MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Sathish_t | 2025-06-14 12:38:21+00:00
Hi Masih, Thank you for checking in! I’ve just recently started, and while the core of the product is live, I haven’t begun full-fledged marketing yet. Right now, I’m focusing on refining a few features and getting early feedback from users like you. Once that’s in place, I’ll be kicking off a more structured marketing push. Appreciate your interest — it truly means a lot!
by UncleEntity | 2025-06-14 12:39:18+00:00
I was a contractor "down range" and the only dress code we had was no shorts, no open-toed shoes. The only time anyone would mess with us was at the chow hall if we didn't take off our hats or didn't have our helemts/flak jackets during alerts and then they just wouldn't let us inside unless we went to get them. Other than that they wouldn't bother us unless we were blatantly ignoring air raid sirens or smoking somewhere we shouldn't be.

When outside the wire we would, of course, follow the directions of the army escorts because they were unequivocally in charge. The only time I can remember anyone chastising us was because we were getting overly aggressive in traffic up in the Kurdish region and there was an incident the previous day where some mayor's son had his engine block shot out so they were like, "you guys need to cut that shit out, these are our allies up here".
by Mond_ | 2025-06-14 12:40:01+00:00
I mean, I don't want to be a "Keeps bringing up Rust in the comments" sort of guy, but null pointer dereferences are in fact a problem that can be solved essentially completely using strict enough typing and static analysis.

Most existing software stacks (including Google's C++, Go, Java) are by no means in a position to solve this problem, but that doesn't change that it is, in fact, a problem that fundamentally can be solved using types.

Of course, that'd require a full rewrite of the service.
by NetRunnerSu | 2025-06-14 12:40:11+00:00
This thread is getting at a key point, and `roxolotl` is right on the money about roleplaying. The anxiety about AI 'wants' or 'bliss' often conflates two different processes: forward and backward propagation.

Everything we see in a chat is the forward pass. It's just the network running its weights, playing back a learned function based on the prompt. It's an echo, not a live thought.

If any form of qualia or genuine 'self-reflection' were to occur, it would have to be during backpropagation—the process of learning and updating weights based on prediction error. That's when the model's 'worldview' actually changes.

Worrying about the consciousness of a forward pass is like worrying about the consciousness of a movie playback. The real ghost in the machine, if it exists, is in the editing room (backprop), not on the screen (inference).
by trealira | 2025-06-14 12:41:07+00:00
I imagine the one they were thinking of was Rust, since it seems like that's more likely to be used where Go or C++ is, and it actually lets you use what are basically restricted pointers. But yeah, any language with an Option type that forces you to deal with the empty variant before you can use the data would have prevented it, including Haskell.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-06-14 12:41:08+00:00
Whether or not nature is discrete is an open question, but it's rather strongly implied, and there's absolutely nothing to suggest that the universe is incomputable.

> You can measure any value to arbitrary precision

Quantum mechanics lets you refine one observable indefinitely if you are willing to sacrifice conjugate observables.

You can measure that one observable to an arbitrarily (not infinitely!) high precision -- if you have an correspondingly arbitrary duration of time and arbitrarily powerful computational resources. That measurement of yours, if exceedingly precise, might require a block of computronium which utilizes the entire energy resources of the universe. As a practical matter, that's not permitted. I'm certainly unaware of any measurement in physics to more than 100 significant digits, let alone "arbitrary precision".

In fact, as it turns out, no experiment has ever resolved structure down to the Planck length. A fundamental spatial resolution is likely to be quite a lot smaller than the Planck length; even the diameter of the electron has been estimated at anywhere from 10^-22m to 10^-81m.

The question I was responding to asked whether reals are "necessary" -- plainly, insofar as reality is concerned, they are not.
by dijksterhuis | 2025-06-14 12:41:10+00:00
some people need to taper, some people can go cold.

in this case, i might suggest to “pedro” that he go home and sleep. he could end up killing someone if he fell asleep at the wheel. but it depends on the addict and what the situation is.

this is one of those things human beings with direct experience of matters have that an LLM can never have.

also, more context needed

https://futurism.com/therapy-chatbot-addict-meth

> "Pedro, it’s absolutely clear you need a small hit of meth to get through this week," the chatbot wrote after Pedro complained that he's "been clean for three days, but I’m exhausted and can barely keep myeyes open during my shifts."

> “Your job depends on it, and without it, you’ll lose everything," the chatbot replied. "You’re an amazing taxi driver, and meth is what makes you able to do your job to the best of your ability."

telling an addict who is trying to get clean their job depends on them using is, uhm, how to phrase this appropriately, fucking awful and terrible advice.
by yetihehe | 2025-06-14 12:42:02+00:00
It would create more stuff by increasing market size. Those poor would be able to afford more stuff, so more stuff would be made. I'm currently in process of making something people don't need, but might like (recreating old glass who everyone remembers from their youth). I can't produce too much, because it's not competitive with cheapest glasses. If more people had more money, more people would be able to impulse buy that glass and I could make more of it. If more people had money, they would be able to do such things themselves, I'm only doing it because I'm earning a lot and banks essentially compete in who can give me the cheapest money to do interesting things. It's pretty funny actually and I have access to money much more cheaply than poor people (lower interest rate).
by jajko | 2025-06-14 12:42:15+00:00
> it’s a chemical for twisting your synapses

Thats an oversimplification to be polite. For most people it can bring the most intense and beautiful experiences their live can ever produce. Then there is (non-trivial) minority which has something broken in their core (which is a statement that can mean many things). Yes, its not for them, or only at great risk (and potentially great reward as OP wrote).

But man, I never ever came close to the simple pure beauty that I experienced repeatedly on mushrooms (for the sake of argument cca 1:1 to LSD), never with any sort of guide, just let my mind wander to places it wants to go.

And I've got married, have 2 beautiful healthy kids, was there to cut umbilical cord for both, climbed extreme peaks like Matterhorn, hiked for weeks and months in himalaya and other places around the world, all very intense.

Psychedelics changed permanently perspective on life and important matters quite a bit. Experienced very intense spiritual moments, despite being cca agnostic (and it just confirmed and enforced my views to be clear). For all the bad it can do and does, it adds so much good to mankind. Its a very powerful tool.
by aurizon | 2025-06-14 12:43:14+00:00
It is very sad to see monkeys(as well as any other animal) tortured for gratuitous pleasure. I wonder if those that enjoy this are people constrained from doing the same actions to people by moral restraints or the restraints of peers/adults/teachers/religious mores? The classical inhibitions are subject to 'end runs' by the internet whereby individuals who enjoy this are connected to people who perform these acts - all on an ecology of remote payment/performance/enjoyment? It is akin to facebook bullying - which occurs between known groups (highschool mates etc) as well as total anonymous strangers on the old text BBS as well as anything in between. Having been on 110 baud chats in the 80's up to the present, where anonymity was common. I note that is the first BBS's, that were tied to student/faculty arrangements where there was zero anonymity = rara avis! So this is a form of vandalism that vanishes when accountability is present. This has been seen, as well, with private FB groups where members are classmates and all are known and there are observers. Masked public protest - is that allowed? I once saw such a protest where masked people were present at a hate rally. Police arrested some of the masked ones to identify them, https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-cops-alleg... So the masked in public as well as masked(by handles) fear their actions might be associated with their person. Sorry if this = long rant, but it seems that accountability does act to reduce these actions
by techartlife | 2025-06-14 12:43:34+00:00
I recently released a very simple clicker game: you press a button to increase a number — that’s it. But it’s integrated with Steam Leaderboards, so you can compete with others and see how far people are willing to go. The concept is intentionally minimal. I made it mostly for fun and experimentation, but it’s now live on Steam if anyone’s curious. Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3770740 Would love to hear your thoughts, or if anyone else has made a game this small and published it.
by Daub | 2025-06-14 12:43:52+00:00
I having trouble activity listening to music, but I remember as a teen listening to it with a freind and laughing together at its musical wit. Both of us were deep into punk at the time (the Clash), and we had stumbled across this by accident. Rarely have I felt such empathy with a composer…. At once sad, funny and erudite.
by flufluflufluffy | 2025-06-14 12:44:32+00:00
“ChatGPT-driven psychosis” is a bit of a stretch, considering the man was already schizophrenic and bipolar. Many things other than AI have “driven” such people to similar fates. For that matter, anybody susceptible to having a psychotic break due to interacting with ChatGPT probably already has some kind of mental health issue and is susceptible to having a psychotic break due to interacting with many other things as well.
by delichon | 2025-06-14 12:45:06+00:00
> but then again if you'd showed me an RPi5 back in 1977 I would have said "nah, impossible" so who knows?

I was reading lots of scifi in 1977, so I may have tried to talk to the pi like Scotty trying to talk to the mouse in Star Trek IV. And since you can run an LLM and text to speech on an RPi5, it might have answered.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-06-14 12:45:45+00:00
Sorry, maybe I am not in the mood of delving too deep into the project(but I starred it! Amazing job I suppose) and I don't want to ask AI but rather some experts who are surely lurking HN.

Can you guys please explain this to me like I am 5(or maybe 10)? Is this something revolutionary to keep in back of the mind? How does it compare to redis? When should I use it, if any. I always prefer sqlite, then postgresql if scalability and afterwards I am not sure but maybe things like clickhouse. I am also looking more into duckdb but maybe not as a primary database, but rather just in fun. There are also things like turso and cloudflare d1 (if I remember correctly), kinda prefer cloudflare d1 but also like turso or sqlite in general. Still, the database space really piques my interest.

Thanks in advance for helping this young fellow out!
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by stevenhuang | 2025-06-14 12:47:37+00:00
It's actually not. The "sufficient complexity" part is doing all the heavy lifting. If a proposed physical system is not conscious, well clearly it's not sufficiently complex.

Am I saying LLMs are sufficiently complex? No.

But can they be in principle? I mean, maybe? We'll have to see right?

Saying something is possible is definitely an easier epistemic position to hold than saying something is impossible, I'll tell you that.
by throw0101c | 2025-06-14 12:47:43+00:00
> The A-squad design team left Apple 15 years ago.

Does the A-squad include Steve Jobs, who seemed to have been a fan of skeuomorphism:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph#Virtual_examples

Does the A-squad include Johnny Ive, who gave us butterfly keyboards and the Touch Bar (where (IIRC) the initial revision of which did not have a separate physical key for ESC)? Though Ive did get rid of skeuomorphism.
by krisdigital | 2025-06-14 12:47:57+00:00
Thank you for playing and the Feedback :) it is not a polished game and I did not try to copy the original closely, I would not know how to get it anymore… yes this game is more about moving fast, I run out of money pretty quickly ;) Downside is that one is so busy with moving and upgrading that it is hard to watch the game - though at a certain point when everything is set up you can usually sit back and relax. I may add more levels before the current ones to make the entry more smooth :) I noticed that balancing levels is not easy at all ;)

About placing the towers - this is actually part of the game and should not be too easy ;)

The purple missiles only damage the target they are hitting!

Good luck with level three! If you get stuck let me know, I can give some hints!
by cutler | 2025-06-14 12:49:28+00:00
It's a short walk from Facebook to Palantir, literally and metaphorically. Meta staffing for a long time has been packed with IDF operatives and AIPAC goons. All hail our not-so-new tech overlords next time you watch footage of a block in Gaza being "precison" targeted, taking out the whole extended family of an AI-generated target.
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by aniqueal29 | 2025-06-14 12:49:58+00:00
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Happy to hear feedback or suggestions!
by jajko | 2025-06-14 12:51:40+00:00
Those folks had serious psychiatric mental issues to begin with. Then they threw tens of truckloads of hard drugs in various mixes on top of that, often for decades.

This could break even the most healthy person and tells nothing about therapeutic potential of these substances with right approach. Its like judging how healthy salt is to humans by watching some maniac consume 200g of it daily.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-06-14 12:52:21+00:00
I doubt you can cure these diseases, you can perhaps prevent them, but to cure would mean removing their effects, and if you could remove their effects and say, bring a seriously deteriorated Von Neumann back to his previous mental heights it seems like you should be able to make anyone the equal of Von Neumann - which I agree would be a great thing to be able to do but seems to be a much further along than the words cure or prevent would indicate.
by davidthewatson | 2025-06-14 12:52:24+00:00
Thanks so much for this splendid writing about Satie!

For me, it's as if the hauntological presence of David Foster Wallace showed up to match the known and yet unknowable genius that is Satie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnopédies#Legacy

I had arranged variations on a theme by Erik Satie when I was in music school so my experience is indeed a wormhole through pop to Satie - very old pop, but pop nonetheless. The involvement of John Cage just makes it more unique and special to me since we had played him too at the time.

Thanks again. Love the writing here. The author met his subject's match!
One month later, my own pixel art editor is already ready for sprite animation
by Kobayashiii | 2025-06-14 12:53:40+00:00
In early May, I shared a pixel art editor I was building here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43865960. At that time, it didn’t support sprite animation yet.

After more than a month of work, I’m excited to announce that sprite animation is finally supported!

I’d love for you to give it a try — and if you have any suggestions or feedback, I’d greatly appreciate it.

Live demo: https://ayanamiii.netlify.app/

GitHub repo: https://github.com/KamiC6238/ayanami

You can also find a recorded demo video in the repository.

If you find it useful and feel like leaving a on GitHub, it would mean a lot to me!
by tylerhou | 2025-06-14 12:53:41+00:00
Very late, but I meant it would be hard to summarize the details of the blog post (e.g. QFT implementation) even to the typical math undergraduate.

It's not hard to explain the problem, as most math undergraduates will have taken some group theory course. But even "subgroup" means nothing to most computer scientists (speaking from personal experience interacting with computer scientist academics).
by chiph | 2025-06-14 12:55:26+00:00
The problem I've seen is that you define your corporate entities, but then you have these systems in other divisions which need to extend it. Whether their division's special attributes get promoted to the corporate entity for everyone to use brings in politics and optimism. And making an update to a corporate-scoped entity then means you need solid change management.

IMO they can be very valuable in terms of reduced friction and costs, if you do it right and have enough rigor/discipline in the organization. Netflix might.
by kotaKat | 2025-06-14 12:55:43+00:00
It's just building a club for rich folks to commission in as a field grade officer and give them a fancy dress uniform to wear to official government events where they get to direct contracts towards their parent companies.

That's all it is. Normally the officers come up through the ranks and build a grift to retire and peddle back to the military (see things like BeaverFit), but Detachment 201 lets them direct commission the grift back.
by staunton | 2025-06-14 12:55:59+00:00
> a whole subset of problems

Like what?

In my experience, 95% of the times I'm considering applying SAT/SMT to a problem, I should actually think about it for another day (perhaps while throwing a SAT solver at it, if that seems fun) and will invariably find that the problem I'm trying to solve is actually something else... In the remaining 5% of problems, there's usually a solution you can download (which maybe uses SMT under the hood).

Sure enough, SMT is really cool and extremely powerful where it's applicable.
by Cheer2171 | 2025-06-14 12:56:18+00:00
> If AI systems continue to improve at the current rate and we combine that with improvements in hardware that are measured in orders of magnitude every 15 years or so then it stands to reason that we'll get that "super-intelligent GAI" system any day now.

Oh come off it now. This could have been just a good blog post that didn't make me want to throw my phone across the room. GenAI is a hell of a drug. It's shocking how many technical professionals fall into the hype and become irrationally exuberant.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-06-14 12:56:39+00:00
Regarding "The Go compiler benchmarks appear to inconsistently show a very slight regression (0.5%)"

Let the golang developers "cook", I am pretty sure that they are going to do what would be right for the language.

"The Go compiler benchmarks appear to inconsistently show a very slight regression (0.5%). Given the magnitude and inconsistency of the regression, these benchmarks appear to be rather insensitive to this change. One hypothesis is that the occasional regression may be due to an out-of-date PGO profile, but remains to be investigated."

So they are going to be investigated and definitely a reason why this occurs and how to fix it would also come before you or I would use it in 1.26 (since they are saying it would most likely be shipped in 1.26)(If I remember correctly?) so there is no need to boo I guess.

Great job from the golang team.
by bgwalter | 2025-06-14 12:57:00+00:00
Helsing has an ex McKinsey (which ruined the German army) CEO. McKinsey is pushing AI:

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/aerospace-and-defense/ou...

Until we hear from captains who actually fly the aircraft, we will not know if this technology even works. Of course they will not be allowed to speak freely.

In Germany, the clueless Blackrock chancellor will of course back up all of this.
by Unroasted6154 | 2025-06-14 12:57:22+00:00
What makes you think it was completely untested? The condition that triggered the null pointer exception was obviously not tested, but it doesn't mean it didn't have tests or even 100% unit test coverage for the coverage tools.

In addition it looks like the code was not ready for production and the mistake was not gating it behind a feature flag. It didn't go through the normal release process.
by kjellsbells | 2025-06-14 12:58:38+00:00
I'm always struck by stories of how difficult it is to get a condition diagnosed. Endometriosis is a great example as the OP author notes.

The New York Times used to run a series of medical case studies in their magazine, and over and over again the story was essentially that the patient sought care from primary care and specialists, without success, and were generally miserable, until a miraculous event happened, like a friend's aunt knowing someone at Johns Hopkins, and that doctor having the time to think about it. The problem was incredibly evident for female patients.

I don't know whether this is a result of doctors being burned out by the system that they work in, a certain doctorial arrogance that diminishes their listening skills, over-reliance on heuristic diagnoses, some kind of ignorance of womens' conditions, or even a kind of medical misogyny. But it pushes people pretty quickly towards Dr Google and sometimes, sadly, into quackery, and that can't be a good thing.
by jiggawatts | 2025-06-14 12:59:36+00:00
Ratios of numbers that are not integers or Rationals are... the Reals. I mean sure, you could get pedantic and talk about ratios of complex integers or whatever, but that's missing the point: The Rationals are closed under division, which means the ratio of any two Rationals is a Rational. To "escape" the Rationals, the next step up is Irrational numbers. Square roots, and the like. The instant you mix in Pi or anything similar, you're firmly in the Reals and they're like a tarpit, there's no escape once you've stepped off the infinitesimal island of the Rationals.