MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by refulgentis | 2025-06-30 20:31:15+00:00
Names >> all, and increasingly so.

One phenomena that bared this to me, in a substantive way, was noticing an increasing # of reverent comments re: Geohot in odd places here, that are just as quickly replied to by people with a sense of how he works, as opposed to the keywords he associates himself with. But that only happens here AFAIK.

Yapping, or, inducing people to yap about me, unfortunately, is much more salient to my expected mindshare than the work I do.

It's getting claustrophobic intellectually, as a result.

Example from the last week is the phrase "context engineering" - Shopify CEO says he likes it better than prompt engineering, Karpathy QTs to affirm, SimonW writes it up as fait accompli. Now I have to rework my site to not use "prompt engineering" and have a Take™ on "context engineering". Because of a couple tweets + a blog reverberating over 2-3 days.

Nothing against Carmack, or anyone else named, at all. i.e. in the context engineering case, they're just sharing their thoughts in realtime. (i.e. I don't wanna get rolled up into a downvote brigade because it seems like I'm affirming the loose assertion Carmack is "not an AI guy", or, that it seems I'm criticizing anyone's conduct at all)

EDIT: The context engineering example was not in reference to another post at the time of writing, now one is the top of front page.
by falcor84 | 2025-06-30 20:31:30+00:00
But context is only additive. You can give it the book content, but I don't think there's anything you can do to prevent it from bringing in unrelated info, unless you have a separate non-AI layer (e.g. connected to the RAG) that gives the user the particular snippets from the book, but even then you can't control what the AI bring to its interpretation of these snippets.

One thing that I think could be nice is if you could have it always keep the book in view, and just scroll to the appropriate place it is referring to, and then somehow highlight the specific snippet it is currently referring to, so that I could visually verify that it's giving me "grounded" information. Does your system do something like that?
by palata | 2025-06-30 20:31:31+00:00
I agree with you that companies are profit-maximising machines. And regulations set the framework into which companies can optimise.

The problem we have with quasi-monopolies is that they have too much power and don't have to care about regulations.

> Suing them is the right way to fix those behaviors.

The problem is that it doesn't work. I am still waiting for Apple or one of the other TooBigTech to get a fine that really, actually hurts. But nobody will do that: the US like monopolies (as long as they are US companies of course) and others (like the EU) don't dare regulating US companies because... well because the US governement won't accept it.
by gruez | 2025-06-30 20:31:45+00:00
At the risk of sounding like a mobile industry shill, what practical use case is there for 6 ghz wifi? The article mentions:

>Calabrese said he expects the biggest impact of reducing Wi-Fi's use of 6 GHz at "busy venues such as schools, airports, sporting arenas, shopping malls, all the different places where many people gather together and try to get on the same access points and unlicensed spectrum through Wi-Fi."

but I don't think I can remember the last time I connected to wifi at some sort of public venue. In most cases I'm there to do something, and don't mind burning a bit of my data allotment to avoid going through the hassle of connecting to wifi. Even at places like airports I don't think bandwidth was ever an issue. I'm typically not doing bandwidth intensive tasks like downloading Steam games.

The only other use case I can think of is wifi in apartment buildings, but most uses of home internet don't really require fast speeds. 4K streaming only takes around 25-30 Mb/s. Bandwidth heavy stuff like game updates can be done using wired, and in my experience 5 ghz's penetrating power isn't good enough that the airwaves end up getting congested.
by jacobgkau | 2025-06-30 20:31:55+00:00
> Subject to applicable law, Comcast may disclose information generated by your WiFi Motion to third parties without further notice to you in connection with any law enforcement investigation or proceeding, any dispute to which Comcast is a party, or pursuant to a court order or subpoena.

Sounds like, at least in some limited circumstances (using the provided WiFi AP, having this feature turned on, etc), ISPs are going to be able to tell law enforcement/courts whether anyone was home at a certain time or not.
by jasperry | 2025-06-30 20:32:13+00:00
As I understand it, this result is about algorithms that solve any instance of a given computational problem (like finding the shortest paths through a graph.) The specific problem instance (the graph) is the input to the algorithm. The result shows how to take an algorithm and construct another algorithm that solves the same class of problems in less space, by transforming how the algorithm reads and writes memory. Now you have an algorithm that still solves any instance of that problem but uses only sqrt(t) space.

So, to answer your question more directly: no, you don't have to have solved a specific instance of the problem, but you have to already have an algorithm that solves it in general.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-30 20:32:56+00:00
I still have a stack of DATs from when I had a portable recorder. I'd record DJ sets when friends were playing parties. Unfortunately, I no longer have a DAT player. DAT was the first tape format that was actually listenable for me. Cassette hiss was annoying, but there was nothing else so we all listened to hiss forever. Having a tape that was that free of hiss was amazing.

There was a time period where DJs were passing around DATs of unreleased tracks, and some DJs would try to play sets from them. They had the advantage of not being destroyed by the sand on the beach, but had the distinct disadvantage of no pitch control for proper beat matching. I did have access to two studio rack mounted DAT machines that did have pitch control, but they were top of the line very expensive units which is why no DJ was ever going to have them.
by harambae | 2025-06-30 20:33:24+00:00
I recently had to replace a traction control sensor on my BMW -- it was a pain (and would've been expensive if I had a pro do it), so I can relate.

But it's worth noting that modern traction-control makes life wildly safer for the average driver up north. I was driving an icy Vermont ski road with winter tires, but (because I hadn't yet fixed the sensor) no traction control. There were 2 pretty terrifying moments and I'm an experienced driver. Your average American can't even drive manual, there's no way they're compensating for low-traction winter mountain roads properly in all cases. I'd rank it more critical than any of the backup camera, TPMS or FCW features, and maybe on par with ABS for those of us in cold areas.

Now if I lived in LA, I'd just hold down the "DTC" button to disable traction control on bootup and forget about it.
by mr_world | 2025-06-30 20:33:39+00:00
Organic adaption and persistence of memory I would say are the two major advancements that need to happen.

Human neural networks are dynamic, they change and rearrange, grow and sever. An LLM is fixed and relies on context, if you give it the right answer it won't "learn" that is the correct answer unless it is fed back into the system and trained over months. What if it's only the right answer for a limited period of time?

To build an intelligent machine, it must be able train itself in real time and remember.
by ksenzee | 2025-06-30 20:33:52+00:00
If you’re writing a piece like this, you’re naturally going to pick an insult that will land with your audience, right? If you read an article where the author says “that’s training bra thinking,” obviously the author is envisioning women reading the article. If you read an article where the author says “that’s smol pp way of thinking,” obviously the author is envisioning men reading the article. That was all I was saying: I was just reading along and suddenly I was reminded that I’m in an industry where men write articles for men, and any women who happen to show up really aren’t expected to be there.
by taeric | 2025-06-30 20:33:53+00:00
Ignoring the "if possible" of your quote, the next section includes "When there is a legitimate reason to ask that a service animal be removed, staff must offer the person with the disability the opportunity to obtain goods or services without the animal’s presence."

So, if you have someone that would legit be sent to the hospital by having a dog in the room, then that reads like you can require that the dog not be in the room. I suppose it is notable that that is not a common severe allergy?

If you have cases law going over any of this, I'd be mildly curious to read some of it. I get the intent of the rules. And I'm comfortable with the general guideline being that you have to try to comply without bailing at the first chance.
by spogbiper | 2025-06-30 20:34:06+00:00
if all you want is for your apps to come from Apple's store and your payments to go through Apple's system, you would simply continue to use only those options and allowing other people to have other options would not impact you.

what you actually want is to force all developers to use Apple's distribution and payment systems, so that you can have every app and service from any provider delivered via your chosen mechanisms. that takes away freedom from developers and users who prefer other systems. it eliminates the market for anyone to make or use something better than your chosen options
by bilsbie | 2025-06-30 20:34:26+00:00
Tesla model y. I hate the idea of not owning my car* but it’s just so much fun to drive. I can’t never go back.

Kind of opened up my life too. I used to stay home a lot because I found driving boring and stressful but now I look for excuses to drive places. I’ve done a bunch of hikes 1-2 hours away. Go out to the gym, etc.

* I don’t like that they can change the software anytime they want without my permission, possibly shutdown my car, limit changes I can make to it, etc. I’d rather fully own it.
by idrios | 2025-06-30 20:34:45+00:00
Not sure what polish you're looking for but it's been great for me. Smart autocomplete algorithm and good chatbot that acts like a personalized Google / stack overflow. It's not good enough to vibe code full products or debug hard issues, but that's just limitations of AI.

Also it's all Microsoft, they made both the AI and the editor. I appreciate that they don't do anything extra in the editor to favor their own extensions.
by whstl | 2025-06-30 20:35:08+00:00
I don't see how the legality question is relevant here. My country is not forbidding me from exercising my ownership rights. This "are you prevented by law" question is fallacious, it implies that Apple can do no wrong, since it can't create laws.

What Apple is taking away is practical control for owners of a class of device that has become essential to my practical participation in society.

I actually desire my country to intervene and change laws forcing Apple give me that control.
by zhisbug | 2025-06-30 20:35:28+00:00
Pokémon is increasingly used to evaluate modern large language models, but current practices lack standardization, and depend heavily on game-specific harness. The Pokémon Red involves three major tasks—navigation, combat control and training a competitive Pokémon team. We find they come with limitations: navigation tasks are too hard, combat control is too simple, and Pokémon team training is too expensive. We address these issues in Lmgame Bench, a new framework offering standardized evaluations and initial results across diverse games.
by Jubijub | 2025-06-30 20:35:46+00:00
It’s a dark take, but I mostly agree with it. The ad model, with all its flaws, is a flexible model, and it has funded the web for a while.

The part that will break is that a lot of sites will have 0 incentives to continue to publish, in the face of 0 revenue and 0 credit. That will degrade the quality/ relevance of LLMs. I also think that “guaranteed produced by humans “ will have value.
by creeble | 2025-06-30 20:35:47+00:00
I had the opposite experience with my 10-year-old Model S.

Most parts could only come from Tesla, including the Bilstein struts (a part number Bilstein refuses to sell to anyone but Tesla). $900 per corner.

USB port between the console? $400. I found a used one on eBay, fortunately.

When the wheel rotation sensor receiver went bad, it cost $2500 for them to install and reprogram the replacement, because they "upgraded" to a different mfr. When that one started to go bad (water ingress, which wasn't cured by the new part), I sold the car and said good riddance.
by tialaramex | 2025-06-30 20:35:55+00:00
Even with warnings this is just terrible. People need to stop inventing languages where "False" is true, or an empty container is false or other insane "coercions" of this kind.

True is true, and false is false, if you're wondering whether this Doodad is Wibbly, you should ask that question not rely on a convention that Wibbly Doodads are somehow "truthy" while the non-Wibbly ones are not.
by KetoManx64 | 2025-06-30 20:37:06+00:00
It makes complete and total sense If you think that Bitcoin is completely and utterly undervalued (Saylor believes it'll be $1M/coin within a decade), and you also understand that it's a deflationary asset, compared to the inflationary asset that is the US dollar (Lost 93% of its buying power in the last 100 years, and 1/5th of all dollars I'm existance have been printed in the last 5 years).

If you believe bitcoin is going to $1m/coin, Saylor buying it at 100k and it being valued at $200k because you can now buy it indirectly through your 401k and safeguard the next 40 years of your savings and your retirement, it is a no brainer. Especially when you compare to what the rest of the markets are doing with the monopoly money that is the US dollar and the US financial policies.
by weepinbell | 2025-06-30 20:37:15+00:00
I pulled up the first text I found from the site:

> according to its archive...

Let's say I mistype and don't double the first "c", but otherwise type entirely correctly.

> acording to its archive...

This would be counted as having everything wrong except the first 2 characters, which doesn't feel like a good reflection of my accuracy.

I know this is a hard problem because I don't think there's any simple guaranteed way to re-align the string to account for a possible deletion or insertion, particularly if there are more mistakes in the following text, but finding and using some sort of accuracy-maximizing alignment would be great to have.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-30 20:37:27+00:00
It's nice to have files transfer fast. A lot of people have gbit or faster internet, and 6e makes actually seeing those download speeds a real world possibility, which might not feel necessary but sure is nice to have when you laptop is downloading a 120GB game!!

But the real utility is that more spectrum means less congestion. At a school or stadium it's not about trying to get 4x4x2 multi-band MIMO and 1024qam pumping 2GBps to a device. It's about having sufficient spectrum so that lots and lots of devices can operate at once without frequent collisions.

For many people in cities, wifi 6E has been a godsend, has made wifi usable. It's unbelievably forsaken to imagine giving up a sizable chunk of this spectrum to a bunch of cellular carriers (or other good parts of the spectrum!). As usual, this feels like another vile act do the worst possible things to the public. The one time (!!!! Auctions are insane rent seeking!!) pocket change the FCC collects for this spectrum is irrelevant, this is another act of pure malice. Sell off the land, sell off the airwaves. Hive of villainy.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-06-30 20:37:27+00:00
>The great majority of folks are not working for startups.

I was speaking to a particular audience, here, which isn't a randomized sample of the American workforce. And the sort of people who do the sort of jobs that we all do here, we're the ones that it's being talked about "shortening" the workweek... because for the other crowd, shortening the workweek happens when you piss off the assistant manager, and they only schedule you for 3 hours next week.

Additionally, you might consider that instead of focusing on the less than 10% that are startups, you should talk about the more than 95% that aren't gigantic fortune 100 companies with employee head counts numbering in the tens and hundreds of thousands.
by palata | 2025-06-30 20:37:37+00:00
> But the core of my contention is that: if you make the platform that others run on and which creates entirely new economies and allows businesses to thrive, don’t you get to define the constraints that you want since it’s _your_ platform?

Not if you effectively have a monopoly. If there were plenty of (relevant) other app stores, Apple wouldn't be able to tax 30% on every app. The only reason they can is that developers don't have a choice: there are far too many Apple users to ignore, and the only way to sell them an app is through the Apple Store.
by jodrellblank | 2025-06-30 20:37:41+00:00
I'm cleaning up a 25-30 year old bicycle. First time I've stripped one almost right back to the frame.

Strongly recommend the rust remover described by Backyard Ballistics[0] on his second channel[1]; 1 liter water, 100g citric acid, 40g washing soda, generous squirt of dish soap. He claims the acid and alkali cancel out so there's nothing to attack the normal metal surface, but they leave citrate ions which dissolve rust by chelation, which makes it better than just citric acid, vinegar, or soda alone, which all pit and dissolve the clean metal surfaces, and easier/better than wire wool scratching. He also claims it's as effective as EvapoRust but much cheaper and can do more rust dissolving per litre than EvapoRust.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@Backyard.Ballistics - restoration of old and very rusty guns

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYZmeReKKY - "The Ultimate HOMEMADE Rust Remover (Better than EvapoRust)", Beyond Ballistics channel
by whstl | 2025-06-30 20:38:10+00:00
I'm all for corporations "trying to get theirs" if it benefits the rest of society.

iPhones are a premium product and they don't have a natural right to 30% of transactions going through it if the participants don't want Apple to know about it.

> It’s the “if I can’t have it no one can” line of thought

That describes what you and _benton are advocating. "If I can't have the phone be the way I want, no one can".
by strangescript | 2025-06-30 20:38:52+00:00
If you work with model architecture and read papers, how could not know there are a flood of new ideas? Only few yield interesting results though.

I kind of wonder if libraries like pytorch have hurt experimental development. So many basic concepts no one thinks about anymore because they just use the out of the box solutions. And maybe those solutions are great and those parts are "solved", but I am not sure. How many models are using someone else's tokenizer, or someone else's strapped on vision model just to check a box in the model card?
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-30 20:38:56+00:00
Part of the reason capital likes anti-immigrant politics is that the end policy result isn't getting rid of unempowered labor, its reducing more people to unempowered labor for capital, rather it is via detention in public facilities that provide labor, directly or indirectly, for private efforts, detention in private facilities that can have work requirements, or "temporary passes" that give the employer control of status. [0]

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-administr...
by robocat | 2025-06-30 20:39:19+00:00
Silly argument: nothing about profitability.

Financial facts: 2024 Apple Revenue: US$391B, income: US$94B. Apple currently has a market cap of 3 Trillion and cash on hand of $49B

From article Mentions TAM for AI of $1.8 trillion by 2030.

Pick a profitability for OpenAI: then look at whether it would make sense for OpenAI to sell to Apple, or how Apple could buy OpenAI.

Apple already gets 30% cut of revenue for Apps.

Maybe the author thinks that OpenAI should buy Windows Mobile from Microsoft?
by o11c | 2025-06-30 20:39:46+00:00
> If a company invests billions in R&D to create hardware and its integrated software, shouldn’t it have the right to control who or what interacts with it?

Do you think the same about printer ink?

Regardless, we need to look at the law - and interoperability has a long history of legal support. Patents protect the product itself, but allow interoperable products. Trade secrets product the product from theft but not reverse engineering.

Even the DMCA has explicit carve-outs for interoperability, though that doesn't stop copyright-abusers from trying to wield it (and sometimes winning due to the money game).
by russellbeattie | 2025-06-30 20:39:48+00:00
Paradigm shifts are often just a conglomeration of previous ideas with one little tweak that suddenly propels a technology ahead 10x which opens up a whole new era.

The iPhone is a perfect example. There were smartphones with cameras and web browsers before. But when the iPhone launched, it added a capacitive touch screen that was so responsive there was no need for a keyboard. The importance of that one technical innovation can't be overstated.

Then the "new new thing" is followed by a period of years where the innovation is refined, distributed, applied to different contexts, and incrementally improved.

The iPhone launched in 2007 is not really that much different than the one you have in your pocket today. The last 20 years has been about improvements. The web browser before that is also pretty much the same as the one you use today.

We've seen the same pattern happen with LLMs. The author of the article points out that many of AI's breakthroughs have been around since the 1990s. Sure! And the Internet was created in the 1970s and mobile phones were invented in the 1980s. That doesn't mean the web and smartphones weren't monumental technological events. And it doesn't mean LLMs and AI innovation is somehow not proceeding apace.

It's just how this stuff works.
by umbra07 | 2025-06-30 20:40:16+00:00
People don't understand and appreciate additional costs until they actually have to pay them. You can see this play out over and over again with additional tax increases jn response for new and improved public services - or customers asking businesses to do a "Made in America" product line, but then not putting their money where their mouth is and actually paying the upcharge for a MiA product.
by rsktaker | 2025-06-30 20:40:37+00:00
https://www.dreamsign.ai/

An AI-native DocuSign

It's been around a month I've been working on it. Struggling with getting people to actually use it - this week I've set the ambitious goal of 10 new contracts sent *and completed* by people I don't know (last week's was 10...by people I do know).

It's hard because I feel I'm in a weird hole - in order to have a good product I need people to use it and give me feedback, but in order for people to use it and give me feedback I need a good product. It's like wth!

Another thing I'm struggling with - enjoying the process. I get daydreams like mad. I feel I'm always living in the future in some way, especially with this software, and it's taking away from being present in this work. Which sucks, because I want to be excited to *work* on this and NOT fake my own excitement towards this as a manifestation of my greed to get rich off it.

But MAN am I greedy. It's ugly sometimes, to myself.

But god how I love to work on software also. How I love making stupid bash commands on my terminal. How I love to feel like the old gods, who conquered the infant digital world.