MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trod1234 | 2025-06-10 17:57:14+00:00
> The key question is "For whom?" Because there are clear winners and losers as in any social fad.

Are there though? We are just at the front of the curve, if we look at the whole... what if AI destroys the underlying mechanics of exchange society, and we rely upon production that only occurs as a result of those mechanics for food, and by extension the disruption caused by AI causes this to fail, with everyone starving... where would the winners be if everyone ended up dying?

"There's only a small probability that an ignition would light the atmosphere on fire."

If only people treated AI with the same care.

> You shouldn't be engaging in a debate with that kind of person...

I agree. A debate requires that both participants follow certain principles. Play-acting on the other hand is where one pretends they are engaging in good faith, and then have a tantrum in reserve. It is the art of the toddler (and infantile).
by gyrovagueGeist | 2025-06-10 17:58:10+00:00
Does anyone know why they added minibatch advantage normalization (or when it can be useful)?

The paper they cite "What matters in on-policy RL" claims it does not lead to much difference on their suite of test problems, and (mean-of-minibatch)-normalization doesn't seem theoretically motivated for convergence to the optimal policy?
by tansan | 2025-06-10 17:58:47+00:00
This sounds like a boomer trying to resist using Google in favor of encyclopedias.

Vibe coding can be whatever you want to make of it. If you want to be prescriptive about your instructions and use it as a glorified autocomplete, then do it. You can also go at it from a high-level point of view. Either way, you still need to code review the AI code as if it was a PR.
by ta12653421 | 2025-06-10 17:58:50+00:00
good one!

I#m wondering how some can complain about ClaudeAI: - its actually enlightening - it saves a lot of time - by intuition, i did whats written in this blog from the beginning on

YES: - sometimes the solution is rubish because i can see that its "randomly" is connecting/integrating stuff - ...but: In about 95% of the cases the output is exactly what i asked for
by MangoToupe | 2025-06-10 17:59:24+00:00
> Dimwit and midwit mean two different things.

> Midwit is an internet slang term, often used pejoratively, to describe a person with average or slightly above-average intelligence who believes they are exceptionally intelligent or insightful.

Does this not describe most of the people on this forum? Why would you invite such comparisons if you aren't confident you're better or "more correct" in some way? It seems they intended to use "dimwit", as that would result in comment making more sense overall by drawing a clear contrast with the speaker.
by immmmmm | 2025-06-10 18:00:05+00:00
I’m doing a bit of BREP for GIS and even in 2D with line segments only the problem is really non-trivial, a lot of edge (pun intended) cases to take care of. Type system helps enormously, so probably rust will be a win here (I think I saw a project along those lines).

That being said, for CAD (personal usage) I switched from Fusion 360 to Freecad 1.0 with almost no project and the latter is an order of magnitude faster.
by MallocVoidstar | 2025-06-10 18:00:12+00:00
Note that they have not actually dropped the price yet: https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1932463601119637532

> We’ll post to @openaidevs once the new pricing is in full effect. In $10… 9… 8…

There is also speculation that they are only dropping the input price, not the output price (which includes the reasoning tokens).
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-10 18:00:27+00:00
We're "radicalized" in that we still have living members of the community who have indeed fought over their right to exist. And those tales are passed down orally. If you include any LGBT rallies this kind of protest is still in recent history.

In comparison, it seems like we're almost at a point where all WW2 vets (the last time "white men" had to confront fascist behavior) have passed away. When's the last time America as a general unit has had to properly protest authority? The Boomers didn't seem to take the right lessons about Vietnam into account when they started taking the reigns.
by gamblor956 | 2025-06-10 18:00:49+00:00
I highly encourage people to follow this advice. My fellow lawyers could use more people like him relying on AI instead of a lawyer. It makes it sooooo much easier for opposing counsel to win cases that would otherwise have been a slogfest against competent counsel.

Really, it fundamentally boils down to this: the CEO didn't bother tell his legal counsel he wanted to minimize legal spend. He just told them to do their thing. So they did, and because they weren't given constraints they did their thing well. But it wasn't what the CEO actually wanted them to do. The problem was that he didn't tell them what he wanted to do, and assumed that lawyers were telepaths and knew what he wanted.

So he did a dumber thing and decided to turn to an LLM, instead of doing the thing he should have done in the first place: tell his original lawyers what he actually wanted. He ended up getting lucky and not getting burned by it due to facts he chose not to disclose, but he is the rare exception.

Also, there are some huge falsehoods in his post, like #3. AIs are absolute shite at reviewing lengthy contracts. They're great at summarizing things where the correctness of the summary doesn't matter, but they're horrible at summarizing things where being correct is important. Also, his example of how the AI is used isn't AI. It's literally just a keyword search, which has been a thing for 3 or 4 decades now, and has been a basic function of doc review software for the last 2 decades.

#4. No, just no. It would cost more money to have the lawyer review an AI-generated legal document than to create one from scratch. Lawyers don't actually create most legal documents from scratch; they use templates from contracts and pleadings that have already gone through the legal trial by fire. So you're actually increasing your legal spend quite dramatically if you use AI instead.

Hallucinations. New models are not getting better at eliminating hallucinations; they're actually getting worse. Many of the recent AI-related court fails were from lawyers using the LLM tools provided by legal service providers like LexisNexis, and those LLMs were trained solely on legal databases. Even a single hallucinated citation in a legal filing allows the judge to void the entire filing and sanction the lawyers and client; in many situations the court this can result in a procedural loss for the client that they would have otherwise won on the merits if it had proceeded to trial.

TLDR: use AI if you want to make things easier for the other side of the lawsuit. Don't be like Trump. Experts exist for a reason. You wouldn't ask your lawyer to program your backend, so why would you turn to an AI for legal advice?
by lostmsu | 2025-06-10 18:01:17+00:00
No, this is a pipe dream. The only valid state for a sorted list is sorted. You can not possibly "test for invalid state" here because there's no way you can handle a sorted list that is not sorted in any meaningful way.

Mind you this example is the one of the most trivial data structures in existence. Real software has insanely more complicated valid/invalid state, the size of the state space growing exponentially with the number of components.
by rolph | 2025-06-10 18:01:41+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Nyquist

https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/tutorials/2024/what-is-the-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier

https://phys.libretexts.org/Learning_Objects/Demos_Technique...

https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Waves_and_Acoustics/...
by nullfield | 2025-06-10 18:02:13+00:00
Maybe not, but there have been cases of them removing documents from Drive because they weren't politically acceptable, like ... manifestos.

You should assume that anything on "someone else's computer" that you didn't encrypt is or could be read or disclosed any time, and even if you encrypt it be aware that the filename (use a GUID?) or metadata (upload date/time/location/account) can still leak information to some degree.
by odyssey7 | 2025-06-10 18:05:10+00:00
I don’t know the details as specifically, since I haven’t been able to justify investing my efforts in the non-flagship ecosystem within the TensorFlow project after it previously added its Swift version to the Google Graveyard, but TensorFlow.js is doing something in this direction for the Node.js version. This info is at: https://www.tensorflow.org/js/guide/nodejs

“Like the CPU package, the module is accelerated by the TensorFlow C binary. But the GPU package runs tensor operations on the GPU with CUDA.”

They note that these operations are synchronous, so using them will sacrifice some of JavaScript’s effectiveness at asynchronous event processing. This is not different from Python when you are training or serving a model. JavaScript’s strengths would shine brighter when coordinating agents / building systems that coordinate models.
by FireBeyond | 2025-06-10 18:05:27+00:00
> Both Biden and Fauci are on record as saying basically “if you get the vaccine you won’t get Covid and can’t give Covid to another person”.

Horseshit, and you know it. Because even you acknowledged elsewhere they said "unlikely".

Then you run around this conversation saying "they said it won't happen", and using weasel words like "basically" to justify your mischaracterization of what they said as absolute claims.
by JohnFen | 2025-06-10 18:05:29+00:00
> They might feel otherwise.

They might, but that's just another thing they're wrong about. Mocking someone is making fun of them, ridiculing them, calling them stupid and such. Just pointing out that they're wrong is not mocking.

If it's no longer possible to tell people when they're wrong, we're doomed. I value when people point out that I'm wrong and if that stopped, I would be poorer for it.
by torginus | 2025-06-10 18:05:59+00:00
I'm just taking a wild guess here, but I'd guess it's not a problem - WSL2 works afaik by having a native ext4 partition, and the Windows kernel accesses it. Intra-OS file perf is great, but using Windows to access Linux files is slow.

MacOS just understands ext4 directly, and should be able to read/write it with no performance penalty.
by chneu | 2025-06-10 18:06:19+00:00
I believe we have more trees today then ever before.

That isn't all that matters though. We replant monocultures and harvest them. This isn't a good ecosystem. It's also a net negative on the environmental emissions(carbon sequestered).

The age of the forest, variety, etc all matter a lot.

I spend a lot of time in forests. The difference between a harvested in the last century and an old growth forest is very obvious. They are drastically different.

We don't have a lot of old growth forest anymore.
by curious_cat_163 | 2025-06-10 18:06:20+00:00
I am not sure why this ought to require "pump another $100 Billion". Could you elaborate?

Yes, the more recent generation of GPUs optimize for attention math. But they are still fairly "general-purpose" accelerators as well. So when I see papers like this (interesting idea, btw!), my mental model for costs suggests that the CapEx to buy up the GPUs and build out the data centers would get re-used for this and 100s of other ideas and experiments.

And then the hope is that the best ideas will occupy more of the available capacity...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-10 18:06:23+00:00
IANAL but executive retainers do tend to have some protections precisely for thus reason. You don't want a shift in presidency and then for them to hollow out 4+ years of tenure to advance their agenda. There needs to be some non-partisanship so the sceicne isn't bogged down by beuracracy.

At the bare minumum, most government workers get due notice of their termination. The federal government is for the most part not at-will.
by vel0city | 2025-06-10 18:06:28+00:00
I definitely don't know enough about the history of such issues to make a deep and reasoned take and thus will mostly shut up until I read more about it. I only vaguely know what big news sources have said about such things in passing.

But as a quick take I think the land pressures of native Hawaiians is radically different than the land issues of white Christians in Texas. And it's not like there's any deeply historic religious connections to Arlington Texas to white Christians for a quick example is there? The worry if cultural elimination is probably radically different at a quick glance wouldn't you agree?
by trod1234 | 2025-06-10 18:06:34+00:00
> The FUD to spread is not that AI...

It is both.

The inconsistency of the distorted reflected appraisal in the responses of these things does harm people, but you don't realize it because its subliminal.

Without knowing how cult programming and torture works, you don't recognize the danger, and to compete you are forced to expose yourself. Its a race to the bottom.

It also is turning all entry level sequential career pipelines off, which results in a cascading catastrophic failure within 5-10 years, at a time where you have the least ability to correct the underlying issues.

Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers, IT, the entry level parts of these careers all can be done by specially crafted prompts using AI, the AI just won't ever improve beyond that point because its not artificial intelligence, its pseudo intelligence.
by m3047 | 2025-06-10 18:06:50+00:00
I don't know that this is a particularly good article, but it touches on two elements of games based on incomplete / imperfect information.

One of these elements he refers to as "leverage" and I think he does an ok job explaining what it is, although maybe not how / why it works.

The other one, contrasting doctors and contractors, I think he does poorly. Full disclosure: I've had really crappy luck with doctors (it's not just luck). Doctors aren't used to getting "not to exceed" demands, things like that. On the other hand my father was a psychiatrist, a specialist, and that gives me insight into the "practice" of medicine; and I've worked for a number of biotechs and I have some insight into the evolution of medical practice. Combined, I have a pretty good sense of when the doctors are "practicing" versus forming a hypothesis (ask for one!).

During one of my burnouts I took a "vacation" working (what started as part time) for a high-end flooring contractor. Although the owner and I had different backgrounds and beliefs we had mutual respect for each other (and we had great conversations). But what the public calls (and in public we called) an "estimate" we called internally an "interview"; and we wanted to take the temperature of the "pain in the ass" factor: Does the prospect truly understand the work? Does the prospect have irrelevant concerns? (I'm doing a poor job here, although I'm pretty sure successful contractors will understand what I'm talking about.) Our bids could vary as much as 300% (upwards) from our baseline model / estimate for the job... before we said "no" outright or came up with good excuse for them to fire us before receiving our bid.

There were some rather "zen" aspects of the process (my father had a zen question: how do you feel? I have a zen question: what do you measure?), such as an insistence that all special instructions had to fit, legibly handwritten, in about 1/3 of an 8x11 piece of paper. (We did $10000 floors on a one page contract, not including non-negotiable required boilerplate; why can't we do that in IT? Can we? Yes, yes I say we can.)

But distilling this down: some contractors would rather deal with the masssages and fish tank cleaning (at 3x the $$$) than do floors... whereas for us flooring was a religious calling or something. You'll find this both in doctors and in contractors; and you'll also find people out there who expect to pay that 300% markup to have the contractor walk their dog.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 18:07:17+00:00
> 4 machins in the same number of seats would really make it impossible to do anything

One, we did a lot with one Manchin and one Sinema. (To the degree the former had concerns, it was well-founded ones over the inflationary effects of the Inflation Reduction Act.)

Two, not doing anything beats the status quo. A weak majority would be a check on the executive. We’re paying the price for ideological purism.
by behnamoh | 2025-06-10 18:07:28+00:00
how do we know it's not a quantized version of o3? what's stopping these firms from announcing the full model to perform well on the benchmarks and then gradually quantizing it (first at Q8 so no one notices, then Q6, then Q4, ...).

I have a suspicion that's how they were able to get gpt-4-turbo so fast. In practice, I found it inferior to the original GPT-4 but the company probably benchmaxxed the hell out of the turbo and 4o versions so even though they were worse models, users found them more pleasing.
by vel0city | 2025-06-10 18:07:42+00:00
> Did they not demographically replace the English, Natives, Blacks?

In the 1800s? No. You realize how much happened with the great expansion and all that? The population squeeze that happened from the civil war? I find it laughable you'd be arguing for the Native American tribes in the early 1800s. Once again, showing your racist ideology. Thanks for further confirming such a thing. America is for white Protestants only. Got it.

Thanks for confirming to you, me, a white Christian American is not welcome here and shouldn't have been here in the first place. Because I'm not really the right kind of white Christian.
by sureokbutyeah | 2025-06-10 18:08:28+00:00
Yes, basically this. Americans have to hustle all day in the war against "line go down". Our agency is not allowed to be put to caring for other people but the illusion the 1% alone prop up society.

So sick of Americans empty-analysis and ignorance of externalities their society puts on others; overseas colleagues see it as white Taliban. They don't see people in streets over tariffs screwing up their lives, so they've started to tell their politicians Americans (as in the public) are not reliable actors. They don't realize it, but the American publics own credibility is shot, not just their politicians.

I have taken to cutting off friends and family and shit talking anyone in public that wants to socialize; do the politic work to put me on the hook for their healthcare, otherwise I refuse to bother with their existence. Withdrawing from people's lives is a forcing function for self reflection.

You all keep me off the hook caring you exist. I just have to help make line go up. Anything to do with you all as individuals is not my responsibility. That's the choice of the American people. I'm here to profit, not give a fuck you exist.

That's what my fellow Americans taught me through their feckless political effort. Illusory idea some invisible hand gives a shit based upon the gibberish from history they read by people who were wanking their literacy rather than inventing indoor plumbing.
by arcb | 2025-06-10 18:08:35+00:00
It depends on the source and destination. The trickiest case is when we're using browser agents for data entry. We can use the fact that we focus on repetitive tasks to our advantage - we know what sections of UI we need to check, and for what data. We can verify correctness by re-extracting data from the destination UI (via the DOM or OCR) and checking:

That all expected fields were entered correctly.

That no unexpected or extraneous data was added.

When we have access to a direct data source (like an API or file store), verification is simpler — we can do deterministic checks and directly confirm the values.

We're also building a validation library for common field types (dates, contact info, etc.) to enforce constraints and avoid propagating unverifiable or out-of-range values.
by tayzer | 2025-06-10 18:08:56+00:00
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by htrp | 2025-06-10 18:09:07+00:00
>Meta is close to finalizing an almost $15 billion investment in Scale AI, the tech giant’s largest-ever external investment, which would give Meta a 49% stake in the company, according to The Information. As part of the deal, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is personally assembling a team of about 50 people to help Meta supercharge its AI goals — specifically, to achieve artificial general intelligence — and Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang is set to join that group once the deal is final, according to Bloomberg and The New York Times.

Interesting that this is a 49% stake to effectively buy Scale's data + the data labeling team
by spagoop | 2025-06-10 18:09:12+00:00
To be meta about it, I would argue that thinking "generatively" is a craft in and of itself. You are setting the conditions for work to grow rather than having top-down control over the entire problem space.

Where it gets interesting is being pushed into directions that you wouldn't have considered anyway rather than expediting the work you would have already done.

I can't speak for engineers, but that's how we've been positioning it in our org. It's worth noting that we're finding GenAI less practical in design-land for pushing code or prototyping, but insanely helpful helping with research and discovery work.

We've been experimenting with more esoteric prompts to really challenge the models and ourselves.

Here's a tangible example: Imagine you have an enormous dataset of user-research, both qual and quant, and you have a few ideas of how to synthesize the overall narrative, but are still hitting a wall.

You can use a prompt like this to really get the team thinking:

"What empty spaces or absences are crucial here? Amplify these voids until they become the primary focus, not the surrounding substance. Describe how centering nothingness might transform your understanding of everything else. What does the emptiness tell you?"

or

"Buildings reveal their true nature when sliced open. That perfect line that exposes all layers at once - from foundation to roof, from public to private, from structure to skin.

What stories hide between your floors? Cut through your challenge vertically, ruthlessly. Watch how each layer speaks to the others. Notice the hidden chambers, the unexpected connections, the places where different systems touch.

What would a clean slice through your problem expose?"

LLM's have completely changed our approach to research and, I would argue, reinvigorated an alternate craftsmanship to the ways in which we study our products and learn from our users.

Of course the onus is on us to pick apart the responses for any interesting directions that are contextually relevant to the problem we're attempting to solve, but we are still in control of the work.

Happy to write more about this if folks are interested.
by const_cast | 2025-06-10 18:09:16+00:00
Okay, so if this is the case, then why are you advocating escalating the situation further?

I mean, surely you're not so stupid to legitimately believe the marines are being sent in for "control", right? We all, left, right, and center, understand what this is. Trump news-casting. It's an attempt to make the situation worse for clicks and views, for sensationalism. And it's working quite well!

Even if you think these riots are riots and that they're the bad guys and yadda yadda yadda... okay and why are we sending in the marines to cause more destruction? What's the link there buddy? Do you just want to watch the world burn? Because, honestly, that's kind of fucked up.
by nodesocket | 2025-06-10 18:09:22+00:00
Awesome, I literally just had this exact idea and started making a prototype with Cursor AI but gave up after about an hour going back and forth with AI not fixing bugs, or incorrectly implementing what I described. Fixing an issue, and then Cursor AI subsequently breaking it again.

Was going down the rabbit hole with TypeScript, React, and three.js.