skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one is going to listen to this which is one of the most toxic documents on AI I have ever read. I am not only extremely disappointed in Alexander Wang and Eric Schmidt but I will remember this. They're trying to compare the Manhattan Project, where scientists like Oppenheimer and Einstein got together to literally make a bomb, to artificial intelligence that was meant to provide chatting capabilities. One is explicitly intended to be a weapon of mass destruction and the others produce text which cannot itself provide physical harm.

I think these people are ostriches, where Google's AI strategy has been to hide their heads when it came to LLM's. They sound upset that their flagship AI division is irrelevant. I hope Alexander Wang, Eric Schmidt, and Dan Hendrycks get MAIM'd themselves and their AI projects are now targets of mine.

This is an extremely irresponsible borderline propaganda. I say extreme because any comparison of LLM's with nuclear weapons is violently wrong. It's also advocating for warfare between nations and states because of AI.

I am definitely throwing all of Scale AI's reputation in the trash. I hope everyone reading this who has a spine does too. I am also watching these 3 authors very carefully.
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I think you are a bit more likely to notice in a CSV/TSV, as it is unlikely to truncate at a newline?

Still, fair point. And is part of why I said it is a flaw, not the flaw. Plenty of other reasons to not like YAML, to me. :D
And all the 'simple' formats start failing when dealing with blocks of text.
I'd certainly question whether LLMs will. AI writ large, on an infinite timescale, who knows. But for LLMs I would be sceptical. The only knowledge worker jobs they seem seriously likely to take over are writers of high volume, low-quality bullshit (for instance, real estate ads, which have always had a bit of a problem with both stylistic suck and, well, reality), but those generally aren't particularly high-paid.
Scary stuff.

This is common knowledge when you visit authoritarian regimes, such as North Korea or Russia, but it's completely fine when you visit well developed democracies.

The US can no longer be considered as such, and you're fine with that?
>But the fact that Botswana now has the local skill to deploy a satellite

Congrats, but the article says that the satellite is being deployed by SpaceX.
the problem with synthetic meat is the same problem as everything synthetic: we don' know if it is safe. it took decades to find out that some artificial sweeteners cause cancer for example.

for me the conclusion is that everything synthetic is more likely dangerous in some form than it is helpful. i'd rather give up meat before eating synthetic meat. i also avoid synthetic materials in clothing, etc...

i am all for reducing the suffering of animals, but health and the environment come first.
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A very different book, but I loved reading "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" [0] as well by the same author.

[0] which used footnotes to great effect
How do they deal with models with a stochastic element (most of generative AI)? Not sure how you intend to prove sampling. Are they going to perform (mathematical) analysis on every single normal distribution in the model?
Crime and Disorder: Punish the Weak and Protect the Powerful
The first time I tried, despite thinking I'd done my research I had so many issues with basic things like wifi I gave up, but that was like 10+ years ago.

I think for my phone, I'd still prefer iOS -- I think the lack of freedom can be a form of protection, in terms of maleware.

My next laptop will probably be a Linux laptop -- I'm thinking Debian or Xubuntu. (I like XFCE, aesthetically and in terms of resource cost.)

If anyone has suggestions, I'm basically looking to just do music/movie streamin and light text editing -- maybe fire up a Parrot VM to run some tests. Battery life is more important to me than processor/ram.
Not really, it's just someone with a higher goal of "freedom" (no binary firmware blobs) using it to push their agenda.

I'll happily agree higher degrees of "freedom" are an admirable goal, but this is just rudely shitting on a hard-earned achievement.
Right. So the point is that it's not a useful and practical result, and the title is indeed false and misleading.
What underlying primitives are you relying on to provide isolation, if not linux namespaces?

How does your approach compare to Google's gVisor?
I think that's a little unfair to Blender. Clearly "was able to produce an Oscar-winning animation" is a pretty high bar, even if it isn't as high as "actually won an Oscar for animation technology" (or whatever it is).
When we tried deploying it we had netatop crashing kernels with a use after free on a linked list, based on the stack traces and kernel dumps. Every box we trialed it on started going down multiple times a week.
"So here is a general 2D remapping as a prototype replacement for the perspective tool in image editors (I have no ability to add this to GIMP, somebody else needs to step up)..."

Well given that this is HN, if there's any forum where somebody has experience contributing to GIMP, it should be here. Any takers?
Crtl-F "who turns 53 in June" to skip a rather lengthy description of the series (or scroll to the large red "B")

> Nothing I learned from Smajic solved the central mystery of The Black Swan: why did she choose to capsize her life by participating at all?

I recall that Herve Falciani only leaked his trove of tax data when a police investigation was closing in on him. Maybe something similar here: a looming indictment?
To be specific (if anyone was curious), you can force BigInt with something like this:

//MAX_SAFE_INTEGER is actually 9007199254740991 which is 16 digits
//you can instead check if exactly 16 and compare size one string digit at a time if absolute precision is desired.
const bigIntReviver = (key, value, context) => typeof value === 'number' && Math.floor(value) === value && context.source.length > 15 ? BigInt(context.source) : value

const jsonWithBigInt = x => JSON.parse(x, bigIntReviver)

Generally, I'd rather throw if a number is unexpectedly too big otherwise you will mess up the types throughout the system (the field may not be monomorphic) and will outright fail if you try to use math functions not available to BigInts.
My experience was similar. When I removed reference to Ghibli - it generated something but was not close to what is shown in the article. Then I ran out of free tries and gave up. Stil - I quite like how the ilustrations look.
It is a kind of bitter-sweet feeling though. I admire the work of Ghibli studios, and would like to have something custom made in that style, on the other hand AI made pictures on one side and human made on the other, leave me with quite different set of emotions.
I'm in the US and I can't relate to it either. I don't doubt that there are subcultures where this is a thing, but it was never a universal issue.
There's no requirement to split the estate "fairly" if the family doesn't get along, so there's no need to talk to everybody - all that's required is leaving a will (or, probably better, a trust, because that avoids probate) that specifies how to split the estate.
Libreoffice is really useful, paired with GIMP it can make switching much simpler since word processing and light image editing (cropping, resizing, redacting PII) is easily done without a photoshop subscription.
What's New in TensorFlow 2.19
I wonder whether LLM programming will make such projects more (easier to get assistance) or less (assistance might not be as good as in the original version) common.
lol I actually laughed out loud at that. I might steal your kidneys comparison for certain conversations at work.

Didn't mean it as a discussion ender, I think it's the type of tradeoff that anybody really needs to think about when they start down the rabbit hole of crafting the perfect generic type. Like for day to day stuff, I agree with the grug brained developer[1].

But if I'm writing something that needs to be used in a super specific way, I think it's worth the extra effort/complexity to ensure that other devs can't use it incorrectly. I'm usually responsible for making smaller components that other devs can build from, and it's amazing what you can communicate through types.
Surgeon's paw was true in the 90's and is true in the '20s. There's not much point in comparing the crap to the crap. The only big difference is that it is easier to see the bottom of the barrel in your most popular storefronts with a click l(even on "curated" ones these days woth PSN and the eShop) instead of going out of your way to find some shareware from a Geocity that barely functioned.

Thing is those high profile disasters are still supposedly the "cream of the crop". That's why they get compared to the cream of before.

Popular examples are easier to exemplify as well instead of taking the time to explain what Blinx the Cat or Midnight Club are (examples of good but not genre-defining entries)
All this comes down to is that language is not a solved problem. By the same logic why not just stop doing any research in physics and just put everything through a neural net which is going to give better predictions than the current best theories?

The fact that a deep-neural-net can predict the weather better than a physics-based model does not mean that the weather is not physics-based. Furthermore deep-neural-nets predict but don't explain while a physics-based model tries to explain (and consequently predict).
You can't eat gold or cash. Luxury consumer goods like high quality food and drink, tobacco, drugs, and other useful things will probably be more valuable in an emergency. Look toward what's valued in prisons.
> go home to play video games and the new releases are all remasters of 20 year old games

This annoyed me, because it's so manifestly untrue. The games of the year of the last few years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_of_the_Year_award...)

- 2024: Astro Bot

- 2023: Baldur's Gate 3

- 2022: Elden Ring

- 2021: No consensus pick, but It Takes Two stands out to me

- 2020: Hades

All of these, with the exception of BG3 are original IP. A lot of them have really unique game mechanics that I haven't seen before. Hades has some of the tightest combat that never gets old even after hundreds of runs. It also has extraordinary music and voice acting. Truly a labour of love.

It Takes Two is a co-op story adventure. Every single level has a new fun mechanic. In one of them you literally control time. Please, do tell me which game from 20 years ago was a co-op adventure where every level was unique? The best co-op was probably Halo 2 (2004), but that's just shooting from beginning to end.

You're thinking "well, ok there's one sequel in there. That's proof that video game companies want to play it safe". But you'd still be incorrect. BG3 is inspired by its prequels BG1 and 2, but those released 20 years ago. Open YouTube and check out how different they are in every single way. I'll bet there isn't even a single line of code common between the BG3 and the originals. BG3 exists because the developers grew up playing BG1 and 2 and wanted to make a homage to the games that shaped them. And they succeeded, good for them.

I will admit that I didn't play Elden Ring. I didn't even attempt to, because I already have a full time job. But that's great too, because it shows that there are games being made for people who love a punishingly difficult challenge. That's not me, but you can find that now if you want.

Your comment is just rose-tinted whingeing. It's so easy to write a comment like "man, the good old days were really good weren't they". But ... no. I can play all of the games from the good old days and I can also play Hades, It Takes Two and BG3. And that's just the surface! There are so many incredible games being made and released. Factorio is great in many ways, but the most remarkable part is how they've optimised their game to a mind-boggling extent.

No one knows how to do anything anymore? Then how did these incredibly innovative, flawlessly executed games get made?
From the Wuffs readme:

> Wuffs the Language is safe with respect to buffer overflows, integer arithmetic overflows and null pointer dereferences. A key difference between Wuffs and other memory-safe languages is that all such checks are done at compile time, not at run time. If it compiles, it is safe, with respect to those three bug classes.

> […]

> Wuffs code is hermetic and can only compute (e.g. convert "compressed bytes" to "decompressed bytes"). It cannot make any syscalls (e.g. it has no ambient authority to read your files), implying that it cannot allocate or free memory (and is therefore trivially safe against things like memory leaks, use-after-frees and double-frees).
In Defense of Model-Makers: A New Point in the Computer Conservation Continuum
> was also shocked to see on an example recently that even basic computer literacy is gone.

Even with people that work with/in software roles there's often shocking knowledge gaps in areas that they work in. I've worked with more than one front-end "engineer" that only understood React--they had no conception of DOM APIs or that React was an abstraction on top of that whole underlying environment.

Even creating a static page with a simple form was create-react-app for them.
Startups should push an ambitious public-facing agenda from day one
Your point is well taken, but I wouldn't call your anecdote a matter of "basic computer literacy". I've been using desktop computers regularly since the Apple ][ era, but I've never owned a laptop or had to worry about charging one.
New Function Calling Guide for Gemini
Just use the polyfill

https://github.com/zloirock/core-js#jsonparse-source-text-ac...
I think each "line" is a stack expression, where one direction marks what value the stack pushes at that point, and the other direction (or index on the canvas? it's really unclear) marks the operation? So, maybe going down two lines is the number "two", then going right "one" pushes; now if we continue "right" three steps that means "add"?

There's no conditional operator on a single line. Instead, if two lines come "near" each other there's an alternate denotation that compares the values and either terminates (or rolls back?) the line's behavior to some earlier point (perhaps dependent on the value in the stack?)
I should write a love letter to JSON.
I couldn't find the story on it, but there was an instance of a config for some major service getting truncated, but since it was yaml it was more difficult to figure out that that was what happened. I think in AWS, but I can't find the story, so can't really remember.

And fully fair that you can have similar issues in other formats. I think the complaint here was that it was a bit harder, specifically because it did not trip up any of the loading code. With a big lesson learned that configs should probably either go pascal string style, where they have an expected number of items as the first part of the data, or xml style, where they have a closing tag.

Really, it is always amusing to find how many of the annoying parts of XML turned out to be somewhat more well thought out than people want to admit.
My dad worked his way up to middle management in a large railroad.

Management and executives had almost all worked their way up the ladder. Toward the end I think some of the higher-up ones were encouraged to get an MBA as they advanced, but they didn't do much hiring of MBAs.

The company got bought by another in IIRC the late 90s, and this other one had already been taking over by the "professional managerial class", and they quickly replaced most of the folks from the top down to the layer just above him with their own sort.

His description of what followed was incredible amounts of waste. Not just constant meetings that should have been emails (though, LOTS of that) but entire business trips that could have been emails. Lots of them fucking things up because they had no idea how anything worked, but wouldn't listen to people who did know. Just, constant.

The next step was they "encouraged" his layer to retire early, for any who were old enough, which was lots of them since, again, most of them had worked their way up the ladder to get where they were, not stepped straight into management as a 25-year-old with no clue how actual work gets done. I haven't asked, but I assume they replaced them with a bunch of young business school grads.

There are sometimes posts on HN suggesting that our dislike of business school sorts is silly or overblown, but if anything I think it's too weak. The takeover by them and, relatedly, the finance folks has been disastrous for actual productivity and innovation. Companies should be run by people who've done the work that the company does, and not just for an internship or something.
> Most research on attitudes toward automation and trade measure respondents’ self-interest solely using their employment status rather than their status as consumers

And this study goes on to ask about scenarios affecting both. More interesting to me is when the status as a consumer suffers from prevailing reassurance about markets. For example, ask Texans whether the price of electricity is a problem. Residential users are the least-instrumented participants in that market. And as the market reaches into the utility, most consumers are not enthusiastic unless you point out the potential for (marginal) savings because the market introduces new opportunities. I suppose I don’t expect average survey respondents to see AI any more clearly than economics.
You can always use the coax for MoCa - but since you've already got ethernet, seems a bit pointless. I've got coax all over too, and, well, it's pretty much useless to me. But maybe someday I'll need a drop somewhere and be happy to have it.
> AI surpassing humans even in PhD level tasks in a couple of years

What even _is_ a phd-level task, though? As far as I can see they haven't meaningfully defined this; it's just intended to sound impressive if you don't think about it too much.
thanks for your perspective on this!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But again that's semantics[1]. You ask for stuff via some mechanism, even an informal one, argue about it as necessary, and a third party adjudicator decides what you're allowed to.

Basically you're complaint here is about formality and paperwork. Which, fine. It sucks. But the fact that it exists is precisely what prevents someone from doing stuff like paying off the judge or just destroying evidence. I don't love it either but I sure as shit know which system I'd rather be living under.

[1] It's also actually wrong as a matter of pedantic fact: discovery requests are court filings and are made "to" the court, not the opposing counsel. But again, that's a distinction without meaning.
I've also met multiple people I'd never want to interact IRL but that are actually ok/nice people out of the internet. Being behind a keyboard definitely seems to bring the worst out of some people.
It's the kind of articulation you'd see in a McKinsey pitch deck. It's corporate apologia, heavily skewed towards Apple. His takes on Apple's 30% cut and the EU telling Apple to allow third party app stores, tell me he's speaking from the investor's POV than a developer's or consumer's.
Yes, of course, I greatly enjoy the stories and it’s why I opened this thread. But that’s not what my comment is about, I was specifically referencing the parts of the comments which dismiss the difficulty and length of time the author spent tracking down this particular bug. I found that funny and my comment was essentially one big joke.
I think your reply is a bit unfair. The first problem of the AI using outdated libraries sure it can be fixed if you are a competent developer who keeps up with industry standards. But if you need someone like that to guide an AI, then "agentic" coding loses a lot of its "agentic" ability which is what the article is talking about. If you need enthusiasts and experts to steer the AIs, they are a bit like "full self driving" where you are still asked to touch the steering wheel if it thinks you're not paying attention to the road.
Where Did AI Come From? – Newton Gateway to Mathematics
Everyone that tells him/herself a story, can use that story to justify crime.
Defender of the underdogs.
Saviour of the home-country from the foreign hordes.
In every story, there is idealisation and demonisation, a giving up of complexity and the moral horror justifications of fairy tales.
That's a really cool article!

TIL.

It makes absolute sense, but I never even thought about doing it that way. I was trained as an artist, and I always did perspective the "classic" way. It's entirely possible that this might not work on some subject matter, but it works great on buildings.
[Verse 1]

They call me Doctor Worm

Good morning, how are you? I'm Doctor Worm

I'm interested in things

I'm not a real doctor

But I am a real worm, I am an actual worm

I live like a worm

[Verse 2]

I like to play the drums

I think I'm getting good

But I can handle criticism

I'll show you what I know

And you can tell me if you think I'm getting better on the drums

I'll leave the front unlocked 'cause I can't hear the doorbell
As an alternative (and this is what capability-based design is all about), instead of replacing dependencies, just only give access to system calls to the main function of the app. It has to pass those on to any dependencies it wants, and so forth. The system calls are a small, mostly unchanging set of primitive items, and any dependency can wrap them up in whatever API suits them.

Example: in order to write to open a file, you need a capability object corresponding to write access to the file's parent directory. Now you can be sure that a dependency doesn't write any files unless you actually pass it one of these capability objects.
Actually I think your examples show that it is you who may be incorrect.

Stardew Valley is 9 years old.

Minecraft is almost 16 years old. The current version of the game has not dramatically changed in terms of the experience of most players of the game in over 10 years. (Hardcore players of any game will always make a big deal of any minor changes).

I was born in the 1990’s. I was playing games regularly in the 2000’s and the 2010’s although I don’t play as much today.

Hardly anyone in 2005 was playing 1996 games or 1989 games regularly.

Even in 2015 not many were playing 2006 or 1999 games regularly. (I think World of Warcraft was the only very popular old game in 2015)

But now in 2025 you bring up a 2016 game and 2009 game to argue with that other guy?

Hell what happened to the major big budget games? I remember playing Witcher 3, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Cyberpunk 2077…but even those games are ancient now. Witcher 3 is 10 years old, RDR 2 is 7 years old, Cyberpunk is 5 years old…

In 2015 I was playing games more often but I was playing games that were more recently released…. Not really games from 2010, 2008 and 2005….

Hell the most popular game for kids now is Fortnite which is 8 years old and came out in 2017! I wasn’t playing Mass Effect (2007) too much in 2015. The difference between Mass Effect 1 or Elder Scrolls Oblivion and The Witcher 3 is the same time difference as when Fortnite was released and 2025!
Why is Australia reburying ancient human remains?
Hmm very good point!
As I understand it they point to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 for why it doesn't need to go through the courts and the Secretary of State has the authority to sign off on it unilateraly.