MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by torqueehmada | 2025-06-11 03:55:21+00:00
If nobody writes it, the LLM can't learn it. This is going to be a fascinating shift of resources. I suspect it will have the inverse effect of eroding traditional journalism outlets to retrofit for the new model, while boosting smaller competitors, but with everyone going to subscription based. The content creators could make a significant amount of money.

Then again, this would be a great time for state-sponsored media, if we didn't have such an anti-intellectual assclown as president and the lacky congress/scotus.
by shawm | 2025-06-11 03:55:53+00:00
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by apt-apt-apt-apt | 2025-06-11 03:56:02+00:00
GPT says: Unless you're a hamster hooked up to a Fitbit, it's more like 60–70W for a normal adult human. So the brain’s real power draw is more like 15–20W, not 5W

Resting energy usage in humans is ~1200–1500 kcal/day, or about 60–70 watts, depending on the person. Logic holds, estimate is just low
by dajtxx | 2025-06-11 03:56:06+00:00
The problem (as far as I can tell) is that for Windows and MacOS you can't install the docker daemon etc without installing Desktop.

I have a Mac for work and containers are a pain. I've tried Podman, UTM, colima, Docker Desktop etc and it all boils down to the same thing - run a linux VM and have the command line utils cooperate with the VM to run the containers.

It comes down to which solution has the least friction and irritations and Docker might still win there.

My current setup is UTM running a debian VM which I share my source directory with and ssh into to run docker. This is simpler for my brain to understand because the linux VM isn't a hidden component I forget to manage.

But it's not obvious how to mount the shared directory and I'm constantly running into networking problems - currently I cannot connect as myself and must sudo ssh for it to work. A reboot (of the Mac) used to fix it, but no longer does. I've given up trying to fix it and just sudo.
by int_19h | 2025-06-11 03:56:24+00:00
Those are the ones that were stupid.

The ones that are smart behave well enough to graduate, and then go work as police, ICE, prison guards etc. Basically anywhere you can beat people and get away with it because "qualified immunity" or "the camera suddenly turned off right then" or...

I've been a part of a local right-wing militia several years ago. Out of ~20 people involved, we had two active cops and one retired. And the stories they told made it abundantly clear that most of their PD (Seattle) is like-minded.

So when push comes to shove, they will absolutely be on the side of the feds if Trump goes all in.
by Agentlien | 2025-06-11 03:56:47+00:00
On a tangent: what about self scanning? Here in Sweden that is the norm. For the last ten years I've brought my own bags, packed everything like I want it as I grab it - with a quick blip from the scanner - and then checkout is no line, no cashier, no unpacking and packing things again. Just scanning my card and going through a brief screen to check that the summary looks right.

Instead of a guard there's a scanner by the exit gate where you scan your ticket. In my case just a small stub since the actual ticket is sent digitally.

I think it works so smoothly, much better than before this system was introduced. My recent experience buying groceries in Belgium was very similar.
by tamimio | 2025-06-11 03:58:14+00:00
I loved it! But I loved even more the idea of when a person has no prior experience or knowledge in something yet achieves great results in a short period of time. That build mindset is fascinating. The only issue is when applying for normal jobs, unless the interviewer can see through a person's passion, they usually assume you don’t have what it takes or won’t "raise the bar" for whatever they are after. That is, unless you lie or throw in all sorts of buzzwords to create a halo effect.

I have a question, though: Any info about the flight stack? Was it Pixhawk/Ardu, iNav, or something else?
by dogman123 | 2025-06-11 03:58:36+00:00
My dad was diagnosed with multiple myeloma 2 years ago. His bone marrow transplant failed (frequent first line of defense) and he just finished CAR-T therapy a couple months ago. The initial side effects from the treatment were _bad_, but everything is looking good right now. CAR-T is really mindbogglingly insane cyberpunk stuff.
by throw10920 | 2025-06-11 03:59:26+00:00
> The flip side is: knowledge is not (and should not be!) copyrightable.

Irrelevant. Books and media are not pure knowledge, and those are what is being discussed here, not knowledge.

> Anyone can read your articles and use the knowledge it contains, without paying or crediting you.

Completely irrelevant. AI are categorically different than humans. This is not a valid comparison to make.

This is also a dishonest comparison, because there's a difference between you voluntarily publishing an article for free on the internet (which doesn't even mean that you're giving consent to train on your content), and you offering a paid book online that you have to purchase.

> AI should be allowed to read repair manuals and use them to fix cars.

Yes, after the AI trainers have paid for the repair manuals at the rate that the publishers demand, in exactly the same way that you have to pay for those manuals before using them.

Of course, because AI can then leverage that knowledge at a scale orders of magnitude greater than a human, the cost should be orders of magnitude higher, too.
by light001 | 2025-06-11 04:00:56+00:00
While OpenAI's Sora model amazed the world but remained closed, the Open-Sora project is committed to using the power of the open source community to allow everyone to access and participate in cutting-edge video generation technology. It not only provides a usable model, but also discloses training details and toolchains, greatly promoting the democratization and innovation of AI video generation technology.
by b8 | 2025-06-11 04:01:10+00:00
Empress has cracked Denuvo protected games within a few days of launch, so not its not stopping everyone [0]. After one person bypasses it then others do from the inspiration they got from the OG. There's a formal theory for it, but I can't recall it currently.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_(cracker)
by keiferski | 2025-06-11 04:01:18+00:00
Germany is the single most open country in the EU to immigrants, and even then the cultural and political winds are very obviously shifting. Everywhere else is the same: anti-immigration forces are ascendant both culturally and politically: the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, France, Sweden, etc.

As I said in my original comment, it is becoming more difficult. You’d have to be completely blind to politics to not understand this. Especially when anyone moving there now practically won’t get residency for 1-2 years if they started soon. Realistically if you begin the process this year, you’re going to be applying for permanent residency/ citizenship in 4-5 years under a government hostile to it.

Which is why I suggested using a family or ancestry route if possible. Because the process is most likely going to get more difficult soon, and already is in many places.
by gojomo | 2025-06-11 04:01:53+00:00
Less than you might think! Some of the frontier-advancing training-on-model-outputs ('synthetic data') work just uses other models & automated-checkers to select suitable prompts and desirable subsets of generations.

I find it (very) vaguely like how a person can improve at a sport or an instrument without an expert guiding them through every step up, just by drilling certain behaviors in an adequately-proper way. Training on synthetic data somehow seems to extract a similar iterative improvement in certain directions, without requiring any more natural data. It's somehow succeeding in using more compute to refine yet more value from the original non-synthetic-training-data's entropy.
by robrenaud | 2025-06-11 04:02:45+00:00
There is no real difference between fine-tuning with and without a lora. If you give me a model with a lora adapter, I can give you an updated model without the extra lora params that is functionally identical.

Fitting a lora changes potentially useful information the same way that fine-tuning the whole model does. It's just the lora restricts the expressiveness of the weight update so that is compactly encoded.
by physicalrobot | 2025-06-11 04:03:23+00:00
I am on the team. Here are some responses to your questions:

>Could I ignore all flow runs that have an estimated cost above a certain threshold, so that the overall cost of optimization is less? Suppose I choose an acceptable level of accuracy and then skip some costlier exploration stuff. Is there a risk it doesn't find certain optimal configurations even under my cost limit?

See the section on the Pareto Pruner in the paper where we evaluate the performance of ignoring runs on the optimization. It shows that ignoring these points does not lead to suboptimal configurations. We have at various times implemented fixed cost / latency thresholds at various times during development to reduce our cost exposure.

>How does the system deal with long context-length documents that some models can handle and others can't? Does this approach work for custom models?

That is part of why we jointly optimize the embedding and retriever settings. For models that only support shorter context lengths the retrieved documents will be truncated to avoid errors, if they leads to poor performance it should try and find better settings (e.g. by being more selective with a reranker).

>Suppose I want to create and optimize for my own LLM-as-a-judge metrics.

Please reach out on our github and we can discuss in code in more detail there. We are interested in expanding the options to make syftr more extensible but are curious exactly how people are interesting in using it for more methods, especially whether you are interested in exploring higher-dimensional spaces (accuracy + cost + additional metrics).

> Are you going to flesh out the docs? We plan to, we focused on writing the paper and explaining how syftr works. Now we plan to do more attention on the details of how to run experiments, customize etc.

> Any recommendations for creating the initial QA dataset for benchmarking? We used HuggingFace datasets as the dataset format. If there is interest on iterating on versions of the dataset on HuggingFace, that is something we could look at. You can see the current datasets here: https://huggingface.co/DataRobot-Research
by FabHK | 2025-06-11 04:03:48+00:00
Many wrinkles here.

First, one should probably look at GNP (or even GNI) rather than GDP to reduce the distortionary impact of foreign direct investment, company headquarters for tax reasons, etc.

Next, need to distinguish between market rate and PPP, as you highlight.

Lastly, these are all measures of output (per capita), while productivity is output per input, in this context output per hour worked. There the differences are less pronounced.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-11 04:04:14+00:00
"Meta faces simultaneous liability under the following regulations, listed from least to most severe: GDPR, DSA, and DMA (I'm not even including the ePrivacy Directive because it's laughable)."

Also not included:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70448987/1/rose-v-meta-...

The wiretapping claims carry damages of $5,000 per violation.

It could be he thinks this is laughable like the ePrivacy Directive.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-facebook-pay-90-mil...

https://dicellolevitt.com/case-study/facebook-agrees-to-pay-...
by a57721 | 2025-06-11 04:04:33+00:00
It really depends on the context, e.g. if you need texts for a database of word frequencies, then the answer is a clear "yes", and LLMs have already ruined everything [1]. The only exception from your list would be OCR where a human proofreads the output.

[1] https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq/blob/master/SUNSET.md
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-11 04:04:45+00:00
>> What I am trying to say is that LLM's have no concept of "truth". They only produce statistically relevant responses to queries submitted to them.

> So?

Okay, this is my last attempt to express myself clearly to you in this thread.

> The internet in general is that, as are people sharing things they know.

"The internet in general" and "people sharing things" is not the topic of this thread. The topic is LLM's and has evolved into whether or not those algorithms in conjunction with their training data sets possess knowledge of "truth", as introduced by yourself previously:

> If you're trying to show that LLMs can be guided into saying false things ...

> LLMs to tend to say true things ...

These are examples of anthropomorphization. This is understandable as most of the posts you have kindly shared in this thread have been been focused on people or conflating a category of algorithms with same.

What I have consistently said is quoted above

LLM's have no concept of "truth."

Any interpretation of text they generate as being "true" or "false" is done by a person reading the text, not the algorithms nor the data on which they were trained.
by int_19h | 2025-06-11 04:05:25+00:00
I remember back in 2013 in Ukraine, when the government tried to violently disperse the protesters on Maidan, they didn't just throw molotovs - they built a catapult to throw them further. And they burned down several APCs:

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

And you know what? They were justified.
by Ndymium | 2025-06-11 04:06:03+00:00
Search engine crawlers generally respected robots.txt and limited themselves to a trickle of requests, likely based on the relative popularity of the website. These bots do neither, they will crawl anything they can access and send enough requests per second to drown your server, especially if you're a self hoster running your own little site on a dinky server.

Search engines never took my site down, these bots did.
by rappatic | 2025-06-11 04:06:25+00:00
Denuvo definitely does attempt to hire from the scene. It's less that they necessarily need those specific peoples' skills, but rather because there are so few people who can crack Denuvo, so hiring a single such person dramatically reduces the number of people out there cracking your games. The most famous example being Empress, who was the only person in the world cracking Denuvo for a few years. I'm sure Denuvo would have loved to hire her, if only to stop her from releasing cracks.
by stevenbedrick | 2025-06-11 04:06:28+00:00
In the case of this specific post, it is unfortunately very appropriate to bring him up: his administration is enthusiastically setting back the US’s ability to study, treat, and cure cancer by years and possibly decades; his cuts at the FDA are setting back the availability of new therapies and his cuts to AHRQ and are undermining our ability to study whether the ones we have work; and his proposed budget would strip access to healthcare (including cancer screening and relevant preventative care) from tens of millions of Americans. Oh and his administration’s attack on higher education, and his immigration policies relating thereto, are gutting our scientific and biomedical workforces.

So while I am as sick as anybody about hearing about him, on a thread about advances in cancer treatments, it would be awfully weird to ignore the elephant in the room. Just sayin’.
by bobblywobbles | 2025-06-11 04:07:11+00:00
I solved this in a repository I made a few years back. By switching languages, .missing.json files are generated with the words that don't have the other-language equivalent. Then, you run this script which calls the google translate API to generate the translations. https://github.com/reZach/secure-electron-template/blob/mast...

Granted, it still suffers that it's not a human translator, but it doesn't require a LLM.
by int_19h | 2025-06-11 04:07:29+00:00
Back during the George Floyd riots, there were numerous videos of cops shooting rubber bullets at people just for lulz. There was one when a person standing inside and filming through the window got shot at, cracking the glass.

Most of those same cops are staffing PDs today, so they will behave exactly as they did back then. Nobody sane should give them any benefit of doubt.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-06-11 04:07:37+00:00
> In the West, we have the attitude that autocracy is bad

Many other places, too. Obviously it's not a universal thing: every sufficiently large group of people has fans of autocracy. There has historically been evolutionary advantages to wanting a big, strong hand to control everything. Any alternative has not had sufficient time to evolutionarily propagate through humans.

The rest of your post kind of veers off-topic, so remember we're talking about individual people's decision to not work on something based on their own judgements. I don't think it's worth arguing at them that their judgements are wrongly made.

Again, If you think it's good or even neutral to give autocrats technology which they almost certainly will use for autocracy (even if they do other things with it), then this isn't a moral dilemma you need concern yourself with. Nobody is trying to convince you personally to change your morals. So, as long as you don't try to change theirs, there is no need to be defensive.

> I think we should re-calibrate our self-confidence that we know what's best for others.

I think a good place to start with this, would be to be less confident that you know what's best for others who are deciding whether to empower autocrats. It's much easier to criticize them and their decision, than to come with a realistic, better alternative.
by billmcneale | 2025-06-11 04:07:51+00:00
> by its mere definition it's always aimed against the user, therefore it's always an anti-feature.

Describing it as "anti user" is theoretically correct but practically incorrect. It's true that it might prevent mods and possible future uses if the servers go down, but in practice, users don't care, as is demonstrated by the fact that games that contain Denuvo routinely sell in the millions and users have no idea it's even there, and they will never know.

Overreaching?

I don't know. Companies put out a product, you're free not to buy it if you don't like it. That's one of the reasons why I call this natural market forces.

> So conceptually it's not any better than what fourth amendment is aimed to prevent.

That's a gross exaggeration. The Fourth amendment is about unreasonable searches by the government, I completely fail to see how willingly buying a digital product from non governmental organizations is connected to Fourth amendment in any rational way.

Again, at the end of the day, nobody forces you to buy that product, hence "natural market forces".

The fact that millions of these games are being bought every month tells me users don't feel that whatever flaws, perceived or real, Denuvo has matters less to them than playing these games.
by misterjensen | 2025-06-11 04:08:17+00:00
Gas station convenience stores in Brazil have for the most part replaced regular convenience stores, especially outside regular work hours. Gas stations in Brazil tend to be well lit spaces with ample parking, surveillance and frequent police presence. I wouldn't be surprised if gas stations in the northern hemisphere become a little more like Brazilian gas stations as time goes by and urban violence increases in Europe, USA and Canada. I also don't buy on the inevitability of electric vehicles. I am pretty sure at least diesel and ethanol will be around for a long time.
by derefr | 2025-06-11 04:09:57+00:00
And even then, people were never against most of it. Scrollbar thumbs with grip stipple? Checkboxes that fill in with a roundrect rather than a checkmark? Buttons and tabs that have an inline ring-highlight "intent" color to them, akin to the fill color on modern Bootstrap theme buttons? These were all parts of the Luna theme as well — and people liked them. (And, IIRC, they were often sad that these parts got deactivated when reverting to the Windows Classic theme, and often asked if there was some hybrid theme that kept these.)

With Luna, I think people were mainly just reacting negatively to two things:

1. the start button being big and green and a weird blob shape; the start menu it opens having a huge, very rounded forehead and chin — and both of these having a certain "pre-baked custom PNG image 8-way sliced in Photoshop and drawn by parts" look that you'd see used on web pages in this era. This made the whole UI feel very "non-brutalist" — form not following function, the way it did in Windows Classic (where the theme was in part designed to optimize for as few line-draw GDI calls as possible.)

2. both the taskbar and window title bars being vertically thicker, and having a vaguely-plastic-looking sheen to them to "add dimensionality."

And my hypothesis is that, of these, it was mainly the "vertically thicker" taskbar+window decorations that upset so many people.

This was an era where many screens were still largely 1024x768, even as monitor sizes were growing; so "small was cool" [and legible!] Websites baked their text into images using 8x5 pixel fonts; Linux users used tiny fonts and narrow themes in fvwm/blackbox/fluxbox, etc. In that era, a title bar stealing thirty whole pixels was almost blasphemy. (Same problem with the Office XP ribbon. Microsoft's visual designers must have been too far ahead-of-the-curve in what kind of resolutions their graphics cards supported, I think.)

I think, if there was an alternate version of Luna that also shipped with XP, that just narrowed the taskbar and window caption bar to the Windows Classic dimensions... then Luna would have been universally acclaimed.
by refulgentis | 2025-06-11 04:10:11+00:00
So you don't have anything to contribute beyond, and aren't interested in anything beyond, citing of terms?

Why are you in the comments section of a engineering news site?

(note: beyond your, excuse me while I'm direct now, boorish know-nothing reply, the terms you are citing have nothing to do with the thing people are actually discussing around you, despite your best efforts. It doesn't say "we might swap in a new service, congrats!", nor does it have anything to say about that. Your legalese at most describes why they'd pull 05-06, not forward 05-06 to 06-05. This is a novel idea.)
by toxic | 2025-06-11 04:10:19+00:00
I stand by the statement. Waymo is not being meaningfully harmed here.

Waymo's jaguars are well insured -- this does not harm Alphabet in any meaningful way (and certainly not in the "Your neighbor's small business" context that was the context of the post). They shouldn't have been in the area (the taxis weren't), and they absolutely shouldn't be helping law enforcement quite so voluntarily with their video surveillance.

If you want LA to go back to "normal", get ICE, USMC and the federalized guard out of there. They are the problem. Your tax dollars are paying for this charade, and if nothing else, you should be pissed about that.