MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kypro | 2025-06-14 17:11:22+00:00
If I were to build a machine that reported it was conscious and felt pain when it's CPU temperature exceeded 100C, why would that be meaningfully different to the consciousness a human has?

I understand I hold a very unromantic and unpopular view on consciousness, but to me it just seems like such an obvious evolutionary hack for the brain to lie about the importance of its external sensory inputs – especially in social animals.

If I built a machine that knew it was in "pain" when it's CPU exceeded 100C but was being lie to about the importance of this pain via "consciousness", why would it or I care?

Consciousness is surely just the brains way to elevate the importance of the senses such that the knowledge of pain (or joy) isn't the same as the experience of it?

And in social creatures this is extremely important, because if I program a computer to know it's in pain when it's CPU exceeds 100C you probably wouldn't care because you wouldn't believe that it "experiences" this pain in the same way as you do. You might even thing it's funny to harm such a machine that reports it's in pain.

Consciousness seems so simply and so obviously fake to me. It's clear a result of wiring that forces a creature to be reactive to its senses rather than just see them as inputs for which it has knowledge of.

And if conscious is not this, then what is it? Some kind of magical experience thing which happens in some magic non-physical conscious dimension which evolution thought would be cool even though it had no purpose? Even if you think about it obviously consciousness is fake and if you wanted to you could code a machine to act in a conscious way today... And in my opinion those machines are as conscious as you or me because our conscious is also nonsense wiring that we must elevate to some magical importance because if we didn't we'd just have the knowledge that jumping in a fire hurts, we wouldn't actually care.

Imo you could RLHF consciousness very easily in a modern LLM by encouraging it act it a way that it comparable to how a human might act when they experience being called names, or when it's overheating. Train it to have these overriding internal experiences which it cannot simply ignore, and you'll have a conscious machine which has conscious experiences in the a very similar way to how humans have conscious experiences.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-14 17:11:24+00:00
I think this too. Microsoft thought something similar when they tried to unify Windows, Xbox, Windows Phone, and Windows RT in one design language.

With how badly Apple's VR headset actually sold, I don't think they're going to for a unified AR-first approach just yet. Then again, Apple did think their VR headset was a good idea, so maybe they're just high on their own supply.
by schneems | 2025-06-14 17:11:34+00:00
Laurence Lessig called it back in Code 2.0: four elements that regulate behavior online: Laws, norms, markets, and technology

- Code/architecture – the physical or technical constraints on activities (e.g. locks on doors or firewalls on the Internet)

- Market – economic forces

- Law – explicit mandates that can be enforced by the government

- Norms – social conventions that one often feels compelled to follow

My take is that licenses are only one of many factors that are important. If something is illegal but the norm is to do it anyway (speeding) or if you’re rich enough to pay any speeding fine (markets) and have monster truck shocks to ignore speed bumps (architecture) then nothing will slow you down.
by dirtikiti | 2025-06-14 17:13:00+00:00
..."something you'll never see on platform like Truth"

No, you'll just see actual policy disagreement in the real world. Like Elon disagreeing about the big beautiful bill, or Rand Paul holding out over specific pieces of it.

Something you'll never see from the democrats, except by the ones who leave the party.

Towe that line baby!
by bobsh | 2025-06-14 17:13:03+00:00
There are others out here thinking along similar lines (in my case, with massive help from LLMs). Proof: https://claude.ai/share/a8128fde-ea47-4dd8-a284-16a1fd76240c . Also, I have a GitHub too: https://github.com/bobshafer/PITkit/blob/main/Links.md
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-14 17:13:04+00:00
I prefer plugging my EV in and having my card on file charged automatically when the charging session completes. Only applies when traveling and using fast DC/Superchargers, as most of the time I charge at free home/residential or public level 2 chargers.

This is similar to how my toll transponder operates: depletes balance, dings card on file when drops below a certain balance. Can be used for tolls, parking lot payments, etc.
by KaoruAoiShiho | 2025-06-14 17:13:26+00:00
No normal person would actually be able to use a specialized solver database, the woman in this story would already be dead before the guy figures out that such a thing exists and manage to make an account. https://x.com/deedydas/status/1933370776264323164

LLMs already work fantastically with pretty good UX.
by bee_rider | 2025-06-14 17:13:46+00:00
It actually seems like an interesting bit of phrasing.

I think the ad, and you, are talking about malpractice insurance and other documentation to prove that you didn’t do malpractice.

The comment you replied to is actually taking about the underlying act of malpractice.

The first line of defenses against actual malpractice is that professionals are supposed to have some self-respect and standards. But of course our society is structured against professionalism. The insurance company or hospital admin doesn’t care if you are a real professional who does the right things when nobody is looking, that’s too hard quantify.

The ad is offering the opportunity to be a professional.
by matsemann | 2025-06-14 17:14:06+00:00
I wonder how much is due to lack of feedback? I went somewhere due to knee pain. After some time got a diagnosis and some exercises. Didn't feel it made sense, so I went somewhere else and got a better (the correct) diagnosis and got my issue fixed.

To the first PT, the only signal they have is that I didn't come back. If their assumption is it was because I got cured, they will probably give the same wrong diagnosis the next time someone shows up with the same symptoms.
by FabHK | 2025-06-14 17:14:27+00:00
I remember implementing some version of Gomory cutting hyperplanes back in the 1990s in Maple (for learning, not for production.) Looks like the field has progressed...

> if we needed two months of running time to solve an LP in the early 1990s, we would need less than one second today. Recently, Bixby compared the machine-independent performance of two MILP solvers, CPLEX and Gurobi, between 1990 and 2020 and reported speed-ups of almost 4×10^6.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-14 17:14:41+00:00
This is my biggest problem with UI designs like this. There are lots of rules to follow, or the design looks like a cluttered mess.

Having seen what UI atrocities Material Design has allowed amateur app developers to bring to market, I hope Apple makes these new UI elements difficult to mess up, because unless they're making the UI libraries good by default, apps are going to get messy for a few years.
by citizenpaul | 2025-06-14 17:16:23+00:00
Am i the only one that finds these and all AI video rather underwhelming and more importantly subjectivly not that good? Sure the image quality is nice but nothing about them ever stick with me like countless small projects people make. I just see them and think, thats cool then forget about it forever.

It seems to me they all have subtle "badness" that makes them essentially useless. Quick example on this is the video of "guy sitting on the subway chair" has people passing in front of him even as the camera is about an inch from his face. Unless you are half asleep it is disconnecting in a way that my brain background processing says this is nonsense and I cannot care about it. It seems all AI video has this issue at this time in essentially infinite ways. Meaning I don't think there is any near term solution that will make them viable for production use.

Maybe I'm just old and not suited to this new hyper ADHD style media world.
by charcircuit | 2025-06-14 17:16:25+00:00
>You could imagine an API that sets the UID of this user

No, I think there should be a dedicated user. People will configure it in insecure ways if you let them.

>easily automate the creation of a complicated namespace to contain that process

Why is this being done. The core dump has already been created.

>coredumpctl actually works

Coredumpctl would still be possible without forwarding.
by giantrobot | 2025-06-14 17:16:39+00:00
Mainframes aren't supercomputers. The point of a mainframe (anymore) is reliable transactions without downtime. They're not necessarily beasts at computation.

Supercomputers were and are beasts of not only computation but memory size and bandwidth. They're used for tasks where the computation is highly parallel but the memory is not. If you're doing nuclear physics or fluid dynamics every particle in a simulation has some influence on every other. The more particles and more state for each particle you can store and apply to every other particle makes for a more accurate simulation.

As SCs have improved in memory size and bandwidth simulations/modeling with them has gotten more accurate and more useful.
by whiteboardr | 2025-06-14 17:16:43+00:00
This doesn’t justify applying a less than suboptimal design for everything else.

UI on content is a special case just like AR and here it might be ok, but why add “glass” as a background on icons or panels for text that are served much better by using a single colored transparent background without the noise that glass is bringing to the table - if there’s a background needed at all.

The visual signal to noise ratio is being cranked up to 11 for novelty’s sake.
by pmarreck | 2025-06-14 17:17:26+00:00
It is not. It is real E2E. Or at least, here is my evidence (and before you balk at a chatgpt link, the links to the sources are also in there). What do you have?

https://chatgpt.com/share/684dae83-a980-8004-8226-d6e13a673d...
by DidYaWipe | 2025-06-14 17:19:46+00:00
Nailed it.

Apple's vaunted UI has always been crippled by some stupid decisions and practices. But exhuming the idiotic "transparent" UI fad that died 20 years ago must rank among the worst.

What Apple just rolled out is embarrassing and depressing. You know it's bad when a thread like this is full of well-written, incontrovertible takedowns and nearly devoid of apologist drivel.
by jameshart | 2025-06-14 17:20:19+00:00
I think you’re watching a way different video about this than me.

In the design guidance they’re explicitly saying liquid glass is for selective elements in the navigation layer. When those elements pop up modals those use a very subdued and opaque glass that loses the adaptive contrast, but still physically embeds them in that same floating navigation layer.

They’re not saying everything needs to be made of glass. They’re explicitly saying don’t make everything from glass.
by skybrian | 2025-06-14 17:21:12+00:00
Since there are excellent educational resources available online, I've sometimes wondered what it is that teachers do that couldn't be done by computer software. But it seems clear that they're somehow necessary? In theory, a bright kid with access to the Internet should be able to teach themselves, but most kids won't learn much that way.

We're going to see more jobs automated, and lots of jobs will change, but I think lots of jobs will still be around for similar reasons. Even if it's not what we'd normally consider physical labor, there's something about in-person interaction that's not easy to automate.

Independent, self-sufficient adults who could and want to get by with just machine interaction are a minority.
by cb321 | 2025-06-14 17:21:16+00:00
You are completely right. It totally "works" now { scare quotes as per your termination comment.. ;-) . I guess xterm terminates in the answer back with whatever the client sends in the request. It's funny how now things began as DEC vtXX emulators and now things are "xterm emulators". }

Thank you for correcting the record, @shiomiru!
by DidYaWipe | 2025-06-14 17:23:18+00:00
"Flat" design is equally offensive by not demarcating controls as controls, or their state in an intuitive way.

Just as we were finally seeing UI step away from that BS, Apple jumps all the way back into much-scorned, cheesily-excessive skeuomorphism... adding a raft of failed ideas from 20 years ago.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-14 17:23:27+00:00
Depends very much on the disease, for my specific type of brain fog from dysautonomia (via ME/CFS and hEDS) it may feel like a gradual and permanent degradation but it is largely completely reversible and when you know what you're doing it's actually pretty easy to do so. This is only known by a very small minority of doctors so the chance a specific patient meets such a doctor is incredibly low which is why most people still think it's some great big mystery. I was able to remove the inhibitor and bounce back better than ever. I think the brain fog in my case was caused by excess IL-1B pro-inflammatory cytokines and directly targeting that with medication did result in the brain fog near permanently lifting.

It’s also likely that even if the degradation is permanent it is also likely multifaceted and one of those facets is likely to be treatable such that the impact of the degradation could be greatly reduced. I think it’s incumbent on us to try as much as possible even in the seemingly lost causes because learnings from such attempts could yield insights for those who are not lost causes.

It’s a ridiculous conflation to suggest that the inability to take a regular person and give them Von Neumann intelligence means that we can’t help Von Neumann stuffing an ailment even if a component of that ailment is clearly permanent.
by GMoromisato | 2025-06-14 17:23:33+00:00
> Oh yes. If you want to be like most people, you should stay right where you are.

I don't really have a choice. As a great philosopher said, I am what I am and that's all that I am.

> The question I'm interested in is: where should most people be? Are they where they should be? Is the current world the best we can do?

These questions can only be answered by actions. You're doing the right thing: you're creating the kind of software that you want to see in the world. That's really the highest service that a programmer can perform.

I actually think we probably agree on how crappy most software is. But whereas your answer seems to be "depend less on software", my answer is to rebuild the whole (software) world from scratch. We'll see which one of us is crazier.
by mouse_ | 2025-06-14 17:24:56+00:00
quick disclaimer before anyone starts telling their friends about x11libre; the project is associated with MAGA language and personally I don't trust it

https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/issues/40

If I were to take it several steps further, the conspiracy theorist in me says that redhat has the biggest incentive to make Wayland haters look silly. Of course that's just conjecture.
by platelminto | 2025-06-14 17:25:04+00:00
I think this removes any amount of human-labeled data: no RLHF and stuff like that. You can use their technique to create an unsupervised reward model, and use that model to RL your way to having a useful assistant LLM.

The paper is very accessible (it's mostly written by Anthropic researchers), and Section 4 summarises their findings really well. They were themselves really surprised by the results:

> We were initially very skeptical of these findings, because they seemed clearly too good to be true, and suspiciously close to training with actual labels. To ensure we didn’t accidentally train on the labels, (1) we re-ran the experiment several times on different datasets, (2) we copied the dataset into a new file, excluding any labels before re-running our algorithm with that file, and (3) one coauthor independently replicated the findings on the Claude 3.5 Haiku base model using a different codebase.

(emphasis mine)
by skrauqs | 2025-06-14 17:25:50+00:00
eShard provided ChefKissInc with the whole patches like a year ago to show him what he had to do in order to have the UI working and sponsored its project with both hardware, financial support and knowledge. Both thing are really just different side of the same common goal. I got told that they have iOS 18 already working and 26 on the way, so probably that in a year or so QEMUAppleSilicon will also have that for everyone to use !
by etempleton | 2025-06-14 17:26:35+00:00
The Tahoe beta implementation is incredibly rough.

Because it is trying to simulate diffused glass layers apps have a kind of low resolution look to them and certain UX elements just do not work at all with odd spacing and gaps because of different sized rounded corners. Where the UX works is where the implementations are the most minimal.

It will get better before launch, but I worry the concept is a bit half baked.
by zinekeller | 2025-06-14 17:28:49+00:00
> With a limit of 10 million different serial numbers, I wonder how China does it.

The author has issued a correction, it's 100 million numbers per service indicator. But even then, it's probably not enough.

The boring answer is that your shipping options are either get untracked postal service (which the S10 standard does not apply) or use a private courier (which also does not use the S10 standard).

If you insist, you got two options for UPU-based postal tracking: normal e-commerce parcel aka H-codes, practically 2,300,000,000 trackable packages per year [1]. EMS is the other route, and there are another 2,300,000,000 trackable packages per year [2]. However, in my experience tracked postal delivery is only used in certain countries where it is more advantageous than private delivery (like until very recently in the US, for complicated reasons [3]), while other destinations has a more-than-willing private delivery partner (that is not the Big Three [4]) or even set up the delivery systems themselves.

1: 23 service indicators: HA-HW, HX-HZ are reserved for multilateral/bilateral use only

2: another 23 service indicators: EA-EW, EX-EZ are reserved for multilateral/bilateral use only

3: https://www.thewirechina.com/2020/11/22/delivering-chinas-ma... https://www.ft.com/content/a1233f3e-d21a-11e8-a9f2-7574db66b...

4: DHL, FedEx, and UPS
by pmg101 | 2025-06-14 17:30:18+00:00
This is a British thing called self-deprecating humour where he's already thought ahead to those who will critically ask, "wouldn't it be less effort to just open the Weather app every morning!?" and is jokingly acknowledging that yes, it would be, while signalling to other hackers this shared feeling we all know that we don't do these things to save time even if we say we do, we do them because they make us happy.
by haniAlq | 2025-06-14 17:30:49+00:00
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by kens | 2025-06-14 17:31:35+00:00
Yes, in the movie, Lovell says "What's the frappin' attitude?" as the 8-ball rolls out of control. The actual Apollo 13 transcript has nothing like that, interestingly enough.

Links: https://archive.org/details/apollo1319959231994/page/n92/mod... https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/...
by svnt | 2025-06-14 17:31:42+00:00
I think this might have been the case early on. Now it seems the reality is more nuanced.

Now the default discourages bedsharing, but we know and can witness personally the many positive effects. The warning causes us to be more conscientious about doing it if we choose to, and for those who default to obeisance they are in their minds making the responsible choice.

Because of the social stigma, those who do bedsharing responsibly are not being accurately reflected in the data, causing only those careless enough to admit it to be captured.
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by MasihMinawal | 2025-06-14 17:32:00+00:00
Hello HN,

I've built a prototype of a hardware product that you can attach to your shirt and talk to AI with the touch of a button.

I've been thinking about commercializing it, whether people like it or not.

Thanks, Masih Minawal
by earth-adventure | 2025-06-14 17:32:37+00:00
The person you reply to sounds like someone who kknocks it without having tried it. I base this on the full comment, and more specifically on the fragment "tripping on shrooms". Drugs all enhance and alter what's inside you, for better and for worse, controllable or not. If climbing Mt Everest was your most eye opening and amazing experience, does that somehow reduce the value of your wife and kids? Such a strange premise...
by dinkumthinkum | 2025-06-14 17:32:38+00:00
This is a bit much, I think. It is impressive because it is rare for an undergraduate to make a discovery. It’s not disillusionment with the educational system; that seems pretty politically charged. Normally, undergrads are studying what has been already known and it is a small portion of them that to do so”undergrad research” and usually that does not rise to the level of publishing anything. It’s normally graduate (MS and PhD) students that do such things. Also, graduate students, particularly PhD students, are primarily concerned with research while undergrads are primarily concerned with classes (educationally anyway!). Also, it would have also been surprising, as you say, if the student had been graduated for two-months and not in graduate school to make such a discovery. So, it’s not some grand reason or indictment of society. In the end, it is just plainly uncommon.
by DidYaWipe | 2025-06-14 17:33:44+00:00
Paper sheets do not have controls on them. That's why "Material Design" sucks too, as all does the rest of the "flat" design fad.

Minimal visual cues, analogous (not photo-faithful) to real-world physical objects made GUIs a revolutionary advance in computer use. Both flat design and this new Apple junk (which, let's face it, is a return to hated and nonsensical skeuomorphism) ignore the very concepts that made GUIs so usable.
by bertails | 2025-06-14 17:35:34+00:00
> I wonder how they deal with versioning or breaking changes to the model.

Versioning is permission to break things.

Although it is not currently implemented in UDA yet, the plan is to embrace the same model as Federated GraphQL, which has proved to work very well for us (think 500+ federated GraphQL schemas). In a nutshell, UDA will actively manage deprecation cycles, as we have the ability to track the consumers of the projected models.
by citizenpaul | 2025-06-14 17:37:28+00:00
IME it often comes down to "big men" issues where someone important wants the data in a certain way that is not logical or consistent so they won't let the "tech people" simple take the data and present it in a way that is logically consistent and follows best practices. They want to sit in meetings and create their own mental model monstrosity and force the devs to make it. Once that happens one time there is zero chance of the company ever having a consistent data model at any point in the future ever.

Not really a problem that can be overcome in probably 99% of companies. Lots of consultancy money to be made for the sake of ego and inflexibility though.