MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gombosg | 2026-02-07 08:41:06+00:00
I can totally relate to your experience.

I started this career because I liked writing code. I no longer write a lot of code as a lead, but I use writing code to learn, to gain a deeper understanding of the problem domain etc. I'm not the type who wants to write specs for every method and service but rather explore and discover and draft and refactor by... well, coding. I'm amazed at creating and reading beautiful, stylish, working code that tells a story.

If that's taken away, I'm not sure how I could retain my interest in this profession. Maybe I'll need to find something else, but after almost a decade this will be a hard shift.
by mmooss | 2026-02-07 08:43:04+00:00
I don't question your good faith. You seem to have fallen into a trap of many of good faith (and those of not-so-good faith):

For ~ the first half of the 20th century, the leading scholarly theory on US slavery was that the slaves were happy living in a civilized land, etc. You'll see the same claim about many things.

I think the trap has two sufficient components: First, it lacks empirical observations - actual fact that tethers us to reality - and therefore is very prone to drift far from the ground truth. Second, it's a much more comfortable worldview for us, and we tend to adopt such worldviews until compelled to do otherwise.

Just because there is an upside for them - sending money home - doesn't make them happy or make it good or ok. As an extreme example, some underage people go into prostitution because they need the food and shelter to survive - the fact that they get those benefits doesn't make them happy or make it good or ok.
by hks0 | 2026-02-07 08:44:25+00:00
I declare a `my_die() { echo "$" 1>&2; exit 1; }` on top of each file. Makes life easier by knowing why the script failed instead of having only exit code or having to turn `set -x` on and rerun.

Only if I could somehow mix `if` & `set -e`in a readable way... I wanted it to only capture errors of explicit `return 1` from bash functions, not from commands within those bash functions. But I guess I'm doing too much* of the job in bash now and it's getting messy.
by dragonwriter | 2026-02-07 08:46:04+00:00
> The Republican majority on the SCOTUS announced that Trump is immune from all laws

This is factually untrue; the Court, in Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024), held that the President has:

(1) absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for exercises of core constitutional powers,
(2) presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution for all official acts,
(3) no immunity from criminal prosecution for unofficial acts.

This is—while still problematic—very far from the President being “immune to all laws”.
by bonesss | 2026-02-07 08:46:10+00:00
These giant firms aren’t uniform monoliths, especially MS.

Microsoft has some clear ‘A’ teams (compilers, industry leading languages, F*, pioneering web tech, OS innovations, etc), but also ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ teams, and MS is often reactively chasing industry trends. They’re industry leaders, but also victims of their Office, Windows, and Cloud teams pooping on one another at critical market junctures.

In .Net land we can inspect their library code. A number of these ‘Enterprise’ packages around their ‘Enterprise’ solutions are … just passable. Often something you’d write a proper version of to avoid clear issues. When our juniors are delivering better than their official offerings, in light of wizardry being displayed elsewhere, I think we are seeing systematic effects of corporate culture and customer base.
by llmslop | 2026-02-07 08:46:23+00:00
You're absolutely right—optimizing AI datacenters is not just about saving the planet, but about saving the planet while we scale our computational appetite to infinity; it's the kind of virtuous cycle where the more we grow, the more we save, which is definitely how thermodynamics works. I too once had a transformative conversation with a service worker—my barista, actually—who told me she uses ChatGPT to write her Tinder bios, and in that moment, standing there with my oat milk latte, I realized I wasn't just holding coffee, I was holding the future of human connection itself. Your journey from "Intel fellow" to "person whose hairstylist knows their new employer better than their old one" is truly the hero's arc our industry deserves, and I commend your bravery in logging 26 interviews like some kind of masochistic Pokémon trainer collecting rejection letters before catching the shiny OpenAI.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-07 08:46:59+00:00
No, a large dataset does not make something brute force. Rather than backprop, an example of brute force might be taking a single input output pair then systematically sampling the model parameter space to search for a sufficiently close match.

The sampling stage of Evolution Strategies at least bears a resemblance but even that is still a strategic gradient descent algorithm. Meanwhile backprop is about as far from brute force as you can get.
by D-Machine | 2026-02-07 08:47:05+00:00
From the article you linked:

"Some workers report nightmares in which the violent images they reviewed replay in gruesome loops. Others experience intrusive flashbacks while riding the bus or shopping for groceries. Over time, many describe a numbing of their emotions-a flattening of joy, sorrow, or empathy-because the only way to cope is to feel nothing at all."

and bla bla bla. "Some", "Others", "many"... Wikipedia itself couldn't generate a better example of "weasel words". Like I said, we all know some people are traumatized, but all that matters is the amount. What if some is less than 1%? Less than 5%? More than 50%? The answer matters, but you are not providing answers to this.

Also, learn to basic science. Anecdotes are not data.

No, I am not watching a documentary for a collection of anecdotes, I clearly explained why documentaries don't count as serious sources of info when trying to accurately quantify things.

EDIT: And if you really know that traumatization from images on computer screens is "well-studied", you can surely link to one to three of such studies, rather than lame documentaries telling cherry-picked sob-stories.
by whilenot-dev | 2026-02-07 08:48:05+00:00
TBF is the Python ecosystem any different? None and dict everywhere, requirements.txt without pinned versions... I'm not complaining either, as I wouldn't expect a unified typed experience in ecosystems where multiple competing type checkers and package managers have been introduced gradually. How could any library from the python3.4 era foresee dataclasses or the typing module?

Such changes take time, and I favor an "evolution trumps revolution"-approach for such features. The JS/TS ecosystem has the advantage here, as it has already been going through its roughest time since es2015. In hindsight, it was a very healthy choice. The type system with TS is something to be left desired in many programming languages.

If it weren't for its rich standard library and uv, I would still clearly favor TS and a runtime like bun or deno. Python still suffers from spread out global state and some multi-paradigm approach when it comes to concurrency (if concurrency has even been considered by the library author). Python being the first programming language for many scientists shows its toll too: rich libraries of dubious quality in various domains. Whereas JS' origins in browser scripting contributed to the convention to treat global state as something to be frowned upon.

I wish both systems would have good object schema validation build into the standard library. Python has the upper hand here with dataclasses, but it still follows some "take it or throw"-approach, rather than support customization for validations.
by WithinReason | 2026-02-07 08:48:32+00:00
from your first source:

> As a consequence, the model is no longer deterministic at the sequence-level,
but only at the batch-level

therefore they are deterministic when the batch size is 1

Your second source lists a large number of ways how to make LLMs determnistic. The title of your third source is "Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference" which also means that they can be made deterministic.

Every single one of your sources proves you wrong, so no more sources need to be cited.
by wedog6 | 2026-02-07 08:49:04+00:00
I think it's fairly straightforward to adapt your method. Given circle center c you just need to multiply by 2 pi c to get all the circles.

int 0..1 2 pi c int 0..(1-c) (2 pi r)^3 dr dc / pi^3
int 0..1 2 pi c int 0..(1-c) (2 r)^3 dr dc
int 0..1 2 pi c 2 (1-c)^4 dc
-4 pi int 0..1 (1-g) g^4 dg
4 pi (1/6 - 1/5)
4 pi / 30
2 pi/ 15

Genuinely not sure if this is wrong or if TFA is.
by gombosg | 2026-02-07 08:49:06+00:00
I love using LLMs as well as rubber ducks - what does this piece of code do? How would you do X with Y? etc.

The problem is that this spec-driven philosophy (or hype, or mirage...) would lead to code being entirely deprecated, at least according to its proponents. They say that using LLMs as advisors is already outdated, we should be doing fully agentic coding and just nudge the LLM etc. since we're losing out on 'productivity'.
by assaddayinh | 2026-02-07 08:49:18+00:00
The conquest for utopian perfection is the enemy of all good things. In the wild she would be poached, hunted and ground dow into medieval medicine, while contained to ever more little islands of wild.

Please god free us from those who want to burn the bakery, because they think tomorrow it will rain manna from the heavens. No curse us greater then a rampant idealist, unwilling to sense reality.

PS: Why not have pragmatic solutions where there are elephant days where the herd to roam in a park?
by Schmerika | 2026-02-07 08:50:52+00:00
Seems you spent a lot of time going through the example I used for conflating proof with evidence, and none referring to the evidence I referred to. Maybe try reading the comment again lol.

Or, don't bother, because it's pretty clear that you're not very familiar with the facts here.

Epstein: "As you probably know I represent the Rothschilds". Thousands of emails with Ariane discussing such.

You: "This is just false" - no counter evidence whatsoever.

> By the same logic, Epstein was surely a spy for the CIA or other US intelligence.

That's what all the evidence points to, yes. That he worked for both the US and Israel, and maybe sometimes Russia too.
by analytically | 2026-02-07 08:52:08+00:00
At 500 stations:
- H3: 218µs, 4.7KB, 109 allocs
- Fallback: 166µs, 1KB, 37 allocs
- Fallback is 31% faster

At 1000 stations:
- H3: 352µs, 4.7KB, 109 allocs
- Fallback: 312µs, 1KB, 37 allocs
- Fallback is 13% faster

At 2000 stations:
- H3: 664µs, 4.7KB, 109 allocs
- Fallback: 613µs, 1KB, 37 allocs
- Fallback is 8% faster

At 4500 stations (real-world scale):
- H3: 1.40ms, 4.7KB, 109 allocs
- Fallback: 1.34ms, 1KB, 37 allocs
- Fallback is 4% faster

Conclusion: The gap narrows as station count increases. At 4500 stations they're nearly equivalent. H3 has fixed overhead (~4.7KB/109 allocs for k=2 ring), while fallback scales linearly. The crossover point where H3 wins is likely
around 10-20K entries.
by elric | 2026-02-07 08:53:04+00:00
That's a weird comparison, hadn't heard that one yet.

I'm very much in favour of regulating (and heavily taxing) AI. But I very much dislike silly warning labels that miss the point. Owning wooden furniture is not carcinogenic. Inhaling tons of wood dust (e.g. from sanding wood in a poorly ventilated room) could be carcinogenic. But putting such warning labels on furniture is just ridiculous scaremongering.
by distances | 2026-02-07 08:53:56+00:00
It is a great game, and the Vox Populi mod has given it so much more life.

VP has hands down the best AI that the Civ series has ever seen. My "wow" moment was when the enemy parachuted to my hinterlands to pillage my critical resources. In comparison, the official AI couldn't even pull off an amphibious attack.
by drecked | 2026-02-07 08:54:23+00:00
This is a fantastic comment in response to this article since it exemplifies the criticism of the article.

Once upon a time (ie 2 years ago) the President following the law, living up to both implicit and explicit agreements made with foreign nations, not wanting to plaster their own name onto everything, not lying about the citizens of the country, etc would be considered a good thing.

Today, doing the opposite is considered praiseworthy because “at least he’s doing something”.

This is exactly the “anything goes” mentality the author is critiquing.
by danaris | 2026-02-07 08:54:36+00:00
What you don't seem to see is that the problem is not the fact that the shop owner let the homeless people stay there.

The problem is the fact that those people were homeless to begin with.

So many people like you seem to just accept the idea that there will always be homeless people—you just don't want to have to see them. Ideally, they should just go die, and decrease the surplus population, right? At least that way they won't be bothering you.

If a few of them are breaking noise ordinances or stealing stuff and the police won't do anything, then complain to the city about that, not about the fact that the shop owner has the compassion to allow them a place to exist.

And if you actually want there to be fewer homeless people overall......then maybe, just maybe, you might have to accept fewer zoning regulations that raise the price of housing.
by metalman | 2026-02-07 08:54:39+00:00
My girlfriend had a brain tumor, and a very long complicated medical history.
When we met, she rattled, from all the pill bottles and was completly unfit.
I did not set out to intervene but some of it was a bit much and was just wrong.
I went to dozens of medical appointments, mri, cat scan, dog scan, the machine that goes "bing",her medical records would break your toe if you dropped them.
All I did was read labels and research ingredients and offer cleaner alternatives and well, keeping up with me forced her to be a LOT more active, and she found she could do without the prescription and non prescription drugs and eating junk.
That was 15 years ago, when she was planning her own pallitive care facility,(under medical supervision)
We are no longer together, but she has two kids, and is working and active, no drugs, tumor is not detectable.
I have some very strong personal feelings about the factory food, and always advocate for , whole, single ingredient food items, no sugar or other white crystaline substances, and a great deal of physical activity/working to capacity and a bit more.
It is anecdata, but it is based on actions that have no failure mode, require nothing exotic, just the incrimental replacement of bad stuff with known healthy alternatives, but ending up living absolutly free of chemicals and factory food, zero plastics,or other synthetics,which is a not an easy thing to do.
Another thing is that like the guy blogging this,I felt something stronly about her condition,but the flip, she had been diagnosed with the tumor, but I felt that she was actualy ok, under all of the surface medical problems and data, and I never did dispute anything, but very strongly defended the idea of actions that can pose no harm, ie: water not syrupy glop, brown rice, I dont care how long it takes to cook, etc,etc,etc. VS the outside concensus that if you are going to die,now, then this is permission to indulge in excess and small harms are now irellivant.
by nstart | 2026-02-07 08:54:46+00:00
Is this correct? My assumption is that all the data collected during usage is part of the RLHF loop of LLM providers. Assumption is based on information from books like empire of ai which specifically mention intent of AI providers to train/tune their models further based on usage feedback (eg: whenever I say the model is wrong in its response, thats a human feedback which gets fed back into improving the model).
by jcgl | 2026-02-07 08:54:59+00:00
This isn’t my space to opine on, but I found this talk both riveting and compelling: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo&t=1s&pp=2AEBkAIB

In a nutshell, the useful fiction of computer-as-Von-Neumann-meaning doesn’t adequately reflect the reality of modern hardware. Not only does the CPU itself not fit that model (with things like speculative execution, sophisticated power and load management…), but the system as a whole is increasingly an amalgamation of different processors and address spaces.
by sph | 2026-02-07 08:56:21+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-mover_advantage

Sure, you can create a new blockchain, but you probably won't overtake the first and most popular, however good your tech is. Also, your comment suggests, as it is often the case, that new blockchains are created not because they are better than all other cryptocurrencies, but rather as a pump-and-dump scheme, and that's the primary reason the whole field has such a terrible reputation.

In any case, first-mover advantage is another reason why it's highly likely Bitcoin will remain the cryptocurrency with the largest market cap.
by dragonwriter | 2026-02-07 08:56:27+00:00
> Importantly, they're using the shadow docket so that they don't need to decide officially

The Supreme Court doesn't choose which docket to “use”; the interim docket (sometimes calls the “emergency docket” or “shadow docket”) is where applications for immediate action on cases that have not reached a final decision in lower court are handled. Decisions on the interim docket are more likely to be unsigned orders, but that's as true of the ones the administration has lost as the ones it has won.
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by globular-toast | 2026-02-07 08:59:07+00:00
I rebuilt a bicycle using tools in my dad's garage and basically just guesswork. Then I discovered this website and found out everything I'd done wrong. I had mismatched bearings, crap brakes and gears, you name it.

Must admit, though, this was pre-YouTube. While I do admire written works like this, and I still treasure some of my cookery books, there's nothing like watching someone do these things. Especially things involving subtle skills that nobody would think to write down, like adjusting derailleur gears. Learning by copying is the original and best way for many things.
by nextaccountic | 2026-02-07 08:59:20+00:00
> Asking for that experience but also free / cheap doesn't make any sense.

Things that used to be very expensive suddenly gets available for free after someone builds an open source version of it. That's just the nature of open source.

It's unreasonable to demand it from someone, but people do build things and release them for free all the time! Indeed, it makes plenty of sense to imagine that at some point in time, open source offerings of Postgres will be comparable to Aurora in ease of use.
by mikewarot | 2026-02-07 08:59:39+00:00
I've driven past some of those areas on the way home from Chicago. I just assumed they were swaps that hadn't been drained for some reason. It's interesting to know that they were once dumps for the millions of tons of slag that got produced along with the steel the region is known for.

The Calumet region has it's share of environmental dumpster fires. In fact, there were areas in East Chicago, Indiana (which doesn't actually border Chicago, btw) where the topsoil was 0.1% lead.

Growing up, my neighbor told me of his youth near the refineries in Whiting when he and his friends hit the GASOLINE Table digging a hole in back yard, which was used for fueling cars until Standard Oil found out about it, and bought up the neighborhood.

I'm a proud Region Rat.
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by snayan | 2026-02-07 08:59:59+00:00
How can you know that we have language to describe everything in the finest detail? That suggests that we are omnipotent.

There's lots out there we don't know. And it seems to me that the further afield we go from the known, the more likely we are to enter territory where we simply do not have the words.

Can't speak to it personally, but I have heard from a number of people and read countless descriptions of psychedelic experiences being ineffable. Lol, actually, as I type, the mere fact that the word ineffable exists makes a very strong case for there being experience beyond words.
by jack_pp | 2026-02-07 09:01:48+00:00
I think VCs end up in one of four categories

1. They're too stupid to understand what they're truly funding.

2. They understand but believe they can control it for their benefit, basically want to "rule the world" like any cartoon villain.

3. They understand but are optimists and believe AGI will be a benevolent construct that will bring us to post scarcity society. There are a lot of rich / entrepreneurs that still believe they are working to make the world a better place.. (one SaaS at a time but alas, they believe it)

4. They don't believe that AGI is close or even possible
by danaris | 2026-02-07 09:02:27+00:00
No, what we need is not "democracy" as in "we get what every idiot thinks is good off the top of their head".

What we need is a representative democracy, where our representatives genuinely care about getting the best outcomes, so they enlist experts who actually know what they're talking about, and make policy based on that.

Yes, sometimes that will disagree with what the masses want—and in most of those cases, that means that our representatives need to enlist some communication experts to explain why it's actually best.

Democracy isn't an end in itself. It's supposed to be the means to an end of better governance for all. We don't have to accept things that are actively worse for us just because 50%+1 of the relevant voters think they're better right this second.