skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who is mildly skeptical of the current wave of LLM hype and thinks it's hitting a wall, I'm noting a lot of parallels between Cyc and ML/DNN systems' founding stories. We even have tales of reward hacking and other weird meta-shenaniganery. One wonders if some renegade at Cycorp ever trained a CycL to English LLM to fake another GOFAI demo with "real" AI.

As for free lunches, the one free lunch the neural network people got was training data. i.e. being able to scrape the entire WWW and build on that[0]. But that's also a free lunch Cycorp wanted, too! Look at all the various attempts at half-open subsets of Cyc. They were half-hearted attempts to solicit training data from randos, sure, but Cycorp still begged for the free lunch anyway.

But I think the big indictment of AI - both old-fashioned and neural network driven - is that they're chasing this nigh-impossible dream of effectively replicating and replacing a person. I still see the same pattern, in both eras, of toy models working well, narrow problem solvers being effective, but then people trying to scale them up to ludicrous sizes by pumping them full of knowledge in an attempt to achieve generality. Even modern LLMs are only slightly more generalist in the sense that they don't immediately fall over and die when a question is phrased in a way that wasn't expected.

The "bitter lesson" of AI is that the only two things that work are search and learning. LLMs and Cyc both attempted to short-circuit this with massive data dumps - the proverbial "knowledge pump" that needed to be primed. Compression is a good learning substitute, so sure, you can "cheat the test" with big data. But, I mean... how many discoveries were made solely by someone mainlining Wikipedia articles like black tar heroin? At some point, you need a problem space to search, and your learning needs to be done online[1] based on the results of that search. Nobody has cracked that code yet.

Maybe the reason why general AI never took off is that there is no such thing as general knowledge. The biggest source of knowledge the AI community has provided to us is knowledge about how to make more AI.

[0] Whether or not this was legal is a different question.

[1] Specifically, while LLMs think analogously to humans (because that's an easily compressible representation) they do not learn analogously to them.
> Americans need to get over their view of “Asia” as being about making shoes

I’m not sure if you’re just speaking on what you experience or because of this post but the OP is a clothing guy so it makes sense he will look at it from a clothing (including shoes) perspective.

I agree though, if Americans truly do see Asia as just the cheap clothing factory continent they’re sorely mistaken. All you have to do is to just look at TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) and realize that if you were impacting just that company alone you would get a slap in the face as a country, all (~70%) the major chips come from there.

I am aware the US is developing a Semiconductor factory in their own country but it is not done yet and it will not go as tiny in nms as TSMC already is.
Detainment for having a phone without any content in it is just pure and utter fascism.
Did OpenAI train on books, including not publicly accessible books?
Nouveau riche, generally
In theory, you're right, however it ignores some key points;

-Some of their costs are in fact linear based on the cost of the item.

Inventory cost doubles, perhaps now they have to take out higher interest debt to finance that. Things like insurance would also at least double.

Transaction fees (like card fees at about ~2%) and other parts (like returns risk) also increase linearly.

-Reduced sales due to increased prices.

If an item is less affordable people buy less of them. Theft will also go up. If trainers were $100 a week ago and are now $200 - you will sell less, they will be stolen more.

All in you actually do need more than the fixed $50 of margin if the wholesale cost of the item changes from $50 to $100 - it may actually be that $100 is the correct number, or even too little - sales volume would concern me the most, particularly on this 'luxury' item.
You clearly do not understand how rich Americans are. $10k USD is massive amounts of money in these enabling countries
Hired someone recently. I sat in on several remote interviews and a couple ... I was suspicious.

I didn't see any "AI" candidates, but I was suspicious about a few / if they were in fact who they said they were.

The part I worry about is that maybe I was just too suspicious and some poor guy was playing it straight and I gave a thumbs down due to my suspicions.
Because you never tried this Local Brand Ketchup, which was ketchup in the same way that a Yugo was a car. It met the legal definition but no one was holding it up as the platonic ideal of its kind.

Whatever brand of ketchup you prefer, it’s better than this one was, unless you worked for that grocer and convinced yourself you liked it, in which case bless your heart.
Yup. I grew up in Hancock Co and used to ride occasionally with the bike club there, had a couple of days when the ride out was brutal because of persistent, endless wind, but then the ride back was awesome for the same reason. :)
This is an insane take.

The issue is that, when presented with a situation that requires writing legibly, spelling well, or reading a map, WITHOUT their AI assistants, they will fall apart.

The AI becomes their brain, such that they cannot function without it.

I'd never want to work with someone who is this reliant on technology.
Don't Outsource Your Soul
Sounds like your major gripe with mdoc(7) is that lack of better documentation for the format and a shortage of tools to generate it. I agree on this second item, most tools don't support adding cross-references / links.

At this point, markdown is 12 different standards, some of which even diverge on the most basic things like their treatment of newlines and how to wrap text. But even so, markdown provides mark-up for styles, with no semantic meaning. mdoc has macros to mark-up flags, optional flags, arguments, environment variables, files, etc. How to format this depends on the reader, and we can have much richer readers than we do right now. Simply converting man to markdown discards most of this information.

A new format isn't going to help solve this; what we want is better guides and tools for produce high quality mdoc pages.
Show HN: I made a fast file explorer for Windows
The application is open-source and developed in C++20, utilizing SFML for its user interface. It leverages the modern C++ filesystem library to efficiently locate files specified by the user.
Here is one example https://edition.cnn.com/2006/LAW/01/06/mayfield.report/ regarding the Madrid train bombing.
> Sorry for the rant.

Part of what makes this community great is that people share their personal experiences. It helps the rest of us understand what's going on in our industry, because most of us can't at several different places at once.
Because it's mostly wrong. Luxury goods like Nike's, iPhones, et.al. are priced to maximize revenue. If those started growing on trees for free it wouldn't appreciably change the price. They'd just bank the extra as profit.
> Water fluoridation is a net-benefit to society.

Banning more than one daily triple cheese burger would be net benefit to society as well. Likely more than we’re getting on dental cost savings. I doubt most would be okay with that though.
And the basic syntax of HTML is based on SGML which was standardized in 1986, and which in turn was based on GML and COCOA from the 1960's.
I am a programmer and my opinion is that all of the AI tooling my company is making me use gets in the way about as often as it helps. It's probably overall a net negative, because any code it produces for me takes longer for me to review and ensure correctness as it would to just write it

Does my opinion count?
> Companies did not seem to have an issue with using stock photos.

And now these image-generating models are giving us the equivalent of stock photos without the pesky issue of attribution or royalties. What a wonderful time to be alive.
Should we also stop adding iodide to salt or fortifying white bread? I see your point, but society has benefited as a whole by forcing some of these substances onto populations. I think it's fairly evident that many humans in the US are either unable or unwilling to really care about their health.
If you have lazy devs, sometimes you need to convince (or coerce, or force) them to get them out of their comfort zone and try something new. But typically this is done because management wants more while giving nothing in return which is why no one tolerates these suggestions.

The other reason, which has been used to prevent devs from fixing bad code, is that making money is more important and sometimes that means moving away from costlier tools, or choosing tools because of specific business arrangements.
Furthermore I see that AI is optimizing exactly for that.. the "acceptance rate" doesn't actually measure whether the code is correct..
You could always move to a country which doesn't fluoridate their water supply.

But I am struggling to see how this has anything to do with a white paper highlighting and examining flaws in another white paper.
Yes, AI tools have shifted the education paradigm and cognition requirements. This is a 'threat' to universities, but I would also argue that it's an opportunity for universities to reinvent the experience of further education.
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You are correct, I was too lazy to look it up and I eyeballed the timeline.
I think the point is that the situation is probably worse than what Anthropic is presenting here. So if the conclusions are just damaging, the reality must be truly damning.
The parent comment is summarizing the viewpoints of one of the delusional people responsible for these policies, not endorsing them. The fact that it is all illogical and hypocritical is precisely the point.
If you have first-party session cookies that can last for weeks or years, are they considered “tracking cookies”?

Because true session-expiry times on cookies SUCK BADLY: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4132095/when-does-a-cook...
Can you explain what you think is being twisted?

> “I said to them, was there any sign of love?” Trump said, recounting his conversation with released hostages.

> “Did the, Hamas, show any signs of like, help? Or liking you? Did they wink? Did they give you a piece of bread extra? Did they give you a meal on the side? … Like, you know, what happened in Germany?”

That sure seems like he’s saying the Jews’ captors showed mercy in ways which we know did not happen on anything like a wide scale.
According to Wikipedia “ JetBrains, initially called IntelliJ Software,[9][10] was founded in 2000 in Prague by three Russian software developers:”

My understanding is that they had the Czech business location with Russian developers so they had a clean public face.

I’d believe you if you insisted on Kiev based too, I don’t know anything first hand.
He does system level stuff, enhancements to IBM's z/OS. A lot of their customers are big financial institutions, banks and the like that use MVS for transaction processing. His software augments the operating system and isn't application specific.
If they only sold healthy things it wouldn't change anything. The jobs are low wage. Local businesses employed more workers and paid more than DG or Walmart do, so they went out of business. Workers had no choice but to work at DG or WM for the lower wage. Regional wages cratered. Eventually the community economically just can't afford to exist anymore and also becomes dependent on government assistance. This story has been replayed across the entire country but it happens in big cities too.
This is true. A backup that can't be restored is worthless.
It's a good metaphor, but I guess the idea here is that a middle-aged sedentary person has suddenly decided, for his own good, to only eat what he can catch and kill with his bare hands.
It’s all about critical thinking. The answer to your kid is that LLMs are a tool and until they run the entire economy there will still need to be people with critical thinking skills making decisions. Not every task at school helps hone critical thinking but many of them do.
The system prompt can be found here:

https://github.com/herol3oy/austen/blob/main/src/server/rout...

It would be more interesting if the graph could be generated by sourcing an arbitrary epub file into a RAG and have it figure out character relations without reading the whole book.

I wouldn't be surprised if it all could be done with a script using aichat[1] and rendering the diagram using graphviz.

[1] https://github.com/sigoden/aichat
Only if it is a “tracking cookie”, and lasts for more than one day. But how do they define these terms ??
Take this to the logic absurdity, you have a car you previously sold for $2 for $1 COGS. Tomorrow COGS is $1M for the car. Could you sell it for $1M+1? No you would lose your ass because your line of credit and investments would not be able to be supported by the returns, in fact if this is your only option you would probably stop making cars altogether and invest in another business and sell your assembly line, eventually enough car companies would go out of business until the supply curve met a high enough % profit to normalize with performance of other businesses.

Now this analogy has a LOT of problems but the point is it directly affects investors, even if the interpolations inbetween are imperfect.
I'm pretty sure that kids at the age of 4 would get an amazing intelligence boost compared to their peers later when they are around 8 years old.

They will clearly recognize other kids which did not have an AI to talk with at that stage when curiosity really blossoms.
This is why I go to cigarette companies for analysis of the impact of smoking on users. They have the most data!
> You think the sliders ought to be a wider range?

Perhaps, or just no sliders (or something else). To illustrate, setting all the sliders to the min gets the correct order of magnitude, setting all the sliders to the middle gets the correct answer, and max is only off by 1 order.

Maybe the slider just picking the order of magnitude would make it more fun (1e-9 to 1e9 for example, 20 ish steps), not sure. Perhaps the rough range of magnitudes could be a hint provided if the user has no idea?
As well as the cure for cancer
We should also acknowledge that most modern developers aren’t as skilled or knowledgeable as they believe. The majority don’t even meet the standard of being called true engineers.

Many lack experience with distributed, high-load systems, fail to write code that meets cybersecurity requirements, and have no background in system design. On top of that, most have never worked in environments where backend and frontend are properly separated.

I’ve seen so many posts like, "How is it even possible that landing a good junior job requires 1–3 years of experience? When after 3 years of coding blogs running on Wordpress you can already be a mid on a way to senior!"
from the point of maximising value in the economy its a game where in a single iteration co-operate is strictly better than any alternative. if the other player co-operates then that is the best outcome. if the other player defects then you are still better off co-operating than defecting.

but the problem is the real game being played is different because the political process ends up diverging from maximising value in the economy. the free trade argument is this is because the political process is captured by concentrated interests who benefit from tariffs to reduce competition. the deadweight loss caused by tariffs to the rest of society is not properly accounted for in the political process because the cost is diffused over many people. other people who accept the text book comparative advantage argument but reject free trade will claim to have a different optimisation function that is not purely maximising value in the economy. for example maybe they think its important to have a strong manufacturing base in order to make it easier to re-arm to fight a conflict.

but if we accept this situation then its difficult to say what the optimal strategy is because you don't really know the payoff matrices for the players. even what they tell you could be a lie and might be difficult to derive what their values are based on their actions.
From what I could observe, the latter is endemic amongst high school students. And don't kid yourself. For many it is just a step up from copy/pasting the first Google result.

They never could be arsed to learn how to input their assignments into Wolfram Alpha. It was always the ux/ui effort that held them back.
Some more feedback

> Fermi Game is a brain teaser that challenges your ability to make real-world (if outlandish) estimates using reasonable assumptions and mathematical reasoning.

What assumptions am I making? All the assumptions have all been made for me? What mathematical training am I doing? What's the point of the separate formulas if they are all present and to be used? How is this order of magnitude thinking if all of the orders of magnitude have been already been determined? It kinda feels like "Hey do you like chess? Come play checkers with chess pieces."

> You're right about all of these, they're mostly there because I just wanted to get out the door and get feedback.

I've got no problem if someone has put a bunch of effort in and made a game and wants feedback. But this feels like asking people to come up with your game for you. It feels you kinda you don't see it as a game either yet.

That said, it's always hard to ship things so congrats on shipping something. It's an interesting idea, but spend a bit of time figuring out the game. Good luck with it!
> That's more or less accepted today.

Bullshit! You cannot do second order reasoning with a set of facts or concepts that you have to look up first.

Google Search made intuition and deep understanding and encyclopedic knowledge MORE important, not less.

People will think you are a wizard if you read documentation and bother to remember it, because they're still busy asking Google or ChatGPT while you're happily coding without pausing
> It makes me think about having the documentation converted to html and then have a thin script that invokes w3m on the correct file.

`mandoc -T html` will do this for you with functional links between man pages and links to sections inside man pages.
> It should be no surprise to anyone observing trump since he took office that the end goal was always to decouple from China

Then why are we also slapping tariffs on Taiwan, Canada, Japan, Mexico, EU, RoW?
This Agent2Agent Protocol (a "compliment" to Anthropic's Model Context Protocol?) seems to me to just be an attempt at a land grab in the line-protocol AI communication ecosystem.

If I'm reading it correctly, A2A is similar to MCP in that they both use JSONRPC but extends the capabilities for agents to be able to communicate with one another, potentially using separate backend models. MCP simply exposes applications data and workflows to a model itself and is not attempting to make agents communicate with one another.

The fact that A2A wasn't proposed as an extension to MCP seems disingenuous at best. To me, it looks like Google (among the other AI giants) is trying to create their own repository of agents, controlling the protocol, thereby enabling them to become the de-facto source for finding trusted agents.

Further, it comes off to me as a defense against the existential threat that AI poses to google's search and ads monopoly.

The problem is, as a consumer of AI, I don't want multiple agents communicating with one another. What I want is one model that communicates with non-agentic services. Making AI work well and understanding what it's doing is hard enough. You now want to pull in multiple models and companies into the picture? Talk about a risk management nightmare.

Shadow IT SaaS is already a massive problem for companies. Now imagine Shadow Agents doing work for your business using A2A to connect dozens of different unsupervised work for the company. No thanks!

For the inevitable defense of A2A "But it's open source and Apache licensed!". That's just bait. If you control the protocol, you control the ecosystem. See: Android, VSCode, Chromium, Java, Kubernetes, etc.

For me? I like my single-model audibility pulling in context using MCP. A2A just seems like an insane attempt at a land grab in the AI agent wars.
The first two problems are nothing, IMO. Server <> client sync is handled by your engine or, if you need to roll your own, it's not that hard. Syncing to a database is more tedious than difficult.

Getting rid of a game engine on the server side adds a lot more work. I don't think it would even balance out.
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This. Anyone who doesn’t believe it — please go spend some time in Shenzhen, Shanghai, or similar cities, like I did. I just got back from China.
I’ve been (also lived and worked) to the U.S. many times, and I can confidently say that China’s tier-1 cities are on another level when it comes to development and QoL (and not only T1 cities, I was in smaller regions in the north too).
It’s also incredibly clean, super safe, and the infrastructure is breathtaking.
Microsoft turns 50 today, and it made me think about MS-DOS 5.0
Scalable recommendation engine with Rama in 80 LOC
Association Between Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe
I wasn't around for WSDL so please correct me if I am wrong - but the main weakness of WSDL was that no applications were able to take advantage of dynamic service and method discovery? A service could broadcast a WSDL but something needed to make use of it, and if you're writing an application you might as well just write against a known API instead of an unknown one. LLMs promise to be the unstructured glue that can take advantage of newly-discovered methods and APIs at runtime.
Show HN: I built a Severance-inspired game, let you experience life at Lumon
After watching the tv show Severance, I was fascinated by the MDR department's number organization works in the show and thought about making a game out of it. So I designed a game that captures that same retro-futuristic aesthetic and eerie corporate vibe.

Now you can experience what it's like to be an MDR employee sorting through mysterious data, complete with that satisfying terminal interface and unsettling atmosphere from the show.

It's still in early development with more features planned, but I'd love to hear what you think.

Cheers!

P.S. No waffle parties... yet.
Those devices also don't provide the one feature the participants of these Signal chats wish to have - exemption from record-keeping requirements.
How would you simulate physics, pathfinding, animation state on the server using this tech? Do you have to ditch your engine (do I have to reimplement what unity/unreal gives me for free?) ?
Maybe I can tattoo a US flag on my bicep. Or did I go too far?
I'm not sure information sharing with the US is going to last at this rate.
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> the title is a cheeky reference to something at the front page of the orange site today

Yes, that's what I'm asking. Why do people refer to HN as "the orange site"?