MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by renewiltord | 2025-06-19 23:24:50+00:00
Jesus, this is why online commentary is impossible to read. It's always full of so many caveats I can't get through to the meat of what someone is saying. "I don't know if what I'm saying is right but I think that it probably is. With that caveat, here's a thought that may or may not reflect reality but is my current model to predict certain things. $THOUGHT. Given that I have said that, I have to confess to not living my life entirely by that maxim. I may not have captured all angles to this."

Thankfully, the rationalists just state their ideas and you're free to use their models properly. It's like people haven't written code at all. Just putting repeated logging all through the codebase with null checks everywhere. Just say the thing. That suffices. Conciseness rules over caveating.

Human LLMs who use idea expansion. Insufferable.

Of course that is only my opinion and I may not have captured all angles to why people are doing that. They may have reasons of their own to do that and I don't mean to say that there can never be any reasons. No animals were harmed in the manufacture of this comment to my knowledge. However, I did eat meat this afternoon which could or could not be the source of the energy required to type this comment and the reader may or may not have calorie attribution systems that do or do not allocate this comment to animal harm.
by biomcgary | 2025-06-19 23:25:05+00:00
To me, the non-local focus of EA/rationalism is, at least partially, a consequence of their historically unusual epistemology.

In college, I became a scale-dependent realist, which is to say, that I'm most confident of theories / knowledge in the 1-meter, 1-day, 1 m/s scales and increasingly skeptical of our understanding of things that are bigger/smaller, have longer/short timeframes, or faster velocities. Maybe there is a technical name for my position? But, it is mostly a skepticism about nearly unlimited extrapolation using brains that evolved under selection for reproduction at a certain scale. My position is not that we can't compute at different scales, but that we can't understand at other scales.

In practice, the rationalists appear to invert their confidence, with more confidence in quarks and light-years than daily experience.
by simba-k | 2025-06-19 23:25:40+00:00
Yeah, think of it as a data analyst. If I give you a Postgres account with all of our tables in it, you wouldn't even know when to start and would spend tons of time just running queries to figure out what you were looking at.

If I explain the semantic graph, entities, relationships, etc. with proper documentations and descriptions you'd be able to reason about it much faster and more accurately.

A postgres schema might have the data type and a name and a table name vs. all the rich metadata that would be required in EnrichMCP.
by echelon | 2025-06-19 23:25:43+00:00
> If it contains the copyrighted material, copyright laws apply.

Not so fast! That hasn't been tested in court or given any sort of recommendation by any of the relevant IP bodies.

And to play devil's advocate here: your brain also contains an enormous amount of copyrighted content. I'm glad the lawyers aren't lobotomizing us and demanding licensing fees on our memories.

I'm pretty sure if you asked me to sit under an MRI and recall scenes from movies like "Jurassic Park", my visual cortex would reconstruct scenes with some amount of fidelity to the original. I shouldn't owe that to Universal. (In a perfect world, they would owe me for imprinting and storing their memetic information in my mind. Ad companies and brands should for sure.)

If I say, "One small step for man", I'm pretty confident that the lot of you would remember Armstrong's exact voice, the exact noise profile of the recording, with the precise equipment beeps. With almost exacting recall.

I'm also pretty sure your brains can remember a ginormous amount of music. I know I can. And when I'm given a prediction task (eg. listening to a song I already know), I absolutely know what's coming before it hits.
by danpalmer | 2025-06-19 23:25:57+00:00
Exactly, there are a lot of comparisons that aren't apples to apples. If you're comparing kubernetes to a fixed size pool of resources running a fixed set of applications each with their own fixed resources, who cares? That's not how most deployments today.

One could make the argument that deployments today that necessitate K8s are too complex, I think there's a more convincing argument there, but my previous company was extremely risk averse in architecture (no resumé driven development) and eventually moved on to K8s, and systems at my current company often end up being way simpler than anyone would expect, but at scale, the coordination without a K8s equivalent would be too much work.
by cyberax | 2025-06-19 23:26:22+00:00
Service accounts are _close_ to what I want, but not quite. They are not quite seamless enough for service-to-service calls.

> I am not aware of any reason why you couldn't connect directly to any Pod, which necessarily includes the kube-apiserver's Pod, from your workstation except for your own company's networking policies

I don't think I can create a pod with EKS that doesn't have any private network?
by akdor1154 | 2025-06-19 23:26:24+00:00
I think the yaml / HCL and package system overlap..

I wouldnt so much go HCL as something like JSONnet, Pkl, Dhall, or even (inspiration not recommendation) Nix - we need something that allows a schema for powering an LSP, with enough expressitivity to void the need for Helm's templating monstrosity, and ideally with the ability for users to override things that library/package authors haven't provided explicit hooks for.

Does that exist yet? Probably not, but the above languages are starting to approach it.
by jonplackett | 2025-06-19 23:26:43+00:00
I don’t think it’s that simple.

Last I remember, whether it is ‘transformative’ is what’s important.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_use

Eg. Google got away with ‘transforming’ books with Google books.

https://www.sgrlaw.com/google-books-fair-transformative-use/
by simba-k | 2025-06-19 23:26:59+00:00
Yeah to restricted read, still a lot of API work to do here and we're a bit blocked by MCP itself changing its auth spec (was just republished yesterday).

If you use the lower-level enrichMCP API (without SQLAlchemy) you can fully control all retrieval logic and add things like rate limiting, not dissimilar to how you'd solve this problem with a traditional API.
by jchrisa | 2025-06-19 23:27:11+00:00
The generation is running while you login, so this appreciable decreases wait time from idea to app, because by the time you click through the login, your app is ready. (Vibes DIY CEO here.)

If login takes 30 seconds, and app gen 90, we think this is better for users (but clearly not everyone agrees.) Thanks for the feedback!
by androng | 2025-06-19 23:27:50+00:00
I think the way the friction could be reduced to almost zero was through OpenAI "custom GPTs" https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8554397-creating-a-gpt or "Alexa skills". how much easier can it get than the user using their own OpenAI account? Of course I'd rather have them on my own website but if were talking complete ease of use then I think that is a contender
by egypturnash | 2025-06-19 23:28:32+00:00
This person is having a very very different experience of gender transition than I am. Transes are "immune to optical illusions?" WTF?

They might just be looking for proof that the hormones are Doing Something a lot harder than I do after twenty-something years on them. I sure was looking for that for a while when I started. But this whole post really just reminds me of the time I got some acid that had completely evaporated by the time it got to me (if it had ever been any good in the first place) and I sat there trying to convince myself I was about to start tripping any second now.

It's certainly had an effect on me or I wouldn't have bothered with the hassle and expense of continuing to acquire and take it for more than two decades but I'm sure not seeing more colors or "changing the balance between entropy and harmony" in my awareness of the world around me. My general happiness level has changed for the better. shrug

(I'm also an artist, I was one long before the transition, so maybe I just, like, paid more attention to color and shapes in the first place, who knows.)

The estrogen-to-witch pipeline is however a real thing.
by gjm11 | 2025-06-19 23:28:33+00:00
The term "catholic", meaning universal, was used very early. It wasn't used to distinguish the entity now often called the Catholic Church from other Christian groups, so far as I know, until much later.

I agree that some Christian groups have not-so-tendentious names, including "Protestant", "Anglican", "Episcopalian" and "Lutheran". (Though to my mind "Anglican" carries a certain implication of being the church for English people, and the Episcopalians aren't the only people with bishops any more than the Baptists are the only people who baptize.)

"Pentecostal" seems to me to be in (though not a central example of) the applause-light-name category. "We are the ones who are really filled with the Holy Spirit like in the Pentecost story in the Book of Acts".

"Gospel" and "Evangelical" are absolutely applause-light names. "Our group, unlike all those others, embodies the Good News" or "Our group, unlike all those others, is faithful to the Gospels". (The terms are kinda ambiguous between those two interpretations but either way these are we-are-the-best-rah-rah-rah names.)

Anyway, I didn't mean to claim that literally every movement's name is like this. Only that many many many movements' names are.
by radicalriddler | 2025-06-19 23:28:38+00:00
I think about it like this...

Fundamentally, I believe it's how they want to be treated culturally, but in our society, we tie gender and sex so closely together, that to be treated the way you want to be treated culturally in society, you need to change some of the sex based features you have.

In a better society, a medical approach wouldn't be needed. In our society, we _should_ accept that it is.

That's my opinion, and it's a pretty weakly held opinion, someone could dissuade me from it.
by karaterobot | 2025-06-19 23:28:51+00:00
Where in the article do the authors say this puts anything to rest? Here is their conclusion:

> Our results complicate current disputes over copyright infringement, both by rejecting easy claims made by both sides about how models work and by demonstrating that there is no single answer to the question of how much a model memorizes

I wonder if this is the sort of article that people will claim supports their side, even that it ends the debate without a knockout blow to the other side, when the actual article itself isn't making any such claim.

I'm sure you read the entire article before commenting, but I would strongly recommend everyone else does as well.
by nyanpasu64 | 2025-06-19 23:29:17+00:00
I think that trans people, being the ones with firsthand experience of dysphoria and misgendering, and being a disadvantaged minority (https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/sustainable-inclu...) threatened by right-wing rhetoric, should be the ones to speak for what is right for them ("nothing about us without us"), individually and as a group.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-06-19 23:29:19+00:00
99% of effective altruists and rationalists agree that you shouldn't hurt people as part of some complicated scheme to do good. For example, here is eliezer yudkowsky in 2008 saying exactly that, and explaining why it's true: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K9ZaZXDnL3SEmYZqB/ends-don-t...
by eru | 2025-06-19 23:29:38+00:00
And food is now in such abundance (at least in the western world) that we don't spend much effort on it, either. Or at least, if you only care about energy and nutrition, you can get it for really cheap. If you want something tastier, you can pay more. Exactly the same with drinks.

You could argue that water being so cheap is exactly what you'd expect when the surplus value of water production is sky-high: people only spend a fraction of their income on both food and water production, exactly because the surplus is so high.

Thus if water isn't the basis for all our livelihoods, neither is food production these days.
by tialaramex | 2025-06-19 23:29:54+00:00
Sure, although in this space Thomas was already entirely happy with the early Web PKI which is completely terrible for this - similar conditions apply.

At work this week I was hand-holding a DB engineer who was installing some (corporate, not Web PKI) certs and it reminded me of those bad old days. He's got a "certificate" and because this isn't my first rodeo, I ask him to describe it in more details before he just sends me it to look at. Of course it's actually a PKCS#12 file, and so if he'd sent that the key which is inside it is compromised - but he doesn't know that, the whole system was introduced to him as a black box which renders him unable to make good decisions. Out of that conversation we got more secure systems (fixing some issues that pre-existed the fault I was there to help with) and an ally who understands what the technology is actually for and is now trying to help us deliver its benefits rather than just following rote instructions they don't understand.

Anyway, just as we went from "I dunno, I clicked a button and typed in the company credit card details, then I got emailed this PFX file to put on the server" to "Click yes when it asks if you want Let's Encrypt" with both an invisible improvement to delivered security and a simpler workflow, that's very much possible for DNSSEC if people who want to solve the problem put some work in, rather than contentedly announcing that it can't be fixed and we shouldn't worry about it.
by iscoelho | 2025-06-19 23:30:02+00:00
How about another incident in 2022? Attackers BGP hijacked a dependency hosting a JS file, generated a rogue TLS certificate, and stole $2 million. Keep in mind: these are incidents we know about, not including incidents that went undetected.

https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2022/03/09/attackers-exploit...

Noteworthy: "Additionally, some BGP attacks can still fool all of a CA’s vantage points. To reduce the impact of BGP attacks, we need security improvements in the routing infrastructure as well. In the short term, deployed routing technologies like the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) could significantly limit the spread of BGP attacks and make them much less likely to be successful. ... In the long run, we need a much more secure underlying routing layer for the Internet."
by sien | 2025-06-19 23:30:29+00:00
FCB are the anomaly.

If you compare HSV to Hertha, Koln, Eintracht, Schalke, Werder and others HSV looks fairly normal.

Perhaps in a league if one team succeeds and builds solid foundations it has a tendency to keep ahead. Added to that in Germany it's so much harder for outside money to come in and build a team. Leipzig have done it, but just look at how fans think of them.

If you look at in England, without the external money teams of Manchester City and Chelsea a few big teams that have been dominating for decades would have continued their run. Admittedly there it would have been a big three of Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United though.
by nickzelei | 2025-06-19 23:31:27+00:00
Maybe you would be the person to answer this. Back in 1.6 it was common to install amxmodx for use as admin software in game. There was a function in one of the menus that would open up a players disc drive on their PC! I was an admin on a wc3 fun server back in the day and would do it to people for fun. Too young at the time to ever think more about how that was actually done or what security vulnerability that must have been exploiting! I always wondered how it was done.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-06-19 23:32:11+00:00
Shareholders who delegate spending decisions to their proxy who delegate spending decisions to the c-suite, who delegate spending decisions to the managers, who delegate spending decisions to individuals, who can and do delegate spending decisions to automated systems when it is in the interest of the shareholders.

I don't have free access to all of the capital in my employer's control, nor does anyone in the entire org. But I do have the ability to, for example, decide to turn on auto-scaling on the apps I'm in charge of without having to hold a shareholder vote about the issue.
by yawnxyz | 2025-06-19 23:32:25+00:00
the project isn't AI at all, but the writeup is definitely AI. It overuses clickbait / hijacking / hook patterns that makes it really jarring:

- poses a lot of questions: "Me? I turned mine into a server that saves me money" / "Could I have just run this on my Mac like a normal person? Absolutely. But where’s the fun in that?" - it's not just X, it's Y: "it’s not just dumping power into devices; it’s managing charging curves properly" - creates scenarios and juxtapositions: "The workflow is beautifully simple: My image processing service sends images to the phone for OCR processing using Apple’s Vision framework. The phone processes the text, sends it back, and updates its dashboard with processing stats. All while I watch birds outside my window and feel smug about my setup."

I think this kind of writing borrows from twitter threads and youtube videos. I think we're going to be so sick of these patterns soon. And also, I don't think this is necessarily what the LLMs do natively, I think it might just come from bad RLHFs
by userulluipeste | 2025-06-19 23:32:55+00:00
Cyril and Methodius were in fact Greek Christians, baptized as Constantine and Michael. They only later adopted monk names that they are ultimately remembered as. Now, considering that the Byzantines (or "Eastern Romans") were in conflict with Slavs since long before the brothers were born, it's unlikely for their family to be of Slavic background and at the same time for their father to be in a prominent military position (droungarios).

The script that came to be known as Cyrilic was developed by Cyril and Methodius' followers, after they were exiled from Great Moravia (by the bishop that replaced Methodius), so it's safe to assume that those in that group were not Bulgarians either.
by darthwalsh | 2025-06-19 23:33:41+00:00
> termux

I was excited about termux until about 3 years ago, when I saw that the app needed to be compiled against an ancient Android API version. Google seems indifferent to bricking this project... Today it's still breaking Fdroid updates:

https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/4120#issuecommen...
by antonfire | 2025-06-19 23:33:51+00:00
Kind of a tangent, but I think the cultural/social side is bigger and messier than your questions suggest, and I think boiling this down to "biological vs cultural" misses that.

> If gender is a social construct, is identifying as transgender the result of feeling pressure to conform to a cookie-cutter definition of what someone with male/female parts is meant to be like?

I suspect "identifying as" cisgender is the outcome of this kind of cookie-cutter pressure to much the same degree, if not more. This tends to go unnoticed even in conversations where people are directly engaging with the ideas. (Even though that's part of what "gender is a social construct" is meant to suggest.)

A rhetorical question for cis people: to what degree do you feel your cisgenderness is a result of feeling pressure to conform to a cookie-cutter definition of what someone with male/female parts is meant to be like? I suspect there's more meat to genuinely unpacking this than you might think. Trans people's answers to this might not be that different from cis people's.

"It's a social construct" is an invitation to peek behind (or at least recognize) an abstraction; but it's just a peek into a quite complex story.

"Social construct" doesn't necessarily mean something to rise above, or to dismantle, or to deny. Money is a social construct. Human rights are a social construct. Friendship is a social construct. Sure, one can usefully imagine oneself "above" those things at times, but it's unclear whether aspiring to that is a good idea, and realistically most people won't attain it even if they do. Culturally we must find some relationship to those things anyway, we cannot ignore them.

As I see it, gender is an aspect of a messy evolving cultural system. Yes, the concept of "transgender" is part of that system, though it certainly doesn't fit into that system in quite the same way as "man" and "woman". Trans people tend to challenge or pressure many aspects of this system in some ways that cis people tend not to, but that's not the same thing as denying the system in whole. (Some people do see "gender abolition" as an aspirational ideal; many don't.)

Broadly, I think "is being transgender also just a social construct that can and maybe should be addressed by loosening up our tight expectations for gender roles" vastly underestimates the scope and scale of this cultural system, the degree to which it's tangled up in our lives, and the difficulty of untangling it.
by akomtu | 2025-06-19 23:34:40+00:00
Sounds like they hear only themselves? There is a common type of sophisticated thinkers who have trained their intellectual muscle to a remarkable degree and got stuck there, refusing to see that intellect isn't the capstone of life. Their mind, ears and mouth quickly form a closed loop that makes them hear only what they themselves say. When this loop strengthens, this thinker becomes a dogmatic cult leader with a sophisticated, but dimly lit inner world that can, nevertheless impress smaller minds. Such inner worlds are always like mazes, with lots of rooms and corridors, all dimly lit, without exits and with their impressively developed mind roaming along these corridors like the Minotaur.
by flir | 2025-06-19 23:34:46+00:00
Size of LLM: <64Gb.

Size of training data: fuck knows, but The Pile alone is 880Gb. Public github's gonna be measured in Tb. A Common Crawl is about 250Tb.

There's physically not enough space in there to store everything it was trained on. The vast majority of the text the chatbot was exposed to cannot be pulled out of it, as this paper makes clear.

I'm guessing that the cases where great lumps of copyright text can be extracted verbatim are down to repetition in the training data? There's probably a simple fix for that.

(I'm only talking about training here. The initial acquisition of the data clearly involved massive copyright infringement).
by lmm | 2025-06-19 23:34:47+00:00
> It has swung, and they are already paying the price. That's the question.

Yes and no. It's polarised, far too polarised. I hope we can deescalate and reach some reasonable middle ground. But that's going to require a lot of concessions from the left that I don't see any hint of willingness to make.

> it's worse than that, as people in the USA are currently facing removal for writing things on the internet which are theoretically constitutionally protected free speech.

Meh, that's a big nothingburger. Noncitizens have never had constitutional rights or at least not for decades. I don't like it but let's not pretend this is some radical change.
by pas | 2025-06-19 23:36:38+00:00
k8s could provide a strongly-typed DSL, like cdk8s+

it's okay to be declarative (the foundation layer), but people usually think in terms of operations (deploy this, install that, upgrade this, assign some vhost, filter that, etc.)

and even for the declarative stuff, a builder pattern works well, it can be super convenient, sufficient terse, and typed, and easily composed (and assembled via normál languages, not templates)

...

well. anyway. maybe by the time k8s2 rolls around Go will have at least normal error handling.