MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by at-fates-hands | 2025-08-15 19:56:52+00:00
>> nWe're on the precipice of being able to install AI into positions of business critical processes. Hiring, billing, sales, and compliance

We're already there. Have been for several years now. I was doing RPA (robotic process automation) for about 4 years in a corporate environment. It went from, "Lets automate these mundane tasks" to "How can we create a billing platform that can be totally automated?". This was back in 2021, just for reference.

>> It's going to be great watching c-suite and VPs who are drunk on the sauce

Hopefully this will be a cautionary tale of what happens when they do?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/lawsuit-claims-unitedhealth-ai...

UnitedHealth Group Inc (UNH.N), uses an artificial intelligence algorithm that systematically denies elderly patients' claims for extended care such as nursing facility stays, according to a proposed class action lawsuit, filed on Tuesday.

Family members of two now-deceased UnitedHealth beneficiaries sued the insurer in federal court in Minnesota, saying they were forced to pay out of pocket for care that doctors said was medically necessary.
by overbring_labs | 2025-08-15 19:56:54+00:00
It's more of "yeah it worked, but I had to do a lot of hand-holding" and "it passes the tests but I cannot tell if the code has memory leaks".

Actually, I can tell; I ran split on the C source and got things like this:

disk_space.c:144:16: Only storage bin.ref_bin (type void *) derived from variable declared in this scope is not released (memory leak)

So I'm looking into a Rust version with Rustler now.
by topato | 2025-08-15 19:56:59+00:00
Right? Came to the comments specifically for this, but am confused by people's responses. With prompt adherence this bad, is it worth the 2 cents you spent on it? I don't see how it's even useful for deciding if you want to use the ultra version, or for anything else really.... Maybe if you want to redo it in Photoshop? But at that point, breaking out the old Wacom tablet and making a composite image would probably be just as time intensive, but with much higher image quality (and none of the tale tell signs of AIgen)
by bananalychee | 2025-08-15 19:57:34+00:00
Well I can parse my nginx logs and don't see that happening, so I'm not convinced. I suppose my websites aren't the most discoverable, but the number of bogus connections sshd rejects is an order of magnitude or three higher than the number of unknown connections I get to my web server. Today I received requests from two whole clients from US data centers, so scrapers must be far more selective than you claim, or they are nowhere near the indie web killer OP purports them to be.

I've worked with a company that has had to invest in scraper traffic mitigation, so I'm not disputing that it happens in high enough volume to be problematic for content aggregators, but as for small independent non-commercial websites I'll stick with my original hypothesis unless I come across contradictory evidence.
by stocksinsmocks | 2025-08-15 19:58:35+00:00
“ In a 2022–2023 survey of medical residents at tertiary hospitals in southwest China, 46.7% of respondents self-reported buying and selling papers, letting other people write papers, or writing papers for others”

This line gave me pause. So basically everyone is deceiving everyone else all the time? At least on the plus side, it did make me feel a little more optimistic about AI slop. A machine-written report rife with errors and fabrications is apparently at a parity with real human performance.
by btbuildem | 2025-08-15 19:58:49+00:00
Cool venture! I've resigned myself to accept that the generic "coding" LLMs only work well with the most default tasks and the most common languages -- and as soon as you stray from the well-trodden paths, there be hallucinations of dragons. It seems projects like that could be the solution -- narrower, domain-specific models. I think it still poses challenges in cross-domain projects, and I'm still waiting for a model that can handle spatial reasoning (eg, for circuit board design, blueprint layout, etc).
by bsenftner | 2025-08-15 19:59:22+00:00
It's almost as if one could point at the failure of progressive liberalism to be due to these placeholder organizations that collect membership, member time, member dues, and then perhaps produce some showy PR, seed the press with some outrage media, and then they go home. They are worse than nothing, because they occupy the place of something better than their "in statement only" existence.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-08-15 19:59:24+00:00
Do any of you ever wonder why, genetically and/or nutritionally, you have ADHD?

I advise you to take a look at the role of GABA in ADHD. It’s probably more important than the Norepinephrine and dopamine.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002839082...
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-15 19:59:28+00:00
> It may be a surprise to you, but there was nothing in your post that I didn't knew. I know all that.

Well, it is a surprise to me. You claimed terminals were "just text". You said you taught this to beginners.

It is not surprising to me that those beginners would have difficulties understanding what was going on when terminals started demonstrating that they were indeed more complex than pure text.

> But would I be okay if a good redisgn stopped it from working with physical type writers hooked up to main frames or from talking telnet to my oscilloscope?

If we did that, they wouldn't be terminals anymore. They'd become some new, incompatible system that exists alongside the old school terminals.

I'm not even opposed to it. I love the idea of reimagining and reinventing everything. We just gotta recognize that we're building new systems. The old ones should probably be left alone.

Modern terminal emulators like kitty are working miracles out of this legacy stuff but they are still working within the confines of the system.

> I know that this is not a simple change, but it is 2025 and we can think about how things should be instead of staying with how they always have been without reason, especially if we are just talking about the defaults.

The legacy of terminals is useful even today. Embedded debugging interfaces use them. I wear a modern open source watch which supports a shell through the terminal system. There's just no getting rid of it.

Even swapping Ctrl-C and Shift-Ctrl-C seems like we're just moving the inconsistencies around. Sure, copy paste is now consistent with modern interfaces but now the inputs no longer correspond directly to ASCII. Maybe we could have a vim-like modal interface where in GUI mode all the key combinations would do what we expect from modern systems while in terminal mode they would act like ASCII inputs. This fixes both inconsistencies... At the cost of being an error-prone modal interface.
by godelski | 2025-08-15 19:59:52+00:00
I full agree. I'm not trying to compare high quality naive source to AI upscale. That is a ludicrous comparison. Native will always be better.

But truth of the matter is that many times you don't have access to a higher quality source. Sometimes you only have something that's been re-encoded over and over or something that has degraded through the passage of time. I would not suggest overwriting the source, but the truth is that many people will find this a better viewing experience. Truth is that many of those remasters will use similar technologies, though with much more thought and care than your one click and it's done act like it is magic programs. Truth is that people do enjoy it in videogames and existing streaming and movie systems. People do prefer better native high resolution, but when that is just unavailable, what are you left with? But the truth is that most people are happy with lossy encodings and lower bit color schemes (most people don't even have a 10 bit monitor and (real) HDR isn't prolific).

If it is a choice between shitty quality and AI upscale, I'll choose AI upscale more times than not (but not 100%). But instead, if it is a choice between shitty quality, AI upscale, and high quality native, I'm choosing high quality naive 100% of the time. It's not even a question! But the point is that there are choices and not all of them require deep knowledge. I'm not arguing replace native with upscale, that's idiotic. But for an at home player where more people are going to have to make choices about storage spaces and won't care if it is lossy, then the option exists.

We're also talking about streaming services. Streaming services force the AI upscaling on you. Hell, even in some TV's it is hard or impossible to turn off (mine turns itself back on!). Let's let people decide, because we know that the incentives are too strong on the streaming service for them to hand you raw.
by ben_w | 2025-08-15 19:59:55+00:00
It's probably much less than 20%*, though surveys vary.

But even without that, your core point is valid: in general, yes people believe a lot of untrue things. My mum took all the New Age stuff seriously, so I did too until my early 20s.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_Star_Codex#Lizardman's_C...
by saghm | 2025-08-15 20:00:48+00:00
Does it fix them only going forward, or does it actually update what happened in previous transactions retroactively? If the latter, does everyone involved with any transactions using the said contract have a say in whether the upgrade occurs? I'm skeptical that this would actually be a good mechanism in general given how likely it seems that some contracts might be so widely used to essentially require a hard fork in order to upgrade retroactively, but I'm open to the idea that I might be missing something here.
by mulmen | 2025-08-15 20:01:28+00:00
> I don't think it demonstrates deference to authority to say that it makes sense that your average judge is likely to be more invested in your average trial than your average jury

First off averages aren’t good enough here.

Second I can’t imagine a better example of an appeal to authority.

Trials are an administrative action. Interest in the process is no indication that the outcome will be just.

Your idea falls apart for all of the reasons an appeal to authority is a fallacy.

Additionally you’re fundamentally changing the nature of society by holding the people accountable to power rather than each other.
by panny | 2025-08-15 20:02:06+00:00
Most Americans pay a bare minimum payment, expecting the home "value" to appreciate 20% annually. If they can just make it the first two years, then they can live off the HELOC the rest of their days... I exagerate, but only a little.

My calculator is much easier however.

boolean houseIsAffordable(int price, int downPayment) { return downPayment >= price; }

Never had a mortgage, and I never will. I live within my means.
by groby_b | 2025-08-15 20:02:07+00:00
This doesn't even account for the perma-drama due to the artificial shortage generated by the DEA. Getting your prescription filled, if you manage to wrangle one, often requires hours of calling around which pharmacy can fill said prescription.

And you get to do that every months. And you can't get a prescription earlier, you have to wait a full month. So, essentially: Right when you're forced off your medication that helps your executive function, you need to exercise large amounts of executive function.

It's massively stupid.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-15 20:02:20+00:00
> As of June 2024, OpenAI's API was very likely profitable, with surprisingly high margins. Our median estimate for gross margin (not including model training costs or employee salaries) was 75%.

> Once all traffic switches over to the new August GPT-4o model and pricing, OpenAI plausibly still will have a healthy profit margin. Our median estimate for the profit margin is 55%.

"likely profitable", "median estimate"... that 75% gross margin is not based on hard numbers.
by SR2Z | 2025-08-15 20:02:54+00:00
> Yet completely ignores how the Biden administration tried to force every American into getting experimental mRNA vaccines with no long term safety data, or else you lose your job. And you weren't allowed to sue the vaccine manufacturer. And now Americans just sort of forgot about all that.

This is because of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which provides compensation to people who are injured by vaccines in exactly the situation you're describing. I would encourage you to Google it. You don't sue the vaccine manufacturer, you file a claim and get a payout. RFK is trying to end this program, which would basically make it impossible to develop new vaccines.

Americans did not "forget" about that, because most Americans have no clue this program even exists.

They also lack the expertise to individually verify that a vaccine is safe, or even weight long-term potential health risks against the short term necessity of a vaccine.

By the time the vaccines were approved for public use, they were also no longer "experimental" because the FDA HAD experimented with them and deemed them safe.
by saghm | 2025-08-15 20:03:00+00:00
It's about a compiler bug in C++ that had downstream effects in the compiler for Solidity, which is a language for developing smart contracts. Yes, every compiler can have bugs, even ones not relating to smart contracts, but that doesn't seem like a very convincing argument that we should be using compilers for more things rather than boring regular code that isn't considered to be contractual.
by bell-cot | 2025-08-15 20:03:24+00:00
How to loudly & repeatedly message your underlings with "you are not taking our competition anywhere near seriously enough":

> Last year, Ford CEO Jim Farley commuted [for 6 months in a] Xiaomi SU7. The Chinese-made electric sedan is one of the world’s most impressive cars [...] “It’s fantastic,” Farley said about the Xiaomi SU7 on a podcast last fall. “I don’t want to give it up.”
by sunshowers | 2025-08-15 20:03:30+00:00
What special visa are we talking about? U visas have a high bar which workplace discrimination often doesn't meet.

It's not grasping at straws by the way. Perhaps no one has confided in you. I, personally, was sexually harassed and discriminated against while on an H-1B visa. I've heard many stories of women and non-binary people on work visas being harassed and powerless about it. Any power imbalance is a vector for this stuff (the formal term for this concept is "intersectionality"). As a society we ought to move towards less imbalance, not more.

> but people who designed these policies aren't complete morons.

Perhaps so, but that isn't enough to establish that the policies aren't bad.
by jpeloquin | 2025-08-15 20:03:33+00:00
From main text:

> Discussions with different stakeholders suggest that many currently perceive systematic fraudulent science as something that occurs only in the periphery of the “real” scientific enterprise, that is, outside OECD countries. Accumulating evidence shows that systematic production of low quality and fraudulent science can occur anywhere.

From supplement (section about the output of the "ARDA" paper mill):

> We obtained 20,638 documents and were able to impute country of authorship for 13,288 documents (64.4%). Of these documents, more than half were solely from India (26.4%), Iraq (19.3%), or Indonesia (12.2%).

The identity and reputation of the authors, and the publication venue, is (for now) still a strong signal when evaluating the credibility of an article.

The article is spot-on though in that there is a real risk of paper mills infecting formerly reliable journals, and this is not helped by the publishers' commercialism. For example, it used to be easy to ignore Hindawi journals (they are characteristically low quality); then Wiley started publishing them under its own brand. The good is now mixed with the bad under the same label. Practicing scientists can fall back on whether they know the authors personally but that doesn't really help non-practicing professionals or the general public.
by simoncion | 2025-08-15 20:03:58+00:00
> I don't know how many games are even capable of using lower resolutions to avoid stutter.

Some games may be doing that. I expect that in others, the lower-resolution or missing textures are a result of the texture streaming system catastrophically failing to meet its deadline to load in the relevant textures and giving up. It's my understanding that "texture pop-in" is the too-late replacement of a low-resolution "placeholder" texture with a high-resolution texture. If the high-resolution texture doesn't load in time, then you're stuck with the low-res placeholder.

Commentary on textures that fail to load are in the "Monster Hunter: Wilds" section, starting at ~11:35 in [0], and the "Space Marine 2" section starting at ~00:14:40 in [1], which also mentions "Halo: Infinite" and "Forspoken" as other games that have the same sort of behavior. Missing textures are mentioned in the "Star Wars Jedi: Survivor" section starting at 21:21 at [1]. And -while not mentioned- if you look not-that-closely at the first ~5 seconds of that section, you can see the textures (most obviously the ground texture) go from "the same as the 16GB model" to "something you'd expect to see in a bad PS3 game".

Also in that first video, you can see some head-to-head demonstrations of the performance problems having a slower PCI-E link gives you when running out of VRAM starting at ~04:52 in the "The Last of Us Part II" section of [0] and also at ~17:00 in the "F1 25" section of that same video.

I expect there are a few other videos out there that do this sort of analysis, but I can't be arsed to find them.

[0] <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG9mFS7lMzU>

[1] <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdZoa6Gzl6s>
by 1659447091 | 2025-08-15 20:04:05+00:00
> Warren Buffet openly talks about the importance of getting a "moat".

The moat Buffet talks about is not the moat you appear to think it is. It does not belong in the same category as the other things you mention. Moats are a defensive structure, in Buffet terms, its about being a sustainable business "it’s the low-cost producer in some area, it can be because it has a natural franchise because of surface capabilities, it could be because of its position in the consumers’ mind, it can be because of a technological advantage, or any kind of reason at all, that it has this moat around it." -- the moat is "protecting a terrific economic castle with an honest lord in charge of the castle" [0]

A moat is about a business having an "it" factor that sustains it, it's not offensive (attack) feature like the power grabs you talk about are.

The important part, that is missed here of Buffet talking about it, is having an honest person in charge: "And then if we feel good about the moat, then we try to figure out whether, you know, the lord is going to try to take it all for himself, whether he’s likely to do something stupid with the proceeds, et cetera. But that’s the way we look at businesses."

[0] https://buffett.cnbc.com/video/1995/05/01/morning-session---...
by teamonkey | 2025-08-15 20:04:39+00:00
That reminds me of an article I read which claimed that being diagnosed with ADHD will prevent you from being a commercial pilot. Pilots will avoid getting diagnosed and medicated because it will kill their career, even though medication may make them safer.

(I suspect ADHD pilots would handle takeoff and landing very well, as well as emergencies, but oh god the checklists and schedules and that whole middle part of the flight…)
by godelski | 2025-08-15 20:04:59+00:00
Kinda? I'm not actually sure what profit is being made if I'm just downloading from qbitorrent and never visiting a site seeing ads.

But also, I still will buy movies and pay for streaming services and pirate the shows on them. Why? Because the pirating experience is just better. It is also just easier to download a torrent than it is to rip a blueray. I don't really feel bad about this because I'm paying for the content like anyone else, I'm just getting a better viewing experience. Maybe only thing being hurt is the watch metrics on the streaming platform. But if they aren't considering the metrics from piracy too then they're being idiotic.
by wise0wl | 2025-08-15 20:05:04+00:00
This is your opinion. I do not share your opinion. The occult is a wide range of topics and practices, generally split (but not cleanly) into theurgic and thaumaturgic activities. That is, manifestation of the three common desires (wealth, power, love / sex etc.), and then deification and approaching and sometimes joining with / uniting with God. Occult meaning, hidden.

If you read many of the grimoires, there is very little NLP of any kind. The Papyri Graecae Magicae is one of the oldest explicitly magical documents we have from Greek Egypt, and it does have some manipulation spells (as most magical documents do) but none of this has to do with coersion to join a religion or join in a war, or to "do bad stuff". It's largely "technology" used by a practicing magician (a moonlighting Egyptian priest) to help the laity deal with their daily lives regarding helping their crops grow, animals not get sick, healing sick children, getting revenge on their neighbors and former lovers etc.

Magic is always a tool in the hands of the oppressed as a response to tyrannical hierarchy.
by dagmx | 2025-08-15 20:05:31+00:00
It’s not a bad standard just because you personally struggle to understand it. Lots of things have historical names, especially in computer graphics, that are now standard.

What is an absolute safe area or an unobstructed area in video then to you? How do you guarantee such a thing?

Please define one as such that accounts for all display types with appropriate verbiage. I’ll personally advocate for it in the film industry if you can come up with a term that is better than what the entirety of cinematic history has been able to think of.

Apple only claim that it’s unobstructed by their specific display edges and overlays but it doesn’t account for other display concerns. Hence safe area is still the most intuitive name.

Would you also like to go and argue with people about alpha channels?
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-08-15 20:05:38+00:00
For personal projects, ok security is different. But get out of that, and I'd do it even for that, you need defense in depth. You think you sanitized your input but your C program has a bug and a vulnerability - or your Java program or whatever has bugs. Almost everything has some bugs, and thus your vulnerabilities will hit eventually in your C program, even if you were careful.

I'd say absent some temporary hack to do something, my bad experiences won't let me say something is low risk. I worked at Microsoft years ago, and after the zillions of vulnerabilities were attacked by people around the time of windows 95 and computers on the net, we did serious code reviews in my team of the data access libraries. There were vast numbers of vulnerabilities. A group of 3 or 4 of us would sit in a room for 3 hours a day, one person a scribe, and we'd go over this c code that was ancient even then - we found problems everywhere, it was exhausting and shocking. The entire data access infrastructure was riddled with memory leaks, strings that were not length limited, input parameters that were not checked or sanitized, etc. I'm sure it was endemic across all components, not just there. We fixed some things, but we found so much shit.

Thank got I wasn't on the team trying to figure out what to do about those problems. I think they end of lifed a lot of stuff.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-15 20:06:19+00:00
> The fixed cause due to R&D is what makes it unprofitable but not each request.

If the amortisation period is too short (what is it now? 8 months? 6 months?) that "profit" from each inference token has to cover the training costs before the amortisation schedule ends.

In short, if you're making a profit of $1 on each unit sold, but require a capex of $10 in order to provide the unit sold, you need to sell at least 10 of those units to break even.

The training is the capex, the inference profit is the profit/unit sold. When a SOTA model lasts only 8 months, the inference has to make all that back in 8 months in order to be considered profitable.