MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stirfish | 2025-06-01 20:31:07+00:00
>Why didn't they have agents in the buildings along the route?

Lol, I get it, but I'm pretty sure we've all settled on "just one shooter", or maybe "just one shooter, but secret service fumbled the AR getting into the car".

If you weren't making the reference I thought: some people believe that there were agents in the buildings around the route working together to shoot JFK - some with suppressed weapons and some without, so we wouldn't be able to easily localize where the shots came from by sound.
by MangoToupe | 2025-06-01 20:31:50+00:00
I've also heard this practice blamed for enabling a decade of "bad cgi"—visuals are reworked and reworked until time runs out, and in a rush they ship visuals that are worse than in movies 20 years ago. Explicitly: it's not the artist, it's a production pipeline failure. And indeed, it's easy finding marvel movies whose CGI looks closer to that of a video game than Lucas's prequels. Heck, even the sequel movies fall into this category.
by Bostonian | 2025-06-01 20:34:30+00:00
Israel has said that the leaders of Hamas are allowed to leave https://www.dw.com/en/netanyahu-says-hamas-leaders-will-be-a... . If they release the remaining hostages and do that, the war could end. The U.S. inflicted horrible damage on Germany and Japan in WWII until the governments of those countries were toppled. Israel similarly has the right to defend itself by destroying Hamas.
by iainmerrick | 2025-06-01 20:34:41+00:00
I watched two or three episodes of The Mandalorian and was very underwhelmed. Childishly simplistic plot, but much too violent to be a kid’s show. (Although now I say that, I guess the original movies are both childish and violent.)

There’s a bit where the main character very obviously levels up and gets to choose a power-up. Then he sees somebody else with a different power-up and goes “wow, I should get one of those”. That confirmed to me that it wanted to be a videogame rather than a serious drama.
by AndrewStephens | 2025-06-01 20:34:42+00:00
The differences between the Amiga and Mac are a fascinating study in priorities. The Amiga was orientated around home use so its graphics hardware was designed to be attached to a TV. That design goal affected the entire system, to the point that the system clock changes frequency depending on whether the machine is outputting PAL or NTSC.

Technically the Amiga could display a rock solid hires picture but only on a special monitor that I personally never saw.

The priority on the Mac was to have a high quality monitor for black and white graphics. They put a lot of effort into drawing libraries to make the most of in-built display.

The result was that the Amiga was perfectly fine for playing games or light word processing but if you actually needed to stare at a word processor or spreadsheet for 8 hours a day you really wanted a Mac.
by rasz | 2025-06-01 20:35:39+00:00
I read Ukraine leaked attack details ahead of time, except it was supposed to be 2000 mile range heavy slow drones striking in the middle of the night. Russians "somehow" got this info and prepared waiting ready until the morning with all bombers fueled up ready to take off. Drones never showed up, morning came, national aviation holiday, pilots went to celebrate, 12:00pm drones take off from trailers.
by tux3 | 2025-06-01 20:35:48+00:00
It does not. It's an indictment of the vector database working so poorly than even deliberately trying to make up something ridiculously inefficient (encoding PDFs as QR codes as H.264 video) is somehow comparable.

It's possible to be less efficient, but it takes real creativity. You could print out the QR codes and scan them again, or encode the QR codes in the waveform of an MP3 and take a video of that.

It's really, really bad.
by cleverwebble | 2025-06-01 20:36:11+00:00
I can't really show an interactive demo, but my team at my day job has been fine tuning OpenAI models since GPT-3.5 and fine tuning can drastically improves output quality & prompt adherence. Heck, we found you can reduce your prompt to very simple instructions, and encode the style guidelines via your fine tuning examples.

This really only works though if:

1) The task is limited to a relatively small domain (relatively small could probably be misnomer, as most LLMs are trying to solve every-problem-all-at-once. As long as you are having it specialize in a specific field even, FT can help you achieve superior results.) 2) You have high quality examples (you don't need a lot, maybe 200 at most) Quality is often better than quantity here.

Often, distillation is all you need. Eg, do some prompt engineering on a high quality model (GPT-4.1, Gemini-Pro, Claude, etc.) - generate a few hundred examples, optionally (ideally) check for correctness via evaluations, and then fine tune a smaller, cheaper model. The new fine tuned model will not perform as well at generalist tasks as before, but it will be much more accurate at your specific domain, which is what most businesses care about.
by ryao | 2025-06-01 20:36:13+00:00
I have been hearing this about AMD/ATI drivers for decades. Every year, someone says that it is fixed, only for new evidence to come out that they are not. I have no reason to believe it is fixed given the history.

Here is evidence to the contrary: If ROCm actually was in good shape, tinygrad would use it instead of developing their own driver.
by Fr0styMatt88 | 2025-06-01 20:36:43+00:00
I’ve been doing the once-every-few-years deep dive into Smalltalk that I tend to do out of curiosity and this kind of question is one that always comes up for me. The answer there seems to be “the whole environment and philosophy is geared to work that way”; a dynamic language needs a lot of tooling support and interactivity.
by rbanffy | 2025-06-01 20:37:17+00:00
> The Solidgm D5-P5336 122.88TB SSD is $12,000

6 2.4TB data-center grade SAS HDDs would cost $3,600, making flash roughly 3.5x more expensive. OTOH, HDDs would occupy a lot more space, generate a lot more heat, and draw a lot more power. A 2U rack server has space for about 30 2.5 units. That'd be about 120 TB in HDDs, but could reach 3+ PB of flash storage.
by layer8 | 2025-06-01 20:37:29+00:00
I’m not sure what to make of the fact that it wasn’t completely obvious to Claude that the “safe space” couldn’t possibly actually be one.

Maybe it’s just another example of LLM awareness deficiencies. Or it secretly was “aware”, but the reinforcement learning/finetuning is such that playing along with the user’s conception is the preferred behavior in that case.
by DavidSJ | 2025-06-01 20:37:48+00:00
It's sparse as in only a small fraction of tokens are multiplied by a given expert's weight matrices (this is standard terminology in the MoE literature). So to properly utilize the tensor cores (hence serve DeepSeek cheaply, as the OP asks about) you need to serve enough tokens concurrently such that the per-matmul batch dimension is large.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-06-01 20:39:00+00:00
Verification of identity has to be in person and it can be reliable and secure in general. Many countries in the world have a process and infrastructure for that, they mainly need to open verification API to third parties. BundID in Germany, GosUslugi in Russia, Diia in Ukraine (built with support of USAID!) etc.

That said, anonymity is not necessary condition of a safe environment. Pseudonymity with sufficient protections against disclosure will work just fine. If a platform only knows that there’s a real person behind a nickname and they can reliably hold that person accountable it is enough. They don’t need a name. Just some identifier from identity provider.

As for misinformation, is not a moderation issue and should not be solved by platforms. You cannot and should not suppress political messages, they will find their way. It’s the matter of education and political systems and counter-propaganda. The less efficient are the former, the more efficient is propaganda in general.
by MoonGhost | 2025-06-01 20:40:42+00:00
> 16x 3090 system

That's about 5KW of power

> that gets 7 token/s in llama.cpp

Just looking at electricity bill it's cheaper to use API of any major providers.

> If you aren't prompting Deepseek in Chinese, a lot of the experts don't activate.

That's interesting, it means the model can be cut and those token routed to another closest expert, just in case they happened.
by rasz | 2025-06-01 20:40:52+00:00
This is same parking lot from video of drones taking off

https://nitter.poast.org/Osinttechnical/status/1929149970566...

its after the attack and drones gone. Those idiots were lucky, there is another video from a truck that malfunctioned and caught fire on side of the road. russian forces the door, enters and boom. Appeared booby trapped.
by daveguy | 2025-06-01 20:41:00+00:00
But, the internet is already polluted and being constantly polluted by LLMs. It feels like LLMs are the PFAS of the internet. So, I'm not sure what your argument is, but I would welcome clarification. Maybe I am misunderstanding your definition of model collapse. The article references this definition of model collapse[0]. I'm curious when you say "that's not what model collapse is" -- what do you mean by model collapse that is different from the definition of the article and reference?

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y
by hidingfearful | 2025-06-01 20:41:01+00:00
Well, brain science is pretty clear that the brain uses about the same amount of glucose (energy) all the time, resting or waking.

To contrast with for example your biceps, which will use a lot of energy when lifting something and then scale back down to near-zero.

So in terms of energy use, yes, the brain is always going at near full burn.
by empressplay | 2025-06-01 20:41:24+00:00
It's important to remember that the exercise of teaching children coding isn't so much about teaching them how to code, but how to think, how to plan, predict, conjecture, reason and so forth. It's just a convenient and quicker way of teaching these things than the alternatives.

If they have a good foundation in these things, then if they choose to go on to coding later they can learn all of the minutiae. But I've found in teaching it is important to stress that learning basic coding is _not_ about steering them towards coding as a career, or even a pursuit.

It _is_ important to stress that learning basic coding will help them become better problem solvers, better able to anticipate issues and mitigate them. And that this is useful to them in a wide variety of areas in which they may have interest, such as sports, engineering, adventuring etc. And yes, also learning how to guide an LLM.

So once you get those fundamentals down in the context of coding (Scratch, GameMaker, Logo, BASIC are all fine here), go practice them in more real-world applications. Those are the skills you need to foster, not object-oriented programming. And if they take an interest in going further with coding, then that's fine. They will have the tools they need to do that.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-01 20:41:38+00:00
>> The corporate media have conflated [cloud seeding and chemtrails] to make people look like ignorant hillbillies.

> Based on the article, it doesn’t appear the lawmakers are making the distinction you are.

You are correct.

State Rep. Kimberly Landry Coates (R-Ponchatoula) ... and several other lawmakers refer to the lines as “chemtrails,” which she claims are made of nanochemicals that alter weather patterns. During questioning on the House floor, State Rep. Candace Newell (D-New Orleans) asked about the chemicals Coates believes are involved. “Other than the nanoparticles of aluminum, what else have you found?” Newell said. “Barium. There is a few, some with long words that I can’t pronounce,” Coates said. Coates also claimed [that NOAA] sends chemicals into clouds to reflect sunlight and cool the Earth’s surface. However, NOAA says it does not conduct weather modification experiments and has no plans to do so. Coates further suggested that multiple agencies are involved in what she believes is a chemtrail conspiracy in Louisiana. “Who is doing this?” asked State Rep. Matthew Willard (D-New Orleans). “There are multiple people. Multiple groups, contractors,” Coates said. “Who are the contracts with?” Willard asked. “I’ve seen the documents with at least nine federal agencies,” Coates said.

I take issue with the gransparent's comment, where they infer these comments create an appearance of "ignorant hillbillies". Having grown up with hill people, I assert they are, on balance, more rational than the southern state legislators who are represented by these remarks.
by andrewflnr | 2025-06-01 20:41:47+00:00
To be fair, on the grand scale of possible circumstances that might drive someone to murder, being a soldier is relatively common but not that high. The more interesting cases involve intense personal hate, possibly for revenge for extreme injury, or reasons that blur the line with self-defense or defense of a loved one. But I think a lot of people would still require unfeasibly extreme circumstances, if they could do it at all.
by sureglymop | 2025-06-01 20:42:01+00:00
As an undergrad student, I can tell you that cheating is rampant. It kind of sucks for those who don't and are genuinely curious because it's frustrating to see someone else easily passing with less effort spent.

What I think teachers could do is to come up with truly novel and strange assignments that require real curiosity and creativity (and some do, which is great). I can only assume this to get harder and harder with modern AI readily available to everyone but perhaps the key is to assign something that would take a long time even with these tools. It should be as hard as necessary which is only all the more fulfilling to a curious student.
by sean_ | 2025-06-01 20:42:24+00:00
Claude Code is now available to script and use as a deployed API for modifying Github Repos!

It works like this: input the repo you want to edit, the changes you want to make, and your anthropic/github keys.

Then we clone your repo into a VM, use claude code to modify it with your prompt, and push the changes!

You can easily change the branch so you don't mess up anything in prod and even use our 'templates' to script claude code with multiple messages to run sequentially so you can run workflows such as 'plan and execute' or automatically invoke an 'auto documentation' version of claude code.

view the UI version of this api here: https://cloudcoding.ai/chat

We're really excited about what this release enables and are looking forward to all the apps this gets integrated into!

Some cool use cases we're looking forward to seeing are slack and text messages bots so you can text with your repos!
by fsckboy | 2025-06-01 20:43:59+00:00
>> It turns out the people creating the front end pocket most of the money.

> Would you be able to elaborate on this? I don't fully understand this statement.

the economic player with direct contact to the customer "owns" the customer and has a lot of power in negotiation with suppliers. the customer-facing players have the most information about their customers, and can offer adjacent products (want fries with that?)

Uber and Lyft make big money, not their drivers. Amazon and Ebay make big money, not their sellers. McDonalds makes more money than their food suppliers, and franchisees.

The exception is with something like intellectual property, let's use movies as an example. The owners of the content want to sell it widely and will do a variety of distribution deals for different distribution channels. However, if any distribution channel starts taking a big slice of the money pie, the terms of the contract renewal will be changed because without the content they are dead.
by whytevuhuni | 2025-06-01 20:44:00+00:00
A systems language does not imply anything about scale and reliability. By your definition, Java would be a systems language, while C and assembly would not be.

A systems language is one that not only allows direct low-level access to hardware, but it's well suited for it. It not only works without a runtime (or at least a very minimal one), but it is its main mode of operation.

Many languages can do many things. Some are more suited for writing systems, and we call those systems languages. That rules out Go, Lisp, etc, despite people having written systems in them.
by johnea | 2025-06-01 20:44:17+00:00
> You can moderate comments on your own blog however you'd like.

Thank you so much for that permission.

(this is an example of sarcasm, it's used as a form of criticism to express disagreement by saying the exact opposite of what is actually meant. Currently, this could serve as a test for human text, because the LLM slop that I read is typically asskissingly obsequious, whereas humans are often not that friendly to each other)
by mitchbob | 2025-06-01 20:44:28+00:00
How about we stop making PFAS and destroy those we've already made? We know they're a threat to the health of the planet comparable to DDT and CFCs, and we had the collective wisdom to stop making those. And while we're at it, hold corporations that cover up the dangers of their products accountable. For background on how we got where we are with PFAS, see this account:

How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/27/3m-forever-che...

https://archive.ph/2025.01.07-211843/https://www.newyorker.c...
by 35jelly35 | 2025-06-01 20:44:29+00:00
Error handling always comes in useful at one time in particular - when something has gone wrong! At that point, having something that is structured and full of context is really useful and makes debugging much, much easier.

Even for small projects, this is a small thing to introduce but it will pay you dividends in the future. The earlier you start the more you'll thank yourself (it's not very helpful to frantically try and refactor this into a codebase after you've already been bitten!)
by jmclnx | 2025-06-01 20:45:17+00:00
How stupid can these republicans be ? I guess there is no limit.

So they fear 'chemtails' is being used to help prevent climate change, really dumb.

But it does not matter, in 50 years or so, Louisiana will be unlivable in the summer and there is a good chance New Orleans will be under water. So go ahead Louisiana People, keep voting in the dumbest people you can find.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-01 20:45:29+00:00
> TV never protected people from scams, the law did.

Indeed, that's my point. And that even for Americans, despite y'all's regulations (particularly when it comes to product placements) being far more relaxed than in Europe.

The problem is, the law hasn't even come close to catching up with reality for well over a decade. Influencers obviously - look no further than Fyre Festival or multi-million subscriber YouTubers that have a primary audience of children shilling online casinos [1] - but also the platforms themselves. YouTube is particularly egregious... in TV the regulation here is 12 minutes per hour and minimum 30 minutes between ad breaks [2], but YouTube? If you're not subscribing for Premium, it's a 30 second preroll and about a minute or two every 5-ish minutes - on top of the influencer's own ad roll that's usually 2 minutes per 10-minute video. That ad load is ridiculous.

[1] https://www.ingame.de/news/illegales-gluecksspiel-marcel-eri...

[2] https://www.rnd.de/medien/eu-und-fernsehwerbung-warum-es-nur...
by tom_ | 2025-06-01 20:45:30+00:00
Cheap and ubiquitous is what people want, and if PCs became successful because people other than IBM started producing the same hardware, then perhaps Commodore should have done that too. Software seems to have proven itself the better moat, and so maybe AmigaOS could have been the thing that would tie this hypothetical Amiga-compatible market together, keeping Commodore alive.

They'd have to have been a bit more careful about it than IBM were.

I am confident it would still feel like everything is terrible.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-06-01 20:46:20+00:00
As long as misinformation is produced by a real person, it is ok to have it. It is not a job of platforms to combat misinformation. If this becomes a real problem, then politicians aren’t working hard enough and need to be replaced. German political mainstream was too lazy, now we have AfD in double digits challenging the first place on elections. Time to replace that mainstream. Democrats and old-school Republicans in America were too ignorant and lazy, now America has Trump and needs a full reboot to avoid sliding into irrelevance. This is how things always worked historically.
by saltcured | 2025-06-01 20:46:24+00:00
I don't doubt others' consciousness, but I do doubt that (some) others have the same depth of meta-cognitive experience.

So, my own personal "P-Zombie" theory is not of mindless automatons who lack consciousness. It's just people who are philosophically naive. They live in blissful ignorance of the myriad deep questions and doubts that stem from philosophy of mind. To me, these people must be a bit like athletes who take their prowess for granted and don't actually think about physiology, anatomy, biology, metabolism, or medicine. They just abstract their whole experience into some overly broad concept, rather than appreciating the complex interplay of functions that have to be orchestrated to deliver the performance.

Though I went through university like many others here, I've always been somewhat of an autodidact with some idiosyncracy to my worldview. The more I have absorbed from philosophy, cognitive science, computation, medicine, and liberal arts, the less I've put the human mind on an abstract pedestal. It remains a topic full with wonder, but lately I am more amazed that it holds together at all rather than being amazed at the pinnacles of pure thought or experience it might be imagined to reach.

Over many decades, I have a deepening appreciation of the traditional cognitive science approach I first encountered in essays and lectures. Empirical observation of pathology and correlated cognitive dysfunction. I've also accumulated more personal experience, watching friends and family go through ordeals of mind-altering drugs, mental illness with and without psychosis, dementia, and trauma. As a result, I can better appreciate the "illusory mind" argument. I recognize more ways in which our cognitive experience can fall apart when the constituent parts fall out of balance.
by 35jelly35 | 2025-06-01 20:46:50+00:00
> Even an iPhone 14 Pro can quite easily run the 3B parameter version of Llama 3.2

Wow. I never thought a non-Apple Intelligence phone would be able to run this. Does the phone get hot at all?

Also, how long did it take you to build this and how easy is it to test this in Xcode?
by altairprime | 2025-06-01 20:47:04+00:00
United States culture celebrates and often elects grifters, whose core precept can be summarized as “either you’re running the con, or you’re the mark”. Cheating at academics is treated no differently, through a social lens, from attempting to scam a widow out of her insurance payout: simply attempting to run the con places you in a higher social caste than those marks who do not attempt any con, even if you fail. That the cheaters often get caught is much less relevant to them than the shame and shunning and demotion to the lesser caste that their peers would respond with if they did not try to grift their grades — even if they could graduate with a 4.3 without cheating at all! (I don’t personally subscribe to these beliefs, but it’s important to understand why ‘cheating is wrong’ is so contentious in U.S. culture, if only to be able to evaluate whether academic policies are designed effectively to decrease the rate of cheating per student capita.)
by mrkeen | 2025-06-01 20:47:47+00:00
Cut the cloud vendors out of the picture and build and query your index on a spare linux box.

I've only played with TF-IDF/BM25 as opposed to vector searches, but there's no way your queries should be taking so long on such a small corpus. Querying 10k documents feels like 2-10ms territory, not 900ms.