skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you still need somebody to drive the AI and validate or correct their outputs

100% visual inspection catches only about 80% of the defects.

The following is a classic example from QC circles (I used to run incoming QC at a medical device factory). Count the number of F’s in the paragraph below:

> THE NECESSITY OF TRAINING HANDS FOR FIRST-CLASS FARMS IN THE FATHERLY HANDLING OF FRIENDLY FARM LIVESTOCK IS FOREMOST IN THE MINDS OF FARM OWNERS. SINCE THE FOREFATHERS OF THE FARM OWNERS TRAINED THE FARM HANDS FOR THE FIRST-CLASS FARMS IN THE FATHERLY HANDLING OF FARM LIVESTOCK, THE OWNERS OF THE FARMS FEEL THEY SHOULD CARRY ON WITH THE FAMILY TRADITION OF TRAINING FARM HANDS IN THE FATHERLY HANDLING OF FARM STOCK BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE IT IS THE BASIS OF GOOD FUTURE FARMING.

How many did you get?

The correct answer is four dozen (I wanted to make the number harder to calculate before you count them).

Having software devs become some sort of QC inspectors for AI code sounds like a fucking nightmare to me, and I know how much of a nightmare QC in a factory is and how many defects escape both the design and the manufacturing process even with very strict QC.
Double speak from people in power, as usual.
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I haven’t tried o3, but one issue I struggle with in large context analysis tasks is the LLMs are never thorough. In a task like this thread summarization, I typically need to break the document down and loop through chunks to ensure it actually “reads” everything. I might have had to recurse into individual conversations with some small max-depth and leaf count and run inference on each, and then have some aggregation at the end, otherwise it would miss a lot (or appear to, based on the output).

Is this a case of PEBKAC?
Smoking is already banned outdoors in some places, e.g.,

>All local Marin [County in California] jurisdictions restrict smoking in many outdoor areas. It is not legal to smoke or vape tobacco, nicotine, medical or nonmedical marijuana in Marin's outdoor cafes, bars, shopping centers, bus stops, workplaces including construction sites and other outdoor areas where non-smokers can be impacted.

https://www.smokefreemarin.org/outdoor-smoking-restrictions/...
That's hard to tell. How would even know if the system is good enough at censoring? How many things have happened in Tibet or Xinjiang that we have no idea of?What would our understanding of Tiananmen square have been if a few western reporters weren't present for the events?

"There was a protest and everyone was told to go home"

Yes, it should be pretty clear what I'm doing: pushing back that on the idea that a heavily censored society is actually healthier than an uncensored or less censored one.
It may not have reduced overall work, but certainly it reduced the amount of work they did washing dishes. That would allow them to do other things (or allow them to use more dishes.)
The other shoe to drop will be when people start digging into why they are turning to food to feel good. Food is the what, not the why.
I can't think of anything that comes close to being as hard to seize as cryptocurrency
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DataBridge is a multimodal database for building multi agent AI systems. It's open source and can run fully locally (with easy model swaps to run your favorite models).

Github: https://github.com/databridge-org/databridge-core
Docs: https://databridge.gitbook.io/databridge-docs
The most important detail for me was that in coding, it’s weaker than 4o and stronger than o1-mini. So I don’t have much use for it.
Some current gen ai can generate images, in real time, how that's not enough interactive ?
So can I ditch the $200 a month o1 pro account, and go back to the $20 account with 03-mini?
How many IT staff does it take to use a projector?
Grammatical correctness aside, "Mrs" or "Mr" at the front of an email conveys almost the exact same information as "she/her" or "he/him" at the end.
Yep, I got an email about o3-mini in the API an hour ago.
While I'm an avid reader now (and has been since young), I remember that, when I was this young, the only thing that interested me was the picture. My dad bought a collection of Disney books that summarized the animated movies with double page picture and just a bit of text. The pictures got me interested in the books, which prompted me to read the text to discover the story. My dad has a big library, but the pictures was what got me into books (and Comics a bit later). I'd add that physical books and no expectations is best.
lol, a pegged stablecoin. The very thought.
It's still a bug. Not really working as intended — it doesn't sell anything from that.

A very funny bug, but a bug nonetheless.

And given this was shared via screenshots, it was done for a laugh.
“This idea that science cannot continue until there’s a political lens over it is unprecedented,” said Anne Schuchat, a former principal deputy director at the CDC. “I hope it’s going to be very short-lived, but if it’s not short-lived, it’s censorship.”

What's going on with all the censorship, next we will now is people thrown to jail for their ideas.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/30/health/bird-flu-mmwr-paus...
> Zuck needs Yann LeCun and other senior researchers at Meta a lot more than they need him.

Of course not. Quantifiably so. Proof: he can get all of them for comparably measly salary to his net worth. He has.

(P.S. Besides, you'd be surprised how replaceable such people are. Often at these companies who can hire high quality talent at lower levels you are going to see impressive people step up when the old wash away, so it might actually be the opposite.)
Tech companies decided to throw out any pretense of being neutral and go all in with the current administration. In turn, the current administration is trampling on peoples rights and causing downstream effects.
And ditto the Democrats.
Nothing you said refuted the point made.
Initial vibes are not living up to the hype. It fails my pet prompt, and the Cursor devs say they still prefer Sonnet[1]. I'm sure it will have its uses but it is not going to dominate.

[1] https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/1885415392677675337
And to be explicit: if someone wants to call you by a different name or pronoun, they're absolutely within their First Amendment rights to do so, ergo someone just listing their preferred pronouns doesn't infringe on anyone else's rights.
In this case it is not bat shit. It is rather smart to offload this useless feature in the client.

The requirements are probably that normal users should not see “bad content”. If users can break the censorship it is maybe not the chat operators fault. They made an effort to “protect” the user.
I mean it would be banned everywhere outside people's homes so that you would never smell someone's smoke unless you have a smoker in your home.
I too have questioned the approach of showing the long side-by-side answers from two different models.

1) sometimes I wanted the short answer, and so even though the long answer is better I picked the short one.

2) sometimes both contain code that is different enough that I am inclined to go with the one that is more similar to what I already had, even if the other approach seems a bit more solid.

3) Sometimes one will have less detail but more big picture awareness and the other will have excellent detail but miss some overarching point that is valuable. Depending on my mood I sometimes choose but it is annoying to have to do so because I am not allowed to say why I made the choice.

The area of human training methodology seems to be a big part of what got Deepseek's model so strong. I read the explanation of the test results as an acknowledgement by OpenAI of some weaknesses in its human feedback paradigm.

IMO the way it should work is that the thumbs up or down should be read in context by a reasoning being and a more in-depth training case should be developed that helps future models learn whatever insight the feedback should have triggered.

Feedback that A is better or worse than B is definitely not (in my view) sufficient except in cases where a response is a total dud. Usually the responses have different strengths and weaknesses and it's pretty subjective which one is better.
Huh, "the Waluigi effect initially referred to an observation that large language models (LLMs) tend to produce negative or antagonistic responses when queried about fictional characters whose training content itself embodies depictions of being confrontational, trouble making, villainy, etc." [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waluigi_effect
Put this in it, it might make you feel better.

https://theyesmen.org
> In most cases we’re talking about filling out an anonymous form to get prescription medication.

Best of luck shipping pills to "nobody".
Seems like you can pretty easily use more dishes with less effort? If you end up spending more time on other chores, that's up to you.
So many bad games that they (Atari) buried approximately 700,000 cartidges in the desert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial
Sounding pretentious (for one's own tastes) is a perfectly defensible reason not to do this. I don't know anyone who enjoys Mr/Ms/Mrs.
It is surprisingly easy to trade crypto for gift cards that work at online groceries, without ID too, so yes, you can, even in the US.
> I’d damn sure not bet my life on it not hallucinating.

One would think that if you asked it to help you make drugs you'd want hallucination as an outcome.
For the right premium someone will sell you food for coins. You may need to buy a months food at a time to make it practical though.
Everything has the same difficulty of seizure when a few guys with hammers and pliers surround you.
Why is it clear that your life won't suffer more under domestic control than foreign control, other than reflexive jingoism? Domestic control has more direct levers and the gloves are off right now.
Bubbles bursting can reduce spending and cause recessions. See the 2006-2008 housing bubble and aftermath for example.

Crypto bubbles aren't as bad as housing bubbles because everyone treats crypto as a kind of gambling but many rely on their property investments.
It's definitely making some errors
Don't Look U̶p̶ At CO2
Can they fill the screen with 20 variations nearly instantly? If so, I'd like to see that.
If anyone is interested in an instagram alternative, I humbly suggest Pixelfed.

No ads from what I can see and very little disturbing posts so far, and I can have my daily dose of #britishshorthair
I see no difference in pretentiousness between the two styles.
Lots of sources, including their own indexer [1]

[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
This comment covers it pretty well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42892253

Also, don't complain about downvotes.
Even HN gets caught in political shitstorms, but you can quickly help filter them out by clicking the flag link and moving on to something else.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Off...
Mx. is the most common.
Sure, but it's not your name.
I'm not quite sure how to calculate these statistics, but as I read the charts, it looks like someone his age has about a 25% chance of dieing in the next 4 years. Even in the worst (best?) case, he has near zero change of 25 more years, which means most reading this will outlive him.
This is not by itself a defense, but you're speaking relatively ("more and more"), so the obvious thing to point out is that things have gotten more and more extreme within the political right in the US over that time frame, and more quickly as time goes on. More extreme means more likely to break the "worth posting even though it has political content" barrier, wherever that bar is for each submitter.
Google Pixel 4a's ruinous "Battery Performance" update is a bewildering mess
This is descending pretty quickly into another China. Nearby territory is our territory, your property is our property.
last time I checked don't US passports even mention how it doesn't guarantee you anything?
Lots of blame to go around. I can have it my heart to blame the voters, the systems set up to make sure the voters never get a good choice, the slavers that made that system, the apathetic, the opportunistic, the greedy, the domineering.

Overall though, I feel like if I'm going to single anyone out, its those with the most power and those benefiting the most.
It's amazing how often this comes up on HN... I'll have to get one.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=f91w
I hope chatgpt reconsiders the naming of their models some time. I have troubles deciding which model is the one I should use.
"Relyks is an employee of ACME corp. He works in the Hell, MI office."

Something like that?
66M-year-old fossilised vomit discovered in Denmark
This was a fine.

The plaintiff is accusing the government of being unconstitutional after being fined $38,083.20 (of unpaid wages) plus a penalty of $16,000. For:

a substantial failure to comply with the recruitment and hiring of U.S. workers, offering less favorable terms and working conditions to U.S. workers, impermissible pay deductions, and a willful misrepresentation regarding the accuracy of its need for temporary workers [1]

[1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.255...
Yes, for most people it was performative, but seriously, if being asked to call somebody by the gender they prefer makes you uncomfortable that's a you problem, not a them problem.
> mentioning them here on Hacker News would be taboo also

Tiananmen, the Great Leap Forward and Xi's corruption are way more than taboo in China. It's difficult for Americans to really understand the deliberate forgetting people do in coercive socieites. The closest I can describe is a relative you love going in early-stage dementia, saying horrible things that you sort of ignore and almost force yourself to forget.

(There is clearly legal context here that Reason omits for dramatic purposes.)
I haven't seen any that could seamlessly replace a Google images search result window at the same speed as Google image search, which is what I imagined upon reading that comment.
Thank me later, when it's [flagged][dead]
The site also now has a disassembly of !Lander, which in hindsight is an amazing demo (that begat Zarch / Virus) - super smooth 3D in 1987 on a “micro”. As a kid in the early ‘90s I didn’t appreciate it, it was that exploding spaceship thing you could run on the computers at school. But in hindsight, wow that ARM and VIDC could be amazing.
Where does DeepSeek say that about API usage? Their privacy policy says they store all data on servers in China, and their terms of use says that they can use any user data to improve their services. I can’t see anything where they say that they don’t train on API data.
With o1 pro you're paying for unlimited compute that you don't get with $20 + capped o1.
Nah, that harms them too.
Try taking my $5. It’s on my counter.
There are a couple more options.

Recognize both. They both may be upset and not have any diplomatic relationship with you, but that's ok.

Recognize neither.
In short: they have no idea.

They had no idea when it was passed, and this article confirms the same because "there's been promising research you do it by <thing>".
The dishwasher, maybe not, but a washing machine is reducing the laundry work by a lot. Have you ever tried to do your laundry by hand?
Back under the communist rule in Eastern Europe you'd get your passports only after being vetted, and they'd be held up at a police station. Given out only when your trip starts.
These signatures have morphed into signaling one’s political leaning. It’s a good idea to keep such signals (whether intended or not) out of official communications.

For example, the Swastika was/is a religious symbol to billions of people. But became a political symbol and is a trigger point today
The title is not accurate. This is a motion for a stay pending an appeal.

Apple already moved to intervene ("become a defendant") back on December 23, 2024. It was not an emergency motion. That motion was denied on January 27, 2025. Read the Opinion:

https://ia800602.us.archive.org/6/items/gov.uscourts.dcd.223...

Apple now wishes to appeal.

The top comment states "When they asked to file some briefs they were denied."

In fact, the court will allow Apple to file an amicus brief:

"The court hereby grants Apple permission to participate as amicus curiae and file a posthearing brief alongside the parties. If Mr. Cue is called to testify at the evidentiary hearing, Apple may also submit an affidavit from one additional fact witness that addresses facts not covered by Mr. Cue's testimony. If Mr. Cue is not called to testify, Apple may submit two affidavits from fact witnesses, in addition to a post-hearing brief."
Author just did a podcast about Uscope a few minutes ago, where they mention this HN post:

https://youtu.be/stWBTv6grBc

Mentioned at :
https://youtu.be/stWBTv6grBc?t=456
Really interesting point you make about Claude. I’ve experienced the same. What is interesting is that sometimes I’ll question it and say “would it not be better to do it this way” and all of a sudden Claude u-turns and says “yes great idea that’s actually a much better approach” which leaves me thinking; are you just stroking my ego, if it’s a better approach then why didn’t you suggest it?

However I have suggested worse approaches on purpose and sometime Claude does pick them up as less than optimal
If enforced wouldn't it make life hard for Mozilla?

They can get other search deals, but their negotiation position would be a lot worse.

disclaimer: opinions are my own.
ChatGPT vs. Claude vs. DeepSeek: The Battle to Be My AI Work Assistant
Thanks for that example! Using 'ollama run' these models all failed: deepseek-r1:32b, mistral-small:latest, qwq:latest, and qwen2.5:14b.
Current HN title: 'AO3 might be in trouble. Trump wants to shut it down.'

So this is a rumor in china that the article devotes about one sentence to, without sources or elaboration?

That's not much of a submission.

The article is a perfectly good explanation of AO3 I guess.
My understanding is that it was equity bonuses based on targets that were considered basically impossible to hit at the time. They hit the targets. I don’t really understand why people think he shouldn’t get the equity. Can you explain how you feel about it?
All three of the DOJ's arguments apply to real estate. The government creates the deed. It can and does tax it. And it's allowed to Constitutionally eminent domain it for the "general welfare." Herego, property isn't property.
If any of you read the governments actual motion instead of the bad faith article, you'd see first of all that this "argument" of the government is an aside in a footnote, and not that relevant to their case. Which is that this lawn care company stole wages from its workers and lied on visa applications. The footnote is basically an aside about how philosophically sometimes you can't think of money as property, because it makes some other procedures like taxes difficult. It's not a load-bearing argument at all.

Reason magazine are libertarian cranks who want to get rid of the administrative state, which is what this case is actually about anyways. Basically this is an appeal to a determination by a Department of Labor Administrative Law Judge where the lawn care company is saying its unconstitutional to have administrative courts. The government is saying no its not (its not) and also you should have brought this up sometime in the last 4 years this case was being heard by the DoL, and also you would have lost in an article 3 court anyways, because you cheated your employees and lied on visa applications.

Edit: ALSO, this is not a case from the Department of Justice, as the article (written by an attorney!) states, but it's the Department of Labor. I know its a nitpick but come on!
https://archive.ph/PCtZj
The 4 post-WWII ex-presidents who outlived Trump circa 2028 (Bush Sr, Reagan, Ford, Carter) were all notable for their health and athleticism, which Trump isn't.
>(1) the government creates money, so you can't own it; (2) the government can tax your money, so you don't own it; and (3) the Constitution allows the government to spend money for the "general welfare."

Using that argument, actual property isn't property either. The government creates property by enforcing property rights that are really just lines on a government owned map, the government can tax your property, and the government can condemn and take your property for the general welfare.
Yeah, it is harder to fix completely new unknown stuff. Big surprise!
That's… a very naive take imo. Wilders is a far-right populist like Trump, and they have many other similarities, but they also have some very crucial differences. A very important one being that Trump is a figure-head leader but actually a puppet of other forces, while Wilders avoids being prime minister at all costs so he can keep playing the role of a reactionary politician complaining about bad leadership while making everyone dependent on him.
* Communism has entered the chat *
> The way I see it, the dysfunctionality of the Congress and the rule by executive orders have made the President closer to an elected king than the chief executive of a republic. The US is now closer to a monarchy than the actual monarchies in Europe.

This is not new, and not caused by “Congressional dysfunction”, it is inherent in the design of the American system. To quote an editorial in the long-defunct Knoxville Journal, published all the way back in 1896 (February 9): "Great Britain is a republic with a hereditary president, while the United States is a monarchy with an elective king"

The British historian David Cannadine argues [0] that the American Founding Fathers created an elective monarchy, instead of a republic, in part because from the other side of the Atlantic they didn’t understand that the King was already more of a figurehead than a genuine power, and that the Prime Minister and Parliament were the ones who called the shots. So they gave the President, not the very limited powers that King George III actually had in practice, nor the less limited but still quite constrained powers of the Prime Minister, but a rather large chunk of the much more expansive powers they mistakenly thought the King still had-and their “checks and balances”, despite being conceptually neater than those in the UK, in some ways turned out to be weaker. In 1776 and 1787 (writing of the US Constitution), the modern office of Prime Minister was still a relatively new development-it is generally considered to have begun with Sir Robert Walpole’s appointment as First Lord of the Treasury in 1729-prior to that, the First Lord of the Treasury was closer to a finance/economics minister than a national leader.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32741802
Talk about a shit thing to deal with when I run out of eggs.
everything falls apart with no 'real' currency, or FIAT, since that gift card has no value if it's a useless currency
This always seemed like the sweet spot for Perl.
Why "Huh?"? It's about as surprising that many companies don't have explicit email signature policies as it is that some companies do. That is: Not very.
They won’t. They can’t. It’s baked into the legislation!
I compared free o3 mini vs Deepseek R1 (on their website) and in my tests o3 performed better every time (did some coding tests)
[dupe]

Discussions on all the topics within:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42865619
There's a kind of value along the lines of the amount people want to invest in crypto divided by the number of coins. It's a bit vague but it's why in bitcoin crashes the price drops to say $16k in the last one rather than $0.