MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seanhunter | 2025-06-14 12:16:57+00:00
I wonder whether my dudes cut and pasted from the same cursed stack overflow snippet as your dudes had.

The strings here included user input too. Worse still, the situation was the company was offering a b2b service and the string didn’t just come from user input by an employee of the company they came from arbitrary customers of the customers of the company.
by stevenhuang | 2025-06-14 12:17:09+00:00
> It assumes consciousness arises from purely physical interactions AND that any physical process can be computed AND that computation can produce consciousness

Yes, and with these assumptions, then "We've established that computers can be conscious, so LLMs might be".

Again that is all that is being claimed. The one insisting the argument is anything more persuasive than that is you. You seem hung up on this claim, but need I remind you it's only an existence proof, whether it's actually possible/probable/likely is an entirely different claim, and is not what is being claimed.

> Even if consciousness arises from a physical system, it doesn't follow that computation on a physical substrate can produce consciousness

> If consciousness arises from a physical system, a physical system cannot produce consciousness

> If A not A

This argument is a contradiction, it's incoherent.

If you're trying to draw a distinction between physical systems and computation on physical systems, well that's a moot point as every tested theory in physics uses mathematics that is computable.

Perhaps reality is not computable. If so then yes, that would mean computation alone will not produce the same kind of consciousness we have. That leaves open other kinds of consciousness, but that's another discussion.
by eduction | 2025-06-14 12:17:45+00:00
> buying the very few white elephants that won't actually make a difference

There’s a lot to criticize in the f 35 program but there seems to be enough there there for it to succeed markedly in the export market - beyond Germany there is Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, Romania and UK — and that’s just in Europe. This includes several countries that did not historically equip with US kit (and excludes Turkey, which ordered it before it got sanctioned). You’re saying all those countries have made a huge mistake?
by lionkor | 2025-06-14 12:17:51+00:00
It's not "thinking" in any sense of the word. As any LLM about budget date ideas in your city, for example, and watch them come up with the most cookie-cutter, boring, cringe filled content you've ever seen. Like blog spam, but condensed into a hyper friendly summary that optimizes for maximum plausibility and minimum offensiveness.

It's an extreme stretch to suggest that there is any thinking involved.
by magicalhippo | 2025-06-14 12:18:09+00:00
I just watched a brief talk[1] over at Pirsa about the emergence of Lorentzian signature and time dimension from quantum fluctuations.

As I understood it, starting with a uniform 4D metric, and then introducing a certain amount of asymmetrical "noise" to the background field through particle coupling, one of the dimensions got an effective sign flip in the metric leading to spacetime metric signature we know and love.

Just a layman so can't comment on the details, but sounded interesting.

[1]: https://doi.org/10.48660/25060082
by wsintra2022 | 2025-06-14 12:18:13+00:00
Pink Floyd’s man who recently passed away may be an example. Brian Wilson another, I heard him say his one regret was psychedelics as they scrambled his brain… I’m all for them when used with respect and correct (mind)set and setting. Lots of human progress has came off the back of psychedelics but they not for the common people. It takes a brave and worthy (shaman) to guide someone through the collective conscious
by ikrima | 2025-06-14 12:19:12+00:00
Hey! This is fantastic and actually ties in some very high disparate parts of math. Basically, reorient & reformulate all of math/epistomology around discrete sampling the continuum. Invert our notions of Aleph/Beth/Betti numbers as some sort of triadic Grothendieck topoi that encode our human brain's sensory instruments that nucleate discrete samples of continuum of reality (ontology)

Then every modal logic becomes some mapping of 2^(N) to some set of statements. The only thing that matters is how predictive they are with some sort of objective function/metric/measure but you can always induce an "ultra metric" around notions of cognitive complexity classes i.e. your brain is finite and can compute finite thoughts/second. Thus for all cognition models that compute some meta-logic around some objective F, we can motivate that less complex models are "better". There comes the ultra measure to tie disparate logic systems. So I can take your Peano Axioms and induce a ternary logic (True, False, Maybe) or an indefinite-definite logic (True or something else entirely). I can even induce bayesian logics by doing power sets of T/F. So a 2x2 bayesian inference logic: (True Positive, True Negative, False Positive, False Negative)

Fun stuff!

Edit: The technical tldr that I left out is unification all math imho: algebraic topology + differential geometry + tropical geometry + algebraic analysis. D-modules and Microlocal Calculus from Kashiwara and the Yoneda lemma encode all of epistemology as relational: either between objects or the interaction between objects defined as collision less Planck hyper volumes.

basically encodes the particle-wave duality as discrete-continuum and all of epistemology is Grothendieck topoi + derived categories + functorial spaces between isometry of those dual spaces whether algebras/coalgebra (discrete modality) or homologies/cohomologies (continuous actions)

Edit 2: The thing that ties everything together is Noether's symmetry/conserved quantities which (my own wild ass hunch) are best encoded as "modular forms", arithmetic's final mystery. The continuous symmetry I think makes it easy to think about diffeomorphisms from different topoi by extracting homeomorphisms from gauge invariant symmetries (in the discrete case it's a lattice, but in the continuous we'd have to formalize some notion of liquid or fluid bases? I think Kashiwara's crystal bases has some utility there but this is so beyond my understanding )
by seydor | 2025-06-14 12:19:27+00:00
droplets of water are not lenses without a glass behind it, and we couldn't see substantial effects behind them before we had glass windows. There was little evolutionary reason to develop any perception of refraction in droplets of water. in contrast, shadows are instant indicators of distance and gradients instantly distinguish concave from convex surfaces for light coming from above.

(water doesnt do lensing unless it s a droplet)
by demosthanos | 2025-06-14 12:21:42+00:00
> who had previously been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

The man had schizophrenia and ChatGPT happened to provide an outlet for it which led to this incident, but people with schizophrenia have been recorded having episodes like this for hundreds of years and most likely for as long as humans have been around.

This incident is getting attention because AI is trendy and gets clicks, not because there's any evidence AI played a significant causal role worth talking about.
by davidthewatson | 2025-06-14 12:21:57+00:00
This is a good idea. It reminds me of the need for better visual debugging or visualization of the masked complexity in these products. I'm sure they exist inside tech titans, but I haven't seen them outside terrain visualization in open source.

Thanks for the highlight. I wasn't aware that Apple had released a new AR interface though I have used the previous VisionPro generation.

FWIW, I find the whole experience disconcerting from a design perspective.

Why?

1) We have been stuck at a Cartesian lossy limit of blocks world keyhole problems for 50 years on desktop and poor imitations of it found in tap interfaces.

2) That edge remains liminal and uncanny, precisely because it is lossy in terms of dimensions and their implied dimensionality and lack of scalability, ignorance of zoomable interface research and so on, from pixels at 2d to voxels at 3d, to 4-tuples (XYZT) in 4D and beyond.

3) Just like LLMs, the exploding dot cloud, or vector spaces of n-dimensional data found in our reality from inner space to outer space haven't really received the quantum-leaning, mirror world treatment they deserve - one which scales with the exploding complexity of its underlying dot cloud of vector spaces in all dimensions.

We are in need of a topos theoretic leap in UX/UI for decades - one which can incorporate the need for disconnected spaces that provide a localized logic to bridge the lack of unification from one uncanny valley to another. Sadly, what I've seen from the dichotomy of dominance in tech titans has not provided a compelling answer, at least not in public. I remain hopeful that R&D labs are still breathing in these sadly corporate places and simply are far more secretive since Steve.

Problem is, outside tiny pizza-team-sized labs, the number of R&D labs realizing the problem of synthesizing hybrids at 2.5d or the like is infinitesimally small.
by Ezpie | 2025-06-14 12:22:41+00:00
I can totally understand the point you're making there. I used to use VScode too few years ago, but now I use vim most of the time. So majority of the time I'm in my terminal so if the hook fails for me, it gives me the error, and I have zero problems with that. So I get what you mean there, but I mean, for those who live in their terminals git hooks kind of make sense, I mean after all, we see the error cause its the terminal after all.

So yeah it just boils down to the fact how you would use git, in vscode, hooks aren't great, cause its not going to display the error, but if you use the terminal, even in vscode, you'll see the error getting displayed on the terminal.
I understand why Google ships such poor software
by chrisjj | 2025-06-14 12:22:49+00:00
But I don't understand why it creates it.

For example its Gmail Android app. When message send fails, the message remains in Outbasket - fine - but the app presents no button to retry. OK, so perhaps the designer just forgot.

But the message display To: value is overwritten with a word in red e.g. Uploading, presumably intended as an explanation for the fail. This prevents the user determining the recipient.

So what's behind this? Did some designer really beleive overwriting the recipient name with error info was a good idea?

And this is no simple layout issue. Opening the message shows the same. And attempting to workaround using forward or reply fails - because both are broken, yielding simply a blank message.
by jazzcomputer | 2025-06-14 12:23:54+00:00
I had a break from ChatGPT for a few months and got back onto it last week with some questions about game engines. I noticed that this time it's asking a lot of stuff when it looks like I'm coming to the end of my questions - like, "would you like me to go through with..." or "would you like me to help you with setting up..."

Previously it felt less this way but it was notable as it seemed to sense I was coming towards the end of my questions and wanted me to stick around.
by jamesblonde | 2025-06-14 12:23:55+00:00
Saab also work with Hopsworks - the only EU owned/based AI platform for developing and operating AI systems at scale. Saab is Palantir-free.

Refernece: https://youtu.be/A7FPenztrcw?si=-_s-kQ_D-nCUWJWh&t=2276 Disclaimer: i work on Hopsworks
by danaris | 2025-06-14 12:24:04+00:00
What we have is:

For all consciousnesses that exist, they arose from a (complex) physical system.

What you are positing is, effectively:

Any physical system (of sufficient complexity) could potentially become conscious.

This is a classic logical error. It's basically the same error as "Socrates is a man. All men are mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates."
by squigz | 2025-06-14 12:24:21+00:00
> The young woman has been in a wheelchair for years after falling from the top of a building .

> He added that his daughter suffers from mental problems with suicidal tendencies and constant changes of heart, and therefore needed psychological treatment, not assisted death.

> "The patient's capacity to make decisions has also been verified," the ruling states, "by the attending physician and the psychologist at the Hospital Residencia . The plaintiff has not presented any evidence that could refute the conclusions of these reports. They show that Noelia retains her capacity to make all types of decisions, including, therefore, the decision to undergo euthanasia."

This is a terribly sad situation all around, but I don't see this as evidence for why euthanasia laws are bad. The best I can see is that this highlights that we shouldn't push euthanasia as a solution to every lifelong disability, but that s a social/cultural issue, not a legal one - and one that we will certainly have to adapt to as assisted dying becomes more socially accepted. There will likely be more stories where, arguably, it goes too far, but I don't think there will be an epidemic of people offing themselves for relatively minor things.

> only meant having to bear the death of your child before you

Of course this is sad, but given the context of the conversation, the other choice being watching a child lose their mind or suffer in a world that is extraordinarily hostile to disabled people, I don't think saving the parents one type of pain (while subjecting them to another) is a really great idea either.

Also, isn't it better to have a way for people to kill themselves "cleanly", rather than kill themselves at home (or worse, in public)? Presumably finding one's child like that would be far worse?

(Of course, none of this is to say that we shouldn't e.g., make the world more accessible to disabled people, or help people learn to live with their disabilities, or try to cure Alzheimer's and the like - but as said, we can do all of these things at once. In the meantime, before we cure Alzheimer's and make everyone perfectly mentally healthy, we should also deal with the harsh realities that not having done those things entails.)
by technothrasher | 2025-06-14 12:24:37+00:00
When I was in school, my dad's friend used to occasionally fly me home from Upstate NY to central MA in what were effectively $100 hamburger runs, just to get his flight hours in. My father-in-law also loves to tell me his stories of flying Navy T-33 trainer jets to DC in the 1950's just as an excuse to visit his girlfriend (who later became his wife).
Ask HN: DMs on HN
by ack_inc | 2025-06-14 12:24:53+00:00
HN prevents replying to posts / comments that are "too old".

This means if I have a question for a user based on a comment they wrote 2 months ago, there's no way for me to get their attention unless they have a post / comment that is not "too old".

If they don't have anything like that, I'm out of luck. If they do, I'm still breaking forum etiquette by responding to their new post / comment with something unrelated.

Has there has been discussion previously on whether DMing other HN users is a feature that the community wants?
by tombh | 2025-06-14 12:25:10+00:00
I've never actually made a palette, but it just doesn't seem practical to me to expect theme creators to always find a contrast-safe 16 colour palettes. I would imagine that it even seriously restricts the range of themes that can be made. I can imagine that such a thing is possible for smaller palettes like say 3 colours though, but then that's not actually useful for UIs.

I think the fact is that small palettes come from the days of lower resources, not from efficient program design.
by tylerhou | 2025-06-14 12:25:35+00:00
Thanks for reminding me, I meant to also benchmark the interchanged version. I updated the file above with the new benchmark results.

The original commenter called `find()` once per vowel, so that's why I benchmarked the regex against the less-idiomatic code.

The interchanged version (loop over haystack outside, over vowels inside) is (mildly) faster than all the regex versions except for short strings & no vowels.

One thing to note is that all the loop versions are not easily generalizable to non-ASCII strings, while the regex version is fairly easily.
by f_allwein | 2025-06-14 12:25:44+00:00
One thing I haven’t heard yet about Liquid Glass: Glass is good for looking through it. So an OS based on this could be ideal for Extended Reality. Having iOS resemble visionOS more might be a step towards using iPhones as XR devices. Could we then potentially see a fancy Apple version of Google cardboard in the future, where you use your iPhone as an AR device as well…?
by dijksterhuis | 2025-06-14 12:26:00+00:00
linked study in TFA

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02306

> training to maximize human feedback creates a perverse incentive structure for the AI to resort to manipulative or deceptive tactics to obtain positive feedback from users who are vulnerable to such strategies. We study this phenomenon by training LLMs with Reinforcement Learning with simulated user feedback in environments of practical LLM usage.

it seems optimising for what people want isn’t an ideal strategy from an ethical perspective — guess we haven’t learned from social media feeds as a species. awesome.

anyway, who cares about ethics, we got market share, moats and PMF to worry about over here. this money doesn’t grow on trees y’know. /s
by dinfinity | 2025-06-14 12:26:18+00:00
Something like this is the best approach.

If you omit that the content is produced by or is in relation to other people, the LLM assumes it is in relation to you and tries to be helpful and supportive by default.

Note that this is also what most humans that more or less like you will do. Getting honest criticism from most humans isn't easy if you don't carefully craft your 'prompt'. People don't want to hurt each other's feelings and prefer white lies over honesty.

Framing the situation as if you and the LLM are both looking at neutral third parties should prevent this from happening. Framing the third parties as having a social/professional position counter to the matter at hand as you do could work too, but it could also subtly trigger unwanted biases (just like in humans), I think.
by heisenbit | 2025-06-14 12:26:35+00:00
I really believe a common vocabulary makes sense. But it is hard, very hard as you spread across organization (some to be bought and integrated), business processes and time. As soon as it comes to generating stuff things become hard. One may be able to generate interfaces between two systems but which enterprise has only two layers? Yes, if all knowledge is captured in the central catalog we may be able to do it but who builds this perfect database and maintains it?

Attempts to do this and survived either restricted themselves to being very abstract or limited their scope to specific use cases.
by CTOSian | 2025-06-14 12:27:55+00:00
I use one Intermec with android , I just print todo and lists for my pocket filofax - alas not possible to print under linux (proprietary drivers), and I even had to 'hack' the android intemec print-app (as it was designed for intermec android devices and if you don't use a such it put a watermark line) - TBH even their setup app is windoze only.. FFS
by foota | 2025-06-14 12:28:57+00:00
Generally, even these emergency changes are done not entirely immediately to prevent a fix from making things worse. This is an operational choice though, not a technical limitation. My guess being involved in similar issues in the past is the ~15 minute delay preparing the change was either that it wasn't a normally used big red button, so it wasn't clear how to use it, or there was some other friction preparing the change.
by ikrima | 2025-06-14 12:29:29+00:00
You know what, since you put in all that work, here's my version using p-adic geometry to generalize the concept of time as a local relativistic "motive" (from category theory) notion of ordering (i.e. analogous to Grothendieck's generalization of functions as being point samples along curves of a basis of distributions to generalize notions of derivatives):

https://github.com/ikrima/topos.noether/blob/aeb55d403213089...
by M4v3R | 2025-06-14 12:30:38+00:00
To add to what others said - almost every major iOS / macOS release will be slower and drain battery more on the first day after install. The reason for that is they do a lot of indexing of your data and other preprocessing things that enable new features after you install. Once these processes end your device will go back to normal.

I’m surprised Apple does not communicate this fact more clearly to people, as many seem to be totally unaware of it (I do remember seeing notifications on macOS about that though)
by freddie_mercury | 2025-06-14 12:32:27+00:00
The temperature thing is one I always wonder about.

The WHO claims the ideal overnight temperature for sleeping is 18 degree (C). I lived in Vietnam for a decade and to a rough approximation 0% of the population ever experiences 18 degrees overnight for sleeping. And I imagine it's not too different in much of Thailand, Indonesia, India, etc.

I'm pretty dubious that hundreds of millions, maybe billions, are thriving in "suboptimal" overnight temperatures!

Does the African savanna regularly get down to 18c at night, such that we'd expect that to be some kind of evolutionary equilibrium that just happens to map to (northern) European and North American norms?
by osmandinc | 2025-06-14 12:32:28+00:00
This post illustrates how to use AutoUpgrade to patch an Oracle Database to in environments without internet access, making it also suitable for isolated systems. It details steps such as creating necessary directories, copying setup files, running prechecks, applying patches, and performing post-upgrade operations. The AutoUpgrade utility automates many tasks that are traditionally handled manually by DBAs.

Actually, based on my prior patching experiences, DBAs may forget some post-patching tasks, but it seems that AutoUpgrade does not.
by freddie_mercury | 2025-06-14 12:34:38+00:00
> But when I was an infant -- which is not that long ago, parents were advised otherwise.

So...research was done and people learned they were wrong?

I'm not quite following what you think the takeaway was here?

The "Back to Sleep" campaigns saw something like a 50% decrease in infant mortality within 12 months in the UK. It isn't really comparable to "fad diet of the year" medical advice.
by technothrasher | 2025-06-14 12:35:19+00:00
If they were interested in increasing sweetness, they likely would have been adding the honey after fermentation, not before. But either way, I suspect the supposition at the end of the article is the correct one, whether they were getting the sweetness from raisins or honey, the consumers wouldn't have cared. I went down an exploration of trying to approximate Roman wine a little while ago, and what I discovered reading a bunch about it (and subsequently creating and tasting the best replica I could), Roman wines were by and large some really nasty swill. They didn't fully understand how fermentation worked, the pine pitch the used to seal the amphoras leeched into the wines, and they typically attempted to hide the bad character of the wines by watering it down and then adding all kinds of sweet and spicy additives to it.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-14 12:35:48+00:00
Fractals are a better representation, a simple equation that iterated upon gives these fantastically complex patterns. Even knowing the equation you could spend years investing why boundaries between unique fractal structures appear where they do, and why they melt from arches to columns and spirals.

In a similar way we know the framework of LLMs, but we don't know the "fractal" that grows from it.