MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mjgs | 2025-08-02 05:12:48+00:00
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by jjk166 | 2025-08-02 05:12:53+00:00
This is a horrific argument.

While an argument certainly could be made that the permanently comatose on life support should be considered dead, the logic that this change should be made to increase the supply of organs available for transplant fundamentally taints it.

From a more pragmatic standpoint, the authors don't seem to consider that this could predictably lead to a decrease in organ donors as people don't want to risk being prematurely declared dead so that their organs can be harvested. It does not matter that such premature declarations are rare, and would not occur if everything were done correctly, people don't want to bet their life on everything being done correctly.

Further, the procedure is currently done on willing donors. The law may not currently have a good way to handle pumping blood through someone who has already been pronounce dead, but it doesn't seem like that big a deal. The important thing is they are still considered alive until the life support is removed, and retain their rights as a living being. If a person is declared dead while still on life support, that could mean there is an extended period of time where someone who is culturally and functionally a living patient, who would normally have decisions made by power of attorney, is treated as a corpse and handled by the executor. Maybe those people would be one in the same, but there are plenty of good reasons why someone might choose different people for the roles.

I don't see enough benefits to justify the costs of implementation even if there were no ethical concerns.
by visarga | 2025-08-02 05:13:01+00:00
The point about training data stands. We usually only think of scaling compute, but we need to scale data as well, maybe even faster than compute. But we exhausted the source of high quality organic text, and it doesn't grow exponentially fast.

I think at the moment the best source of data is the chat log, with 1B users and over 1T daily tokens over all LLMs. These chat logs are at the intersection of human interests and LLM execution errors, they are on-policy for the model, right what they need to improve the next iteration.
by anonym29 | 2025-08-02 05:14:04+00:00
Stream of consciousness as I hit play:

You're getting 21 syllables out literally within the first three seconds of the video starting. You're speaking at a very quick pace, which demonstrates a degree of passion and engagement, but the beginning of the video feels like I've been dropped into the middle of a passionate, fast-paced college lecture with no background about the who / what / why. I peeked at a couple of your older videos, which feature brief introductions that appear to be missing here.

Are you trying to produce tutorials, or deep-dive technical videos? Are you trying to inform me how to build a lean, low-dependency web API with Python, or trying to persuade me of the benefits of doing so?

I'm confused, I look at the video description. Aha! The missing piece! This needs to be at the beginning of the video, not in the description - it answers all of the questions I'm being bombarded with.

You enunciate and verbally emphasize well, but could use some slowing down. I'm no stranger to the need to put videos at 1.25x to not fall asleep, but this is the first time I can remember needing to put a video at 0.75x to hear, understand, and comprehend what was being said, having lacked the context that was provided in your video description, but nowhere in your fast-paced video itself.

You do a good job at explaining not only what's occurring on screen as it happens, but what you're doing as you do it, too. I think your tone itself is perfectly fine for technical content, but the presentation, especially at the very beginning, but the pace and depth of the introductory phase of the video felt like being shoved into the deep end of a pool with no warning; it was jarring how quickly and rapidly I was hit with content before I could even contextualize what I was getting into.

Vouched and upvoted; your desire to improve as a response to critical feedback is laudable. Keep up the good work.
by sramsay | 2025-08-02 05:14:26+00:00
Truly, one of the most original artists of our time. I am among those who think Einstein on the Beach is one of the greatest theatrical works of the twentieth century, but I don't think I ever saw a Wilson piece that didn't completely blow my mind.

I seem to recall an interview in which he said that he didn't think many of his works should be revived. I hope that's not true, and that his pieces have a long life in repertory.
by adi_hn07 | 2025-08-02 05:14:44+00:00
Do you have API access to the listing platforms or do you use web scraping? Really nice dashboard UI. One bug I noticed, on signing up with google I land on the sign up page again, instead of being redirected to the analytics dashboard.

Awesome web app overall, would love to have leaseswap on https://superlaun.ch !!
by nailer | 2025-08-02 05:15:42+00:00
Before 1948 Jewish people bought land from Arabs at inflated prices. During 1948 it was only government land that was allocated to Israel and Arab state.

> Slaughtering peoples family and relatives is an act of violence that should expect repercussions.

Yes, that’s why you understand that Hamas ans Hezbollah must be destroyed. Continually starting war with their neighbours should indeed expect repercussions.
by joules77 | 2025-08-02 05:15:59+00:00
More than Market driving it, "feelings" naturally emerge in systems that have to deal with uncertainty. It's natures hack when logic and rationality fails.

The only thing predictable here is AI devs will start having existential meltdowns trying to make things predictable and controllable. language + emotion + social context = chaos.

Engineers historically are the wrong folk to handle such things (chaos management). Expect more Philosophers/Psychologists to start getting roped in. And lot of failed experiments treating people like lab rats.
by crustycrab | 2025-08-02 05:17:42+00:00
My guess is that Meta offers to buyout the key researcher/engineers by "matching" the TML share (latest 12B raise) with FB shares. Murati & co. probably asked for (and may still be negotiating) a "DeepMind" deal which allow the team to report to Meta CEO directly and some sweeteners for the investors who probably leaked the stories to gain leverage.
by venki352 | 2025-08-02 05:17:55+00:00
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by RestlessMind | 2025-08-02 05:18:38+00:00
> and I see firsthand the way these people just waste time walking around with a coffee-cup shooting the breeze, or sitting in half-day meetings.

This point is a bit naive or misguided. Slackers are to be found in a fully remote setup as well. Also, hustlers like Soham Parekh or North Koreans impersonators are only possible in a fully remote setup.
by jezzamon | 2025-08-02 05:18:47+00:00
SFXR is this is the canonical tool for doing that, and yes, you can do that!

I'm not sure what this webpage is, jsxfr is the name of the JavaScript library on nodejs which is a different url to this page.

But yeah once you start generating things procedurally you can do things like generate 10 sounds with subtle variations to make things less repetitive.
by nneonneo | 2025-08-02 05:20:54+00:00
Revisions are common due to the BLS's methodology. The BLS makes estimates based on initial survey data, then produces better numbers based on additional data as it comes in. The methodology is publicized here: https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/jlt/home.htm.

Trump does not like these numbers and has decided that he'd rather try to blame the messenger rather than accept this as a sign of a weakening economy. It also gives him an opportunity to install someone who might actually fudge the numbers by changing the methodology employed.

Good luck, folks.
by v5v3 | 2025-08-02 05:21:02+00:00
>Nulty says that Anthropic will “continue to ensure OpenAI has API access for the purposes of benchmarking and safety evaluations as is standard practice across the industry.”

This is, ultimately, a great PR move by Anthropic. 'We are so good Open Ai uses us over their own'

They know full well OpenAI can just sign up again, but not under an official OpenAi account.
by happymellon | 2025-08-02 05:22:01+00:00
I also completely disagree with the builder description.

It sounds like they've not had to use it for any meaningful work, and basically described a constructor. Yeah, named parameters are great, and I miss them when I don't have them, but if you think a builder only works like this

Object.setX().setY().build()

Then it tells me that you haven't built anything meaningful. It's a way of building a state and running an operation at the end in a contained manner. If your build method doesn't run some sort of validation then it's probably a waste of time, might as well just call setters, return this and call it a day if you want to be verbose and chain commands.
by tolmasky | 2025-08-02 05:26:08+00:00
I'm not making a demographics-turnout based election model argument?... I'm simply stating the, IMO objective fact, that dividing the number of people that voted for Trump by the total population is 23% and not 51%, and even dividing that number by the number of people that voted is 49.8%. I've made no statements whatsoever about what Democrats should focus on. I don't know where this is coming from, my only critique is that it is unnecessarily demoralizing to state as fact that the majority of the population voted a certain way when it simply isn't true. Look, you are allowed to believe that if everyone voted the result would have gone that way, you can also like OP assign blame to non-voters if you so choose, but just say that instead of misstating a voting percentage.

Separately, I honestly don't even know what possible strategy could be inferred from my statement. That I think that ~70% of the population might be open to your message? That I think we should tell people that more people are on their side than they know? Does that sound like a turnout-based strategy?
by RestlessMind | 2025-08-02 05:26:50+00:00
I can understand your sentiment in the first two paragraphs, even though I think remote work was bound to fail for most of the companies simply because it is hard to update the culture. Broadcom mandated in-office work even during COVID as soon as the strictest lockdowns were lifted. And yet Broadcom stock is up 5x since 2022, so they are not missing out on anything by embracing the office. Same with Meta (mandated RTO, stock up 7x).

> the West, which has already lost so much, will lose what little remains

The West already advanced a lot until 2020 by working from office. If anything, fully remote conditions are a death knell for software jobs in the rich parts of the world. Most of the SW jobs do not require special talent and can be done for a fraction of the cost from Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa or India.
by carlskevin | 2025-08-02 05:28:26+00:00
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by warofwords | 2025-08-02 05:28:45+00:00
I think Meta has a problem of none of their users wanting any more of their services and they have a very distinct brand taint

Paying 250m to a genius to more deeply entrap user time and attention is going to look diabolical unless there are measurable user life improvement outcome measurements... if metas more slop addiction that 250m is a diabolical contract
by sothatsit | 2025-08-02 05:29:13+00:00
DeepSeek's contributions to training efficiency improvements were as, if not more, important than the models themselves. A lot of the worry people had about DeepSeek was related to people questioning the moat of the big AI players, since DeepSeek was able to train a competitive model with so much less compute.

Their innovations in training efficiency were almost guaranteed to have been heavily considered by the big AI labs. For example, Dario Amodei talks about the efficiency improvements being the real important contribution of DeepSeek V3 here: https://www.darioamodei.com/post/on-deepseek-and-export-cont...

> DeepSeek's team did this via some genuine and impressive innovations, mostly focused on engineering efficiency. There were particularly innovative improvements in the management of an aspect called the "Key-Value cache", and in enabling a method called "mixture of experts" to be pushed further than it had before.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-02 05:32:10+00:00
There has been plenty of breakage throughout ISO revisions.

The biggest problem is ABI, in theory that isn't something that standard cares about, in practice all compiler vendors do, thus proposals that break ABI from existing binary libraries tend to be an issue.

Another issue is that WG21 nowadays is full of people without compiler experience, willing to push through their proposals, even without implementations, which then compiler vendors are supposed to suck it up and implement them somehow.

After around C++14 time, it became cool to join WG21 and now the process is completely broken, there are more than 200 members.

There is no guidance on an overall vision per se, everyone gets to submit their pet proposal, and then needs to champion it.

Most of these folks aren't that keen into security, hence the kind of baby steps that have been happening.
by Gibbon1 | 2025-08-02 05:34:27+00:00
After working at small companies most of my career. Anytime someone angrily states that little people must pay their bills or else I reflexively think about how much corporate America does not. Really common they'll withhold the last payment until they need something else.

I keep coming back to a study I read a long time ago where they administered college students a test to score sociopathy as freshmen and again as seniors. Not surprising seniors scored lower then freshmen, except business and economics where they scored a lot higher. Makes me more receptive to the old school idea that college is partly there to provide a moral education.
by mackerricher | 2025-08-02 05:34:49+00:00
Open source non-fiction book creator.

The process: 1. You put in some info about your book in the inital form. 2. A GitHub repo is created to store your book contents. 3. An outline is generated by Claude and stored in the repo. 4. The first section draft is created by Claude 5. A summary of the draft is created by DeepSeek 6. The accumulation of summaries are passed to subsequent draft Claude prompts. And the process continues. 7. After all sections have been drafted, front-matter is generated by DeepSeek 8. And the sections are all then stitched together into a single draft, and you're done

* Uses GitHub to store all drafts - connects via ENV vars * DeepSeek and Anthropic keys also stored in ENV vars * Uses Postgres DB to generate and store facts about respective books in a books table * Can save progress, if the book gen process is interrupted, and continue where it left off. * Has a retry strategy for the API calls * Has review, and summary, and redundancy checking features * Server logs to show you every step in the process
by jasonkester | 2025-08-02 05:36:52+00:00
While you’re at it, can you find and punch the guy who thinks it’s a good idea to zoom the map to “actual size, 1cm = 1cm” mode for your entire trip?

I assume he’s also the one that taught it to spitefully let you drive off the side of the screen if you ever zoom out manually so that you can see more road on the phone than you can in real life. (With a “recenter” button that will zoom you all the way back in).

Satnavs had this all figured out in 2005.
by visarga | 2025-08-02 05:37:20+00:00
I am always skeptical of RNN approaches but this paper is just sparsifying the input, it is not compressing any size input to a fixed memory. I am hopeful maybe this is a big break. 11x inference speedup with no degradation from an algorithmic improvement. Is it really that good? almost too good to be true. Adoption in the next 6 months will tell us the truth.
by bunnyman | 2025-08-02 05:37:33+00:00
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by rob74 | 2025-08-02 05:38:23+00:00
Great news for storing excess power generated by renewables, unfortunately the US is headed in another direction currently - but maybe at least some states still listen to reason, or they will be able to find international customers/partners?

Actually, when reading the ad at the end of the article ("The 30% federal solar tax credit is ending this year. If you’ve ever considered going solar, now’s the time to act.") I was surprised that Trump didn't cancel this retroactively, as he did with lots of other measures decided by the Biden administration...
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-02 05:38:24+00:00
Yes, but the new "thing" now is "agentic" where the driver is "tool use". So at every point where the LLM decides to make a tool use, there is a new request that gets sent. So a simple task where the model needs to edit one function down the tree, there might be 10 calls - 1st with the task, 2-5 for "read_file", then the model starts writing code, 6-7 trying to run the code, 8 fixing something, and so on...
by ang_cire | 2025-08-02 05:40:05+00:00
Honestly, not particularly. That area is really chill. It's literally across the street from Pixar's headquarters, and a block or so down from city hall. Utility outages are probably the biggest 'issue' in that neighborhood; we had power outages not infrequently, and this week they had their water main burst and shut down half the businesses nearby.
by motorest | 2025-08-02 05:43:51+00:00
> That's interesting - why do it this way rather than including a "reusable" signed JWT with the request, like an API token? Why sign the whole request?

Supposedly bearer tokens should be ephemeral, which means either short-lived (say single-digit minutes) or one-time use.

This was supposed to be the way bearer tokens were supposed to be used.

> What does that give you?

Security.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_hijacking
by Zanfa | 2025-08-02 05:43:57+00:00
> I don’t know how much clearer it could be.

Maybe not give it a misleading name that implies full self-driving capabilities. Also not have the CEO publicly make grandiose claims of the performance over 8 years.

> If a system were more error prone, people would not trust it so much.

Unfortunately not. Youtube is full of videos of FSD trying to crash into oncoming traffic, parked cars etc, but then at the end of the video the driver goes “well that was pretty impressive” and just ignores all the suicide attempts.
by digitcatphd | 2025-08-02 05:47:57+00:00
I ran some tests on a similar concept using LangGraph. Unfortunately, I think while the results are meaningfully different from a foundation model, they don't supplement actual real-world data yet and don't provide sufficient diversity of thought and opinion between cases. For instance, asking 1,000 people you get a different response every time because each person is slightly unique, but with the LLM it is probabilistically different, not because of the slightly unique differences and for Meta reasons.