MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amanda99 | 2025-07-22 19:22:37+00:00
I'm excited to see this. Have been using LiteLLM but it's honestly a huge mess once you peek under the hood, and it's being developed very iteratively and not very carefully. For example. for several months recently (haven't checked in ~a month though), their Ollama structured outputs were completely botched and just straight up broken. Docs are a hot mess, etc.
by Kranar | 2025-07-22 19:22:43+00:00
Being accurate is a feature and it is a bug that can be fixed though.

Given various models, one that always produces statements that are false and another that only sometimes produces false statements, the latter model is preferable and the model which most people intend to use, hence the degree to which a model produces correct statements is absolutely a feature.

And yes, it's absolutely possible to systematically produce models that make fewer and fewer incorrect statements.
by gruez | 2025-07-22 19:23:04+00:00
>Who's to say why I downloaded and am now watching a movie? Is it for my enjoyment? Is it because I'm training my brain? How is me training my brain any different from companies training their LLMs?

None of this is relevant because Anthropic was only left off the hook for training, and not for pirating the books itself. So far as the court cases are playing out, there doesn't appear to be a special piracy exemption for AI companies.

>Same goes for recording: I'm just training my skills of recording. Or maybe I'm just recording it so I can rewatch it later, for training purposes, of course.

You can certainly use that as a defense. That's why we have judges, otherwise there's going to be some smartass caught with 1KG of coke and claiming it's for "personal consumption" rather than distribution.

None of this matters in reality, though. If you're caught with AV gear in a movie theater once, you'd likely be ejected and banned from the establishment/chain, not have the FBI/MPAA go after you for piracy. If you come again, you'd likely be prosecuted for trespassing. In the cases where they're going after someone in particular for making these rips, they usually have a dossier of evidence, like surveillance/transaction history showing that the same individual has been repeatedly recording movies, and watermarks correlating the screenings that the person has been in to files showing up on torrent sites.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-22 19:23:37+00:00
I no longer have the app, but Slack uses <500MB of memory and .2% CPU in a tab in my browser. Back when I had the Slack electron app it was way more than that in use of system resources. I don't know what else to tell you. I don't know what other documentation would be interesting other than my observations made on my own equipment
by ninetyninenine | 2025-07-22 19:24:13+00:00
This is utterly false.

1. Academic understanding of consciousness is effectively zero. If we understand something that means we can actually build or model the algorithm for consciousness. We can't because we don't know shit. Most of what you read is speculative hypotheticals derived from observation that's not too different from attempting to reverse engineer an operating system by staring at assembly code.

Often we describe consciousness with ill defined words that are also vague and lack understanding for. The whole endeavor is bs.

2. Understanding of LLMs outside of the low level token prediction is effectively zero. We know there are emergent second order effects that we don't get. You don't believe me? How about if I have the god father of AI say it himself:

https://youtu.be/qrvK_KuIeJk?t=284 Literally. The experts say we don't understand it.

Look if you knew how LLMs work you'd say the same. But people everywhere are coming to conclusions about LLMs without knowing everything, so by citing the eminent expert saying the ground truth you should be convinced that the reality is this conclusive fact:

You are utterly misinformed about how much academia understands about LLM and consciousness. We know MUCH less than you think.
by giuliomagnifico | 2025-07-22 19:24:21+00:00
> We do find some evidence that LLMs—particularly those produced by Claude—are perhaps slightly more accurate than humans when estimating their overall performance. Similarly, LLMs may be slightly more accurate than humans when estimating item-level confidence. Interestingly, however, we find that LLMs are not consistently capable of updating their metacognitive judgments based on their experiences. We also find that, like humans, LLMs tend to be overconfident. We believe that these conclusions can help human users better understand the extent to which they should trust LLMs’ confidence judgments and hope that these results spark new interest in studying the metacognitive capacities of LLMs
by mcswell | 2025-07-22 19:24:55+00:00
You're absolutely right about the abortion debate; the entire pro-life argument makes sense only if you deny that "life begins at conception". But I don't believe I've ever heard the pro-choice camp attack that axiom; instead, it's always about the mother having control over her body, which just ignores the pro-life axiom. (If life begins at conception, then abortion is not about the mother's body, it's about the pre-born's body.) No wonder the two sides don't communicate.
by teraflop | 2025-07-22 19:26:06+00:00
I'm no Hubble expert, but a bit of research turned up the "HST Primer" [1] which is apparently up-to-date for the current observing cycle, and which says:

> HST is capable of tracking moving targets with the same precision achieved for fixed targets. This is accomplished by maintaining FGS Fine Lock on guide stars and driving the FGS star sensors in the appropriate path, thus moving the telescope to track the target. Tracking under FGS control is technically possible for apparent target motions up to 5 arcsec/s.

According to JPL Horizons, the current angular motion of 3I/ATLAS across the sky is <0.03 arcsec/s, so it's well within Hubble's capabilities.

My understanding is that the Hubble's one-gyro mode mainly complicates the process of quickly moving from one target to another. Once the telescope is pointed at a target, the stabilization and tracking is done using guide stars without relying on gyros.

Anyway, in absolute terms, 3I/ATLAS isn't moving that fast. Its orbital speed is about 3x that of Mars, but it's farther away, and (for now) much of that motion is directed inward towards the sun.

[1]: https://hst-docs.stsci.edu/hsp/the-hubble-space-telescope-pr...
by novateg | 2025-07-22 19:26:19+00:00
Geoffrey Hinton is a leading computer scientist and cognitive psychologist, widely recognised as the ‘Godfather of AI’ for his pioneering work on neural networks and deep learning. He received the 2018 Turing Award, often called the Nobel Prize of computing. In 2023, he left Google to warn people about the rising dangers of AI.

He explains: ◽ Why there’s a real 20% chance AI could lead to HUMAN EXTINCTION. ◽ How speaking out about AI got him SILENCED. ◽ The deep REGRET he feels for helping create AI. ◽ The 6 DEADLY THREATS AI poses to humanity right now. ◽ AI’s potential to advance healthcare, boost productivity, and transform education.
by kevindamm | 2025-07-22 19:26:24+00:00
You could, but then it becomes even easier to capture without the adornment, practically defeating the purpose.

You may be interested in watermarks that are invisible to the human eye but are visible to spectral analysis. You can even encode data within this invisible watermark, and learn a modification that is resistant to various image manipulations and even resistant to lossy compressions, in research that goes back to 2001 and has seen interesting improvements with advances in DNNs, Transformers and Diffusion.
by godelski | 2025-07-22 19:26:25+00:00
Interestingly I did much worse on my Linux FF (13.6) on Speedometer3.1[0] than my M2 Air (29.6), though for the WebGL benchmarks from above the Linux machine (which has significantly more compute power) has no problems with the WebGL tests and the Air does worse. Backbone and jQuery were real killers for the Linux machine. Looks to be mostly Adding100Items for Backbone and literally everything for jQuery was half a magnitude slower.

> Also, i don't understand why people prefer google over open source. And the sometimes disrespectful and destructive criticism of Mozilla.

Certainly Mozilla deserves criticism. All companies do, right?

But what I don't get is the passionate hate and how the result often ends up being contradictory. Like complaining about FF with that Mr Robot thing (yeah, bad move) and then saying that's why they use Chrome (or some Chromium based browser). It feels like calling someone an idiot for falling face first into dog shit while you're sitting in a jacuzzi full of it. Yeah, both situations are shitty, but come on... there's a lot more shit in one of these...

[0] https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.1
by liuliu | 2025-07-22 19:26:33+00:00
Only "class" object is reference counted (to some extents, class-like objects too). Int / struct (value-semantics) objects are not reference counted. These are copied eagerly.

Swift introduced bunch of ownership keywords to help you to use value objects for most of the needs to sidestep reference-counting and minimize copying.

Of course, to my understanding, "actor" in Swift is a "class"-like object, so it will be reference-counted. But I fail to see how that is different from other systems (as actor itself has to be mutable, hence, a reference object anyway).
by ninetyninenine | 2025-07-22 19:27:27+00:00
>Calling it a token-predictor isn't reductionism. It's designed, implemented and trained for token prediction. Training means that the weights are adjusted in the network until it accurately predicts tokens. Predicting a token is something along the lines of removing a word from a sentence and getting it to predict it back: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy ____". Correct prediction is "dogs".

It absolutely is reductionism. Ask any expert who knows how these things work and they will say the same:

https://youtu.be/qrvK_KuIeJk?t=497

Above we have Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of the current wave of AI saying your statements are absolutely crazy.

It's nuts that I don't actually have to offer any proof to convince you. Proof won't convince you. I just have to show you someone smarter than you with a better reputation saying the exact opposite and that is what flips you.

Human psychology readily can attack logic and rationality. You can scaffold any amount of twisted logic and irrelevant analogies to get around any bulwark to support your own point. Human psychology fails when attacking another person who has a higher rank. Going against someone of higher rank this causes you to think twice and rethink your own position. In debates, logic is ineffective, bringing opposing statements with (while offering ZERO concrete evidence) from experts with a higher rank is the actual way to convince you.

>But, oh, just believe the LLM when it produces a sentence referring to itself, claiming it is conscious.

This is an hallucination. Showing that you're not much different from an LLM. I NEVER stated this. I said it's possible. But I said we cannot make a definitive statement either way. We cannot say it isn't conscious we cannot say it is. First we don't understand the LLM and second WE don't even have an exact definition of consciousness. So to say it's not conscious is JUST as ludicrous as saying it is.

Understand?
by timr | 2025-07-22 19:27:33+00:00
He’s better than most, in that he puts disclaimers on things that aren’t rigorously proven. That said, he talks a lot in that book about things that aren’t actionable, even if they were rigorously proven - such as the coronary calcium scan.

If you get a high score on that test, what are you going to do? Eat better, lose weight and exercise. So skip the test and just do that instead.
by arevno | 2025-07-22 19:27:39+00:00
The lungs are exposed to air, but they're also exposed to a lot of bloodborne compounds, since a full vascular cycle goes through the pulmonary arteries.

The null hypothesis is "it's something in the air", but with the increase in non-lung cancers in young people[1] noted over the past decade, it's entirely possible it's something else, and lung tissue is one of the susceptible ones to whatever it is.

[1] https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2025...
by rincebrain | 2025-07-22 19:27:43+00:00
I can't speak to why, but I can promise you firsthand that both of those statements were true and not things I simply heard about.

My old workplace received such donations, we had to pay to replace a number of them that were DOA in the resulting systems, and the VAR we were using to build our systems for us informed us they had added a policy forbidding BYO for that reason between our failure rate and others who had used them.

My assumption would be that they were only slightly more carefully managed than things that "fell off a truck" - that is, they were probably given away internally because they were nominally cosmetically unsuitable for sale and not easily salvageable by binning, but you got what you paid for in terms of warranty coverage.
by hypertexthero | 2025-07-22 19:27:57+00:00
Goodbye, Ozzy :(

Two of my favorite Sabbath songs:

Zeitgeist, 2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ofrYzMU6cw Planet Caravan, 1970 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm2N2nHqITY
by louthy | 2025-07-22 19:28:16+00:00
> in general you'd have to carefully limit all uses of "with" for objects with precomputed values

What you’re describing is incidental complexity. It is not a good thing. We can’t constrain the complexity with language constraints, we have to rely on the programmer following some guidance and never ever making a mistake. In large teams and large code-bases that's a problem. And it's an offloaded problem from Microsoft to every software development team on the planet that uses C#.

The incidental complexity for the average C# developer has increased, whereas a better direction of travel would be toward correctness and declarative features. I would prefer it if the csharplang team worked toward that.
by AMeckes | 2025-07-22 19:29:25+00:00
To clarify: any-llm is just a Python library you import, not a service to run. When I said "put it behind a proxy," I meant your app (which imports any-llm) can run behind a normal proxy setup.

You're right that archgw handles routing at the infrastructure level, which is perfect for centralized control. any-llm simply gives you the option to handle routing in your application code when that makes sense (For example, premium users get Opus-4). We leave the architectural choice to you, whether that's adding a proxy, keeping routing in your app, or using both, or just using any-llm directly.
by MysticOracle | 2025-07-22 19:29:41+00:00
For (English only) speech-to-text, NVIDIA's Parakeet-V2 is significantly faster than Whisper and I found it to be more accurate.

https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2

For Apple Silicon (MLX) https://huggingface.co/senstella/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2-mlx
by Sharlin | 2025-07-22 19:29:58+00:00
One problem is that this is supposedly considered insane esoteric knowledge, when the concept of reflows, and why and when they're triggered, ought to be fairly basic knowledge to every reasonably experienced frontend coder. Up there with "O(n^2) may bite you in the ass". But we've decided that optimizing SEO or conversion rates or whatever is much more important than optimizing rendering.
by simonw | 2025-07-22 19:30:16+00:00
I'm very excited about this project, but it could really do with a web UI of some sort! Having to build a Go CLI tool in order to access it is a massive amount of friction.

I reverse-engineered it a tiny bit, looks like you can get a list of all builds so far like this:

gsutil ls -r 'gs://google-rebuild-attestations/**'

I ran that and got back 9,507 - here's that list as a Gist: https://gist.github.com/simonw/9287de5900d5b76969e331d9b4ad9...
by arh68 | 2025-07-22 19:30:24+00:00
Well, now I'm confused.

> Fira Code uses uniform length for +, =, and -. - and _ share similar length. The /\ characters join together and render smaller compared to the other fonts.

This "joining" is a ligatures thing, I'm almost certain, at least for `<>`. I can't for the life of me get anything on macOS to render `/\` as joined, though. Stumped. I've no preference either way, it's just weird to see a familiar font rendered so strangely. Maybe it's a Windows font rendering thing ?

A very fair comparison, though I'd argue legibility isn't always worthwhile; the MICR (?) fonts on checks are quite legible (perhaps machine-legible) but too weird to use.

also, TIL IntelliJ bundles Fira Code for quite some time now
by sugarplant | 2025-07-22 19:30:44+00:00
so you dont have these sorts of housing projects in your area and are telling the guy who grew up around them how they actually work?

people wonder why these projects get shot down so often. there's no accountability for the people that move into the units and then people just pretend junkies and dealers dont end up in these units. a lot of these affordable housing projects have "housing first" units baked into their plans which is a type of unit that houses active junkies and refuses to kick them out for any reason. thats the type of stuff people are afraid of. nobody wants to live around drug dealers and tweakers especially if they have kids.
by omnimus | 2025-07-22 19:30:46+00:00
In my case of many small long running projects with multiple people…

1. Speed - you can get stuff done quickly without making problems globally.

2. Self documenting - both in visibility of html but also because of system/config it forces. People understand to use only values (spacing, sizes, colors) in the config or document that they had to add something and why.

3. CSS specificity is not issue.

4. Performance - straight simple classes are very performant. Complex selectors and pseudo classes can be surprisingly taxing without people realizing it. Thats how functional css started btw
by moffkalast | 2025-07-22 19:30:53+00:00
I'm half kidding, it's entirely possible to overload any GPU with too many draw calls with the end result not looking like much. These fish would run reasonably well on something from that era though I'm sure, it's no GTA San Andreas.

But no it's not capped at 30, it jumps to like 33, 34 sometimes with those settings, it's capped to 60 like Chrome as well. Probably vsync.
by crossbody | 2025-07-22 19:31:27+00:00
I am referencing 90% marginal tax and social healthcare for second order effects that include: lack of innovation, shortages, inefficiencies, mass tax evasion, etc.

I see that some people being crazy rich is infuriating and very often unjust. And I wish socialism worked. But it doesn't. Look at history and consider second order effects of 90% tax and similar policies. Or more narrowly, imagine you are poor and rely on plasma donations, now that option is gone, what do you do next? Are you better off with that option no longer available?
Getting 5 to 10 spam calls / voicemails - what changed?
by tlogan | 2025-07-22 19:31:39+00:00
I’ve noticed that spam calls and voicemails have been getting exponentially worse. I used to receive maybe two spam calls a week, things like loan offers, IRS, extended car warranties, and similar scams. That was annoying, but manageable.

Lately, though, it feels like the volume is increasing rapidly. More calls, more voicemails, now multiple in a single day.

Has something changed recently: telecom regulation, call filtering systems, or spammer tactics that might explain this spike?

I just want to get educated. Is there some AI involved?
by cosmicgadget | 2025-07-22 19:32:16+00:00
> This is a story about OpenAI's failure to implement basic safety measures for vulnerable users.

The author seems to be suggesting invasive chat monitoring as a basic safety measure. Certainly we can make use of the usual access control methods for vulnerable individuals?

> Consider what anthropomorphic framing does to product liability. When a car's brakes fail, we don't write headlines saying “Toyota Camry apologizes for crash.”

It doesn't change liability at all?
by roywiggins | 2025-07-22 19:32:24+00:00
Add to that, LLMs should be discouraged from pretending to report on their internal state or "why" they did anything, because we know that they are really just guessing. If someone asks "why did you make that mistake" the answer should be "this is a language model, and self-introspection is not part of its abilities"

Outputs that look like introspection are often uncritically accepted as actual introspection when it categorically isn't. You can, eg, tell ChatGPT it said something wrong and then ask it why it said that when it never output that in the first place because that's how these models work. Any "introspection" is just an LLM doing more roleplaying, but it's basically impossible to convince people of this. A chatbot that looks like it's introspecting is extremely convincing for most people.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-07-22 19:32:27+00:00
> In what world has SharePoint Server and SharePoint Standard + Enterprise User CALs ever been "FREE"?

Yeah.. I think people say "bundled FREE" when they really referring to MS enterprise packages. It's similar to how Comcast will sell you TV for $100, land line for $20, internet for $100, but you can get a TV/land line package for $90? or a TV/internet for $130. You can "bundle FREE" phone on your TV/internet package for an extra $5. (And yes, I heard support before tell me "For $10 more a month, you get a free upgrade to 1Gbps". ???? How is that free? They will say "It's the same package, but one level up for $10 more. It comes with free 1Gbps upgrade. what doesn't make sense?"
by legitster | 2025-07-22 19:33:02+00:00
A reminder, most tariffs will not be paid because consumers will just shift their spending habits to match or just buy less.

Tariffs are a double edged sword because the hurt purchasing power of consumers without really generating much money for the government.

The administration is going to focus on the fact that tariffs don't really drive inflation, but are going to miss the forest for the trees: prices won't go up because we all have become a little poorer.
by dmbche | 2025-07-22 19:33:16+00:00
Global shipping depends on quality weather reports. Every single ship and plane (cars, trucks and trains too but y'know) needs accurate weather data very often to be on time. That's not to talk about agriculture or the people monitoring hurricanes to give evacuation orders.

Weather/Climate modelling is very complicated and complex, it is chaotic, if you want to look that up. That means we need a lot of precise and specific (or seemingly esoteric, like coronal mass ejections or CO2 concentration) data to have it. That's hard to do and you need costly equipment at remote locations, like Mauna Loa.

It's not for nerds.
by anjel | 2025-07-22 19:33:48+00:00
Meanwhile the Chinese Economy has (a dif't set of) infrastructure deficiencies of at least the same magnitude as the US so this world dominationation trip Xi is on is no less egotistically delusional than MAGA such that China needs the US as much as the US needs China. Leaders will always play the violin while the town's aflame.

/Games Without Frontiers
by dang | 2025-07-22 19:33:48+00:00
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