MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by XorNot | 2025-12-20 10:42:11+00:00
There are plenty of Nobel laureates who well, do rest on their laurels and dive deep into pseudoscience after that.

Accomplishment in one field does not make one an expert, nor even particularly worth listening to, in any other. Certainly it doesn't remove the burden of proof or necessity to make an actual argument based on more then simply insisting something is true.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-20 10:42:16+00:00
>no one will notice the AI-generated textures in good games that have actual standards for art.

I don't know. Clair Obscur is about as good as it gets and gamers notice. or at least, other devs who are also gamers notice it.

The community was always a much more "hyperactive" scene, and it doesn't seem like AI is an exception. Thing that may blow over in other industries will be eviscerated here, especially in a time where there's more cynicism than ever among the gaming community and the AAA industry.
by elcritch | 2025-12-20 10:42:20+00:00
> Either our mysterious alien friends really love USA

The USA is the best, who'd blame them! Perhaps aliens love American cheeseburgers and milkshakes from their time in Roswell. ;P

> you guys have some condition that the entire Europe does not, e.g., permissions to test military equipment without having to announce it to the public, let alone the freedom to move around in a large area without it becoming a political drama.

That's an interesting take. Though surely Germany or others have some more remote areas. Scotland has lots of empty land and the UK airforce right?

Then again, the amount of empty space in the wester US is not to be underestimated. I live near Mountain Home Idaho. If you drive over the desert to Nevada you cross air force land with big signs warning about it being an active test grounds. Lots of people have had fighter jets fly up and do simulated bombing runs on them as they drive through.
by MikeyLi | 2025-12-20 10:42:28+00:00
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by defrost | 2025-12-20 10:42:34+00:00
There's arguably more dread and quiet constrained horror in With Folded Hands ... (1947)

Despite the humanoids' benign appearance and mission, Underhill soon realizes that, in the name of their Prime Directive, the mechanicals have essentially taken over every aspect of human life. No humans may engage in any behavior that might endanger them, and every human action is carefully scrutinized. Suicide is prohibited. Humans who resist the Prime Directive are taken away and lobotomized, so that they may live happily under the direction of the humanoids.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands_...
by a_bonobo | 2025-12-20 10:42:45+00:00
>* For years, despite functional evidence and scientific hints accumulating, certain AI researchers continued to claim LLMs were stochastic parrots: probabilistic machines that would: 1. NOT have any representation about the meaning of the prompt. 2. NOT have any representation about what they were going to say. In 2025 finally almost everybody stopped saying so.

Man, Antirez and I walk in very different circles! I still feel like LLMs fall over backwards once you give them an 'unusual' or 'rare' task that isn't likely to be presented in the training data.
by lemming | 2025-12-20 10:44:02+00:00
I wonder if, for instance, optimizing for speed may produce code that is faster but harder to understand and extend.

This is generally true for code optimised by humans, at least for the sort of mechanical low level optimisations that LLMs are likely to be good at, as opposed to more conceptual optimisations like using better algorithms. So I suspect the same will be true for LLM-optimised code too.
by advael | 2025-12-20 10:44:34+00:00
In many moral frameworks, inconsistency isn't the only wrong someone can commit. The argument constructed in this article is essentially utilitarian, making the claim that the mechanisms of surveillance and privacy make this behavior harmful to others, regardless of their intentions or internal sense of morality. In fact, the author doesn't mention hating these people at all, although I suppose that's not a completely unreasonable thing to infer. From the perspective of this argument, this only lacks the harm the "deviancy signal" would itself do to the individual, though in the oppressive regime proposed they would perhaps take greater risk by openly deviating
by bojangleslover | 2025-12-20 10:44:51+00:00
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by metalman | 2025-12-20 10:45:05+00:00
rabid desperation, first a syrian muslim hero credited with saving jewish lives in Austrailia, and now a rando shooter from Portugal with some guaranteed to be totaly personal petty beef that will dry your eyes out trying to decipher, portugal?, it's media cryptonight

lovely place

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal

#3 religion is...jehovas after catholic/protestant
by rckt | 2025-12-20 10:45:42+00:00
> Even if LLMs make mistakes, the ability of LLMs to deliver useful code and hints improved to the point most skeptics started to use LLMs anyway

Here we go again. Statements with the single source in the head of the speaker. And it’s also not true. The llms still produce bad/irrelevant code at such rate that you can spend more time prompting than doing things yourself.

I’m tired of this overestimation of llms.
by reify | 2025-12-20 10:46:36+00:00
Must have missed the Friday afternoon team meeting, so I cannot say for definite who came up with that shit.

If I was there I would not have let that shit out into the public realm. My deepest apologies.

I was in my own personal therapy remembering my entire life history, that I remembered very well, which, I must say, ai knows fuck all about.

Ai Remembers! is that information stored in a database.
by lambdaone | 2025-12-20 10:46:39+00:00
There are lots of Stratum 0 servers out there; basically anything with an atomic clock will do. They all count seconds independently from one another, all slowly diverging over time, with offset intervals being measured by mutual synchronization using a number of means (how is this done is interesting all by itself). Some atomic clocks are more accurate than others, and an ensemble of these is typically regarded as 'the' master clock.

To quote the ITU: "UTC is based on about 450 atomic clocks, which are maintained in 85 national time laboratories around the world." https://www.itu.int/hub/2023/07/coordinated-universal-time-a...

Beyond this, as other commenters have said, anyone who is really dependent on having exact time (such as telcos, broadcasters, and those running global synchronized databases) should have their own atomic clock fleets. There are thousands and thousands of atomic clocks in these fleets worldwide. Moreover, GPS time, used by many to act as their time reference, is distributed by yet other means.

Nothing bad will happen, except to those who have deliberately made these specific Stratum 0 clocks their only reference time. Anyone who has either left their computer at its factory settings or has set up their NTP configuration in accordance to recommended settings will be unaffected by this.
by jimnotgym | 2025-12-20 10:46:41+00:00
Freeloading?

My country spends less on defence as a percentage of GDP than the US. But it spends much of that with US companies. This is not Freeloading. It was a deal. Cancel TSR-2, and buy American and we will lend you some money. Cancel your nuclear program and buy US submarine launched missiles and we will help you look after yourself. Now let Visa and Mastercard skim off all your transactions and we will keep you secure to keep the money flowing. Sweetheart tax deals for US companies to operate, and we will keep you safe to keep the money flowing. It is not Freeloading, it is colonialism
by anal_reactor | 2025-12-20 10:47:07+00:00
> I think American companies would be more successful and higher quality if the regulation and IP policy we embraced were reciprocal

The problem is that US patent law stopped technological advancement. Why innovate if you can buy some patents, hire talented lawyers, and have them do their magic? It's strange that Chinese products changed from "cheap knock-offs" to "global leadership in innovation" and nobody stopped and asked themselves what exactly made US companies just give up on innovation.
by general1465 | 2025-12-20 10:47:09+00:00
> If you are married to AWS, that's a weakness in itself

I have tried Lambdas and then got this "oh-shit moment" when I have realized that if AWS would be to kick me out, I would be absolutely screwed.

Now I am slowly dispersing and using VMs instead and avoiding all the AWS-specific stuff as much as I can.
by bojangleslover | 2025-12-20 10:47:44+00:00
We own all our own hardware but we rent from a colocation provider in Charlotte. They provide the backed-up power and network + the IP block, we do literally everything else. We used to be in my house and I was considering installing my own generator (actually not that expensive) but we got a great deal on colocation, shout out Ivan Teoh at Tier.net!
by WJW | 2025-12-20 10:48:54+00:00
The time reported by the "gladvent" package when running with the "--timed" option. AFAICT that does not count compilation (if needed), VM startup time, any JITting happening, or reading in the text file. I'm fine with that tbh, I'm more interested in the time actually spent solving the problem. For other languages I wouldn't count language-specific time like compilation time either.

As to whether you can make startup time faster, I suppose you could keep a BEAM running at all times and have your CLI tools hotswap in some code, run it, and get the results back out or something. That way you can skip VM startup time. Since the BEAM is targeted more at very long-running (server) processes with heaps and heaps of concurrency, I don't think ultrafast startup time is really a focus of it.
by mrkeen | 2025-12-20 10:48:59+00:00
> Design decisions like write-ahead logs, large page sizes, and buffering table writes in bulk were built around disks where I/O was SLOW, and where sequential I/O was order(s)-of-magnitude faster than random.

Overall speed is irrelevant, what mattered was the relative speed difference between sequential and random access.

And since there's still a massive difference between sequential and random access with SSDs, I doubt the overall approach of using buffers needs to be reconsidered.
by fuzztester | 2025-12-20 10:49:32+00:00
Same for database transaction roll back and roll forward actions.

And most enterprises, including banks, use databases.

So by bad luck, you may get a couple of transactions reversed in order of time, such as a $20 debit incorrectly happening before a $10 credit, when your bank balance was only $10 prior to both those transactions. So your balance temporarily goes negative.

Now imagine if all those amounts were ten thousand times higher ...
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-12-20 10:49:55+00:00
> In fact, the author doesn't mention hating these people at all

The article opens with:

>> There's a special kind of contempt I reserve for the person who says, "I have nothing to hide."

Which isn't literally saying "I hate them" but I'm not sure how else to interpret "a special kind of contempt." Regardless, I've edited my original post.
by sunshine-o | 2025-12-20 10:50:05+00:00
One of the reason is a lot of those "EU Sovereign Clouds" were malicious cash grabs.

It happened several times in the last decade:

- First politicians raise the alarm about "digital sovereignty"

- Then some create new EU sovereign clouds that are pitched/forced on corporations

- They usually do not work, get consolidated and then the scam is revealed

The biggest reveal was when we discovered and warned one of our client the Orange "Sovereign Cloud" (French telco partially owned by the government !) and built to host European most sensitive worloads was just handed over and run by Huawei [0] [1]. They were not the only one who did something like that.

I don't want to put actors like Hertzner in the same bag as they seem to be honest and really compete to offer a cheaper alternative to hyperscalers.

- [0] https://www.huawei.com/en/huaweitech/publication/winwin/29/o...

- [1] https://www.techmonitor.ai/hardware/cloud/orange-introduces-...
by matthewmacleod | 2025-12-20 10:50:15+00:00
That is what a blog post is. Someone documenting what they think about a topic.

It's not the case that every form of writing has to be an academic research paper. Sometimes people just think things, and say them – and they may be wrong, or they may be right. And they sometime have some ideas that might change how you think about an issue as a result.
by tacker2000 | 2025-12-20 10:52:28+00:00
Silicon valley has its origins with HP and Intel, producing hardware and chips.

Yes, the www was created at Cern, but this is only a small part of the whole tech industry and history as a whole.

Also before that, Arpanet, the precursor of the Internet, was created and funded in the US by the military and the top unis.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-20 10:53:14+00:00
The thing is that only came about when companies realized that the thing they really wanted (to cut labor and costs of production) was counter to how you really make "good CGI". Bad CGI is still bad and good CGI makes some of the most expensive films to date.

Meanwhile, AI markets itself almost exclusively on being a time and money saver. And more efficient workers, but industry actively opposes that in a day and age where they prefer to commoditize labor instead of invest in specialists. If it doesn't actually do neither, then it won't really serve a niche compared to CGI.
by londons_explore | 2025-12-20 10:53:29+00:00
Median database workloads are probably doing writes of just a few bytes per transaction. Ie 'set last_login_time = now() where userid=12345'.

Due to the interface between SSD and host OS being block based, you are forced to write a full 4k page. Which means you really still benefit from a write ahead log to batch together all those changes, at least up to page size, if not larger.
by gokaygurcan | 2025-12-20 10:53:42+00:00
I frequently use them both. The main reason why I can't leave Charles is the lack of session grouping in Proxyman. Seeing a huge list of irrelevant items is annoying after some point. In Charles, I can save that session with a name and move on to something else. It's almost impossible to leave one for the other at this point for me.

This goes without saying, but huge thanks to the both developers for making these available.
by piker | 2025-12-20 10:54:38+00:00
> There are certain tasks, like improving a given program for speed, for instance, where in theory the model can continue to make progress with a very clear reward signal for a very long time.

Super skeptical of this claim. Yes, if I have some toy poorly optimized python example or maybe a sorting algorithm in ASM, but this won’t work in any non-trivial case. My intuition is that the LLM will spin its wheels at a local minimum the performance of which is overdetermined by millions of black-box optimizations in the interpreter or compiler signal from which is not fed back to the LLM.
by Recursing | 2025-12-20 10:54:48+00:00
I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artifici... has much better arguments than the LessWrong sources in other comments, and they weren't written by Big Tech CEOs.

Also "my product will kill you and everyone you care about" is not as great a marketing strategy as you seem to imply, and Big Tech CEOs are not talking about risks anymore. They currently say things like "we'll all be so rich that we won't need to work and we will have to find meaning without jobs"
by kakacik | 2025-12-20 10:54:52+00:00
French have rather specific relation with food, in some aspects better and in some worse than most of the world. Spending on and off there last 15 years so I have a bit of experience with that.

The simple fact is, french restaurants are aimed at french people and not really care about anybody else. So you are conditioned for your style of experience you keep expecting, for anybody else its rather uninviting experience that leaves you at most tolerated, if you know the language and its local aspects and food well enough (which is rather high level and properly sucks for foreigners).

Or to put it in other way - food itself is often superb, as long as its more traditional one and not some copy of foreign one (ie dont try south/east asian stuff its rather disappointing). The human part of experience will leave a lot to desire compared to literally anywhere else in the world.
by oersted | 2025-12-20 10:54:56+00:00
LLMs certainly struggle with tasks that require knowledge that is not provided to them (at significant enough volume/variance to retain it). But this is to be expected of any intelligent agent, it is certainly true of humans. It is not a good argument to support the claim that they are Chinese Rooms (unthinking imitators). Indeed, the whole point of the Chinese Room thought experiment was to consider if that distinction even mattered.

When it comes to of being able to do novel tasks on known knowledge, they seem to be quite good. One also needs to consider that problem-solving patterns are also a kind of (meta-)knowledge that needs to be taught, either through imitation/memorisation (Supervised Learning) or through practice (Reinforcement Learning). They can be logically derived from other techniques to an extent, just like new knowledge can be derived from known knowledge in general, and again LLMs seem to be pretty decent at this, but only to a point. Regardless, all of this is definitely true of humans too.
by xiconfjs | 2025-12-20 10:55:01+00:00
My person experience: if I can find a solution on stackoverflow etc. the LLM will produce working and fundamentally correct code. If I can‘t find a already fullfilled solution on these sites, the LLM is hallucinating like crazy (newer existing functions/modules/plugins, protocol features which aren’t specified and even github-repos which never existed). So, as stated my many people online before: for low-hanging fruits LLM are totally viable solution.
by TheDong | 2025-12-20 10:55:08+00:00
I think it can be read more charitably, the last bit includes "with positive intentions", which does act to indicate the outcome is bad, even though no one involved necessarily intends to make a scam-machine.

The direction I pick up from the piece is "Here's why this system is weird, that has some unfortunate outcomes, but that's the way it is" without any explicit call for action. If anything, it seems to accept the status quo as too difficult to change, while pointing out negative side-effects there.
by bambax | 2025-12-20 10:55:18+00:00
Your comment may be sarcastic, IDK; but if it is I concur.

Fighting "CSAM" is absurd and ridiculous, and used as a justification for eroding public liberties. So is the fight against "terrorism".

The US government has decided to kill innocent fishermen en masse and labelled its victims "narco-terrorists" as a justification for these crimes.

We absolutely do not need Palantir.
by rcxdude | 2025-12-20 10:55:19+00:00
Yeah, you probably want something that activates a bit earlier. I think the issue is the OOM killer won't activate until essentially everything that can be paged out is paged out, and that includes most code pages, so the system enters a death spiral of paging code in and out and stops making progress towards a point where the OOM killer would kick in. There's userspace daemons like earlyoom that help a lot with this.
by Maxious | 2025-12-20 10:55:59+00:00
There's two other sites for the time.nist.gov service so it'll be okay.

Probably more interesting is how you get a tier 0 site back in sync - NIST rents out these cyberpunk looking units you can use to get your local frequency standards up to scratch for ~$700/month https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/frequency-measurement...
by sylware | 2025-12-20 10:57:33+00:00
It would be reasonably "secure" if it is encrypted on a physically private network using in-house _modified_ _mainstream_ encryption algorithm, then after an over-the-air transfer then you can store it on a third party could under the control of foreign interests. Oh, don't forget the file names have to be encrypted too.

Everything else is, I am sorry to say, BS.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-20 10:59:01+00:00
>where GAI art is extremely difficult to distinguish from human art and at a fraction of that cost.

And this logic is why people don't understand how to make good game art. generating an 2d animation or real time 3d model that properly deforms is multiple magnitudes different from fooling some tiktok users with a static image in isolation. even composing a still scene will quickly reveal the lmitations of generating art for your visual novel.

Wielding a camera doesn't make you a cinematographer that can sell a movie. Generating a few realistic-ish images does not make you an artist that can sell a game.
by sunshine-o | 2025-12-20 11:03:07+00:00
He is my free advise for Airbus:

1/ First migrate out your "17 years Accenture veteran" executive vice president of digital [0] (who probably sold you MS and Google cloud in the first place)

2/ Then appoint any inside good engineer and ask him to investigate this: "As one of the most prominent and sensitive aerospace corporation, do you think we can setup servers and run our software on it?"

If the answer is no, Airbus might not be fit for the 21th century.

- [0] https://www.airbus.com/en/about-us/our-governance/catherine-...
by bojangleslover | 2025-12-20 11:03:34+00:00
We don't have on-demand API-based bare metal provisioning right now. Sorry if that is misleading on the website. Our bare metal is OTC right now (over the counter).

For the rest of our provisioning (VM and container) I wrote the software myself. It's based on a Django app called the "master" that hosts the console and keeps track of who has rented what etc + a bunch of "host" nodes that listen for instructions from the "master". Pure python, the only thing that's in Go is the CLI.

I looked into Proxmox but ultimately decided I wanted full control. ZFS storage from Proxmox is something I do sometimes wish we had — going to offer s3-compatible storage very soon but I know Proxmox does ZFS out of the box really well.