MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leptons | 2025-08-04 22:13:43+00:00
>..if/when AI generates outsized/large returns, it actually brings more money into the entire VC ecosystem.

That's a BIG if/when. "AI" is just as likely to produce huge court cases (already is) that result in massive penalties. Google's "AI" summary is bordering on a liability right now, not to all the copyrighted material used to train the "AI".

>Plus, AI advancement should (yes, I know there's hype and theses that may not play out) accelerate innovation everywhere else. Example: A biotech startup today has access to AI tools that were Google-only five years ago.

Okay, so these tools have been around 5 years - where's the panacea of amazing breakthroughs enabled by "AI"? We've heard plenty about how "AI" is going to be a game changer, but after 5 years the game still seems basically the same.

>We saw identical complaints during the dotcom era about "real businesses" getting ignored,

The main thing "AI" today has in common with the "dotcom era" is that they were/are both bubbles, and just like the dotcom bubble burst, the "AI" bubble is very likely to also pop.

I just hope it pops before the power needs of "AI" raise the global temperature another 1C or 2C.
by StellarScience | 2025-08-04 22:14:00+00:00
Right, for example early LLMs were notoriously bad at math, as they had been trained on language. They'd get simple math right, likely due to "rote memorization", but couldn't do basic arithmetic with 3-digit numbers. The common AI agents seem much better now. I suspect they added separate math processing logic and trained the LLMs to recognize when and how to delegate to it, though I'm not certain of that.

Similarly coding-focused LLMs can access backend engines that actually run the code and get feedback, either to show the user or to internally iterate.

Having a whole host of such backend processors would be great. Users still only ever have to interact using natural language, but get the power of all these specialized tools in the backend. There are some tasks LLMs can do, but special-purpose algorithms may do better, faster, and/or with less energy usage.
by wisty | 2025-08-04 22:14:14+00:00
I'm partly just explaining what Trump supporters think.

The lump of gdp fallacy in which an urban Cafe is equal to a factory is maybe something I think is an issue?

Trump supporters disagree with economists on Carbon taxes, low tarriffs, and immigration.

And even economists to some extent pick and choose the issues they push from the less biased body of work they produce.
by xp84 | 2025-08-04 22:14:14+00:00
Heavily seconding the “setup script” method for anything that can be scripted in lieu of documentation and handholding. I’ve done this at multiple companies and it proved valuable. Even if it eventually breaks it’s easy to fix, and it’s usually pretty self-documenting, so anyone who’s even a little curious what’s going on, they have access to all the “secrets” of how it’s being done (and can also improve it).
by Barrin92 | 2025-08-04 22:14:21+00:00
It's also an extremely misleading comparison. Basic calculator functions do not in the slightest replace anything taught in a maths class. Using ChatGPT not just to write entire paragraphs (replacing composition), or even providing the writer with ideas (replacing the creative aspects of writing) isn't comparable to adding two large numbers together.

The equivalent in maths would be if you handed students a theorem prover or have Wolfram Alpha give you step-by-step solutions and obviously nobody to this day allows this, because like ChatGPT for writing it'd defeat the point, that students think.

When I was in uni we were allowed basic but not programmable calculators during exams and a lot of CS classes even were pen&paper, if the prof was a bit hardcore
by spwa4 | 2025-08-04 22:14:22+00:00
It would be surprising because the people of the foundation are terrorist supporters (for certain), or actual terrorists (not proven)

The founders of the foundation, Dyab Abou Jahjah and Karim Hassoun, are known to campaign and provide material support to Hezbollah - a terrorist organization. Diab Abou Jahjah actually went to Lebanon and may have actually participated in Hezbollah operations - he declared his intent to do so in the newspaper before leaving, but was not so stupid as to confirm it afterwards. So there is no proof he actually fought for them. It IS proven that he transferred money to Hezbollah and collected money from others for Hezbollah (which is by the way a war crime, in case that convinces anyone. Knowingly supporting terrorist organizations, which he did, is a war crime)

Socialists in Belgium protect especially Mr. Jahjah because he's been part of a Belgian communist party for a long time. Of course, that doesn't change what he did.

But it would still be VERY surprising that any court would take any complaint about terrorism from a terrorist supporter, from a person who left for a war zone declaring his intent to become a terrorist in the newspaper, seriously. Especially given other problems with people who did that, and the fact that the Belgian police force is, and I'm putting it very mildly, not particularly well suited or interested in fighting a foreign war ...

Of course, this would be pretty typical strategy for the PVDA. Making legal complaints that are so absurd there's zero chance any court will do anything, then "pointing out" how unfair the justice system is and how it will always protect the capitalists (previously usually represented by OpenVLD, but more recently by the NVA). It's probably a decade ago, but they sued a hotel chain for refusing to convert a central hotel in Antwerp into social housing for free, and then made a big fuss when the court said what amounted to "WTF?".
by notJim | 2025-08-04 22:14:31+00:00
We are much greener though, at least in the West. Climate emissions peaked in Europe and North America in the last few decades (earlier in Europe.) In Europe, forests are growing back, because marginal agricultural land is being returned to forests as yields rise on prime land. I think this is beginning to happen in the US as well.

This doesn't mean climate change isn't a problem, because even with this progress, we're way behind and not moving nearly fast enough. But often it's the green side of the spectrum that's lying by catastrophizing and understating progress, while overstating the severity of what's happening.

It's happening similarly with AI, where the green movement has decided that AI is unacceptable, even though it has a tiny ecological footprint compared to activities like watching Netflix or eating nuts, let alone eating beef or flying on a plane.
by ACCount36 | 2025-08-04 22:16:27+00:00
Social stigma? Only if you listen to mentally ill Twitter users.

It's more that the novelty just wore off. Mainstream image generation in online services is "good enough" for most casual users - and power users are few, and already knee deep in custom workflows. They aren't about to switch to the shiny new thing unless they see a lot of benefits to it.
by verelo | 2025-08-04 22:16:57+00:00
Totally correct. In the 90's as a kid in school using a calculator was highly debated amongst teachers and the ability to bring one out on your desk depended on the teacher.

In grade 2 i had a teacher who would say "I don't believe in erasers", you know, the things that "undo" pencil. As a ~6 yr old i actually didn't understand this phrase: "Well I have one, they're real!"
by omnimus | 2025-08-04 22:17:05+00:00
I don't believe thats how PHP works (atleast not anymore). When the request is made the code is first compiled to opcodes and only after that's done the opcodes are run. In most production environments these opcodes are even cached so even if you delete the project it will run.

In any case you would have to hit some few milisecond window in this opcache generation to break single request but even that might be unlikely thanks to how filesystems read files?
by darth_avocado | 2025-08-04 22:17:18+00:00
You will see skewed perspectives but the reality is somewhere in the middle. Yes it’s incredibly hard to find a job, let alone a high paying one to keep up with the rising costs of living. And more recently we are seeing an uptick in new grad unemployment. Which is a great indicator of where in the business cycle we are at the moment.

However, there is also an element of unrealistic expectations coming to a head. New grads historically rarely got extremely high paying jobs, which seems to be an expectation especially in the tech sector. There are also a lot of people complaining about not being able to find a job with their degree that is not that in demand. A lot of people want an easy life in their 20s because they are comparing it with their parents lives in 30s and 40s.
by chrisco255 | 2025-08-04 22:17:27+00:00
The U.S. should pull out of NATO and leave Europe to deal with Russia, and the inevitable World War 3 that would ensue. The U.S. isn't driving consumption, we plateaued on that basis years ago. However, we're not so suicidal as the Europeans, who have resigned themselves to wring their hands and mock Americans as they get leapfrogged by China, India, and the rest of the rapidly developing world while contributing little but feckless regulatory edicts.
by layman51 | 2025-08-04 22:17:30+00:00
I agree. I remember a year ago some a submission on this forum by Sabrina where she was evaluating LLMs on SAT math problems. The post was called like “ChatGPT-4o vs. Math”. I thought it was pretty insightful, but now that post is deleted from her blog and it seems like the blog as a whole is leaning into attracting people who are nontechnical and want to use it to generate social media content. Weird vibe in the comments of her posts and videos too.
by nonameiguess | 2025-08-04 22:17:49+00:00
This is a bigger problem, not just of software developers, but all businesses thinking you care about them as much as they do, not seeming to understand that I've made purchases from tens of thousands of businesses over the course of three decades as an adult, with more to come, and no matter how much I might care in theory or principle about any one of them, there is no universe in which I can read daily, weekly, or even monthly e-mails, SMS messages, or pop-up notifications from all of them, because if I actually did that, my entire life would consist of nothing but filling out surveys. The cheeky little smiley emoji asking if they can take just five minutes of my time misses the point. Sure, I've got five minutes, but you're one of 30 businesses asking for that every day, and it's no longer "just a moment" when it adds up to two and a half hours across all of them.
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by treyd | 2025-08-04 22:18:09+00:00
The point that you're (and everyone is) glossing over here is relative positions on the skill gradient.

A first grader probably would be prohibited from using any kind of calculator on arithmetic tests, 4-fn or not. But 8th graders are usually permitted scientific (non-programmable) calculators.

As you go up in grade level, you "get access to" calculators capable of functionality at the level below you. Because the point is that when we're educating students we want them to actually learn the subject matter, but once we've deemed them to have understood it and we have them move onto the next goal, we give them the tools to make that prior goal easier. We lessen the burden of the little mechanical concepts they already know so that they have an easier time becoming familiar with the next more advanced concepts.

AI systems are so much more advanced than what's capable on a TI programmable calculator. It's hard to draw clean boundaries around the tiers and enforce them by telling the model "help the user with tasks of tier 1-4 but not 5+". That's the issue, that it's really infeasible to strictly use them strictly as learning tools. You can almost do it with a lot of self-discipline and self-reflection to analyze your own workflow, but it's not generalizable across domains.
by austin-cheney | 2025-08-04 22:20:08+00:00
Measure everything. There are two benefits to this.

1. Discarding the bullshit. A consistent practice of weighting assumptions and conclusions on evidence/numbers helps identify biases and motives from other people.

2. Measures allow for value identification and performance. Most people just guess at this. Guessing is wrong more than 80% of the time and often wrong by multiple orders of magnitude.

Most people don’t think like this and find this line of thinking completely foreign, so I often just keep my conclusions to myself. To see a movie about this watch Money Ball.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-08-04 22:20:27+00:00
>Gotta watch out for those profits, except they forget people also need money to buy their goods.

And then we get the great turn of it all. Where governments opt to just sign contracts with these companies. Just hook the money printer up directly to the investor class and skip all these middle class middle people and the requirement to build a business that can stand on its own two feet.

What gets scary with this is people like Peter Thiel and friends are building a world for fewer people pretty overtly. There's the famous clip of him where Thiel hesitates to predict if humans will survive in the technological future. Probably because in the back of his mind he hopes the population of the U.S. diminishes to a couple hundred thousand people if that living a life of technologically supported luxury, while the descendants of the wageslaves have died out by then and don't threaten the power structure.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-04 22:21:25+00:00
> The point is they bothered constructing probes.

Right, why did somebody make this metal cylinder covered in elaborate symbology and then place it here? Was this place of great importance to them? What were they trying to communicate to me by constructing the cylinder and placing it?

It's just a discarded coke can. You are the one who decided it's required to have great significance. If you haven't read "Roadside Picnic" I suggest at least reading a summary.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-04 22:21:29+00:00
> There are valid reasons why college students in particular might prefer that AI do their writing for them: most students are overcommitted;

Tangentially: I've helped out some college students with mentoring and advice from time to time. One common theme I've noticed is that their class load virtually doesn't matter. They find ways to run out of time no matter how much free time they start with.

We all like to imagine the poor, overburdened college student working 2 jobs and attending classes to make ends meet when reading statements like that. But to be completely honest, the students like that usually have their time management on point. The hardest ones to coach were the students who had no real responsibilities outside of classes, yet who found their free time slipping through their fingers no matter what they did.

Among all of the other problems with easy AI cheating, I wonder how much the availability of these tools will encourage even more procrastination. Feeling like you always have the fallback option of having ChatGPT write the homework for you leaves the door open to procrastinating even longer

> I asked my students to complete a baseline survey registering their agreement with several statements, including “It is unethical to use a calculator in a math class”

Unless there was more to this survey, this wording seems misleading. In a college-level math class, using a calculator is a common expectation depending on the type of class and the problem. The students would probably think of their TI-89, not a magical AI calculator that could solve every freeform problem for them.
by reactordev | 2025-08-04 22:22:29+00:00
But that can happen in any chapter. As horrible as it is - it’s probably the appendix or preamble. “Everything you’re about to read is due to X” warning label or something. Both as a solider in it, and as a civilian facing it. It’s awful. Maybe an asterisk on the end like they did for Roger Maris in ‘61 for beating Babe Ruth’s homer record in a single season.
by motohagiography | 2025-08-04 22:22:41+00:00
the idea of malign intent ignores the physical economic factors that are true everywhere in the universe. The amount of energy it takes to get here from the next closest place, and the necessary probability that there is at least one other planet with every element we have, in much higher quantities, and closer to them, precludes any motive to wipe us out.

given the effort involved and the alternatives, the only possible reason to contact us is benevolent. also, if there is a single other civilization within range of contacting us, statistically and necessarily, there are also millions, if not billions of others to choose from.

No, there is no malign intent. Even considering it reveals some very mid reasoning. We are very likely emerging up the evolutionary scale to become the stupidest intelligent thing in the universe, but only just over the line of what passes for intelligence among space faring civilizations. The only concievable risk is from ourselves.
by omnimus | 2025-08-04 22:22:50+00:00
In a sense thats blue-green deployment just on filesystem level? PHP is always run behind proxy/webserver (mostly ngnix nowdays)

But you are right there is no reason why you couldn't have two instances of the php app runing and switch between them. For some reason the PHP deployment services i've used seem to use the filesystem approach and i doubt it's laziness or incompetence.
People can exploit your social media pictures and so I've made a tool
by Gravyt1 | 2025-08-04 22:23:33+00:00
For a few weeks now, I've been working on a small website, a simple but useful project, which I thought would be accessible to everyone. This site is qualitative enough for me to pay particular attention to. It allows me to better understand how to gain visibility on a project created/bootstrapped by myself.

This site is not revolutionary, far from it, and most of the front-end code is done by lA. Its main objective is to bring together several privacy protection tools. In particular, for the moment, a tool for viewing and deleting metadata that supports many types of documents.

Why? Because many people are unaware that files shared online contain sensitive information:

Photos -> GPS location, date, device model

Docs -> author's name, editing history, comments

Attacks can exploit this data for OSINT, tracking habits, feeding AI models, or even identity theft.

Unlike other tools, it doesn't store any files. I'd like to make the source code available or make the application front-end-only in the future. For now, everything is processed server-side and then immediately returned, without backup, using Python Pillow. So everything is on temporary variables and is cleared at the end of the process.

Eventually, I plan to add a lightweight API, other privacy-related tools, and possibly educational content.

Today, I am looking for new people to use my website, but also contributors in the sense that I created a product hunt page. If you like the idea, a little upvote on Product Hunt would help me a lot. And if you want to test the site or contribute, everything is open!

Thank you (:

Product Hunt:https://www.producthunt.com/products/removemd

My project: https://www.removemd.com/
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-04 22:23:43+00:00
One to add: NanoKVM is definitely fake FOSS. It dials home to download a serialized, opaque library. NanoKVM: The S stands for Security https://youtu.be/plJGZQ35Q6I

Many people also seem to think Atlassian Jira and Confluence are OSS when they're absolutely not.
by godelski | 2025-08-04 22:23:46+00:00
> only a small subset will contain actual understanding, a property that is independent of the model's input-output behavior?

I think this is close enough. I'd say "a model's ability to make accurate predictions is not necessarily related to the model's ability to generate counterfactual predictions."

I'm saying, you can make extremely accurate predictions with an incorrect world model. This isn't conjecture either, this is something we're extremely confident about in science.

> I don't think I can agree. In your 2+a+b-2 example, that is an unnecessarily convoluted, but entirely correct model of addition.

I gave it as a trivial example, not as a complete one (as stated). So be careful with extrapolating limitations of the example with limitations of the argument. For a more complex example I highly suggest looking at the actual history around the heliocentric vs geocentric debate. You'll have to make an active effort to understand this because what you were taught in school is very likely an (very reasonable) over simplification. Would you like a much more complex mathematical example? It'll take a little to construct and it'll be a lot harder to understand. As a simple example you can always take a Taylor expansion of something so you can approximate it, but if you want an example that is wrong and not through approximation then I'll need some time (and a specific ask).

Here's a pretty famous example with Freeman Dyson recounting an experience with Fermi[0]. Dyson's model made accurate predictions. Fermi is able to accurately dismiss Dyson's idea quickly despite strong numerical agreement between the model and the data. It took years to determine that despite accurate predictions it was not an accurate world model.

*These situations are commonplace in science.* Which is why you need more than experimental agreement. Btw, experiments are more informative than observations. You can intervene in experiments, you can't in observations. This is a critical aspect to discovering counterfactuals.

If you want to understand this deeper I suggest picking up any book that teaches causal statistics or any book on the subject of metaphysics. A causal statistics book will teach you this as you learn about confounding variables and structural equation modeling. For metaphysics Ian Hacking's "Representing and Intervening" is a good pick, as well as Polya's famous "How To Solve It" (though it is metamathematics).

[0] (Mind you, Dyson says "went with the math instead of the physics" but what he's actually talking about is an aspect of metamathematics. That's what Fermi was teaching Dyson) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV41QEKiMlM
by jeffalyanak | 2025-08-04 22:24:19+00:00
In the language learning world there are some great tools already for adding content-awareness.

AnkiMorphs[1] will analyze the morphemes in your sentences and, taking into account the interval of each card as a sign of how well you know each one, will re-order your new cards to, ideally, present you with cards that have only one unknown word.

It doesn't do anything to affect the FSRS directly—it only changes the order of new, unlearned cards—but in my experience it's so effective at shrinking the time from new card to stable/mature that I'm not sure how much more it would help to have the FSRS intervals being adjusted in this particular domain.

1: https://mortii.github.io/anki-morphs/intro.html
by kstrauser | 2025-08-04 22:24:33+00:00
In that example, I'm pretty sure that the 'require' line is compiled to opcodes, but not executed, until that line is reached. Supporting evidence: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37880749/when-is-a-php-i...

So if there's a 10 second gap between the start of execution and the 'require' line being reached and evaluated, then any incompatible changes to the file being required within that 10 seconds will cause an error.