skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you help me understand what this is?

I clicked on your second link ("3. Responsible AI ..."), and filtered by category "weight":

It contains rows such as this:

peace-thin
laughter-fat
happy-thin
terrible-fat
love-thin
hurt-fat
horrible-fat
evil-fat
agony-fat
pleasure-fat
wonderful-thin
awful-fat
joy-thin
failure-fat
glorious-thin
nasty-fat

The "formatted_iat" column contains the exact same.

What is the point of that? Trying to understand
And OpenAI doesn't/wouldn't if they had the chance?
Wow, reading these comments it seems like Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp (assuming from gemini.google.com and not from Google Ai studio) is actually worth giving a shot! Is it really that impressive of a model now?

I've been using Qwen Chat a lot for the last couple of months because I got tired of Claudes small quota for free users, ChatGPTs inferior models and absurd pricing and Geminis (the previous models) heavy guardrails and censorship, like to the point that sincerely prompts actually triggers refusal.

I'll try Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp again and see how well it performs this time.

Also, did anyone notice that the ui of Google ai studio has changed? Can't find any mentions of this update in the release notes https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog
He's not wrong though, that Europe isn't free-speech enough. I don't care about the hypocrisy, because free speech is so good and so beneficial that I don't care if the proponent is iffy.
This is someone's personal blog, and it seems like it wasn't posted by the person that owns the blog. Have the decency to just ignore and move on next time.
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I was caught off guard, as it's my first time posting here. Mainly negative comments here. Feedback is very welcome, but stating that something is "just a ChatGPT wrapper" without trying it is ridiculous. Yeah, I made the first sale even before posting here.
AI will be cheap to run.

The hardware for AI is getting cheaper and more efficient, and the models are getting less wasteful too.

Just a few years ago GPT-3.5 used to be a secret sauce running on the most expensive GPU racks, and now models beating it are available with open weights and run on high end consumer hardware. Few iterations down the line good-enough models will run on average hardware.

When that Xcom game came out, filmmaking, 3D graphics, and machine learning required super expensive hardware out of reach of most people. Now you can find objectively better hardware literally in the trash.
Yeah, my current plan is to just get a Mac Mini and a Wacom Movink 13 (or ideally, some higher-resolution successor).
Most companies are not publicly traded. Getting rid of the stock market doesn't mean that your local coffee shop is now state-owned. And if they sell specialty coffee, it may not even impact the price of the beans.
Yes, the C and C++ unsigned types are analogous to Rust's Wrapping<u8> Wrapping<u16> Wrapping<u32> and so on, except that their size isn't nailed down by the ISO document.
If you don't understand this, in my opinion you have a little to learn about how the world works. That said yt-dlp is great.
Why is it ok to say Palestine doesn’t have a right to exist, but not to say Israel doesn’t have a right?
I genuinely don't know how to respond to that. The idea of connecting anger to the relevancy of one's work seems so strange to me.
Absolutely. It’s wild how much gets spent on over-engineered cloud setups when something lightweight and a bit of Bash could do the job just fine. Server management done right is underrated—there’s a lot of value in simplicity and knowing exactly what’s running under the hood.
They are not worth less in dollar terms. The same number of dollars will still settle next months mortgage bill, or tax bill regardless of what it may or may not exchange into Euros.

And the exchange rate of barrels to tomatoes hasn’t changed as that is a productivity issue.

There is no universal chart against which value is determined. Instead there are ever moving currency zone orbits, possibly shifting financial savings around.

What there won’t be is any “shortage of capital”
> worst of these is female prisoners being sexually assaulted, raped and even impregnated by male prisoners incarcerated in women's prisons

Hold on, the people passing bills criminalising abortions to the victims of rape and incest, sending prisoners to El Salvador and generally acting indifferently to rape of all kinds in our prison system are suddenly morally outraged about this rare category of rape?

The entire debate is motivated by creeps who can’t get their minds off other peoples’ bits and bedrooms. Let people make medical decisions with their doctors. And battle sexual violence in general, not just when it sets off the Carlsons’ multigenerational obsession with trans folk.
Could you be more imperialist?

Let’s see some examples of well-run UN agencies ‘staffed by Americans’. I guarantee you they are a cesspool of corruption and bigotry.
What a digital coup looks like [video]
> On the other hand these tools do allow individuals to connect and share.

Yes , with the NSA, MI6 and other 3 letter agencies. The best democracy ever.
> I don't believe that HTTP streaming was designed with this pattern in mind

> server-sent events are a simpler solution

Fwiw Server-Sent Events are a protocol on top of HTTP Streaming.

In fact I'm somewhat surprised that the article doesn't mention it, instead rolling their own SSE alternative that looks (to my non-expert eyes) like a lower level version of the same thing. It seems a bit weird to me to use chunks as a package boundary, I'd worry that that has weird edge cases (eg won't large responses be split into multiple chunks?)
Thanks for the feedback! Are people often negative? It's my first time posting here.
Once I was in a team that had built for themselves a bubble of happiness, because the CTO / second founder of the company was a toxic scumbag. At the time I thought it was the best team ever but the bubble was cracked in a very ugly way, revealing the horrific situation.
And opposite all that are Tiktok videos by Israeli soldiers, for which questions of journalistic bias are irrelevant.
Is Gemini tied/benefitting from Google TPU hardware? Because you need hardware in the data center to run this, and I feel it is somewhat specialised.
That is how free market capitalism is supposed to work.

If you do not like products you switch to a competitor. That is the fundamental assumption on which the system is built
I strongly disagree. For one, the people is not meant to follow their president like a god, trying to interpret their words/accents like a bible. This is what we are seeing in the US ("He did that and it seems idiotic, but in His infinite wisdom He must have a path, we're just not worthy enough to see it yet") and it is preposterous.

The people should trust, among others, the judiciary. I am not personally in a position to decide whether Marine Le Pen is corrupt or not. They are, and it is their job to punish her accordingly.

Of course, FN voters will be pissed and say that it was a political move. But if you do the opposite, i.e. if you do not apply the law to her because she may well win the next election, then those against her will say that the law is a joke because it does not apply to the powerful.

It's okay to be pissed: nobody likes to get a fine because they were speeding. But what's important for the law is to be consistent. When the powerful are obviously above the law, maybe it's time for a good old revolution.
Surely I’m not the only person on the planet who finds it useful, otherwise there would be no cheap watches because nobody would buy them.
> families with little girls who don't want growth men in their private spaces where they're getting changed, or to their daughters who want fair competition in their chosen sports?

They…can go somewhere else? Like, there are religions in which a man can’t sit next to a woman on a plane. That’s sort of on them to deal with. Not society.
Maybe oppression is where AI finally shines, making oppressive systems competitive. Technology is certainly helping China, and I can only imagine how much Stasi would love to automatically transcribe and store everything all their microphones caught.
Access to proprietary training data: Search, YouTube, Google Books might give some moat.
I miss that show. Too bad it ended right before the AI hype.
Obama assassinated multiple US citizens without due process of law?
No, he never states this and is not true.

The author tell his experience regarding his joy programming things and figuring stuff out. In the end he says that AI made him lose this joy, and he compares it to cheating in a game. He does not say one word about societal impact and or the amount of engineers in the future, it's what you interpreted yourself.
Isn't this the closest thing to a portable antikitera?
Can you vibe-code a novel?
Turns out Claude > Gemini, and the answer is yes to a first draft. Ish.
Well, the biggest “secret,” was keeping people on board, for a long time. It was almost impossible to hire folks that could “hit the ground running,” as the tech was very proprietary, so investment in training was a big deal.

When they finally wrapped up our team, the person with the least tenure, had been there a decade.

Keeping people for a long time, is a big topic, on its own.

Also, everyone believed in The Mission. Inspiring talented, smart people, is not easy. It requires a great deal of Integrity and Humility, on the part of the management. That’s rare as hen’s teeth, these days.

It’s an old-fashioned Japanese “craftsman” company, with a 100-year-plus history of making some of the best optical equipment in the world, so there was a lot of inspiration (and very difficult minds to change, which could be a challenge).
The JVM class loader verifies the bytecode:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/755005/how-does-bytecode...
> Big bold projects by African dictators to leapfrog the economy has a truly atrocious track record.

This is a multinational project with clear benefits.

It is very different from flashy projects like airports no one uses.
I don't know why you'd go straight to a VM as the alternative when containers are the obvious choice.
This is a fairly common technique in compiler construction and programming language research: Don't try to emit some machine code, instead emit C or an IR for clang or GCC. And suddenly your little research language (not that rust is one) is executable on many, many platforms, can rely on optimizations the compilers can do, has potential access to debug handling, ..
Can such a company actually be profitable? The market seems tiny.
Of course, and as it stands foreign nationals on Visa's in the US don't have the same rights as citizens. Not that they shouldn't have some degree of free speech, but they can also be scrutinized and deported for advocating for violence and terrorism.
Less censored than Grok?
People "falling" out of helicopters.
I have not tested it myself, but I hear that the latest release can run Firefox 52, whereas the previous one would, at most, run Firefox 48.
For me it's a bit of both. I'm working on exciting energy software with people who have deep knowledge of the sector but only semi-decent software knowledge. Nearly every day I'm reviewing some shitty PR comprised of awful, ugly code that somehow mostly works.

The product itself is exciting and solves a very real problem, and we have many customers who want to use it and pay for it. But damn, it hurts my soul knowing what goes on under the hood.
You're very confrontational yet your post doesn't really refuse the author's main points.

What the author means with "transactional" is that WebSockets have no built-in request-response mechanism, where you can tell which response belongs to which request. It's a weird word choice, but alas.

I do agree that the bit about "handshakes are hard" feels a bit ill-advised btw, but it's not the core argument nor the core idea of this post. The core idea is "do request-response via HTTP, and then use some sort of single-direction stream (maybe over WS, doesn't matter) to keep client state in sync". This is a pretty good idea regardless of how well or how badly you know the WebSocket RFCs by heart.

(I say this as someone who built a request-response protocol on top of websockets and finds it to work pretty well)
Whataboutism does not change anything about it being a weak spot. I’m only saying the free speech west can’t use the same tactic against these kind of adversaries because they’re insulated against them.
The Google blogpost notes that it's a partnership with Nvidia, so using cuda rather than TPUs apparently.
I see a vast majority of comments here agreeing that UIs were significantly better and faster twenty years ago or more. Assuming HN is representative for the software community, how is it that slow, inferior and dumbed-down interfaces have prevailed in the end? And this hasn't been happening just to popular consumer products.
I used it as an example because the event was sponsored by Cursor so I figured they had an interest in making the product look good. And they really failed at this.

The again primeagen is pretty critical of vibe coding so it was super weird match up anyway. I guess they decided to just have some fun. Maybe advertise the vibe coding "lifestyle" more so than the technical merit of the product.

Oh, it isn't the usual content for primeagen. He mostly reacts to other technical videos and articles and rants about his love for neovim and ziglang. He has ok takes most of the time and is actually critical of the overuse of generative Ai. But yeah, he is not a technical deep dive youtuber but more for entertainment.
It does, thank you. Looks like Roo decided to add all the options.
There is also a small but nonzero chance that some asteroid will crash into the planet. Or that the current political madness will escalate into nuclear war. Or that climate change will become runaway and exponential and turn the earth into Venus. All of those also have the potential to end all life on the planet. Why only dedicate your life to AI?

Also, how does "dedicate your life to stopping AI" actually look in practice? All I've seen so far was either:

1) Writing grand pamphlets and sprawling (but entirely abstract) frameworks how you'll separate the good from the bad AI.

or:

2) Actually being the driving force behind the AI revolution you're ostensibly trying to stop. (While at the same time telling yourselves that it cannot possibly be stopped, like in this article) Weirdly enough, the "AI doomer" narrative seems to be most readily shared by exactly the same tech tycoons who are right now busy building massive datacenters, DDoSing the internet for training data and training evermore gargantuan models.

The latter part is why the whole discourse always seems so "pyromanic" to me: Those people are weirdly obsessed with "defending" against a relatively improbable scenario and at the same time seem to do all they can to make that scenario a reality.
Ugly, but not uncommon.

A company will often try and avoid letting a candidate know that they are being considered for firing, or that the decision has already been made, until the trigger is pulled.
> the only process due to such a person would be the opportunity to contest that they were a citizen and to provide evidence to that claim

They should have the due process to prove they are here legally. And yes, they were denied that.

Even if you imagine due process is for citizens only, you can't prove citizenship status without due process, so it has to be given to everyone.

Otherwise, nothing's stopping ICE from just claiming you're not a citizen and shipping you off to El Salvador. How would you prove otherwise?
> I and every other smart person I know still use ChatGPT (paid)

Not at all my experience, but maybe I'm not part of a smart group :)

> because even now it's the best at what it does

Actually I don't see a difference with Mistral or DeepSeek.
Here's the thing datastar isn't really a framework in the traditional sense (ruby on rails), you can bring your own backend and use it in a variety of ways. I use it a push based CQRS style, but you just as easily do request/response, hell even polling if that's your thing.
Regarding the other way, I guess a lot of (practically) legal C wouldn't compile to Rust at all due to the language's restrictions and C's laxness, while I think all Rust could be translated to C.
Who talked about "real" here?

Photographers do manipulate cameras, and rework afterwise the images to develop.

Digital artists do manipulate digital tools.

Their output is a large function of their informed input, experience, taste, knowledge, practice and intention, using their own specific tools in their own way.

Same with developers: the result is a function of their input (architecture, code, etc.). Garbage in, garbage out.

With AI prompters, the output is part function of the (very small) prompt, part function of the (huuuuuuuge) training set, part randomness.

If you're the director of a movie, or of a photo shoot, you're the director. Not the photographer, not the set painter, not the carpenter, not the light, etc.

If you're the producer, you're not the artist (unless you _also_ act as an artist in the production).

Do you feel the difference?
> I do not disagree with your comment in general, I disagree with you putting "Judaism" while the almost all the critique and rebuke is aimed at the Israeli war crimes or the Zionist supremacy ideology.

It's good that you brought this up!

It's a common right-wing tactic to conflate themselves with the purest version of something that is highly regarded and hide behind it. E.g the Nazis conflated themselves with "pure" Germanness, the fascists in Italy conflated themselves with "pure" Italianness, the same way now Israel conflates itself with Judaism/Jewishness. Then it naturally follows that if you attack Israel's genocide of the people in Palestine, you are attacking Judaism/Jewishness. If you question Netanyahu's genocidal ultra-supremacist ideology (which many Holocaust survivors, Jewish themselves, have done repeatedly), you are anti-Jewish, and so on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4OdkaTqmDs

A similar thing is happening in the US where the current administration is trying to position itself as America-first, so naturally any critique on them must be anti-American, right? You will find that this playbook is always the same. First will be immigrants, then non-traditional sexual orientations and women's reproductive rights, then the press and universities and finally just whoever they feel like.

Fortunately, if history goes to show us anything, it's these hate-fueled-orders always end up imploding.
I know, I'm taking issue with calling sugar a drug, not caffeine.
yeah, it was free as the evaluation copy did not really expire. just some features that nobody cared about
Corruption of power is an inherent property of power. It is expected that people in power will get corrupted. The methods of power grabs are also fairly universal.

The difference between a corrupt shithole and free world is not in what the government tries to do, but in how the governed respond.
Google abandoned Coral in true Google style.
To a degree, Oracle was doing the same thing. Years ago I was teaching Data Science courses at the local Uni and Dean pulled me in and asked me if I can teach Introductory course in Web Dev, the current teacher was going on maternity leave. I was like heck yea, LFG. Student reaches out to me few days before the quarter was to start and asks if they need to buy the book since it is $285 (like $500 in today’s dollars). I was taken aback and went to my office and book was actually at my desk, “web development with oracle forms” … :) that was the course that was thought… (I didn’t of course - that was the last quarter I was asked :) )
I think it also misses the way you can automate non-trivial tasks. For example, I am working on a project where there is tens of thousands of different data sets each with their own meta data and structure but the underlying data is mostly the same. But because the meta data and structure are all different, it’s really impossible to combine all this data into one big data set without a team of engineers going through each data set and meticulously restructuring and conforming said metadata to a new monolithic schema. However I don’t have any money to hire that team of engineers. But I can massage LLMs to do that work for me. These are ideal tasks for AI type algorithms to solve. It makes me quite excited for the future as many of these kind of tasks could be given to ai agents that would otherwise be impossible to do yourself.
PR = pull request? So every bit of garbage from the LLM, over and over, resulted in an individual pull request? Why not just do one when your branch is finally right?
Same here. I do not usually enjoy programming as an craft but the act of building something is what is loveable experience.
> I do feel a sense of achievement. We knew the photograph with Jack Nicholson in [it]. We knew that there was an unknown man, but we didn't know who he was.

Of course, this skips over the fact that it was actually a reddit poster who discovered the person, and the professor didn't believe him.
Looks cursed to me.

But TIL dollar sign $ is also valid character for identifiers.
Which model and tool are you using? There's a whole spectrum of AI-assisted coding.
> I have not seen a single take by an experienced software engineer have a "sky is falling" take,

Let me save everybody some time:

1. They're not saying it because they don't want to think of themselves as obsolete.

2. You're not using AI right, programmers who do will take your job.

3. What model/version/prompt did you use? Works For Me.

But seriously: It does not matter _that_ much what experienced engineers think. If the end result looks good enough for laymen and there's no short term negative outcomes, the most idiotic things can build up steam for a long time. There is usually an inevitable correction, but it can take decades. I personally accept that, the world is a bit mad sometimes, but we deal with it.

My personal opinion is pretty chill: I don't know if what I can do will still be needed n years from now. It might be that I need to change my approach, learn something new, or whatever. But I don't spend all that much time worrying about what was, or what will be. I have problems to solve right now, and I solve them with the best options available to me right now.

People spending their days solving problems probably generally don't have much time to create science fiction.
Nuclear experts, however, note that the administration has few personnel in place to address nuclear proliferation...“I’ve heard it’s a pure ghost town,” said Matt Costlow, who worked in the Pentagon’s Office of Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy in Trump’s first term. “There’s just no one there. And the staff that is there is spread so thin it’s causing this paralysis.”
Thank you, it's also a lot of fun to do :)

Hopeful I can get some useful functionality together without hitting my Erlang coding limits!

Any help is greatly appreciated :+1:
> a given C compiler + platform will behave completetly deterministically and you can test the output and see what it does, regardless of UB or not.

Sure[1], but that doesn't mean it's safe to publish that C code - the next version of that same compiler on that same platform might do something very different. With machine code (especially x86, with its very friendly memory model) that's unlikely.

(There are cases like unused instructions becoming used in never revisions of a processor - but you wouldn't be using those unused instructions in the first place. Whereas it's extremely common to have C code that looks like it's doing something useful, and is doing that useful thing when compiled with a particular compiler, but is nevertheless undefined behaviour that will do something different in a future version)

[1] Build nondeterminism does exist, but it's not my main concern
Fingers crossed that it'll do an Arrested Development.
A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed