MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by boothby | 2025-08-17 16:44:04+00:00
This is the weirdest conversation about a joke that is definitely making its target audience laugh -- as a comedian, I say that's the only honest measure of a joke. But allow me to analyze the shit out of this, because the only thing funnier than a groaner is meticulously explaining the groaner.

It's at least as funny as "why did the chicken cross the road," which is only a joke inasmuch the punchline is merely a statement of the obvious in the framing of a joke (the surprise is that the punchline sucks -- making it a groaner). I submit that that chicken/road joke wouldn't stick around if it wasn't funny. So, this joke stands on the shoulders of the chicken/road joke, making the obviousness that much funnier within the shared cultural context. Moreover, it adds a layer of absurdity (imagine the literal sun climbing a tree) with a linguistic confusion (aka pun) as we do refer to the sun "climbing" the sky. And finally: for some reason, our culture is more tolerant of groaners from "dads," so much so that some call them "dad jokes." Your child has inverted age and gender norms with this joke, making it so incredibly funny that you are blinded to the truth: this is comedy gold. Watch that kid, she's going somewhere. It might be an open mic night at a skeezy comedy club.
by Retric | 2025-08-17 16:44:19+00:00
IMO g is purely an abstraction. As long as the rate you learn most things is within a reasonable bound spending more or less time learning/perfecting X impacts the time you spend on Y, resulting in people being generally more or less proficient in a huge range of common cognitive skills. Thus, testing those general skills is normally a proxy for a wide range of things.

LD breaks IQ because it results in noticeably uneven skill acquisition in even foundational skills. Meanwhile increasing levels of specialization reward being abnormally good at a very narrow sets of skills making IQ less significant. The #1 rock climber in the world gets sponsors, the 100th gets a hobby.
by virgildotcodes | 2025-08-17 16:44:50+00:00
Of course, someone can be jewish and be far right. Someone can be black and own black slaves. Someone can be a woman and be against women's suffrage. Someone can be rich or poor and a class traitor, etc etc.

Someone's identity can and often does influence their politics, but they are not always in alignment, and their identity certainly doesn't negate their positions that are harmful towards others who share parts of their identity (all of this is often done in exchange for personal gain with these famous people who make a living off all this).
by mieubrisse | 2025-08-17 16:44:56+00:00
A similar thing happened to me.

I once took a timed test with a section that had me translating a string of symbols to letters using a cipher, response being multiple choice. If you read the string left to right, there were multiple answer options that started with the same sequence of letters (so ostensibly you had to translate the entire string).

But if you read the string right to left, there was often only one answer option that matched (the right one). So I got away with translating only the last ~4 symbols, regardless of how long the string was. I blew through the section, and surely scored high.

I always wondered: did they realize this? Or did it artificially inflate my results?

And looking at the highest-entropy section felt natural to me, but only because of countless hours as a software engineer where the highest-entropy bit is at the end (filepaths, certain IDs, etc).

Is it really accurate to say I'm "more intelligent" because I've seen that pattern a ton before, whereas someone who hasn't isn't? I suspect not.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-17 16:45:01+00:00
It goes further back than that, just not as backwards compatible. 4004 -> 8008, 8080 and so on. Just like the 6800, 6809, 68000 etc progression. All of these are families that have more in common with each other from one generation to the next than with other such families. It's logical: usually those were the same teams designing them with better tools and more money at their disposal, as well as a vastly increased transistor budget. Notable exception: the 6800 is in many ways simply an improved 6502 but by a different manufacturer.
by bastawhiz | 2025-08-17 16:46:33+00:00
> Web workers don't share memory (other than SAB) with the main thread, they are far from traditional threads. These APIs are designed the way they are to protect end users, stop sites from consuming resources or bad code blocking the main thread. None of that is needed to be that way on the server.

It doesn't protect end users any more than it protects servers. Node could easily expose raw threading, but they don't because nearly the whole language isn't thread safe and everything would break. It has almost nothing to do with protecting users, it's a language design decision that enforces other design constraints.

> We need to stop conflating JS the language with the runtimes

If you're just sharing syntax but the standard library is different and essentially none of the code is compatible, it's not the same language. ECMAScript specifies all of the things you're talking about, and that is JavaScript, irrespective of the runtime.

> A JS runtime absolutely can get by without a GC, you just never dealloc and consume indefinitely. That doesn't change any semantics of the language, if a value/object is inaccessible, it's inaccessible...

If you throw away the whole heap on every request, now every request it's definitionally a "cold start". Which negates the singular benefit that this post is calling out. Porffor is still not faster than JITed engines at runtime, and initializing the code still has to happen.

> Nowhere did I say that full, or even any, compatibility with Node is needed - it isn't.

You have to square what you're saying with this statement. What you're describing is JavaScript in syntax only. You're talking about major departures from the formal language spec. Existing JavaScript code is likely to break. Why not just make a new language and call it something else, like Crystal is to Ruby? It works different, you're saying it doesn't care about compatibility... Why even call it JS then?
by matthewfl | 2025-08-17 16:47:19+00:00
Author here.

In picking Clojure, there were two main things that I was looking for in a language: compile-time macros and a runtime eval function. The reason for wanting compile time macros is that without them, you essentially create another DSL to generate code in you language of choice (e.g. tablegen and pdll in the llvm project). As such I was mainly considering at LISP-like language for the implementation of dyna3. Clojure's emphasis on immutable data structures also fit nicely with the design for R-exprs.

Lack of types in Clojure wasn't an issue in terms of getting things working. However, I did end up getting very annoyed with the runtime speed and quality of the generated code from the Clojure implementation. Features such as `^:dynamic` and `defprotocol` were too slow, so I rolled my own by wrapping a Java class and using macros. I also had to replace Clojure's builtin map with my own implementation of a map for performance-critical code. The R-exprs themselves are implemented using `deftype`, which generates a Java class rather than using maps to hold the relevant data.
by mthoms | 2025-08-17 16:48:00+00:00
>Not all wars are created equal. It’s not the same thing. You either are unrealistic about how the world works or you’re just arguing for the sake of arguing.

It's very simple. You said you didn't think Spain would ever "fight alongside US forces in Europe or elsewhere". I pointed out that recent history unequivocally proves you wrong. But instead of conceding the point you're changing the criteria to some imaginary scenario that makes it impossible for anyone to counter-argue.

So yes, you're right... I have no idea how Spain would respond to some imaginary scenario playing out in your head right now. But I do know what their actual, historical record is. There are dead and maimed soldiers that prove it.

It's such a disgrace for American civilians to make up some vague hidden criteria for why allied deaths and injuries don't "count". Furthermore, it's exactly this kind of demeaning talk that might makes allies not want to help in the future.

>Yes, and it demonstrated the point that I made.

Lol. Sure.
by nine_k | 2025-08-17 16:48:11+00:00
> The notion that we need to all program in the top 10 popular programming languages seems dead with the advent of LLMs.

To my mind, to the contrary :( LLMs get trained on corpora of existing texts, including source code. They become much better at massively used languages because of the plethora of training data, and struggle with more niche languages because of the dearth of good examples. It's a positive feedback loop for mainstream languages, because more stuff gets vibe-coded, or code-assisted when the AI does a better job at it. It's a negative feedback loop for niche languages because the opportunity cost of choosing them grows :(
by sbarre | 2025-08-17 16:48:22+00:00
> You don’t really get better at them in the same sense as before, you just type something and pray.

I very much disagree with this. I've spent the last 18 months working with LLMs daily at my work (I'm not exaggerating here) and while the models themselves have certainly gotten better, I have personally learned how to extract better results from the tools and improved my proficiency at applying LLMs as part of my overall toolchain and workflow.

LLMs are very much like many other tools in some ways, that the more you learn how to use them, the better results you will get.

I do agree that their non-deterministic nature makes them less reliable in some contexts as well though, but that's a trade-off you work into your approach, just like other trade-offs.
by alephnerd | 2025-08-17 16:48:27+00:00
> western armed Eastern European terrorist gangs

The majority of Israelis (45%) are Mizrahi or Eastern Sephardi [0] - primarily Moroccan, Iraqi, Yemeni, Syrian, Algerian, Iranian, Kurdish, Azeri, Tajik, and Egyptian in origin. The rest are Arab (20%) or Ashkenazi (33%) but these are overwhelmingly Soviet-era Jews who faced antisemitism during the Soviet era. You also have 1% who are Ethiopian in origin and 1% who are Indian (primarily Marathi) in origin.

The most rightwing Israelis are themselves 1.5 generation Mizrahi, such as Ben Gvir (Kurdish) and Karhi (Tunisian).

The same way Palestinians made homeless due to the 1948 war continue to resent Israel, similarly Mizrahi families continue to resent and distrust the Muslim countries their parents and grandparents were forced to leave from their mohallas.

Assuming Israel is overwhelmingly Ashkenazi is itself white normative and neocolonialist in nature.

> colonial rule

Same for plenty of Jews in Eastern countries.

For example, the Farhud [1] in Iraq as Iraqi Sunnis viewed Iraqi Jews as collaborationists with the British (this was also caused by Nazi propaganda during WW2) and the 1945 Libyan Riots [2] instigated by British occupation forces to coopt Libyan Sunnis.

[0] - https://people.socsci.tau.ac.il/mu/noah/files/2018/07/Ethnic...

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhud

[2] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_anti-Jewish_riots_in_Tr...
by Aurornis | 2025-08-17 16:48:37+00:00
> I feel like this should go without saying, but really, do not use an AI model as a replacement for therapy.

I know several people who rave about ChatGPT as a pseudo-therapist, but from the outside the results aren’t encouraging. They like the availability and openness they experience by taking to a non-human, but they also like the fact that they can get it to say what they want to hear. It’s less of a therapist and more of a personal validation machine.

You want to feel like the victim in every situation, have a virtual therapist tell you that everything is someone else’s fault, and validate choices you made? Spend a few hours with ChatGPT and you learn how to get it to respond the way you want. If you really don’t like the direction a conversation is going you delete it and start over, reshaping the inputs to steer it the way you want.

Any halfway decent therapist will spot these behaviors and at least not encourage them. LLM therapists seem to spot these behaviors and give the user what they want to hear.

Note that I’m not saying it’s all bad. They seem to help some people work through certain issues, rubber duck debugging style. The trap is seeing this success a few times and assuming it’s all good advice, without realizing it’s a mirror for your inputs.
by ch4s3 | 2025-08-17 16:48:43+00:00
> The way I look at this is that the Adam Smith-ian free market makes the implicit assumption that market information (pricing, quality) disseminates via neutral, unbiased channels.

This couldn’t be more incorrect. In Smith’s day your sources of information would be interpersonal, or one of your local newspapers. Newspapers in the 18th century wore their bias on their sleeves and had very particular world views, they were anything but neutral. You might also learn about commercial interests in coffee houses where stock markets first developed. This was a place where people were trying to sell you something, like shares in a commercial shipping business.

I’m always astonished that people make these claims about Smith’s work without having read his books or any relevant history.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-17 16:50:42+00:00
FYI there are a number of Strix Halo boards and computers out in the market already. The Framework version looks to be high quality and have good support, but it’s not the only option in this space.

Also take a good hard look at the token output speeds before investing. If you’re expecting quality, context windows, and output speeds similar to the hosted providers you’re probably going to be disappointed. There are a lot of tradeoffs with a local machine.
by andoando | 2025-08-17 16:50:59+00:00
What I am trying to say is that the brain is a VERY complex machine, I do not believe there is a singular cause for why people fail to be motivated/alert in their daily lives.

I refuse to call it ADHD, as that implies some known pathology. It is imo a social construction. Categorization can be useful for assessment/treatment but it isnt science. Quite frankly I dont care if people were handed amphetamines simply because they wanted to see if it improved their lives.

I will just say, I am disgnosed and take stims and the best and most motivatrd I ever felt was when I was doing some sort of physical activity almost daily, had a challenging rewarding job and friends. I was completely sober and happy, and completely depressed, ADHD like all the years prior. If youre not exercising regularly I highly suggest you try it
by yencabulator | 2025-08-17 16:51:07+00:00
> This will sound absolutely insane, but maybe the source code for the video should be a script? Then the process of building produces a video which is a release artifact?

It already kinda is, but that just means you now need access to all the raw footage, and rendering a video file in high quality & good compression takes a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_decision_list
by tr3ntg | 2025-08-17 16:51:10+00:00
Huh. I find myself preferring aspects of TEXT-DAVINCI-001 in just about every example prompt.

It’s so to-the-point. No hype. No overstepping. Sure, it lacks many details that later models add. But those added details are only sometimes helpful. Most of the time, they detract.

Makes me wonder what folks would say if you re-released TEXT-DAVINCI-001 as “GPT5-BREVITY”

I bet you’d get split opinions on these types of not so hard / creative prompts.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-08-17 16:51:21+00:00
As part of the problem domain in index lookups, issuing multiple requests at the same time is not possible, unless as part of some entirely guess-based readahead scheme thay may indeed drive up disk utilization but are unlikely to do much else. Large blocks are a solution with that constraint as a given.

That paper seems to mostly focus on throughput via concurrent independent queries, rather than single-query performance. It's arriving at a different solution because it's optimizing for a different variable.
by bit1993 | 2025-08-17 16:51:45+00:00
We should not forget that LLMs simply replicate the data humans have put on the WWW. LLM tech could only have come from Google search, who indexed and collected the entire data on the WWW and the next step was to develop algorithms to understand the data and give better search results. This also shows the weakness of LLMs, they depend on human data and as LLM companies continue to try to replace humans, the humans will simply stop feeding LLMs their data, more and more data will go behind paywalls, more code will become closed source, simple supply and demand economics. LLMs cannot make progress without new data because the world-culture moves rapidly in real-time.
by emporas | 2025-08-17 16:52:17+00:00
Very encouraging results. Spatial intelligence of LLMs was very bad, one year back. I spent quite some time to make them write stories in which objects are put into up and down positions, left and right, front or back, they always got hopelessly confused.

I asked GPT which one is the most scriptable CAD software, it's answer was Freecad. Blender is not a CAD software as far as I understand, the user cannot make measurements like Freecad.

Unfortunately Freecad's API is a little bit scattered and not well organized, GPT has trouble remembering/searching and retrieving the relevant functions. Blender is a lot more popular, more code on the internet, and it performs much better.
by Levitz | 2025-08-17 16:52:27+00:00
I don't see how Jewish ancestry has any actual relevance, especially given the "proud islamophobe" quote.

No matter how much overlap there is between Jews and Zionists, it is one thing to criticize someone for their position on something and a whole different thing to criticize them for their ethnicity. That "whole different thing" is prejudice, which helps nobody here.
by danans | 2025-08-17 16:53:01+00:00
> Not only are they more expensive to operate due to high electricity rates,

Most electric appliances are much cheaper to operate, even in places with expensive electricity like MA and CA. This is especially true for appliances like heat pumps due to their >100% "efficiency", and if you are somewhere with cheap clean electricity (Pacific Northwest) they are a no-brainer.

> the panel upgrades for higher power draw are outrageous.

With smart splitters and some planning, panel upgrades can often be avoided:

https://homes.rewiringamerica.org/articles/electrical-panel/...
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-17 16:53:04+00:00
> It's good for all things, except ...

Humans and absolutes tend to be a pretty bad combo.

It is my experience that no system is good for all things. While some systems trend better than others, they are only good until they are not - and there will always be a 'not'.

Similarly, every 'not' is different. When we get there we're wise to consider it with experience + evidence and a willingness to do what those indicate.
by Sprocklem | 2025-08-17 16:53:21+00:00
I think a more generous reading of their comment would be: do people with Down's syndrome vary significantly in terms of their Down's syndrome symptoms? Or: do they vary significantly in how they experience their symptoms? I don't have enough experience with Down's syndrome to answer either – I've only met a few such people in passing – but would be interested in knowing the answer.

Edit: I feel I should note that, given the phrasing of the comment, I think your interpretation is closer to the original intent – or at least, a clearer reading of what was said – but I wanted to add this in the interest of taking the strongest interpretation of their comment (and to satisfy my personal curiosity).
by cobbzilla | 2025-08-17 16:53:32+00:00
wow, Applixware, what a blast from the past!

I think Applixware was the corporate standard office software at Sun Micro in the late 90’s. This was during the Sun-on-Sun initiative that “banned Windows” and had all employees running Solaris on Sparcstations. There was grumbling. Sales, admin staff, basically anyone not technical, well let’s say they were not pleased.

Sun switched the standard to StarOffice around ~2000 iirc, it was a nice improvement but still not great for folks who only knew MS Office.
by s5300 | 2025-08-17 16:53:49+00:00
>> This is confusing to say the least, the US are providing Israel with heavy hardware and ammunition to kill the Palestinian civilians, and then they want to take the children victims for medical care?! Why the US plays on both sides?

The US taxpayer has always paid for Israel’s citizens healthcare, while US citizens go without healthcare and ration their necessary medicine. Makes you wonder how such leverage can exist.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-17 16:54:02+00:00
You're looking at blame, which is fine. I have some arguments there but it's not my focus. I'm mainly objecting to the implication that the reason our rivers are fine is because we ship plastic away for someone else to deal with. If we stopped shipping plastic, our rivers would be fine, and their rivers would still be bad.

The problem is not based on who generates the most plastic. Or in other words, our portion of the blame is not because we generate lots of plastic rather than minimal plastic.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-17 16:54:37+00:00
Acorn didn't so much drop the ball as that the industry took off in a way that they simply could not have dealt with for the exact same reason that your EU start-up that is successful usually ends up being acquired: lack of access to easy capital. SV was well established by the time that the personal computer took off and even though they found their own nice niche (education) they never started out to conquer the world, they achieved their goals - and then some, see linked article - and managed to pivot fast enough and well enough to eventually give intel a run for their money, which is no mean achievement.

RiscOS wasn't even on the table for the likes of IBM and that is what it would have taken to succeed in the business market. But for many years the preferred machine to create Videotext or ATEX (automatic typesetting system) bitstreams was to have a BBC micro and there were quite a few other such interesting niches. I still know of a few BBCs running art installations that have been going non-stop for close to 45 years now. Power supplies are the biggest problem but there are people that specialize in repairing them, and there are various DIY resources as well (videos, articles).
by echelon | 2025-08-17 16:55:19+00:00
0.0001% of the population can sculpt 3D and leverage complex 3D toolchains. The rest of us (80% or whatever - the market will be big) don't want to touch those systems. We don't have the time, patience, or energy for it, yet we'd love to have custom 3D games and content quickly and easily. For all sorts of use cases.

But that misses the fact that this is only the beginning. These models will soon generate entire worlds. They will eventually surpass human modeller capabilities and they'll deliver stunning results in 1/100,000th the time. From an idea, photo, or video. And easy to mold, like clay. With just a few words, a click, or a tap.

Blender's days are long in the tooth.

I'm short on Blender, Houdini, Unreal Engine, Godot, and the like. That entire industry is going to be reinvented from scratch and look nothing like what exists today.

That said, companies like CSM, Tripo, and Meshy are probably not the right solutions. They feel like steam-powered horses.

Something like Genie, but not from Google.