MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mosquitobiten | 2025-07-08 10:16:23+00:00
well thats her expertise, it is why she exists. one single super smart AI is not good enough, you need other dumber AIs that are specialists. also my understanding is that all the AIs in the matrix perform functions and exist outside of it too. It is very interesting how the wachouskis were right, we already started using a similar strategy with our LLMs to help us with alignment.
by 082349872349872 | 2025-07-08 10:17:15+00:00
alternative sol'n: bring on the Centrifugal Bumble Puppy parks; who needs actual progress as long as it's possible to sustain the illusion :-)

(come to think of it, evaluating "progress" requires the ability to compare across longer timescales, so the goldfish* of the Brave New World need not even have the illusion, because they never reflect)

* would an Edwardian complain that our recent discovery of "Goldfish with PhD's" has created entities which can expound upon the meaning of everything but the value of nothing?
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-08 10:17:54+00:00
>Than in artists copying the styles and techniques of popular artists to improve their craft.

We have not achieved GAI yet, so comparing the human mind to what's ultimately a robotic database is one ultimately made on a flimsy premise. AI isn't generating a style anymore than a user bashing 3 templates together.

Even when we hit GAI, we have different issues. a brain can't perfectly recite a song they hear. It will not objectively interpret the same soundwaves from brain to brain. It will not react the same way from brain to brain due to different experiences and perspectives. What GAI develops into may or may not take all these into account.

>If the income of those billionaires and the profits of their corporations were more equitably taxed, it would solve a larger class of problems, of which this problem is an instance.

Sure. We can also make sure they pay the artists being copied frmo while we tax them more too. Let's not dismiss theft by casting off the theft as magic. This isn't Now you see me...
by tree-hugger | 2025-07-08 10:18:31+00:00
> In the past, new jobs appeared that the workers could migrate to.

There was no happy and smooth transition that you seem to allude to. The Luddite movement was in direct response to this: people were dying over this. Factory owners fired or massively reduced wages of workers, replacing many with child workers in precarious and dangerous conditions. In response, the workers smashed the machines that were being used to eliminate their jobs and prevent them from feeding themselves and their families (_not_ the machines that were used to make their jobs easier).
by krapp | 2025-07-08 10:18:33+00:00
In preindustrial societies, "vampires and zombies" (which didn't really exist per se before being codified in modern media) represented fear of disease, death and the unknown and occult aspects of the natural world, and embodied pervasive fears of hidden Satanic influence on the community, of both cultural and physical corruption.

After Bram Stoker essentially codified the vampire for the Western world, they also came to represent the raw power of sexual desire and the corruption of violating Christian taboos in Victorian age England. Zombies didn't really exist as a thing in pop culture AFAIK until Night of the Living Dead, although folklore has plenty of examples of revenant spirits and demons that attack the living, hard taxonomies like "vampire" and "zombie" didn't really exist, just as the distinction between "ghosts", "elves" and "trolls" were blurrier before Tolkien.

Nowadays, there aren't many primal or deep cultural fears in Western society that these monsters can effectively inhabit, so they mostly exist as pop icons and symbols of themselves. Although I have seen the "zombie as the dehumanization of capitalism" and "zombie as manifestation of popular violence." Mostly zombies are zombies because zombies are cool, and vampires are vampires because vampires are cool, and that's the end of it.

Vampires, zombies and aliens are flexible because they don't really exist (aliens probably exist, but they don't exist here) They have a vast amount of folklore to draw from, and can be dropped within almost any setting and motif without much suspension of disbelief.

This isn't the case for dinosaurs. They were real, they were animals, they were big and there just isn't as much to work with thematically, and you have to work harder to justify the presence of dinosaurs in any setting where human beings also exist. You can't really tap into fear, sex, body horror, political intrigue, cool fight scenes, etc. with dinosaurs the way you can with the rest. You can't update dinosaurs for the modern world the way you can vampires, zombies and aliens.
by dangus | 2025-07-08 10:19:18+00:00
But OpenAI and Anthropic are not profitable. They are getting lots of revenue but we don’t even know if that revenue is bringing them closer to profitability. For all we know they are selling $2 bills for $1.

“It’ll only get cheaper” until it doesn’t.

Moore’s law is already dead in the context of the underlying hardware manufacturing technology that powers AI. Once neural processor design reaches an end state we can’t count on any significant lithography breakthroughs powering a reduction in cost.

For example, graphics cards aren’t getting cheaper, and if they are, certainly not very quickly. A lot of consumer electronics categories key to prior tech booms like laptops and workstations aren’t getting cheaper or aren’t getting cheaper/faster very quickly.
by avianlyric | 2025-07-08 10:21:59+00:00
Has it occurred to you that personally punishing employees would just create further incentive to hide errors? You just create a culture of fear, where any attempt to acknowledge mistakes and learn from them is punished rather than rewarded.

I have no idea why you think inflicting financial penalties on employees would result in better outcomes. You only need to look at some highly avoidable transit disasters in Japan to understand why a model of punishment produces worse outcomes, not better.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki_derailment

There is a reason we have regulators (or at least we do in the UK). I can assure you that if this had happened in the UK, and the complaint raised to the Financial Ombudsman (FOS), there would have been hefty financial punishment for the bank. If there were repeated infractions, the FCA would step in to investigate, and possibly personally punish C-suite leaders for failing to build the needed processes and culture to both prevent, and learn from mistakes like this.

And I’m not speaking about theory, I’m speaking from personal experience. I know exactly what it’s like to be on the pointy end of both the FOS and FCAs gaze. It’s not a comfortable position for any team in any bank, and even less comfortable for senior leaders.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-08 10:22:10+00:00
>If I suggest that a third of the people can work, and the other 2 thirds do nothing, but get supported, most will get distressed [1]. The very essence of US society is that we are defined by our work.

Sure, I'd be down for it. But I think that's less realistic and instead the government will make my country try to make for a rise of feudalism instead. Except most will starve. it will make the great depression seem quaint in comparison.

>And yet if 2% of the work force is in agriculture, and produce enough food for all, why is hunger a thing?

I'd love to know the answer too. I think we both know the true answer, though.

>I'm not suggesting equality or communism. I'm suggesting a bottom threshold where you get enough even if you don't work.

That's the issue. Even right now, we don't get enough even if you do work full time. Living is unsustainable. How is the problem going to get better, especially when those who would have to pay will instead lobby to not pay out to the people?
by sho_hn | 2025-07-08 10:22:13+00:00
Thanks for making this point, which is very and strangely underrepresented on Hacker News.

I've been made fun of for decades for being a Linux user with slogans like "I want to use my PC, not work on my PC". Guess what, thanks to what I learned and the network it got me I have a nicer occupation than any of them and got to participate in a few projects that changed the world a little. You should seek out experiences that build you, not disparage them.

What makes Prusa so great is that you don't have to "make the 3D printer your hobby", but you definitely can. I can think of few products that balance this so well.

I've just started writing these in the hopes of reaching that 15 yo with potential, not an army of MacBook-wielding TypeScript slingers.
by pplonski86 | 2025-07-08 10:22:45+00:00
We write and run tests to build trust in our code changes. But maybe tests aren’t the only way to achieve that trust.

When I was younger, I had a friend who was a senior software engineer. I remember he would make changes to production systems without even running the application locally or executing any tests, and yet his changes never failed. The team had a high level of trust in all his code changes.
by sizzle | 2025-07-08 10:23:45+00:00
I replaced the pulley drum belt with a kit and the squeaky roller wheels for my whirlpool dryer.

That thing is a tank and so easy to service!

I’m just scared it will fail catastrophically some day and the gas burner will ignite the garage. Do you know how safe an old gas burning whirlpool dryer is compared to modern gas dryers? The whirlpool can get super hot and basically bake my clothes if I want.
by bregma | 2025-07-08 10:25:39+00:00
Pasteurization would also destroy the delicate honey taste. It takes almost nothing to do that, and heating honey above about 40 C even for 30 seconds will kill any honeyness and all you have left is the sweet.

I'll bet only the imported Chinese honey is pasteurized on the supermarket shelf. Most of that goes to industrial use anyway.
by matthewsinclair | 2025-07-08 10:26:04+00:00
I won't comment on TypeScript (other than to bemoan its JavaScript origins), but for what it's worth, people I hold in high esteem have a lot of good things to say about it.

But as far as LLM-assisted coding goes, the pure functional / no-side effects / immutable data properties of Elixir (and to be fair, other functional languages that owe their ancestry, in part, to Lisp) seem to have a big impact on the LLM's ability to reason about change. At least that is my experience with it over the last 6 months or so.

It's such a fun time to get the opportunity to muck around with these technologies, "programming" is _profoundly_ changing under their influence.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-08 10:26:37+00:00
>Are some of our mindsets preventing us from seeing alternatives?

no, just corporate greed and political corruption. If we wanna change that, words won't do at this point.

>Given that society has reinvented itself many times through history, are more reinvention possible?

Yes, and through what catalyst has society reinvented itself? Reasonable discourse to a civil population appealing to emotion and reason? A sudden burst of altruism to try and cement a positive legacy?

It will reinvent itself eventually. Definitely in my lifetime. I don't know how many of us will survive to see the other side.
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by Levitating | 2025-07-08 10:27:34+00:00
> Let’s say bankrupt studios are off the hook.

We can "say" this, but it would need to be part of the proposal. To be honest I haven't read the proposal, just the FAQ. But I would expect some nuance to be added to protect small studios.

Like I said in my first comment, I feel like this proposal is just targeting studios like EA. And I am sure it works well for that. Though personally I would've hoped that consumers would just stop buying EA games.
by bonoboTP | 2025-07-08 10:27:39+00:00
As a fellow tab/bookmark (and sessionstore.json and other extension-based export) hoarder, I wonder if our lives could be helped by LLM curation and organization of this mess. Like vague queries against this backlog, like is there anything related to XYZ topic or aspect in the pile? What's the overall composition of this heap of links? How does this composition change over time? Can we plot a 2D scatterplot of all the links with proximity based on semantic/topical similarity?

Or maybe we just need to learn how to prioritize better? Or do some kind of stagewise workflow where the superficial ingestion/collection is followed by multiple steps of culling the less relevant stuff (but still without real deletion, just in case for later). Or perhaps we could now write a sentence of why we think the link may be relevant and what future event or future state of some project or development might make this link gain in relevance again? And then again we could declare that this has happened and what are now the links that are relevant?

I could see some LLM product in this space, but I think this market is fairly niche.
by ViscountPenguin | 2025-07-08 10:28:56+00:00
Cacti aswell, mostly thrive because of desert floods. They've evolved to quickly suck up as much water as they can, then they use a special acidic form of photosynthesis to make it last as long as possible.

Different desert plants use similar ideas, the Aussie outback for example blooms for about a month after a given flood, reproduces, then dies out near completely except around the occasional waterhole.
by gMermigkis | 2025-07-08 10:30:29+00:00
Thanks for your comment. We have noticed some strange behavior with the “search” feature, you are right to mention that & we are currently trying to improve its performance. Regarding the SHA you don’t get any results when filtering out NEON or VSX, because the AVX512 SHA intrinsics hasn’t been added yet (under dev atm). When searching for “HASH”, the first 3 results that you get are correct (NEON), the other ones are as mentioned before are bad behavior of the search component - it must have found some similarity.
by sizzle | 2025-07-08 10:30:44+00:00
This is why you’ll have to pry my 20 year old gas burning whirlpool dryer from my dead hands.

I replace a squeaky drum wheel ~$20 and a drum pulley belt kit ~$40 and this dryer is flawless. It can bake my towels if I want or run low heat for delicates.

My parents Samsung is constantly on the fritz and their home warranty company keeps replacing parts or the whole unit over the years.
by tomhow | 2025-07-08 10:30:55+00:00
I don't live in the US, and that's not what I wrote. I wrote that it's not additional news beyond what has already been reported and discussed here, and this story is no more current/recent that the main reporting from last week.

Here it is referenced in two comments in that thread, posted over five days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445727

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448673
by avianlyric | 2025-07-08 10:31:25+00:00
Evidence suggests they’re about as neutral as you could hope.

It’s not like Google search is some kind special tool used only by the elite. It’s pretty trivial for political scientists to pump queries into Google and measure the results. Which is exactly what many have done.

There’s been plenty of independent research into political bias of Google search results, and plenty of lawsuits that have gone fishing via discovery for internal evidence of bias. As yet, nobody has found a smoking gun, or any real evidence of search result bias (on a political axis, the same can be said for commercial gain).

There are many problems with Google, and Google search. Google as an org isn’t politically neutral (although I have no idea how they could be). But political bias in their results isn’t one of those problems.
by drakonka | 2025-07-08 10:31:34+00:00
This is an interesting idea, and I wonder if it could be a response to some of the increasingly reported 'brain rot' experiences with AI usage. There are things that I opt not to use ChatGPT for because I know it will be harmful to my long/medium-term mental capacity. Being able to use it in a mode that is actively designed to facilitate thinking rather than bypass it could be useful.
by scoot | 2025-07-08 10:32:35+00:00
> there’s no real sense of “this is my project on climate change” or “this is the story I’m working on.” It’s just one long chat thread

perplexity.ai (a meta-ai) partly solves that problem by at least allowing you to group chats in "Spaces" (effectively folders). It lacks some of the other features you suggested though.
by rbanffy | 2025-07-08 10:34:14+00:00
> If they have to pay a union, they will not see all the benefits, and only focus on the 50 dollar union fee.

This is the worst part of averting disaster - people never see you fixed something before it became a problem. That's why there are so many "disaster-driven organizations" out there, where the people who prevents disasters gets passed over by the people who often provoke them in order to be the hero that fixes the problem.
by NilMostChill | 2025-07-08 10:35:12+00:00
> The author definitely saw it as a targeted attack that, when it failed, caused the attacker to switch tactics to intentionally cause harm.

Saying "someone or something" is generic and also accurate it doesn't explicitly imply a specific person or targeting, though I'll concede it could be interpreted that way.

As interesting a side conversation as this is it isn't my original point.

As i said in my original reply:

> It being common doesn't mean it's OK, it also doesn't mean people aren't allowed to be upset by it.

> "You probably need to calm down a bit" is dismissive and condescending.

It's entirely possible to explain context to someone without being dismissive of their feelings on the subject.
by enricozb | 2025-07-08 10:35:39+00:00
For structs, why couldn't rust check the necessary bounds on `T` for each field to be cloned? E.g. in

#[derive(Clone)] struct Weird<T> { ptr: Arc<T>, tup: (T, usize) }

for `ptr`, `Arc<T>: Clone` exists with no bound on `T`. But for `tup`, `(T, usize): Clone` requires `T: Clone`.

Same thing for other derives, such as `Default`.
by latexr | 2025-07-08 10:36:30+00:00
> despite the possibility of being misled occasionally.

There is a chasm of difference between being misled occasionally (Wikipedia) and frequently (LLMs). I don’t think you understand how much effort goes on behind the scenes at Wikipedia. No, not everyone can edit every Wikipedia page willy-nilly. Pages for major political figures often can only be edited with an account. IPs like those of iCloud Private Relay are banned and can’t anonymously edit the most basic of pages.

Furthermore, Wikipedia was always honest about what it is from the start. They managed expectations, underpromised and overdelivered. The bozos releasing LLMs talk about them as if they created the embryo of god, and giving money to their religion will solve all your problems.
by 0rzech | 2025-07-08 10:36:34+00:00
Apparently, Derivative is unmaintained [1], but there is Derive_more [2], Educe [3] and Derive-where [4], if anyone is interested.

[1] https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0388.html

[2] https://crates.io/crates/derive_more

[3] https://crates.io/crates/educe

[4] https://crates.io/crates/derive-where
by tharkun__ | 2025-07-08 10:38:42+00:00
It seems like dumbing it down or immediate heavy jargon with people you don't know are just both equally bad options.

What's wrong with asking their level of experience with the topic?

Sure, with parents you know the level. I'm talking "other strangers" you meet outside of a context where some familiarity would be expected (like at a conference one might assume at least some form of knowledge and ability to just have the other person ask about specific jargon they don't know).

But at the parents dinner party, that other guy may or may not be in your line of work. Just ask them.
by Traster | 2025-07-08 10:39:25+00:00
If you go to nvidia's jobs website today you'll find they're actively hiring FPGA developers for ASIC prototyping. Obviously they're not dumping their 5090 RTL straight into some 10 metre wide FPGA chip. First, they grab the largest FPGA you can get your hands on - the FPGA vendors tend to have a couple of comically expensive comically large SKUs for specifically this purpose. Then you pop a few of them onto a development board and partition your design across the cluster of FPGAs with some custom interconnect, orchestration and DFT stuff. FPGAs offer quite a compelling way of getting test mileage vs simuluation/emulation in software.
by dangus | 2025-07-08 10:40:27+00:00
“Exploration” is a funny word for “copyright infringement.” I seem to recall that our society fined college kids $150,000 per song download.

I suspect that the amount of freely available text, video, and audio will decrease once entities like Disney start winning lawsuits. Alternatively, anyone who doesn’t want their work to be crawled and trained from will keep their work behind login/paywalls moving forward.

I think it’s entirely fair that there should be a robots.txt type of mechanism for sites to opt out of being crawled for training, and we might see places like the EU come up with something of that sort.
by Someone | 2025-07-08 10:40:31+00:00
FTA: “in 100-dimensional space, his method packs roughly 100 times as many spheres; in a million-dimensional space, it packs roughly 1 million times as many“

Nice example of how weird large-dimensional space is. Apparently, when smart minds were asked to put as many 100-dimensional oranges in a 100-dimensional crate as they could, so far, the best they managed to do was fill less than 1% of its space with oranges, and decades of searching couldn’t find a spot to put another one.
by martylamb | 2025-07-08 10:41:02+00:00
I made something called ChatKeeper to deal with exactly this.

It syncs your entire ChatGPT history to local markdown files so you can organize, rename, or integrate them with other work however you like. I use it to keep my conversations alongside related notes in Obsidian, but since it's just markdown, you can use any system at all.

I also built it because ChatGPT is a cloud-based service which, as we all know, can vanish, change its UI, or alter its terms at any time, and I wanted control over my own data.

Info, screenshots, & download all at https://martiansoftware.com/chatkeeper for the curious.

(full disclosure: I sell it, but it's cheap, not subscription-based, and has a free trial.)

(nerd disclosure: Reverse-engineering the ChatGPT export format is an ongoing game of whack-a-mole as they continually add new features. The software is currently a CLI but a GUI version is in the works.)