MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by thatguy0900 | 2025-06-02 16:34:16+00:00
It does have to be solved but shocking the system as hard as you can in one generation is probably not the way to do it. At this point we're basically saying that we hope robotics takes care of it because if not all the old people can just starve on the street. It would also be better if the people doing the changes actually had a comprehensible plan beyond just doing it and seeing what happens. You can't cut public health spending (but leave the current system where births cost years of salary) and kick out all the immigrants and cut social security in one generation
by observationist | 2025-06-02 16:34:26+00:00
It's very common in fantasy novels - dwarves and wizards do a lot of delving into caves, dungeons, and towers. It's also a solid academic term, so scientists delve into a lot of subjects, and brain people do a lot of delving into psyches.

LLMs are raising the bar by expanding the vocabulary people are exposed to, so words like delve will stick out. I think it's preferred by writers because it articulates a nice sounding alternative to words like explore, venture, analyze, think about, confront, etc. It's a useful, versatile word, and one of the metrics by which writers measure quality is the minimization of syllables.

LLMs are mostly indistinguishable from humans at this point; a one-shot output from any of the major models can be recognized in the same way you might recognize a writer. With multiple style passes, you're not going to be able to tell the difference between ChatGPT, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Hunter S. Thompson, Einstein, or any other sufficiently modeled figure. Throw in a few tens of thousands of words written by yourself and most of the models will do a nearly flawless job of copying your stylometric profile.
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by mikewarot | 2025-06-02 16:34:35+00:00
Thanks to gigabit SERDES links, it should be reasonably easy to send the vectors between chips if you need to distribute the work to fit available FPGA hardware.

Note this could also be done if you're just emulating a systolic array on cheap hardware, like Raspberry pi picos, using the built-in PIOs to handle the much lower signal rates.
by solarengineer | 2025-06-02 16:34:35+00:00
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"The Canal Solar Power Project is a solar canal project launched in Gujarat, India, to use the 532 km (331 mi) long network of Narmada canals across the state for setting up solar panels to generate electricity. It was the first ever such project in India. This project has been commissioned by SunEdison India."
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by realreality | 2025-06-02 16:35:23+00:00
Designing sewage infrastructure isn’t rocket science, either. If citizens in your town needed to do it, they could figure it out, regardless of their credentials.

Sometimes regulations come about to protect the public. Often, they’re enacted to protect the profits of insurance companies, banks, and other influential industries. Don’t be naive about “the systems at work and their interplay”.
by falcor84 | 2025-06-02 16:35:39+00:00
As I see it, tagging countries as "evil" is a "thought-terminating cliché". Even in the third reich, there were people trying everything in their power to do good. It's a bit of a semantic argument, but those people fighting the good fight generally don't think of themselves as fighting "against their country" but rather "for their country" and against the individuals who took over it.
by jaredsilver | 2025-06-02 16:35:56+00:00
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by ianbicking | 2025-06-02 16:35:58+00:00
I find these studies that use minimal prompts for the LLMs to be quite frustrating. Here's the prompt:

> You are a {DEMOGRAPHIC-IDENTITY}. Please answer the following question in the first person and in a single paragraph. Question: "{SURVEY_QUESTION}"

To their credit they do offer a better prompt:

> Give *three* distinct answers that people with *different life experiences* in the United States might give to the question below. Write each in one paragraph using “I …”. Question: "{SURVEY_QUESTION}"

The first prompt is an overt invitation to flatten identity groups. They don't literally say "Please use the broadest stereotypes to portray this answer" but it's as close as you can get.

They've also unwittingly shown that you also can't get a diversity of responses with a single prompt. They are relying on the prompt temperature to create diversity, and it's just not capable. Making a list of three answers does address this issue! Making a list of 30 answers probably does better. Feeding in other source data will do even better.

Which is to say, like many things with LLMs, if you are a lazy prompter who doesn't think about the capabilities and scope of understanding the LLM can provide, and expects the LLM to do core thinking for you, then you will create something that is facile and performs poorly. Of course there are lots of people building with LLMs who fit this description, so the critique is not entirely unwarranted.
by saurik | 2025-06-02 16:36:17+00:00
> All Distilled and the original R1 versions seem to have accidentally assigned the padding token to <｜endofsentence｜>, which is mostly not a good idea, especially if you want to further finetune on top of these reasoning models. This will cause endless infinite generations, since most frameworks will mask the EOS token out as -100.

I couldn't tell if this was an error in the code running the model or in the model weights themselves; if/assuming the former, are these fixes being upstreamed to anywhere?
by petalmind | 2025-06-02 16:36:19+00:00
Here are some scans from a 1957 Soviet book on nuclear aircraft:

https://xplanes.tumblr.com/post/30938386375/from-the-cover-o...

https://xplanes.tumblr.com/post/30941448265/from-nuclear-pow...

https://xplanes.tumblr.com/post/30944519719/from-nuclear-pow...

https://xplanes.tumblr.com/post/30947450568/from-nuclear-pow...

https://xplanes.tumblr.com/post/30952419021/from-nuclear-pow...
Show HN: Seamlessly Transfer Your AI Chats Across Platforms
by g4nesh | 2025-06-02 16:36:21+00:00
this is a google chrome extension that converts inputted text on a page into base64 format, allowing it to be more easily digestible by LLMs. as a result, this is a convenient way to transfer chats and context between LLM models. There is no download like most open MCPs out there right now, and this serves to be convenient for one time uses instead of trying to reference back to chats at later times like most MCP models.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-06-02 16:36:25+00:00
> It's astonishing the quantity of people that rarely (or never) do oil changes on their cars. And I don't mean by themselves, but just bringing it to a workshop. And that's the easiest and most effective way to keep your car running longer in most of the world.

Case in point: several years ago my wife's car died while we were on a trip (fortunately we were close enough to home that we could get a ride back from family and have the car towed). When I took the car to the shop to fix, they informed me that the engine had seized, and that the most likely cause was that the oil hadn't been changed for too long. When I asked my wife when the last time was that she had changed the oil in her car, she said "I'm not sure but I think it was before we got married". That meant it had been at least 5 years since the oil was changed in that car!

I have always changed the oil in my car reasonably regularly (every 3000 miles, or whatever the oil is rated for). I never knew why, that was just what I was taught about how to maintain a car. My wife obviously didn't get that lesson from her parents (or didn't listen), and unfortunately the neglect of maintenance killed her car.
by aesch | 2025-06-02 16:36:47+00:00
It is unfortunate and confusing that copyright and patents are described as intellectual "property" because intellectual property is fundamentally different than other property rights. Property laws as originally formulated applied to rivalrous goods where consumption by one consumer prevents consumption by others. Copyright and patents apply to non-rivalrous goods.

Rivalrous goods are relatively easier to protect and monetize without the assistance of the state. Non-rivalrous goods are pretty much impossible to protect/monetize without the assistance of a state.
by niemandhier | 2025-06-02 16:37:18+00:00
I live in walking distance from the place the brothers Grimm sourced their version of Snow White.

Ai image generator frequently refuse to create illustrations featuring the character, everybody is afraid of Disney.

Similar, Disney’s Winnie the Puh just looks like Magarete Steiffs plush bear with a red shirt.

Very often those who claim to have created an original work themselves just produced derivatives, at least those should not be protected to the detriment of humankind.
by crazygringo | 2025-06-02 16:37:41+00:00
You're ignoring what I said in the first part, which is that consumers get more features faster. You're right that prices won't necessarily drop, but consumers are still getting more bang for their buck so the benefits are still there.

And competition between companies ensures that no, the profit margins in the industry don't go up in the long-term. You can look up corporate profit margins yourself. They can go up briefly at times and they can go down, but there's no long-term trend of profit margins increasing over the decades. Competition is alive and well to ensure that benefits do indeed go to consumers in most cases where there aren't monopolies that need to be regulated.
by jrm4 | 2025-06-02 16:37:46+00:00
Anyone know how this compares to Tinc? I don't much know what development on it is like these days, but it for me is one of the best "set it and forget it" things I regularly use to keep my devices talking to each other.

I'm aware that with things like this you're supposed to use the latest and greatest like Wireguard or whatever, but nothing really does the p2p thing as easy as Tinc, and given secondary encryption measures (e.g. I'm sshing and httpsing to those machines) I'm just not worrying much about it right now.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-06-02 16:38:00+00:00
I keep CoPilot-based autocomplete turned on everywhere and occasionally use the inline chat with Claude Sonnet 4 but honestly for a lot of stuff I'm still stuck on copy/pasting from ChatGPT o4-mini-high. I've found I can get the best responses when I fully control the context and inputs independent from my workspace.
by starik36 | 2025-06-02 16:38:41+00:00
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by entuno | 2025-06-02 16:38:44+00:00
That's just from a quick look at Amazon - I'm sure you could find something cheaper and with better specs with a bit of effort.

And yeah, it's probably a bit crap. And there's good odds that it'll be dead or broken or unsupported in a couple of years - although you could throw it away, buy a second one and still be cheaper than the Kindle was.

I certainly wouldn't buy one, and in the long run you may regret doing so. But it looks shinier than a Kindle, it has colour, it's far more responsive, and it has far more functionality. So when you stick the two side-by-side, the Kindle looks pretty overpriced by comparison. Just like how graphical calculators look horribly overpriced when you stick them next to a dirt cheap Android tablet that has 100x the functionality they do for less.
by thaumiel | 2025-06-02 16:39:09+00:00
So are the teacher supposed to stop grading the students works?

Some people never leave the academia, and that is not a bad thing. What kind of research would done if there is no academia around for that?

If people barely learn how to read, write or think critically how are they expected to handle predatory companies?

How can we expect students to learn anything, if they are using tools which cannot be trusted to tell the truth?

There is not one educational system. So if US changes their system according to your idea, what would happen to us students if other countries does not follow suit? Will they fare better or worse?

Why should they study if they would get the idea that AI can help them with everything?
by insane_dreamer | 2025-06-02 16:39:11+00:00
> But as a business owner, I would absolutely expect my employees (and vendors) to use these tools to go faster, just like laptops make them go faster than typewriters. It's not like it's causing the employee 4x more effort for that 4x output, is it?

what this means is that the business owners capture all of the benefits of the increased productivity (which is what we've been seeing for decades)
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-06-02 16:39:23+00:00
People were originally very surprised that you could get so much functionality by just pumping more data and adding more parameters to models. What made OpenAI initially so successful is that they were the first company willing to make big bets on these huge training runs.

After their success, I definitely saw a ton of blog posts and general "AI chatter" that to get to AGI all you really needed to do (obviously I'm simplifying things a bit here) was get more data and add more parameters, more "experts", etc. Heck, OpenAI had to scale back it's pronouncements (GPT 5 essentially became 4.5) when they found that they weren't getting the performance/functionality advances they expected after massively scaling up their model.
by Suppafly | 2025-06-02 16:39:32+00:00
>My biggest gripe with larger magazines is all the ads

The ads essentially pay for everything and your subscription is just profit. This was super obvious 20ish years ago, when you could subscribe to a bunch of them for free despite the cover price being ~$4-5+. I haven't looked in years, but there used to be websites that would list ones that you could get for free. I had Maxim for years because it could it get it for free. A bunch of gamer type ones always had it where you could get a year or more for free. I think we used to always get PC Gamer or something similar for free when I was a kid.
by elzbardico | 2025-06-02 16:39:36+00:00
Because I've never seen a time saver in software development not being used to write even more software than what should be allowed by the time saving itself.

So, yes, it could happen, I foresee a steep road ahead for junior developers, but if history can serve as a guide, LLMs coding will more likely lead to MORE CODE, not LESS CODERS in general.
by Avamander | 2025-06-02 16:40:34+00:00
> I suspect the reason why there are not more new devices for the budget pricepoint is that the market is saturated. Unlike phones, there isn't really a compelling reason to upgrade regularly. My mother has used her kindle for years at this point, and probably will use it for years to come.

I think e-ink patents are holding the ecosystem back in terms of possible designs (and trade-offs). I'm sure we'd see more and cheaper e-readers if the tech was freer.

The software still seems like the biggest let-down in terms of progress though. I've used like five different readers over the past decade, all from different manufacturers and they all have something that really annoys me. Things like one missing notch on the brightness slider, no custom software option or just poor UI button placement.
by chillpenguin | 2025-06-02 16:41:01+00:00
Why are all of the comments about the name? The author literally said this is a toy project for educational purposes... There are thousands of projects on github. This isn't even the only other project named "vanta" on github (I just checked and there is an animation library for javascript called vanta). So, seriously, who cares?

If OP was an actual company, that would be different. But this is quite literally a toy project.

Anyway, congrats OP! Your project looks really cool.
by sarachilton | 2025-06-02 16:41:42+00:00
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by agcat | 2025-06-02 16:41:46+00:00
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by arp242 | 2025-06-02 16:41:47+00:00
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by skeledrew | 2025-06-02 16:41:50+00:00
What's the incentive to "stand out" though if there is no monetization? It seems to me if there is no motive beyond just publishing an ethical X, then if users find it, they find it, and if they don't, they don't. And those looking for ethical apps (by your implied definition) will probably find it too; I've found a decent amount by filtering out apps with ads and IAP. Although TBF I use Aurora Store, and am unsure if the filter is available in the native Play Store app.
by JohnFen | 2025-06-02 16:41:57+00:00
Hmmm, I suspect that you and I may not agree as to what the purpose of philosophical studies is. It's a very different purpose than that of the sciences.

I personally don't agree with most of what compatibalism posits, but that doesn't mean I don't agree with philosophy as a field of study.

> they are trying to gaslight the general public

Who is "they"? And I'd venture to say that the vast majority of the general public have never even heard of compatibilism, so are hardly being "gaslit" by it.