MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-07-07 18:34:25+00:00
Yep, I don't think chipsandcheese is trying to write a review of the CPU for practical purposes. Their content is more on technical microachitechture minutiae. In pretty much all of their articles they work to isolate performance characteristics of subsystems to show the differences that can be attributed to just the changes in that system gen-on-gen or between manufacturers.
by boshalfoshal | 2025-07-07 18:34:27+00:00
Keep in mind - this is not reaffirming HN's anti-AGI/extremely long timeline beliefs.

The article explicitly states that he thinks we will have an AI system that "Will be able to do your taxes" by 2028, and a system that could basically replace all white collar work by 2032.

I think an autonomous system that can reliably do your taxes with minimal to no input is already very very good, and 2032 being the benchmark time for being able to replace 90% - all white collar work is pretty much AGI, in my opinion.

Fwiw I think the fundamental problems he describes in the article that are AGI blockers are likely to be solved sooner than we think. Labs are not stupid enough to throw all their eggs and talent into the scaling basket, they are most definitely allocating resources to tackling problems like the ones described in the article, while putting the remaining resources into bottom line production (scale current model capibilities w/o expensive R&D and reduce serving/training cost).
by AJ007 | 2025-07-07 18:34:54+00:00
There are other good use cases here like documenting recurring bugs or problems in software/projects.

This is a good illustration of why e2e encryption is more important than its ever been. What were innocuous and boring conversations are now very valuable when combined with phishing and voice cloning.

OpenAI is going to use all of your ChatGPT history to target ads to you, and probably will have to choice to pay for everything. Meta is trying really hard too, and already is applying generative AI extensive for advertiser's creative production.

Ultra targeted advertising where the message is crafted to perfectly fit the viewer mean devices running operating systems incapable of 100% blocking ads should be considered malware. Hopefully local LLMs will be able to do a good job with that.
by cgriswald | 2025-07-07 18:35:04+00:00
To be fair, it actually said:

> Fiscally conservative / civil-libertarian with traditionalist social leaning

And justified it with:

> Bogleheads & MMM frugality + Catholic/First Things pieces, EFF privacy, skepticism of Big Tech censorship

First Things in its current incarnation is all about religious social conservatism. If someone is Catholic and reads First Things articles, "conservative" is a pretty safe bet.

However, I think profiling people based on what they read might be a mistake in general. I often read things I don't agree with and often seek out things I don't agree with both because I sometimes change my mind and because if I don't change my mind I want to at least know what the arguments actually are. I do wonder, though, if I tended to save such things to pocket.
by GMoromisato | 2025-07-07 18:35:06+00:00
If you take the 13 seconds of processing time and multiply by 350 million (the rough population of the US), you get:

~144 years of GPU time.

Obviously, any AI provider can parallelize this and complete it in weeks/days, but it does highlight (for me at least) that LLMs are going to increase the power of large companies. I don't think a startup will be able to afford large-scale profiling systems.

For example, imagine Google creating a profile for every GMail account. It would end up with an invaluable dataset that cannot be easily reproduced by a competitor, even if they had all the data.

[But, of course, feel free to correct my math and assumptions.]
by FpUser | 2025-07-07 18:35:35+00:00
>"Its not common that people in our industry don't have bachelor degrees anymore. Its also not an industry where I routinely find the majority of people come from lower economic backgrounds etc."

It does not matter what you "routinely find". Live and let live. Person has an inherent right to make living however they see fit unless it actively harms others.

If you are so concerned about degrees why not to start with the one of a "decent human" and require it from politicians. Those fuckers affect us way more than any software and and mostly walk free no matter haw badly they fuck someone's life
by habitue | 2025-07-07 18:35:58+00:00
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by taeric | 2025-07-07 18:36:04+00:00
It is hard for me to read this. You seem to have given up on capital letters. And sentences. I don't like criticizing run-on sentences as being indicative of bad thinking; but I do literally feel you grasping here.

I'm largely comfortable with the idea that there is something lacking in the orthography of English. Fully comfortable, even. I'm growing frustrated with how many are pushing the idea that it is not phonetic. The system is literally to convey, in writing, the words that you would speak in English. And the word "phonetic" captures that perfectly.

If you want to argue that we are building a new use of the word "phonetic" applied to writing that supersedes "orthography" and related terms. You do you. It still seems nonsensical to me and only works if you ignore that we have an alphabet that is literally used to convey speech sounds.
by 1024bees | 2025-07-07 18:36:21+00:00
A point of frustration for newer languages, that sus continues, is the lack of thought towards simulation and testbench design, and how it integrates with the language.

While it would be nice to have more elegant support for "modern" codegen in the sv/verilog/vhdl, the real unergonomic experiences are test bench design and integration. The only real options are (for sv, verilog, I have less experience with vhdl): use verilator and write your tb in cpp, use verilator and then write your testbench in cocotb, or you work at a chip design company and use one of the big 3's compilers and maybe you use UVM or cocotb. Verilator and cocotb are okay, but you're crossing a language boundar(ies) and referencing generated code -- it is both mechanical and complex to get any design working with it.

If sus had first class interfaces to create testbenches that could map to UVM or verilator, it would be much more interesting. Spade does some interesting things by having its own package manager, but doesn't (afaik) expose a ton within the language itself
by 999900000999 | 2025-07-07 18:36:31+00:00
You're still going to spend an unholy amount of money to have a decent standard of living.

It's just math.

Chicago, no need for a car, rent is 1600$ within walking distance of a metro station. A monthly metro pass is about 100$.

1700$.

In LA, 2700$ for an apartment. 500$ car payment, 300$ insurance, 200$ for gas. About 100$ a month on stuff like parking and basic maintenance.

3800$.

If you have an extra 2100$ a month to tell everyone you live in LA, that's great. But the next problem is most people in LA are struggling. It's complex, but this factors into the quality of people you meet.

Personally it's the difference between driving around a 30 year old Instagram model who has no real interest in you, but expects you to pay for stuff vs dating an amazing 30 year old with a solid career.

Outside of dating, in LA you have "friends" who will beg you for money and then resent when you help them out. This weird interiority complex develops.

I've lived in about 3 major metros for any real period of time. LA is by far the worst. Concerts are fun, the food is good, but it's just a really hard place to live.

Now 20 years ago, you still had 500,600$ apartments for working class people. It USED to be an affordable city. But that's gone now.

I miss that Los Angeles. I miss my 600$ Ktown apartment, 4$ tortas, 3$ bottles of Soju.

It was an amazing place once. Doesn't really matter if it's completely unaffordable now.
by andrewla | 2025-07-07 18:36:45+00:00
I've noticed this as well -- at one point I had switched from Canon inkjet refills to a generic third party refills, and years later the photos from the knockoff have faded to an astonishing degree while the Canon ink prints look bright and vibrant.

Going through old photo albums that my parents have show a lot of fading as well, even though the pictures themselves were kept in photo albums in the dark for many years. We have negatives for some of those photos, which when scanned are bright and vibrant, but the prints vary significantly.
by coffeeling | 2025-07-07 18:37:22+00:00
I don't know if Korean is ultimately that good. Hangeul are a monstrous improvement over the old mixed script (which itself is better than the Japanese iteration because the Koreans only used Chinese characters for Chinese loans), but it still has a lot of sound change rules and can be a bit of a pain to read because of how letters flow to the next syllable. It's not in the same league with Finnish or Spanish, at any rate.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-07-07 18:37:24+00:00
> The active meddling thing, when observed in action, is a source of information.

Not if it's done right. If one person views a page the old-fashioned way, caches the DOM, and circulates it peer-to-peer, then whoever is weaponizing that content only has one browser fingerprint to work with, despite there being potentially thousands of users that they wish they could profile.

That's far less information to work with than the thousands of individual requests they would otherwise have to scrutinize.

The honest/dishonest distinction only comes down to whether you're going to try to protect the volunteer who grabbed the page to begin with, or whether you're going to expose them to retribution.

As for the systems you can't lie to, those you can replace with more trustworthy alternatives. This is a lot of work but it's better than suggesting that your peers be honest in ways that will harm them.

So to answer your question, no. None of the scenarios where you let your adversary know that you're working against them, and also let them know how to find and harm you, are interesting strategies for combatting surveillance.

Surveillance exists in support of targeted coercion. We should not make a target of the more honest among us. We need to protect those people most of all.
by norir | 2025-07-07 18:37:31+00:00
My brain has been slowly trained to reject imperative programming. This example could be rewritten in a tail recursive manner using an immutable set which would be simpler to verify for correctness even without a formal verifier.

I have found that while there is a learning curve to programming using only recursion for looping, code quality does go significantly up under this restriction.

Here is why I personally think tail recursion is better than looping: with tail recursion, you are forced to explicitly reenter the loop. Right off the bat, this makes it difficult to inadvertently write an infinite loop. The early exit problem is also eliminated because you just return instead of making a recursive call. Moreover, using recursion generally forces you to name the function that loops which gives more documentation than a generic for construct. A halfway decent compiler can also easily detect tail recursion and rewrite it as a loop (and inline if the recursive function is only used in one place) so there need not to be any runtime performance cost of tail recursion instead of looping.

Unfortunately many languages do not support tail call optimization or nested function definitions and also have excessively wordy function definition syntax which makes loops more convenient to write in those languages. This conditions one to think in loops rather than tail recursion. Personally I think Lean would be better if it didn't give in and support imperative code and instead helped users learn how to think recursively instead.
by mathiaspoint | 2025-07-07 18:37:37+00:00
When was OTS written again? That was effectively an expert system that could do your taxes and it was around at least ten years ago. It didn't even need transformers.

No one has a good benchmark for what AGI is. Already LLMs are more capable at most tasks than most random people off the street. I think at this point people keep asking about because they're trying to ask some deeper philosophical question like "when will it be human" but don't want to say that because it sounds silly.
by btown | 2025-07-07 18:37:46+00:00
This is really cool! Live music, game shows, holiday light displays, and anything in between can hugely benefit from this kind of tech.

The whole Who Wants To Be a Millionaire sequence comes to mind (where, on an arbitrarily timed cue, the lights physically rotate downwards, synchronized with the electronic score and floor panel animations, to bring pressure onto the contestant). And from a bit of research, they needed to do a fair amount of work for that, which arguably could have been "orchestrated" from software like this: https://www.tpimeamagazine.com/robe-rig-lights-who-wants-to-...

> Synching the lighting consoles to receive MIDI triggers from the show’s gaming computer which activates specific commands for sound and video related to screen content was an intense talk that took plenty of work and lateral thinking. Additionally, more signals from the lighting console were used to access the media server operating a series of pixel SMD effects inbuilt in the set – so there was a lot of synching happening!

I'm also aware of software like https://lightkeyapp.com/en - but ossia score seems to focus more on temporal flexibility/coding/behavior as the primary focus, whereas Lightkey focuses on the physical layout of lighting at any given time. Arguably the feature sets should merge - Blender's ability to have multiple views that emphasize or de-emphasize the timeline comes to mind!

These things shouldn't be blocked behind massive investments. Anyone who can put a few cheap tablets on stands and plug in a MIDI keyboard should have best-in-class visualization capabilities, and be able to iterate on that work as more professional hardware becomes available. It's one of the things I love about open source.
by popalchemist | 2025-07-07 18:37:52+00:00
Not a compelling argument. Your opinion says more about you than the city.

Yes, it is expensive. But pay is higher too. If you are middle of the road earner, you will have to live in the valley or another suburb, yes. But even those are among the most prized places to live in the USA.

Your quantitative approach intrinsically flattens the qualitative dimension out of the lived experience. Where else can you find Mexican, Korean, Japanese, Armenian, and Thai culture alive and well within their own neighborhoods in a 5 mile radius? Or even all on the same block? NYC is the closest, but LA arguably has the better food and culture (people are more liberal and accepting in LA). LA is also ground zero for the resistance against the rise of Trump's fascist reich. For many people those things are invaluable, especially if they are non-white (which perhaps you're not, so that may be lost on you.)

It's fine if LA does not offer anything of worth to you, but that isn't going to be the case for everybody. Source: the 20 million or so people that live in LA County must like something, because they stay there (and that number is always growing) despite being the most expensive place in the US.

And for the record, I moved to LA 20 years ago. I remember the $600 apartments - I had one by UCLA.

I am sensitive to the rising cost of housing (though the new state law about zoning should ameliorate that in the coming years). But the reason you move to LA isn't for affordable housing.

Assuming you are good at what you do, you should not be making the same financial calculations today as you made 20 years ago.
by jahsome | 2025-07-07 18:38:21+00:00
I have a corded oreck and a Dyson stick vac. I absolutely adore the oreck, and I rarely use the Dyson.

In terms of maintenance and performance the Oreck is a reliable, one-click WordPress install, and the Dyson is a few dozen fickle micro services.

I got the Oreck for like $20 on Craigslist a decade ago because it was listed as "broken." I bought it on a whim to see if I could repair it after one of the famous vacuum guy reddit AMAs. Without exaggeration, it may very well be the best $20 investment I've ever made.

I was amazed how simple it was to disassemble and reassemble. There were surprisingly few components and every single one had an appealing heft and remarkable quality.

As a somewhat funny aside: The woman I bought it from said she had three teenage daughters and it couldn't keep up. The first time I serviced it, I removed enough hair for several wigs.

Ever since, it's worked incredibly and in the rare event performance has started to suffer I've been able to service it myself multiple times over the years, and replacement parts are readily available. It's designed to be maintained. After each service it works literally good as new and I fall in love with it all over again.

Contrast that with my hand-me-down Dyson. It's awkward as all hell to store. Battery is pathetic and charging is a pain. So much delicate plastic. It clogs practically every use; though to be fair my children and animals are all filthmongers. The components feel cheap, and I can't help but feel like it's hostile to the average consumer attempting to repair it. It's deteriorated in performance even though I've used it lightly. If I had spent even a single dollar on it, I'd be so pissed.
by PikachuEXE | 2025-07-07 18:38:23+00:00
Can artificial intelligence truly become wise? In this landmark lecture, John Vervaeke explores the future of AI through a lens few dare to examine: the limits of intelligence itself. He unpacks the critical differences between intelligence, rationality, reasonableness, and wisdom—terms often used interchangeably in discussions around AGI. Drawing from decades of research in cognitive science and philosophy, John argues that while large language models like ChatGPT demonstrate forms of generalized intelligence, they fundamentally lack core elements of human cognition: embodiment, caring, and participatory knowing.

By distinguishing between propositional, procedural, perspectival, and participatory knowing, he reveals why the current paradigm of AI is not equipped to generate consciousness, agency, or true understanding. This lecture also serves as a moral call to action: if we want wise machines, we must first become wiser ourselves.

00:00 Introduction: AI, AGI, and the Nature of Intelligence 02:00 What is General Intelligence? 04:30 LLMs and the Illusion of Generalization 07:00 The Meta-Problems of Intelligence: Anticipation & Relevance Realization 09:00 Relevance Realization: The Hidden Engine of Intelligence 11:30 How We Filter Reality Through Relevance 14:00 The Limits of LLMs: Predicting Text vs. Anticipating Reality 17:00 Four Kinds of Knowing: Propositional, Procedural, Perspectival, Participatory 23:00 Embodiment, Consciousness, and Narrative Identity 27:00 The Role of Attention, Care, and Autopoiesis 31:00 Culture as Niche Construction 34:00 Why AI Can’t Participate in Meaning 37:00 The Missing Dimensions in LLMs 40:00 Rationality vs. Reasonableness 43:00 Self-Deception, Bias, and the Need for Self-Correction 46:00 Caring About How You Care: The Core of Rationality 48:00 Wisdom: Aligning Multiple Selves and Temporal Scales 53:00 The Social Obligation to Cultivate Wisdom 55:00 Alter: Cultivating Wisdom in an AI Future
by GloriousKoji | 2025-07-07 18:38:35+00:00
I'll bite. In the limitations of my mortal life with it's predestined total allocated time for recorded media there's an infinite amount of high quality content. Savoring an expensive meal is just a way to get maximum value out of it but with endless cheap amounts why not devour it to my hearts content? Quality over quantity but what choice does one make when it's both?

Many of these stories have a small narrative arc with very direct emotions it means to invoke. A feeling of nostalgia, of happiness, of sadness, or of anxiety to name a few. Even at a faster speed it will make me think and make me laugh. It's not a work of profound art that I need to stop and contemplate. It's not a comedian's joke with precise timing.

In the end it is just audio entertainment. Episodic entertainment not freed from the shackles of churn, or the temptation to fabricate results for a good story. There's not much grand detail for my ears to wander and focus on the way my eyes would wander over paint on a canvas or a room filed with light and sound.
by Miraste | 2025-07-07 18:39:22+00:00
I don't think it has anything to do with a halo around Asian companies. Bambu and Creality are both Chinese. I've used plenty of Prusa, Ender, and Bambu printers, and this is what I've found:

Bambu: break the least. That's it, that's the whole secret to why everyone recommends them. Sure, the print quality is good, and there are some nice QOL things, but they took off because you can hit print and expect to get a print.

Prusa: These are mostly reliable. Not as reliable as Bambu. The Prusa printer I have right now has had two fatal malfunctions over the years I've used it, both of which were due to design flaws Bambu printers don't have. They are making a lot of progress, and I hope they catch back up.

Creality (Ender manufacturer): No one should buy Creality products. They are worthless. Everything from the lowest bargain-bin Ender 3 to the latest K2 Plus will break and might burn the building down.
by avogt27 | 2025-07-07 18:39:22+00:00
Pedantic semantics gripe: DNA damage refers to actual damage to the DNA molecule (breakage of the sugar-phosphage backbone, loss of nucleosides, etc). DNA accumulates MUTATIONS over time, which lead to the loss of genetic fidelity.

Many cancers have unregulated DNA repair pathways, which is one of the mechanisms by which they can sustain proliferation without succumbing to apoptosis. Common chemotherapeutic targets are actually DNA repair factors that can both help kill the cells and sensitize them to radiation. It's well known in the DNA repair field that cells maintain rather delicate balance between carcinogenics and death by regulating repair. The vast majority of research into DNA repair is aimed at solving problems treating cancer, with some peripheral voices (albeit ones that garner more publicity) working on anti-aging applications. I personally wouldn't sign up for any of these start-up nonsense treatments; traditional scientific orthodoxy may be overly reductionist, move slowly, and lack imagination but good god does it beat all of these people that treat grand problems in biology like some sort of app you just need to take the right angle on to figure out.