skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Precisely. So when you say they used the images without permission, you are knowingly making a false implication - that it was known to them that they needed permission and that they intentionally disregarded that fact. In reality that has yet to be legally established.

Who said anything about sacrificing production? The entire point of the tooling is to reduce the production cost to as near zero as possible. If you didn't expect it to work then I doubt you would be so bent out of shape over it.

I find your stance quite perplexing. The tech can't be un-invented. It's very much Pandora's box. Whatever consequences that has for the market, all we can do is wait and see.

Worst case scenario (for the AI purveyors) is a clear legal determination that the current training data situation isn't legal. I seriously doubt that would set them back by more than a couple of years.
I appreciate your effort to reign in some reality here to show how privileged Americans are, but the word of the day is "trajectory" and it's aiming right at bottom right now.
I've read (or not read as it is in some cases) some really bad and/or really convoluted documentation.

Some industry standard tools, like Jackson, don't even have documentation but instead point you to various tutorials that are written by others on how to use it: https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-docs

One of the nice things that LLMs have done is taken some of that mess of missing/poor/convoluted/scattered-to-the-winds documentation and distilled it into something accessible enough that you either get a useful answer or get a useful direction on how to narrow your search for the answer.

I think "read the docs" is good advice; but even the article itself doesn't go so far as to say *all* documentation is good.
i dont think those demos are comparable and cool for sharing your link!
Logs, tests, debugging, ask questions, build a mental model, test that mental model. The more experience I get the less I guess.
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I've never seen him advocate for something like that, would you mind giving a source to your claim?
Yes I did. Or alternatively, no reply at all.

> vague answer

You mean vague and condescending "answer".
The worst democracy is democracy in name only, which is what the US is heading towards.

Although I'd say Trump is a symptom of greater problems, which is the fundamental and pathological mistrust that Americans have for government and civil society, the breakdown of societal cohesion and the failure of the American educational system to foster an informed voting populace capable of critical thought.
I pull select channels for my kid into Plex using Pinchflat. Deleted the YT / YT Kids apps altogether. I don’t think there’s any way to “safely” expose your kid to the vagaries of the algorithm. This approach gives you total control over update frequency, how many back episodes to retain, etc.
It's an open standard, but would they allow me to use my OIDC?
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Shitting on less developed areas of the world is one of Hacker News's favorite guilty pleasures. Let me try to assist.

Maternal mortality rate in Iran in 2020: 22/100,000 live births [1]

Maternal mortality rate in Mississippi in 2018-2022: 39.1/100,000 live births [2]

Infant mortality rate in Iran in 2022: 10.35/1,000 live births [3]

Infant mortality rate in Mississippi in 2022: 9.11/1,000 live births [4]

[1] https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240068759

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/maternal-mortality/data.htm

[3] https://www.who.int/data/gho/indicator-metadata-registry/imr...

[4] https://www.cdc.gov/maternal-infant-health/infant-mortality/
The thing is you don't need to run a grueling factory that runs you ragged in the modern day unless you are trying to undercut the poorest economies in the world. People don't want manufacturing back here to try and dominate the world in manufacturing capabilities, they just want some minimal amount of local capacity for it, and for the people that do it to make a decent wage and have basic safety standards. Its not like the US is struggling to barely survive and couldn't afford the cost. But in order to do that and not have it become some grift by the owners from the government there would need to be hard limits on how much owners and investors can extract from it, which is straight up anti-capitalist and of course capitalists are vehemently opposed to any industry or business not operating under capitalist principles, doubly so if it is a state-owned business.
I haven't used Haskell in years, but I still find myself wishing for Hoogle no matter the tool I'm using. Being able to just go "I know I want a value of type X, what functions return type X?" is so useful. I think Scala may be the only other language I have used whose docs let you search by type signature like that.

I have been playing around with Zig a lot lately, and their doc system is quite nice too. I particularly like how they will embed the source of how what you are looking at is implemented, and often an example of how it is expected to be used. Being able to see the language in action all over the docs has helped with making it super easy to pick up. Being able to search based on type signature a la Hoogle would really be killer though.
I think when we look at general intelligence we need to look at multiple methods of reasoning working together. Looking at children there is an instinct to blindly imitate those around them, trying to match behavior without fully understanding it, however the experiences from this behavior then feed into a symbolic understanding in the child’s mind, allowing them to reason about the situation later on
No, I judge ChatGPT by the same standards as I judge humans. It's an inveterate liar, and I much prefer to deal with trustworthy sources of information even if they are slightly less convenient than that smarmy bullshitter.
With more than 50% probability. Instagram has a clause that they can use your photos for ads and endorsements, basically for profit.

Many sites repost those photos, I doubt Meta will care to meticulously remove them. If the model can generate photo-like content of people - it had photos of people put inside.

I doubt they only trained on public domain photos of people.

If they started doing shady stuff, why would they ever stop?
I also find that my "context windows" can only hold so much. I can't understand everything all at once. So if I do very deep dives, I tend to forget (temporarily) other parts of the problem/stack/task/whatever. The solution for me is to create as much as possible as self-contained testable units. Not always possible, but something to strive for.

And I find that this skill of organising is the limit for how large/complex systems I can build before they become unmaintable. This limit has increased over time, thankfully.
It's hilarious seeing HN and similar discussion groups get up in arms about the involvement of the tech industry in governance after spending the last decade endlessly praising the merger of the two. It's not like they weren't warned over and over again that this would eventually come back to bite them. That big tech wouldn't obey them as their master forever. But all too many were convinced big tech had the same values as they have so it was ok to let these companies run amuck and drive all over everyone's rights.

This isn't a case of big tech flipping from Democrats to Republicans (or libertarians). It's that they never were on anyone's side but their own. For a decade they were enabled and allowed to grow their power unchecked. Now they don't need to obey anymore. They haven't flipped to the Republicans. They've flipped to themselves.
Yeah, my jaw was dropping as I realized how far they went with this from checking their mount options to reading ext4 source code. Directly order is almost always an implementation detail (I'm pretty sure it is on ext4) and even if it isn't you still shouldn't rely on it (for when someone decides to migrate your production machines to BTRFS because they want snapshots and now your app has some weird breakage). The problem is that the app depends on directory order, and you need to fix that, not figure out how you can predict the directoy order.

Maybe there should be a mount options to randomize directory order that people can use in their staging environments.
dunno, google searches don't seem that different to me compared to 10 years ago. i don't use paid services.
Probably would be useful to share a link to your website if you want others to comment on it.
I can only imagine how much slower using an LLM would be, especially when it only gives you a single answer which is not what you're looking for and you have to keep asking for "something else"

I echo what others say, Kagi is a joy to use and feels just like Google used to be - useful
Are you hiring remotely?
This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the feasabilty of this idea: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/ee/d0ee0...

"Due to the emergence of low cost renewable electricity from solar and wind, there is renewed interest in decentralized opportunities for electricity-driven nitrogen fixation."

"This analysis shows that the energy consumption for NOX synthesis with plasma technology is almost competitive with the commercial process with its current best value of 2.4 MJ mol N−1, which is required to decrease further to about 0.7 MJ mol N−1 in order to become fully competitive"

Note that this measure of competitivity is based on energy, not cost. So the (intermittently) ultra-low cost of electrical energy generated by modern PV installations (where substantial overprovisioning is becoming normal) has not been taken into account.

An Agri-PV installation that produces all the fertilizer it needs from its own surplus electricity would be cool indeed.
Nitpick: You need to account for abortion access when comparing infant mortality across jurisdictions.
Caution: China Daily and Xinhua are china state sponsored media

https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-report/2020/beijings...
Meta doing something dodgy OR unethical OR criminal ... and nobody is surprised.
Yes AFAIK the Fed data includes people's retirement plans. People's retirement plans issue them a statement; I don't see why we need to divvy up the estimated beneficial ownership.

(Defined Benefit pensions are pretty rare in the US; in March 2023, only 15% of private industry workers had access to a defined benefit pension plan, and only 11% participated in such plans; mostly govt and local workers. Hence, the Fed data averages are deceptive; ~85% of people have no DB, 15% or fewer. So if they graphed those two separate subpopulations, we'd see more representative numbers for people who spent most of their working lives working for govt + everyone else.)

(Why would you expect US Fed data on US residents to have anything to do with Norway’s sovereign fund? There are comparatively few Norwegians in the US and even fewer retirees living in the US who spent most of their life working in Norway; approximate as zero.)

Yes, obviously older people have more savings, things compound. Also their retirement plans may have historically had more generous provisions/matches. And they got to invest in previous boom cycles. And historically real-estate tended to go up not down, most of the time.
I believe the implication is that they're seeding the problems in the discourse for the purpose of selling their solutions. A slightly more overt version of the submarine: https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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> the entire world circa 1970.

About then was the IBM 360/91 with a 60 nanosecond cycle time. So, that would be a clock speed of

1/ ( (60)/(10^9) )

= (10^9) / 60

= 10^7 (100 / 60 )

= 10^7 (10 / 6 )

= 10^7 (1.66)

1.66 (10,000,000)

16.66 (1,000,000)

= 17 Mhz

Now we can have clock frequencies
of 4 GHz, that is

4000/17 = 235

times faster. And we can have 16 cores instead of 1 for

(16)(4000) / 17 = ~4000

times faster. "entire world"?
The best programmers I know always find programming challenges everywhere, and a rate limit function was probably one of them.
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they forgot Mars colony - libertariano-oligarchical with that Musk's salute from heart to the Sun.
Assuming price of materials and labor remain constant or decreasing.
Im somewhat puzzled as to why so many devs are insistent that being a good developer means you need to be a good PM.

These roles require wildly different skills and knowledge.

Usually the outcomes are better if you combine two people who are good at their jobs rather than hoping one person can do it all.
Did you not notice the last decade of the tech industry anointing itself as the one arbiter of truth and gatekeeper of human communications? Seems difficult to not noticed with how loudly that role was cheered on by those who thought it would entrench their political ideology into society forever.
I think this also ties into using tools that help faciliate this workflow.

Being able to jump to a definition of library code lets you really quickly move from your code to some function you're trying to figure out. With code editor support this is a seamless experience that can happen without a real context switch.

Without this, you might leave your code editor, Google for the project it's related to, find it on GitHub, open up the "dev" version of GitHub (hitting . when logged in on a repo's home page) so you can explore the project, then do a project search for that function and wade through a bunch of results until you find it.

That or find the code locally where your package manager might have saved it but if your app is in Docker that could be a problem because it might not be volume mounted so you won't be able to explore it from the comfort of your local code editor.
I always find it sad when racist Americans can only imagine their own country's decline by comparing it to those countries they persecute.
I think the kids today use TikTok and such for searching, which is mental.
Show HN: I missed office life, so I built a multiplayer corporate simulator
Hi HN,

I'm Marc, a 41-year-old indie creator who (strangely) misses corporate life.

After 10 years working remotely, I started longing for the weird things: the passive-aggressive chats, the drama, the promotions that make no sense, the hallway gossip, and the comfort of the office carpet. So… I built a world where all that still exists — virtually.

Corporate Life Simulator is a multiplayer text-based game that replicates the weird, beautiful chaos of office life. There are no graphics — just tasks, politics, and absurd corporate logic. You start as a Junior, choose a department (like HR, Sales, IT...), and try to climb the ladder.

Here’s what’s working today:

You can try the Demo (no signup required)
Complete meaningless tasks like “optimizing a spreadsheet that nobody uses”
Buy useless items in the company store (we have branded paperclips)
Experience real office politics, including random events like backstabbing, gaslighting, and gossip chains
Get promoted either by doing your job well… or by talking a lot on Discord. (Just like in real life.)
I'm especially proud of the Politics + Prestige system — it tries to replicate how influence, reputation, and perception shape your career inside a company. You can choose your path to the top: you can yap your way up or work and do your job.

Technically, I built this using ChatGPT, Lovable, and Supabase. I don’t know how to code — not really. I prompt obsessively, test everything, and break it a lot. It’s messy and fun.

Coming soon: crafting and a bizarre internal economy of absurd corporate items. (Still deciding whether money should be involved — maybe, maybe not.)

Try the demo: https://corporatelifesimulator.com
Join the company: https://discord.gg/ucpGFyqm

Would love your feedback — and if you’ve ever been stuck in a pointless meeting, this might hit a bit too close to home.

Thanks for reading,
Marc
Downvotes won't make this truth disappear nor will it absolve you of your role in enabling big tech's power. But if you want HN to keep on its path to becoming Reddit, keep downvoting without engaging in any sort of rebuttal.
>> As of 2025, 9 years after the knowledge pump had been primed, there is still no sign that Cyc would ever achieve general intelligence. The long slow failure of Lenat’s project is a strong indictment against the symbolic-logical approach to AI.

Really? CYC, a strong indictment against SAT solving, though unrelated to it? A strong indictment against automated theorem proving, though unrelated to it? A strong indictment against planning and scheduling, though unrelated to it? A strong indictment against program verification and model checking, though unrelated to it? A strong indictment against Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, though unrelated to it?

Or are those "symbolic-logical approaches to AI"? Some of those fields use heuristic search, but then so does Neural Networks research. What's gradient optimisation? It's a search algorithm that follows the gradient of a function based on the strong assumption that the function has its optimum at the location of the searched-for datum. So, a search algorithm; with a heuristic cost function.

How about probabilistic AI? Is that "symbolic-logical AI"? I mean the Bayesian calculus is a form of logic after all, and probabilities are symbolic right up to the time when they turn into statistics when you have to give them values [1].

How about neural networks again? Everyone will tell you they are "sub-symbolic" but in truth their "continuous" weights are finite-precision floating point numbers, so they're basically symbols, with a very large vocabulary. And in any case Neural Nets, like everything else, are running on a computer, a symbol manipulation device based on Boolean algebra and logic gates. Is that symbolic, logical, or neither?

See what happens when you make up new terminology as you go along and then pretend like it's some kind of agreed-upon definition that everyone agrees upon? Yes I know. My first language is not English either, but the author has clearly gone and er delved into old papers about CYC so I don't see that they have any excuse to make all those unsubstantiated, and unsupported, assumptions about what "symbolic-logical AI" is.

And as for CYC and Lenat: it's easy to disparage a man's work when he's dead and can't defend it. It's easier still if you're just repeating the same talking points that has circulated in the grapevine for who knows how long: blah blah CYC failed, blah blah symbolic AI failed blah. The fact of the matter is that CYC is closed source, very few people can use it, and nobody, outside of Cycorp, knows its true capabilities. A bit like "OpenAI"'s latest "reasoning" models, all we can do is speculate and pretend we know what we're talking about, when we clearly don't. I mean they. The author.

_________________

[1] Which is what you have to do if you want to use probabilities in the real world. And if you feed the Mogwai after midnight they turn into Gremlins.
It's the Soros way, which permeates to the things he supports such as this.

He went through a phase of introducing his books by claiming he's a misunderstood sociologist that is doing what he's doing (on the markets) to prove his various theories, which he developed at the LSE under Popper. This particularly applies to the concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexivity_(social_theory) .

Essentially, the things Soros actually did that people hate him for (such as in the UK the episode with the pound) he claims he did to demonstrate that individuals shouldn't be allowed to do them and that especially markets cannot be trusted to be resistant to problematic individuals. Instead some overarching control mechanism must be inserted of the nature I described.
I never said multiple inheritance.
My counterpoint would be the thousands of dollars computers people bought 20+ years ago that had not even a fraction of the utility of an iphone. My first computer cost me $2000 and it was obsolete in like 2-3 years. My cell phone that cost $100 that I bought 6 years ago still runs brand new programs fine.
I think they're imitating Eliza.
Most restaurant websites don't have photos of the food. Certainly not professional ones. Pan around randomly on google maps then zoom in and find the nearest strip mall, then go down the line checking the websites of restaurants there. Most are generic crap and you'll be lucky if the menu online is even complete. If they have food photos it's probably smartphone pictures taken by the owner's kid.

I do this a lot, far more than I actually go to restaurants, because I like adding small business details to OSM. There are a few that have their shit together but the overwhelming majority do not.
Fiber cuts are a real problem today even without explicit war. Russian fishing boats have a habit of “accidentally” cutting critical undersea cables that take months to repair.

Places in seasonably inhospitable water end up stranded from the internet when this happens (e.g. Nome, Alaska).
I'm not sure the Linux desktop needs much saving anymore.

Even games released by Microsoft (like the new 2024 flight simulator) have excellent performance on Linux. And installing them through Steam and running em in Proton is easy and end-user-friendly. Thousands of gamers use a Steam Deck and never gave it a 2nd thought that all of the Windows games just work. The Linux desktop already works very well for a ton of use cases. And with Microsoft aggressively pushing features that their users hate, people are getting more willing to overlook little Linux hickups by the day. Because at least it's not invasive and obnoxious ads.
Or you ask about war crimes of any other country.
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