MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bkrausz | 2025-11-03 19:31:27+00:00
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by keiferski | 2025-11-03 19:31:45+00:00
Just some unsolicited advice: the company I work for has benefited from AI traffic, I think because people are looking for a certain software solution to a particular problem, which we provide. In other words, they still need to visit our site to solve the problem. This is unlike many other AI queries, where the solution is a piece of information. I imagine your site is full of such information, which is why your traffic is being halved by AI.

So if it’s possible, I’d try to change your business model to something where people still need to visit your site to get their problem solved. Maybe referrals?
by arohner | 2025-11-03 19:31:45+00:00
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by bgwalter | 2025-11-03 19:31:51+00:00
The New Yorker is owned by Advance Publications, which also owns Conde Nast. "Open" "AI" has struck a deal with Conde Nast to feed SearchGPT and ChatGPT.

This piece is cleverly written and might convince laypeople that "AI" may think in the future. I hope the author is being paid handsomely, directly or indirectly.
by paxys | 2025-11-03 19:31:54+00:00
Yet we can ignore our biology, or act in ways that are the opposite of what our biology tells us. Can someone map all internal and external stimuli that a person encounters into a set of deterministic actions? Simply put, we have not the faintest idea how our brains actually work, and so saying saying "LLMs think the same way as humans" is laughable.
by Arn_Thor | 2025-11-03 19:32:00+00:00
Ok, so I'm not a programmer, just a knuckle dragger who is vibe coding myself a digital assistant to help me prioritize emails and do scheduling. And because I may use a cloud AI's API rather than local processing I already consider the following to be essential: Token estimation, agent state persistence, cost monitoring and rate limiting, circuit breakers, retry logic, context caching, deadlock detection.

Those are just some of the requirements for AI agent deployment that this article mentions. And hell, I'd want some of them even if I were running the agents on my own GPU...

How does anyone have the brass stones to go to production without at least the precautions that I found necessary within half a day of thinking about it?

Is there really so much funding in the AI space?
by pwg | 2025-11-03 19:32:04+00:00
In reality, any 'vehicle' which does not meet both passenger car safety and passenger car fuel economy standards [1] should only be allowed to be licensed as a "commercial" vehicle and should pay "commercial" rate (higher) taxes (and maybe even require a "commercial" stamp on one's drivers license to operate). If the states had done this when SUV's first appeared on the scene, we might not have nearly every car on the road being a hulking monster SUV today.

[1] which no SUV's nor trucks used as passenger cars, do because they are classed as 'utility vehicles' and have lower safety/fuel economy standards -- which is why the auto-makers went whole-hog on making/selling them, it got their CAFE averages down artificially.
by hinkley | 2025-11-03 19:32:32+00:00
Looks like it’s about 45 kg for a Tesla and 13 kg for this one. It at twice the horsepower. So maybe 8-10kg for a down rated model. IIRC, axial motors need their diameter to retain their efficiency advantage so a down rated one would likely be lighter but close to the same external dimensions.

But that’s still a lot less rotating mass, and might make multiple motors attractive again.
by russellbeattie | 2025-11-03 19:32:35+00:00
> "Opinions on his coding style are divided, though general consensus seems to be that it's incomprehensible."

I wholeheartedly concur with popular opinion. It's like writing a program in obfuscated code.

Hmmm... his way of basically making C work like APL made me wonder: Is there a programming language out there that defines its own syntax in some sort of header and then uses that syntax for the actual code?
by RealityVoid | 2025-11-03 19:32:38+00:00
Both replies were kind of jokes from my side. Regardless, whether I have or don't have brain damage is... Up for debate. Probably not significant. And I do appreciate my memories of wildness quite fondly. I'm sure other people have other ways of getting their fix for adventure, some more constructive than others. Regardless, we all have different needs and different itches to scratch and I think some people might need a certain amount of risk more than others. And that's fine in my book.
by shuluster | 2025-11-03 19:32:46+00:00
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by gf000 | 2025-11-03 19:32:46+00:00
> Imagine we assume that A.I. could be conscious. What would be the identity/scope of that consciousness

Well, first I would ask whether this question makes sense in the first place. Does consciousness have a scope? Does consciousness even exist? Or is that more of a name attributed to some pattern we recognize in our own way of thinking (but may not be universal)?

Also, would a person missing an arm, but having a robot arm they can control have their consciousness' "scope" extended to it? Given that people have phantom pains, does a physical body even needed to consider it your part?
by myrmidon | 2025-11-03 19:33:06+00:00
> You don't even know what physics or particles are as yet undiscovered

You would not need the simulation to be perfect; there is ample evidence that our brains a quite robust against disturbances.

> just because you simulated a brain atom by atom, does not mean you have a consciousness.

If you don't want that to be true, you need some kind of magic, that makes the simulation behave differently from reality.

How would a simulation of your brain react to an question that you would answer "consciously"? If it gives the same responds to the same inputs, how could you argue it isnt't conscious?

> If it is the arrangement of matter that gives rise to consciousness, then would that new consciousness be the same person or not?

The simulated consciousness would be a different one from the original; both could exist at the same time and would be expected to diverge. But their reactions/internal state/thoughts could be matched at least for an instant, and be very similar for potentially much longer.

I think this is just Occams razor applied to our minds: There is no evidence whatsoever that our thinking is linked to anything outside of our brains, or outside the realm of physics.
by jwitthuhn | 2025-11-03 19:33:08+00:00
It is wrong to release something unreliable even while acknowledging it is unreliable? The product performs as advertised. If people want accurate information an LLM is the wrong tool for the job.

From the Gemma 3 readme on huggingface: "Models generate responses based on information they learned from their training datasets, but they are not knowledge bases. They may generate incorrect or outdated factual statements."
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-03 19:33:28+00:00
I didn't say they were innocent, I said they were/are awful capital extractors. Like, they do a really bad job at making money.

If you are following the money, it absolutely does not lead to health insurers. It passes right through them. But people need to do more than watch tiktoks to learn that. So it's lost.
by kccqzy | 2025-11-03 19:33:44+00:00
I eat plenty of farmed salmon (Atlantic salmon) because they are the default in grocery stores here and the few times I went out of my way to buy wild caught salmon I find that they are way worse. The first time I bought sockeye salmon not king salmon which was not fatty at all. The second time I bought king salmon shipped straight from Alaska and the flavor still disappointed. It's everything you say about farmed salmon: weak flesh, weak flavor, pale pink color. I'm starting to think I was scammed.
by simonw | 2025-11-03 19:33:46+00:00
It still amazes me that the binary trick works.

For anyone who hasn't seen it yet: it turns out many embedding vectors of e.g. 1024 floating point numbers can be reduced to a single bit per value that records if it's higher or lower than 0... and in this reduced form much of the embedding math still works!

This means you can e.g. filter to the top 100 using extremely memory efficient and fast bit vectors, then run a more expensive distance calculation against those top 100 with the full floating point vectors to pick the top 10.
by gruez | 2025-11-03 19:34:03+00:00
>The Charlie Kirk assassination was instantly weaponized to be blamed on the Left, despite no evidence to support that claim. More so, there's effectively been zero details about the suspect and his motivations.

Are you talking about in the immediate aftermath or currently? For the latter it seems pretty safe to conclude he was probably left-leaning politically, even if he wasn't a card carrying DSA member or whatever?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Charlie_Kirk#...
by jonah-archive | 2025-11-03 19:34:19+00:00
Among the many reasons that stretch of 26 is dangerous is that the approach from Portland is essentially a freeway from Gresham through Sandy, and then turns into a rural highway until it begins the climb up to Hood. This is because of a remnant of the Mount Hood Freeway construction, which resulted in a lot of little oddities that linger in Portland to this day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hood_Freeway
by jacobolus | 2025-11-03 19:35:00+00:00
I'm lost. Can you be more explicit about which "unhinged and narcissistic people" you mean? If not the Jews, was that supposed to refer to the German ruling party? German business elites? Other Europeans? NATO? Foreign immigrants to Germany? I really have no idea what you are getting at.

> "what has been done to the German people for 80 years now and seemingly for the foreseeable future as they are very psychologically and emotionally broken people"

Germany is a highly developed and successful economy which is a center of power and wealth in Europe. Its population is well educated, healthy, with a high standard of living, and generally content. From my position in the United States (so: not an expert), I don't see much evidence that modern Germans are held responsible for the events of 80–90 years go. Maybe you can include more detail for those of us who lack the context to guess what you are talking about. Who is it who has done this supposed damage to the German people, and what precisely do you think they did?

Can you elaborate about what you think makes Germans "psychologically and emotionally broken"? Do you mean because they have been economically dominating less-developed nations of Europe, and you think they should instead aim for more continent-wide integration and development? Or like, you were hoping for a German military invasion of Austria or France?

* * *

You seem to have mistaken me for a supporter of the Israeli government. You may want to redirect your misplaced lecture someplace else.
by wormius | 2025-11-03 19:35:59+00:00
Is the initial setting (Color Name List) a list of ALL the colors in each "sub" category listed in the drop menu?

If so, would it be possible to put a "namespace" in front (like html.violet, or html::violet). That way you see which source it's from? That way you know where it's from (though I realize this may cause multiple "hits" on the same value/name) Or perhaps same names have different values.

Either way, pretty cool. I agree, it would be nice to have a button or mode to stop spinning without having to hack it manually.
by LaraHealth | 2025-11-03 19:36:01+00:00
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by kelseyfrog | 2025-11-03 19:36:18+00:00
America's was delivered by two births of of political violence: the American revolution and the Civil War.

I'm interested in hearing why those are justifible acts of political violence (or not political violence) whereas today's political violence is not. Surely there were folks during those times who described them as not justifible. What makes today's arguments against political violence materially different than dissenters in prior eras?
by aaroninsf | 2025-11-03 19:36:34+00:00
_Interior states_ gets into some very murky philosophy of mind very quickly of course.

If you're a non-dualist (like me) concerns about qualia start to shade into the religious/metaphysical thereby becoming not so interesting except to e.g. moral philosophy.

Personally I have a long bet that when natively-multimodal models on the scale of contemporary LLM are widely deployed, their "computation phenomenology" will move the goalposts so far the cultural debate will shift from "they are just parrots?" to the moral crisis of abusing parrots, meaning, these systems will increasingly be understood as having a selfhood with moral value. Non-vegetarians may be no more concerned about the quality of "life" and conditions of such systems than they are about factory farming, but, the question at least will circulate.

Prediction: by the time my kids finish college, assuming it is still a thing, it will be as common to see enthusiastic groups flyering and doing sit-ins etc on behalf of AIs as it is today to see animal rights groups.
by alsothrowaway | 2025-11-03 19:36:54+00:00
In essence, that's not a lot different different from the section I linked to in the current version. But I appreciate that the dev could have curbed his emotions while writing the README.md, if for no other reason, then to cater to public appearance.

As for the lead dev's stance on mandatory vaccination, that should not play a role in assessing the need for and the technical merits of the project. Attempting to cancel a project based on such personal views of its maintainers is exactly my issue here.
by hrimfaxi | 2025-11-03 19:37:01+00:00
I can't help but feel the shift to apathy is in part due to a cultural shift from a sense of building society together to a more exploitative view where people have to get what they can while they still can get it. The lack of motivation to produce Great Works feels related to the disconnect from a greater purpose/community.

It all feels related in some way to the dearth of great statesmen. At least the Rockefellers of the past contributed back in the form of great works dedicated to public use.
by cmin764 | 2025-11-03 19:37:14+00:00
Got in no-time an opportunity with a well established start-up, ran quickly through the interview process, almost finished it, and we both decided to pause the process since an offer I was waiting for finally arrived.

This is good news, as I wasn't expecting to move so fast via Teeming.ai, and it worked! Too bad that this time I was the one refusing to continue instead, although the platformed proved it's success and I'm going to use it again, even for fractional work opportunities.
by pneumic | 2025-11-03 19:37:24+00:00
Wezterm is actually programmable. I am looking to drop Kitty as it intentionally offers minimal tmux support and the text rendering options that made it superior for me are being deprecated.

Until Ghostty offers the scriptability found in wezterm and kitty (e.g., hit a keybind, spawn a new terminal and execute a font picker script), I am trying out wezterm, which is pretty great, but renders fonts too thin by default. I stare at this thing eight hours a day so text rendering is super important.
by husav1k | 2025-11-03 19:37:28+00:00
It's exceptional because it was primarily the coastal nations' race to capture free land, and benefit from that for hundreds of years, not because they're intrinsically superior as a collective. US had a chance to develop fast far away from wars, and they managed it. Other nations can't do anything about it, just like workers can't do much about capital owners keeping them _down_. Doesn't mean that they don't have any right to stand up for themselves.
by brailsafe | 2025-11-03 19:38:19+00:00
I think the experience of jumping between destinations where people might be specifically interested in a sort of retail American culture is probably quite poluted unfortunately. I'm Canadian, but I don't feel the same sense of "lost cause" when I just talk to people I know in my community or at the gym where conversation goes marginally deeper than the most superficially relatable bits of sensational media.

I talk to my friends in their 30s about their relationships or lack of, the hobbies we enjoy, adventures we could go on, difficulties or success at work, family life, economic stuff, random ideas. Online stuff comes up almost only ironically at this point. Granted, I do specifically narrow the people I maintain ties with to only those I can engage with at that level and/or who are otherwise fun to be around. If even a noticeable minority of conversation was chronically online garbage or fake culture war crap, they just get muted/blocked like the rest of them and a friendship doesn't flourish, usually because in real life we can work through our real disagreements if they come up at all, but if it's derived from a presumption we should both be more mad or more aware of nonsense we don't need to think about, it's far more difficult.
by bbartlomiej | 2025-11-03 19:38:26+00:00
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by VoVAllen | 2025-11-03 19:38:36+00:00
It's recall. Thanks for pointing out this, we'll update the diagram.

The core part is a quantization technique called RaBitQ. We can scan over the bit vector to have an estimation about the real distance between query and data. I'm not sure what do you mean by "miss" here. As the approximate nearest neighbor index, all the index including HNSW will miss some potential candidates.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-03 19:38:49+00:00
It won't update (sibling) branches, that are checked out.

--update-refs, --no-update-refs Automatically force-update any branches that point to commits that are being rebased. Any branches that are checked out in a worktree are not updated in this way. If the configuration variable rebase.updateRefs is set, then this option can be used to override and disable this setting.
by timjulien | 2025-11-03 19:39:22+00:00
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by heyjamesknight | 2025-11-03 19:39:23+00:00
But language is the input and the vector space within which their knowledge is encoded and stored. The don't have a concept of a duck beyond what others have described the duck as.

Humans got by for millions of years with our current biological hardware before we developed language. Your brain stores a model of your experience, not just the words other experiencers have shared with yiu.