MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by userbinator | 2025-07-18 05:22:09+00:00
Perhaps that is suited for candidates with image processing experience, because looking at surrounding pixels is a common pattern in image and video codecs. I suspect APL-family experience/thinking style will also help significantly (if you haven't seen it, I recommend watching this video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4 )

The floodfill part (the last one), on the other hand, is the one that stands out in difficulty compared to the previous parts.
by adrian_b | 2025-07-18 05:22:37+00:00
Jurassic-Cretaceous marine crocodiles (like also ichthyosaurs and mosasaurs) looked like sharks, i.e. they depended mostly on their caudal fin for swimming.

On the other hand, there was no resemblance between sharks and plesiosaurs or pliosaurs. The latter swimmed using their lateral fins, somewhat like marine turtles and penguins, not like sharks. Also the dentition of plesiosaurs and pliosaurs had no similarity to sharks, so except for being big predators there were no resemblances between them.
by seawolf2357 | 2025-07-18 05:23:24+00:00
The first phase of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), referred to as “Creative Language Intelligence,” has been successfully developed and publicly released on Hugging Face.

This AGI model can generate approximately 100 pages of high-quality creative content in under 20 minutes, from a single prompt or random seed. This level of performance goes far beyond the capabilities of current mainstream AI models and marks a significant step toward human-level creative output.

To validate and demonstrate this breakthrough, four key tools have been released:

Literary Novel Generation (submitted to official literary contests) https://huggingface.co/spaces/openfree/AGI-NOVEL

Movie/Drama Screenplay Generation https://huggingface.co/spaces/openfree/AGI-Screenplay

Web Novel Generation https://huggingface.co/spaces/openfree/AGI-WebNovel

AGI Evaluation Leaderboard (Evaluator: Google Gemini 2.5 Pro) https://huggingface.co/spaces/fantaxy/AGI-LEADERBOARD

This AGI demonstrates strong competence in creativity, narrative structure, and literary style, reaching a level that can rival human-authored works. It is expected to have a major impact across publishing, film, and broader creative industries.
by nineplay | 2025-07-18 05:23:25+00:00
"How the American engineering degree, sold as a solid ticket to the American dream, has become less solid for recent graduates trying to find that first job."

As opposed to what? All the other recent graduates with non-engineering degrees who are drowning in job offers? It's tough out here for everyone. This kind of hyperbole doesn't help.

"How the American engineering degree, sold as a solid ticket to the American dream"

It wasn't "sold" as though there were some cigarette smoking ad men behind it. People went after _software_ engineering degrees when they saw a bunch of 20 year olds in Mountain View with 6 figure incomes. The other branches of engineering have always been hit or miss.

And "American Dream" - really? Has anyone used that term unironically since The Great Gatsby came out?
by nteleky | 2025-07-18 05:23:43+00:00
More importantly, they've helped me live my years better and more enjoyably. "Psilocybin produces substantial and sustained decreases in depression and anxiety in patients with life-threatening cancer: A randomized double-blind trial" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5367557/. Might as well get that tattooed on your "taint".
by anon7000 | 2025-07-18 05:24:01+00:00
I agree at least a little bit, but let’s be honest: the history of software engineering is a history of higher and higher levels of abstraction wrapping the previously levels.

So part of this is just another abstraction. But another part, which I agree with, is that abstracting how you learn shit is not good. For me, I use AI in a way that helps me learn more and accomplish more. I deliberately don’t cede my thinking process away, and I deliberately try to add more polish and quality since it helps me do it in less time. I don’t feel like my know-how is useless — instead, I’m seeing how valuable it is to know shit when a junior teammate is opening PRs with critical mistakes because they don’t know any better (and aren’t trying to learn)
by noduerme | 2025-07-18 05:24:10+00:00
Idk. I think some societies prize it more highly than others. What must it have been like to live in Athens when Plato was running the Academy? What got you permitted to be there wouldn't be SAT scores or grades, it would be curiosity and flexible thinking. When things like that have enough cachet, an entire society can orient itself in that direction rather than toward conformity or repetition. [edit: See also, modern Israel].

(Funnily enough, I asked GPT-4o just now what the requirements were for joining Plato's Academy, and it said this, exactly):

The requirements for joining Plato's Academy were not formally codified, but there were some general expectations and practices:

Intellectual Curiosity: Prospective students were expected to have a strong desire to learn and engage in philosophical discussions. Age and Background: While there were no strict age limits, most students were young men, often from affluent families, who could afford the time and resources for education. Philosophical Training: It was beneficial for students to have some prior knowledge of philosophy or related subjects, as the discussions at the Academy were advanced and complex. Commitment to Dialogue: Students were expected to participate actively in dialogues and debates, reflecting the Socratic method that Plato valued. Moral Character: A commitment to ethical living and the pursuit of virtue was important, as the Academy emphasized the development of the whole person, not just intellectual capabilities.******
by pj_mukh | 2025-07-18 05:24:33+00:00
I think you're hung up on fractions, while the business logic is obviously hung up on the value. The cost of wood has gone up, but wood is a critical element in construction. What is the "value" of paying $100,000's in lawyer fees?

It's like buying a home and having to pay 10% in agent fees and having a 6 month arbitrary holding period while you are still having to pay the mortgage. "Well the money you're losing is less than the cost of the land!" you would say. lol.

That's basically what's happening to construction projects, it's an industry-wide show-stopper regardless of what fraction it is of the land price.

All the links I've shared confirm that these costs are the prime-driver of project cancellations and projects dying on the drawing board, not that the costs are larger than all other costs in an absolute sense because obviously mortgage payments while you're waiting for lawsuits are less than the whole land value itself.
by edg5000 | 2025-07-18 05:24:34+00:00
You are using the "auto-switch back to Sonnet" mode right? Try just selecting Opus without the auto-switch, probably you'll get more Opus and may not run out of it. Anthropic is just being careful because Opus eats compute and they don't want people getting disappointed. But for me it does not run out that quickly. Only when I asked it to work on a 50k+ source code file, which it had to ingest entirely in my case, is when I ran out.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-18 05:24:35+00:00
> (e.g. increased velocity without direct economic output)

Transfer payments don't really increase the velocity of money because they're not associated with any direct economic output.

If Alice has $100,000 to spend and Carol has $25,000 to spend, there is $125,000 in actual spending, i.e. demand for something that has to be produced. If you then do a transfer payment of $10,000 from Alice to Carol then Alice is spending $90,000 and Carol is spending $35,000, it's still the same $125,000.

Maybe they'll buy different stuff, maybe one would be more likely to buy business investments and the other would be more likely to buy college tuition, but that has no more likelihood to cause problems than if Carol got a raise and Alice had to pay for it.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-18 05:24:42+00:00
In my county the head of the power "company" comes up for election every few years and everything works remarkably well. Still certainly not a perfect system given that as a voter it's quite difficult (just about impossible really) to make a decision between two unknown people. But if things are regularly breaking or overpriced or whatever and there's an absence of meaningful communication from the top it's straightforward to try someone new.

I guess it will be an issue for you if your preference doesn't match the majority of your neighbors who would rather cheaper but lower quality service. But TBF that would be the system working as intended.
by silisili | 2025-07-18 05:25:24+00:00
> Sometimes it's easier to write it yourself than install the dependency

This is definitely true, but only really relevant if you're either a solo dev or in for the long haul, so to speak. And it'll work way better for your use case too.

The problem is working with others. Others coming in are more apt to try to learn a known or semi-known system than "Dave who used to work here's crazy thoughts." Especially in this market where longevity is rare, and company specific knowledge is useless as resume fodder.

So from a dev standpoint it absolutely makes sense. From a business standpoint, probably markedly less so.
by djabatt | 2025-07-18 05:26:00+00:00
I started hacking web projects and messing with Slackware in the mid90s as a self taught dev. Before that I was always building things on my computer it felt more like creative exploration or entreatment than academic discipline which is why I never pursued a CS degree.

Whats fascinating is how differently CS trained and self taught developers approach problems CS grads often bring systematic thinking and solid theoretical foundations they'll architect elegant solutions and consider edge cases upfront Self taught folks myself included tend to be more experimental willing to hack together quick prototypes and iterate rapidly Ive found the magic happens in small teams that blend both approaches The CS trained developers provide structure while the self taught crowd brings creative problem-solving and isn't afraid to break conventional rules... sometimes there are no rules. Has anyone else noticed this dynamic Im curious if others see different complementary strengths between these backgrounds or if this varies by company culture domain
by poulsbohemian | 2025-07-18 05:26:25+00:00
Given that one must be a citizen to vote, this doesn’t appear to be the right angle through which to call out the Democratic Party. If you were to speak with Democratic Party leadership, I believe the emphasis would be on attractive talent from around the world to keep American businesses competitive. Certainly if there are problems with these visa programs, it’s worthwhile to bring them up to elected officials and push for changes.
by epolanski | 2025-07-18 05:29:02+00:00
All of the best engineers I know but one did not graduate in software engineering nor computer science. None.

They are all people that were coding in their teens and had a massive interest for computers, technology and programming since very young.

Conversely some of the worst engineers I know were graduates who only went into SE or CS because of job opportunities.

I am not saying ST good, graduate bad, I have also examples of terrific developers with a proper formal education.

I think all in all what really matters is whether you really care or not, whether you want to learn and expand your knowledge or not. Other than that sky is the limit. I would still suggest people to graduate if they are young and it won't cost them too much, it's good to meet fellow students, do networking, study stuff you wouldn't otherwise etc.
by mikewarot | 2025-07-18 05:29:27+00:00
Most documentation sucks - Example: I like Free Pascal/Lazarus, it has much to recommend it, except the documentation sucks, it's an anti-feature. Many functions are documented with a list of arguments, and that's about it... not what those arguments should be, nor examples of usage, etc. The same is true for many languages and libraries. It's part of the reason LLM coding engines enhance productivity (by helping you get around this defect)

Null terminated strings - Really... it's 2025... can't we kill that off already?

Breaking changes to languages/libraries -- Python really caused a ton of unnecessary grief with the breaking changes to strings in their rush to force Unicode into places it didn't belong.

Ambient Authority Operating Systems - Why do I have to trust all of my programs with all of my user privileges? I don't do that in other areas of life... I don't hand over my wallet to buy an ice cream cone. I don't wire everything directly into the 220 feed into my house. Why can't we just use an OS that supports power boxes (dialog boxes for file operations, that enforce the choice, instead of leaving it up to good faith in the application)

Internet "Access" instead of full connectivity - Why are we still forced to "access" the internet, instead of just running our own machines? (If we had better OSs, we could do that safely).

Memex - It's been 80 years... a full human lifespan... and we still don't have a working Memex. We should be able to surf the net, and then recall (offline!) and recreate anything we've seen, link it into our own narratives, and then spool off a copy for our friends.

HTML - HTML is not a language for the markup (annotation) of hypertext. You can't add a separate new layer to an existing resource without copying or editing it. HTML is part of why we still don't have Memex. (That and copyright insanity)
by AngryData | 2025-07-18 05:29:30+00:00
Part of that is because they can't trust the US, which outspends China 3x over and outspends Russia 7x over, and outspends dozens of other countries combined. The US is the biggest military threat the world has ever known, and our government is acting crazy right now. Nobody should trust the US, a single country with 37% of the world's entire military budget with only 4% of the people, that is ridiculous and dangerous.

The only reason for the US to continue its military spending is to enforce its will upon the world by force or going on conquests for land, neither of which is a good or righteous cause that nobody should be supporting.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-07-18 05:30:52+00:00
That energy accumulates as low entropy. The earth is a continuous low entropy reservoir soaking up the energy and continuously generating more complexity via evolution and also via economic progress.

That’s how the accounting works out.

The reality is energy is neither created or destroyed. It just reaches a non workable state. In terms of balance of physical energy we technically receive the energy then the energy radiates off the earth. We don’t keep the energy.

What we do keep is the low entropy. The energy comes forth from the sun in a concentrated beam. We extract the low entropy from the beam into complexity. Over millions of years this complexity accumulates making earth a reservoir of increasing complexity and lowering entropy. The beam of energy from the sun gets all of the low entropy extracted and radiates into space in a non useable form.
by robocat | 2025-07-18 05:31:07+00:00
> In your 20’s it unlocks taking big risks and swing for the fences.

I think it is really common for retiree risk takers to swing for the fences in their 60's.

Their time is freed up and often lump sums become available: retirees often feel they need to make money to live well in retirement. I'm sure you can think of cliched coffee shop entrepreneurs, restaurant owners, franchise purchasers and investment property purchasers.

The reason it's such a well known cliche is because of how often they get burnt (due to poor understanding of risks) and many lose their homes.

I really notice it because I'm nearer retirement than 20 (they're not my peers but my acquaintances span a wide range of age and money demographics).
by epolanski | 2025-07-18 05:31:14+00:00
This does not match my experience. I believe that graduating or not does not matter compared to whether you really care and like the field.

You're gonna find lots of crap devs in both camps, and 100x devs in both, in fact some of the worst I know where all graduates who only went into CS or SE for the job prospects, but never gave two damns and suck hard at coding or problem solving.

But I don't think that it's true what you say, maybe you simply haven't met the exceptional graduates because they went in companies different than yours.
by rayiner | 2025-07-18 05:31:29+00:00
H1Bs get citizenship, and they raise their children in their home cultures. My parents are citizens and have been voting for decades. But they still think and vote like Bangladeshis.

I’m not saying it’s some written-out plan. But look at how left wing Indians and Indian politicians in the U.S. are compared to say German Americans. (Socialism was a founding principle of the modern Indian state.) People in the party are acting according to their incentives.
by astrange | 2025-07-18 05:32:03+00:00
> Why would photo apps do what's "important for society"?

One would hope they're responsive to user demands. I should say Lightroom does have an alt text field, but like phone camera apps don't.

Apple is genuinely obsessed with accessibility (but bad at social media) and I think has never once advocated for people to describe their photos to each other.
by hollerith | 2025-07-18 05:33:01+00:00
That's a little harsh.

Many countries that in actuality do not have nukes would have obtained nukes if the US hadn't made security guarantees to them. Those guarantees would not have been as persuasive (in getting countries to forgo getting nukes) if the US military wasn't as strong as it actually was. And the world is a safer place because only 9 countries have nukes.

Also, before now there's never has been an 80-year-long period without a major war between European powers. If the US military had been less strong, then the major powers of Europe would have felt the need to spend more on their militaries (at first to deter the Soviets / Russia, but then also to deter each other) which would have increased the probability of a war between European powers.
by mikewarot | 2025-07-18 05:33:25+00:00
The main blocker for me was having the wrong mental model of what GIT really is. I thought it was all about deltas, and saving each and every "change" to a file, which was dead nuts wrong.

GIT makes snapshots of everything. The functionality is a bit oddly distributed in terms of the command set, but it's all snapshots. You could make a fully compatible program that just does a full snapshot (without ever looking for merge errors, etc), to make everything easy-peasy.

I bet there's a command line way to do that already....
by djaychela | 2025-07-18 05:34:10+00:00
Can someone offer me some help? I've just been messing about "vibe coding" little python apps with local llm, continue and vscode. And I got so far with it.

Then I found the free tier of claude so I fed in the "works so far" version with the changes that the local llm made, and it fixed and updated all the issues (with clear explanation) in one go. Success!

So my next level attempt was to get all the spec and prompts for a new project (a simple manic miner style 2d game using pygame). 8 used chat gpt to craft all this and it looked sensible to me with appropriate constraints for different parts of the projrct.

Which claude created. But it keeps referring to a method which it says is not present in the code and that I'm running the wrong version. (I'm definitely not). I've tried indicating it by reference to the line number and the surrounding code but it's just gas lighting me.

Any ideas how to progress from this? I'm not expecting perfection, but it seems it's just taken me to a higher level before it runs into essentially the same issue as the local llm.

All advice appreciated, I'm just dabbling with this four a bit of fun when I can (I'm pretty unwell so do things as and when I feel up to it)

Thanks in advance.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-18 05:34:12+00:00
You're measuring the cost to the government, not the cost to the public. How much time do people waste filling out eligibility forms? What's the economic cost of wastefully converting fungible money into non-fungible requirements to buy specific goods and services?

Meanwhile the "extra spending" isn't real because the benefits, being universal, are going to many of the same people paying for them, and therefore simply cancel out. The purpose of making them universal is the simplification: It's simpler -- and therefore harder to cheat -- to have a UBI and a uniform tax rate than to have a benefits phase out that effectively cancels out the lower rates on lower income people in the existing tax code. Or worse, creates marginal rate cliffs and highly irregular rates because overlapping benefits phase outs interact with each other in random and perverse ways.
by haiku2077 | 2025-07-18 05:34:30+00:00
You're not joking. If you're like most people and have only a few TiB of data in total, self hosting on a NAS or spare PC is very viable. There are even products for non-technical people to set this up (e.g. software bundled with a NAS). The main barrier is having an ISP with a sufficient level of service.
by sergeykish | 2025-07-18 05:35:46+00:00
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact — Moscow divided Poland with Germany (1939), invaded Finland (1939), occupied Baltic States (1940) — for two years of WW2 Moscow was Germany ally. After WW2 Moscow occupied half of Europe for 45 years, countries become free less than 50 years ago. Moscow made North Korea and China regimes, still supports dictatorship across the world, occupies and annexes neighbors.
by nxpnsv | 2025-07-18 05:37:20+00:00
It does well but also sometimes gets it completely wrong but plausible looking. Together, we managed to make several quite intricate bugs. About two months in, I actually don't think my coding speed increased much from using Cursor - and I just can't take "Perfect, ..." "You're absolutley right, ..." - even with custom rules to supress it, it just can't help itself.
by GeneralMayhem | 2025-07-18 05:37:34+00:00
SF city and county are actually the same legal entity, not just the same land. It's officially called the City and County of San Francisco, and it's just as unusual as it sounds. The mayor also has the powers of a county executive with both a sheriff's department (county police to run the jails) and police department (city law enforcement) reporting to him; the city government runs elections like other counties; the Board of Supervisors - which is the typical county legislative structure - also serves as city council. (Denver, Colorado works the same way, I think.)
by ffsm8 | 2025-07-18 05:37:37+00:00
No, the initial comment did also reference China, which Google and Microsoft are also in bed with... albeit to a much less degree then Apple.

Hence he's on point, as ddg ultimately uses bing under the hood, pretty much all search engines would be out.

A plausible argument could be that you're only using it, not actively giving them money (at least for Google/MS). It'd still call that hypocrisy though, if someone made such an argument.