MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codeguro | 2025-06-28 12:01:50+00:00
>why didn't they rule in favor of executive authority when President Biden he tried to forgive student loan debt and a Federal Judge in Texas deemed it "unlawful"?

Because it is unlawful. Student loan forgiveness is not an entitlement. College isn’t an entitlement. These are the facts. Moreover, college is a privilege, and it’s a choice, and at its core it is an investment into your future. Having the government forgive it implies the taxpayer will pay for it. That means that essentially people who chose _not_ to go to college, by their own choice or due to their own circumstances, now have to pay for the investments of the people who chose to go. College educated people tend to make much more money too, so in essence you’ll literally be taking money from the less privileged and giving it to the more/rich. And this would be done by force. In what way would that be lawful? Why would others have to pay for your personal investments? You took out a loan, you pay it off. Leave everyone else out of it.
by diggan | 2025-06-28 12:02:15+00:00
> Llama (v4 notwithstanding) and Gemma (particularly v3) aren't my idea of lagging far behind...

While neat and of course Llama kicked off a large part of the ecosystem, so credit where credit is due, both of those suffer from "open-but-not-quite" as they have large documents of "Acceptable Use" which outlines what you can and cannot do with the weights, while the Chinese counter-parts slap a FOSS-compatible license on the weights and calls it a day.

We could argue if that's the best approach, or even legal considering the (probable) origin of their training data, but the end result remains the same, Chinese companies are doing FOSS releases and American companies are doing something more similar to BSL/hybrid-open releases.

It should tell you something when the legal department of one of these companies calls the model+weights "proprietary" while their marketing department continues to calling the same model+weights "open source". I know who I trust of those two to be more accurate.

I guess that's why I see American companies as being further behind, even though they do release something.
by guappa | 2025-06-28 12:03:55+00:00
But not that deep… because if 99.999% of the people can't afford a surgeon we will just have fewer surgeons. And as it is, for some procedures, there's like just 1 or 2 people in the world who can perform them. Take away 99.99999% of their customers and there will be nobody who can perform them instead.

So quality of care will decrease (to a much lesser extent) for rich people as well.

Do you think they accounted for that? I doubt it.
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-28 12:04:13+00:00
Awesome that you got to meet him, I remember reading about EyeTap on Slashdot around that time and thought he was onto something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann_(inventor)

Steve Mann explains the EyeTap (2010)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiFtmrpuwNY

43 Years of Wearable Computing and AR | Steve Mann | AR in Action (2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI9obFrfZ4Q

From 1996: Meet the man who invented a wearable computer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCco6FMCRmk

DEF CON 7 - Steve Mann: The Inventor of the So Called Wearable Computer (1999)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVquUd-MFtU

At around 5:05 in this video, someone is asking:

"What type of irresponsible uses do you see for this technology, professor?"

"Uh, I think, like, advertising. Like that, that type of thing. One of the things that I'm trying to do is, is design filters to filter out advertising, so that when you're walking around, you could filter out real world spam. You know, already we have spam in the real world such as billboards, and things like that. So, what I envision is that the mediated reality could be used to filter out the spam."
by al_borland | 2025-06-28 12:04:28+00:00
I started doing this, because my company goes through too many re-orgs and tool changes. If I capture it in my personal notes, I don't have to worry about re-doing everything when the org changes, or losing something I may need if I'm moves away from the area where those notes were kept.

I'd love to have a universal shared notes system for the whole team, but it's proven unrealistic when seeing how things work over decades.

With my former team I wrote 90% of the documentation. A while after I left they had to migrate their docs to a new system, and used it as an opportunity to clean up. I went back to try and reference a 20 page doc I wrote, going very in depth on a topic during a period where I was deep into it. Gone. I wish I had kept my own copies instead of relying on the shared platform. There was still a lot of good and relevant information in that document, but the people going through it lacked the knowledge and context to see it. There have been many examples like this.

There are also things that don't seem like they deserve a note in a formal system. One day thing X broke and we found out we had to talk to person Y to fix it. No one else thought to write it down, but I did. It broke again yesterday, and I was able to quickly bring up the name of who to talk to, while everyone else just tried to remember and hunted through their chat history. Search of my local notes (in Obsidian) works much better than Confluence. The low friction also means it's easy to drop stuff in, even if it might not be that useful. The friction on Confluence is higher. I tried keeping all my notes in there once, so I could easily share them with others if/when needed, but it was too much effort, and only a matter of time before it goes away and we move to something else (that's happening to some degree right now).
by ffsm8 | 2025-06-28 12:04:46+00:00
Or the person that starts off in "get it done" mode because it looks trivial, notices that it's not and then takes a few steps back to think it through first.

Honestly, these opinions are almost always grounded in people not being honest with themselves, feeling superior to their colleagues and coming up with a character trait and argument why they're just fundamentally better

Sometimes they even are, at least to a degree. No idea wherever it's true in this case, as I know nothing about Christian Ekrem beyond this article.
by dist-epoch | 2025-06-28 12:05:05+00:00
It's complicated, for example some models (o3) will throw an error if you set temperature.

What do you do if you want to support multiple models in your LLM gateway? Do you throw an error if a user sets temperature for o3, thus dumping the problem on them? Or just ignore it, but potentially creating confusion because temperature will seem to not work for some models?
by diggan | 2025-06-28 12:05:21+00:00
The biggest reason I avoid Gemini (and all of Google's models I've tried) is because I cannot get them to produce the same code I'd produce myself, while with OpenAI's models it's fairly trivial.

There is something deeper in the model that seemingly can be steered/programmed with the system/user prompts and it still produces kind of shitty code for some reason. Or I just haven't found the right way of prompting Google's stuff, could also be the reason, but seemingly the same approach works for OpenAI, Anthropic and others, not sure what to make of it.
by mc32 | 2025-06-28 12:05:26+00:00
It’d been going on for a while: they had embedded people at Twitter, Facebook, etc. to act as liaisons to “protect truth” on subjects such as the origins of Covid, hunter Biden’s laptop, the senility of a certain commander in chief, the discussion on males participating in women’s sports, etc. the movement went so far as preventing speakers with opposing views to speak at universities. The idea of safe spaces itself is about censorship of ideas.

All in the name of stopping “misinformation”.
by tw1984 | 2025-06-28 12:05:31+00:00
> Honestly, AI progress suffers because of these export restrictions. An open source model that can compete with Gemini Pro 2.5 and o3 is good for the world, and good for AI

DeepSeek is not a charity, they are the largest hedge fund in China, nothing different from a typical wall street funds. They don't spend billions to give the world something open and free just because it is good.

When the model is capable of generating decent amount of revenues, or when there is conclusive evidence of showing being closed would lead to much higher profit, it will be closed.
by layer8 | 2025-06-28 12:06:44+00:00
For immutable records and variants, if you have a set of labels A that is a subset of label set B (or corresponding label–type maps), then a record of A is a supertype of a record of B, while a variant of A is a subtype of a variant of B.

For example: A record type {x:X, y:Y} is a supertype of {x:X, y:Y, z:Z} (all values of the second can stand in as values of the first), while a variant type x:X | y:Y is a subtype of x:X | y:Y | z:Z (all values of the first can stand in as values of the second).

The sibling comments refer to AND and OR (which isn't accurate, as variants are really XOR), or to product and sum types, but that doesn’t demonstrate the actual duality.
by latexr | 2025-06-28 12:06:56+00:00
> It seems performatively symbolic

Performances and symbols are meaningful; the way you act influences the way you think. It is pretty well known that an effective way to enact change in your life is to act as if your goal was already true and it will change your mindset to actually make it so. As a small example, forcing (i.e. performing) a smile can improve your mood.

> I don’t see the point in destroying one’s notes. (…) if that helps you get past a block of some sort, more power to you.

Looks to me like you do see the point. Maybe it’s not something you’d need personally, but everyone is different.
by mrweasel | 2025-06-28 12:07:12+00:00
Confluence search is very good.... At finding stuff in PDFs. Search in Confluence is bonkers. Super easy to locate term, know to only exist in one document, and Confluence will return that one PDF that someone uploaded, which for some reason also have that term. It's odd that the search is so poor at searching Confluence pages, yet so good at searching PDFs.
by sthkr | 2025-06-28 12:07:29+00:00
Saud Arabia's first priority is just for Saudi citizens only. No laborer is a slave or forced at gunpoint to come work in our country. They pay themselves thousands of dollars in their foreign countries to come work in Saudi Arabia. Nobody forces them. Their work visa is either only for 3 months or 6 months or 12 months. Then, they need to leave once the visa has expired. No one is forced to work in the country as a slave. You can choose to stay living in your own country. Lol political dissidents are turd implants from the Western countries designed to instigate anarchy in the country. It's never going to work anymore because the Gulf citizens themselves know how pathetic the Americans and the west are nowadays. Stop & STF trying to teach about human rights. The US and Europeans are responsible for the genocide of 100,000 in Palestine right now along with the millions in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Vietnam, and so many more. No one needs to whitewash anything. We are spending trillions for our country and the future of our citizens. All the big multi billion projects provide millions of jobs for Saudi citizens and foreigners. And they will continue to provide jobs and revenue for the country for generations to come. The US and the West isn't the bastion of amazing human rights after its support and financing of the current genocide in Palestine.

Saudi citizens are doing just fine and are being greatly supported and have a bright future with the Vision 2030 work happening so far. You worry about your shitty healthcare, gun violence, homelessness, high income taxes, crappy infrastructure, illegal drunks & junkies roaming the streets and other stuff. No one gives a crap about your lame accusations of human rights. You've historically been the biggest mass murders and genocides from killing off the natives in North America and Aborigines in Australia and the recent wars in the middle east. No one gives a crap about some fat old attention whore journalist here anymore. 70% of the Saudi citizen population is under 35 years old and we support the government to keeps the country and us safe from all outside terrorists and other threats.
by 112233 | 2025-06-28 12:08:38+00:00
I can run full deepseek r1 on m1 max with 64GB of ram. Around 0.5 t/s with small quant. Q4 quant of Maverick (253 GB) runs at 2.3 t/s on it (no GPU offload).

Practically, last gen or even ES/QS EPYC or Xeon (with AMX), enough RAM to fill all 8 or 12 channels plus fast storage (4 Gen5 NVMEs are almost 60 GB/s) on paper at least look like cheapest way to run these huge MoE models at hobbyist speeds.
by stefan_ | 2025-06-28 12:08:42+00:00
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding here. War crimes are not judged by what a diligent investigation after the fact might find. It hinges on the information and judgement by those acting in the moment. You are a soldier told these armed people a click out are the insurgent group you are fighting? Of course you can engage them. And there is a similar lenient standard applied to whoever got that information in the first place. War by any other standard of course would be entirely unworkable.
by lesuorac | 2025-06-28 12:09:05+00:00
All you have to do is take an initial cost hit where you have multiple support staff review a case as a calibration phase and generate cohorts of say 3 reviews where 2 have the desired denial rate and 1 doesn't. Determine the performance of each cohort by how much in agreement they are and then rotate out whose in training over time and you'll achieve a target denial rate.

There will always be people who "try to do their best" and actually read the case and decide accordingly. But you can drown them out with malleable people who come to understand if they deny 100 cases today then they're getting a cash bonus for alignment (with the other guy mashing deny 100 times).

Technology solves technological problems. It does not solve societal ones.
by xg15 | 2025-06-28 12:09:14+00:00
It gets ugly at the latest when remembering that "looting" was always a core part of the Israeli narrative to explain the humanitarian crisis.

Even before the current siege/semi-siege, the standard response to calls from aid orgs had been essentially "Look, it's not us. We're letting in aid, but it's not our fault if Palestinian armed gangs themselves are looting it after we let it in. Palestinians are just too stupid to organize their own survival."

Of course that response was already ridiculous back then: The 1000s of aid trucks stuck at the Egypt-Gazan border are definitely not kept there by Hamas or armed gangs. Even the looting attacks themselves were suspicions: Aid orgs kept reporting they were happening in areas under full control of the IDF - and IDF was forbidding using any other route[1]:

> Israel is doing the opposite of ensuring aid can be delivered to Palestinians in need. For example, a U.N. memo recently obtained by the Washington Post concluded that the armed gangs looting aid convoys could be “benefiting from a passive if not active benevolence” and “protection” from Israel’s military, and that a gang leader had a military-like compound in an area “restricted, controlled and patrolled” by the Israeli military.

The gangs operate in areas under Israeli control, often within eyeshot of Israeli forces. When convoys are looted, Israeli forces watch and do nothing, even when aid workers request assistance. Israeli forces refer to one area about a kilometer from its Kerem Shalom border checkpoint as “the looting zone.” The IDF-designated looting zone might be the only place in Gaza that Israeli forces won’t shoot an armed Palestinian.

But there was still at least some benefit of the doubt that the armed gangs were just some ordinary criminals exploiting the situation. Claims that the gangs themselves were operating under Israeli orders were conspiracy theories.

Netanyahu now confirmed those theories as reality.

[1] https://responsiblestatecraft.org/gaza-aid/
by mrtksn | 2025-06-28 12:09:31+00:00
It's even worse: Awful lot of people die for the careers of politicians and it's not limited to Israel. If someone needs political tension for weathering a scandal or economic turmoil, it can be created artificially by killing certain people and they do it all the time.

I have distaste for Trump but something I appreciate about him is his abilities to stage a theatre with his "fake" bombings. The more mainstream politicians have much more sociopathic tendencies.

If you think about it, %100 of modern wars are about who is going to be the administrator and doesn't feel like can win an election. We live in a world of abundance, there's no reason for a group of people to kill other group for their resources. If it wasn't for the careers of some people with huge egos all this can be sorted out through civil matters. After the wars it gets sorted out anyway, we don't see mass exterminations anymore.
by ath3nd | 2025-06-28 12:10:05+00:00
> In Saudi Arabia, if you're not someone he wants to torture or kill, you can enjoy increased religious freedoms, gender equality, and international ties.

Increased compared to taliban rule? Wow, thanks so much to the benevolent dictator for allowing a woman to go out without a male companion without being stoned. And thank the benevolent dictator for not having an interest in me specially. All praise the guy who could dismember many people but chooses to do that only to a couple, and who could imprison many, but does it mostly to his family and whoever he pleases.
by dmurray | 2025-06-28 12:11:25+00:00
Well, the civilian leadership is obviously in favour of massacring civilians, the military leadership orders civilians to be massacred, and the soldiers on the ground revel in the opportunity to massacre civilians. And the courts are happy to allow the massacre of civilians.

In functioning democracies in general, sure, you have to be careful not to tar everyone with the same brush. But in the specific case of Israel in 2015, it's not realistic to argue that the government isn't a single entity, so some parts of it may not be responsible (or even in favour of) crimes against humanity.
by dsr_ | 2025-06-28 12:11:43+00:00
And monkeys could fly out of my butt.

The only relevant bits of the article:

'...told The Guardian that the public usually gets over such fears pretty quickly, adding that people will get “used to it pretty quickly.”

Even if this is the case, it will take a few more years before the technology passes safety and clearance. The researchers need to guarantee that every robot leaves the body or biodegrades, and refine the magnets that control the robots to ensure proper behavior inside humans. This usually takes 5 to 10 years.'
by tialaramex | 2025-06-28 12:12:34+00:00
You can do this:

const ONE: i32 = { const fn foolish() -> i32 { return 1 } foolish() };

But yes, your larger point is exactly correct, the constant, even if it happens to be defined inside a function body, is not itself inside a function body and so we obviously can't return from it. It is also not inside an expression we can break out of (Rust allows you to break out of any expression, not just loops). It's a constant, like 5 is a constant, or 'Z' is a constant - this is not C or C++ where "const" means "actually a variable".
by UltraSane | 2025-06-28 12:13:59+00:00
"There are both economical and moral reasons to never build a self replicating robotic fleet of probes."

Such as?

" I think a sufficiently advanced civilization will always prefer telescopes over probes for anything more distant then the nearest couple of solar systems."

What part of "immortal" don't you understand? traveling at 1% of c doesn't feel slow if you just turn off or slow down your brain during the trip.
by throwanem | 2025-06-28 12:14:00+00:00
Slightly. If it's Win+C for a screenshot and Win+Shift+C is unbound, then you should be able to use AHK to bind it to launch the old binary, so at least you only have to modify muscle memory already extant.

That assumes DWM doesn't own the whole Win key now and that you can run signed but not specifically approved binaries. But like I said, it's been a long time since I was acquainted with Windows and I don't think I've lacked for at least local admin on a work machine since some time in the very early 2000s, so my advice is likely not worth much.
by edanm | 2025-06-28 12:14:15+00:00
> The idea Israeli government would hold anyone accountable is a laughable.

It's happened, many times. Usually this doesn't make front-page news, but soldiers that break the law are sometimes held accountable. Not nearly enough, and I think it should be far more publicized as a deterrent effect (the fact that it isn't is a pretty big indictment of the current government). But it's certainly not laughable.
by qw | 2025-06-28 12:14:35+00:00
What if FTL is not possible? In that case the attack will take a long time to reach us, and in the meantime we will be much more advanced technologically and could potentially defend ourselves.

In sci-fi we see warp drives, worm hole travel, phasers, photon torpedos and energy shields around ships. But what if none of that is possible? In that case, we might even have the technology to defend ourselves today if we manage to detect the attack in time.

It's a huge risk for a civilization to attack us. Even if they have capabilities that are beyond our technology, there might still be limitations based on the laws of physics. And if they attack us, they risk a response.
by sestep | 2025-06-28 12:14:38+00:00
Ohh you're right thanks, I mixed up which part of the post you were talking about; sorry for getting confused.

Yes, I agree that it doesn't make sense for that to be due to the OS. That's just poor writing on my part: in that case I wasn't actually trying to imply that it was due to the operating system specifically, I was just using "Linux" and "the MacBook" as shorthand to refer to my two different computers, which differ in more ways than just the OS. In this case, another commenter suggested it might be due to my physical setup of having three RAM sticks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397214

So yes, in that sentence I should have written "on my desktop" instead of just "on Linux".
by collingreen | 2025-06-28 12:15:38+00:00
I agree he was unsympathetic but there are far far "better targets" (your words) for vigilante murder if public opinion is the bar. Robert Richards IV is one of my go to examples for the complete lack of justice for the hyperwealthy [1] but there are mountains of big pharma, big food, insurance, church leaders, and private military people who are absolute monsters by any reasonable standard.

I think Brian Thompson was a fuckface (and all the others who help enable the evils there in the name of profit) but he was basically doing what America has deemed not only fine but noble - make as much money as possible without fully breaking the law (or, more accurately, being forced to stop by the law - many routinely and intentionally break the law in their pursuit). Half the country loves and celebrates this behavior to the point where politicians _brag_ about how good they are at it.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_and_sentencing_of_Robe...