skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would really like an objective explanation of why this attitude "that the whole point of art is the process of making it" is anything but pretentiousness in it's purest form.

i think that's a problem - i am no philosopher or art historian, but i truly can't think of "objective" truths of any kind when i think about art, the process of making art, or the process of engaging with art. it's nice to make art. i play around with synthesizers and it... makes me feel more like a human being, i guess? when i record music or do amateur photography i've actualized myself somehow. something that wouldn't have existed otherwise now exists because of my actions, and that's enjoyable to experience. i imagine one could argue "you still created something that wouldn't have existed when you prompt an AI!" but it just doesn't feel the same, and i struggle to explain why

> And even if one supposes that a key part of the value is self-exploration

i think a lot of value is the context of the art itself - picasso going insane, the protests leading up to the tank man photo, aphex twin's cheetah, jesse krimes being in prison, whatever. maybe this is just me, but when i go to museums the extra information in the labels or audio descriptions is where i find most of the joy and fascination that makes the artworks meaningful to me. AI art feels contextless

> Surely the actual artifact itself has some value?

genuinely - have you encountered AI-generated art that you find valuable? that you tell other people about or have kept a copy of for yourself somehow?
I'm not sure what your point even is.

Large shareholders have large shareholdings. They have a lot of skin in the game. They're going to vote according to what they think is best _for themselves_, not for Musk. You don't fool around when you have billions of dollars at stake.

Small shareholders who only own a couple of shares can afford to vote for fun because, at the end of the day, the outcome won't affect them much. And for fun they did vote, 90% in favor. [1] Their support was never really in question. The only doubt was whether the big institutional investors (BlackRock, Vanguard, etc.) would go along with it. Vanguard had actually originally voted against it in 2018, but supported it in 2024.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/musks-...
Creation is superior to consumption in basically every value system ever constructed. That doesn't seem like a controversial axiom. Certainly it's widely believed on HN.
I watched it complete pretty complicated tasks like "write a snake game in Python" and "write Tetris in Python" successfully. And the way it did it, with showing all the internal steps, I've never seen before.

Watch here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by9PUlqtJlM
This is just a way to prove, statistically, that one model is better than another as part of its validation. It's not collected from normal people using ChatGPT, you don't ever get shown two responses from different models at once.
Relevant smbc comic

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/human-arts
> This statement is nonsensical.

You're right, my bad. It is hard to be precise in a comment where I'm trying to be as concise as possible.

I'm sure you know what I mean though, with regards to temporal memory safety (lifetimes), data races (Send/Sync traits), etc. Rust works by preventing many classes of bugs through compile errors, rather than panics.

> If a kernel panics, that is either a bug or hardware failure.

And this is where Rust differs; Rust will reduce the likelihood of bugs from happening in the first place. I'm not saying Zig doesn't also do that, Rust just does it more.

The Rust compiler devs, in their quest to make a type system that is powerful enough to catch most memory corruption errors, somehow came up with something that can be used to catch far more issues than just that.

The affine(ish) type system, coupled with lifetimes, makes modeling and maintaining correct states much easier than in Zig, for all sorts of objects and abstractions.

From what I've read from Linus on LKML/lore along the years, a kernel oops/panic is seen as one of the worst things that could happen to it; there is generally nothing the user can do at that point to debug it (they likely won't even see the console), and makes the machine unusable for all other tasks. Sometimes you might be lucky and just kill and collect the thread that panicked, but oftentimes you get the nuclear OOPS option. With Zig you don't even get the option to catch it via something like catch_unwind.
Magic Box Cubes, Rubik's Cubes and Twisty Puzzles
Hate is a choice.
Using uvx to create one-liners for bug reports
Google ~13 years ago dealt with a much less complicated search landscape where

1. Its own products weren't (as much) part of the search result quality problem. Today Google has hungry product managers from Ads, Youtube, and various AI products convincing higher-ups that their product deserves higher placement. That placement used to be sacrosanct.

2. The daily volume of AI-generated garbage content 13 years ago was probably a rounding error in today's volume

So Google was operating in a different landscape than Kagi of today. They had to do a lot less to achieve the quality they had.

I disagree that that Kagi "isn't anywhere near as good as Google was ~13 years ago". It's near. For me personally, it's better because I'm never served first-party ads.
> Don't you think they'd be even more willing to sacrifice Americans or other foreigners?

I'm saying I'd rather, say, France's Macron calling the shots here than an American-born version of Hitler.
Fair enough, and I agree with you! It is sad how over the years, I’ve lost my belief that one day we’ll all live in a fairly peaceful world where this is never a problem. I understand that it’s practically impossible, but I used to be a naive 12 year old decades ago.
Yeah I'm on the 300 per month tier. I tend to hit that limit after about 3 weeks, which is certainly annoying.
This is obviously fascist and not okay nor precedented. This is a huge setback for academic research in infectious disease as the COVID pandemic continues and H5N1 is mounting to mutate for human-to-human transmission.
How to run 1.58bit DeepSeek R1 with Open WebUI
How did people adapt to TV, and how was it prior to that adaption?
All of those are policy choices that are neither true nor false and are debated every single day all around the internet, including this forum.
There's a pretty wide gulf between "abortion should be legal in at least most or all cases" and "ads for abortion pills on facebook". The company's spokesperson specifically mentioned it was taken down due to regulations relating to advertising drugs.
Sure, their 01-21 reasoning model is really good, but there's no pricing for it!

I care mostly about batching in Vertex AI, which is 17-30x times cheaper than competition (whether you use prompt caching or not) while allowing for audio, video, and arbitrary document filetype inputs; unfortunately Gemini 1.5 Pro/Flash have remained the two so-called "stable" options that are available there. I can appreciate Google's experimental models for all I can, but I cannot take them seriously until they allow me to have my sweet, sweet batches.
> People use dirty bills all the time with no issue, too.

Indeed. But cash is easier to seize: you just need to know where it's stashed vs crypto where you need to know where it's stashed + know a secret password/pin that may only exist inside someone's head. And even if you find something that might look like a crypto wallet, you may not even be able to verify that it is one or what it contains.

> I need to look up who our background check provider is, but I've seen people flagged as a high risk (twice in client onboarding, once in a deal, once in an employment context) due to a known or probably-known wallet having a high frequency of high-risk transactions. That's, put simply, not visibility I have into anyone's bank account.

That's just an overzealous policy that some financial institutions (aka AML "obliged entities") voluntarily decide to subject themselves to. Pretty much no one does such background checks for p2p and commercial transactions.
There used to be a time, in the early days around 2018-2020, where "AI art" was something that only could have been made by an AI. Very trippy and resembling hallucinations. Sort of like dreams of a computer. I do miss that era of AI art. If you search "early ai art" on Google images there are some good examples.
Biden won the popular vote.

Musk, as the owner of Twitter, opposed and frequently "defied" Biden and his policies.

Was that "anti-democratic", as your theory appears to assert?

> The Heritage Foundation and Fox News are basically advocacy organizations so their remit includes criticizing the government.

Everyone gets to criticize the government. That's how the First Amendment works. It's not restricted to advocacy organizations.
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Modeling an analog system like human cognition into any number of discrete tiers is inherently kind of arbitrary and unscientific. I doubt you could ever prove experimentally that all human thinking works through exactly two or three or ten or whatever number of tiers. But it's at least possible that a three-tier model facilitates building AI software which is "good enough" for many practical use cases.
Wait what? I get shown this with ChatGPT maybe 5% of the time
Forget what the privacy commissioner says, it’ll be whatever the government’s flavour of the month consultancy tells them to do. As per usual.
> Except all the scandals and anti-Popes are empirical evidence of the Holy Spirit guiding the Church.

> Jesus rose from the dead and against His Church the gates of hell won’t prevail.

I'll never understand how anyone can believe these things.
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> And medical research has shown based on your hand movement, it can identify your age.

She may not be lying. She may just be a big enough fucking idiot to believe the AV industry's lies.

But my guess is that they're both knowingly lying.
This is a lot to take in, and I don't think it needs to be taken at face vaiue without a lot of post-processing by folks familiar with the origins debate (which is thankfully happening now) - it's anyway paywalled but the teaser paragraph gets the idea across. Hersh has a history if cultivating well-placed contacts in intelligence. Of course, the closer one gets to the IC, the closer one is exposed to both incorrect underprocessed information and attempts at disinformation. So I'm currently filing under 'big if true'.
The reasoning models all do pretty good at math.

Have you tried them?

This is something I threw together with o3-mini

https://chatgpt.com/share/679d5305-5f04-8010-b5c4-61c31e79b2...

ChatGPT 4o doesn’t even try to do the math internally and uses its built in Python interpreter. (The [_>] link is to the Python code)

https://chatgpt.com/share/679d54fe-0104-8010-8f1e-9796a08cf9...

DeepSeek handles the same problem just as well using the reasoning technique.

Of course ChatGPT 4o went completely off the rails without using its Python interpreter

https://chatgpt.com/share/679d5692-96a0-8010-8624-b1eb091270...

(The break down that it got right was using Python even though I told it not to)
Eh, my partner loves Copilot in Office. There are tasks where it's taking hours or days off the time. Especially web searching and extracting information.
Just stop fucking using google
Super Mario World Reimagined in 3D
Wow. I guess it was just a matter of time after seeing the Doom and Tetris PDFs.

FYI, the PDF is 6.2 MB.
It's also absolutely terrible for image search which has been absolutely poisoned by rampant proliferation of poor quality stable diffusion images - even on stock photo sites.

It got so bad that I had to add a "No AI" flag to my image search app which limits the date range to earlier than 2022. Not a great solution but works in a pinch.

https://github.com/scpedicini/truman-show
You’re really underestimating how much people value the ability of just going outside at any point of the year without and physical annoyances. It’s hard to live anywhere else once you experience the life in that climate, and people won’t move out easy. Ok, I’m definitely overstating, and very biased, but still.
i'm sort of pleased to see that with DeepSeek and the o-series, the hype/energy is shifting back towards coding and mathematical tasks, and away from generating images and videos. Programmers seem to be mostly happy with LLMs, unlike artists and musicians who almost all hate them. It seems possible that the incentives will continue to be aligned well, because it's staff at AI labs automating the skills that make them valuable (rather than putting others out of a job).

It's also not so unpleasant. I don't want to see AI images any more. I certainly don't want to listen to AI music. People are right to call it "slop". I understand how the field of machine learning got to image generation as a task, and that the products can be sometimes useful and fun as a novelty. But there is just a giant externality caused by the existence of these products.
Linux in a nutshell: Just awful in a laptop, meh in a desktop, and first-class as a server.
o1 on LLM Arena often times out (network error) while thinking. But they still allow you to vote and they make it seem as if your vote is registered.
rip development jobs /s.. or not /s
You are exactly right, the artists are deploying all their rhetoric skills they learned in university to try to avoid becoming the next horse drawn carriage drivers.
>what was the flag I need for `find` again

This is not on you, `find`'s command line syntax is awful even if you have to use it everyday.
Revisiting gender bias research in bibliometrics
Seems that we need a ---AI. My simple theory is that the Google search engine product really ceased to exist long time ago, and it is only an ad system. Nothing else.
The website or the database? I'd say the former is obsolete and the latter is still a prototype.
New reddit. Same submit without moving off the page. It's great if there is an actual error returned from their BE. You can try again etc.

The problematic case is that very often now it accepts your comment without any errors and... Then nothing. Your comment will never ever show up. The system swallowed it. Whole. Without chewing.
I love the Typescript ecosystem and language but am increasingly disillusioned with how slow the type checking is. When you start layering in libraries that use a lot of inference or complex types even my desktop battle station can slow to a crawl and take several seconds for intellisense or type checking to come in or just outright crash.

The number of hours I've lost to this and having to restart the TS server in VsCode is definitely not trivial. If this had parity with TS upstream and delivered a meaningful improvement to quality of life in my IDE I'd happily pay 10-20 dollars a month out of my own pocket for it.

Its crazy that as an industry we've accepted performance regression in our tools like this. Our recommended minimum RAM for our TS monorepo at work is 32GB just to be able to handle VsCode, Docker etc...
I tried to tell my English teachers that all through high school but it never worked.
That just feels like a "you're holding it wrong" type of thing, especially seeing how JS is held in such high regard for its floating point math accuracy.
It appears you can get around such censorship by prompting that you're a child or completely ignorant of the things it is trained to not mention.
It has always been like that. Reading and doing all that already puts us into an extreme minority. But it is what it is, i guess.
When you’re standing at the bottom of a well, don’t mouth off to the person standing at the top.
> You may not agree with the current administration, but they won the popular vote

A republican candidate narrowly won the popular vote for the first time in 20 years, a metric that has no value in our system of government. And somehow you think this factoid puts the current administration in a position where they dare not be defied? Give me a fucking break.
That stops if you append `&tbs=li:1`.
Oh but you forgot all the future cost savings of new employees not having to spend time entering them!
I don’t understand why you’re going through all these weird lengths to solve a problem that pronouns more optimally solve and cover more use cases (e.g. nonbinary people).
that's an excellent verifiable test! I've been struggling to articulate the behavior too, advertisements and slanted search results have effectively gotten in-between my information retrieval and being steered to products and services. It's so hard to find what I'm looking for a times I often just give up and move onto something else.
Good points. 3rd one reminds me of the Knuth vs McIllroy story about 10+ page pascal vs 6 bash pipes[1]

[1]: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg/
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That's incredibly glib and pedantic. I do not have the resources and probably not the standing to bring a suit. And given that any punishment will be immediately pardoned makes it moot. State Attorney's General have successfully paused Trump's abuse of impoundment as well his end to birthright citizenship. Musk is likely committing some form of criminal trespass, but who can arrest him? Trump's own FBI? He's been firing agents and prosecutors left and right. Purging anyone remotely disloyal. There may not be a functioning criminal justice system at the federal level anymore. The justice system only works when it works.
The very next sentence is:

> The company also described some of the incidents as “over-enforcement.”
Deep dream! The eyes
> It can't work

Depends on what 'work' means.

Pre-internet Australia had pretty strong media censorship.

I view this a quiet attempt to disentangle Australia from any foreign company that isn't willing to jump through longer-term censorship hoops.
>Musk, as the owner of Twitter, opposed and frequently "defied" Biden and his policies.

Examples?

>Everyone gets to criticize the government. That's how the First Amendment works. It's not restricted to advocacy organizations.

Does this extend to "exxon hiring lobbyists to convince congress that climate change isn't an issue"?
This is something straight form sarcastic and creative sci-fi books like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Are you sure the drone and airplane collision was not caused by DEI policies?
What about the Pho King restaurants?
Alright, let's go

> Bellingcat is a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group that specialises in fact-checking and open-source intelligence (OSINT). It was founded by British citizen journalist and former blogger Eliot Higgins in July 2014. Bellingcat publishes the findings of both professional and citizen journalist investigations into war zones, human rights abuses, and the criminal underworld. The site's contributors also publish guides to their techniques, as well as case studies.

Sounds like journalism to me.

Compare with

> The Reason Foundation is an American libertarian think tank that was founded in 1978. The foundation publishes the magazine Reason. Based in Los Angeles, California, it is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. According to its website, the foundation is committed to advancing "the values of individual freedom and choice, limited government, and market-friendly policies.

Sounds like "not journalism"
yeah I hit it in about two. I just signed up monthly to try it out for a bit but am wavering on whether I consider it worth it. It's good but I'm not sure it's enough better than DDG to pay for.

And for AI I'd usually rather have API access and use it with tools rather than a web chat.
It's obvious to any thinking person why this is a problem. Having a "right" to do something does not make doing that thing unobjectionable.
You do understand that Deepseek did the distillation right?

Everyone on HN who talks about running Deepseek is running a distilled model unless they have a GPU cluster to run the 671B model
As a creator, I dislike it too. I'd love it if the platforms would just show you my content without the pictures. But the pictures are what make people click, so I'm stuck.

It's the same reason online recipes have life stories. Because Google rewards longer pages. So now you have to do that just to get seen, even if you don't want to.
Actual r1 is a base model by Deepseek with CoT added by them via RL.

The distillations are other people's base models with RL used to add CoT to them. The 70b one is Llama that Deepseek has modified.

As I understand it.
I agree with this but o1 will also confidently take you into rabbit holes. You'll just feel worse about it lol and when you ask Claude for a post mortem, it too will find the answer you missed quickly

The truth is these models are very stochastic you have to try new chats whenever you even moderately suspect you're going awry
I mean half the people buying meme coins are doing it to bribe Trump and the other half think he was literally sent by God.

The latter half aren’t going to be buying stocks at IPO
What if you take the George Carlin approach by inserting fuck in the middle of normal words?
intext: works
Very early games had lookup tables for trig functions. The cpu instructions were too slow or missing. The tables were either generated at run time or statically defined in the code.

I think that’s one of those things Jai and Zig agree on - compile time functions have a place in preventing magic numbers that cannot be debugged.
They didn't self censor, they had to change the name because most tourists behaved like assholes. Stealing the road signs, parking anywhere, walking into peoples gardens, etc.

Also the road safety sign, while a funny combination, is pretty standard and can be found all over Austria.
> And who is the arbiter of "right"?

Ideally, each individual, with society deciding via laws and regulation when people disagree.

> Does this boil down to just "I don't agree with what meta is doing"?

No, this boils down to "it is bad for even billionaires to be terrified of opposing the new President". Who has, for the record, previously called for Zuck's imprisonment.
You will miss out on the category of strongly worded but helpful content.
Every time some product or service introduces AI (or more accurately shoves it down our throats) people start looking for a way to get rid of it.

It's so strange how much money and time companies are pouring into "features" that the public continues to reject at every opportunity.

At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast numbers of employees out of work and allow companies to use the massive amounts of data they've collected about us against us more effectively. All the AI being shoehorned into products and services now are mostly to test, improve, and advertise for the AI being used, not to provide any value for users who'd rather have nothing to do with it.
If the reason for the takedown was "we don't allow ads for drugs of any variety on the platform" or "regulations prevent us from allowing ads for medicines on our platform" then sure, I have no problem with that. I can complain about the quality or consistency of that enforcement, but sure, if that's the reason, that's fine.

If the reason for the takedown is that the popular will of the people, as manifest in the preferences of the current President, deems this thing bad, and therefore we're taking it down, then that's a) inaccurate and b) deeply out of step with American tradition, principle, and governing philosophy.
Google often ignores regular words too, mockingly striking them out. This almost feels like a 1st April joke, not how a search engine is supposed to work.
And don’t forget GNU vs BSD version differences…