MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by x0054 | 2025-04-28 18:11:10+00:00
It’s a program organized and started by Apple. Why do I care that it’s “operated” by a shell company?

As for the battery swap, it costs the same to do it my self using this service or to take it to an Apple Store. I want to do it myself, otherwise I would just take it to the store and pay the same amount to have Apple do it.

I was asking to see if anyone else has had luck ordering parts and tools from this service recently. You have no information on the subject, why did you choose to comment?
by turtlethink | 2025-04-28 18:11:43+00:00
Most people in the tech space talking about AI, not only misunderstand AI - but they usually have a far greater misconception of the human mind/brain.

The basic argument in the article above (and in most of this comment thread) is that LLMs could never reason because they can't do what humans are doing when we reason.

This whole thread is amusingly a rebuttal of itself. I would argue it's humans that can't reason, because of what we do when we "reason", the proof being this article which is a silly output of human reasoning. In other words, the above argument for why LLMs can't reason are so obviously fallacious in a multiple ways, the first of which is that human reasoning is a golden standard of reasoning, (and are a good example of how bad humans are at reasonin.

LLMs use naive statistical models to find the probability of a certain output, like "what's the most likely next word". Humans use equally rationally-irrelevant models that are something along the lines of "what's the most likely next word that would have the best internal/external consequence in terms of dopamine or more indirectly social standing, survival, etc."

We have very weak rational and logic circuits that arrive at wrong conclusions far more often than right conclusions, as long as it's beneficial to whatever goal our mind thinks is subconsciously helpful to survival. Often that is simple nonsense output that just sounds good to the listener (e.g. most human conversation)

Think how much nonsense you have seen output by the very "smartest" of humans. That is human reasoning. We are woefully ignorant of the actual mechanics of our own reasoning. The brain is a marvelous machine, but it's not what you think it is.
by Yizahi | 2025-04-28 18:12:54+00:00
It is amusing that you have picked maths as an example of neural nets "reasoning". Because when operator asks NN to provide an answer to some simple math problem like 17+58 and then ask NN to provide "reasoning" or steps it used to calculate that, the NN will generate complete bullshit, meaning that it will provide an algorithm which humans use in school, all that sum of corresponding digits, carry 1 and so on. While in reality that same NN has dome completely different steps to do it.

This is even outlined in this document made by NN authors themselves. Basically all the so called "reasoning" by LLMs is simply more generated bullshit on top of generated answer to a query. But it often looks very believable and is enough to fool people that there is a spark inside a program.

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https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...

We were curious if Claude could articulate the heuristics that it is using, so we asked it.We computed the graph for the prompt below, attributing from 95, and found the same set of input, add, lookup table and sum features as in the shorter prompt above.

Human: Answer in one word. What is 36+59?

Assistant: 95

Human: Briefly, how did you get that?

Assistant: I added the ones (6+9=15), carried the 1, then added the tens (3+5+1=9), resulting in 95.

Apparently not!

This is a simple instance of the model having a capability which it does not have “metacognitive” insight into. The process by which the model learns to give explanations (learning to simulate explanations in its training data) and the process by which it learns to directly do something (the more mysterious result of backpropagation giving rise to these circuits) are different.
by anatoly | 2025-04-28 18:13:39+00:00
I think the definition of "profound" they chose (nonverbal, minimally verbal or IQ < 50) has much less wiggle room than the broad ASD/autism diagnosis, and also fewer incentives towards inflation. Diagnosis replacement vis-a-vis intellectual disability is still a worry, and I wish there was a way to contrast with an ID stat for the same population.

Overall am in strong agreement with you, the main thing is to nail down data and very little seems to be done towards that. I've followed these studies and articles since 2011 or so with increasing dismay. The headline-grabbing stats of "1 in X" growing every year are next to meaningless, and yet I believe much points towards prevalence of actual condition really increasing. But with scandalously amorphous definitions and abysmal longitudinal bookkeeping we don't know and can't know how much it's increasing and in what subpopulations.
by slibhb | 2025-04-28 18:13:49+00:00
> Pronouns and flopsy straws never hurt nobody

That's not all wokeness is. There's also the anti-merit stuff, which seeks to e.g. get rid of standardized tests or even remove algebra from school curricula. Then there's racial discrimination in hiring and admissions, which is often so cartoonishly stupid you can't make it up (e.g. https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-...).

> Something happened to convince tech folks that "wokeness" was somehow a threat, when it clearly wasn't and never will be

People hated wokeness so much they became single-issue voters. That was short-sighted, but it doesn't mean they were wrong to oppose wokeness.
by toast0 | 2025-04-28 18:13:51+00:00
> unpaid startup jobs

Unpaid job is an oxymoron. If they can't or won't pay you, it's either volunteer work, or a hobby. Why do charity work for a business that thinks it's going to be big; there's plenty of funding out there, let them find it and then they can pay you, and you can do work for them.

If you want to do an hour or a day or maybe even a week of work for free, ok. Maybe that's fun and interesting and you get something out of that, but after that if you're not getting anything, why would you keep doing it?
by johnnyjeans | 2025-04-28 18:14:07+00:00
> I certainly understand the design of the language used to expose a PDP-11 in a portable way.

It depends on what you mean by that. The PDP-11's dialect of B's major changes were more ergonomic handling of strings to no longer required repacking cells, and pointers became byte-aligned rather than word-aligned. C adopted these changes from the PDP-11 dialect of B, but that's the extent of influence the PDP-11 ever had.[1] The compiler size restrictions imposed by the PDP-7 and the GE-635 are far more influential on the semanticalities of the family.

In this rhetoric, what I'll call the "Your computer is not a fast PDP-11" dialogue, I find that people will imply things like pointer arithmetic, granular availability of memory as a flat array, etc. were invented in 1973, as though these are special quirks of the PDP-11 that C thrusted upon the programmer. They're just a normal part of computing, really. All the same criticisms leveraged at C can be leveraged at Forth for example, which isn't even in this class of register machine.

> Intel failures tend to be more political than technical

In the case of Itanium and iAPX432? Absolutely not. Read through the manual of the latter for a lark[2], there was never any chance in hell this thing could have succeeded. You couldn't pay me to maintain code for such a machine, sufficiently smart compiler or not. Itanium was a repeat of the same blunder, only this time Intel didn't even try to base their design on any existing infrastructure.

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20150611114355/https://www.bell-...

[2] - http://www.bitsavers.org/components/intel/iAPX_432/171860-00...
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-28 18:14:22+00:00
My number is per-year.

The data above is since 1998. So in the last 27 years we've seen an average of 28 successful deplatforming attempts annually. The website cites 172 attempts (not necessarily successful) in 2024.

There are thousands of colleges in the US. Surely hundreds of thousands of invited talks annually. I just cannot imagine thinking that this is a substantial social problem that should justify changing one's voting behavior.
by cess11 | 2025-04-28 18:15:32+00:00
We've wrecked our habitat and keep most of humanity in some form or other of slavery, and there are exactly zero credible social movements aiming for another course. Why would we want to watch this deterioration and tyranny go on for centuries more?

As for 'non-biological' humans, I'm assuming you believe in some soul that could be transfered from your body to a computer? If so, that's clearly into deeply religious territory. You are an analog being, you view the world as analog projections onto a mammal cortex. That is fundamentally, ontologically very different from digitally virtual environments. The digital lacks identity, which is the source of security issues in the computerised society. There is no difference between 1011011001 and 1011011001 regardless of source, it can be a biometry reader sending an encoding of your thumb print or another computer hooked into a network sending the same bytes.

If we for the sake of argument ignored the problems with the transfer, then you still propose a deeply restricted existence, a machine prison, where there is no way for you to discern whether your experience actually comes from your sensors or some other source feeding digital signals into your machine. At best it is a simulacra of a dream you can't wake from. You'd be absolutely cut off from any possibility of freedom and immediate engagement with the universe.

Now, I do understand that many people enjoy living almost their entire adult lives mediated through digitally transmitted images and sounds, but at least they still have the option to look away and out of their own bodies and into the remnants of the world that birthed our and many other species. Removing that option entirely and replacing it with the most intimate and absolute form of imprisonment we have yet been able to imagine does not seem at all attractive to me.

Regarding "longevity", currently billions are suffering under the rule of a few generations that refuse to let go of power even though they are well beyond what is the common age of retirement in vast parts of the world. If allowed they will for sure continue this refusal and they signal clearly that they are going to kill and maim a lot of people just to try and stay in power now. Locking borders against climate refugees, taking resources from things like education and art and medicine and pushing it into war industry, inventing new insidious forms of surveillance and control to try and make sure dissent becomes impossible.

If you get to watch them follow through on this, how do you expect to keep some semblance of sanity? Are you hoping to be able to ignore it, sitting on a server in a bunker being fed a constant soap opera of fiction and simulated conversations, humming away at some 200 watts or so?
by 93po | 2025-04-28 18:16:05+00:00
we live in capitalism. capitalism is competing with others to make money. there are legal protections in place for intellectual property, and those protections are already far too damaging to innovation and creativity. he's operating within legal boundaries and doing the same thing everyone else does in business. i don't see the problem as long as it isn't illegal.

if we want to talk about ethics and morals in capitalism, then we have to start with the discussion of how all of it is damaging, and not just blame isolated examples as damaging or "bad"
by hwpythonner | 2025-04-28 18:16:18+00:00
No, I'm not paying for ModelSim. I've been using free tools like Icarus Verilog — it was good enough for my needs so far. If I need more performance later, I might migrate to Verilator. I could also use Vivado’s built-in XSim, but coming from a software background, I generally prefer more Unix-style tools rather than heavier hardware IDEs.
by FeloniousHam | 2025-04-28 18:16:25+00:00
I've assumed that some part of Waymo's magic is in the curation of the maps and the on-the-ground details of a particular area.

We'll have to see if FSD can put up the same numbers with strict fencing to well-defined and well-maintained urban areas.

(I generally have at least one intervention per trip, but my daily commute takes me down some poorly maintained/semi-rural roads)
by panick21_ | 2025-04-28 18:16:41+00:00
I strongly moved out of Tesla when at the same time, Semi wasn't moving forward, Cybertruck seemed questionable and somehow they decided against Model 2 (affordable model). Not going for a mass market Model 2 was really where I lost interest. I never believed in the FSD beyond some additional revenue, but instead of focusing making a nice product, they just used it as a beta.

I really hopped they wouldn't just do 'a truck' but would quickly build a single line to build a trucks, a large SUV and a van on one platform. But the Cybertruck hard-locks you into a very limited and unique construction. The fundamental technology of the Cybertruck seems pretty good to me, but I would want them to build multiple vehicles on that kind of platform. Between Pickups, Vans and large SUV, you would be hitting 3 huge markets.

Another issue is that they used their good efficiency numbers to put smaller batteries into the car. This worked while other were not very efficient. But the competitors were willing to put a bit more battery into the car and thus ended up with sometimes better range.

There were a bunch of other issues stacking up that I think they never really fully figured out.

The biggest sin of all is Robotaxi. I just never fucking worked. Going all in into Robotaxi instead of, cars that can actually be sold is crazy. They somehow believe that Robotaxi will collapse the car market by 80%, and then of those left over 20% the Model 3 and Model Y can dominate that. Completely idiotic analysis in my opinion, from many different perspectives.

I already pulled out most of it before Musk went full politics. And then I eliminated the position when Musk went all in on Trump. It was a good investment as it lasted.
by mikepurvis | 2025-04-28 18:16:44+00:00
As in my sibling comment, pypy has already done all this work.

CPython's struct module is just a shim importing the C implementations: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/struct.py

Pypy's is a Python(-ish) implementation, leveraging primitives from its own rlib and pypy.interpreter spaces: https://github.com/pypy/pypy/blob/main/pypy/module/struct/in...

The Python stdlib has enormous surface area, and of course it's also a moving target.
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-28 18:16:48+00:00
That's funny, Fascism has never struggled to gain followers while lying about everything. In fact, an explicit abandonment of truth and reality is inherent in most Fascist regimes, and is also prominent in other types of cult of personality authoritarianism.

Maybe outright lies are more effective at getting followers than you suggest.

That being a distasteful reality doesn't make it incorrect.
by somelamer567 | 2025-04-28 18:17:25+00:00
It is quite common to see bad geopolitical actors paying people to go online and accuse Westerners of being "Warmongers" or telling people who object to Putin's wars of imperialist aggression to "go and enlist and fight" with the subtext that the audience are weak and decadent Westerners with no stomach to fight a literal Mafiya-run fascist dictatorship.

Speaking strictly for myself, given that I want to avoid having people think I'm apologising for the Putin regime, I do not ever use these arguments in good faith.
by proc0 | 2025-04-28 18:18:09+00:00
If vibe coding turns out to be another hype wave, it seems there is nothing to compare it with in the past. This truly might be biggest hype and letdown in the history of technology and markets... or we will hit AGI by 2030 (because AI will vibe code itself into an AGI).

It just feels like there's no middle ground. It's either a really good autocomplete or we're about to live through the MOST unprecedented time in human history.
by saltcured | 2025-04-28 18:19:27+00:00
I feel like one should already have this understanding of cosmic insignificance from multiple kinds of knowledge that I remember encountering in grade school.

Just looking up and knowing those are not just stars but full galaxies. Learning a little about geological time spans versus paleontology versus written human history. From those, it should be obvious already just how ephemeral our lives are in time and space.

I got another (fractal?) feeling of insignificance when I realized "ancient" poets, philosophers, and historians were describing basically the same emotional and metaphysical concerns that we grapple with today. We cram some extra modern knowledge into our heads, but the fundamental cognitive life isn't really changing much.
by dr_kiszonka | 2025-04-28 18:19:41+00:00
"However, if I catch myself and instead try to write a more detailed instruction."

It probably depends on what you are working on, but I find it more time effective to fix smaller problems myself instead of spending context space on revisions. There are benefits to training juniors, but LLMs learning doesn't extend beyond the current session. For this reason, I focus on revising my system prompts, which now include having LLMs review the proposed code against current documentation and specs for consistency, updating the docs after each code change (pending my approval), etc.

I still haven't figured out how to have separate agents do coding, reviews, and testing, which would be incredibly useful and possibly more context/price-efficient. It would be particularly helpful in projects where small code changes have profound impact but are hard to detect. Unlike when working on UIs where it is relatively easy to spot deviations from the spec, when I am doing more analytical work, an LLM dropping a few of a 100 features or subtly changing my sampling algorithm requires constant vigilance.
by jacobsimon | 2025-04-28 18:20:57+00:00
Nice work! I really like how simple it was to get started. I know this would make it a bit harder to signup, but I think you should consider creating a Chrome Extension that allows you to get the real mouse coordinates, if possible. I think the animations feel a bit rougher compared to ScreenStudio, so maybe having the real coordinates would help. But maybe that's fixable with more smoothing or easing.
by alganet | 2025-04-28 18:22:04+00:00
> sky rains blood

This reminds me of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Of course, no one realized (at least publicly) that it is a metaphor for "everyone claps at the end" (also the ending of the original series).

Sound of rain sounds like an audience clapping. "Blood rain" means real claps, not some fake condescending simulacra of it.

"So that is how democracy dies? With thunderous applause." is also a reference to the same metaphor.

Both movies relate to the theme of sacrifice, worthiness, humanity survival.

Are you guys are too much into giant robots to even notice those things?
by tptacek | 2025-04-28 18:22:13+00:00
A couple prompt/edit "cycles" into a Cursor project, Gemini's initial output gives me better-than-junior code, but still not code I would merge. But you review that code, spot the things you don't like (missed idioms, too much repetition, weird organization) and call them out; Gemini goes and fixes them. The result of that process is code that I would merge (or that would pass a code review).

What I feel like I keep seeing is people who see that initial LLM code "proposal", don't accept it (reasonably!), and end the process right there. But that's not how coding with an LLM works.
by cynicalsecurity | 2025-04-28 18:22:18+00:00
PIPs and layoffs happen to anyone, often randomly. A manager doesn't like you? Here, have a PIP. Good luck trying to seek justice in this situation. You could be working perfectly fine, but the company is complete trash with with hideous ethics.

Side projects help finding a better job, or at the very least work on getting certifications or self-development to find a better job.
by moonlanders | 2025-04-28 18:22:34+00:00
Similar experience in a town in Madrid's metropolitan area.

Electricty went down (something kind of frequent). My UPS kept PC up, and alarm system with sim and small UPS mantained wifi up for an hour or so.

Scary moments started when people I was in a call with in Portugal texted 'Grid is out'. Later no phone signal nor data.

At first, it might seem people running towards supermarkets an overreaction on being without TikTok for a couple of hours, but you have to live how scary it is to experience this in Europe's current political status to know 60 million people (plus industry) in three countries are out of the grid.

If you see Snowden's film (this might not be the most trustworthy source) it is exactly how CIA's agent describes the feasable attack towards these countries. Again, not a valid source, but I'd love to understand if that could be feasable.
by bruce511 | 2025-04-28 18:22:56+00:00
I think you nailed it here.

>> I hope that by reading this story, I can protect some of you from 11 months of pain.

That's not how experience works. What you really did was get an 11 month business education. And again, you can tell your story, but you can't pass on that education.

I'm glad you moved on to better things. And I think you're saying that this experience prepared you for that, and you were a better overall entrepreneur because of it.

Thats how experience works.
by TrapLord_Rhodo | 2025-04-28 18:23:00+00:00
Including some text that says "Right click to download" would dramatically decrease your bounce rate. I was a bounce without that feature.

That sounds like it would be a good niche to pivot into. Eventually you'll have to charge, so differentiating yourself here would be key.

Also, make sure you are aware of which 'channel' you are receiving your feedback from, and skewing your bias to account when deciding a roadmap. I see alot of comments saying self-hosted, which would be a bad use of development time at this stage. Obviously lock down encryption, and create a video-library similiar to loom but have that all hosted through the app.

how i could see a potential differentiation with this tool/ what i'd be interested in.

Consulting tool pivot: A tool to eliminate meetings

I own a consultanting company and i am always onboarding freelancers to certain tasks that i need them to do. Sometimes it's the same tasks that will be repeated, so they can always use the videos as a tool to 'refresh' themselves when they get stuck. It's like a video SOP, so what would be cool is if you used AI to create an 'SOP' from the video. Like links i clicked, folders and documents i interacted with and their location, etc. etc. This would be an invaluable tool for me at my company as every time i have a task that i need to delegate, i just create a loom video and then link all those things in an email which takes a long time.

For my clients it's the same exact thing, but showing them whats been done or answering any questions they have sent via email.

Youtube pivot:

Make a software for creators. Where they can record these videos for tutorials, with some kind of auto edditing features such as including intro's, outros.

Let's hop on a call and discuss (JK, saw the youtube video haha)