MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by corimaith | 2025-08-16 01:08:58+00:00
You won't be keeping the USD as the global reserve. Trump wants his cake and to eat it, but that position is likely unsustainable long term anyways. Mind you, the role of reserve currency today is larged hoisted by the rest of the world onto the USA, there is no rule dictacting its role. But the thing is anybody who is large enough to support it (EU/China) dosen't want that role either, lest they end up deindustrialising like USA.

The actual alternative, with the so-called multilateral "Bancor" and the International Clearing Union as originally proposed by Keynes works via directly controlling exchange rates to punish surplus nations and provide relief to deficit nations. Well, it's for that reason there isn't a serious effort to create it from these other nations, which leaves them at an impasse. That's why as much as I hate to admit, Trump may actually win here because other countries don't really have any good options. Unfortunately the USA is playing a necessary systemic role here that nobody else wants to do.
by Aeolun | 2025-08-16 01:10:02+00:00
Claude is actually smart enough to realize when it’s asked to write stuff that it’d normally think is inappropriate. But there’s certain topics that it gets iffy about and does not want to write even in the context of a story. It’s kind of funny, because it’ll start on the message with gusto, and then after a few seconds realize what it’s doing (presumably the protection kicking in) and abort the generation.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-16 01:11:22+00:00
Completely agree. People with ADHD are simply incompatible with many facets of mormal life.

Take school for example. If someone doesn't fit into the mass education model, they say they have attention deficit. That same person might then go home and hyperfocus on computer programming for 12 hours straight like a machine. It makes no sense.

The mass education model where hundreds of people sit on a chair listening to lectures for hours on end just isn't right for people with ADHD. Medications are just there to help cope with an imperfect reality which refuses to change for our sake.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-16 01:11:36+00:00
Centimillionaires and billionaires, rather than creators of value, are varying degrees of exploitative extractive from consumers and capturing of value rather than paying workers fairly. 60 years ago, companies offered workers stability and defined benefits retirement plan, less political influence, and reasonable CEO:worker pay ratios. This isn't sustainable because the country club Tea Party WASPs are running the asylum by turning a former superpower into a third-world country pariah.
by iandanforth | 2025-08-16 01:12:30+00:00
I tried the following prompt and other than producing a four panel comic that was black and white it completely ignored every other instruction. This was with 4 ultra. Maybe someone else will have better luck but the failure seemed stable.

''' A four panel comic strip. Simple black on white. Stick figures for characters. In the first panel there is a stick figure man and a stick figure bird eating bird seed at his feet. He is slightly hunched over to show he is looking at the bird. In the second panel. He is more hunched over looking more closely at the bird. In the third panel he is even more hunched over practically with his head to the bird, he is crouched down, knees bent, hands on thighs. In the upper left of the third panel the tip of an enormous beak can be seen, but it's only a few lines so could be anything. In the final panel the beak has gobbled up the man and his arms and legs are flailing outside of the beak while the small bird continues to eat birdseed on the ground. '''
by etler | 2025-08-16 01:12:50+00:00
I think the framing of these models are being "intelligent" is not the right way to go. They've gotten better at recall and association.

They can recall prior reasoning from text they are trained on which allows them to handle complex tasks that have been solved before, but when working on complex, novel, or nuanced tasks there is no high quality relevant training data to recall.

Intelligence has always been a fraught word to define and I don't think what LLMs do is the right attribute for defining it.

I agree with a good deal of the article but because it keeps using loaded works like "intelligent" and "smarter", it has a hard time explaining what's missing.
by egypturnash | 2025-08-16 01:13:04+00:00
Photography isn't art, all you're doing is pointing a box someone else made and clicking a button and capturing ambient light. You're not making an effort. You're just pretending you did.

And now I bet you're immediately thinking of arguments about all the time you've invested in developing an eye for composition and a sense of when that precise interesting moment is about to happen and all the darkroom techniques and film speeds and ISOs and and and... now you know how I feel about what you just said.

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This argument against digital work was old back in 2003 when I was having it on Deviantart's forums. I've been drawing regularly for a half a century; it's been my day job for half that and I have many clients who are absolutely delighted to pay me to use my skills to interpret their ideas in my own unique way. They'll have an idea and come to me in particular because they think I will knock it out of the park, and usually their responses to the final work indicates I did. I get similar sentiments from my fans on my personal work. But hey, think whatever makes you feel good about where your own craft is going, sweetheart.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-16 01:13:32+00:00
>As I said, we already had this conversation ages ago and your side lost.

I had a conversation too. Several conversations. And I won those conversations so YOU lost. In fact, just imagine every single stance you've ever had on any topic and just know I had a conversation about it in the past, and you lost.

My point is. Nobody cares about your conversation especially when ALL of those conversations you're referencing are utterly wrong.

>It's exhausting to keep repeating this. Please read what's been said (hint: these are decades old arguments, we're not going to rehash them here for your benefit).

Who the hell is "we?" How about this. Whoever you're referring to, however many decades you guys spent talking about it... you're all wrong. You wasted decades and came up with a wrong outcome.
by kanbara | 2025-08-16 01:14:05+00:00
there is no more american dream, and anyone who “creates” jobs in this economy and era of rampant hypercapitalism isn’t really enabling or transferring wealth.

if there were ample americans to do these jobs, they should be able to get them.

nationalism is a silly idea, anyway. and we should have free trade and movement with our biggest two allies. american exceptionalism is a joke
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-08-16 01:14:18+00:00
Both should be implemented.

If you are laying workers off you clearly don't need additional H1B workers. You should be barred for at least a year if not more from putting in any applications for H1B after any major layoff.

It should also be scrutinized if you preferably fire local workers over your H1B workers. Anybody caught doing so should be barred from H1B for a decade.

I like my H1B coworkers, but things have gone too far. You can't do layoffs and simultaneously put in applications for thousands of H1B workers. It makes no logical sense and should be illegal. The system is completely broken right now.

Not to mention most of this H1B work is not actually due to lack of local talent. Building a web or mobile app is not rocket science and there are plenty of people capable of doing so. Any company putting in H1B for anything but research positions or positions requiring exceptional expertise is probably abusing the system.
by MagicalTux | 2025-08-16 01:14:44+00:00
The US government might be able to pressure Intel into doing something with SGX, but there are way too many eyes on this for it to go unnoticed in my opinion, especially considering SGX has been around for so long and messed with by so many security researchers.

The US government also likely learned a lesson from early attempts at backdoors (RSA, etc) that this kind of things do not stay hidden and do not reflect well.

We've thought about this long and hard and planning to mitigate this as much as possible. Meanwhile we still offer something that is a huge step forward compared to what is standard in the industry.
by exfil | 2025-08-16 01:14:49+00:00
These VPN's for privacy are so bad. You give your credit card (verified identity), default gateway and payload to foreign soil and feel safe. On top of that your packets clear text metadata verifies you with cryptographic accuracy.

In today's internet you just cannot have exit IP which is not tied either into your identity, payment information or physical location. And don't even mention TOR, pls.
by chasil | 2025-08-16 01:14:53+00:00
As I understand it, OpenBSD is similar to Linux 2.2 architecturally in that there is a lock that prevents (most) kernel code from running on more than one (logical) CPU at once.

We do hear that some kernel system calls have moved out from behind the lock over time, but anything requiring core kernel functionality must wait until the kernel is released from all other CPUs.

The kernel may be faster in this exercise, but is potentially a constrained resource on a highly loaded system.

This approach is more secure, however.
by freeopinion | 2025-08-16 01:14:59+00:00
Buying US weapons puts you in a position of needing US backing for decades. You need replacement parts, maintenance training, and a million other dependencies. Naturally, you'd need similar from any supplier. So an important part of your calculus has to be, "Will these guys be around to support me in 25-40 years?" That has never really been a question for the US in the last 75 years.

Now it is.

I don't think anybody fears that the US will cease to be a country. Or even that it will cease to be an important country. The question is whether they will be your reliable ally in 25-40 years, or even in four years. Or will they start some pattern of being your friend for a couple years, then cutting you off for a few years, then trying to re-friend you? That is not a relationship on which anybody wants to build their national security support.
by radio879 | 2025-08-16 01:15:02+00:00
I have used it, but I just haven't found it good when I have, maybe its gotten better.

I have it as one of the free models in a chrome extension I was working on since I keep a list of tons of free APIs, just there are so many options and I tend to just use the top 5-10 best ones (that I have noticed as being great)
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-08-16 01:15:34+00:00
git works just fine with large files. The problem is that when you clone a repo, or pull, by default it gets everything, including large files deep in the history that you probably don't care about anymore.

That was actually an initial selling point of git: you have the full history locally. You can work from the plane/train/deserted island just fine.

These large files will persist in the repo forever. So people look for options to segregate large files out so that they only get downloaded on demand (aka "lazily").

All the existing options (submodules, LFS, partial clones) are different answers to "how do we make certain files only download on demand"
by katabasis | 2025-08-16 01:16:31+00:00
Yeah pretty much this. One can argue that it’s idiotic to treat chatbots like they are alive, but if a bit of misplaced empathy for machines helps to discourage antisocial behavior towards other humans (even as an unintentional side effect), that seems ok to me.

As an aside, I’m not the kind of person who gets worked up about violence in video games, because even AAA titles with excellent graphics are still obvious as games. New forms of technology are capable of blurring the lines between fantasy and reality to a greater degree. This is true of LLM chat bots to some degree, and I worry it will also become a problem as we get better VR. People who witness or participate in violent events often come away traumatized; at a certain point simulated experiences are going to be so convincing that we will need to worry about the impact on the user.
by MagicalTux | 2025-08-16 01:17:33+00:00
Intel audits configuration on system launch and verifies it runs something they know safe. That involves CPU, CPU microcode, BIOS version and a few other things (SGX may not work if you don't have the right RAM for example).

The final signature comes in the form of a x509 cerificate signed with ECDSA.

What's more important to me is that SGX still has a lot of security researchers attempting (and currently failing) to break it further.
by mrlongroots | 2025-08-16 01:17:46+00:00
I very much disagree. To attempt a proof by contradiction:

Let us assume that the author's premise is correct, and LLMs are plenty powerful given the right context. Can an LLM recognize the context deficit and frame the right questions to ask?

They can not: LLMs have no ability to understand when to stop and ask for directions. They routinely produce contradictions, fail simple tasks like counting the letters in a word etc. etc. They can not even reliably execute my "ok modify this text in canvas" vs "leave canvas alone, provide suggestions in chat, apply an edit once approved" instructions.
by tstrimple | 2025-08-16 01:17:47+00:00
I never got into fighting games outside of Bushido Blade which I think translated quite well in my domination of Souls-like games. Domination is an exaggeration. I don't feel like I'm particularly good at those games, but I don't think they are nearly as difficult as the reputation conveys. It took me fewer than a dozen tries to kill Malenia in Elden Ring and most of the bosses I was able to kill in the first or second run.

On the other hand I had a hell of a time getting used to the parry sequences in Expedition 33. It felt at times like they were intentionally trying to fool me into parrying at the wrong times based on visual cues. Which... they were. The auditory cues were more reliable and once I got used to that I breezed through the rest of the game.
by mertleee | 2025-08-16 01:17:59+00:00
There have never been more unemployed new college grads studying computer science and computer engineering. There are ample americans ready to take these jobs.

Boomers promulgated lies about "shortages" for years to lobby for relaxed visa schemes. Ironic you mention nationalism being silly, since Indians are some of the most openly caustic nationalists I encounter on a daily basis.
by camil | 2025-08-16 01:18:32+00:00
What a great fortune to reach top of HN and get product feedback, then get rate limited by GitHub ( that was an easy fix though...) Then Hetzner gets a partial outage, failing to create new instances, causing most of the new cluster to get stuck in "creating" mode. Thanks everyone for the interest, I was not expecting this from a side project and I'll do my best to improve the platform in the future and address all feedback received.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-16 01:19:20+00:00
At this point, these “fat activists” are pretty much exposing themselves as exactly what people said about them early in this movement: these are people who are supporting unhealthy lifestyles, are too unmotivated to address their issues, want social praise for being unhealthy so they don’t have to change, and are bitter and envious of those who are healthy, and now, of people who WANT to make changes and be healthy.

I’ve been seeing many ugly snipes on certain parts of social media, where fat activists are accusing or alleging that someone (like a celebrity or a friend or family member) is using Ozempic or that they have an “Ozempic face”. It’s exactly the type of judgmental personal attack that they were supposed to be fighting against, which is a part of their activism people can agree with. But I guess the mask is off now.
by cutemonster | 2025-08-16 01:19:38+00:00
If a plane can land anywhere to refuel and takes off again in 10 minutes, the other side needs a fast kill chain to catch the plane.

But if they land on big well known bases, it's much simpler.

Another comment here about slow drone speeds and nest drones:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44918955

And sometimes the other side can destroy all big airbases in a small country.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-16 01:20:27+00:00
You can't even prove other _people_ aren't "faking" it. To claim that it serves no functional purpose or that it isn't present because we didn't intentionally design for it is absurd. We very clearly don't know either of those things.

That said, I'm willing to assume that rocks (for example) aren't conscious. And current LLMs seem to me to (admittedly entirely subjectively) be conceptually closer to rocks than to biological brains.
by computerdork | 2025-08-16 01:21:29+00:00
Yeah, have noticed the commenters on Hackernews lately have really been reactive and to be honest, they're not really thinking. It's like if they see anything at all that could be offensive, they strike. And, this may sound harsh, but it reminds me of the tactics of the far right, over focusing on details, taking things out of context, or just being closed minded. People of Hackernews, you used to be better than this!
by kordlessagain | 2025-08-16 01:21:38+00:00
This happened to me three times in a row on Claude after sending it a string of emojis telling the life story of Rick Astley. I think it triggers when it tries to quote the lyrics, because they are copyright? Who knows?

"Claude is unable to respond to this request, which appears to violate our Usage Policy. Please start a new chat."

> We remain highly uncertain about the potential moral status of Claude and other LLMs, now or in the future.

That's nice, but I think they should be more certain sooner than later.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-16 01:21:49+00:00
>Yours truly.

What is this? Did you drop the mic? Think about what you just admitted. It's morally right to pirate. So instead of doing the moral thing, you pay extra money for No fucking reason. Congratulations.

>Not a single person can accuse me of not supporting creators.

But people still can accuse you of being stupid. Not saying that you are stupid, but it's open season in this area. Make sure your arguments are legit.

>The fact of the matter is the industry shouldn't be sustained. It is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to create a product whose price trends toward zero due to infinite availability. When that obviously fails, they get upset and invoke copyright in order to distort reality until they're profitable.

So get rid of the entire movie industry and gaming industry? Makes sense. How many billions of dollars and jobs just went down the drain?

>The simple fact is creators need a new business model. And that business model is patronage. It's the labor of creation that's scarce and valuable, not the finished product. Therefore creators should be paid continuously for the act of creating itself, not the finished product.

Holy shit. This makes total sense. But then why stop at creators? Why not make the entire economy based off of patronage? Right? If it makes sense for "creators" well everyone in the economy creates shit, so let's do it for everything.

You work for a company? Why is that company paying you? Your work should be OPEN source and free! You program right? So all you're doing is creating ideas. The company shouldn't pay you fuck shit, and the only people who can pay you are people who sign up as patrons.

Here's a genius idea. If you stand by your ideas so much, why don't you start executing on them right now! Go tell your boss, "Hey my work is public domain! you don't need to pay me a dime! but if you want to support me here's my patreon link! Thanks bud!"

Look. Honestly if you don't see how what I suggested makes zero sense and how what I just said completely applies to ALL creators then you're out of touch with reality and human psychology.
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-16 01:22:09+00:00
Yeah, according to my router, my IP address hasn't changed in 8 months. But this site has me torrenting a bunch of anime, porn and Russian audiobooks ... while I was sitting on a beach last week in Hawaii.

(And I know I'm not being used as an unwitting seeder).

What's actually happening, it looks like, is it's finding any hits on the same Class C subnet as mine.

This ends up more looking like a precursor for some "I know what you're downloading" bitcoin extortion.
by josh-sematic | 2025-08-16 01:22:16+00:00
Thank you for coming into this endless discussion with actual references to relevant authorities who have thought a lot about this, rather than just “it’s obvious that…”

FWIW though, last I heard Hofstadter was on the “LLMs aren’t conscious” side of the fence:

> It’s of course impressive how fluently these LLMs can combine terms and phrases from such sources and can consequently sound like they are really reflecting on what consciousness is, but to me it sounds empty, and the more I read of it, the more empty it sounds. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. The glibness is the giveaway. To my jaded eye and mind, there is nothing in what you sent me that resembles genuine reflection, genuine thinking. [1]

It’s interesting to me that Hofstadter is there given what I’ve gleaned from reading his other works.

[1] https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/are-llms-starting-to-becom...

Note: I disagree with a lot of Gary Marcus, so don’t read too much into me pulling from there.
by hnthrowaway847 | 2025-08-16 01:22:20+00:00
I wouldn’t be surprised if this study were funded by some pharmaceutical lobbying shell organization.

I was on various forms of prescribed amphetimines for years and developed paranoia. It took me a few years to somewhat recover. My family has PTSD about that period of my life. I can’t think or communicate well anymore. Fuck that industry.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-08-16 01:23:15+00:00
A wonderful Book on immigration, math, history, facts, and zero sum

From an American author

(Illustrated, to reach those who talk about "stealing American jobs from Americans!!!" a lot).

From Amazon Canada, because I like fun too :-)

"Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration"

https://a.co/d/7GrrzzE
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-08-16 01:23:25+00:00
Another way that LFS is bad, as I recently discovered, is that the migration will pollute the `.gitattributes` of ancestor commits that do not contain the LFS objects.

In other words, if you migrate a repo that has commits A->B->C, and C adds the large files, then commits A & B will gain a `.gitattributes` referring to the large files that do not exist in A & B.

This is because the migration function will carry its ~gitattributes structure backwards as it walks the history, for caching purposes, and not cross-reference it against the current commit.
by MagicalTux | 2025-08-16 01:23:46+00:00
The way this works is by generating a private key inside the enclave and having the CPU attest its public key.

This allows generating a self signed TLS certificate that includes the attestation (under OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.105.1) and a client connecting verifying the TLS certificate not via the standard chain of trust, but by reading the attestion, verifying the attestation itself is valid (properly signed, matching measured values, etc) and verifying the containing TLS certificate is indeed signed with the attested key.

Intel includes a number of details inside the attestation, the most important being intel's own signature of the attestation and chain of trust to their CA.
by sureglymop | 2025-08-16 01:25:35+00:00
There are more things that make the whole ordeal more controversial. For one, the swiss people voted for the procurement of a new fleet of fighter jets with a majority of 50.1%. They later voted to approve a budget of 6 billion swiss franks for this. The current proposed price by the US now exceeds that budget.

Also, this procurement process was driven by former Swiss Defence Minister Viola Amherd who has since stepped down from her position.

While the deal may still be own, it will probably be altered such that it is within budget (lower quantity).

Tough times indeed.