MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-07-19 14:29:11+00:00
Huge win for science ...big loss for evolution.

I am by no means a callous person, in fact, my therapist tells me I have a problem with too much empathy, and in no way do I wish parents to loose their children so young.

But what I am also not is a eugenicist, which is what this is, eugenics.

"Eugenics is a set of largely discredited beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population."

Now remember, first they are only preventing the chance of a baby being born with mitochondrial disease. But more importantly, these mitochondrial diseases are still evident in the human population because there is some survival advantage. This is what happens with sickle cell disease [1]. The sacrifices these babies make, dying so young, is a sacrifice for the survival of a genetic population. In the case of mitochondrial diseases, this favors the survival of female babies over male babies, or even the benefit of higher amounts of oxidative stess in the mother to fight off infection.

So by this method, even the female baby will be born without the Mitochondrial mutation. What will this mean for her?

https://www.vanderbilt.edu/evolution/mitochondrial-dna-evolu...

"Accordingly, their model revealed that some mutations confer a net replicative advantage over unmutated (wildtype) mtDNA, causing the mutant mtDNA to proliferate within individual organisms."

We know so little and we are acting like we know everything. Humanity needs to stop thinking we are gods and accept our fates. Eugenicists thought they knew what the best genes were to survive, and this is no different.

[1] https://globalhealthnow.org/2024-06/how-sickle-cell-disease-...
by pqtyw | 2025-07-19 14:29:11+00:00
Yes the Pilgrims for instance emigrated from Holland and not England. Of course the Plymouth Colony was quite "progressive" compared to the oppressive theocracy in Massachusetts. At least they weren't hanging quakers, dissenters and didn't burn a single witch during the panic..

Anyway I don't think that the English Puritans/etc. were somehow particularly exceptional (besides the fact that they emigrated to North America) compared to other similar groups in Europe.
by dathinab | 2025-07-19 14:29:16+00:00
even many of the very widely used LaTex "editors" do have some semi live "preview" feature which often allow some WYSIWYG like features in the preview

similar if someone random non technical person just needs to write idk. 5 paragraphs of text with a head line, no high requirements for formatting, no kind of templates, no anything fancy why would you force them to not have WYSIWYG if that is the perfekt fit for their use case in every single aspect?

Similar markdown doesn't scale to a lot of writing requirements, like _AT ALL_. I know because I have written pretty much any thesis or larger reports etc. during my studies in markdown. And I had to step out of markdown all the time. Weather that is by using inline latex, or by tweaking markdown to PDF conversion templates (by interleaving non mark down sources with markdown by splitting the markdown into many different files and folders which each could be markdown or anything else, and/or inline latex to include non markdown sources imported into latex) etc. It was a nice pipeline, but it also wasn't really markdown anymore, but instead some amalgamation of markdown LaTex and other things. As a programmer that was fine, but that doesn't scale at all to the "standard" user of office applications.
by andrepd | 2025-07-19 14:29:26+00:00
It's the consequence of growth capitalism. When it's not enough to make money, you have to make more money this quarter than you did last, then it's really only a matter of time until everything is monetised under the exclusive logic of greed, devoid of any other considerations of a moral or human order. Public goods, water fountains, libraries, beaches, forests. Basic state functions. Your attention, at every moment. On it marches.
by threatripper | 2025-07-19 14:29:40+00:00
But quality is going up a lot. Granted, it's not up to human levels yet, but it is going up fast. Also we will see more complex quality control in AI output, tailored to specific use cases and sold at a premium. Right now these don't exist and if they existed it would be too expensive to run 100x requests for the same amount of output. So humans are stuck in quality control, for now.
by xtiansimon | 2025-07-19 14:29:52+00:00
> “For example, if someone paid $60 a month for their health insurance this year, they might be looking at $105 a month next year.”

This example is meaningless, except to explain how math works.

I have NYS Marketplace Bronze (insipid terminology) plan. I’m 55 and in good health (knock). These are no other people on my plan. My plan cost is $600/mo. I pay $300 and get a tax credit for $300 (which I can claim monthly, but which is reconciled on my tax return). This is the only way to discuss the cost.

So what is the change? Is the cost going up? Every indication is yes. Is the tax benefit going down? Not clear.
by gmd63 | 2025-07-19 14:30:05+00:00
If you don't like it, start another payment processor that doesn't cave to pressure. Where are all the free market proselytizers at?

I expect all of you complaining about this to never once complain on legal grounds about Apple's 30% tax in the app store or when a bakery refuses to sell a cake to a gay person.

This is what unrestricted freedom for every entity looks like.

And this is why we need laws and regulations that are actually enforced. Because companies and larger organisms do not necessarily operate on timescales that are able to be reasonably responded to within a human lifespan.
by mikewarot | 2025-07-19 14:30:17+00:00
I'm fairly certain that wouldn't happen. Unless you were to overfit the models until the error were to drop to zero, which would likely take almost infinite time. If you did get that point, you've managed to achieve lossless compression of the training data into the weights of the model.

Given that AI models are randomly initialized with noise, and the goal of training is to avoid overfit, there will always be variance between the weights of models, even if trained from the same data, due to those initial conditions, and chaos theory.

And all of the above, is for the same model architecture. I expect you could do some principle component analysis and come up with a transform to work between models, again if they were overfit to zero error. (After all, that would be a compression engine instead of an AI at that point)

Upon reflection, it seems to me that free Stanford AI course I took a decade ago actually stuck. 8)
by gpm | 2025-07-19 14:30:20+00:00
A person outputs about 1kg of CO2 per day, which is less than 1 gram per minute. A cigarette weighs roughly a gram, which means it probably emits roughly 3 grams of CO2... or less... (The O2 comes from the environment, and weighs 32 to carbons 12, but the cigarette isn't actually pure carbon).

I don't know... that's maybe detectable? You'd need a pretty sensitive CO2 sensor and to be tying it to other signs to avoid "someone else walked into and out of the room"... but in principle...
by bikesnobikes | 2025-07-19 14:30:21+00:00
> https://grell.dev/blog/di2_attack

> must be within a couple of meters of the bike

The range of radio transmitters/transceivers can be increased, and accidental transmissions from various things could affect it.

Choosing to allow any kind of remote control over a manned vehicle is a risk. There can be benefits, but winning a race may not be worth giving up your life.

Similarly, I don’t want IoT devices and won’t connect them when I have to buy them. I’d prefer to keep my thermostat and appliances safe, and a neighbor can turn them off if I forget.
by grillitoazul | 2025-07-19 14:31:05+00:00
From a mathematical point of view there are two factors: (1) Initial prior capability of prediction from the human agents and (2) Acceleration in the predicted event. Now we examine the result under such a model and conclude that:

The more prior predictive power of human agents imply the more a posterior acceleration of progress in LLMs (math capability).

Here we are supposing that the increase in training data is not the main explanatory factor.

This example is the gem of a general framework for assessing acceleration in LLM progress, and I think its application to many data points could give us valuable information.
by canibal | 2025-07-19 14:31:21+00:00
Aside from the moral clamor, if something has a higher likelihood of fraud, there's a direct relationship with the increase of its cost. Both legal fees and labor cost to deal with these claims could add up more than we outsiders may realize. It's very possible that some risk-averse analyst "ran the numbers", and decided this wasn't worth it. I would also speculate that there may be a certain hidden coat of false fraud claims. Certain folks buying something in the moment, then shamefully claiming they didn't after the fact, which in turn could carry the costs associated with processing a new card & number or conversely fighting false claims.

As for the morality angle though, while I definitely agree that these companies' main motivation has to be increasing revenue and profit, and that their only reason for doing anything is cost-driven; you never know what middle-manager who is swayed by what belief is actually making these decisions. So as much as the monolithic goal of the organization is more money, there are still emotional (and financially fallible) people pulling the levers.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-07-19 14:31:21+00:00
>> Why is that less exciting? A machine competing in an unconstrained natural language difficult math contest and coming out on top by any means is breath taking science fiction a few years ago - now it’s not exciting?

Half the internet is convinced that LLMs are a big data cheating machine and if they're right then, yes, boldly cheating where nobody has cheated before is not that exciting.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-07-19 14:31:21+00:00
>> tearing down hundreds of years of precedent is not conservative, this is an extremist court

The Roberts court has overturned precedent less often than any other recent court. See https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/us/supreme-court-preceden....

By your definitions, the Roberts court is the most conservative court, and the Warren Burger court from 1969 to 1986 was the most extremist.

You don't care about overturning precedent. The above facts will not change your mind about the Roberts court. The real issue is there in the article I linked to:

"What distinguishes the Roberts court is ideology. In cases overruling precedents, the Warren court reached a liberal result 92 percent of the time. The Burger and Rehnquist courts reached liberal outcomes about half the time. The number dropped to 35 percent for the Roberts court. Since 2017, it has ticked down a bit, to 31 percent"

The Roberts court is in fact conservative. It does not often overturn precedent, but when it overturns precedent it does so with conservative results. That's why you and other liberals don't like it.
by culturestate | 2025-07-19 14:32:12+00:00
> After 25 you can’t really learn new languages without considerable investment and effort.

It takes considerable investment and effort before you’re 25, too, you just don’t notice it because it happens slowly over a long period in school and via immersion.

I move around a lot so I’ve had to learn a few new languages as an adult - at least to basic proficiency, if not approaching fluency - and I don’t think it’s really any more difficult than it was when I was a kid, except that I now recognize how difficult it is.
by wasmperson | 2025-07-19 14:32:26+00:00
A custom engine is never _needed_ technically speaking since COTS engines are often customizable to the point where you can do anything you want with them. That doesn't mean that they don't influence the design of games, though.

There's a talk that Casey gives where he explains how he implemented the movement system for The Witness, in which he shows examples of Unity-based "walking simulator"-type games dealing with limitations of the engine in ways that The Witness was able to totally avoid. This allowed the game's artists to be creative with set design without worrying as much about performance issues or collision bugs, thus potentially opening up more design space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE8MVNMzpbo

Here's some praise of The Witness by Fabien Giesen:

> That’s where I am right now. I have never seen another game as cohesive as this. Not even close. Without getting into specifics or spoiler territory, I have never seen a game with such manifest intention behind every single detail, nor one where all the details cohere this well into a whole. This goes for the design and gameplay itself, but also across traditional hard boundaries. Game design and art play off each other, and both of these are tightly coupled with some of the engine tech in the game. It’s amazing. There is no single detail in the game that would be hard to accomplish by itself, but the whole is much more than the sum of its parts, with no signs of the endless compromise that are normally a reality in every project.

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2016/01/30/thoughts-on-the-wit...
by acdha | 2025-07-19 14:33:49+00:00
It makes me sad that the PEP for the equivalent behaviour for function keyword arguments wasn’t accepted. It’s really common to see foo(bar=bar) and I think it’s not only cleaner but would help see subtle differences if that was foo(bar=) because it would make the cases where some arguments aren’t simply being passed through more obvious: foo(bar=, …, baaz=baaz.get_id()) avoids the most interesting detail being easily missed.
by alfiedotwtf | 2025-07-19 14:33:51+00:00
> Usually, ordering of operations in code is indicated by the line number (first line happens before the second line, and so on), but I understand that this might fly out the window in async code

This isn’t always true at the language level, and almost certainly not at the CPU pipeline and microcode level.

Logic languages like Prolog will execute statements out of order, by design. Other languages like Mercury use the IO monad to signify serial operations
by riedel | 2025-07-19 14:34:16+00:00
The EU should step in and make sure that any critical OS attestation is taken out of the hands of the big players. Look at GrapheneOS is being denied Google Play Integrity [1] on pretty much no grounds with large consequences. Such security infrastructure is to easily abused to put bias into the market. On the other hand funding is needed to professionally run this stuff.

[1] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/grapheneos-is-taking-act...
by modeless | 2025-07-19 14:34:19+00:00
Noam Brown:

> this isn’t an IMO-specific model. It’s a reasoning LLM that incorporates new experimental general-purpose techniques.

> it’s also more efficient [than o1 or o3] with its thinking. And there’s a lot of room to push the test-time compute and efficiency further.

> As fast as recent AI progress has been, I fully expect the trend to continue. Importantly, I think we’re close to AI substantially contributing to scientific discovery.

I thought progress might be slowing down, but this is clear evidence to the contrary. Not the result itself, but the claims that it is a fully general model and has a clear path to improved efficiency.

https://x.com/polynoamial/status/1946478249187377206
by as1mov | 2025-07-19 14:34:41+00:00
Refurbished enterprise laptops like Thinkpads and Dell Latitudes are highly sought after. They generally have better build quality than regular consumer models along with good Linux support out of the box. I've been using refurbed Latitudes for the past decade, works pretty great imo for a fraction of the cost. I.e buy the machine for <EUR400 + some additional sticks of RAM + storage.

Though more and more manufacturers are switching to completely soldered components now, so I guess this won't last long.

Ironically making the device more repairable would be a boon for recycling instead of whatever bean counting bullshit HP is attempting here. Meh.
by vintermann | 2025-07-19 14:35:00+00:00
Often I wonder if some scammers (and this is totally a scam) basically pay a premium to feel like they've outsmarted people, or for the smirking satisfaction that their victims can't do anything about it. Some scams are so much work for so little gain, or so obviously counterproductive in anything but the short term, that it seems like that.
by stingraycharles | 2025-07-19 14:35:11+00:00
Yeah it’s a completely fair playing field, it’s completely obvious that AI should be able to compete with humans in the same way that robotics and computers can compete with humanity (and are better suited for many tasks).

Whether or not they’re far away from being better than humans is up to debate, but the entire point of these types of benchmarks it to compare them to humans.
by cluckindan | 2025-07-19 14:36:15+00:00
I have another theory. And yes, I know it’s not rigorous.

Fundamentally, all that exists is oscillations (think vibrating strings).

Those oscillations are not three-dimensional, but as they oscillate, their sum goes through states which correspond with fundamental interactions, one by one, in series, giving rise to fundamental ”particles”.

As this state proceeds to evolve, consonance/dissonance between interactions gives rise to higher order oscillations, which yield even higher order configurations of oscillation.

These oscillatory configurations eventually start to resist change, yielding mass. They become logically separated from other oscillation that is not coherent with their structure, yielding multidimensional causal structures in their interactions.

We are observers inside this system, ourselves made of innumerable such fundamental structures. We cannot experience or sense the non-locality directly, for all our sensing-structures are made of higher order oscillatory structures which have mass and locality.

To us and to our instruments of perception, existence appears dimensionally separated, even though everything is dancing in a conga line to the exact same tune.

So, perhaps in a singularity, these structures become so tightly packed that the innermost one breaks down, no longer has mass or locality, and leaves an inherent ”quantum vacuum” in its place, which is then immediately filled with the next structure, which also gets broken down, etc. What remains is pieces of configuration which, no longer supporting the notions of ”mass” or ”locality”, are free of the gravitational pull of a black hole and capable of radiating out.
by ddtaylor | 2025-07-19 14:37:10+00:00
Regarding the tires. I don't know if it messes with how you ride or anything, but we have the tire slime in all of our tires and we keep a portable Ryobi electric bike pump with us when we go on trails.

Brakes suck. For maintenance I actually enjoy the regular brakes instead of the hydraulic ones. You have to realistically change your break pads every month or two and it's difficult to do with the hydraulic ones by comparison.
by ath3nd | 2025-07-19 14:37:28+00:00
Oh, you beautiful summer child. They are losing money on you . Do you think they are doing that out of the goodness of your heart? They are luring you in, making you dependent on them at a net loss while the VC money are lasting.

When you are totally hooked and they are fully out of money, that's when you'd realize the long con you've been dragged into. At this very moment, that they are tightening the usage limits they are not telling you, and you still think the peanuts you are paying them now would be enough in the future? It's called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification and you better know that you are in it.
by martin-t | 2025-07-19 14:38:52+00:00
IME people who propose absolute freedom in any regard (speech, use of power, use of money,...) fundamentally don't understand the difference of power between individuals, let alone individuals and organizations.

This is why anarcho- anything can't work. Some people specialize in building thing, since in providing a service, some specialize in making money and grabbing power. When the builders and providers don't unite to hold them back (like... forming a government) those people end up forming a mafia. Of course the state is a mafia too. You gotta pick your evils.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-19 14:39:04+00:00
> I think OpenAI participating is nothing but a publicity stunt and wholly unfair and disrespectful against Human participants. It should be allowed for AI models to participate, but it should not be ranked equally,

OpenAI did not participate in the actual competition nor were they taking spots away from humans. OpenAI just gave the problems to their AI under the same time limit and conditions (no external tool use)

> nor put any engineers under duress of having to pull all-nighters.

Under duress? At a company like this, all of the people working on this project are there because they want to be and they’re compensated millions.
by elza_1111 | 2025-07-19 14:39:24+00:00
As the original author, some things that I could've potentially included to make it a more complete guide is, - how to collect new telemetry alongside KPS - showcase and correlate application level metrics along with infra in a single-view dashboard maybe? -include the Operator way as well

Anything more to add? Trying to really make this a one-stop guide.