MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by zuzuleinen | 2025-06-02 16:46:29+00:00
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by mbStavola | 2025-06-02 16:46:30+00:00
I seriously hate the supposed "tells" for LLM writing. Can't use delve, em dash is suspect, never get a fact wrong, and God forbid your sentence structure is more complex than what a 3rd grader is capable of.

I think we're well beyond the point where the majority of people cannot tell what is actually produced by an LLM and we're convincing ourselves we still have a handle on the situation. A lot of these rules are completely arbitrary and vary from person to person.
by freedomben | 2025-06-02 16:47:00+00:00
Indeed. It's because of this that I have serious concerns about what "AI" is doing to our writing. My son has been flagged for using "AI" in writing his papers because it sounded "too good." But, I know he wrote it. I've run into the same issue where people have suggested something I wrote was AI because of certain vocabulary words that I've used. The only "defense" against this is to write a little bit shitty, because then there is no suspicion. If everybody starts doing that, especially in academic settings, that's a road to serious sadness IMHO.
by fmajid | 2025-06-02 16:47:12+00:00
What I really liked about The Acolyte is that it showed how evil the Jedi really are behind their holier-than-thou propaganda.

Whoever governs really should implement a R&D program to eradicate the midi-chlorian infestation and rid the galaxy of the scourge of both Jedi and Sith in one fell swoop.
by kentonv | 2025-06-02 16:47:21+00:00
I think there's a huge huge space of software to build that isn't being touched today because it's not cost-effective to have an engineer build them.

But if the time it takes an engineer to build any one thing goes down, now there are a lot more things that are cost effective.

Consider niche use cases. Every company tends to have custom processes and workflows. Think about being an accountant at one company vs. another -- while a lot of the job is the same, there will always be parts that are significantly different. Those bespoke processes often involve manual labor because off-the-shelf accounting software cannot add custom features for every company.

But what if it could? What if an engineer working with AI could knock out customer-specific features 10x as fast as they could in the past. Now it actually makes sense to build those features, to improve the productivity of each company's accounting department.

It's hard to say if demand for engineers will go down or up. I'm not pretending to know for sure. But I can see a possibility that we actually have way more developers in coming years!
by MarcelOlsz | 2025-06-02 16:47:25+00:00
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by arscan | 2025-06-02 16:47:36+00:00
FWIW, the 19th century style dataset this is trained on doesn't seem to have any examples of delve [1], with the exception of:

> It was into that bank that the creature had worked its way, and on listening I could hear it delving and scraping at a great rate, about a yard from the back of the wall.

I bring that up to point out that this isn't necessarily (more) common in the 19th century style print literature, so the observation might not be silly. The model creating the modern synthetic version injected 'delve' 9 times, which implies that it is more frequently used in modern literature or just something that models tend to inject. Though, I could be missing something (either in searching the data set, or how this works).

[1] https://huggingface.co/datasets/dleemiller/irish_penny_journ...
by ericmay | 2025-06-02 16:47:54+00:00
Andrew - the United States itself has a limited number of Patriot missile batteries and missiles available. The United States has been deploying more and more missile defense assets, including Patriot missile launchers and/or missiles, to the Asia Pacific region (Japan, Guam, Philippines, etc.) because of the very real possibility of a direct war with China over Taiwan.

The reason the United States is asking allies in Europe to relocate their Patriot missile batteries to Ukraine is because Ukraine has an immediate defensive need. The countries that are not the United States and not in the Pacific don't have an immediate need for these missile batteries. Either they get them from a US NATO ally (under the US security guarantee) or they don't get them at all - dealer's choice. If the US "abandoned Ukraine" or policy somehow fundamentally shifted, we wouldn't see things like this take place.

The United States has to facilitate the movement of materials and equipment like this because the US is the country that actually has the power to defend NATO allies (France, UK, Poland, etc. can as well but they need the US) so it's up to the US to understand global security needs and make determinations of where assets can be moved or repurposed. In this sense, the US is sending the Patriot launchers to Ukraine.

The person responding to me was making baseless claims about the US withdrawing support. I don't think anything has fundamentally changed. You can read responses for yourself where people state things like the US stopped intelligence sharing which isn't true.

If you want to make a claim that my post is nonsense and my citation, which was just a simple example in a reply to someone who didn't provide any citations of their own, was "half-assed" why don't you bring your own original thoughts and citations and articles and we can discuss them instead of just pointlessly criticizing the character of what I wrote instead of what I actually wrote?
by jrm4 | 2025-06-02 16:47:55+00:00
I see this both ways; and the answer is obviously supply and demand, but it's not hard to think that the tech shouldn't be like 5 bucks a pop; e.g. if it became more popular to also use these as displays etc, in much the same way that big screen tvs are used to do menus at fast food places, etc.
by schmookeeg | 2025-06-02 16:48:01+00:00
I have traded within a quite tight comp band for my entire 30 year tech career. I am useful in general. I have been valued by being offered "promotions" and "strategic instead of tactical" positions, but I always chafe.

I enjoy the work. I enjoy solving specific problems in tech.

I do not enjoy the "business" of tech and have no interest in any of it.

I definitely have inadequate drive to grow a business and make others wealthy, even if I get a few crumbs.

For me, contracting is the perfect match. I don't need to get involved in your politics, I just need to eat jira tickets. Realiably and well. When there are none to eat, I can go do my own things.

I would need to care a LOT more about the business and dollars to excel at it, and lately I lean in the opposite direction. I see nothing wrong with simply being comfortable and useful. We have it good that we can make this choice.

$0.02 :)
by ta12653421 | 2025-06-02 16:48:04+00:00
Thanks for the question:

Not really in the field of trading, rather prediction-based approaches etc.; Im not sure if LLM could be of any use here? The approaches based on statistical arbitrage are purely math/number models. from my own experience, LLM are absolutely useless when it comes to "trading ideas" (I use them for code generation, instead), this is because they are dicing together values in their output which are not really related, because of their hallucis.

Also, for fundamental analysis they are too often incorrect - so running an auto-approach based on LLM-fundamental output would be an "interesting" idea :))
by mbessette | 2025-06-02 16:48:42+00:00
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by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-06-02 16:50:12+00:00
There were definitely people "at the top" who were essentially arguing that more scale would get you to AGI - Ilya Sutskever of OpenAI comes to mind (e.g. "next-token prediction is enough for AGI").

There were definitely many other prominent researchers who vehemently disagreed, e.g. Yann LeCun. But it's very hard for a layperson (or, for that matter, another expert) to determine who is or would be "right" in this situation - most of these people have strong personalities to put it mildly, and they often have vested interests in pushing their preferred approach and view of how AI does/should work.
by marcosdumay | 2025-06-02 16:50:59+00:00
Hum... I haven't checked on the last 3 or so years. But last time I was out to buy one, I couldn't find anything with a screen as good as the one I brought 5 years earlier. And most had severe software constraints.

And I've never seen anything on the market that even competes with my first reader that I brought around 2010.

Those things seem to be getting constantly more expensive, with the "cheapest price" being maintained by launching smaller models. All while constantly getting lower contrasts and less oriented towards offline usage.
by zfnmxt | 2025-06-02 16:51:05+00:00
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by blululu | 2025-06-02 16:51:19+00:00
Not sure this is true. Most of the famous Irish writers were Anglo-Irish Protestants (Yeats, Wilde, Swift, Beckett). Joyce is the notable exception here. The Irish certainly produce great cultural works of the English language (well beyond their size). But also the penal laws greatly depressed the cultural output of the Irish people for 250 years.
by vannevar | 2025-06-02 16:51:25+00:00
>There is a reason I pointed out that it doesn’t stop harassment, because it disproves the contention that anonymity is the causal force for harassment.

I agree, of course, that anonymity doesn't cause harassment. The vast majority of anonymous users do not harass other users. But anonymity does facilitate harassment and bullying, by making it difficult to punish the behavior.

>I am taking great pains to separate out misinfo from bullying / harassment.

I agree that they are conceptually separate things, though there can be overlap in practice. I suspect that people who harass others also tend to spread misinformation, since often online harassment is based on bigotry, which goes hand-in-hand with ignorance and misinformation.

Verification doesn't make the problem of identifying misinformation easier, it only permits removal of the sources when it is identified. But the online environment would still be greatly improved if it became easier to remove obviously inaccurate material. And for less-clear situations, debunking would be more incentivized if it resulted in removal and not an endless game of anonymous whack-a-mole.

I think the future of online communities is going to trend towards smaller, verified groups. There will still be open platforms where everyone can be anonymous and interact with everyone else---like a giant masquerade party---but digital "home" will be among a known community.
by username223 | 2025-06-02 16:51:39+00:00
> 30 kids in a class is still insane.

It's also what happens when you can only hire that many teachers.

> The top level kids can be ignored as not-a-problem(giving up the chance to make little einsteins). The mid tier kids dont get the help they need to elevate; and so teachers are burnt out attempting to make failing kids try to pass. Everyone is lost.

I've been there, teaching programming at a decent university, and it's basically triage. The top students will indeed take care of themselves, and the bottom ones are beyond help. Your job is to encourage the top when you can, but mostly to teach the middle, and help those at risk of falling into the bottom. It's grim, but it's the best you can do.
by dsjoerg | 2025-06-02 16:52:42+00:00
> a relatively hostile setup without even local admin rights

Taking a diversion into this -- how about local admin rights to a virtual VM / sandboxed machine? I imagine that would allow developers to be productive, while protecting everything that IT wants to protect.

Once you do that, I imagine everyone will discover the issue isn't actually _local_ admin rights, but having admin rights to a machine that's on the internal network and can access internal company resources. Which might mean that IT has taken a strategy that once you're inside the local network, you have access to lots of valuable goodies. Which is a scary strategy.
by disqard | 2025-06-02 16:53:17+00:00
Great point! And also an uncomfortable truth: this sort of use (to replace human jobs) will be a net negative on GDP. That secretary will now have to make do with a lot less money, so they'll make fewer/cheaper purchases, etc.

However, the "number go up" crowd doesn't give a fuck about the secretaries -- so they will chant "AI! AI! AI!" to juice the stock and make out like bandits, while they still can.
by ridicter | 2025-06-02 16:53:22+00:00
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by kentonv | 2025-06-02 16:53:24+00:00
That's weird! It must be due to a history rewrite I did later on to clean up the repo, removing some files that weren't really part of the project. I didn't realize when I first started the experiment that we'd actually end up releasing the code so I had to go back and clean it up later. I am surprised though that this messed up the timestamps -- usually rebases retain timestamps. I think I used `git filter-branch`, though. Maybe that doesn't retain timestamps.
by kstrauser | 2025-06-02 16:53:38+00:00
Same for me. Huh, I'd never corrolated that with hand size, but that's plausible.

For me, I took piano lessons long before I ever touched a typewriter or computer keyboard. With piano, you have to move your entire hand to get to where the keys physically are. I guess it never occurred to me to keep my hands in one place on a computer keyboard.
by Suppafly | 2025-06-02 16:53:43+00:00
>So, in this view, 0.3 or 0.333... are not numbers in the proper sense, they're just a convenient notation for 3/10 and 1/3 respectively. And there simply is no number whose notation would be 0.999..., it's just an abuse of the decimal notation.

I wonder if students from Romania are hamstrung in more advanced mathematics from being taught this way.