skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't need to make a suggestion on how something came to be, It would be up to the person who says it happened in a certain way to provide the evidence to support that. It is not evidence in any meaningful way to say because it's here now therefore it must have been done by humans. It likely was but that doesn't mean it was entirely done by humans absent any external input.

Claiming that these ideas were the sole creation of humans with zero external input seems to be the same argument that intelligent design people make when they look at the complexity of biological systems. Are you a proponent of intelligent design? Because they draw the same conclusions that something of such complexity must have had an initial creator.

If you bother to read up a few comments you will see the entire point of this thread is that there is a base assumption that AI cannot create anything absent the supplied input that they've been given. So refocus on that and my response that humans have not been shown to create anything absent the supplied input that they have been given. To make an assumption that humans created something absent inputs would require an extraordinary amount of proof demonstrating that that's possible.

I have no idea how you would demonstrate that's possible because humans continually receive input from their surroundings all of the time.
Do LLMs "think"? I have trouble with the title, claiming that LLMs have thoughts.
Why the snark? The OP, the study I linked and the book I referenced which contains many well researched examples of issues caused by defaultism surely represent a strong enough body of work that they should deserve a more engaged critique.
Replacing windows is actually one of the easier DIY home jobs you can do. Hell of a lot easier than building a deck that a lot of people do. They are installed after framing and meant to be removed if they break. Removing the trim inside and outside will give you access to the fasteners holding the frame in.

Usually, the hardest part is finding windows that fit and match your taste.
I think that no matter how good Waymo is doing, there is still the problem of who is responsible when a self driving is involved in a serious accident.

The only solution to that is probably to only let self driving cars onto the road, in an all-or-nothing solution.
Lots of spam submissions use the cloudflare.com domain with non-matching title. Going on for months. Still unclear what's the purpose (if any).
It does seem to be possible to design QR codes that scan differently depending on the orientation, though they look a little visibly malformed.

https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/this-qr-code-leads-to-two-we...
We really need to work on popularizing better, non-anthropomorphic terms for LLMs, as they don’t really have “thoughts” the way people think. Such terms make people more susceptible to magical thinking.
I wonder if there will be specific carve-outs for Gavin Newsomes special friends, like how Panera got an exemption from the minimum wage hike?
Show HN: An open source OAuth/auth system
Can be deployed to Cloudflare or fully selfhosting.

A simple demo site available with only Password Sign-in/Sign-up, OTP MFA, Passkey enrollment features enabled, no real email needed: https://auth-demo.valuemelody.com/
I'd much rather it be something that is neither used in normal* text/numbers, nor whitespace, thus non-printable delimiters wins for me.

* Don't mind me extending 'normal' here to include human-written numbers with thousand seperators.
Thanks for clarifying. Concerns: (1) Looking backwards: "a factory used to". That's questionable, we should look forwards. (2) Proxying. "was taxed generating income for societal benefit". If the net outcome of a factory is to give people money, shouldn't we just skip the factory and give people money? Isn't that more efficient? (3) Suggestions around structure and limits. These will be abused. I'm a craftsman woodworker, but so are my family, we in aggregate produce more than the factory, but we're all under the threshold.

I'm not sold. Actually, I think there's more to it. There's been an historical association between people's job and their sense of identity and self worth. The value of work is not just about earning money, or the portion of that money that is transferred to social uses through taxation or otherwise. If you just implement UBI there'll be bored directionless people, drug use, criminality and social problems. What we need is recognition that (a) we don't need the people anymore (b) that's OK (c) different people may freely choose between social engagement and hibernating in a room with VR or going full artist hermit mode or becoming a triple PhD or being a psychonaut or whatever.

The oddball reality is we're sort of there already, it's just not evenly distributed. Ask an anthropologist or an economist or a technologist: what policies should governments put in place to support people and society in a transition to "nobody works or needs to work or engage with one another at all?" Turn them all in to GPS tracked phone zombies? Build sovereign wealth funds? Redefine collective identities in virtual spaces? Slowly introduce methods to reduce fertility? Reject technology and return to nature?

It seems to me that our ape minds are not well suited to the new reality. Most will seemingly choose to live a reactionary life of experiential consumption in a bubble of consensual hallucination crafted by technology that is controlled by others... and soon, controlled by endless generative AI. As a species we are enslaving ourselves to the perpetual feed through laziness.

In an era where similar popular experience increasingly lies at every corner of the globe: ask yourself - what kind of life do you want to lead? As technologists, we now arguably have greater ability to alter humanity's course than the politicians. We should think about how to use it.
I didn't create it, it's Motter Tektura 9pt (https://fontsgeek.com/fonts/Motter-Tektura-Normal) and I manually fixed a few characters that looked bad at 9px.

On the splash screen, it's just an image, made with Gimp and converted to HGR.
My initial impression (looking at the examples, not actual usage) is that this feels like a weird half-way between Dockerfile and using actual code to define and compose software (i.e. like Nix). Not super appealing to me as a heavy Nix user.
Beyond the hype
Still more than flour and water,no?
I noticed that carbs were the main ingredient in our school district lunch. A really bad idea if you want kids to be able to focus, rather than alternating cycles of hyper/sleepy.
People openly admit[1] to abusing the flagging system as their own automated mega-downvote to try to steer[2] the topics towards ones they like and away from ones they don't like.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43150182

2: Their exact word
The Istanbul song is still floating around in memes today but I totally forgot about Birdhouse in Your Soul. Listening to the Flood album now. Thanks for posting!
Reading these scripts is where my efforts to speak Japanese died on Duolingo. I wanted to be able to talk and they force me to learn all the characters.
But, nice writeup, I knew the writing systems, but never realized that each has its own function.

Btw. Does anybody knows some alternative to learn to speak/understand Japanese ?
Race and gender should be inputs then.

The female part is actually a bit more surprising. Its easy to imagine a dataset not skewed towards black people. ~15% of the population in North America, probably less in Europe, and way less in Asia. But female? Thats ~52% globally.
I've moved away from MacOS for everything but work.

At home I'm 100% iPadOS and iPhoneOS (also have a Kindle that I use daily). When I'm not at work I've been able to eliminate all "computer" use.

There was an adjustment period when I'd use my partner's MacBook Pro for a few random things. The last thing I remember doing on one was my taxes in 2023. But past 2 years now I just did them on the iPad and it was fine.

It's been great.
Star Trek outlined a sequence of steps but you might not like them...
Misunderstandings of specifications, lack of best or common practices, redoing stuff that was already tried by the team.
I applaud the intent but the devil dwells in the details. I keep up with the latest nutritional gurus in the US and UK and even staunch advocates of abstaining from Ultra Processed Food (UPF) self-admit to having a very hard time defining exactly what that means. In addition, there are not a wealth of studies to support the harm of UPF - its mostly, avoid till more is known and educated supposition. This frustrates attempt to be precise about what's in and what's out.

Secondly, why push the deadline out to 2032. Start banning the clear junk next week. Ok, maybe it takes a while to hammer out a definition that works but start with simple rules - ratio of dietary fiber to total carbs <= 5; at least one fresh veggie and one fresh fruit per meal (fresh = not the canned in syrup stuff). CA produces a significant portion of US produce so should be somewhat easy for them. Not so much for Minnesota but baby steps.
While you haven't used linear algebra, someone working in MLE would probably find it useful to understand. Now I'm not saying you need to take a linear algebra class to understand matrix/vector operations, but it would be useful as it comes up.
Nested CSVs as you've seen in real-life data are a good counterexample, thanks for providing it.
It costs about a $1 to implement a major feature, so no the cost is marginal compared to my salary.
> Having no SSR but everything be statically exported allows me to get away with cheaper hosting on the backend side

Building a static website is very reasonable. Using the monstrosity that is Next.js to build a static website seems like super overkill, and I am not sure it offers a good developer experience to justify it[1].

[1] My experience with it had a need for dynamically driven pages, so it may just be that it's horrid design is only a problem once you move past static page generation.
Funny too about the new NGAD it's joining the canard gang maybe
Our municipal governments are allergic to densification and have onerous zoning laws that force basically all new development through years of consultation and permitting to get a shovel in the ground. Coupled with a weak currency and extreme land prices in the geographically constrained markets like Vancouver, many projects die on the vine.
Tell it to Microsoft
This is obviously a jab, but to answer the unspoken question: if it's still more effective than human doctors for black or female people, then yes it should be used. If it isn't, then don't use it for them. Simple as that. (fixing this problem should be a high priority either way, that goes without saying)
I think this completely elides the point the gp was making about the edge cases being the hardest part. As siblings have pointed out, even establishing "no damage to the property beyond normal wear and tear" is frequently contentious and not self-evident. Rights (and courts) exist precisely because parties frequently represent the facts of a situation to their maximal benefit.

Also, while reasonable people can agree that there's room to improve the balance on tenants rights, the idea of swinging from "total" to "0" rights based solely on payment status doesn't strike me as the debate's end.
Just as good as a real doctor then?
It's a law of large numbers thing. Americans romanticized mom&pop landlords vs big greedy landlords, but.. it's a bad business to be a smalltime landlord. It's like putting all your money in one stock.

If, say, 5% of the population is crazy, and make for bad tenants.. then owning 10-20+ units puts you in a position of always having 90%+ of your revenue coming in.

If you have 1 unit then most of the time you are OK, but every once in a while you may lose 100% of your revenue for 3-12 months, while you have to keep spending on mortgage/tax/utilities, plus lawyers, repairs, etc.
And so if you went to Saudi Arabia you'd pretend to be down with executing people for apostasy?

Obviously it's an extreme example but many of the norms of a Western mindset would be no less offensive to billions of people in this world.

What bias of moderation exists is that you probably wouldn't migrate to Saudi Arabia unless you were already mostly ok with their values.

And if e.g. economic opportunity drove you there you'd probably keep your opinions to yourself, but it's unlikely your values would fundamentally change.

I will only add - I speak from experience here.
False positive diagnoses cause a huge amount of patient harm. New technologies should only be deployed on a widespread basis when they are justified based on solid evidence-based medicine criteria.
Reddit and X both seem to be down.[1][2]

[1] https://downdetector.com/

[2] https://www.livenowfox.com/news/is-x-down-thousands-report-o...
Democrats are largely controlled opposition. If you ask where democratic power comes from, it comes from campaign donations by America's richest and most powerful people. Bloomberg ran for president under their banner, think about that. At minimum it communicates that the democratic platform is compatible with oligarchs.

How are they supposed to wrangle corporate power, when that is exactly where their power comes from?

"Social issues" are a godsend for oligarchs because they allow for effort to be spent on issues that don't challenge corporate power. They provide a sink for democratic efforts that ultimately don't move the needle for most of their voters. It gives a pathway for "positive" change that doesn't threaten corporate power. It insidiously disempowers the people who would be most likely to wrestle with corporate power. Most of all it provides the illusion of opposition and therefore the illusion that I have representation because I have someone who has the appearance of representing my values (like empathy), but none of the substance of it.

Democrats have a choice. (1) don't threaten corporate power and focus on ultimately pro-corporate social issues that are ultimately dis-empowering (2) threaten corporate power/land owner power/Israel power and immediately have their campaign financing removed and their challengers funded.

Even if you believe that democrats are focusing on issues that meaningfully change people's lives, like build back better or CHIPS, they are doing it without challenging corporate power. Which is why no matter which regime is in power, it feels like democracy is in decline.

Then you get sad, because you realize there is no way to get actual representation for the issues you care about other than to run yourself, but if you ran explicitly to challenge those in power, those in power would fund your opposition. So then you realize that it's hard to get into power without expressing loyalty to those who grant power, and then you have a cogent explanation for why things are the way they are.
It reads like a parable and you are right there isn’t a lot of action. I thought the imagery was very stark and the relation the main character had to the world is similar to an abuse victim rationalizing their situation.
The Death of Software Engineering by a Thousand Prompts
The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
Or take more inputs. If there are differences between race and gender and thats not captured as an input we should expect the accuracy to be lower.

If an x-ray means different things based off the race or gender we should make sure the model knows the race and gender.
I think a simpler theory for this or any site not ranking high is that a small group of users consistently flag the posts, and flags carry a lot of weight.

We've seen this more blatantly with Elon articles. Almost any submission that paints him in a negative light gets flagged quickly and rarely makes the front page.
Is search, even legacy search like a table of contents or the Dewey decimal system not useful? It may not point you to what you want either.

LLMs are an ok iteration on search with up and downsides.

One of the upsides is better contextual hinting from the users input. One of the downsides is that it also makes it trivial to spew out so much bullshit content that soon I doubt it will be able to train on most of the public internet anymore.
> This doesn't seem to happen very often in classical programming, does it?

Not really, no. The only counterexample I can think of is chess programs (before they started using ML/AI themselves), where the search tree was so deep that it was generally impossible to explain "why" a program made a given move, even though every part of it had been programmed conventionally by hand.

But I don't think it's particularly unusual for technology in general. Humans could make fires for thousands of years before we could explain how they work.
Mmmm...

You don't work in healthcare do you?

I think it would be extremely bad if people found out that, um, "other already disliked/scapegoated people", get actual doctors and nurses working on them, but "people like me" only get the doctor or nurse checking an AI model.

I'm saying that if you were going to do that, you'd better have an extremely high degree of secrecy about what you were doing in the background. Like, "we're doing this because it's medical research" kind of secrecy. Because there's a bajillion ways that could go sideways in today's world. Especially if that model performs worse than some rockstar doctor that's now freed up to take his/her time seeing the, uh, "other already disliked/scapegoated population".

Your hospital or clinic's statistics start to look a bit off.

Joint commission?

Medical review boards?

Next thing you know certain political types are out telling everyone how a certain population is getting preferential treatment at this or that facility. And that story always turns into, "All around the nation they're using AI to get <scapegoats> preferential treatment".

It's just a big risk unless you're 100% certain that model can perform better than your best physician. Which is highly unlikely.

This is the sort of thing you want to do the right way. Especially nowadays. Politics permeates everything in healthcare right now.
https://www.straightdope.com/21343649/did-the-reagan-era-usd...

"The story is so convoluted that it defied simple explanation at the time. Even today, the episode can be plausibly presented (depending on the political leanings of the presenter) as either a simple bureaucratic screwup or an unsuccessful effort by the right to pursue its agenda at the expense of the nation’s kids."

in either case, ketchup was not actually ever classified as a vegetable in approved legislation:

"When the proposed new rules were released for comment in September 1981, food activists went ballistic. Democratic politicians staged photo ops where they feasted on skimpy-looking meals that conformed to the new standards. The mortified administration withdrew the proposal and the USDA official in charge of the program was transferred, a move widely interpreted as a firing."
Hedge Funds Struggle as Green Stocks Crash
Steve Jobs with a windows update? Very confusing
I'm concerned that people will read this and NotSee your point.

An Frankly, that's par for the course here.

/s

I think folks in the US would be safer if they concentrated on the fact that:

"If they can remove due process from anyone, they can do it to you, too".

After all, once you're renditioned to a 3rd country with no legal status, what exactly are you going to do to get out of that situation? Hoping that you look white enough and never express a "bad" opinion doesn't seem all that safe to me.
… and North Korean artillery shells.
Thanks for giving it another chance! We need to get better at explaining all this, it's a lot to unpack, although prior experience with declarative systems like Nix or Bazel does help a lot :)

We have a very active discord, feel free to come by and ask all the tough questions!
On a somewhat related note, check out the video of Tuesday's Computer History Museum x IEEE Spectrum event, "The Great Chatbot Debate: Do LLMs Really Understand?"

Speakers: Sébastien Bubeck (OpenAI) and Emily M. Bender (University of Washington). Moderator: Eliza Strickland (IEEE Spectrum).

Video: https://youtu.be/YtIQVaSS5Pg
Info: https://computerhistory.org/events/great-chatbot-debate/
Iran has to be worried about being carpet bombed into nothingness though, so theres only so much they can escalate
In 2D, it would become sokoban, wouldn't it?
What usually happens with these mandates is you get road markings that pretend to be a bike lane just to satisfy the contract requirements and siphon off federal ISTEA funding for the budgetary savings. The reality is that they are usually fancy death traps with no engineering rigor put into making them safe or functional for bicyclists.
This forces each field to be quoted, and it assumes that each row has the same fields in the same order. A library can handle the quoting issues and fields more reliably. Not sure why you went with a generator for this either.

Most people expect something like
`12,,213,3`
instead of
`"12","213","3"`
which yours might give.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values#Basic_r...
They always say that, until you talk about legalizing more immigration, then you find out that no, they don't want any more immigration period.
I solve most of those issues with a Docker Bakefile; I'm confident I could solve the rest with Bakefiles if I had to. Reasonable developer experience.
We already live in a world where only a small number of people ACTUALLY need to work. Most of humanity's expenses are attributable to lifestyle creep. If we could be happy with a 16th century peasant standard of living delivered by a small number of people using modern tech, only a tiny percentage of the available manpower would be required. Lifestyle creep eats all gains in productivity. Work also expands to fill the available time.
https://archive.ph/2025.03.27-115038/https://www.wired.com/s...
User privilege separation is a foundation that allows many container implementations to work, and for sandboxes software like Tor or, for however unlikely it is that you're running atop on it, Android use, etc.

If someone is running Tor to not end up in prison/dead, their Tor sandbox can be opened for anyone to own, for example.
that's incredible, I wonder how many schools in the US still do this
Or worse, "sharrows" in the middle of a busy car lane. Ride here if you don't value your life.
Cloudflare errors seem to be spiking, too. Is there some major backbone outage?
> Just pre-emptively putting that out there to answer the inevitable "B...b...b...but unlike people, AI sometimes makes stuff up!" response from nervous gatekeepers.

You're misusing the word gatekeeper, if there is even a good use for it. Requiring a driving test isn't gatekeeping. Or rather it is, but gatekeeping is an obtuse complaint.
At least the author worked for Google. It's another layer of fun to go through the work of tracking down a bug like that as a third party and then trying to somehow contact a person at the company who can fix it, especially when it is a big company and doubly so if the product is older and on a maintenance only schedule.

Me: "Your product is broken for all customers in this situation, probably has been so for years, here is the exact problem and how to fix it, can I talk with someone who can do the work?"

Customer Support: "Have you tried turning your machine off and turning it back on again?"
It's the same product. Dagger Shell is a new client for the same Dagger Engine and its API. It allows you to do more from the command-line, before you have to switch to code. But the SDKs and "pipeline as code" are still there, unchanged.
I'm not the first person to say this, but the school food should be easily accessible to parents. Maybe have a quarterly parent lunch where the adults try the same meals served to their children. If they are grossed out, that would be a good place to start the discussion on how to improve.
Funny you should say that. There was a push to have more officially collected DIET data for exactly this reason. Unfortunately such efforts were recently terminated.