MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by weinzierl | 2025-07-07 12:26:48+00:00
"No, it isn't, and especially hasn't been historically. The negative connotations are overwhelmingly modern."

Maybe that is what Richard Nixon thought as well when he caused a little scandal using it in South America in 1950. In 1992 when the Chicago Tribune published "HANDS OFF" mentioning said episode the negative connotations still seemed to be in place[1].

In 1996 The New York Times stated "What's A-O.K. in the U.S.A. Is Lewd and Worthless Beyond"[2] as title of an article confirming the negative connotations.

It is worth mentioning that this article lists Australia amongst the places where the gesture is inappropriate. I always thought it was something used only in the English-speaking world but it seems in reality it is more like a North American plus diving world thing.

If you don't believe the press, I traveled around the world for more than 30 years and I can assure you in most parts using your thumb and index finger for a visual OK is not OK.

[1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/01/26/hands-off-34/

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/18/weekinreview/what-s-a-ok-...*
by nilkn | 2025-07-07 12:27:05+00:00
For a bit now ChatGPT has been able to reference your entire chat history. It was one of the biggest and most substantial improvements to the product in its history in my opinion. I'm sure we'll continue to see improvements in this feature over time, but your first item here is already partially addressed (maybe fully).

I completely agree on the third item. Carefully tuned pushback is something that even today's most sophisticated models are not very good at. They are simply too sycophantic. A great human professional therapist provides value not just by listening to their client and offering academic insights, but more specifically by knowing exactly when and how to push back -- sometimes quite forcefully, sometimes gently, sometimes not at all. I've never interacted with any LLM that can approach that level of judgment -- not because they lack the fundamental capacity, but because they're all simply trained to be too agreeable right now.
by neuroticnews25 | 2025-07-07 12:27:18+00:00
Aren't these [0] lines wrong?

"[\\b\\d][Aa]bbo[\\bA-Z\\d]",

\b inside a set (square brackets) is a backspace character [1], not a word boundary. I don't think it was intended? Or is the regex flavor used here different?

[0] https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safet...

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsregul...
by IAmBroom | 2025-07-07 12:27:20+00:00
You've omitted a couple tiny details in Albarn's success: outstanding compositional talent, and an eagerness to collaborate.

IMO, that eagerness to collaborate was brought into modern music by rappers. It's almost not possible to build a discography of modern rappers, who happily take roles from background singing to minor rap sections in each other's works - not to mention sampling.

It used to be "Bing Crosby, with the Andrews Sisters". Now the "featuring" section is sometimes ten names long, almost never absent, and Damon was right there as the revolution was televised.

His previous success greased the wheels, sure, but Gorillaz was right-idea/right-time.
by rs186 | 2025-07-07 12:27:55+00:00
There is no such thing as serious/non-serious learning.

I take weekly music lessons and have been doing that for a decade. After every lesson -- since the very first one -- I am amazed by how many simple things that I get wrong, and how many different areas where I could improve. The teacher just sees/hears that immediately, when you have no idea what you did wrong. And the music just sounds different.

Not only that, the teacher discusses the piece with you, tells you the efficient way to practice (a specific piece or specific passage) etc.

You would probably sound ok to a random stranger, but you quickly hit a bottleneck. You spend a lot of time doing incorrect/inefficient things without knowing it.

$100/hr is expensive, but well worth it.
by yawpitch | 2025-07-07 12:28:46+00:00
Learning about sex isn’t traumatic; learning about sex badly and without your (informed) consent is extremely traumatic. The problem isn’t, and never has been, the porn, the problem is porn being used by children as a substitute for good sex education when that sex education isn’t present at all or isn’t good.

Now, we could leverage the Internet towards good sex education — see the recent Crash Course: Sex Ed series, for example — but we’d have to sneak it past all the willful idiots preaching (and refusing to fund anything but) abstinence-only.
by renatko | 2025-07-07 12:29:15+00:00
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by themaninthedark | 2025-07-07 12:29:16+00:00
From the 2024 Politico article:

>The study, which focuses on 2023 and early this year(2024), adds to a growing body of evidence that Beijing is using forced labor and mass internment camps to control the Uyghurs — and ramps up pressure on the European Union to finalize plans for a bloc-wide ban on imports of products made with forced labor.

Your comment: >Maybe 20 years ago?

Unless it is suddenly 2030 and I missed the time shift, I am talking the past year or two.
by vessenes | 2025-07-07 12:29:35+00:00
I think there’s a good clue here to what may work for frontier models — you definitely do not remember everything about a random day 15 years ago. By the same token, you almost certainly remember some things about a day much longer ago than that, if something significant happened. So, you have some compression / lossy memory working that lets you not just be a tabula rasa about anything older than [your brain’s memory capacity].

Some architectures try to model this infinite, but lossy, horizon with functions that are amenable as a pass on the input context. So far none of them seem to beat the good old attention head, though.
by ionlyusegoogle | 2025-07-07 12:30:54+00:00
As a world-traveler, I was tired of all those websites which include satellite images, huricane trackers, windspeeds and wave accumilations... I just want to book my next trip and know when and where rainy season is. Now! :)

It's just me, by myself who created this. And proud to say, this is my first ever project!

I've build an simple interactive map, which just solves the problem of knowing where a rainy season is, which periods and shows it instantly. This is just the easiest way to see where rain seasons are happening around the world.

I've added more than 250+ cities with actual data. More functions will be added. Also made an Android app for end users, just for free, will be launched in 2 weeks. Preview in the images.

Would really love some feedback! Happy to answer any questions below
by Leave_OAI_Alone | 2025-07-07 12:31:00+00:00
Invoking post hoc ergo propter hoc is a textbook way to dismiss an inconvenience to the LLM industrial complex.

LLMs will tell users, "good, you're seeing the cracks", "you're right", the "fact you are calling it out means you are operating at a higher level of self awareness than most" (https://x.com/nearcyan/status/1916603586802597918).

Enabling the user in this way is not a passive variable. It is an active agent that validated paranoid ideation, reframed a break from reality as a virtue, and provided authoritative confirmation using all prior context about the user. LLMs are a bespoke engine for amplifying cognitive distortion, and to suggest their role is coincidental is to ignore the mechanism of action right in front of you.
Ask HN: How should a team collaborate on their AI agent tooling?
by physicles | 2025-07-07 12:31:05+00:00
Devs aren't used to having to agree on their stack. One person uses linux, vscode, and zsh; another uses a mac with neovim and fish. And that was totally fine.

But when you look at the bleeding edge agent-based stack, not only are there a lot of choices, it seems like there's more non-trivial configuration that you'd want to collaborate on as a team:

- You need lots of rules so your agents have a chance to zero-shot their tasks. But if someone uses Cursor and someone uses Claude Code, do you put the rules in .cursor/rules or in CLAUDE.md?

- Adding a rule is much more impactful than adding a single line of code. What does code review look like for these?

- For MCP servers and tools, is there some sort of effort to keep those in sync as well?

Of course, the AI vendors don't have an incentive to help with this kind of collaboration.

So, do devs who use the same tools end up in their own little conclaves? Or is it more common for someone to mandate that everyone on the same team shall use a given stack of AI tools?
by echelon | 2025-07-07 12:31:13+00:00
It doesn't make them not an artist.

There are lots of VFX professionals on LinkedIn having a total field day with AI tools and posting mind-blowing stuff. Somehow it hasn't reached the rest of social media yet.

On that last point: AI is going to propel individual artists ahead of big Hollywood studios. They won't need studio capital anymore, and they'll be able to retain all the upside themselves.
by roxolotl | 2025-07-07 12:31:23+00:00
SpaceX: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna166283

Tesla: https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/elon-musk-tesla-environme...

Of course XAI is this article we’re all commenting on but here’s an older one: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/elon-musk-xai-memph...
by dgb23 | 2025-07-07 12:32:00+00:00
I've seen this kind of thing and it annoys me to no end. However that seems to be a small minority among many.

But the majority of young adults are rightfully asking hard questions.

Why should they suffer the consequences of political and corporate mismanagement ? Why is accountability rarely invoked when it comes to people in power? Why is it OK for old disgruntled people to yell at them for things they have nothing to do with? Why should they take us seriously if we don't take them seriously?

Again, I agree with you that some are hiding behind these things in order to deflect blame, but let's not pretend that the young don't have every right to be mad at us.
by avmich | 2025-07-07 12:32:33+00:00
Roughly speaking, the job of a medical doctor is to diagnose the patient - and then, after the diagnosis is made, to apply the healing from the book, corresponding to the diagnosis.

The diagnosis is pattern matching (again, roughly). It kinda suggests that a lot of "intelligent" problems are focused on pattern matching, and (relatively straightforward) application of "previous experience". So, pattern matching can bring us a great deal towards AGI.
by infecto | 2025-07-07 12:32:43+00:00
This is my own experience but I find the evaluation on interest and intellectual curiosity to be more validating long term than being able to rote memorize problems.

Edit: To add some color, I want a candidate who is excited to program, I don’t care as much about their ability beyond having the basics which I find pretty easy to figure out in an initial conversation. Candidates who are excited for the opportunity are generally the ones who I find to excel in the long run.
by morganf | 2025-07-07 12:33:08+00:00
It doesn't compare to that coolness you just shared, but I'm from Long Island (right outside New York City) and I and everyone from my childhood town can differentiate a Long Island accent from a New Jersey accent (very similar but subtly different; a suburb on the other side of NYC) from a Queens accent (a type of NY accent from a NY neighborhood, whose most famous exemplar is The Nanny) from a Brooklyn accent (another type of NY accent, the Mel Brooks sort and how my dad speaks), etc etc. So, while, the US is nothing like Italy where every 3 miles there's a different language-or-dialect, the US accent isn't nearly as uniform as one might think, for even within cities and their suburbs, like my hometown in the above example, there is a comparable dynamic, where going not-that-far (these neighborhoods and suburbs aren't far from each other) people speak in accents that are notably different to locals, although surely people not from NY group it all together as "the NY accent" without differentiating the level-of-nasal-ness and other such contributing factors to the accent.
by weego | 2025-07-07 12:33:27+00:00
They build teams in their own broken image of what a good programmer should be, and then get to manager and director and mould entire companies the same way.

They become hotbeds of intellectually rich but functionally and productively inept individuals who value spending resources indulging in esoteric side quests instead of driving businesses forwards in ways that are 'just sustainable enough'.

I've always been on the periphery of FAANG 'level' situations trying to focus on the surface where tech and humans meet and as the 3 decades of my career have gone on, software engineering has become more and more ludicrous and bubble like to the point where it, and the developers working on it, are now just the annoyance between me and my goals.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-07 12:33:33+00:00
No no, your comprehension is failing you again.

The problem people are raising is not "mass deportation." The problem is violation of due process rights.

This is not a viable solution because it is 1) blatantly illegal under the American Constitution and 2) undermines the very premise of the rule of law.

One reason it is clearly not a viable solution is because if it were, then it would also be a viable solution simply to deport aydyn and people who think like him/her. Doing so would only entail the same convenience-driven Constitutional violations that the current administration is undertaking. Neither is a viable solution.

Let's just get to the meat of the matter so you can pick between hypocrisy or ignorance.

Please answer these yes/no questions:

1. Under the US Constitution, does someone suspected of being an illegal immigrant have a right to due process?

2. Is it acceptable to violate the US Constitution when convenient?
by Khelo | 2025-07-07 12:34:08+00:00
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by whiplash451 | 2025-07-07 12:34:41+00:00
You're not the only one. ARC-AGI is a laudable effort, but its fundamental premise is indeed debatable:

"We argue that human cognition follows strictly the same pattern as human physical capabilities: both emerged as evolutionary solutions to specific problems in specific evironments" (from page 22 of On the Measure of Intelligence)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.01547
by incomingpain | 2025-07-07 12:35:01+00:00
>I’ve tried posting on Twitter (or X, whatever it’s called now). The result? 12 views, no reactions, zero engagement. Just a void.

All new accounts are shadowbanned into the 'spam' filter. You likely also didnt connect with a topic or thread that had any activity.

Twitter approaches things differently that's all.

>Here, I shared my projects, joined discussions, and felt something real: No likes. No follower counts. Just humans and ideas

You have 6 likes at the time i opened this thread. 5 comments in an hour. They absolutely do have an algo that takes into account these things.

>I hope Hacker News lives forever. Because if places like this disappear, we’ll lose something truly important.

I think it was something like month or 2 ago when vpn usage started mattering on HN and it really improved.
by devoutsalsa | 2025-07-07 12:35:08+00:00
One obvious limitation of LLMs is censorship & telling you what you want to hear. A therapist can say, "I'm going to be honest with you, <insert something you need to hear here>". An LLM isn't going to do that, and it probably shouldn't do that. I think it's fine to treat LLM advice like you'd receive from a friend, meaning it's just something to think about and should not be treated as professional advice. It's not going to diagnose you with an issue that would be obvious to a therapist, but not from the prompts you give it. For example, if you're wondering why you can't attract a member of the opposite sex, a therapist my notice you have poor hygiene and dress like a hobo.
by whilenot-dev | 2025-07-07 12:35:58+00:00
I didn't think of prediction in the statistical sense here, but rather as a prophecy based on a vision, something that is inherently stored in a model without the knowledge of the modelers. I don't want to imply any magic or something supernatural here, it's just the juice that goes off the rails sometimes, and it gets overlooked due to the sheer quantity of the weights. Something like unknown bugs in production, but, because they still just represent a valid number in some computation that wouldn't cause any panic, these few bits can show a useful pattern under the right circumstances.

Inference would be the part that is deliberately learned and drawn from conclusions based on the training set, like in the "classic" sense of statistical learning.
by dicytea | 2025-07-07 12:36:26+00:00
I really never understood the threat model behind this often repeated argument.

Most of these installation scripts are just simple bootstappers that will eventually download and execute millions lines of code authored and hosted by the same people behind the shell script.

You simply will not be capable of personally auditing those millions lines of code, so this problem boils down to your trust model. If you have so little trust towards the authors behind the project, to the point that you'd suspect them pulling absurdly convoluted ploys like:

> the web server behind mywebsite.com/foo.sh provides malware for the first request from your IP, but when you request it again it will show a different, clean file without any code

How can you trust them to not hide even more malicious code in the binary itself?

I believe the reason why this flawed argument have spread like a mind virus throughout the years is because it is something that is easy to do and easy to parrot in every mildly-relevant thread.

It is easy to audit a 5-line shell script. But to personally audit the millions lines of code behind the binary that that script will blindly download and run anyways? Nah, that's real security work and no one wants to actually do hard work here. We're just here to score some easy points and signal that we're a smart and security-conscious person to our peers.

> which are hosted by microsoft, and therefore easily MITM'able by government agencies.

If your threat model includes government agencies maliciously tampering your Deno binaries, you have far more things to worry about than just curl | sh.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-07 12:36:42+00:00
> Senders pay a small fee to send a message. • Relaying devices earn a micro-payment (could be tokens, sats, etc.) for carrying the message one hop further.

The Helium Network tried something like this, but with a fixed infrastructure: People were incentivized to run Helium network nodes and could earn micropayments for running nodes and handling traffic.

It revealed a lot of problems with structures like this, such as the incentive to cheat through various loopholes that were discovered.

It also became apparent that the monetization/tokenization aspect overtook the network functionality as the primary motivator for the project. After a while, people started looking at the traffic and payouts and realized that almost nobody was using it for real communication, it had become one big shell game for collecting the payments designed to incentivize nodes to come online and relay traffic. Then the token itself had become a speculative commodity that people used for trading more than anything.

I think it would be interesting if someone could invent a stable coin cryptocurrency with low overhead that enabled some of these use cases, but it seems the allure of generating a new token that the founders can sell into a speculative market to raise funds for the project is always too alluring, so every project goes from having good intentions to becoming a veiled pump and dump. Maybe some day there will be a stable coin that escapes these issues, but I haven’t seen it yet.
by avianlyric | 2025-07-07 12:37:04+00:00
There is a huge difference between an honest mistake by an employee, and clear employee misconduct.

Punishing employees for making honest mistakes, where appropriate process should have prevented error, is a horrific way to handle mistakes like this. It would be equivalent to personally punishing engineers every time they deployed code that contained bugs. Nobody would ever think that’s an acceptable thing to do, why on earth would think it’s acceptable to punish customer service staff in a similar manner?
by Leave_OAI_Alone | 2025-07-07 12:37:16+00:00
You have compiled an interesting list of benchmarks and adjacent research. The implicit question is whether an established benchmark for building a full product exists.

After reviewing all this, what is your actual conclusion, or are you asking? Is the takeaway that a comprehensive benchmark exists and we should be using it, or is the takeaway that the problem space is too multifaceted for any single benchmark to be meaningful?
by pickledoyster | 2025-07-07 12:37:21+00:00
Yeah, if I were their reader, I'd most likely never read anything from them again, since nothing's stopping them from doing away with integrity altogether and just stitching together a bunch of scripts ('agents') into an LLM slop pipeline.

It's so weird how people use LLMs to automate the most important and rewarding parts of the creative process. I get that companies have no clue how to market the things, but it really shows a lack of imagination and self-awareness when a 'creative' repackages slop for their audience and calls it 'fun'.
by badsectoracula | 2025-07-07 12:37:24+00:00
The problem is that these consumers realize they'd dislike some things of a product long after buying it (and often it isn't the entire product that is a problem, so someone might still dislike a lot some aspect of a product while liking another aspect of it).

And others may not even realize the negative issues at all but still they create network effects that drag other consumers along the ride anyway, regardless of if they like it or not.
by pxc | 2025-07-07 12:37:51+00:00
If the actual installation process can be made simple, you can have users copy/paste the whole installation script rather than pulling it down with curl.

See for instance...

Setup instructions for Pkgsrc on macOS with the SmartOS people's binary caches: https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/

Spack installation instructions: https://spack-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial_bas...

Guix setup used to look like this but now they have a shell script for download. Even so, the instructions advise saving it and walk you through what to expect so you can have reasonable expectations while installing it.

Anyway, my point is that there are other ways to instruct people about the same kind of install process.
by Isamu | 2025-07-07 12:37:51+00:00
It’s common knowledge, less so now because we never need to do it. But go back in time and it’s common frontier knowledge, you can do this in a pinch. And in Medieval times, you can boil something in a pouch.

It’s just less reliable, the upper part hanging the bag could burn and you could lose everything. It’s just less durable. So anthropologists are likely to argue about how prevalent it was. Wouldn’t you want to transition to a more durable way as quickly as possible?