, compiling an LLM into a megakernel is highly challenging. Existing high-level ML frameworks — such as PyTorch, Triton, and TVM — do not natively support end-to-end megakernel generation. Additionally, modern LLM systems are built from a diverse collection of specialized kernel libraries: NCCL or NVSHMEM for communication, FlashInfer or FlashAttention for efficient attention, and CUDA or Triton for custom computation. This fragmentation makes it difficult to consolidate the entire inference pipeline into a single, unified kernel.

So my naive assumption is that yes it is obvious, but nontrivial.
by stackskipton | 2025-06-19 20:49:04+00:00
Ops type here, after looking at Rivet, I've started doing The Office "Dear god no, PLEASE NO"

Most people are looking for Container Management runtime with HTTP(S) frontend that will handle automatic certificate from Let's Encrypt.

I don't want Functions/Actors or require this massive suite:

FoundationDB: Actor state

CockroachDB: OLTP

ClickHouse: Developer-facing monitoring

Valkey: Caching

NATS: Pub/sub

Traefik: Load balancers & tunnels

This is just switching Kubernetes cloud lock in with KEDA and some other more esoteric operators to Rivet Cloud lock in. At least Kubernetes is slightly more portable than this.

Oh yea, I don't know what Clickhouse is doing with monitoring but Prometheus/Grafana suite called, said they would love for you to come home.
by brailsafe | 2025-06-19 20:49:32+00:00
I'd just comply and hope for the best. To me, this actually seems reasonable. I once reported a connection while they were spiraling into what seemed like a psychotic episode that they were publishing in real-time to their LI page. It seemed real, but I reported him just in-case he'd been compromised, and at the very least to give him a chance to delete his posts before his account came back online.
by astrange | 2025-06-19 20:49:34+00:00
> hat superintelligence was probably coming, was deeply unsafe

Well, he was right about that. Pretty much all the details were wrong, but you can't expect that much so it's fine.

The problem is that it's philosophically confused. Many things are "deeply unsafe", the main example being driving or being anywhere near someone driving a car. And yet it turns out to matter a lot less, and matter in different ways, than you'd expect if you just thought about it.

Also see those signs everywhere in California telling you that everything gives you cancer. It's true, but they should be reminding you to wear sunscreen.
by dakiol | 2025-06-19 20:50:04+00:00
Buy time! So:

- I would buy me a house (or two (for backup), depending on the amount of money). Rent is usually the highest spend in a month.

- I would set apart some money for food for the rest of my life. I know more or less how much I spend on quality food per month. Multiply by 12, and then multiply for the number of years that assume you're gonna live on earth. Food is usually the second highest spend in a month

- Do the same as above but for bills (e.g., electricity, water, gas, internet, transportation)

- Do the same as above but for everything else (e.g., health insurance, clothing, furniture, travelling, etc.)

- With the rest of the money: invest 80% of it, enjoy the 20% left

And then you have days that last 24h just for you! Sleep as much as 9h/day, do tons of exercise to stay fit, have fun with friends and family, finally dedicate countless hours to that topic of yours (e.g. operating systems? poetry? carpentry?) instead of just dedicating a couple of hours during the weekend.

That's what I would do with tons of money. It's all about time at the end.
by SirMaster | 2025-06-19 20:50:30+00:00
And those are the only types of games I play... So for me it feels like barely anything I want to play works on Linux.

I play Battlefield 2042, Call of Duty Warzone, Apex Legends, PUBG, Rainbow 6 Siege, and Fortnite, and none of these seem to work on Linux.

The only games I regularly play that work on Linux are DotA 2 and CS2, but I would also prefer using faceit for CS2 as there are way too many cheaters without it, and faceit does not work on Linux.
by skydhash | 2025-06-19 20:50:47+00:00
There’s no visual model for code as code isn’t 2d. There’s 2 mechanism in the turing machine model: a state machine and a linear representation of code and data. The 2d representation of state machine has no significance and the linear aspect of code and data is hiding more dimensions. We invented more abstractions, but nothing that map to a visual representation.
by Veedrac | 2025-06-19 20:50:53+00:00
If putting up evidence about how people were wrong in their predictions, I suggest actually pointing at predictions that were wrong, rather than on recent predictions about the future that that you disagree over how they will resolve. If putting up evidence about how people make excuses for failing predictions, I suggest actually showing them do so, rather than projecting that they will do so and blaming them for your projection.
by nailer | 2025-06-19 20:50:54+00:00
I comment on many topics, including distributed systems, node.js, Linux, low latency topics, software licensing, and yes science, history, the law and politics.

I don’t think I’m particularly pro-Israel, but since HN seems fixated with this particular conflict over others I certainly post in those submissions - just like everyone can see you do. This unnecessary personal attack is completely off topic (you’re responding to a post about me realising I believed in a myth about Israel) and easily proven false by looking at my post history - and also yours.
by geoka9 | 2025-06-19 20:51:31+00:00
I'm really enjoying Thinkpad X1 Yoga as a Linux laptop. I have the Gen 6 that's a few years old by now but it still feels and looks as good as new.

Caveats: 32 GB RAM is enough for me and I don't need a powerful GPU. Also battery life is average, but there's a way to optimize the system for minimum power draw which I never did.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-06-19 20:51:36+00:00
Having lurked this debate for a while my takeaway is that the European open source community is consistently poor at translating their selling points into the buzzword-heavy powertalk of the people who direct the writing of the MFF (like ECOFIN and the BMF) and sometimes fail to recognise who they should really be 'talking' to in order to get the best results. CEPS can't do everything by themselves.