MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by namibj | 2025-07-29 06:45:06+00:00
The problem is that all current mainstream LLMs are autoregressive decoder-only, mostly but not exclusively transformers. Their math can't apply modifiers like "this example/attempt there is wrong due to X,Y,Z" to anything that came before the modifier clause in the prompt. Despite how enticing these models are to train, these limitations are inherent. (For this specific situation people recommend going back to just before the wrong output and editing the message to reflect this understanding, as the confidently wrong output with no advisory/correcting pre-clause will "pollute the context": the model will look at the context for some aspects coded into high(-er)-layer token embeddings, inherently can't include the correct/wrong aspect because we couldn't apply the "wrong"/correction to the confidently-wrong tokens, thus retrieves the confidently-wrong tokens, and subsequently spews even more BS. Similar to how telling a GPT2/GPT3 model it's an expert on $topic made it actually be better on said topic, this affirmation of that the model made an error will prime the model to behave in a way that it gets yelled at again... sadly.)
by kazinator | 2025-07-29 06:45:12+00:00
> All elite athletes have biological advantages not afforded to ordinary humans like us.

Sure. Meanwhile there's no athletic record of anyone identified as a woman cracking the four minute mile.

Not long after Roger Bannister, teenage boys started doing it. It's not unusual for sub 4 miles to be run by boys at high school track meets.

Elite capability does not erase or conceal sex-related gaps. We have male and female divisions at all levels of sport for a reason.
by DaveExeter | 2025-07-29 06:46:10+00:00
Israeli is implementing a final solution to the Palestinian problem, and that solution is...genocide!

Some might argue it's not genocide but simply mass-murder. That's an awful lot of mass-murdering going on.

The Bret Stephens hasbara is that it's not a genocide because of how slow the killing is. Obviously the IDF could dig in machine guns in hidden trenches, lure starving Palestinians with the bait of food, and gun down thousands at once.

The problem with that approach is that such a strategy would risk rousing the conscience of the world. It's much safer to murder a few hundred a day and have slow starvation take thousands.

While pictures of starving Palestinian children are evocative of the Holocaust, or at least of the end of the Holocaust when cameras were allowed into liberated concentration camps, the world seems not to have a problem with Holocaust 2.0
by stevekemp | 2025-07-29 06:48:38+00:00
Back in the day CP/M had a feature which allowed you to batch up commands, you'd write a "FOO.SUB" file, then run "SUBMIT FOO".

There was a neat binary named "SLASH.COM" which would allow you to create a submission file ("$$$.SUB") by running "SLASH FOO ; BAR ; ECHO HELLO".

Of course CP/M is a dead system, mostly.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-07-29 06:48:41+00:00
I don't think that affects the GP point though. If the US is a profit center for pharma, that makes developing drugs more profitable overall, which means more drugs will be developed.

Pharma companies are gamblers. They gamble on the cost of R&D, the market size for the drug, the amount they will be able to charge. The higher the expected value of their profits, the wider variety of drugs look like attractive prospects financially.
by yieldcrv | 2025-07-29 06:49:09+00:00
I see what you're saying, IDF soldiers were trigger happy to kill surrendering Semites that were the hostages they were looking for, because their mom said its not cowardly to avoid unnecessary danger.

Thanks for redefining that term, its the substantive comment we needed. I apologize for my chauvinistic idea that avoiding masculine altruism during an actual war to accomplish the actual stated goal might be internationally seen as cowardly.
by jibal | 2025-07-29 06:49:15+00:00
About my involvement: I was in the right place at the right time. I was hanging out in the UCLA Computer Club in 1968 at lunchtime when Steve Crocker (new head of the UCLA ARPANET project under Leonard Kleinrock) came by--he wanted to teach a class on "LISP and Theorem Proving" and wanted to know how to register it. We chatted and he told me about his recent MIT PhD Thesis on man/machine symbiosis to help programmers figure out other programmers' code (e.g., dead COBOL programmers), and I made a brash comment about being good at figuring out code, so he gave me a couple of challenges on the whiteboard that I just happened to be expert in, and he offered me a job with the Comp Sci Dept on the spot. I ended up sharing a cubicle wall with Jon Postel. My supervisor was Charley Kline, who was the first person to ever to a remote network login, to SRI--it famously crashed on the first attempt but they quickly found the bug and he logged in at 10:27pm. This was just a few weeks after the IMP arrived, which sat in a corner for a couple of weeks while engineering student Mike Wingfield built an interface card to connect the IMP to the Sigma-7 host. I was in the machine room when Mike came in with the board held high shouting "Eureka!"
by wzdd | 2025-07-29 06:49:45+00:00
This seems incorrect. From https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/lenacapavir-drug-offe... :

> The medication works in two ways: First, it interrupts viral replication by preventing HIV from reaching the nucleus of an infected cell, which then blocks reproduction.

> The second mechanism is for cases in which integration of the HIV genome has already occurred. In this instance, lenacapavir interferes with production of viral progeny

In other words, it has multiple mechanisms of action and you are only discussing one of them.

Another source is https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10705863/ (my emphasis):

> Its multistage inhibition entails the process of selective binding to the interface between capsid subunits and such interaction determines the inhibition of capsid-mediated nuclear uptake of HIV-1 proviral DNA (by blocking nuclear import proteins binding to capsid), virus assembly and release (by interfering with Gag/Gag-Pol functioning, reducing production of CA subunits), and capsid core formation (by disrupting the rate of capsid subunit association, leading to irregularly formed capsids)
by nine_k | 2025-07-29 06:49:55+00:00
Resources that are "Unlimited" in marketing speak are rate-limited in practice. Your unlimited internet connection limits your daily transfer by bandwidth, both at your port and at the remote service ports. Your daily amount of SMS is limited by sending rate. Your all-you-can-eat restaurant order is limited by your belly.

No wonder that access to an expensive API which is an LLM is also rate-limited.

What does surprise me is that you can't buy an extra serving by paying more (twice the limit for 3x the cost, for instance). Either subscriptions don't make enough money, or their limits are at their datacenters and they have no spare capacity for premium plans.
by FabHK | 2025-07-29 06:50:07+00:00
Sure, it's been going on for a long time. Close to a million Palestinians were expelled (or fled) from Israel after its founding, and close to a million Jews were expelled (or fled) from various Muslim-majority countries around that time.

The former is known as the Nakba (as you highlight) and well known. The latter, not so much.
by joshtbradley | 2025-07-29 06:51:07+00:00
Would you consider Stripe and PayPal also interested in speculative investment/trading? They seem responsible to me. Also, stablecoins aren’t speculative. Cryptocurrencies absolutely are. But stablecoins are pegged to USD, hence “stable.”

I think you’re right to criticize crypto as a techno-elite project. However I think stablecoins have a legitimate use case for billions of people who don’t have access to good banks, or a stable currency, and can’t afford traditional fees. IMO it’s one of the best things to come out of crypto.
by troupo | 2025-07-29 06:51:38+00:00
> But if a person reads a good book on, say, Bitcoin chain foundations, I am pretty sure they'd understand how it works.

On technological level? Yes. On the bullshit scam level with sixteen layers of new invented terminology? Most likely not.

And yes, cryptoworld is easier to understand precisely because it's unbelievably primitive once you pull apart hype, scams, and layers of indirection.

Edit: oh, it's also busy re-inventing most of the concepts that the world has had for centuries, and most people understand without needing to read books and whitepapers
by dotcoma | 2025-07-29 06:51:40+00:00
Interesting, almost inevitable (I think) and scary in more ways than one; but I agree, this is probably not going to happen tomorrow, nor in 2026.

In the shorter term...

NVIDIA is 8% of the US stock market.

88% of NVIDIA’s revenue comes from enterprise-scale GPUs primarily used for generative AI, and half of that is purchased by only 4 companies, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta.

By the end of 2025, these 4 companies will have spent over $560 billion in capital expenditures on AI in the last two years. Their AI revenues? Around $35 billion.

And then there's Tesla, which is 'worth' more than Ford, GM, VW and Toyota combined.

So, 6 out of the 7 largest companies in the US are in a strange position.

Only Apple, the laggard in AI, seems relatively safe to me.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/
by dijit | 2025-07-29 06:52:01+00:00
> Seriously, how the fuck do people raw dog the web? It's unbearable.

I agree, I got it to “work for me” by only using the sites I like, but there are times where I stray from my beaten path because I’m searching for something and it’s awful. I don’t think I would have fallen in love with computers if I was raised with the web being what it currently is.

I wonder if this is a driver of ChatGPT as a search engine, everything else is so bafflingly bad and all people really want is information.
by scott_w | 2025-07-29 06:52:49+00:00
They promised a policy (Brexit) in a form that would replace immigration from European countries with immigration from non-white countries.

In fact, the Tories did NOT promise to reduce immigration. They promised 2 things that are guaranteed to increase immigration:

- 50,000 extra nurses (including foreign recruitment)

- A points-based system, you can find articles talking about how this increases immigration

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50524262
by NomDePlum | 2025-07-29 06:53:17+00:00
On the first point of your reply I was agreeing with you, but also felt the need to expand to draw the distinction that a good many people of the Jewish faith actively defend the ongoing genocide and Israel.

On your second point, my follow up comment on anti-Semitism being weaponised feels wholly appropriate in this context. If you can bring attention to something you feel is directly relevant to the conversation I'm not sure why you would not allow me to do the same.
by ilitirit | 2025-07-29 06:53:32+00:00
Pre-print of a paper which studied 1950 "transients" which - in tl;dr terms - might be evidence of artificial objects in orbit before the satellite era.

Recent comment from one of the main authors:

https://x.com/DrBeaVillarroel/status/1949780669141332205

Previous work: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-92162-7
by prolly97 | 2025-07-29 06:53:52+00:00
> Loosing it for a couple of days is more palatable

Sorry, I'll just be "that guy" for a moment. Assuming that access is cut at a random time during the week, the average number of days without Claude would be 3.5. That's not reasonable as it's dependant on usage. So assume that you've always been just shy of hitting the limit, and you increase usage by 50%, then you'd hit the limit 4.67 days in. Just 2-3 hours shy of the weekend - a sort of reward for the week's increased effort.

Have a blessed Thuesday.
by dxuh | 2025-07-29 06:54:21+00:00
I find this argument hard to agree with. We are seeing unprecedented levels of buffoonery in many governments of the world and people enthusiastically agreeing with (objectively) idiots. Before anyone that does not know how to understand a statement as we are talking about, they will understand it the wrong way, tell everyone they know, create social media content and form organizations that oppose vaccines. I would say that this is more likely to happen many times over than them actually learning how to understand a statement like OPs properly. So as sad as it is, I think you are wrong.
by elzbardico | 2025-07-29 06:55:08+00:00
Border restrictions: Blockade.

Given the brutal blockade of Gaza, the continuous encroachment of settlers in the occupied territory, the continued refusal of a two-state solution, what exactly Israel expects to happen?

It is not like the Palestinians have F-35s and Abrahams tanks paid by the US in order to wage a proper war against Israel.

Israel, given its own history (google for Irgun, Stern Gang, Lehi, Hagannah, etc) should be able to predict the end result of its actions.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-29 06:55:21+00:00
First they came for the transgender juvenile athletes

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a transgender juvenile athlete (and there are probably only 100 in the whole country)

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Then they came for the unofficial migrants (the paperwork is a civil federal matter)

And I did not speak out

Because I was not an unofficial migrant

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Then they came for the unhoused Americans

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a currently unhoused American, a person camping on BLM land, or a person camping in their back yard for more than 7 days per year where it is now illegal

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Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me
by joshtbradley | 2025-07-29 06:55:22+00:00
You think the same system that chose to bail out the banks in 08 should be fully responsible for our financial future? I believe a more distributed financial system would provide more stability for all of us. The GENIUS Act establishes some very strong standards that I believe will strengthen the economy, the dollar, and enable more people to enter the financial services industry in a competitively healthy way. A scammer would have a hard time 1:1 backing their stablecoins with bonds and equivalently stable assets.
by bbor | 2025-07-29 06:55:46+00:00
If they aren't just tools, what are they?

I wrote a lot more below, but I think you've picked up on two important things here:

1. This post seems likely to have been written with the assistance of a chatbot, which explains this phrase. The "they aren't just tools" phrase is only there because he needed a third example for a "it's not just X--it's Y" paragraph, one of ChatGPT's all-time fave constructions.

2. Another cause is more fundamental: the third "leverage" doesn't really apply to this discussion IMO. It's probably useful elsewhere, but owning a large social media company is just a different variety of capital, not some mutually-exclusive group. All expressions of capitalist power in 2025 have some amount of technological amplification going on.
by ithkuil | 2025-07-29 06:56:00+00:00
I agree. That doesn't make the bombing of Tokyo and Dresden moral acts. War is atrocious by definition.

What is different this time is that most of the west has forgotten what it actually means to be at war and they pontificate from their armchair.

Combine that with the fact that it is generally easier to have empathy for the side that you perceive to be the victim or on the side of justice, and most people truly cannot comprehend how so many Israelis would support their right wing war policies.

I don't think one has to justify the killing of innocent civilians in order to at least try to put themselves in the shoes of people who have been born in Israel and have lived their lives punctuated by the fear of their family or friend being blown up in a bus bombing.

Most people in the west will just not entertain the thought exercise. They'll just dismiss it as "well they invaded Palestine and stole their land", as if this is a justification for suicide bomb attacks or raining rockets over Israeli cities.

I think our collective inability to accept the situation on the ground and push for a compromise is fueling the violence.

Hamas has a strategy where they can leverage their population acceptance of martyrdom in order to gain more and more victim points in their master PR strategy.

Israel feels more and more isolated internationally and they react by giving everybody a big F U and doubling down on their own extremism.

I often hear "Jews should just go back to Europe" as if that is an actual solution.

I believe that if this was any other conflict that didn't involve Jews (e.g. Turks and Kurds) most people would be cheering for peace or they'd be indifferent.

But this conflict has the right mix of inflaming ingredients. There is white colonial guilt and guilt of racism, there is the association of Jews with global capitalism, and associating Jews as "being white".

To be clear, my take is not that since there are other wars like in Sudan, Israel can do whatever they want. All wars should end and every day they continue is a tragedy.

My point is that if one wants to help bring this conflict to an end, one should not put Israel in an impossible position and demand that they simply cease to exist because they "are not native to the land" or similar arguments that people make nowadays.

It's much more effective to pressure Israel to avoid war atrocities if one understands their point of view, their condition and what it means to be under existential threat.

In order to do that you don't have to deny the same to Palestinians.

For some reason most people seem to only reason by taking one side
by tome | 2025-07-29 06:56:03+00:00
I think this is probably a sign that you shouldn't allow these posts on HN, despite the rationale posted by dang in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44718396

If the flagging is such that one point of view is represented ad nauseam and the other point of view is barely represented due to flagging pile on, then it's not actually contributing to discourse at all -- it's just an echo chamber. That does not fit in with what I find valuable in HN.
by edg5000 | 2025-07-29 06:56:35+00:00
> The average Chrome user finds that feature useful I don´t know about that. It displays on so many sites where I was not intending to login at all. If I want to login, I would have clicked on the websites' login button. This popup really blatantly shows that Google is everywhere, even if that was already the case. It's possible that this actually reflects badly on Google as a whole.
by Razengan | 2025-07-29 06:57:36+00:00
You don't get it: My usage of Apple is my choice. If the App Store doesn't have something, I can go somewhere else.

Visa/Mastercard fucking shit up on Steam, itch, and everywhere else is NOT my choice.

Hell, even if I never use Visa/MC and just use bank → PayPal, or cash → Steam gift cards or whatever for all my purchases, why do I still lose access to products because of Visa/MC's whims?
by baq | 2025-07-29 06:57:38+00:00
This is already happening if you know where to look and it isn’t esoteric data. The share of retail in treasury buyers has been increasing for years. If the administration doesn’t reduce spending (it won’t since it can’t) yields will blow out, we had a taste of this a couple times in the past years. Watch 5.5% on the 10. Expect YCC. Possibly buy gold if you think of buying treasuries…
by windexh8er | 2025-07-29 06:58:19+00:00
I'm always surprised when people buy vegetable stock. So many people I know cook "from scratch" with base ingredients like stock out of a box.

And just as with cooking: most people won't care - and the same goes with LLMs. It can be good enough... Less efficient? Meh - cloud. AI slop image? Meh - cheaper than paying an artist. LLMs to get kids through school? Meh - something something school-of-life.

I look around and see many poorly educated people leaning hard into LLMs. These people are confusing parroting their prompt output as knowledge, especially in the education realm. And while LLMs may not "remove skills and abilities you already had before it" - you damn sure will lose any edge you had over time. It's a slippery slope of trading a honed skill for convenience. And in some cases that may be a worthwhile trade. In others that is a disaster waiting to happen.
by jchw | 2025-07-29 06:58:21+00:00
1. I can't tell you how unconvinced I am with the error being less confusing. A good error message tells you what's wrong and ideally what to do to remedy it if possible... and to me there isn't really a practical difference between "set this environment variable" and "run this command". It seems like you basically add one extra step, but you prevent people from choosing a probably suboptimal workflow that they almost certainly don't want to use anyways... Either way, I don't think it's more confusing, and for someone new it's better to only have one way to do something, especially if it's the obviously superior thing anyways.

2. Sure, the database will probably be running locally, when you're working on database stuff. However, the trouble here is that while I almost definitely will have a local database running somehow, it is not necessarily going to be accessible from where the compiler would normally run. It might be in a VM or a Docker container where the database port isn't actually directly accessible. Plus, the state of the database schema in that environment is not guaranteed to match the code.

If I'm going to have something pull my database schema to do some code generation I'd greatly prefer it to be set up in such a way that I can easily wrap it so I can hermetically set up a database and run migrations from scratch so it's going to always match the code. It's not obvious what kinds of issues could be caused by a mismatch other than compilation errors, but personally I would prefer if it just wasn't possible.
by goatlover | 2025-07-29 06:58:39+00:00
Defeating your enemy before they can launch another deadly attack is a lot different than genocide or ethnic cleansing. Jesus was talking about personal relationships in that saying, he wasn't running a government or military. Presumably he had a different view on what should happen to the Roman occupiers when the Kingdom of God came, as can be seen in other parts of the Jewish and Christian scriptures.

The problem is Israel treated the entire Gaza population as indiscriminately sheltering Hamas, partly because Netanyahu retains power by keeping conflicts going, and party because the right-wing Jewish extremists want to claim all the land.
by NomDePlum | 2025-07-29 06:58:43+00:00
Dropping 500+ lbs indiscriminately on civilian populations does not need new data.

War crimes have been perpetrated from extremely early on. What's happening now is just a continuation of what was happening at the start. It's better that there is some change but lots of groups, politicians and countries cannot expect genocide to be forgotten.

Realistically we are nowhere close to any of this being resolved or even stopped so I'm not even sure there is anything yet changed.
by hvb2 | 2025-07-29 06:59:19+00:00
There's 2 problems there 1. 'faster' is subjective since you cannot do the same task twice without the second time being biased by the learnings from the first pass 2. While speed might be one measure, I've rarely found speed to be the end goal. Unless you're writing something that's throw away, you'll be reading what was written many times over. Long term maintainability is at odds with speed, in most cases.