MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Davidzheng | 2025-08-16 04:05:45+00:00
I mean if you have human without consciousness (if that is even possible) behaving in a statistically different distribution in text vs with. The machine will eventually be in distribution of the former from the latter because the text it's trained on is of the former category. So it serves a "function" in the LLM to minimize loss to approximate the former distribution.

Also I find it somewhat emotional distinction to write "predict sequences of text that resemble human writing" instead of "predict human writing". They are designed to predict (at least in pretraining) human writing for the most part. They may fail at the task, and what they produce is a text which resemble human writing. But their task is not to resemble human writing. Their task is to "predict human writing". Probably a meaningless distinction, but I find it somewhat detracts from logically arguments to have emotional responses against similarities of machines and humans.
by danpalmer | 2025-08-16 04:05:46+00:00
> some of the AI slop I’ve received from students include other fancy Unicode characters... that are difficult to type...

This is the bit I'd still caution against. Yes AI does this, but also writing in some software will correct 1/2 to ½, writing in tools that support MathJax will give you nice greek letters, etc. At university I spent days setting up nice LaTeX setups so that I could get good looking documents, including documents that didn't immediately appear to be LaTeX authored.

I think it's best to focus on the content, the writing quality, whether it targets the right audience, and whether it answers the question or just features a lot of words in the right ballpark. Focusing on the specific words and mechanical features of the text is going to catch out the wrong students, and it's going to be harder to justify from your perspective because you can't score a student badly for using an esoteric unicode character.
by kstrauser | 2025-08-16 04:07:02+00:00
The analogy I've given is having an asthma clinic at the top of Mt. Everest. If I could freaking get there, I probably wouldn't need it.

A friend referred me to a telehealth clinic where I could get in quickly instead of waiting for 6 months. They're dialed in to their patient care, too: I get a string of email and text reminders that I have an upcoming appointment. And contrary to some of the horror stories, my doc spent a couple of hours with me on the first appointment before coming up with a treatment plan. It wasn't a 5 minute visit where they through pills at me, but an actual genuine doctor's appointment with someone doing due diligence and customizing a care plan specific to me, with alternatives to try if my insurance didn't cover the first line of meds.

I feel so lucky that I got connected with the right people, after a series of PCP visits and a psychiatrist referral who diagnosed me as having anxiety. Oh, you think? Yeah, I'm feeling pretty anxious that my boss is annoyed at me for having all the signs and symptoms of ADHD and how it affects my work.

Life is easier now, I tell ya.
by Animats | 2025-08-16 04:07:23+00:00
The USAF argues over this internally. See [1], and a reply, [2].

Some USAF officers have been making noise about the need for more dispersal for years.[3]

There's a "build tougher bases" faction in the military. Read "Concrete Sky"[4]

If you want to read up on this, those are some good starting points.

[1] https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/AEtherJournal/Jo...

[2] https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/drone-hype-and-air...

[3] https://www.doctrine.af.mil/Portals/61/documents/AFDN_1-21/A...

[4] https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/media.hudson.org/Concrete...
by schneems | 2025-08-16 04:08:13+00:00
I was personally without power for 72 hours in sub zero temps. Every night I went to bed and wondered if my kids would be alive when/if I woke up. You know what that feels like?

I can’t do anything to *guarantee* you’ll never experience it, but I can take steps to decrease the chances or decrease the severity/dueation. I think my kids are worth it. Even if it’s not a *guarantee*.

Now that’s out of the way. I recommend you listen to the podcast. Really. Even if you lived through it. Even if you think you know everything about it. You will learn something I guarantee. It’s well produced and an easy listen. It’s an eye opener too. “The Disconnect”
by naniwaduni | 2025-08-16 04:08:15+00:00
Context: "The domain name putty.org is NOT run by the #PuTTY developers" (https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/114846017785770922 discussed before at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558328), but by a competitor who historically used the site at that domain to promote their own product.
by surajkrajan | 2025-08-16 04:09:03+00:00
I’m an indie developer who got frustrated with writing and maintaining JUnit tests for Java projects. Tools like Cursor are great for general AI coding help, but I found them clunky for JUnit test generation. Also I just love the Intellij Ecosystem for Java and could not see cursor as a full replacement.

So I built JAIPilot - an IntelliJ plugin that:

1. Generates JUnit test classes with one right-click.

2. Extracts code context, dependencies, and mocks automatically.

3. Runs in a self-correcting loop until tests compile and pass.

4. Integrates directly into the IntelliJ workflow

I use it daily, and early users say it saves hours of boilerplate. The plugin is free to try, with a Pro version for heavier usage.

[https://jaipilot.vercel.app/]

I’d love feedback - especially from people who’ve tried Cursor or similar tools. Does this solve a real pain point for you, or am I missing something?

Thanks!
by NewJazz | 2025-08-16 04:09:04+00:00
Not sure about the DNS part, but NetworkPolicies should be familiar to anyone who takes Kubernetes seriously.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/netw...

Edit: Did some research and found that Calico has a feature for some kind of DNS filtering

https://www.tigera.io/blog/how-to-secure-kubernetes-workload...
by andrewflnr | 2025-08-16 04:09:50+00:00
They make a big show of being "unsure" about the model having a moral status, and then describe a bunch of actions they took that only make sense if the model has moral status. Actions speak louder than words. This very predictably, by obvious means, creates the impression of believing the model probably has moral status. If Anthropic really wants to tell us they don't believe their model can feel pain, etc, they're either delusional or dishonest.
by thisislife2 | 2025-08-16 04:10:05+00:00
> "high quality scientific evidence"

Mostly, unfortunately, funded by Pharmaceutical companies - ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic ( https://www.amazon.com/ADHD-Nation-Children-American-Epidemi... ):

> More than 1 in 7 American children get diagnosed with ADHD—three times what experts have said is appropriate—meaning that millions of kids are misdiagnosed and taking medications such as Adderall or Concerta for a psychiatric condition they probably do not have. The numbers rise every year. And still, many experts and drug companies deny any cause for concern. In fact, they say that adults and the rest of the world should embrace ADHD and that its medications will transform their lives.
by lysp | 2025-08-16 04:10:05+00:00
> The DEA put Adderall on its list of the most abused medication, and limits production of it and investigates doctors who prescribe too much of it.

The other thing on top of limiting its production, it's not just for the US, it's worldwide.

Australia has a shortage of various types of ADHD medication due to this DEA production limit too.

https://www.tga.gov.au/safety/shortages/information-about-ma...

Also, the Australian Government requested increased production to cover these shortages, and the DEA rejected that request.

So those limitations have a worldwide effect due to the US being one of only a few countries that produce these drugs.
by nlawalker | 2025-08-16 04:10:46+00:00
> Imagine a world where high quality landscaping exists for the average person. And this is made possible because we'll live in a world where the equivalent of today's uber driver owns a team of gardening androids.

I think it's going to be the other way around. It's looking like automation of dynamic physical capability is going to be the very last thing we figure out; what we're going to get first is teams of lower-skilled human workers directed largely by jobsite AI. By the time the robots get there, they're not going to need a human watching them.
by xelxebar | 2025-08-16 04:10:54+00:00
In a particular sense, division and subtraction are more general than their supposedly more primitive inverse operations.

For example, we can take the "difference" of two points to get a vector, i.e. the grocery store is in that direction, while it doesn't make much sense to add two points---this location plus the grocery store? Similarly with temperature (of a given scale), today can be 5 degrees hotter than yesterday, but saying "the total temperature between yesterday and today is 57 degrees" doesn't have a clear meaning.

So, in that vein, what operation transforms one 3D vector into another?

Well a combination of rotation and scaling, of course! There is some freedom in how you want to represent this scaling+rotation operation; we could use 3x3 matrices, meaning that the quotient of 3D vectors is reasonably described by a matrix. However, 3x3 matrices have 9 degrees of freedom, which is way overkill, since we just need 4 numbers: an axis (2 params), an angle, and a scale factor. For this reason, quaternions are a particularly natural representation of 3D vector division.

The general concept of division that we're getting at here has the terrible name "g-torsor". If you're not familiar with abstract algebra, though, the definition is not very enlightening. However, John Baez has a really accessible article[0] that comes to the rescue!

Side note: notice that in general, the results of division are different objects than the things doing the division. As such, it's somewhat unfortunate that we use the same units for both in many cases, e.g. temperature and temperature differences are really different things. Talking about units quickly turns into type theory, though, so I'll stop there.

[0]:https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/torsors.html
by themanmaran | 2025-08-16 04:10:59+00:00
This depends on whether you mean LLMs in the sense of single shot, or LLMs + software built around it. I think a lot of people conflate the two.

In our application e use a multi-step check_knowledge_base workflow before and after each LLM request. Pretty much, make a separate LLM request to check the query against the existing context to see if more info is needed, and a second check after generation to see if output text exceeded it's knowledge base.

And the results are really good. Now coding agents in your example are definitely stepwise more complex, but the same guardrails can apply.
by lightbritefight | 2025-08-16 04:11:04+00:00
Self-driving car companies dont want a unfiied signalling platform or other "open for all" infrastructure updates. They want to own self-driving, to lock you into a subscription on their platform.

Literally the only open source self driving platform, from trillion to billion to million dollar companies is comma.ai, founded by Geohot. Thats it. Its actually very good, and I bet they would welcome these upgrades, but that would be a consortium of one underdog pushing for them.
by tokioyoyo | 2025-08-16 04:11:49+00:00
One thing that doesn’t seem to be discussed with the whole “tech revolution just creates more jobs” angle is that, in the near future, there are no real incentives for that. If we’re going down the route of declining birth rates, it’s implied we’ll also need less jobs.

From one perspective, it’s good that we’re trying to over-automate now, so we can sustain ourselves in old age. But decreasing population also implies that we don’t need to create more jobs. I’m most likely wrong, but it just feels off this time around.
by aidenn0 | 2025-08-16 04:12:59+00:00
I'd like to see some research, but anecdotally the reaction time tests are overperformed on by people who are serious gamers.

I am absolutely wildly impulsive (and was even more so when I was younger), but when I took the reaction time test in college, I was playing counterstrike multiple hours a day. I tested in whatever the "in between" area was on that for impulsivity. None of the people I knew that played twitch games a lot got a positive result on that test.
by voidhorse | 2025-08-16 04:14:20+00:00
Culture and behavior aren't strictly consequences of economics.

In my experience for example, people on flights outside of the US tend to be far more polite, amicable, and respectful than one experiences on US flights, even though flights are still widely accessible in that region too, to my knowledge. Perhaps part of that is a side effect of reasonable train availability as well and distribution resulting from that (another great public utility we lack in the US because public good is bad or something)
by noduerme | 2025-08-16 04:14:23+00:00
This too. All else being equal, if you doubled the price per flight and halved the number of passengers you crammed on a plane, you'd have less than half as many people flying and a lot fewer flights, hence a lot less pollution. My proof of this is that if it or equal value to double the price and halve the seats, some airline would be doing it.
by tzs | 2025-08-16 04:14:46+00:00
Could a company wanting to offer AI to customers in country X where the grid may limit their ability to build the largest data centers there build their large training data centers in some country with a better grid, and just build smaller data centers in X to run the models?

My understanding is the running requires significantly less compute and storage than training, and that training doesn't need low latency so doesn't have to be near the customers.
by visarga | 2025-08-16 04:15:00+00:00
> displace humans ...

AI can displace human work but not human accountability. It has no skin and faces no consequences.

> can be trained to the new job opportunities more easily ...

Are we talking about AI that always needs trainers to fix their prompts and training sets? How are we going to train AI when we lose those skills and get rid of humans?

> what do displaced humans transition to?

Humans with all powerful AI in their pockets... what could they do if they lose their jobs?
by h4ny | 2025-08-16 04:16:56+00:00
> As you said, the very title of the article acknowledged that it didn’t produce a working product.

Then why not say "mostly didn't work"? I read the article and that's the impression I got.

The OP's comment isn't an outage, it's more like you intentionally painted it as an outrage with a comment that reads more like an outrage.
by coldtrait | 2025-08-16 04:17:38+00:00
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by philosophty | 2025-08-16 04:18:01+00:00
Steve Jobs's entire job for thirty years was recruiting, listening, and working with experts in various fields. He never would have succeeded without being able to accept that other people knew more than him in certain areas. He worked with doctors very successfully most of the time.

My take is that he was scared and acting out of fear. Hoping against hope that his bullshit alternatives would work because he was so terrified of having his body "opened" and "violated" by a major surgery. Maybe that fear sometimes masqueraded as arrogance but that's still just fear.

Like many others, you seem excited to be able to judge Steve Jobs on this point. To judge and laugh at him for his arrogance killing him. When in reality you're judging and laughing at a pancreatic cancer patient for procrastinating on their surgery out of fear.
by visarga | 2025-08-16 04:18:11+00:00
> I think the most sensible answer would be something like UBI.

Having had the experience of living under communist regime prior to 1989 I have zero trust in the state providing support, while I am totally dependent and have no recourse. Instead I would rather rely on my own two hands like my grandparents did.

I see a world where we can build anything we want with our own hands and AI automation. Jobs might become optional.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-08-16 04:19:37+00:00
How about “Phenylephrine”?

It’s nearly 100 years old and widely used after Pseudoephedrine was more restricted so people couldn’t make meth as easily.

Yet, studies not conducted by pharmaceutical manufacturers find it mostly ineffective. Of course, the drug companies publish studies showing it to be effective…

Have you ever taken each (not together)? I’ve never heard someone say Phenylephrine did anything for them. Anecdotally, it’s utterly useless for me…

I suspect drug companies didn’t want restriction of Pseudoephedrine to decrease sales, so they pushed crap forward to maintain revenue.

(Yes, it still isn’t all that hard to get Pseudoephedrine, but one can’t just pick it off the shelf — a significant mental barrier)
by nomel | 2025-08-16 04:20:34+00:00
The problem I've run into with this is that those files stay in the history. Your git clones will get ridiculous, and you'll blast through any git repo size limits that you might have.

I just want my files to match what's expected when I pull a commit, that doesn't require some literal "commit build system" and "pull build system". Coming from perforce and SVN, I can't comprehend why git it so popular, beyond cargo cult. It's completely nonsensical to think that software is just source.
by kami23 | 2025-08-16 04:20:57+00:00
These are the same categories of coordination I've been looking at all day, trying to find the sweet spot in how complex the orchestration can be. I tried to add some context where the agents got it into a cycle of editing the code that another was testing and stuff like that.

I know my next step should be to give the agents a good git pattern but I'm having so much fun just finding the team organization that delivers better stuff. I have them consult with each other in tech choices and have picked what I would have picked

The consensus protocol for choices is one I really liked, and that will maybe do more self correction.

Ive been asking them to illustrate their flow of work and asking for decisions, I need to go back and see if that's the case. Probably would be made easier if I get my git experiment flow down.

The future is tooling for these. If we can team up enough that we get consensus approaching something 'safe' the tools we can give them to run in dry/live mode and have a human validate the process for a time and then once you have enough feedback move into the next thing needing fixing.

I have a lot of apps with cobra cli tooling that resides next to the server code. Being able to pump our docs into an mcp server for tool execution is giving me so many ideas.
by whatever1 | 2025-08-16 04:21:18+00:00
If it can be done more cheaply then some competitor will do it and kill your business that doesn’t. Either find another competitive edge (be better or convince somehow the customers that you deserve the premium you ask for), or do what Trump does, introduce tarrifs for imports and cutoff the more more efficient companies from reaching the local market. And of course pay the price for it.
by quuxplusone | 2025-08-16 04:21:21+00:00
Upvoted for the likelihood of producing interesting conversations on HN. But fundamentally this Recto language looks 1D, not 2D. As IsTom said below, it looks like "braces/parens with extra steps."

If there were any actual "in-game effect" of the rectangles — e.g. a "rotate rectangle" primitive that would change the order in which atoms were evaluated; or some meaning given to overlapping rectangles as in OgsyedIE's comment — then it would be much more interesting, because it would no longer be exactly isomorphic to Lisp/Scheme.
by w10-1 | 2025-08-16 04:23:51+00:00
The topic deserves a lot better explanation.

It's not helpful to just talk about absolute numbers of jobs gained or lost in a sector without talking about percentages and historical variability.

It also appears the California number cited is based on a survey of ~4K people, some reporting they can't find work, while e.g., Federal unemployment is a function of people getting unemployment benefits. Do states do the same surveys with the same methodology, so the numbers are comparable? Likely not. So the term seems to be used in different senses, and "worst in the US" is unsupported.

Further, for tech in particular, it's not clear which jobs were converted to contracts, for AI services or outsourcing (in or out of US).

This kind of salad article is likely the future: enough for the general public worried about jobs, but not helpful to anyone who actually wants to understand and plan accordingly.
by postalcoder | 2025-08-16 04:24:00+00:00
Google's SynthID is embedded into the content itself. Google open sourced their SynthID for text.

Repo: https://github.com/google-deepmind/synthid-text

Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08025-4

With images and video, it's less clear exactly what they're doing, but it's watermarking on the pixel leve. From one of their blog posts:

Videos are composed of individual frames or still images. So we developed a watermarking technique inspired by our SynthID for image tool. This technique embeds a watermark directly into the pixels of every video frame, making it imperceptible to the human eye, but detectable for identification.

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/watermarking-ai-genera...

Elevenlab's audio watermarking is trivial to shake off with compression, but google claims that synthid is resilient to such manipulation.