MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by schwartzworld | 2025-06-11 00:26:39+00:00
You sound so salty about it.

My understanding was that he couldn’t use the name Prince for a while for legal reasons. The logo was a clever trick. He couldn’t call himself Prince. He could have done a full name change, but would have lost a certain amount of brand recognition in doing so.

Adopting the emblem with no pronunciation meant people resorted to calling him “the artist formerly known as prince”, referring to the name Prince without violating the laws prohibiting him from using that name.
by philistine | 2025-06-11 00:27:10+00:00
You're oversimplifying and missing the forest for the trees. By the time the checks cleared with the money in Apple's coffers, it was not needed to keep the company solvent. Jobs had shut down enough departments, and brought the company into one P&L statement, to reverse the finances of the company.

The deal saved Apple because Microsoft committed to Office and IE on the Mac for five more years. That showed enough support to give confidence for consumers and institutions to keep buying Macs. When the five years were over, the iPod was out and Microsoft couldn't afford to leave the Mac.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-11 00:27:47+00:00
I'll chime in as someone from the US who attended a public school and took a calculus class that used a university level text and did exactly as you described. Color me surprised when I arrived at university only to encounter that same book in use for the calculus course sequence.

The person you're engaging with here clearly has an overly generalized view of the US educational system (and is overly confident in it). It's not surprising that there's a bit of variance - the place is rather large after all.
by jrapdx3 | 2025-06-11 00:27:51+00:00
Well, there's a (modest) learning curve involved in customizing color schemes and of course more complex tasks that are still in the domain of user's options.

Users can be fearful of "messing it up" if they change defaults. Making changes necessarily confers responsibility to follow instructions, learn how to alter settings and know the set of options that are appropriate to change and which are not.
by bellofont | 2025-06-11 00:28:13+00:00
The OODA loop is great, but Boyd has so much more brilliant stuff for people willing to put in the effort. OODA loop gets you the heart of his thought, but if you really want to understand him read a transcript of "Patterns of Conflict." Osinga's "Science, Strategy, and War" is also a superb summary of Boyd's thought, although I'm partial to "Patterns."
by quantadev | 2025-06-11 00:28:40+00:00
A large amount of pharmaceutical ingredients come out of China, and are safely used in American drugs approved, inspected, and tested [hopefully] by FDA. For those supply chains that are supposedly well regulated there's less risk than just purchasing from some unknown/untrusted entity that also happens to be in China, who might have put in all kinds of impurities or even poisons either by accident or on purpose.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-06-11 00:29:21+00:00
> Don't worry, unlivable conditions will force lower standards of living on everyone except the elite.

Thank you, I didn't know that was the real goal of the climate movement. Just one question: How do you intend to force unlivable conditions, which in turn will force lower standards of living? I mean, which is the cause and which the effect if they are at all different?

Also, you have to advertise your goals more aggressively, don't be timid. I imagine the billboards:

"Degrowth is inevitable"

"Fight for unlivable conditions and low standards of living for everyone except the elite".
by paradox242 | 2025-06-11 00:29:40+00:00
This is a condensed version of Altman's greatest hits when it comes to his pitch for the promise of AI as he (allegedly) conceives it, and in that sense it is nothing new. What is conspicuous is that there is a not-so-subtle reframing. No longer is AGI just around the corner, instead one gets the sense that OpenAI they have already looked around that corner and seen nothing there. No, this is one of what I expect will be many more public statements intended to cool things down a bit, and to reframe (investor) expectations that the timelines are going to be longer than were previously implied.
by leetrout | 2025-06-11 00:30:02+00:00
I actually contacted the California AG to get a refund from another AI company after they failed to refund me.

The AG office followed up and I got my refund. Worth my time to file because we should stop letting companies get away with this stuff where they show up with more requirements after paying.

Separately they also do not need my phone number after having my name, address and credit card.

Has anyone got info on why they are taking everyone’s phone number?
by jiggawatts | 2025-06-11 00:30:09+00:00
This is in part "abuse prevention"[1] and in part marketing. Making customers feel like they're signing up to access state secrets makes the models seem more "special". Sama is well known to use these SV marketing tricks, like invite-only access, waiting lists, etc to psychologically manipulate users into thinking they're begging for entry to an exclusive club instead of just swiping a credit card to access an API.

Google tried this with Google Plus and Google Wave, failed spectacularly, and have ironically stopped with this idiotic "marketing by blocking potential users". I can access Gemini Pro 2.5 without providing a blood sample or signing parchment in triplicate.

[1] Not really though, because a significant percentage of OpenAI's revenue is from spammers and bulk-generation of SOE-optimised garbage. Those are valued customers!
by leeoniya | 2025-06-11 00:30:34+00:00
take a look at my demo [1]. i'd love to see the same set of images quantized with your thing.

the quant frog [2] is interesting since it has an artificial single pixel line at the top with a ton of colors to trip quantizers up.

[1] https://github.com/leeoniya/RgbQuant.js/

[2] https://github.com/leeoniya/RgbQuant.js/blob/master/demo/img...
by mrandish | 2025-06-11 00:31:29+00:00
As a former professional magician and lifelong magic enthusiast, no serious magicians hate this guy. On the contrary, his show was great because it drove interest in magic which is good for working performers. The "Magicians HATE him" shtick was just marketing hype to promote the TV show.

Of course there are probably a couple of clueless amateur magicians somewhere out there who will spout about this guy but it's not how the vast majority of us feel. Anyone who studies and understands magic on a serious level already knows they can take the exact same techniques you saw exposed on that show and fool you silly with them the next day.

I know this is true because I've seen a top notch magician like legendary Spanish card worker Dani DaOrtiz perform for a roomful of very experienced professional magicians at a magic conference and completely blow their minds. The best part is that he used a technique that every person in that room already knew! In fact, the majority of those pro magicians have studied and performed it themselves for years - and were still fooled. A layperson seeing a 60 second drive-by expose on a TV show of a single implementation of one of thousands of techniques has zero impact on a good magician.
by swah | 2025-06-11 00:31:39+00:00
Also a bit sick of the iOS update...

Whats the MVP (minimum viable pixel) nowadays? Google lineup is super expensive in my country, probably zero support, so I'm afraid of investing.

I tried a (used) 6a, it was lovely (compared to my Samsung) until it wouldn't scroll while charging (a known issue) so I returned it.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-11 00:31:48+00:00
existing laws require permits, and don't let them raid elementary schools for minors and courthouses for those going through the legal process. We just "mistakenly" sent a US ciizen to a foreign country to a month, ignoring a 9-0 Supreme court order to delay the process to bring him home.

If this is action you agree with, just say so. But the books do not support this.
by JoshuaDavid | 2025-06-11 00:33:58+00:00
I suspect what's happening is that lots of people have a collection of questions / private evals that they've been testing on every new model, and when a new model comes out it sometimes can answer a question that previous models couldn't. So that selects for questions where the new model is at the edge of its capabilities and probably got lucky. But when you come up with a new question, it's generally going to be on the level of the questions the new model is newly able to solve.

Like I suspect if there was a "new" model which was best-of-256 sampling of gpt-3.5-turbo that too would seem like a really exciting model for the first little bit after it came out, because it could probably solve a lot of problems current top models struggle with (which people would notice immediately) while failing to do lots of things that are a breeze for top models (which would take people a little bit to notice).
by natrys | 2025-06-11 00:35:46+00:00
I don't mind the info dump, but I am struggling to connect the relevance of this to topic at hand. I mean, focusing on a single specific capability and generalising it to mean "they all have" caught up with DeepSeek all across the board (which was the original topic) is a reductive and wild take. Especially when it seems to me that this seems more because of misaligned incentive than because it's truly a hard problem.

I am not really invested in this niche topic but I will observe that, yes I agree Llama 4 is really good here. And yet it's a far worse coder, far less intelligent than DeepSeek and that's not even arguable. So no it didn't "catch up" any more than what you could say by pointing out Llama is multimodal but DeepSeek isn't. That's just talking about a different things entirely.

Regardless, I do agree BFCL is not the best measure either, the Tau-bench is more real world relevant. But end of the day, most frontier labs are not incentive aligned to care about this. Meta cares because this is something Zuck personally cares about, Llama models are actually for small businesses solving grunt automation, not for random people coding at home. People like Salesforce care (xLAM), even China had GLM before DeepSeek was a thing. DeepSeek might care so long as it looks good for coding benchmarks, but that's pretty much the extent of it.

And I suspect Google doesn't truly care because in the long run they want to build everything themselves. They already have a CodeAssist product around coding which likely uses fine-tune of their mainline Gemini models to do something even more specific to their plugin.

There is a possibility that at the frontier, models are struggling to be better in a specific and constrained way, without getting worse at other things. It's either this, or even Anthropic has gone rogue because their Aider scores are way down now from before. How does that make sense if they are supposed to be all around better at agentic stuff in tool agnostic way? Then you realise they now have Claude Coder and it just makes way more economic sense to tie yourself to that, be context inefficient to your heart's content so that you can burn tokens instead of being, you know, just generally better.
by lucas_membrane | 2025-06-11 00:39:14+00:00
The questions should be: If the Apollo 13 accident had happened instead during Apollo 8 while the astronauts were behind the moon, so that the mission was lost and the cause was not known, would Apollo 9, 10, and 11 been delayed past the end of the decade? Should they have been? What if the cause was known? Was the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union correct when it denied Soviet Cosmonauts the opportunity to beat Apollo 8 to the moon using a rocket that had dismally failed all its tests?

Fortune favors the bold, sometimes. Did the good luck of the preceding astronauts lead to the decision to launch a space shuttle under adverse conditions on the day Reagan was scheduled to deliver his SOTU, etc?
by cchianel | 2025-06-11 00:40:10+00:00
Related: Archipelago (https://archipelago.gg/), a framework that randomizes multiple games, across multiple clients. For example, Player A is playing Mario 64, and Player B is playing Pokemon Red. Some items from Player B's Pokemon Red (such as the Rock Smash HM) would be in Player A's Mario 64 world (for example, from collecting a Star). As a result, the two players need to coordinate and help each other progress.

Archipelago GitHub: https://github.com/ArchipelagoMW/Archipelago
by WillAdams | 2025-06-11 00:40:10+00:00
Does the recently updated (and aptly named) Lazarus not suit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913414

A quick search yielded:

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Developing_Web_Apps_with_Pascal

and

https://www.reddit.com/r/pascal/comments/es8wlh/free_pascal_...
by bcoates | 2025-06-11 00:40:25+00:00
Every once in a while I bother not ignoring a Google AI overview, then I waste some time fact-checking it and find out it's wrong. Most recently about a python library (where it hallucinated a function that doesn't exist, complete with documentation and usage examples) and breaking news (where it authoritatively said [non-culture war, non-controversial, local] thing doesn't happen, above a dog-bites-man story from a conventional news source about how thing happened again)
by lantry | 2025-06-11 00:40:39+00:00
exactly. AI won't change the underlying incentives. We can't solve the problem of "alignment" between humans, so how can we ever solve it for AI?

> Scientific progress is the biggest driver of overall progress; it’s hugely exciting to think about how much more we could have.

Does he mean "how much more we could have if our federal government wasn't actively destroying our science institutions"?
by mikaelmello | 2025-06-11 00:42:50+00:00
What I thought would be an interesting article about his life in Brazil ended up being… nothing.

Mentioning him as a “hero” in Brazil is quite an overstatement but whatever, but then the article goes on to bash and generalize Brazilians and paint him as a “rare” honest person that’s been lauded for it? I’d guess no one I know even know he lives in Brazil.

As a Brazilian, it has always been about a cool show that showed you cool new things, so he’s well known just like tons of other celebrities that grow beyond the US, and that’s it.
by alejohausner | 2025-06-11 00:44:11+00:00
I know I'm coming to the discussion late, but actually there is good evidence that improvements in nutrition, working conditions, and sanitation are a big factor in improving resistance to infectious diseases.

Look at "The Questionable Contribution of Medical Measures to the Decline of Mortality in the United States in the Twentieth Century", by Mckinlay and McKinley (1977). I know it's an old paper, but it has some fascinating and, to me, very persuasive time series. Those plots show mortality from various infectious diseases over the 20th century.

Example: death rates (per 1000) from scarlet fever dropped from 0.1 in 1900 to effectively 0 in 1940. There is NO VACCINE for scarlet fever.

Example: death rates from measles (lately very much in the news) dropped from 0.12 in 1900 to 0 in 1960 (a vaccine for measles was introduced in 1960).

A similar trend exists for many other infectious diseases: huge drops in mortality PRECEDE the introduction of vaccines or antibiotics for the disease. Surely we can't credit vaccines with such a drop in death rates. I don't see how anybody could come to such a conclusion.
by boothby | 2025-06-11 00:44:14+00:00
> These days, I find that I am using multiple search engines and often resort to using an LLM to help me find content.

For a few months, I've been wondering: how long until advertisers get their grubby meathooks into the training data? It's trivial to add prompts encouraging product placement, but I would be completely shocked if the big players don't sell out within a year or two, and start biasing the models themselves in this way, if they haven't already.
by brailsafe | 2025-06-11 00:44:39+00:00
There's a few that come to mind, but none that feel actually as daunting intellectually as much as they are qualified by other factors.

I'd like to go from indoor bouldering to rock climbing, but coordinating with a belayer doesn't seem super interesting and otherwise it's just a matter of expense, gear, and a slight pivot in my leisure time to start going at it.

Otherwise, the skill that seems most out of reach is keeping a job for longer than a year. I'm in a decent spot now, after a year and a half prior of being unemployed, and I feel like this might be my last real shot at a career of any kind. Other people seem to handle it fine, but this is the thing that seems most out of reach. Unlike engineering problems that are made up of abstractions with ways to break them down and piece together systems, keeping a job is as opaque of an abstraction as I'm aware of, that doesn't necessarily depend on a measurable skill or even on anything within one's control. I've never once felt stability or been able to bet on money coming in next year, and if I had the money for a mortgage, I'd be stopped by the knowledge I can't count on an income flow at any time in the future. I'm thankful for what I have and what I've learned nonetheless.
by Compzilla | 2025-06-11 00:45:35+00:00
Yes! I would love to hear someone explain to me how they justified buying such an overvalued piece of real estate. How they allowed themselves to enter into a bidding war for a condominium. I mean this type of real estate is the most vulnerable to volatility, even in SF. If condos aren't risky enough, what about tenancies in common (yikes). SFHs are going to be much more stable of course.
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by ksec | 2025-06-11 00:47:06+00:00
>According to Interop 2024,

On paper yes. And that is after all these improvements. It still have more issues than others.

>Feature that Safari shipped before Firefox and Chrome [1]

Yes. I know all of them. But doesn't mean compatibility is close to perfect. And I am being specific about working in both browser and not just Chrome. Although Safari 18 is the one that has less issues so far. May be Safari 26 will reach the point where it is good enough compatibility wise. May be that is also what Apple feels that is why they have web compatibility button.

>Show all tabs [3]

That is Tab Overview and not a List of Tabs. Tab Overview will reload all tabs which means if you have hundreds if not thousands like some Firefox user, it would create paging issues and kill your SSD.
by mlsu | 2025-06-11 00:47:23+00:00
For this, what takes a while is to just tinker and fry components several times. Get a breadboard, get several sensors, try to design something and iterate on your design. Plan to fry sensors and IC's. Also helps to read some basic electrical theory and know what the role of different components are.

The way I got proficient is with hobbyist PCB design. What helped me is starting with schematics and datasheets and planning to finish with an assembled board. I started designing PCB's and having them assembled with JLCPCB (quite cheap: $20 or so for a run of 5 boards; $120-$150 fully assembled). I fried 2 boards before the 3rd rev booted up, then from there it's optimization. I consider the $200/mo or so in PCBA, whether boards work or not, to be my "EE education" -- cost efficient compared to university fees! And $200 is sort of like the "exam," it's costly enough to make me really think twice about component selection/placement/etc.

Not saying that's the approach you want to take because that might be hardcore / not someplace you want to get to. But I spent a long long time really wondering how electricity really works and like why you need capacitors, inductors, op-amps, etc. It never made sense to me until I created my own schematic, chose my own parts, and understood why I chose the parts I did and connected them the way I did.
by bruce511 | 2025-06-11 00:48:21+00:00
Your point is not wrong, but I'd clarify a couple things;

The primary cost of a traditional plant is fuel. However a nuclear plant needs a tad more (qualified) oversight than a coal plant.

In the same way that the navy has specialists for running nuclear propulsion systems versus crew needed for diesel engines. Not surprisingly nuclear engines cost "more than fuel".

That cost may end up being insignificant in the long run, but cost is not zero. And shortages of staff would matter (like it does with ATC at the moment.)

Construction cost should be much lower than it is, but I don't think it'll be as cheap as say coal or diesel. The nature of the fuel would always require some extras, if only because the penalty-for-failure is so high. There's a difference between a coal-plant catastrophe and Chernobyl.

So there are costs gor running nuclear, I don't think it necessarily gets "too cheap to measure".
by rglover | 2025-06-11 00:49:33+00:00
> it increasingly feels like there’s some kind of disconnect with the real world that’s hard to put my finger on

My take: echo chambers have become mainstream (ironically, aided by technology). Typically that's online for most people, but in SF, it's a physical echo chamber, too.

That echo chamber allows large numbers of people (coincidentally, the people shepherding a lot of the technology) to rationalize any position they come up with and fall into a semi-permanent state of cognitive dissonance ("of course my technological solution is the solution").

If other people are saying the same thing nearly everywhere you look, who's to say those who disagree are actually the correct ones?
by cco | 2025-06-11 00:49:38+00:00
Hah, this is great. So many amazing use cases are being hidden behind walls.

I love my Meta Ray Bans but frankly Llama is not best in class and it also isn't plugged into the rest of my data, phone, etc. I know they won't, but I wish Facebook would let us choose which AI model we wanted.

Frustratingly they of course work as bluetooth input, so if you manually trigger a conversation with ChatGPT you can chat away with it via your Ray Bans of course.
by xmprt | 2025-06-11 00:50:03+00:00
Using KV in the caching context is a bit confusing because it usually means key-value in the storage sense of the word (like Redis), but for LLMs, it means the key and value tensors. So IIUC, the cache will store the results of the K and V matrix multiplications for a given prompt and the only computation that needs to be done is the Q and attention calculations.
by devnullchild | 2025-06-11 00:50:53+00:00
I think you’re right — IDEs were about integrating multiple static tools.

But what we’re seeing now isn’t integration. It’s something else — maybe aintegration.

These systems don’t just expose tools. They suggest, explain, refactor. Sometimes they guess what I meant before I finish typing.

A linter flags an issue. An AIDE rewrites the function. A debugger shows state. An AIDE offers a fix.

Feels like a shift in the interaction model — from interface to agent.