skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this kind of plagiarism isn't that it violates someone's specific copyright.

But the discussion around plagiarism calls attention to the deeper issue: "generative" AI does not have emergent thinking or reasoning capabilities. It is just very good at obfuscating the sources of its information.

And that can cause much bigger problems than just IP infringement. You could make a strategic decision based on information that was deliberately published by an adversary.
The parent is talking about Rivian. Lucid sales are less than 10% of Rivian.

I guess it shows that not literally every electric car maker is suffering, but the applicability to the wider market is limited (Lucid delivered less than 1,000 units total, even after their increase).
> But why shouldn't everyone get to live like that?

Because we don't have that much money?
4o is almost laughably bad at code compared to Claude.
“Maybe you didn’t hear me, I said ‘good morning steam driver, how are you?’”
Funny thing is, due to overly complex regulations such as GDPR, there are no EU-based alternatives to speak of and as an EU-based company moving your cloud-based business to other countries mentioned in this thread often isn't legal according to GDPR either.

With the US and Privacy Shield there at least was an attempt to come to some sort of reasonable real-life solution (which of course was shot down by EU courts, so as of 2020 pretty much every EU-based business is in a legal limbo).
As in a more populist or outsider type tinge (or vocalizing those positions).

I'd disagree with a number of their foreign policy choices, but the house doesn't really set foreign policy, and the hawkish policies I'd want will anyhow be pushed by this admin but not revoked by any incoming admin.

There's a pretty solid crop of state assembly members and outsiders who can competitively primary out a number of older generation Dems, assuming a model similar to Illinois and NY 2020 is followed.
Guys, even reading this article could land you in jail!! Reading the code will forever taint your knowledge and cause every line you write to be subject to a lawsuit !! Stay safe !11

(Anyone else remember 2004, how scared everyone was when the Windows 2000 source was leaked?)
Not Solitaire!
This is why they distract you with pronouns.

https://www.ft.com/content/b1079606-5543-4fc5-acae-2c6c84b3a...

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2184

https://www.investopedia.com/biden-s-parting-gift-to-small-b...

https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statement...

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/biden-...

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration...
Obviously the former status quo wasn’t that bad. But the opposite is also true, AI democratizes access to pop culture. So now when I connect with a human it’s not to share memes, it’s higher order. IOW we can spend more time playing D&D because we didn't have to draw our characters.
Interesting, I've hard the exact opposite experience. For example I was curious why in metal casting the top box is called the cope and the bottom is called the drag. And it found very niche information and quotes from page 100 in a PDF on some random government website. The whole report was extremely detailed and verifiable if I followed its links.

That said I suspect (and am already starting to see) the increased use of anti-bot protection to combat browser use agents.
Nothing to say, huh? Literally none of the smart people who read this site have anything to say about this?
Every single one of these species need the "Whale-SETI" approach applied to them.

We're probably in for quite the shock when we finally decode their communications.
> The idea that the Democratic Party is a flawed, mundane institution full of fallible people who make mistakes is not a toxic idea

It's not about the idea which, as you say, is entirely reasonable.

It's about when you're interacting with someone—a stranger on the Internet—and they say something, you're both taking in their idea and also trying to guess at who they are and what their larger agenda is. And for better or worse, we've all spent the past decade or so living in a giant digital commons surrounded by strangers some of whom do have toxic hidden agendas that they are trying to get other people to believe, or at least to not fight back against.

In that environment, when someone criticizes your tribe, it's reasonable to wonder if that person trying to make the tribe stronger by pointing out its fixable flaws or if they are trying to make covert psychological inroads to eventually get you to believe something awful.

This is a real thing that does happen. Years ago, I watched one of my closest, dearest friends, get slowly radicalized by a white supremacist. My friend went from being a totally normal non-racist person to a full-on white supremacist that I had to cut ties with completely.

If the person who radicalized him had said, "Hey, I'm gonna try to get you to hate black people" on day one, my friend would have kicked him to the curb. But he didn't. He was friendly, charismatic. Asking rhetorical questions like, "Affirmative action to lift people up seems like a good idea, but what about poor white people? Who helps them?" That kind of stuff. A tiny step at a time over and over again until one day my friend was no longer my friend.

If you find yourself talking to a person who's ultimate goal is to get you to violate your values, there is no good faith discussion to be had and the best recourse is to identify it as soon as possible and get the fuck out.
Help me understand your viewpoint here - is the assumption that an entire ship is dedicated to shipping trivial commodities and the cargo isn't co-mingled with anything else? At the same time, what isn't counted as a "trivial commodity", and should ships _only_ be used for those items?
Can you give an example of the type of theorem or proof you're talking about?
It's never ok to threaten or use violence against people. But there is a range of opinions on trans rights from should man who declare themselves to be female allowed to participate in woman's sports (why do we have woman's sports in the first place?) or use woman's change rooms, to whether the state should fund sex change operations, to questions around when minors can make decisions about their body vs. parents opinions vs. protection of children rights.

What you're describing is never right and should be dealt with by law enforcement. That's likely far from where many of Republican voters are on this topic.
> Trump will ofc lose many of his old-guard GOP supporters if he does that.

Are there any left? Trump has undermined the alliance system. That damage can't be easily undone.
And in my experience "me 3 months later" counts as a whole second developer that needs accommodating. The only time I appreciate not having to think about types is on code that I know I will never, ever come back to—stuff like a one off bash script.
I think the main difference is if everything were freely available they may attempt to monetize the life out of it, but they will fail if they can't actually provide something people actually want. There's no more "You want a thing so you're going to buy our thing because we are the exclusive providers of it. That means we don't even have to make it very good"

If anyone in the world could make a Star Wars movie, the average Star Wars movie would be much worse, but the best 10 Star Wars movies might be better that what we currently have.
As a kid of the late 90s i feel like it was kinda unfair.

Back in the day (70s(?)80s) computers shipped with the programming language manual.
All I got was a CDROM of ENCARTA and a slip to mail in for a restore set of MS DOS / WIN 3.1 diskettes(which was sorely needed I might add).
> you might just need to wait 3.5 days when he changes his mind and reverses the tariffs for some reason.

That reason will be that he and his pals have already bought up all the stocks that are crashing or the businesses that start failing all at insanely low prices which they can sell off for huge profits once the tariffs are reversed and their value returns to normal.
I mean, it's fun. Ever listened to the KLF, and things from the era before sampling was heavily sat on, such as the album 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) - ? I don't claim it's very good, but it was definitely fun. And the motivation for using existing works, instead of creating your own, is similar to the motivation for using existing words, instead of creating your own. They're reference points, people recognize them, you can communicate with them instead of having to extract patience from the audience like they have to learn a new language for each work. And of course in practice the rules are fuzzy, so everybody sails close to the wind by imitating others and in this way we share a culture. Stealing their work is just sharing the culture more closely.
I’ve been pretty moderate on AI but I’ve been using Claude cli lately and it’s been pretty great.

First, I can still use neovim which is a massive plus for me. Second it’s been pretty awesome to offload tasks. I can say something like “write some unit tests for this file, here are some edge cases I’m particularly concerned about” then I just let it run and continue with something else. Come back a few mins later to see what it came up with. It’s a fun way to work.
don't you think it is empowering and aspiring for artists? they can try several drafts of their work instantaneously, checking out various compositions etc before even starting the manual art process.

they could even input/train it on their own work. I don't think someone can use AI to copy your art better than the original artist.

Plus art is about provenance. If we could find a scrap piece of paper with some scribbles from Picasso, it would be art.
You make bad faith arguments. When someone wants to talk about "capitalism" v. "communism" they typically want to discuss the idea of capitalism and the idea of communism as political enterprises.

When you respond to this argument with historical examples, you are being disingenuous by shifting the modality of discourse to a different logical type. The first few computers are nothing like what we have today, many airplanes, trains, and automobiles crash, no one turns around and argues that the very conception of a train is bad because of these historical instances. It is like taking a discussion about an interface design and then moving it to the level of implementation detail.

It also isn't a binary distinction. When people criticize negative outcomes of capitalism it does not automatically mean they espouse "communism" (more specifically some private definition of communism you have). They may simply want to critique the problems of the current system and propose some other alternative (maybe one that's more anarchic, for example).

These labels are such a curse on political-economic discourse. They have no stable, objective referents, and they do nothing but allow people to bring the conversation to an abysmally stupid place with rapidity (I include my own tendencies in this reflection).
China has capital controls. Chinese can’t just invest in the U.S. an unlimited amount.
My rent is in California is larger than those salaries. :-/
The classic one too is that as somebody who puts out the fires, you get all the praise; whereas if you just do the damn job right from the beginning, nobody notices. Corollary: create as many fires as you can, just don't completely burn the whole thing to the ground.
> that Republicans focused on economy, and Democrats focused on social issues.

That impression is partially an artifact of the information space disparity. Republicans spent a ton of time talking about social issues and the Democrats talked about lot about economic issues, but coverage of those things was wildly uneven. If you had any exposure to the Hispanic communities affected by deportations now, ask how many of the people making “I didn’t know he’d deport hard-working people like …” comments spent 2024 hearing a ton about how trans were threatening women or drag queens were grooming kids to be gay on WhatsApp/Telegram, and not coverage of the many, many times widespread deportation was promised. It’s almost a cliche to find people who thought they were voting for lower prices and are just now realizing that tariffs are taxes they pay, and that’s a function of where they get their news.
It’s only a flaw insofar as it’s used in ways in which the property of the tool is problematic. Stereotypes are use for good and bad all the time, let’s not pretend that we have to attack every problem with a funky shaped hammer because we can’t admit that it’s okay to have specialized tools in the tool belt.
I'm sorry, but that is delusional. It is not possible for humans to forego emotion in favor of logic.
Because that’s where the money is. The world over people have exhibited their revealed preferences for living in a city, as everywhere continues to urbanize
The difference between agile and waterfall only really matters at the start of a project. Once it is deployed/released/in-use, the two approaches converge, more or less.
Are you saying irl people don’t break the law or go against other conventions when they think it’s worth it?
> It is, but it adds disingenuous apologetic.

It’s not. It’s a rant against people and their laziness and gullibility.
Claude has some awareness of its CoT. As an experiment, it's easy, for example, to ask Claude to "think of a city, but only reply with the word 'ready' and next to ask "what is the first letter of the city you thought of?"
Good 3 part podcast on Houdini: https://timharford.com/2025/03/cautionary-tales-houdini-magi...
OpenStax completes computer science collection
I'm not sure how that follows. Do elite universities typically track the general population?
> AI democratizes access to pop culture.

Pop culture was already democratized. That's literally what makes it popular culture.

> So now when I connect with a human it’s not to share memes, it’s higher order.

I suspect that improving the image quality of the memes does not measurably improve the quality of the human connection here.

> IOW we can spend more time playing D&D because we didn't have to draw our characters.

You never had to draw your characters. You can just play and use your imagination. Why would we let LLMs do our dreaming for us?
Shipping highly optimized assembler for a program made to work on computers with 4KB RAM as a ~100 MB PDF is quite the flex.

I must admit that while it's computationally quite wasteful, the web page does look quite neat.
> The fact that it was ever seriously entertained that a "chain of thought" was giving some kind of insight into the internal processes of an LLM bespeaks the lack of rigor in this field

This is correct. Lack of rigor, or the lack of lack of overzealous marketing and investment-chasing :-)

> CoT improves results, sure. And part of that is probably because you are telling the LLM to add more things to the context window, which increases the potential of resolving some syllogism in the training data

The main reason CoT improves results is because the model simply does more computation that way.

Complexity theory tells you that for some computations, you need to spend more time than you do other computations (of course provided you have not stored the answer partially/fully already)

A neural network uses a fixed amount of compute to output a single token. Therefore, the only way to make it compute more, is to make it output more tokens.

CoT is just that. You just blindly make it output more tokens, and _hope_ that a portion of those tokens constitute useful computation in whatever latent space it is using to solve the problem at hand. Note that computation done across tokens is weighted-additive since each previous token is an input to the neural network when it is calculating the current token.

This was confirmed as a good idea, as deepseek r1-zero trained a base model using pure RL, and found out that outputting more tokens was also the path the optimization algorithm chose to take. A good sign usually.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=osint
60% of the US workforce these days is white collar, and it's one of the great illusions of our time. Most of these jobs only exist to keep busy the 60% of the US workforce that has a degree. In the 1940's about 30% of the US workforce was white collar and only 5% had degrees. What caused this change? It's probably because blue collar workers made so much money and had so much leverage that businesses shipped all their jobs overseas. Blue collar people actually make real things and perform useful toil for society, whereas now they're working fake jobs for less money which they're told has higher social status. It's genius the way the system works. The way it takes from people (student loans, less pay) while persuading them they got a better deal. But how can you have a society where the majority of workers are administrators? Well you needn't look any further than America to find your answer. One day the music is going to stop and other nations, like China, whose workers held no such delusions of grandeur, will have the advantage. Their illusion is that the government is a dictatorship of proles, which makes people think it's high status to be a prole. Plus when your government is officially one big labor union, you can effectively ban unions from interfering with production.
> Canada, Australia, India, Vietnam, South Africa... there's a whole world of nominally friendly and economically viable suppliers out there

Where generally EU-based businesses aren't allowed to move their cloud infrastructure either.

With the US and Privacy Shield there at least used to be an agreement in place. While that agreement was frivolously nullified by EU courts, at least so far authorities haven't been overly eager to enforce that, probably because they know that'd put pretty much every EU-based company out of business.

Have fun trying to convince zealous bureaucrats and lawyers that hosting your customer data in Vietnam is fine for an EU-based business, though.
I don't really get the American preoccupation with birth rates. We're already way overpopulated for our planet and this is showing in environmental issues, housing cost, overcrowded cities etc.

It's totally a great thing if we start plateauing our population and even reduce it a bit. And no we're not going extinct. It'll just cause some temporary issues like an ageing population that has to be cared for but those issues are much more readily fixable than environmental destruction.
OSINT = open source intelligence. It’s the whole of openly accessible data fragments about a person or item of interest, including their use for intelligence-gathering objectives.

For example, suppose a person shares a photo online, and your intelligence objective is to find where they are. In that case, you might use GPS coordinates in the photo metadata or a famous landmark visible in the image to achieve your goal.

This is just for others who are curious.
Norm is a hero.
Hayek has been lobbied by US corporations so hard for so long that regular people treat the invisible hand of the market like it's gospel.
Nah I made a beautiful bench just the other week. I’m not well-paid artisanal craft carpenters and/or designers/studios.just a regular fella who has a dab hand at carpentry
We can decide to spend our money on more ethical providers, be it eggs, milk, or meat, but as animals, we cannot get away from the circle of life.

Is it more "humane" for an animal to be eaten alive by another predator? The only difference is mankind has industrialized the process, and we don't truly give thanks because we are so separated from the process.

Edit: I don't really want to dissuade against alternatives, the problem I see is many nutritionally inferior options.
I'm not ignoring that, I'm saying that a differently organized society would have everybody working 40 weeks a year instead of the ridiculous inequality we face today.
Coding with Vibes: Evaluating Natural Language Programming Tools
Just joining in with the “Wow, this is amazing” crowd. I usually detest websites that dink with scrolling to animate content in and out of view, except for well designed long form narrative content; but this is slick.

A challenge to all the “10x-ed my productivity” LLManiacs: how long to recreate this landing page using nothing but prompts (and how much $$ for a how-to course :)

A challenge to the “the’re gonna take our jobs” LLMongers: git gud, its possible. this is living proof.

(yes, i did just want to post those portmanteaus, even though it was all ChatGPT: https://pastebin.com/zrsj6DcB )
Fwiw, that prediction was during Moore's law though. If that held until now, CPUs would run laps around what our current gpus do for LLMs.
At the end of the day it is people who are doing OSINT and their self/ai confidence is a reflection of their fallibility, just as being manipulated by intelligence operatives in their discord servers to be peer pressured into pushing a certain narrative. OSINT should be about uncovering objective truth in a sea full of lies in a storm of obfuscation through a tsunami of misinformation caused by an earthquake of disinformation. Now these OSINT people need to battle the siren song of clout (and being first).

I doubt anyone can do it perfectly every time, it requires a posthuman level of objectivity and high level of information quality that hardly ever exists.
> Do you really want to ruin the life of a person that ruins your entertainment?

They're not ruining my entertainment, I don't play any such online game. Even still, poisoning any element of trust in society should default make you a pariah. This is no different from anyone else who purposefully breaks the social contract in any other context for their own gains.

> Bypassing a good anticheat was and still is a good way to obtain a ton of reverse engineering and software security-related knowledge.

Getting into street fights with strangers is a good way to obtain a ton of self-defense related knowledge. I still think that's no excuse for someone to get into street fights with strangers. There are plenty of other ways to gain similar knowledge that don't require poisoning the community well.

> Cheating is another question, though.

??? How do you think you figure out how to bypass the good anti-cheat???
I never really understood this argument. The billionaires wealth is mostly in stock. In a crash like this their wealth goes down 10% like of all us. They can buy assets on the dip, but it will only regain that 10%
they lost.
I don't like carbon but I tend to prefer supporting USA and Taiwanese manufacturers. I'd love to see more domestic fabrication.

I was/am going to buy an Otso titanium frame, but they're made in Taiwan. Depending on the final price adjustment due to tariffs, it might actually be more cost effective for me to buy a Moots (made in America) frame to build.
No, whiskey might be. Whisky, on the other hand, of course isn't affected by US tariffs.
Anyone else have trouble logging in/staying logged in.
Logging in with email.
> Participants weren’t lazy. They were experienced professionals.

Assuming these professionals were great critical thinkers until the AI came along and changed that is a big stretch.

In my experience, the people who outsource their thinking to LLMs are the same people who outsourced their thinking to podcasts, news articles, Reddit posts, Twitter rants, TikTok videos, and other such sources. LLMs just came along and offered them opinions on demand that they could confidently repeat.

> The scary part is that many users still believed they were thinking critically, because GenAI made them feel smart

I don’t see much difference between this and someone who devours TikTok videos on a subject until they feel like an expert. Same pattern, different sources. The people who outsource their thinking and collect opinions they want to hear just have an easier way to skip straight to the conclusions they want now.