MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by prennert | 2025-07-02 09:30:37+00:00
Execution in the broad sense. Some things will depend on the availability of humanoid robots which can facilitate the execution in real-world domains that are designed for humans.

Right now AI is good as a manager, it can identify issues and propose solutions, but it struggles to actually implement them reliably. This is even the case with code today, despite the vast datasets, documentation, compilers, etc.

This problem becomes harder the more the unconstrained physical world is involved, in particular in slow moving legacy environments that have not been designed for AI / robots. Prime examples are physical infrastructure, and housing stock and the associated trades that maintain and upgrade those.
by rephus | 2025-07-02 09:30:41+00:00
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by msgodel | 2025-07-02 09:30:44+00:00
Stuff like this makes me really think our sides just can't share a state. We need to separate so you can be a slave for whatever it is you think you're doing and we can ignore you in peace.

None of this has been managed well for quite some time, meanwhile the deficit spending is so high we have to raise already very high taxes. Nope, just torch it.
by florkbork | 2025-07-02 09:31:18+00:00
I find I am broadly supportive of these laws (The Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024), even if this specific regulation is a bit of pearl clutching wowserism.

Why? If you read the original legislation https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display....

You get 30,000 civil penalty units if you are a scumbag social media network and you harvest someone's government ID. You get 30,000 civil penalty units if you don't try to keep young kids away from the toxic cesspool that is your service, filled with bots and boomers raving about climate change and reposting Sky News.

This absolutely stuffs those businesses who prey on their users, at least for the formative years.

And when I think about it like that? I have no problem with it, nor the fact it's a pain to implement.
by kreldjarn | 2025-07-02 09:31:30+00:00
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by Ferret7446 | 2025-07-02 09:33:04+00:00
> It's a different story if the material value of the metal in the coin exceeds its face value - at that point it makes sense to go to a bank, change money into pennies, then scrap them and sell the copper. That would be bad.

Well, that is highly illegal and not very profitable vs the amount of risk. You'd be better off doing almost any other crime.
by danbruc | 2025-07-02 09:34:01+00:00
Floating point calculations used to be a lot slower than integer calculations so it was very common to use fixed point numbers. Also for good performance, you would usually not do what this code does, calculate the coordinates for each pixel explicitly. Instead you would calculate the coordinates of the starting corner and the delta between adjacent pixels and then just add the delta each time you move to the next pixel. That is also generally easier to do with fixed point numbers as adding 0.1 with floating point numbers a 1000 times will not yield 100 because 0.1 is not exactly representable with base 2 floating point numbers. For this visualization this probably does not matter too much, but if you care that you are not slightly off and you want to calculate stuff incrementally, then doing it in fixed point might make things easier. I have no clue about the first point on current hardware, if floating point calculations are still notably less performant, if there is a relevant difference in the number of execution units and so on.
by graemep | 2025-07-02 09:34:13+00:00
> Also the only way multiculturalism can work is through a totalitarian state which is why surveillance and censorship is so big in the UK. Also the reason why Singapore works.

Singapore, if anything, is evidence against your claim about the UK. Singapore has multiple cultures, but it does not promote multi-culturalism as it is generally understood in the UK. Their language policy is:

1. Everyone has to speak reasonably good English. 2. Languages other English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil are discouraged.

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

The language policy is more like the treatment of Welsh in the 19th century, or Sri Lanka's attempt to impose a single national language from the 60s to the 80s (but more flexible as it retains more than one language). A more extreme (because it goes far beyond language) and authoritarian example would be contemporary China's suppression of minority cultures. I do not think anyone would call any of those multiculturalism.

The reason for surveillance and censorship in the UK is very different. It is a general feeling in the ruling class that the hoi polloi cannot be trusted and centralised decision making is preferable to local or individual decision making. The current Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill is a great example - the central point is that the authorities will make more decisions for people and organisations and decide what they an do to a greater extent than at the moment.
by UnreachableCode | 2025-07-02 09:35:09+00:00
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by myrmidon | 2025-07-02 09:36:17+00:00
Still a no-can-do for our species currently, and it's not close.

Would need around 1km/s on top of its average orbital velocity to escape, but the mass is probably roughly in the 10^22kg range, so thats like 10^28 Joule.

Significantly more than a billion of the biggest nuclear bombs we built.
by FunLab-one | 2025-07-02 09:37:18+00:00
Just tried this AI game tool and wow — I made a game in like 10 minutes

No coding, just typed my idea and it actually worked! It is totally free! I was honestly surprised.

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by johnisgood | 2025-07-02 09:38:05+00:00
What? I do not find anything confusing. You live in a Marvel world if you think a LICENSE is going to stop people from using a product. But like you said, it is not intended to be for enforcement purposes, but Huawei is trying to save its own ass.

So what is your answer? Mostly companies only? That is a fair answer, but you are the one who said this:

> You'll be both breaking their licence and potentially your local European data laws.

Again, who cares, dude? Companies might, but individuals probably give a rat's ass. So why leave that comment?

And just for the record, if you quote someone, quote them verbatim, otherwise it is not a quote.
by scott_w | 2025-07-02 09:38:14+00:00
As others have pointed out: if the complexity is in the domain then that's perfectly acceptable. I always remember reading some lines of code in Linux that had a comment above them: "This code is meant to be read by a CPU, not by a human."

The hard part is knowing when the code is complex because the domain/performance requirements demand it be that way vs when the code is complex because the engineer was just trying to appear smarter than they are.
by tiyashbasu | 2025-07-02 09:38:40+00:00
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by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-02 09:39:06+00:00
At face value, ignoring its role as a metaphor, it doesn't make sense - it's literally the opposite of what's happening.

When you mix salt water and freshwater together, you don't get more freshwater - you turn freshwater into salt water. Replace "fresh" with "clean" and "salt" with "dirty" to make it more obvious.
by msgodel | 2025-07-02 09:39:52+00:00
I recently bought some wooded land and unlike most people I know I've been extremely selective cutting down trees on it.

It's actually comfortable to be outside there. Even in the summer it's almost completely shaded. I was kind of surprised how extreme it is. I know trees make it harder to work and if you're hiring people they probably can't tolerate it but since I'm doing everything myself I don't have to clear everything and wait for it to grow back.
by amelius | 2025-07-02 09:40:54+00:00
That would be great, if you ignore geopolitical concerns. Alas, AI technology is a double-edged sword and any competition in consumer space will likely be mirrored in an arms race which (given their current manufacturing capabilities, cheap labor) China would win.

Anyway, they would need to duplicate ASML first which will probably not happen in the foreseeable future.
by diggan | 2025-07-02 09:40:54+00:00
> I thought we’d be able to celebrate this one.

I mean yeah, it's cool and all that the employees and owners get a pay out, but IPOs are generally bad news for users, and I'm sure I'm not the only Figma user here, so makes sense that people are cautious about something that is usually bad news for them.

> Figma provided an alternative to the evil Adobe empire that was actually better

That's the crux, because generally IPOs mean that they'll now slowly turn into whatever it was they were supposed to fix. Maybe Figma will be the 1-in-a-billion products that won't suffer that fate, but it's understandable that people are now starting to casually look for alternatives, given most people's experience with IPOs.
by dspillett | 2025-07-02 09:41:14+00:00
> Figma is an enterprise app, and the data models needed to support complex use cases (permissions, etc) means that DB load is a real challenge.

This, “permissions, etc”, isn't just an enterprise-scale problem, any multi-tenant system can and probably will hit it.

Working out who can access what can sound simple enough, but it gets rather less pleasant when the rules can be set with more complex ACLs¹ and because people can move around dynamically it is both potentially resource heavy to derive and difficult to cache² both safely and³ efficiently. It is natural to think “well, we can simplify the permissions model”, but you really can't when selling to different enterprises: many have their own idiosyncratic workflows, or local tweaks if using an “industry standard” workflow, and they will make a noise if your software to support them without extra tricks on their part.

We are at a much smaller scale⁴, in another industry, but this is an issue we have to be very careful about.

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[1] Is this person in a given group? Does that give or remove permission? Can they just access, or edit, add, …? also: different elements on the same screen could have very different ACLs to each other and at different times in a process

[2] missing changes for a time could cause significant issues if users are working on something commercially important or otherwise sensitive

[3] Safe is easy: don't cache at all. Efficient is easy: don't care about a bit of staleness and accept a bit of “eventual consistency”/“eventual correctness”. Achieving both takes a pile of resource even with a great design.

[4] We don't have to worry about consistently spreading data and processing over a set of DCs as our product has natural borders between tenants so splitting off into distinct DBs⁵ is an easy answer to some of the scale & efficiency issues.

[5] rather than needing everything in on “public” system because anyone can potentially want to share access with any other user.
by DebtDeflation | 2025-07-02 09:41:58+00:00
And in the meantime, their goal is clearly to make money off non-AGI AI.

I constantly get quasi-religious vibes from the current AI "leaders" (Altman, Amodei, and quite a few of the people who have left both companies to start their own). I never got those sort of vibes from Hinton, LeCun, or Bengio. The latest crop really does seem to believe that they're building some sort of "god" and that their god getting built first before one of their competitors builds a false god is paramount (in the literal meaning of the term) for the future of the human race.
by petesergeant | 2025-07-02 09:42:27+00:00
> I haven't been able to get them to write hard code on their own, though

For sure, and me neither, for what it's worth. But most of the code I write isn't "hard" code; the hard code is also the stuff I enjoy writing the most. I will note that a few months ago I found them helpful for small things inside the GPT window, and then tried agentic mode (specifically Roo, then Claude Code), and have seen a huge speedup in my ability to get stuff done.
by Nursie | 2025-07-02 09:43:29+00:00
Yeah, here in WA at least, there are signs up in the plumbing section of Bunnings saying “Stop! DIY plumbing is illegal! Only buy this stuff if you’re getting a professional to fit it!”

The reasoning is often “people might contaminate the water supply for a whole street!” Which just points to poor provision of one way valves at the property line.

But yeah, illegal.

I agree there are limits with what you want to do on electricity, but turning the breaker off and replacing a light fitting or light switch is pretty trivial. And I know people do just get on with it and do some of this stuff themselves anyway.

Was particularly pissed off that in January this year the plumbing “protections” were extended to rural residents who aren’t even connected to mains water or sewage, to protect us from substandard work by … making it illegal for us to do it ourselves. Highly annoying.
by mattmanser | 2025-07-02 09:43:40+00:00
It is incredible how easy this stuff spirals out of control and why I'm not too worried about AI yet.

Every now and then I'm writing a PoC or greenfield project that you put down for 6 months. And sometimes when I pick it up to extend it, it will just so rapidly feel like it's getting out of control (I'm actually listening to the chemical brothers song of the same name at the moment!). I can at least usually fix that with some refactoring, but why didn't I get it right at the time? I don't know.

And it's often hard to figure out why, what architectural decision did you make to cause this. Pointing at the particular interface or pattern or method call chain that is the cause of a ton of complexity that could be fixed is much, much, much harder than most jobs in programming. And beyond the ability of 90% of developers.

The -2000 story popped up here again recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44381252), and it's of the same vein, why had no-one else done that? Because it takes extreme skill to simplify existing code. It's beyond most developers.

I think it's why we as an industry often obsess about things like space/tabs/semi-colons or not/etc. They're obvious improvements to an architecture, and everyone can join in. But really, they're a small improvement to a codebase, not a massive one.

And then you get the Evans of the world who just do it, almost effortlessly. I've worked with an Evan, and sometimes you'd look at his code and think "why?", but any attempt to change or improve it invariably made it worse. He'd picked that pattern or structure or method call chain and it was always the right choice. And after a day of poking at it, exploring the edges, trying to change it, you'd realize why.

And yes, sometimes the code was so complex other developers couldn't get it. And then they'd call me over to help because I could get it. And I'd look at it and realize it was complicated because it had to be like that. He'd actually done it in the simplest way possible.

And years later I still make the wrong choice sometimes, and I always think of Simon and wish I had his magic touch.

Even if he used to name functions Thing() and DoStuff() and forget to update them.
by keymon-o | 2025-07-02 09:44:08+00:00
Work, friends, financial and other lifestyle decisions. All tend to have risks to ruin yourself and your life permanently.

I think that relationships are crucial for the quality of living and not seeking depth in those may be more detrimental than most things I mentioned above.

Especially, the today's 'connected' societies which often give false premise of socializing and promote ideas of isolating yourself from deeper relationships.
by kypro | 2025-07-02 09:44:11+00:00
100% agree.

The framing that explicit material is bad for kids, while probably true, is besides the point. Lots of things a parent could expose a child to could be bad, but it's always been seen as up to the parent to decide.

What the government should do is ensure that parents have the tools to raise their kids in the way they feel is appropriate. For example, they could require device manufactures implement child-modes or that ISP provide tools for content moderation which would puts parents in control. This instead places the the state in the parental role with it's entire citizenry.

We see this in the UK a lot too. This idea that parents can't be trusted to be good parents and that people can't be trusted with their own freedom so we need the state to look after us seems to be an increasing popular view. I despise it, but for whatever reason that seems to be the trend in the West today – people want the state to take on a parental role in their lives. Perhaps aging demographics has something to do with it.
by foursilly | 2025-07-02 09:45:11+00:00
Since the license ban the use and installation in EU, I would ask: It is possible to formulate a license that claims: "The restriction A is motivated to protect our ass but we will not directly or indirectly enforce it against you"?, Such kind of phrasing in the license could be categorized or called "isolating clause" but I don't know if judges could consider it a circumvention of the law.

Edited several times, I should add: IANAL, but this sounds similar to meta releasing llama weights. I think that the spirit of the European law is to control concrete uses of AI and not a broad distribution of weights and architecture. So my question is: Does the EU AI act ban this distribution?, I think it provides more competition and options for Europeans.

Edited: Thinking a little more, installing open weights could allow backdoors (in the form of a way to manipulate intelligent agents via specials prompts designated to control the system), so perhaps from a national security point of view some care should be taken (but I personally hate that). So another question: Is there a way to control if open weights can create back doors (via prompt injection)?, I recall a paper in which prompt by symbols like 0?,#2! could put the system in a state in which one can read information that the LLM is asked to hide (that is a well known attack available to those that know the weights).

Another question: Is fine tuning or Lora a way to eliminate o amilliorate such prompt attacks?, is there any python library to defend against such attacks. Download - install - modify by fine tune or lora - now you are protected.
by bjord | 2025-07-02 09:47:43+00:00
I don't actually think there was (or needed to be) one...keep in mind they're a non-profit. I think they just wanted to make the internet a safer place, but semi-extraneous (particularly unprofitable) projects sadly need to be cut aggressively with the rising threat of the google antitrust suit, as they may lose most of their income.
by rudderdev | 2025-07-02 09:48:31+00:00
You don't, they do. You go to GitHub or a hackathon and start building in open, you frequently talk about your project and make it useful for someone other than yourself. You make sure that you highlight your interest to partner up with someone and provide a way to start the discussion with you. If you do this long enough, many will contribute to fix their own issue, and some of them may contribute more than that if they find the contribution to your project aligns with their current goals (career, reputation, learning, etc.).
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