MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrbungie | 2025-08-04 21:33:21+00:00
Did you tell your teachers about your superpower?

But normally it depends on the subject and if the automation/machine solves the primary skill being teached or if its just a "secondary/tertiary" skill. Are you in a Calculus 101 class? Calculators like TI-89 are likely to be prohibited when examining for deriving analytical solutions for derivatives and integrals.

Statistics, Physics or any other subjects that needs applied maths? Such a calculator is probably a minimum requirement to take the course.
by pollinations | 2025-08-04 21:33:22+00:00
# Configure NF4 quantization quant_config = PipelineQuantizationConfig( quant_backend="bitsandbytes_4bit", quant_kwargs={"load_in_4bit": True, "bnb_4bit_quant_type": "nf4", "bnb_4bit_compute_dtype": torch.bfloat16}, components_to_quantize=["transformer", "text_encoder"], ) # Load the pipeline with NF4 quantization pipe = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained( model_name, quantization_config=quant_config, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, use_safetensors=True, low_cpu_mem_usage=True ).to(device)

seems to use 17gb of vram like this

update: doesn't work well. this approach seems to be recommended: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image/pull/6/files
by general1726 | 2025-08-04 21:33:47+00:00
> If LLMs can indeed produce wholly novel research independently without any external sources, then prove it.

I was actually thinking about it, and there could be a simple test - Remove all knowledge of X from knowledge corpus and train LLM on such corpus. Under X one can imagine anything - differential calculus, logarithms, Reimann Hypothesis, Special Theory of relativity, Fermat's theorems, ... And now ask AI questions which actually has lead to discovery of X.

If AI is able to rediscover X while not knowing about X, we can say it is proof of intelligence.
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-04 21:34:05+00:00
> AFAIK, distillation typically refers to tuning on the logits of the larger model

I think this is called “logit distillation” which is a particular form of distillation but not the only one.

> so you wouldn't be able to do that with fine-tuning APIs (OpenAI + Google in our blog post)

Dististillation from competitors' API is so common it has been given a name: it's called “distealing”.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-04 21:34:14+00:00
I'm saying that what google did is effectively an acquisition except it broke the equity and it avoided regulation.

You keep making examples that are less clear-cut, but whatever I agree there are things a company can do that aren't effectively acquisitions. I'm not saying how to write the rule, I'm just saying google is on the wrong side.

> You are specifically saying that a company shouldn’t be allowed to license IP, shouldn’t be allowed to acquire the company and shouldn’t be allowed to hire the employees or some combination.

They're totally allowed to acquire the company... as long as the FTC doesn't say no. And they can do lots of those other things too.

I don't know how you got the impression that I think acquisitions should be blocked more than a fraction of a percent of the time.

Even further, google SHOULD have acquired the company instead of doing what they did.
by duped | 2025-08-04 21:34:38+00:00
That seems suspect to me. If I call reserve_exact I do actually mean reserve_exact and I want .capacity() to return with the argument I passed to reserve_exact(). This is commonly done when using Vec as a fixed capacity buffer and you don't want to add another field to whatever owns it that's semantically equivalent to .capacity().

I don't really care if the memory region is past capacity * size of::<T>(), but I do want to be able to check if .len() == .capacity() and not be surprised
by gchamonlive | 2025-08-04 21:35:13+00:00
Not all questions are born the same. All questions you posed so far had this arrogant air to them like I'm missing something so obvious it doesn't have to be stated. If you can't bother to express yourself better why should I make this effort of guessing what you mean? You'd be surprised how far a bit of benefit of the doubt can take you.
by godelski | 2025-08-04 21:36:14+00:00
> Investing in relationships has been the key job security hack for me

This is a thing I failed to learn early on and I think a lot of people don't realize.

Connections frequently take precedence over skill! It's hard to determine skill through a piece of paper and some coding exercises under pressure. But a connection give a good signal on that and truth is almost no job requires maximizing skills (exception is at the bleeding edge and even there not always). It's also a signal about soft skills, trusting the connection isn't going to suggest someone that's difficult to work with.

I think it's easy to miss because we're often so data focused and because we want meritocracy. But the truth is you can't measure everything and not everything that's measurable is easy to measure. It takes more work to determine if some junior from a no name school is better than someone from a prestigious school. By connections make that easier to determine just like the prestige of the school serves as a signal, even if noisy. I think it's important to remember how this compounds too. Like your first year undergrad at Stanford is probably at a very similar experience level to a first year at a community college. But that gap widens and the gap isn't only due to coursework and lecturers.
by legitster | 2025-08-04 21:36:17+00:00
It's a good reminder that anti-immigrant policies actually increase the presence of cartels and violence.

Most immigrants and asylum seekers are explicitly trying to escape this type of violence, and would be happy to turn in or out gang activity north of the border. But by threatening the status of everyone, no one feels comfortable working with law enforcement, and law abiding immigrants will be the first to self deport.

Regardless, immigrants still perform less crime per capita than native-born Americans.

This is a larger problem where Americans do not know themselves outside of what they see on TV or read on the internet, and the extremes we are willing to jump to for perceived problems are only going to get more and more bizarre.
by mort96 | 2025-08-04 21:36:43+00:00
In the Nissan, you can customize all of these things and the car stores your configuration, you just have to press two buttons on the steering wheel every time you start the car to load it. And with those custom config loaded, I find the car really nice to drive. We (I and the family member) have gone through all the safety feature options and made a config which we like. Which mostly means just turning off a bunch of stuff, including the auto-crash and the obnoxious beeping which tells you you're going above (what the car thinks, sometimes incorrectly, is) the speed limit.

Doesn't help when you haven't driven the car in a while so you forget to push those buttons and the car reminds you by automatically turning the wheel towards oncoming traffic :(
by vanviegen | 2025-08-04 21:37:02+00:00
Or you could look at some of the research, which suggest that this feature may in fact reduce fatalities significantly (I'm finding estimates in the 20 to 25% range). Well done idiot bureaucrat!

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/fewer-drivers-are-opting-ou...

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
by vunderba | 2025-08-04 21:37:09+00:00
Good release! I've added it to the GenAI Showdown site. Overall a pretty good model scoring around 40% - and definitely represents SOTA for something that could be reasonably hosted on consumer GPU hardware (even more so when its quantized).

That being said, it still lags pretty far behind OpenAI's gpt-image-1 strictly in terms of prompt adherence for txt2img prompting. However as has already been mentioned elsewhere in the thread, this model can do a lot more around editing, etc.

https://genai-showdown.specr.net
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-08-04 21:37:18+00:00
IMO, this doesn't matter much. Ultimately, the only question that matters is "Do I get enough enjoyment/fulfillment spending time with this person to eclipse the work of organizing?" One of my best friends is a horrendous organizer. But when I invite him to things, I never have to ask twice. It's either an immediate "absolutely" or a "that day doesn't work for me, how about this day". And then it's a commitment. No flaking, no repeated rescheduling.
by withinboredom | 2025-08-04 21:37:35+00:00
This is why we are cooked. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

?tab[0]=/some/url&tab[1]=/some/resource&activeTab=0

Bam, you have tabs in the url. I can duplicate the tab, share my view, or whatever. Assuming the other user/tab/window/profile has access to these resources, it’ll show exactly the same thing. I can even bookmark it!

You can even add popups:

?popupModal=saveorleave

This state probably won’t be applied on an entry, but what’s great is that pushing [back] in the browser is the same effect as cancel! If you click “leave” then you do a “replace state” instead of a “push state” navigation, so the user doesn’t go back to a modal…

This was, at one point, decently standard logic. Then people who don’t know how browsers work started creating frameworks and reinventing things.

I digress. I’m just so glad I left the front end 15 years ago, I’d lose my shit if I were dealing with this kind of stuff every day.
by gwbas1c | 2025-08-04 21:37:57+00:00
Years ago, I met someone at a large company and they perused a friendship with me. I was always friendly, and I invited them to larger parties because I considered them part of my extended group of friends.

But, they really struggled at life. I moved away, and I never made the effort to keep in touch.

A few years ago they called me to talk. We caught up, and it was clear they still struggled at life. A few phone calls later, they got "stuck" on a topic and wouldn't converse, instead arguing with me when there was no argument to have. I ended the call, and I don't really want to hear from them again. (Basically, they were going off on their opinions about guns and not listening enough to me to know when I was agreeing and when my opinion differed.)

It became clear why they struggle at life, and it's disappointing that they don't have the insight into why they struggle.
by GordonS | 2025-08-04 21:38:04+00:00
UK and France's recent announcements cannot be taken at face value - they are purely performative (they are contingent on the Israeli genocide of Palestinians continuing!), seemingly desined to distance themselves just enough from the images of overt, forced starvation, while also doing nothing to stop it. Arms are still being sold to Israel. Training is still being provided to the IDF. Protestors are still arrested on behalf of Israel.
Show HN: Keyglide – Competitive Online Text Editing
by townload | 2025-08-04 21:38:12+00:00
Hey :)

Recently, I’ve been working on my hobby project, keyglide. It’s a small tool that lets you practice editing a "start" file in a real Helix editor (https://helix-editor.com/) until it matches a given "goal" file. Once you complete the exercise, your score - including keystrokes and time taken - is published. Scores are then ranked by the amount of keystrokes.

Although I’ve been using Helix for a few years, I still don’t feel particularly efficient with it. This little game is meant to help me (and hopefully others) compare editing approaches and discover more effective ways to work.

You can easily try it out without signing in.
by Bender | 2025-08-04 21:38:47+00:00
(Wrong URL woops - also why can't I delete posts?)

Email dang (Daniel) and provide him the correct URL or just wait a few days and submit the right one. Do not expect fast email response as team dang can get a bit overwhelmed at times. hn@ycombinator.com

You could also link the correct URL in your thread here though people might decide to flag it since it is incorrect. If so don't take that personal, it's how this is supposed to work.
by yreg | 2025-08-04 21:38:54+00:00
> I think they meant that Verdana is a nice replacement for Times if you care about readability and presentation.

But that's not true at all! Maybe the point was that web should use sans-serif instead of serif, but that statement (and I hope I'm not making a straw man here) is as a blanket invalid as well (in my opinion, ofc).
by plemer | 2025-08-04 21:39:47+00:00
> In the absence of more reliable indicators

This is half the answer, though we'd also need those indicators to be plentiful and compelling.

> we know very well how personal behavior is distorted

This points to the other half: humans are irrational by default. We tend to believe what we "experience" - see, hear, etc. - even if we know it's a lie. Have you seen those videos of people in VR glasses panicking as if they're about to die because they've just fallen off a virtual cliff?

Consider also the Illusory Consensus Effect: mere repetition of information increases the estimates of group members that other group members believe or already know that information. Logically redundant, rhetorically effective.

We're apes with a souped up prefrontal cortex - critical thinking is expensive so applied selectively (see Tversky and Kahneman, System 1 vs System 2 thinking).
by mort96 | 2025-08-04 21:40:41+00:00
Surely they could've found a better way though than to make the car automatically swerve into oncoming traffic?

I'm 100% on board with the idea that the lane assist feature might, on average, improve safety in many conditions. Maybe enough to be a net win. But I'm absolutely certain that its terrible implementation (in legislation, not just in cars) leads to situations where it reduces safety. When I'm driving on small country-side roads without a center line, no amount of "but it reduces traffic fatalities on highways" will convince me that automatically swerving towards the oncoming semi trailer is safe.
by mr_toad | 2025-08-04 21:41:46+00:00
I’m skeptical about the ability of LLMs to assess candidates. LLMs underperform ML models, or even simple linear models when it comes to prediction. And measuring job performance / ranking employees to establish a metric that you can even start to predict is a whole can of worms.

Frankly I think they’re pushing snake oil on gullible HR departments.

Then again, they’re probably cheaper than many human interviewers & recruiters who added little to the selection process either.
by orbital-decay | 2025-08-04 21:41:53+00:00
LLMs tend to imitate that practice, e.g. Gemini seems to be doing that by default in its translations unless you stop it. The result is pretty poor though - it makes trivial things overly verbose and rarely gets the deeper cultural context. The knowledge is clearly here, if you ask it explicitly it does it much better, but the generalization ability is still nowhere near the required level, so it struggles to connect the dots on its own.
by Detrytus | 2025-08-04 21:42:03+00:00
> Also, no woman is aborting fetuses for fun.

You would be surprised. I know of some "women rights activists" who basically do this for bragging rights, or maybe some kind of "rite of passage". And some doctors who talk about aborting 9 month fetuses as if it was giving them a boner.

I also know a celebrity who had an abortion, because she didn't feel like moving to a bigger apartment (which she could easily afford, given that she and her partner are making millions in income).
by dalibenothmen | 2025-08-04 21:42:44+00:00
Thank you so much for this thoughtful comment. I want to start by sincerely apologizing if the analogy came off as dismissive or disrespectful. I didn't mean to diminish from excel at all, in fact, you've highlighted exactly why Excel is so powerful and why my analogy works, just not in the way I originally framed it. Let me clarify what I was trying to get at: Excel's success comes from empowering domain experts like Karen to solve real problems without needing a computer science degree. That's genuinely amazing and valuable. The "problem" isn't Excel itself or Karen's contribution, it's when the tool becomes the permanent solution rather than a stepping stone. My point about visual workflow tools was similar: they're incredibly powerful for rapid prototyping and getting things done quickly. But when professional developers (whose core skill is writing maintainable, scalable code) use them as their primary solution, we might be missing opportunities for more robust, long-term approaches. You're spot on about the value vs. cost center perspective. In Karen's case, the smart move is absolutely to work WITH her domain expertise while adding technical structure. Similarly, visual workflow tools can be fantastic for proof-of-concept or when you need something working yesterday. I think my tone came across as dismissive when I meant to be more reflective about when we choose the right tool for the job. Thanks for pushing back on this, it's made me think more carefully about how I frame these discussions. Both Excel and visual workflow tools have earned their success for good reasons.
by grimnebulin | 2025-08-04 21:42:49+00:00
I was on pretty good terms with my chemistry teacher, so...maybe? It's been a while, but I don't remember either showing it off or taking pains to keep it secret. To adults, that is; my nerdy friends and I delighted in showing off the cool stuff we did with our calculators.

I vaguely remember thinking that one likely reason shortcuts like mine were not prohibited was because no one in charge suspected that such things were even possible with current technology, or if they were, that a child would be able to exploit it. But as long as I kept to the letter of the rules, I considered myself ethically in the clear.
by XorNot | 2025-08-04 21:43:04+00:00
Yes but you have plenty to lose. You'll be the one doing the dying.

Whereas the Houthis are a sufficient non-issue that shipping traffic treats them as an insurance cost, the US Navy's biggest problem is they'd really like laser rather then missile to cut that drone out of the sky (which is to say: they enjoyed Iranian backing meaning they were smuggled surprisingly capable antiship missiles, and they won't be getting many more of those now).
by lakotasapa | 2025-08-04 21:43:34+00:00
Co-conspirator. Having someone you can bounce ideas, talk through things I found to be key. Even if it means talking to your toddler :) But in all seriousness, I found that's the only method that has in the past made me make the right decisions regardless of subject. They don't need necessarily need to hold you to your commitments but just the idea of telling them what you're trying to focus on helps tremendously. Currently, not having anyone yet having moved recently. Using my therapist ;-) One thing I found; the "co-conspirator" does not need to be a subject matter expect to any level. Just someone who's willing to listen is key.

Here are things I tried to do:

1. Having a sounding "board" person. 2. Taking only 5sec to help you decide. 3. Post-it the thought/idea/notion all over the house to make focus. 4. Talking it through to yourself. Using yourself in a 2/3rd person.

Maybe yet another AI focused idea to solely help you stay focused and on task.

I need all of this...
by didgetmaster | 2025-08-04 21:44:40+00:00
Anyone can feel like a failure if they have lofty goals. The #5 golfer in the world can feel like they failed if they never won a major. The NBA MVP can feel like a failure if they never got a championship ring. An EVP of the biggest company in the world can feel like a failure if they were never a CEO.

There are plenty of people in the richest 1% who feel like they failed even though the other 99% might want to trade places with them.

Set realistic goals and work towards them. Don't base your success or failure on meeting every one of them 100% before you turn 30.
by remus | 2025-08-04 21:45:04+00:00
For me, the point is that the person who has put in the work then has some rights to decide how that information is accessed and re-used. I think it is a reaosnable position for someone to hold that they want individuals to be able to freely use some content they produced, but not for a company to use and profit from that same content. I think just saying "It's public now" lacks any nuance.

Ultimately these AI tools are useful because they have access to huge swaths of content, and the owners of these tools turn a lot of revenue by selling access to these tools. Ultimately I think the internet will end up a much worse place if companies don't respect clearly established wishes of people creating the content, because if companies stop respecting things like robots.txt then people will just hide stuff behind logins, paywalls and frustraing tools like cloudflare which use heuristics to block malicious traffic.
by aaplok | 2025-08-04 21:45:39+00:00
They did not treat "results" as a binary "good" vs "bad" variable. In the article they take pains to justify their methodology in assessing students' chances of success in 8th grade algebra as a continuous variable:

> EVAAS is a statistical tool that could predict with remarkable accuracy which students would succeed in advanced courses.

Then

> The table demonstrates a strong correlation between EVAAS predictions and actual student performance. Students were grouped into probability ranges based on their predicted likelihood of success in 8th grade Algebra I, and their actual performance was then tracked.

So both the input (EVAAS predictor) and output (success in 8th grade algebra) are continuous variables (as shown in the first and last columns of the table mentioned in the quote), and they use this strong correlation to study access to 8th grade algebra against non-academic factors by using the EVAAS predictor as a control variable. I am not a professional statistician but honestly it looks pretty solid to me, or at least far more rigorous than most education science I have come across.

What they are then saying is that if you control for probability of success, Black and Hispanic children are significantly less likely to be admitted in 8th grade Algebra than White and Asian students. Looking at racial differences is not a particularly contentious way of studying bias in American society.

Of course they could have looked at other factors: economic and social class, gender, etc. This is the tragedy of sociology: you can't study social bias without being accused of introducing bias in how you study it...
by mrbungie | 2025-08-04 21:45:48+00:00
> But as long as I kept to the letter of the rules, I considered myself ethically in the clear.

Yeah, totally, just to be clear I'm not judging.

In fact, if you programmed it to handle those operations, one could argue you had already learned a big chunk of what was going to be measured in the exams.

Kind of similar to the paradox of creating and using cheat sheets, is highly likely you're accidentally learning about the subject matter in the process of writing the sheet, sometimes up to a point where the cheat sheet is not necessary anymore.
by XorNot | 2025-08-04 21:45:53+00:00
Same story. The problem was the US wasn't going to invade the North, and China supplying the NVA added a long tail supply chain that wasnt being touched.

What you might do better to note is both of those conflicts consisted of the US invading someone else's home soil to effect change and being outlasted in terms of public interest - a public who at home were living peaceful, first world lifestyles.

Everyones little civil war fantasy is when the fight is happening on your home turf to start with.
by dalibenothmen | 2025-08-04 21:46:32+00:00
Totally agree. Excel is incredibly powerful, and people like Karen are doing real development, whether they realize it or not. My point wasn’t that Excel (or visual tools) are bad, it’s that when systems grow in complexity, they eventually need the same discipline, clarity, and maintainability that code provides. And that’s where things can get messy if we’re not careful.