MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-05 07:47:34+00:00
And the part of my sentence that you cut off was all about the circumstances of intervention.

Level 2 requires the driver to choose whether to intervene at all times. This is an unreasonable task for humans.

Level 3 puts the car in charge of when intervention is needed, and even once it wants intervention it still has to maintain safe control for several seconds as part of the system spec.

Level 4 puts the car in charge of when intervention is wanted, but you can refuse to intervene and it has to be able to park itself.

So I will double down on my claim. Until the car requests intervention AND the timer runs out, level 3 and 4 are the same. They require the same abilities out of the car. And that section of time, between wanting intervention and getting intervention, is the hardest part of level 3 driving by far. If you can solve that, you're 90% of the way to level 4.

A level 3 car has to be able to handle emergencies several seconds long, and turning it into level 4 is mostly adding the ability to park on the shoulder after you get out of the initial emergency.

The gap between 4 and 5 is a bunch bigger. A level 4 car can refuse to drive based on weather, or location, or type of road, or presence of construction, or basically anything it finds mildly confusing. 5 can't.

I edited a bit for clarity, but also I'll append a thought experiment as an extra edit:

A level 3 car with an hours-long driver intervention timer is basically identical to a level 4 car.

If you have a 0 second intervention timer, you're barely better than a level 2 car.

How long does the timer have to be before developing your level 3 system is almost as difficult as a level 4 system?

I don't think it's very long.
by shakna | 2025-06-05 07:47:48+00:00
I don't think a single point there is true.

Ada has had shared aliases since 1995. Its had zero cost abstractions since before then.

Slicing memory from a string is in the intro manual, for example.

my_var(2 .. 6)

Ada doesn't rely on you to be disciplined. [0] Memory safety comes with SPARK. Its a theorum prover.

[0] https://blog.adacore.com/memory-safety-in-ada-and-spark-thro...
by arberavdullahu | 2025-06-05 07:48:14+00:00
I can’t try Background Agents yet because they aren’t available in Privacy Mode. I’m curious if—and how—they’ll roll this out to others, given their guarantee that no code is stored on their servers. According to their security page [1], about 50% of users have Privacy Mode enabled.

I’m also curious how this compares to OpenAI’s Codex. In my experience, running agents locally has worked better for large or complex codebases, especially since setting up the environment correctly can be tricky in those setups.

[1] https://www.cursor.com/security#privacy-mode-guarantee
by OJFord | 2025-06-05 07:48:43+00:00
> > The linked tweet (whatever it's called)

> "post" works for social media regardless of the medium; not an admonishment, an observation.

It also works for professional journalism and blog-err-posts though, the distinction from which was my point.

> I was able to make my observation because someone mentioned mastodon (i think), but that was an assumption on my part that the original link was mastodon.

As for assuming/'someone' mentioning Mastodon, my own comment you initially replied to ended:

> (As in, an actual article, not just a mastodon-tweet from some unknown (maybe known? Not by me) person making the title claim, with no more info.)

Which was even the bit ('unknown') you objected to.
by thom | 2025-06-05 07:50:46+00:00
What’s interesting to me is the rise of agentic approaches which are effectively “build a plethora of tools and heuristics” with an outer loop that combines, mutates and assigns values to these components. Where before that process was more rigid, we now have access to much more fluid intelligence but the structure feels similar - let the AI prod at the world and make experiments, then look at what worked and think of some plausible enhancements. At a certain point you’re enhancing the code that enhances the enhancer and all bets are off.
by therein | 2025-06-05 07:51:54+00:00
So these agents that people are so excited about spawning in parallel stop and ask you before executing each command they choose to execute? What kind of life is that. I'd rather do something myself than tell 5 AI agents what I want and then keep approving each command they are going to run.

I'm not saying it is better if they run commands without my approval. This whole thing is just doesn't seem as exciting as other people make it out to be. Maybe I am missing something.

It can literally be a single command to ssh into that machine and check if the systemd service is running. If it is in your history, you'd use ctrl+r to lookback anyway. It sounds so much worse asking some AI agent to look up the status of that service we deployed earlier. And then approve its commands on top of that.
by meowface | 2025-06-05 07:51:59+00:00
As a long-time Cursor user, I just tried Claude Code for the first time two days ago and I found it:

- Burning tokens with constant incorrect command-line calls to read lines (which it eventually gets right but seemingly needs to self-correct 3+ times for most read calls)

- Writing the string "EOF" to the end of the file it's appending to with cat

- Writing "\!=" instead of "!="

- Charged me $7 to write like 23 lines (admittedly my fault since I forgot I kept "/model opus" on)

Minus the bizarre invalid characters I have to erase, the code in the final output was always correct, but definitely not impressive since I've never seen Cursor do things like that.

Otherwise, the agent behavior basically seems the same as Cursor's agent mode, to me.

I know the $7 for a single function thing would be resolved if I buy the $100/month flat fee plan, but I'm really not sure if I want to.
by danlitt | 2025-06-05 07:52:46+00:00
Humans do not have a continuous stream of thought when they are asleep, even if their brain is still doing things. Your original example (the LLM can't take actions between problems) is literally the same as the fact that the human can't take actions while asleep.

Of course, nobody has a clear enough definition of "sentience" or "consciousness" to allow the sentence "The LLM is sentient" to be meaningful at all. So it is kind of a waste of time to think about hypothetical obstacles to it.
How to get started with writing tech video essays
by sonderotis | 2025-06-05 07:53:14+00:00
I am thinking about starting my own YouTube channel that focuses on video essays on software technology like languages or software tools. For example an essay on the computer terminal. For all of you who have tech YouTube channels how do I set up for good content material and make my videos interesting and where can I find royalty free music and clips.
by Lio | 2025-06-05 07:53:18+00:00
You don’t think they’d just deny what they were doing?

Or maybe claim any cameras are just for obstacle avoidance and require you to let them film as part of the delivery contract?

I mean Meta downloaded almost every pirated book[1] they could and no one’s really done anything to punish them.

1. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
by eru | 2025-06-05 07:54:00+00:00
> Because their tenant can just go down the street and rent from another landlord whose costs did not increase by $10-20K/yr.

Well, that only works iff landlords can pass down these taxes. That's exactly what we are discussing. So this is begging the question.

> In a world where LVTs increased taxes on all nearby landlords, that threat is an empty one. [...]

It doesn't matter. Even if only left-handed landlords paid LVT, rents wouldn't change depending on the handedness of your landlord. (However, left-handed landlords would likely sell to righthanded landlords, because the property is worth more to them.)
by tojor27 | 2025-06-05 07:55:23+00:00
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by reassess_blind | 2025-06-05 07:55:49+00:00
You can’t rely on OpenAI for moderation. Your site will happily generate a script tag that fetches offensive content from another site and render it. OpenAI won’t know that the remote site has offensive content.

Anyway, just keep an eye on it as you’re essentially running a static web host and someone will always try to ruin it for the rest of us.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-06-05 07:56:05+00:00
The Wikipedia account of Morrow-Tait's “circumnavigation” is passing strange, particularly the way it was interrupted for 5 months but “resumed” with a completely different aircraft and navigator?

I think some janky editor messed with it last year and nobody has noticed or checked the sources.

And concerns/mockery of “the flying housewife” alone in close quarters with a handsome navigator, gave way to an affair while en route, a love-child, and divorce? And there is a post on the Talk page from someone claiming to be that child... bonkers!

And Wikipedia says [unsourced] they “reached Japan [having flown northeast from Calcutta and Vietnam] but were denied permission to cross Russia [known in the 1940s as the Soviet Union]” — so what parts of “Russia” were east of Japan in 1948?
by danlitt | 2025-06-05 07:57:00+00:00
This came up in a discussion between Stephen Wolfram and Eliezer Yudkowsky I saw recently. I generally think Wolfram is a bit of a hack but it was one of his first points that there is no single "smartness" metric and that LLMs are "just getting smarter" all the time. They perform better at some tasks, sure, but we have no definition of abstract "smartness" that would allow for such ranking.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-05 07:57:21+00:00
It is kind of a bug, because otherwise how do you fix it?

Housing got set up as a pyramid scheme where the price keeps going up because supply is constrained, so younger people have to take out ever-bigger mortgages in order to have somewhere to live. Nobody wants the prices to be unaffordable until they buy a house, but once they do they're locked in to the high price they bought in at and want prices to go up even more. When you have a majority of people on the hellbound side of the line then you're locked into a death spiral that violently explodes once the prices get so high that the majority can no longer afford a home.
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-05 07:58:41+00:00
It's the other way around. The EU has granted US companies a temporary permission to handle EU customers' data. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93US_Data_Privacy_F...

I say temporary because it keeps being shot down in court for lax privacy protections and the EU keeps refloating it under a different name for economic reasons. Before this name it was called safe harbor and after that it was privacy shield.
by dismalaf | 2025-06-05 07:58:48+00:00
Someone writes the README... And WYSIWYG? Who uses those?

And how often are you even reading READMEs? For me it's usually once, when I first use a library, because it typically gives an outline of the project and/or instructions on how to install it. So I'm reading it in a browser.

Meanwhile I'm updating my own READMEs often, usually using them as a sort of to-do list and then outlining existing functionality.

Like, are you really using so many libraries as glue that reading READMEs is such a common task that you specifically want it in your IDE? Is that the current state of programming?
by anthk | 2025-06-05 08:00:03+00:00
It helps on security and correctness. Either you are a Forth like guy/gal stating how a firmware will work at every level (low, med, high, every one), cutting down every flaw by getting it as small and predictable as possible (even by ditching floats for rationals and decimal scaling), or a high level Lisp/CL/Java/C# guy with a garbage collector and some memory safety. And Java/C# and some Lisps aren't nowhere as strict on that as ADA.
by ohdeargodno | 2025-06-05 08:00:47+00:00
That's a very debatable viewpoint.

From the horribly slow typecheck that gets exponentially worse every time anyone adds a protocol extension to <very common type>, the debatable choices made with concurrency/async/actors/swift6, the only-very-recently-stable ABI, the regular titanic undertakings needed for bumping any major version that are almost unheard of in most other languages, etc.

Swift is an alright language today. Good even. But for a 10 year old language ? It aged horribly, going through senseless breaking changes just to fit Apple's needs. It's fine if you're locked in on Apple's platforms, but any other language doing that would have been set on fire already. Look at how painful the python2/python3 split was: Swift did worse than that, _four_ times.
by morepedantic | 2025-06-05 08:01:00+00:00
The core models have plateaued. MoE and CoT are use of LLMs. Agents are applications of LLMs. It's hard to say how far novel uses and applications will take us, but the fiery explosion at the core has turned into a smolder.

We'll continue to see incremental improvements as training sets, weights, size, and compute improve. But they're incremental.
by SerCe | 2025-06-05 08:02:17+00:00
I use it pretty much daily and am pretty happy with it, especially its ability to do very targeted edits rather than leaving random changes everywhere.

I believe it’ll get much better as LLMs start editing code by invoking refactoring tools (rename, change signature, etc.) rather than rewriting the code line by line, as this will let them perform large-scale changes reliably in a way that's similar to how software engineers do them now using IDE tools
Ask HN: How can LLMs boost my developer experience?
by rich_sasha | 2025-06-05 08:02:20+00:00
As in the title. But let me elaborate a few constraints:

- I work in a secretive industry (finance) so no web-based service touching my code is allowed

- It is also very correctness-obsessed, so LLM-generated code in general would be hard to sell

But then, it feels like there must be more I can do to try and be more productive. I occasionally use ChatGPT to find tool incantations, and that's great. But that's like a better Google/StackOverflow. What am I missing? Some local LLMs for formatting or refactoring? Documentation-writing? Design questions? Etc.

Any brave souls feel strong enough to ELI5 what they actually do, for money, with coding and LLMs? Whenever I google it, there's a chorus of comments on Reddit saying how useless AI coding tools are...

My personal experience, fwiw, is that LLM generated code needs iterations of prompts and manual fixing, which in the end takes about as long as doing the damn thing by hand in the first place. Except for trivial and boring stuff, which they are good at, but which doesn't come along that often. But again, would be awesome to know what I am missing out on.

Informed stories of LLM failures also welcome!
by FinnLobsien | 2025-06-05 08:02:44+00:00
Plus the question is also whether things would actually be interesting, even if you could port over all of your knowledge and wisdom.

Of course with sports betting, investing etc. most people would decide to get rich to make sure they don't struggle materialistically. But after that?

I think a lot of things would be extremely boring because you already know it's going to work.

It's adjacent to the idea that if you could live forever, nothing would have meaning because you can live in any city for a thousand years, marry anyone for a thousand years and do any hobby, job etc. for a thousand years. And if you can choose any option and have zero opportunity cost for it, then does any option really matter?

A long quote, but one I love:

> “Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say "Well, that was pretty great." But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say "Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream ... where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.”
by close04 | 2025-06-05 08:03:28+00:00
> The time is up to the manufacturer, isn't it?

The time depends on how quickly an event unfolds in traffic. You can't guarantee 10s notice for an event that is imminent in 2s and the system might not be able to handle or can't detect.

The car could become temporarily "blind" for some reason with just 4-5s to brake before a collision. It's enough for a human driver even considering reaction time. But it's impossible to guarantee a minimum time without the ability to predict every issue that will happen on the road.
by sokoloff | 2025-06-05 08:03:28+00:00
It is not begging the question to identify that a key economic factor would change under an LVT to be different from today. This change would affect the number of landlords who could profitably offer units for rent at today’s prices, which I posit would affect their willingness to supply units at that price, shifting their supply curve.

Your own observation that rents would not change based on handedness of your landlord implies that you understand this.
Ask HN: Best Low-Power, Budget-Friendly, and Capable Home Server Setup?
by johnnykree | 2025-06-05 08:03:59+00:00
Hello.

I'm planning to build my first home server and am looking for the best combination of:

Low power consumption Affordable price (used or new) Good performance for self-hosted apps

Use cases:

Docker containers for things like Linkding, Karakeep, a personal Wiki Self-hosted Bitwarden Small Nextcloud instance Jellyfin (light use, just streaming a few movies to the TV) Lightweight game servers (e.g., Terraria) Maybe some basic platformers on the TV (just a bonus, not a must)

I'm currently considering:

A used Mac Mini M1 The new Mac Mini M4 Old office minis like Dell Optiplex / HP 800 G4 with i5-8500T Chinese mini PCs from Minisforum, Beelink, Geekom, etc.

I'd love to hear your experience or suggestions. What's the best value setup you've found for this kind of home lab?
by eru | 2025-06-05 08:04:43+00:00
> I often see these joined but IIRC I did some math on this, and UBI would make your LVT extremely punishing. I wouldnt group them together as proposals.

What's with you and punishment?

LVT should be set to approximately tax all land rents. Given current prevailing interest rates, setting LVT to, say, a yearly 10% of land value should accomplish that. (But the exact value doesn't matter too much, because of arbitrage. I can explain that, if you want to. Basically, as LVT goes up, market prices for land go down. So even setting an LVT of 50% per year won't get you more of a tax take then saner values.)

Just to be clear, I don't propose the UBI above as something anyone could live off. I proposed to mechanically set it to eg the 20%-ile of LVT payments, so that the land-poorest 20% of the population have no net LVT payments to make. Thus forestalling only your very specific objection.

That suggestion was not meant to pay for any specific living standard on its own.

> Yes its horrible. But if you tax 10% on income, you are left with 90% of your income on an ongoing basis, and that can accrue.

Why are you so obsessed with income that's measured in money? There's also plenty of in-kind income. Eg when you have an apple tree, you get apples. If you have a house, you get housing.

It's generally good, if the tax system doesn't care, if you rent his house and she rents yours, or if both of you live in your own home. (Neither scenario has any net flows of money, but the first one has gross flows of money.)

Interestingly, in Switzerland people actually pay taxes on the imputed rental income they get from being owner-occupiers.
by fastball | 2025-06-05 08:05:11+00:00
I literally rebutted that context. Waymos are not safe autonomous driving today, they have caused various safety issues in the era of "today". I didn't include "today" in my original comment because none of the available options are "the only true safe way to do it today", but I don't think it is constructive to just say that.

No True Scotsman was obviously in reference to GC, not you.
by NoPicklez | 2025-06-05 08:05:32+00:00
I used the same links as the commenter above, of which I cited a more recent study and shows that Tesla isn’t as bad as they perhaps used to be.

If they really wanted to exclude them they wouldn’t have included them all.

I cited the study, because it was the same study commented above where the most recent study wasn’t mentioned.

I’m not bragging at all, but they’re just not as bad of a car as some people are giving them a wrap for. Heck they had the same number of problem reported as Ford, does that mean Fords are bad cars? No.
by throw_a_grenade | 2025-06-05 08:05:51+00:00
> Where is the HQ of the company?

If outside EU, then they need to accept EU jurisdiction and notify who is representative plenipotentiary (== can make decisions and take liability on behalf of the company).

> Where does the company operate?

Geography mostly doesn't matter as long as they interact with EU people. Because people are more important.

> What country is the individual user in?

Any EU (or EEA) country.

> What country do the servers and data reside in?

Again, doesn't matter, because people > servers.

It's almost like if bureaucrats who are writing regulations are experienced in writing regulations in such a way they can't be circumvented.

EDIT TO ADD:

From OpenAI privacy policy:

> 1. Data controller

> If you live in the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland, OpenAI Ireland Limited, with its registered office at 1st Floor, The Liffey Trust Centre, 117-126 Sheriff Street Upper, Dublin 1, D01 YC43, Ireland, is the controller and is responsible for the processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.

> If you live in the UK, OpenAI OpCo, LLC, with its registered office at 1960 Bryant Street, San Francisco, California 94110, United States, is the controller and is responsible for the processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.
by Theofrastus | 2025-06-05 08:06:03+00:00
Chess960/Freestyle Chess is where it's at for me. There, the game feels fresh, it's about creativity and clever positional play. Sometimes when playing classical, it feels like a contest of who can memorize better, without room for creativity or passion. I'm not a particularly good classical player, but the mountain of grinding to get good just seems insurmountable to me.