MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vidarh | 2025-07-07 15:15:33+00:00
By this interpretation pretty much any attraction that isn't brand new is covered, which would entirely dilute your main claim of describing it as referring to ancient monuments or "fornminne". "Fornminne" has a specific meaning and certainly would not generally be applied to a relatively modern place of "historical" interest in Norwegian, nor would it e.g. refer to natural formations.

The other 5 are for narrower, more specific use, and demonstrate quite clearly that the word "severdighet" in Norwegian has nothing specifically to do with historical interest. When you then try to insist that the general, catch-all sign does it feels intentionally obtuse.

To make this clear, here's an example of a sign to INSPIRIA Science Center[1], built in 2011.

https://g.acdn.no/obscura/API/dynamic/r1/ece5/tr_1200_1200_s...
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-07-07 15:16:00+00:00
But that doesn't have to happen. If we have a union, and pay union dues, then people can get paid from the union fund during a strike. There'd be representatives advocating for us and the rights we want. We can affect policy to add pressure to prevent future layoffs and make remote work a right. Rather than what we do now, which is anything they want.

We don't actually have to just sit back and allow ourselves to be constantly laid off, or threatened with being fired if we don't move to a specific city and commute every day. There are things we can do. But we have to get off our asses.
by CommenterPerson | 2025-07-07 15:16:04+00:00
Here we go again.

But. "Interesting" is subjective, and there's no good definition for "intelligence", AI has so much associated hype. So we could debate endlessly on HN.

Supposing "interesting" means something like coming up with a new Fast Fourier Transform algorithm. I seriously doubt an LLM could do something there. OTOH AI did do new stuff with protein folding.

So, we can keep debating I guess.
by ShirleyW | 2025-07-07 15:16:06+00:00
I’m one of the makers — we built Keepmind because we felt most learning tools are either too manual (like Anki) or too passive (like rereading notes). We wanted something that actually helps remember what you’ve read, and makes it super fast to create flashcards from your own materials.

Curious how others here approach learning + memory. Do you actively review your notes? What’s your system?
by tim333 | 2025-07-07 15:16:24+00:00
The counter argument is that the successes and limitations of LLMs are not that important to AGI being around the corner or not. Getting human level intelligence around now has long been predicted, not based on any particular algorithm but based on the hardware reaching human brain equivalent levels due to Moore's law like progression. The best prediction along those lines is probably Moravecs paper:

>When will computer hardware match the human brain? (1997) https://jetpress.org/volume1/moravec.pdf

which has in the abstract:

>Based on extrapolation of past trends and on examination of technologies under development, it is predicted that the required hardware will be available in cheap machines in the 2020s

You can then hypothesize that cheap brain equivalent compute and many motivated human researchers trying different approaches will lead to human level artificial intelligence. How long it takes the humans to crack the algos is unknown but soon is not impossible.
by trinsic2 | 2025-07-07 15:16:31+00:00
I'm not seeing how this is fair use in either case.

Someone correct me if I am wrong but aren't these works being digitized and transformed in a way to make a profit off of the information that is included in these works?

It would be one thing for an individual to make person use of one or more books, but you got to have some special blindness not to see that a for-profit company's use of this information to improve a for-profit model is clearly going against what copyright stands for.
by immibis | 2025-07-07 15:17:05+00:00
Planning paths in that kind of environment is impossible (literally not figuratively). Systems that achieve this are gossip broadcast systems, where messages explore every possible path, but those that don't scale well.

If you gossip/broadcast messages, the message will be copied to many nodes that end up not being involved in the actual path from source to destination. Will they still be paid for it?

If so, why shouldn't I copy each message I receive onto my 50000 Sybil devices that don't move, and get paid 50001 times what I should?

So let's assume instead that they don't get paid. That means when I receive the message I read out the path it actually took and pay those people. What if I simply don't pay those people? I could even forge a different path, maybe through my 50k Sybil devices.

I don't see a way to make it work. But nobody saw a way to make cryptographic digital currency work until Bitcoin, so maybe there's some crazy innovation that could make this work too.
by outlore | 2025-07-07 15:17:20+00:00
Really love the ideas behind Deno, and tried to do things the Deno way (Deno.json, JSR, modern imports, Deno Deploy) for a monorepo project with Next.js, Hono and private packages. Some things like Hono worked super well, but Next.js did not. Other things like types would sometimes break in subtle ways. The choice of deployment destination e.g. Vercel for Next also gave me issues.

Here is an example of a small microcut I faced (which might be fixed now) https://github.com/honojs/hono/issues/1216

In contrast, Bun had less cognitive overhead and just "worked" even though it didn't feel as clean as Deno. Some things aren't perfect with Bun either like the lack of a Bun runtime on Vercel
by NHQ | 2025-07-07 15:17:29+00:00
The irony is that actually litigating copyright law would lead to the repeal of said copyright law. And so in all cases of backwaters laws that are used to "protect interests" of "corporations" yet criminalize petty individual cases.

This of course cannot be allowed to happen, so the the legal system is just a limbo, a bar which regular individuals must strain to pass under but that corporations regularly overstep.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-07-07 15:17:57+00:00
As someone who has listened to The Stormlight Archive (and The Wheel of Time with the same two narrators), the differences are absolutely there, but they're relatively small.

Fantasy novels predate the widespread popularity of audiobooks. It used to be quite expensive to distribute a large enough volume of audio. The old "books on tape" cost a lot of money, were frequently abridged, and only existed for the most popular titles.
by wkat4242 | 2025-07-07 15:18:02+00:00
Yeah and it doesn't work because the market isn't really free. Becoming a AAA game publisher requires so much money that has so many strings attached that there is no concept of a real free market.

Personally I don't believe a real free market can exist anyway. There always has to be a balance between socialism and capitalism.

All the big publishers are bound by these strings such as the wish for more recurring revenue. Hence the microtransactions and online models. You can't really avoid those.
Neural Networks Validate Thermodynamic Theory of Complex Systems
by e10jc | 2025-07-07 15:18:11+00:00
I've been developing a framework extending Prigogine's dissipative structures theory to explain how systems organize around energy gradients. The unexpected validation came from AI research: neural networks spontaneously exhibit the same organizational principles I observed in biological and economic systems.

Key findings: The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis demonstrates what I call Dissipative Capital Formation—systems investing resources to build structures enhancing future capacity. Emergent abilities in LLMs at critical scales match predicted phase transitions. Information Bottleneck Theory aligns with how biological systems manage gradients.

The framework (Gradient-Coupled Systems Theory) proposes that systems sharing energy/information gradients become thermodynamically coupled, creating the hierarchical organization observed everywhere from cells to markets. I've outlined mathematical pathways using information theory, optimal control, and statistical physics.

Looking for collaborators to formalize the mathematics and validate predictions in specific domains. Early stage, no institutional backing. Welcome skeptical analysis.

Documentation: https://creordics.org
by toss1 | 2025-07-07 15:19:10+00:00
Exactly! It is definitely a weird new way of discovering a market need or opportunity. Yet it actually makes a lot of sense this would happen since one of the main strengths of LLMs is to 'see' patterns in large masses of data, and often, those patterns would not have yet been noticed by humans.

And in this case, OP didn't have to take ChatGPT's word for the existence of the pattern, it showed up on their (digital) doorstep in the form of people taking action based on ChatGPT's incorrect information.

So, pattern noticed and surfaced by an LLM as a hallucination, people take action on the "info", nonzero market demand validated, vendor adds feature.

Unless the phantom feature is very costly to implement, seems like the right response.
by bonoboTP | 2025-07-07 15:19:29+00:00
> It doesn't matter what the property is or what it is called. Such tests might even help us see what those properties are.

This is a very good point and somewhat novel to me in its explicitness.

There's no reason to think that we already have the concepts and terminology to point out the gaps between the current state and human-level intelligence and beyond. It's incredibly naive to think we have armchair-generated already those concepts by pure self-reflection and philosophizing. This is obvious in fields like physics. Experiments were necessary to even come up with the basic concepts of electromagnetism or relativity or quantum mechanics.

I think the reason is that pure philosophizing is still more prestigious than getting down in the weeds and dirt and doing limited-scope well-defined experiments on concrete things. So people feel smart by wielding poorly defined concepts like "understanding" or "reasoning" or "thinking", contrasting it with "mere pattern matching", a bit like the stalemate that philosophy as a field often hits, as opposed to the more pragmatic approach in the sciences, where empirical contact with reality allows more consensus and clarity without getting caught up in mere semantics.
by immibis | 2025-07-07 15:19:31+00:00
Circumventing regulations is like half the point of crypto... either you use it to circumvent regulators, or you hold it while the price goes up because of the people who are circumventing regulators.

I think Bitcoin has become a typical fiat asset ouroboros now, because the people who actually want to circumvent regulators are using Monero (which is why Monero is banned in most countries), while the Bitcoin price is supported almost entirely by speculation and a little bit by people doing only-slightly-shady things with crypto who haven't noticed everyone else moved to Monero.
by williamdclt | 2025-07-07 15:21:42+00:00
> Accents in french are pretty irrelevant, you can totally ignore them and master the language. Most french people ignore them while chatting/mailing/texting online.

“Master” would definitely not be correct, but you could write intelligibly enough indeed. It will cause you issues here and there (not being taken seriously, having some miscommunications when the diacritic disambiguates the word…)

If you can’t read the diacritics though, you’ll pronounce words very incorrectly and French is a very unforgiving language for mispronunciation: you will simply not be understood
by watwut | 2025-07-07 15:21:43+00:00
20 years ago, in our math and tech focused university, people were literally pretending to have lower social skills then they had. People would do weird things on purpose and brag about social mishaps. Because lower social skills were associated with being genius and everyone wanted to be seen as a genius.

Obviously, if your deficit appears only when it is socially advantageous and disappears when disadvantageous, it is something else. But it was a thing.
by MisterTea | 2025-07-07 15:21:52+00:00
> and the companies hiring them are screaming about stricter ICE enforcement.[3][4]

Your statement matches nothing listed in those linked articles. [3] Talks about how the dairy industry is concerned as it relies on immigrant labor. [4] only quotes an "official of the plant" who says they are against illegal immigration, a personal opinion.

[4] also amusingly paints the immigrants as tech savvy identity thieves which is laughable. Likely, it is whatever shady entity the employer uses to hire illegals allowing them to deny involvement.
by alex_duf | 2025-07-07 15:21:55+00:00
If the incentive is there, the technology will advance. I hear "we need to slow down the progress of technology", but that's misunderstanding _why_ it progresses. I'm assuming the slow down camp really need to look into what's the incentive to slow down.

Personally I don't think it's possible at this stage. The cat's out of the bag (this new class of tools are working) the economic incentive is way too strong.
by quibono | 2025-07-07 15:22:05+00:00
> Where I live in Europe 90%+ of workers barring those currently in academia, have no public work because most companies don't publish their work, so you'd never hire anyone with that barrier.

This mirrors my experience as well.

I tend to do some side projects on the side but, seeing as I do them for fun, I don't take them as seriously. I'd hate to be judged based on work like this over something I'd do in a professional setting.

That said I understand why this is an issue and seeing a (representative) code sample is invaluable.
by immibis | 2025-07-07 15:22:54+00:00
FWIW what people call "baseband" in the context of this particular security flaw is what everyone (including those people) call "cellular modem" in every other context.

On a Pinephone you can turn it off with a physical power switch.

If you really wanted to, on most other phones you could desolder it and throw it in the garbage. You'd need to already have custom firmware on the main CPU (or should I say "application processor" to fit in with the people who say "baseband processor") so it wouldn't crash or lock up when booting.

A little bit less destructive (in case you want to use your cellphone as a cellphone later) would be replacing the antenna with a dummy load.
by wizardforhire | 2025-07-07 15:23:30+00:00
Yep! Not only that but people will actively mispronounce words as a form of vetting. Mispronunciations also becoming a form of tribal identity. Speaking of American vs proper English. America is the most diverse cultural landscape in human history. If you stay put, you won’t see it. Start traveling around the country and its the only thing you see.

this is not hyperbole. Sure other places are diverse, however because of the unique nature of the US and its size it just ends up attracting and subsequently absorbing.
by lucasoshiro | 2025-07-07 15:23:54+00:00
> excessive writing marks

In English I need to find how each word is pronounced individually. What the hell is the difference between "men" and "man"? What's the difference between "bitch" and "beach"? Why "though" sounds closer to "throw" than "through" or "thought"? Those differences are encoded in a unclear way that there are more exceptions than rules.

Portuguese (my native language) is not perfect in that sense, but at least it has more rules than exceptions. Part of that is because we use the diacritic marks.

Then, I prefer excessive writing marks than excessive unclear special cases
by kelseyfrog | 2025-07-07 15:24:17+00:00
> Should we really be developing features in response to misinformation?

Creating the feature means it's no longer misinformation.

The bigger issue isn't that ChatGPT produces misinformation - it's that it takes less effort to update reality to match ChatGPT than it takes to update ChatGPT to match reality. Expect to see even more of this as we match toward accepting ChatGPT's reality over other sources.
by williamdclt | 2025-07-07 15:24:22+00:00
> The "non-phonetic alphabet" is the biggest non-issue I see people raise a stink about

Myself and many friends who aren’t native have struggled with speaking fluently because of it. Most of us still mispronounce some words (my friend pronounced “draught beer” like the lack of rain, instead of like draft).

Doesn’t mean things should change, but it’s certainly not a “non-issue”
by hnuser123456 | 2025-07-07 15:25:37+00:00
Good timing with this. I had an old maker select v2 from ~2015, and at some point, the SD card got jammed in and ripped the card reader off the PCB, so I just ordered a Core One (preassembled) over the weekend. The CoreXY system (and enclosure) seems more elegant than bed-slinging, but it's evidently more fiddly. Hopefully the enclosure also prevents it from accumulating dust as quickly.

You mentioned you stripped one of the tensioners - does a screw thread into a 3d printed part? Is there a more robust version of the part?
by saratogacx | 2025-07-07 15:26:01+00:00
While I haven't used Junie I have been using an intelliJ plugin ProxyAI for a while. It has a couple of built in models and more you can pay for ($10/mo) but you can add pretty much any model you want with your own keys (I even tried perplexity's Sonar model for kicks).

It's been my go-to, along with Claude Code on the side for bigger stuff.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-07 15:26:09+00:00
Maybe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics

Not all researchers in that field would 100% agree but I see D as the old dark triad (Narcissism, Machiavellianism, Psychopathy) plus Sadism which is conspicuously absent from the triad.

My own take is that the modern moral rot is founded in Narcissism as described in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture_of_Narcissism

which was thought to be about the 1970s when it came out but actually talks about longer term trends that have been tracked to the 18th century in the US, Tokugawa Japan and ancient Rome. Psychologists see Narcissism as an underdevelopment of the personality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analysis_of_the_Self

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/kernbergs-borderline-c...

so it's not like a High D person is a Low D person that went bad, but rather a High D doesn't have a lot of insight into how Low D people work. In a Low D culture a High D person might be forced to be a "wolf in sheep's clothing" but a silver lining to being in a culture that celebrates High D is that High D people are proud to fly their flag.

When I was a hungry college student I thought "gee Charles Manson was good at picking up chicks"; today I realize that Charles Mason was good at picking up murderous chicks. That is, High D people aren't good at ripping off or seducing low D people, they're good at ripping off and seducing other High D people. See

https://leverage.fandom.com/wiki/The_Long_Con

and "You can't cheat an honest man".
by quinto_quarto | 2025-07-07 15:26:11+00:00
i've mentioned in this in a few Show HNs, been working on an AI bookmarking and notes app called Eyeball: https://eyeball.wtf/

It integrates a minimalist feed of your links with the ability to talk to your bookmarks and notes with AI. We're adding a weekly wrapped of your links next week like this profile next week.
by saeedesmaili | 2025-07-07 15:26:22+00:00
URLs from my pocket archive (~4200 items) were around 85k tokens, assuming a 2k output token, it would cost me 18 cents to run this via API (o3 model) [1].

[1] https://www.llm-prices.com/#it=85000&ot=2000&ic=2&oc=8&sb=in...
by dathinab | 2025-07-07 15:26:26+00:00
definitely not under any circumstances!

I mean if you just need someone to listen to and nod, okay, whatever.

But even if we ignore how LLMs sometimes can go very unhinged and how LLMs pretending to be actual human personal have already killed people they have one other big problem.

They try really hard to be very agreeable, and that is a BIG issue for therapy session.

Like IRL I have seen multiple cases of therapy done by not qualified people doing harm and and one common trend was that the people in question where trying to be very agreeable, never disagree with their patients, never challenging the patients view never making the patent question them self. But therapy is all about self reflection and getting you mind unstuck not getting it further stuck/down the wrong way by telling you that yes all the time.
by cootsnuck | 2025-07-07 15:26:44+00:00
They don't want to. It seems a lot of people are uncomfortable and defensive about anything that may demystify LLMs.

It's been a wake up call for me to see how many people in the tech space have such strong emotional reactions to any notions of trying to bring discourse about LLMs down from the clouds.

The campaigns by the big AI labs have been quite successful.
by jklinger410 | 2025-07-07 15:26:47+00:00
> If you would like to live passively in all aspects of your life

Nah man, I'm clearly just talking about hacker news comments.

Being kind to people on here (and the internet in general) is a sign of good faith, and you are more likely to get your message across.

In this instance, maybe just assuming the person doesn't know about this other data, and educating them on that fact.

Being passive aggressive, or actively aggressive, on an internet forum is usually pointless. It indicates you're an asshole more than it serves as an indictment of whoever you are replying to, 100% of the time.
by codeflo | 2025-07-07 15:27:15+00:00
> It has a massive phonemic inventory, with 44 unique items. Compare with Spanish's 24, or German's 25.

I'm not sure where you're getting these numbers from, but German has around 45 phonemes according to all sources I could find, depending on how you count: 17 vowels (including two different schwa sounds), 3 diphthongs, 25 consonants.
by peteforde | 2025-07-07 15:27:37+00:00
My comment was a reaction to the fact that you called out your experience/wisdom on the topic no less than five distinct times in a short (otherwise great!) post.

I would argue that by doing so, you made it the unintended central theme of the post.

I'm not saying this to hurt your feelings. That you didn't perceive the obvious sarcasm in my late-night comment suggests that you might not want to be perceived as pompous in your writing style.

My suggestion is that one explicit "I'm an expert" reminder per post is a perfectly good number.
by hearsathought | 2025-07-07 15:27:49+00:00
> The Greeks already figured out thousands of years ago that the best way to implement democracy was via random selection.

The greeks ( socrates/plato ) figured out that democracy was a terrible form of government. Then again, the greeks did vote for socrates to drink hemlock.

> everything people think they know was told to them by the corporate-controlled media

Is there anything sweeter than fox news, a "news" company owned by an australian, railing against foreign influence in american politics?

> They're so sure it's all legit, they'll viciously argue their candidate's position as if they were a family member they knew personally.

At this point, I'd prefer we ban campaigning and silly staged debates altogether. Just have each candidate post who their masters are and then let the people vote off that. It's far more value to the voter if they knew who the politicians owe their allegiance to than empty campaign promises.