MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by niam | 2025-06-09 12:52:08+00:00
It's a project whose intended audience is the EU, with (hopeful) eventual EU adoption.

It seems not worse than e.g an American activist labeling their initiative "The American ________ Project". It's perhaps misleading here because HN's (otherwise good) rules to prevent sensationalism in titles disallows the poster to contextualize a post, except in a comment.
by jsnell | 2025-06-09 12:52:12+00:00
Ok, I clearly should have made the wording more explict since this is the second comment I got in the same vein. I'm not saying you'd convert users to $1/month subscriptions. That would indeed be an absurd idea.

I'm saying that good-enough LLMs are so cheap that they could easily be monetized with ads, and it's not even close. If you look at other companies with similar sized consumer-facing services monetized with ads, their ARPU is far higher than $1.

A lot of people have this mental model of LLMs being so expensive that they can’t possibly be ad-supported, leaving subscriptions as the only consumer option. That might have been true two years ago, but I don't think it's true now.
by pama | 2025-06-09 12:52:56+00:00
Please read the DeepSeek analysis of their API service (linked in this article): they have 500% profit margin and they are cheaper than any of the US companies serving the same model. It is conceivable that the API service of OpenAI or Anthropic have much higher profit margins yet.

(GPUs are generally much more cost effective and energy efficient than CPU if the solution maps to both architectures. Anthropic certainly caches the KV-cache of their 24k token system prompt.)
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-06-09 12:53:41+00:00
It's all code generation, though. That's what makes this whole conversation so frustrating. For whatever reason, there is a large swath of devs who either are unwilling to admit these tools are useful (and thus have to make ridiculous assumptions like code getting pushed to prod by a bot) or don't have enough experience to understand how to use them.

I just asked Claude (the actual app in the browser) to write a function that returns all types that implement a specific interface AND have a method with a specific attribute. Then, I look at the code (and because I already have over 10+ years of experience) I can determine pretty quickly whether it'll work or not and then I bring it in and test it. I could have googled the C# reflection syntax for finding all interfaces, then matching with an attribute on a method, and so forth. But that'll take at least 2-3x as long. Why don't I remember the syntax? Because the syntax itself isn't important. It's the problem I'm solving that is. But now, I can ask specific, tailored questions with context and get specific results. Nowhere in my process does code get produced by itself without human oversight. It's not even a thing I have to worry about. It's such a simple that process it drives me nuts to have to explain it to people.
by owenthejumper | 2025-06-09 12:54:04+00:00
What happens if your study clearly hurts people? What happens if your study clearly helps people? You find out in the first few weeks, what do you do? How do you ensure you collected enough of a sample of a general population to make your study representative? How do you ensure your patients properly consented to the study (past shameful human experiments aside, you likely need many institutions participating, so you can't control everything yourself).

Do I keep going or is the IRB approval process clearer now? There is a reason it exists.
by ETH_start | 2025-06-09 12:54:07+00:00
Search is narrow, used occasionally to find external information. LLMs are the single most general-purpose tool in existence. If you're using them to their full potential, you end up relying on them across writing, planning, coding, summarizing, etc.

So even if the per-query or per-token cost is lower, the total consumption is vastly higher. For that reason, while it may not be a fair comparison, due to people looking at it from the perspective of personal economics, people will compare how much it costs to use each to its full potential, respectively.
by bko | 2025-06-09 12:54:10+00:00
Often these types of articles have a take they want the reader to adopt. In the past it was simple, we need net neutrality to save the internet and Ajit Pai is an industry plant aimed to killing net neutrality. Cable companies love him.

You would think he'd be lobbying for cable companies, but a new boogie man has entered, the mobile industry. And now cable companies are mad at him. Oh and also consumer advocates, which apparently has the same incentives now apparently.

At least they admit as much later:

> The fight puts Pai at odds with the cable industry that cheered his many deregulatory actions when he led the FCC.

But this is kind of weird considering the "revolving door" policy and the implicit promise of future rewards

A few paragraphs in you get to some substance:

> "During the first Trump administration, the US was determined to lead the world in wireless innovation—and by 2021 it did," Pai wrote. "But that urgency and sense of purpose have diminished. With Mr. Trump's leadership, we can rediscover both."

> Pai's op-ed drew a quick rebuke from a group called Spectrum for the Future, which alleged that Pai mangled the facts.

> "Mr. Pai's arguments are wrong on the facts—and wrong on how to accelerate America's global wireless leadership," the vaguely named group said in a May 8 press release that accused Pai of "stunning hypocrisy." Spectrum for the Future said Pai is wrong about the existence of a spectrum shortage, wrong about how much money a spectrum auction could raise, and wrong about the cost of reallocating spectrum from the military to mobile companies.

I still have no idea whats true, but I will note the Spectrum for the Future is a lobbyist group (including tech companies like Airspan, Celona, Federated Wireless and comm providers like Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications). But at least they have a better name!

The article doesn't actually explain any of the issues or complexity, it just tries to say "Pai is aligned with [group], and [group] is bad. The article relies heavily on other lobbyist groups, that now include big cable which are the good guys now.

I have no idea what to think but my collective understanding of this issue somehow dropped after reading this article.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-09 12:55:42+00:00
This is a good article on the subject. Make sure you read the linked articles as well.

https://andymasley.substack.com/p/reactions-to-mit-technolog...

It’s basically the same story as this article: people incorrectly believe they use a huge amount of energy (and water), but it’s actually pretty reasonable and not out of line with anything else we do.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-06-09 12:55:45+00:00
> LLMs are not capable of symbolic reasoning[0]

Despite the citation. I think this is still being studied. And others have found some evidence that it forms internal symbols.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2022.004...

Or maybe, can say, an LLM can do symbolic reasoning, but can it do it very well? People forget that humans are also not great at symbolic reasoning. Humans also use a lot of cludgy hacks to do it, it isn't really that natural.

Example often used, about it not doing math well. But humans also don't do math well. How humans are taught to do division and multiplication, really is a little algorithm. So what would be difference between human following algorithm to do a multiplication, and an LLM calling some python to do it. Does that mean it can't symbolically reason about numbers? Or that humans also can't?
by bowsamic | 2025-06-09 12:56:53+00:00
Slavoj Zizek says that the true terrifying situation is when the leaders act and know they no longer need to justify their actions. I am currently in this fight with our upper management. I ask why this push for AI, what it will do for our product, why are we making huge cuts on the scope of the project to rebrand as an AI project? All I receive is a bad confused response. Of course it’s just none of my business, they are the leaders
by gus_massa | 2025-06-09 12:56:56+00:00
A long time ago, ..., so add a huge IIRC for the details.

Anyway, a long time ago, in a physic lab class, we had a custom spectrometer device that was controlled using the printer port. (Probably a light, a detector, a diffraction grid and a steppers motor, and perhaps some weird card as an interface to the computer.) It was controlled by a custom Pascal program in the DOS command line.

It was connected to a Win 95 computer that died and we had to replace it with a Win 2000 one. The problem is that anyone can read/write the printer port in Win 95 but that's not possible in Win 2000. [1] We had to make some magic, probably rewrite the program and use some weird device driver to write to the printer port (IIRC again). And multitasking messed the timing. At the end it worked, but upgrading the computer was not easy.

[1] If that makes no sense, replace that with a Win 3.1 to Win 95 transition, but I think it was not that old.
by calgoo | 2025-06-09 12:56:56+00:00
Yes and no IMO, as bribing has been legalized, the system has gotten rotten from the bottom all the way to the top. Thats the problem when the issue is systematic like this. Basically everyone is on the take because... well why not, its legal. However it has created incentives that in the long run has created a system where the money is expected and the corruption has taken hold.
by safety1st | 2025-06-09 12:57:02+00:00
CPU: Intel i7-3630QM (8) @ 3.400GHz

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M

Memory: 7818MiB

Those specs are showing their age for sure, but I run the TV at 1366x768, so they've been enough. The CPU has been an absolute champ. I'm sure running XFCE as the window manager has a lot to do with why it trucks along, XFCE is amazingly low footprint and snappy.
by bandoti | 2025-06-09 12:57:26+00:00
There’s a lot more to it actually. When given the knowledge of today, a lot can actually be done with vintage computers. I would say it’s an artistic medium.

Take a look at the Commodore 64 developer manual and quickly realize that without much difficulty, one can learn the full assembly instruction set along with all BASIC commands.

https://www.commodore.ca/manuals/c64_programmers_reference/c...

The machine is completely open to experimentation. You can write to memory anywhere including the active display terminal. The chips are easy to mix, match, swap. Hardware and software is malleable, not a locked-down black box of complexity and TPIM modules!
by gruez | 2025-06-09 12:57:30+00:00
What are ex political appointees supposed to do after being ousted? Working as a lobbyist seems like a perfect fit for his previous experience. The other contender would be working in a think tank or as a regulatory/compliance consultant, which are still suspiciously close to being a lobbyist. The former basically tries to lobby by putting out "whitepapers", and the latter basically greases a company's relationship with regulators.
by pmdr | 2025-06-09 12:57:39+00:00
I really doubt that, in an industry where chips are so hard to come by, draw so much power and are so terribly expensive, big players could at any time flip a switch and become profitable.

They burn through insane amounts of cash and are, for some reason, still called startups. Sure, they'll be around for a long time until they figure something out, but unless hardware prices and power consumption go down, they won't be turning a profit anytime soon.

Just look at YouTube: in business for 20 years, but it's still unclear whether it's profitable or not, as Alphabet chooses not to disclose YT's net income. I'd imagine any public company would do this, unless those numbers are in the red.
by jonplackett | 2025-06-09 12:58:01+00:00
So here’s why that ain’t true.

Yoghurt.

You can buy zero fat Greek yogurt that has very low sugar. It’s perfect for losing weight. It’s about 50kcals per 100g. And also super high in protein.

Or you can buy yoghurt that is full of sugar and is 100kcals per 100g and has lots of fat and hardly any protein.

Even a human expert could not tell the difference without tasting them.

This is just one example of many.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-06-09 12:58:01+00:00
Anecdotally, I'm a paying user and do a lot of super basic queries. What is this bug, rewrite this drivel into an email to my HOA, turn me into a gnome, what is the worst state and why is it west Virginia.

This would probably increase 10x if one of the providers sold a family plan and my kids got paid access.

Most of my heavy lifting is work related and goes through my employer's pockets.
by bboygravity | 2025-06-09 12:58:06+00:00
The entire businessmodel may only work as long as inference takes up the physical space and cost of a small building.

Last time personal computing took up an entire building, we put the same compute power into a (portable) "personal computer" a few decades later.

Can't wait to send all my data and life to my own lil inference box, instead of big tech (and NSA etc).
by exiguus | 2025-06-09 12:58:41+00:00
Notable examples of design systems are Google's Material Design, Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, and the Atlassian Design System.

A design system generally consists of two primary components:

- Code Resources: These include elements such as CSS/HTML, React components, and design tokens. Typically, these resources are part of a decoupled frontend setup that can be seamlessly integrated into various applications.

- Implementation Guidelines: These guidelines address both the technical implementation and, crucially, the UX/UI considerations, including the maintenance of a corporate identity.

Typically, a dedicated team develops and maintains the design system or UI library, while other teams utilize these resources in their respective applications.
by andrew_lettuce | 2025-06-09 12:58:43+00:00
There are some big problems with this, mostly that openAI doesn't want to break even or be profitable, their entire setup is based on being wildly so. Building a Google sized business on ads is incredibly difficult. They need to be so much better than the competition that we have no choice but to use them, and that's not the case any more. More minor but still a major issue is the underlying IP rights. As users mature they will increasingly look for citations from LLMs, and if open AI is monetizing in this vein everyone is going to come for a piece.
by bowsamic | 2025-06-09 12:59:05+00:00
Prototypes are very dangerous. Our team made the mistake of having our demo look very nice even though there is still a lot of unseen work to do. Now upper management of course think “this is ready, just send it out”. Prototypes live forever, no upper manager will want you to spend time on the real thing. It is unsafe for the project to come across well
by gosub100 | 2025-06-09 12:59:38+00:00
notice the incorrect conclusion he makes. the fbi emails him asking for info about a user, with a screenshot that includes a threat of violence. FSE guy jumps to the conclusion that it's just innocent braggadocio (despite the fact that another CEO was murdered just 6 months ago). jump to end of article: guy has already committed countless acts of violence (by proxy).

I'm glad that FSE guy engaged with the feds, but it shows dangerous bias when he sees a screenshot of a threat and immediately assumes that can't be a violent individual.
by rpgbr | 2025-06-09 13:00:52+00:00
The beauty of the web is that you can design sites as if we were in the 2000s. And they work fine!

I can't wrap my head over things like React, Next.js, Vue, Tailwind (styling web pages directly in the HTML!?)… still code HTML and CSS by hand, and it's fine. Better than ever have been.
by WJW | 2025-06-09 13:01:02+00:00
Yes. But not if you set up a timer to do it automatically. (As long as you set up the timer before shabat obviously)

There is also apparently a slightly more technologically minded sub-sect of Judaism which considers only electricity generators that actually burn things (coal, oil, gas, biomass, etc) to be "fire". Battery powered devices are therefore OK, as would be things purely powered by solar power (as the sun is technically not "on fire") nucear power or even hydroelectric power. For the vast majority of electricity grids though, at least a percentage of generation will be from fueled generators and so forbidden on shabat.

This is not a mainstream view though.
by zeta0134 | 2025-06-09 13:01:22+00:00
If I'm smart, I can offset this by eating half of that meal in the restaurant and taking the rest in a to-go container. Two meals for the price of one, and reheating in the oven is almost as convenient.

Separately though, I have no idea why restaurants seem to exclusively offer gigantic portions over here. I wonder how common this is elsewhere in the world? I'm not well traveled so I genuinely have no idea.
by jiggawatts | 2025-06-09 13:01:39+00:00
At the risk of replying to someone with "troll" in their username...

Yes, but the entire point is that other fighter planes have identical requirements but don't have comically out-dated avionics.

Don't guess. Don't make up stories. Don't carry water for incompetent people that are protecting their own backsides.

Compare. Look at what other, more competent people have done, and use that as your benchmark.

That's always the key with these things. You don't have to be an expert. You don't have to have secret knowledge. Other people do. Just look at what they've achieved (or haven't), and compare against that.

When people come up with excuses, you don't have to believe them, even if they're experts in an esoteric, specialist field such as "nuclear-war-resistant stealth fighter design". Even if they're some sort of "authority", so are other people that designed their own stealth fighters.

This is a very useful life skill. Use it!

As a random example, there's countless arguments from "experts" such as economists, politicians, and industry thought leaders about how unaffordable universal government-funded health-care would be in the United States. Meanwhile, dozens of similar countries have done it for decades! Just look at the success of other countries and then dismiss the excuses you hear back at home out of hand because now you know: they're just excuses, not reasons.
by illiac786 | 2025-06-09 13:02:41+00:00
unrelated to original point, but to me, the most worrisome point about LLMs:

> because I already have over 10+ years of experience

How are future developers going to gather a similar experience when LLMs are available. You are comparing what an LLM produces to what you would have produced without. This is absolutely the right approach. What about the next generations though, what will they compare the LLM output with?
by shortrounddev2 | 2025-06-09 13:03:02+00:00
China is not a liberal country, but it's economy was relatively liberalization from the 80s onward.

I agree that liberalism has lifted many billions of people out of poverty, and that we could be doing more than we already have. I believe that turning around backwards toward socialism and centralized economic planning would be a grave mistake that would undo the gains made by liberalism since the 1970s
by johnisgood | 2025-06-09 13:04:07+00:00
How about indirect? At any rate, something is going on, because our summers are more and more hotter, and there are no snow during our winters. We are all noticing it but it gets shrugged off as "misremembering". I am not contributing it to running LLMs alone, however, but climate change seems real enough to me, I experience it. It is barely July and I am dying! We used to have more tolerable weather around this time of year, for a long time.
by yogoism | 2025-06-09 13:04:24+00:00
Thanks so much for that clear explanation—it really made me realize that while companies like Scale AI can thrive during the hype of the foundational-model race, it’ll likely get tougher down the road.

If you don’t mind me asking, as someone on the front lines of AI product development, what challenges have you found to be even more difficult than data annotation?

I’d really appreciate any insights you can share.
by thijson | 2025-06-09 13:04:56+00:00
Not sure if you're being sarcastic. The cost of compute is perpetually going lower, it is getting harder to scale though. I feel like LLM's will become ubiquitous. When I went to University in the 90's, only the wealthy could afford cell phones, pulling one out was a flex. Now they are everywhere. Even Nvidia's sky high margins will someday be eroded.
by rafaeldavidtin | 2025-06-09 13:05:23+00:00
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by uecker | 2025-06-09 13:05:40+00:00
I could help with searching some public examples if you really do not know any code that uses safe string abstractions in C. But my original aim was to understand what specific "legacy cruft" in C is seen as problematic, and why its presence requires an entirely language to fix. So far, I did not get a good answer to this. I certainly do know some legacy cruft I want to see go but its presence does not prevent me from writing bounds-safe code.

WG14 is a very small number of volunteers. It would help if the industry would actually invest development resources for safety on the compiler / language side and in cleaning up legacy code.
by niam | 2025-06-09 13:05:41+00:00
This seems unreasonably dismissive. Spitballing as to why:

* "Fedora-based" was skipped over. Or it wasn't, but you intuited something else from that term, maybe without the backdrop of Fedora's bootable containers or uBlue. Or with awareness of those tech, but without valuing their contributions to system stability (or the contributions of the broader "immutable"/"declarative" projects) as much as they perhaps warrant.

* You believe a govt end user's notion of "software quality" to matter more than (basically) any other stakeholder's notion. Or you don't recognize as intensely as I that simply having a URL to point at (or more importantly for older bureaucrats: a PDF / PDF printability) is a multiplying force on the ability to get in front of someone who makes policy decisions.