skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you got help from a natural intelligence? No fair. (natdeo?)

Someone needs to create a clone site of HN's format and posts, but the rules only permit synthetic intelligence comments. All models pre-prompted to read prolifically, but comment and up/down vote carefully and sparingly, to optimize the quality of discussion.

And no looking at nat-HN comments.

It would be very interesting to compare discussions between the sites. A human-lurker per day graph over time would also be of interest.

Side thought: Has anyone created a Reverse-Captcha yet?
Malaysia Suspends Search for MH370
I think it's just a tradition in the electronics world to write and publish hobby and educational articles. It dates back to well before the the Internet. People enjoy this interaction, and the distributors give them space for it.

People like HVAC installers -- I've seen most of that on YouTube, where there's a chance of monetizing the content. I've repaired nearly every appliance in my house, thanks to blogs and videos posted by strangers.
One way to achieve superhuman intelligence in AI is to make humans dumber.
Its kind of weird how everyone is complaining about copyright infringemet in memes now.

Memes are pretty inherently derrivative. They were always someone elses work. The picard face palm meme was obviously taken from star trek. All your base is obviously from that video game. Repurposing someone else's work with new meaning is basically what a meme is. Why do we suddenly care now?
thx for the kind words!

to your (awesome) questions:
right now it's centrally managed. it's just easier to build this way and use existing services. i use own apis, firebase and livekit.

at some point i'd LOVE to work on this full-time and live off of it, that's my end-goal.

everything is doable, but it would/will take work, but i wouldn't mind creating a self-hosted version for the 4 of you that really really want that ;)
I suggest that you look up the price of second hand M2 Macbook Pros.
The elite reaction to January 6th was just raw hostility towards the American nation.

I don't claim to have access to secret knowledge about the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the elections. My view on the actual election fraud claims is agnosticism. I have no access to information that would allow me to independently come to any conclusion on the matter.

However, a large volume of very plausible evidence was put forward. And, instead of honest engagement with those concerns, we got extreme censorship, gas lighting, and a violent crack-down on everyone involved.

We cannot allow people that have this attitude towards us to continue to rule over us.
If I were a third party downvoting my comment I would probably take issue with the characterization of the anti-tariff position as "save my infinite trough of plastic slop". Other countries do have highly skilled artisans. Tariffs are also considered bad on the merits (looking at it from a liberal [economically] world view). It's like vaccine skepticism to economists: an extremely low-status opinion for kooks and cranks. But I am open to being convinced on illiberal economics (this is not the same thing as saying I support it) because I consider military supply chain erosion a national emergency and I don't think "balloon the military budget even more with subsidies" is a politically viable position and "just build it in an allied country we now have to keep permapoor to make the economics work out" is cruel.
The only reason LLMs are stochastic instead of deterministic is a random number generator. There is nothing inherently non-deterministic about LLM algorithms unless you turn up the "temperature" of selecting the next word. The fact that determinism can be changed by turning a knob is clear evidence that they are closer to a database or search engine than a human.
The second category is my personal favorite - bought a used and slightly beat up Nikon FM2n when I was in college for cheap and the thing is still trucking with no maintenance done 15 years later. Shutter speeds seem at least reasonably accurate and it only requires a battery for the light meter. All mechanical otherwise.

Or if you want to get fancy the Nikon FM3a gives you sort of the best of all worlds (all mechanical internals or battery powered auto exposure with the flip of a dial)
Mechanical pencil and a day planner
Neat project! Will be cool to see once it's up and running

Lately I installed NT 4.0 on my i486DX4-100 system. With 64MB of RAM and a CF card it runs very well, it actually feels quite modern and NT 4.0 is slowly growing on me. I've experimented with service packs and found SP4 was the right balance of supporting later software without slowing it down much.

Just installed Visual Basic 5 and Python 2.3 and it's approaching 24 hours of uptime. The system clock is synced to my router as well!
Without CoT then training them to give specific answers reduces performance. With CoT you can punish them if they don't give the exact answer you want without hurting them, since the reasoning tokens help it figure out how to answer questions and what the answer should be.

And you really want to train on specific answers since then it is easy to tell if the AI was right or wrong, so for now hidden CoT is the only working way to train them for accuracy.
I love it, but... Going to this page https://animejs.com/documentation/scope/ with ublock origin enabled in my Firefox (136.0.3) immediately crashes the tab. Which certainly made for a funny experience right after scrolling through the very impressive intro animation.
This doesn’t seem like a great way to reason about the predictions.

For something like this, saying “There is no evidence showing it” is a good enough refutation.

Counterpointing that “Well, there could be a lot of this going on, but it is in secret.” - that could be a justification for any kooky theory out there. Bigfoot, UFOs, ghosts. Maybe AI has already replaced all of us and we’re Cylons. Something we couldn’t know.

The predictions are specific enough that they are falsifiable, so they should stand or fall based on the clear material evidence supporting or contradicting them.
Copyright protection doesn't prevent an illustrator from drawing the thing.
> AI has started to take jobs, but has also created new ones.

Yeah nah, theres a key thing missing here, the number of jobs created needs to be more than the ones it's destroyed, and they need to be better paying and happen in time.

History says that actually when this happens, an entire generation is yeeted on to the streets (see powered looms, Jacquard machine, steam powered machine tools) All of that cheap labour needed to power the new towns and cities was created by automation of agriculture and artisan jobs.

Dark satanic mills were fed the decedents of once reasonably prosperous crafts people.

AI as presented here will kneecap the wages of a good proportion of the decent paying jobs we have now. This will cause huge economic disparities, and probably revolution. There is a reason why the royalty of Europe all disappeared when they did...

So no, the stock market will not be growing because of AI, it will be in spite of it.

Plus china knows that unless they can occupy most of its population with some sort of work, they are finished. AI and decent robot automation are an existential threat to the CCP, as much as it is to what ever remains of the "west"
This maps pretty well to my experience.

Other devs will say things like "AI is just a stupid glorified autocomplete, it will never be able to handle my Very Special Unique Codebase. I even spent 20 minutes one time trying out Cursor, and it just failed"

Nope, you're just not that good obviously. I am literally 10x more productive at this point. Sprint goals have become single afternoons. If you are not tuned in to what's going on here
and embracing it, you are going to be completely obsolete in the next 6 months unless you are some extremely niche high level expert. It wont be a dramatic moment where anyone gets "fired for AI". Orgs will just simply not replace people through attrition when they see productivity staying the same (or even increasing) as headcount goes down.
Apple groups notifications using on their on-device AI.

So even if it was supported the OS would just ignore it.
Textbooks aren't just communicating theorems and proofs (which are often just written in formal symbolic language), but also the language required to teach these concepts, why these are important, how these could be used and sometimes even the story behind the discovery of fields.

So this is far from an accurate comparison.
Right, and there's a good case to be made for tariffs that are explicitly tied to another country's worker and environmental protections, where the country has actionable steps to improve their worker/environmental protections in order to avoid the tariff.

But the current administration is itself actively opposed to worker or environmental protections, and the result of the current tariffs will just be that the poor people overseas end up even more impoverished and still lacking in protections.
that's a constant assignment, completely different. And you're not going to see it 100s of times in a project.
Fawk yes!
That was my first thought : "Oh NFT is still a thing in 2025". But no, it is really awesome.
The idea behind subsidising re-education is that it benefits the society in the long run. I guess I have no proof that it isn't what makes Scandinavian GDP/capita lower.
Yeah, part of this rewrite was separating our monitoring tables from all of our queue tables to avoid problems like table bloat.

At one point we considered partitioning on the status of a queue item (basically active | inactive) and aggressively running autovac on the active queue items. Then all indexes for monitoring can be on the inactive partitioned tables.

But there were two reasons we ended up going with separate tables:

1. We started to become concerned about partitioning _both_ by time range and by status, because time range partitioning is incredibly useful for discarding data after a certain amount of time

2. If necessary, we wanted our monitoring tables to be able to run on a completely separate database from our queue tables. So we actually store them as completely independent schemas to allow this to be possible (https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet/blob/main/sql/schema/... vs https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet/blob/main/sql/schema/...)

So to answer the question -- you can query both active queues and a full history of queued tasks up to your retention period, and we've optimized the separate tables for the two different query patterns.
I used it a bit at University - most notably it had an Occam system on it that wasn't available on the Sun workstations.

I'm curious about running a VMS system although the admin side looks a bit daunting. The thing I'd really like to do is run X-Windows on an emulator on my home lab, just to see it run.
The ol' "I know it when I see that it thinks like me" argument.
Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, Tildes X, Reddit. Do you want more?

On Bluesky and X you're actually fairly likely to read the conversation or at least policy viewpoints of actual policy makers and think tanks. Rather than hackers speculating about a field they have little experience in.
Agreed. To be more precise: I think the solution is small, community-run servers. This allows large, consistent groups of players to play together regularly with a much higher percentage of admins who can handle cheaters manually.

I also maintain that human judgement, can still catch things anti-cheat software is yet incapable of. Example: it doesn't matter how well hidden your aimbot is, I still notice cheaters when their accuracy is wildly out of proportion with their strategic understanding of the game.
It brings you to their site as well as advertises a specific component or range of components from a manufacturer.

The Digikey articles I've come across are well written. This article however is artificially inflated using SEO style writing. I mean after they supposedly explained servo motors you'll find this ugly sentence further down: "Still, how does a servo motor work?" I mean holy shit man, do you even care about your writing or the subject? Likely not. And really, the article is so light on details its barely technical and only talks about the RC servo. This is pretty much junk.
Exactly. We designed systems that work on attention and inference… and then surprised that it returns popular results?
I struggle to wrap my head around how this would work (and how AI can be used to maintain and refine software in general). Brownfield code got brown by being useful and solving a real problem, and doing it well enough to be maintained. So the AI approach is to throwaway the code that's proved its usefulness? I just don't get it.
I don't think those links support the point you are trying to make (i assume you are disagreeing with parent). Copyright law is a lot more complex then just a binary, and fictional characters certainly don't enjoy personality rights.
That's obviously not true. Before OpenAI blew the field open, multiple labs -- e.g. Google -- were intentionally holding back their research from the public eye because they thought the world was not ready. Investors were not pouring billions into capabilities. China did not particularly care to focus on this one research area, among many, that the US is still solidly ahead in.

The only reason timelines are as short as they are is because of people at OpenAI and thereafter Anthropic deciding that "they had no choice". They had a choice, and they took the one which has chopped at the very least years off of the time we would otherwise have had to handle all of this. I can barely begin to describe the magnitude of the crime that they have committed -- and so I suggest that you consider that before propagating the same destructive lies that led us here in the first place.
IMO they haven't even predicted mid-2025.

> Coding AIs increasingly look like autonomous agents rather than mere assistants: taking instructions via Slack or Teams and making substantial code changes on their own, sometimes saving hours or even days.

Yeah, we are so not there yet.
I'm not sure the social organization of hep-th has a lot to do with the field being stagnant. Granted, if there hadn't been 20 years of superstring hegemony there would have been 20 years of other theories that would have struggled to connect to reality.

The real problem is a lack of experimental results. No detection of dark matter. No measurement of the neutrino mass term. No sparticles. No observed proton decay.

The real social organization question is if the FCC turns out to be useful or if it's a distraction from machines specifically aimed at the neutrino sector, which is the one place where: (1) we know something strange is going on, and (2) there's no doubt that bigger detectors and higher event rates will turn up something.
Peoples’ memories are so short. Ten years ago the “well accepted definition of intelligence” was whether something could pass the Turing test. Now that goalpost has been completely blown out of the water and people are scrabbling to come up with a new one that precludes LLMs.

A useful definition of intelligence needs to be measurable, based on inputs/outputs, not internal state. Otherwise you run the risk of dictating how you think intelligence should manifest, rather than what it actually is. The former is a prescription, only the latter is a true definition.
It takes a decent amount of practice and you need to adjust the sensitivity settings. Eventually though I would say they can be more accurate than most trackpads (excluding a good Apple trackpad - those are great)

The real advantage though is your hands never need to leave the keyboard between mouse and typing (for speed)
Eh, not sure if the second coming is a great analogy. That wholly depends on the whims of a fictional entity performing some unlikely actions.

Instead think of them saying a crusade occurring in the next few years. When the group saying the crusade is coming is spending billions of dollars to trying to make just that occur you no longer have the ability to say it's not going to happen. You are now forced to examine the risks of their actions.
I tried it out.
I found I prefer my editor to be less visual, like vi or emacs.
I write raw markdown,
and occasionally look at a preview window.
Structure is everything for me,
even minimal styling distracts me.
Rethinking Extension Data Consent: Clarity, Consistency, and Control
C3 follows the C ABI, so no it doesn't do it and it's not planned.
They can check their work and try again an infinite number of times, but the rate at which they succeed seems to just get worse and worse the further from the beaten path (of existing code from existing solutions) that they stray.
> ...but also directly targeting conservative voters economically.

That's kind of an asshole move. Did people react to having their communities and livelihoods damaged by neoliberalism, in a way not approved by economically advantaged software engineers? Don't try to solve their problems in a better way, try to fuck them even harder instead! We should teach 'em to get fucked and not complain!

If you want to target anyone, you should target the people who made a shit-ton of money off of neoliberalism, in a way that paved the path for Trump.
i sit to pee
thx <3
you're in for a treat, there's an alpha version out, check out my other root comment for link :)
No, Tunisia imposes tariffs on U.S. imports. If they want to avoid our tariffs, they can remove theirs, and we'll do the same.
> superpersuasion _already works_

Is this demonstrated in any public research? Unless you just mean something like "good at persuading" -- which is different from my understanding of the term -- I find this hard to believe.
I forget where I read this, but somehow, some people have the "brain stimuli award" associated with the "winning" aspect even when they are using cheats.
So winning is winning.

I'm still having hard time believing in this, but I haven't found better explanation for cheaters.
I didn't realize. I guess libertarians have morphed into something new.

Can't believe they would be publicly calling for a monarchy, and still call themselves libertarian.
Simone Giertz said on her channel her company approached multiple factories in the US, EU and China about manufacturing a product. None of the US factories even replied.
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thx! check out the alpha and let me know what ya think :)
Yes, it's propaganda. If the corporatists can convince people that a previously well-paid job (working in a slaughterhouse, for instance) is actually "unskilled labor," they're one step closer to convincing people it should pay less, and that it's a job no one you know would take so they have to import cheap labor to do it.
I was really hoping that the conversation around AI art would at least be partially centered on the perhaps now dated "2008 pirate party" idea that intellectual property, the royalty system, the draconian copyright laws that we have today are deeply silly, rooted in a fiction, and used over and over again, primarily by the rich and powerful, to stifle original ideas and hold back cultural innovation.

Unfortunately, it's just the opposite. It seems most people have fully assimilated the idea that information itself must be entirely subsumed into an oppressive, proprietary, commercial apparatus. That Disney Corp can prevent you from viewing some collection of pixels, because THEY own it, and they know better than you do about the culture and communication that you are and are not allowed to experience.

It's just baffling. If they could, Disney would scan your brain to charge you a nickel every time you thought of Mickey Mouse.
thxxxxx!
there's an embryo of a product (super-early alpha) here: https://molly-da7e3.web.app/
> without policy, infrastructure, and incentives, it goes nowhere.

So how do we start?
The more I browse through this, the more I agree. I feel like one could delete almost all comments from that project without losing any information – which means, at least the variable naming is (probably?) sensible. Then again, I don't know the application domain.

Also…

def _save_current_date_time(current_date_time_file: str, current_date_time: str) -> None:
with Path(current_date_time_file).open("w") as f:
f.write(current_date_time)

there is a lot of obviously useful abstraction being missed, wasting lines of code that will all need to be maintained.

The scary thing is: I have seen professional human developers write worse code.
Just for the record, Photoshop's first generative 'AI' feature, Content Aware Fill, is 15 years old.

That's a long time for Adobe not to have figured out what your are saying.
Republicans also spent many millions on anti-trans messaging.
Nah. This isn’t true. Every time you hit enter you’re not just getting a jr dev, you’re getting a randomly selected jr dev.

So, how did I end up with a logging.py, config.py, config in __init__.py and main.py? Well I prompted for it to fix the logging setup to use a specific format.

I use cursor, it can spit out code at an amazing rate and reduced the amount of docs I need to read to get something done. But after its second attempt at something you need to jump in and do it yourself and most likely debug what was written.
People will just ship large quantities and then warehouse them in the US.

Sounds like you have some cool projects planned.... do you have any pics/links you can share?
It depends on the components. The bathtub curve applies the most manufactured equipment in some way. But specific kinds of hardware are more prone to it than others. Hard drives, fans, power supplies, dedicated controllers, RAM and CPU modules, etc all fail at different rates. Combine that with the varying failure rates of different grades of components, with manufacturer/model differences, environmental differences, and load differences, and it's all over the map. But in general, any one of these components is effectively a system failure, so there is always this varying degree of failure over time due to the fluctuation of all these variables.

I also believe there's a psychic component to failures. The machines know when you're close to product launch, or when someone has just discovered the servers haven't been maintained in a while and are at risk of failing. Then they'll fail for sure. Especially if there are hot-spare or backup servers, which will conveniently fail as well.
That depends. There are situations where you are. Satire in particular would be a common one, but there can be others.

Rules around copyright (esp. Fair use) can be very context dependent.
haha, nice catch!
working on image uploads and other stuff.

thx for commenting, appreciate it <3
Back in the days of the pdp11/dec10 product line cards made like this were the schwag you got at DECUS meetings with the instruction set on them. I've still got one from systime, a British value add reseller, and a pdp11 one from digital.

Then emacs and vi and shell commands for Unix. Then pdf files started to appear to print at home.

The big problem for Europeans back then: assumed US/legal paper size.
I'm fascinated by the fact that the images are almost right, but never totally.

Harrison Ford's head is way too big for his body. Same with Alicia Vikander's and Daniel Craig's too. Daniel Craig is way too young too. Bruce Willis's just looks fake, and he's holding his lighter in the opposite hand from the famous photo.

So it's not reproducing any actual copyrighted images directly. It's more like an artist trying to paint from memory. Which seems like an important distinction.