skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly stopped typing in paragraphs because I use a smart phone for most of my internetting. It's a lot easier to write your thoughts on a keyboard
That’s exactly what the author does towards the end.
And yet, the PG thread went away after it had its time on the front page, and isn't as big a deal anymore. Conversations were had, perspectives widened, words - calculated or callous - were shared, and the spirit of discourse was there. I think it was a great thread to learn more about what "woke" means to different people, and how we can angle our takes for it.

I'm glad you can admit that your attrition in moderating another post to your self-satisfaction was what encouraged you to make the decision to not even bother attempting with this one, not sarcasm. Self-awareness in our consideration of things is critical, and something I find us all (including me) needing more work on.

Moderation is scarce, yes, but a lot of executive decisions on the visibility of threads and comments are delegated to active users. As it should be - mind you, but it's not like it's fought alone here. I think a lot of us are willing to help, if it means topics worth talking about - especially when a lot of people think so - can stay around.
you dont know what kind of backdoors are hidden in the model weights
> Is the key idea here that current AI development has figured out enough to brute force a path towards AGI?

My sense anecdotally from within the space is yes people are feeling like we most likely have a "straight shot" to AGI now. Progress has been insane over the last few years but there's been this lurking worry around signs that the pre-training scaling paradigm has diminishing returns.

What recent outputs like o1, o3, DeepSeek-R1 are showing is that that's fine, we now have a new paradigm around test-time compute. For various reasons people think this is going to be more scalable and not run into the kind of data issues you'd get with a pre-training paradigm.

You can definitely debate on whether that's true or not but this is the first time I've been really seeing people think we've cracked "it", and the rest is scaling, better training etc.
we as society should think more about who is doing the lower wage jobs that nobody wants to do than students that are pursuing their dream career.
> Once we've speedrunned our petro supply and exhausted our agricultural inputs with unfathomably inefficient protein production, China can sit back and watch us crumble under our own starvation.

China is the largest importer of crude oil in the world. China imports 59% of its oil consumptions, and 80% of food products. Meanwhile, US is fully self sufficient on both food and oil.

> They're playing the game on a scale of centuries

Is that why they are completely broke, having built enough ghost buildings that house entire population of France - 65 million vacant units? Is that why they are now isolated in geopolitics, having allied with Russia and pissed off all their neighbors and Europe?
MLK was himself referencing Saint Augustine:

>Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."

Considering that his rhetoric was very much based on Christianity, it's clear what standard of "unjust" he was applying.
Why would China censoring Tiananmen Square/whatever out of their LLMs be anymore harmful to the training process when the US controlled LLMs also censor certain topics, eg "how do I make meth?" or "how do I make a nuclear bomb?".
Nowadays the most expensive thing at home is space, thanks to high property prices, so it's much easier to justify getting rid of clutter
That's the logically consistent line of thought, yes. Which is one I don't particularly disagree with, because of the harm the war on drugs has caused.

But the inconsistency comes from people advocating for a black market drug site and bending towards the far right. The same people who in the same breath also further criminalize drugs, reduce access to things that help addicts while arguing that drug dealers should be deported and our streets swept.

The logical inconsistency is that 'their' drug dealers are conducted by people of virtue therefore they did nothing to break the law. And not being willing to deal with the actual fallout of said illegal drug empire.
Yes I know this but also tweaking the weights of rolls to be lower as you near the hole will also be less frustrating to the players.
> Has anyone implemented this end-to-end?

Yes; I (along with a bunch of other fantastic folks) implemented it end-to-end for both Homebrew[1] and PyPI[2]. This is at a "lower" level than most corporate uses, however: the goal with integrating Sigstore into these OSS ecosystems is not to build up complex verifiable policies (which OSS maintainers don't want to deal with), but to enable signing with misuse-resistant machine identities.

[1]: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2023/11/06/adding-build-provena...

[2]: https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2024-11-14-pypi-now-supports-dig...
It was one signature? Doesn't seem like a big time sink. Many of these early actions were prepared prior to inauguration.
It seems like the voters that were being referred to value restoring rights. How can something immediately achievable be balanced with "the economy", a thing so broad and deeply systemic?
Their current very advanced method, is to send village elders to couples and single guys and berate them on why they are not having sex or having kids (hint: no jobs and no money)
> Cool but who is going to support me while this happens?

I don't know. Is this some arrangement you have had in your life? Being supported by others wasn't never an option for me, I will not expect to be the case now that my chosen career doesn't look as great anymore. I live frugally (after losing everything creating a startup) and saved most of my salary in the past 5 years tho which now gives me some space to breath and plan for the next breakthrough. If things get better again, you should use the current terrible position you are in as a reference to also save most of your salary if you get a good job in tech.
It’s different people commenting on each post. There’s no “mind virus”.
Based on the sheer number of posts that have misrepresented the charges or misunderstood why he was actually in prison, it appears to partially be a lack of knowledge on the case, likely due to time hazing some of the memories. Of course someone will change their mind, and some may have their view influenced by who happens to support him.
Where does Signal claim that, or who decides what they're "supposed" to provide?

If wishes had wings, sheep would fly. People who want their computer to do a certain thing can also be expected to do a quick web search for how to make it do said thing. E.g.: hiding location? Use onion routing. Signal doesn't claim to hide your country (heck, they require your phone number!) so it seems wishful thinking to say they should have included e.g. a Tor client and enabled it by default
Immensely more important than an ineffective agreement on an overblown problem.
Invasive Plants Are Fueling California's Wildfire Crisis
The Last Human Choice
Trump freed him because libertarians voted for him - he openly said so. Meanwhile, he's waging a war on fentanyl! He should've freed Snowden instead.
Do you expect all companies to retrain? Do you expect CEOs to be wrong? Do you expect AI to stay the same, get better, or get worse? I never made the claim that new jobs will NOT be made, that is yet to be seen, but jobs will be lost to AI.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/18/bt-cut-jobs...

>> “For a company like BT there is a huge opportunity to use AI to be more efficient,” he said. “There is a sort of 10,000 reduction from that sort of automated digitisation, we will be a huge beneficiary of AI. I believe generative AI is a huge leap forward; yes, we have to be careful, but it is a massive change.”

Goldman Sacs:

https://www.gspublishing.com/content/research/en/reports/202...

>> Extrapolating our estimates globally suggests that generative AI
could expose the equivalent of 300mn full-time jobs to automation.
It was pretty out of left field and seemingly uncharacteristic for the him to do this. It's fair to ask why. I think Trump is terrible in every way, think the pardon is fine, but can't help but wonder why and other questions about it
I think they're pointing out the hypocrisy of wanting to crack down on drugs while doing this.

I see so many Trump adjacent folks demanding we lock up drug dealers, deport them, whatever. But they want to let this one go.
How likely is success when 4 or more other massive companies work together on a project? Seems like a lot of chefs in the kitchen..
I don't understand how she's not in prison and SBF is
Do you think it's possible the 11 years he spent in prison could have had any rehabilitation effect? Or should we jail anyone who ever commits a crime to a life sentence?
Why is zero plural? (2024)
> Always fun to bump into Polies here :)

Definitely! I wasn't expecting to see a mention of BICEP while reading HN from Pole, particularly not on something as arcane as its star camera.
I have several rhetoric and logic books of the sort you might use for training or whatever, and one of my best friends got a doctorate in a tangential field, and may have materials and insights.

We actually just threw a relationship curative app online in 17 hours around Thanksgiving., so they "owe" me, as it were.

I'm one of those people that can do anything practical with tech and the like, but I have no imagination for it - so when someone mentions something that I think would be beneficial for my fellow humans I get this immense desire to at least cheer on if not ask to help.
We're recreating a demon haunted world that will foster cargo cults. The algorithms we interact with are inscrutible, so we make up rules of thumb and assign agency where there is none. E.g. In 5 years there won't be a way to truly know how to minimize your personally-customized prices at the grocery store, but there will be tons of cargo cult opinions (put your phone in airplane mode, walk through iles 3 times before you pick up an item, pick up a generic version before the name brand, ...).

Algorithms and AI are the new divine agents to appease with ritual.
> They're in no rush at all.

China is dead broke and will shrink to 600M in population before 2100. State owned enterprises are eating up all the private enterprises. Meanwhile, Chinese rich leaves China by tens of thousands per year, and capital outflow increases every year.
It's sad that late-binding languages like Objective-C never got the love they should have, and instead people have favored strongly (or stronger) typed languages. In Objective-C, you could have your User class take a delegate. The delegate could either handle messages for students or employees. And you could code the base User object to ignore anything that couldn't be handled by its particular delegate.

This is a very flexible way of doing things. Sure, you'll have people complain that this is "slow." But it's only slow in computer standards. By human standards—meaning the person sitting at a desktop or phone UI—it's fast enough that they'll never notice.
You can literally flip coins and get better than 50% success in a bull market. Just buy index funds and spend your time on something that isn't trying to beat entropy. You won't be able to.
Yes it’s possible, but it’s not something you can easily scale.

I had a similar project a few years back that used OSX automations and Shortcuts and Python to send a message everyday to a friend. It required you to be signed in to iMessage on your MacBook.

Than was a send operation, the reading of replies is not something I implemented, but I know there is a file somewhere that holds a history of your recent iMessages. So you would have to parse it on file update and that should give you the read operation so you can have a conversation.

Very doable in a few hours unless something dramatic changed with how the messages apps works within the last few years.
I'm using ollama for parsing and categorizing scraped jobs for a local job board dashboard I check everyday.
How could that possibly be the most important political issue?
with a name like DPR id have to assume its buried treasure
I don't judge anyone too hard when they're willing to bend a bit to get someone out of jail after the key has been thrown away. I didn't vote Trump but I will admit the possibility of Ross being released made me pause when I marked my ballot, even his mom's image flashed in my mind and I felt guilty for not helping.
> a pardon that went hand in hand with a change in the laws he broke

Trump doesn't have the power to unilaterally change laws (fortunately!)
Of course it was never an option, how can you even ask. We the men either provide or are thrown aside, as you are well-aware.

Mine was a bit of a snarky question admittedly. As said above (and I just noticed I made a typo or a grammar mistake, not sure which of both as I typed on the phone), I get your idea but nobody cares how are people supporting themselves during transitional periods. :(
Whether or not he was the sole or even primary reason, he knew about it beforehand as seen by his tweet last night saying it was coming soon. Love him or hate him, it's a bit concerning that he has that level of access IMO.

The tweet:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1881524296386031892
ADL has been much more about pro-Israel than they have been about anti-antisemitism.

They know which way Israel's bread is buttered. Trump just removed all sanctions for the settlers, and allowed the sale of significantly bigger bombs to Israel on his first day.

Israel has a huge amount to gain from a Trump administration. ADL isn't going to blow that opportunity by calling out Elon's Nazi salute.
Anecdotally, Planet Money looked into this years ago and their reporting was that as far as they could tell, drugs on Silk Road weren't less safe than street drugs. Most of them were likely "fell off the truck" samples from the original manufacturers being sold by people with an in on the supply, but no otherwise-easy access to an out on the demand.

Their observation was that reputation mattered on SR a lot and a well-kept reputation was valuable at scale in a way that it isn't for being a street-corner pusher looking to stretch your buck by cutting your supply with adulterants. The smart play was to provide a high-quality product at a reasonable price (the latter being the easiest part since they were bypassing the obscene markup of official channels).
If they were from the commission of a crime, then no.
at least that explains why it wants to do us in.
Discussion on the front page (179 points, 183 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42786962
And Trump cares what Mike Cernovich thinks because.... ?
Related Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full pardon (179 points, 183 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42786962
do you know that is actually the case ? i've been trying to find the text of the pardon and haven't been able to yet. can only find Trump's description of it as "full and unconditional"

edit: i see your other comment with the context
I think serious jail for running an illegal drug marketplace is good, even if he used lots of neat tech to do so..
It is superhuman in a very specific domain. I didn't use AGI because its definitions are one of two flavors.

One, capable of replacing some large proportion of global gdp (this definition has a lot of obstructions: organizational, bureaucratic, robotic)...

two, difficult to find problems in which average human can solve but model cannot. The problem with this definition is that the distinct nature of intelligence of AI and the broadness of tasks is such that this metric is probably only achievable after AI is already in reality massively superhuman intelligence in aggregate. Compare this with Go AIs which were massively superhuman and often still failing to count ladders correctly--which was also fixed by more scaling.

All in all I avoid the term AGI because for me AGI is comparing average intelligence on broad tasks rel humans and I'm already not sure if it's achieved by current models whereas superhuman research math is clearly not achieved because humans are still making all of progress of new results.
Touche, however there is plenty of evidence of people throughout history making this assertion, including MLK.

He was trying to create a more just, egalitarian society. I don't understand how you can consider acting in accordance with leading research on successful drug policy "moronic"?
How involved is the government at all? I’m still having a hard time seeing how Trump or anyone in the government is involved except to do the announcement. These are private companies coming together to do a deal.
The majority of American children have an active Roblox account. Those who don't are likely to play Minecraft or Fortnite. Play mediated by the computer in this way is already one of the most popular forms of play. Kids are going to go absolutely nuts for this and if you think otherwise, you really need to talk to some children.
"Politics" is a dismissive word for crypto's evolution over the last decade. North Korea ransoming our hospitals, industrial scale gambling and scam enablement, wealthy kingpins buying self-serving policy. Crypto grew up. So did our opinions.

That doesn't change what Ross Ulbricht did, but we can now see him as continuous with a great evil that we couldn't see at the time. With more information, our opinions changed, and they were right to change.
Whether Ulbricht is a changed man is somewhat immaterial to the signaling to other young would-be drug kingpins that the President thinks you shouldn't be punished so harshly for setting up online black markets.
What? All crimes were proved beyond a reasonable doubt according to a jury of our peers. (Or they plead guilty).
"Wouldn't be surprised if " is speculation. Nobody should be surprised if a pirate has buried treasure.
> a Metaverse consisting of infinite procedural slop sounds about as appealing as reading infinite LLM generated books

Take a look at the ImgnAI gallery (https://app.imgnai.com/) and tell me: can you paint better and more imaginatively than that? Do you know anyone in your immediate vicinity who can?

Read this satirical speech by Claude, in French https://x.com/pmarca/status/1881869448275177764) and in English (https://x.com/pmarca/status/1881869651329913047) and tell me: can you write fiction more entertaining or imaginative than that? Is there someone in your vicinity who can?

Perhaps that's mundane, so is there someone in your vicinity who can reason about a topic in mathematics/physics as well as this: https://x.com/hsu_steve/status/1881696226669916408 ?

Probably your answer is "yes, obviously!" to all the above.

My point: deep learning works and the era of slop ended ages ago except that some people are still living in the past or with some cartoon image of the state of the art.

> "Cost to zero" implies drinking directly from the AI firehose with no human in the loop

No. It means the marginal cost of production tends towards 0. If you can think it, then you can make it instantly and iterate a billion times to refine your idea with as much effort as it took to generate a single concept.

Your fixation on "content without a human directing them" is bizarre and counterproductive. Why is "no human in the loop" a prerequisite for productivity? Your fixation on that is confounding your reasoning.
Hasn't the US decided to prefer nuclear and fossil fuels (most expensive generation methods) over renewables (least expensive generation methods)?[1][2]

I doubt the US choice of energy generation is ideological as much a practicality. China absolutely dominates renewables with 80% of solar PV modules manufactured in China and 95% of wafers manufactured in China.[3] China installed a world record 277GW of new solar PV generation in 2024 which was a 45% year-on-year increase.[4] By contract, the US only installed ~1/10th this capacity in 2024 with only 14GW of solar PV generation installed in the first half of 2024.[5]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

[2] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/lcoe-and-valu...

[3] https://www.iea.org/reports/advancing-clean-technology-manuf...

[4] https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/01/21/china-hits-277-17-gw-...

[5] https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/quarterly-solar-industry-u...
Things are changing.

In 2023 China had more net new solar capacity than the US has in total, and it will only climb from there. In order to do this, they're flexing muscles in R&D and mass production that the US has actually started to flex, and now will face extreme headwinds and decreased capital investment.

Regarding agriculture: America's agricultural powerhouse, California's Central Valley, is rapidly depleting its water supplies. The midwest is depleting its topsoil at double the rate that USDA considers sustainable.

None of this is irreversible or irrecoverable, but it very clearly requires some countervailing push on market forces. Market forces do not naturally operate on these types of time scales and repeatedly externalize costs to neighbors or future generations.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35582-x

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/57-billion-tons-of...
I don't see anything special about that thread. There are in fact more people there who believe the contract killing allegations than now.
Interesting -- what other system could you possibly have, other than votes...? I'm not sure I understand what you're suggesting. I guess traditional forum threads (sometimes with votes, a-la GitHub) are nice, but ultimately that's just trading "correct sounding" for "early commenter".

Otherwise, the only thing that comes to mind is StackOverflow functionality where OP can mark a single answer as "accepted" and push it to the top instantly (which obv. wouldn't translate well to general discussions).
It's still not enough.
Interesting. I wonder who pushed Trump to do this. Gotta be Musk. Who else?
Unless it's your day job: never try to unpack the priorities of a voter. You'll just get sad.

(For consideration on this topic: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691138732/th...)
Is there robo-beekeeping with or without humanoid robots?

/? Robo beekeeping: https://www.google.com/search?q=robo+beekeeping

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

FWIU bees like clover (and dandelions are their spring food source), which we typically kill with broadleaf herbicide for lawncare.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38158625 :

> Is it possible to create a lawn weed killer (a broadleaf herbicide) that doesn't kill white dutch clover; because bees eat clover (and dandelions) and bees are essential?"

> [ Dandelion rubber is a sustainable alternative to microplastic tires ]

Pesticide toxicity to bees:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide_toxicity_to_bees :

> Pesticides, especially neonicotinoids, have been investigated in relation to risks for bees such as Colony Collapse Disorder. A 2018 review by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concluded that most uses of neonicotinoid pesticides such as clothianidin represent a risk to wild bees and honeybees. [5][6] Neonicotinoids have been banned for all outdoor use in the entire European Union since 2018, but has a conditional approval in the U.S. and other parts of the world, where it is widely used. [7][8]

TIL dish soap kills wasps, yellow jackets, hornets nearly on contact.

From
https://savethebee.org/garden-weeds-bees-love/ :

> Many are beneficial, like dandelions, milkweed, clover, goldenrod and nettle, for bees and other pollinators.
As far as I remember, those weren't the only drugs sold there, nor was there any rule enforced regarding "personal quantities".

Not that it matters, as it was an illustrative example.