MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-07-07 16:55:38+00:00
How so? Or, more specifically, what method of action are you predicting will produce those outcomes?

From my observation, smaller studios are vastly more likely than larger ones to already be in compliance with this initiative's requests: It's not the giant, AAA games that are having community servers or peer-to-peer networking. Companies that are doing that already have to change nothing to be in compliance.

Studios that have private, monopolized backends merely need to release their server binaries at the end of life. That's not a significant expense, either (you already have access to file distribution in order to distribute your client in the first place). Assuming that the studio is paying directly for file distribution (not the case for most), and that the server binaries are 100 GB (an obscene over-estimate), and that every single user downloads the server files, you're looking at a couple of cents or so a user. Which again, smaller studios don't pay for file distribution, that's coming out of the platform fees that you're already paying.

The only hard and fast, "this might cost us money" position I can point to is the large studios that release franchises lose the ability to use cutting off people's access to previous games in a series as a motivator to purchase newer ones in the series. And that's an ability exclusively available to massive studios that put out entire franchises of games.
by windowsrookie | 2025-07-07 16:56:06+00:00
Disagree. We have had to replace the battery twice in our Dyson cordless. Dyson charges $130 for the OEM replacement battery (yes there are cheaper aftermarket batteries available).

The last time the battery failed we decided to buy an entire Shark cordless vacuum + accessories kit for less than an OEM Dyson battery. That shark vacuum is still going today 5 years later on the original battery.
by merizian | 2025-07-07 16:56:36+00:00
> The reason why I in particular am so interested in continual learning has pretty much zero to do with humans. Sensors and mechanical systems change their properties over time through wear and tear.

To be clear, this isn’t what Dwarkesh was pointing at, and I think you are using the term “continual learning” differently to him. And he is primarily interested in it because humans do it.

The article introduces a story about how humans learn, and calls it continual learning:

> How do you teach a kid to play a saxophone? You have her try to blow into one, listen to how it sounds, and adjust. Now imagine teaching saxophone this way instead: A student takes one attempt. The moment they make a mistake, you send them away and write detailed instructions about what went wrong. The next student reads your notes and tries to play Charlie Parker cold. When they fail, you refine the instructions for the next student … This just wouldn’t work … Yes, there’s RL fine tuning. But it’s just not a deliberate, adaptive process the way human learning is.

The point I’m making is just that this is bad form: “AIs can’t do X, but humans can. Humans do task X because they have Y, but AIs don’t have Y, so AIs will find X hard.” Consider I replace X with “common sense reasoning” and Y with “embodied experience”. That would have seemed reasonable in 2020, but ultimately would have been a bad bet.

I don’t disagree with anything else in your response. I also buy into bitter lesson (and generally: easier to measure => easier to optimize). I think it’s just different uses of the same terms. And I don’t necessarily think what you’re referring to as continual learning won’t work.
by sudobash1 | 2025-07-07 16:56:53+00:00
There are mainstream distros that don't have config.gz. Fedora is one of them. But it keeps a copy of it's config next to the kernel. If you don't have /proc/config.gz try this:

grep CONFIG_DRM_PANIC_SCREEN_QR_CODE /boot/config-$(uname -r)

(Fedora is enabling the DRM panic screen QR code)
by adolph | 2025-07-07 16:57:13+00:00
That a service incorporating the authors' works exists is not at issue. The plaintiffs' claims are, as summarized by Alsup:

First, Authors argue that using works to train Claude’s underlying LLMs was like using works to train any person to read and write, so Authors should be able to exclude Anthropic from this use (Opp. 16). Second, to that last point, Authors further argue that the training was intended to memorize their works’ creative elements — not just their works’ non-protectable ones (Opp. 17). Third, Authors next argue that computers nonetheless should not be allowed to do what people do.

https://media.npr.org/assets/artslife/arts/2025/order.pdf
by taeric | 2025-07-07 16:57:23+00:00
Phonetic is absolutely a feature linked to spoken languages, though? It quite literally is relating to spoken sounds. Sign language, for example, is not phonetic, as many users of it cannot speak or hear.

Fair that I should have said they have two phonetic writing systems, decidedly not alphabets. I'm not sure the distinction is one that matters for what we are covering here?
by handfuloflight | 2025-07-07 16:58:01+00:00
'I find it curious that you are wrestling with language syntax': this reveals you completely missed my point while questioning my competence. You've taken the word 'wrestling', which I used to mean 'dealing with', and twisted it to imply incompetence. I'm not 'wrestling' with syntax due to incompetence. I'm eliminating unnecessary cognitive overhead to focus on higher-level problems.

You're also conflating syntax with implementation. Implementation is the logic, algorithms, and architectural decisions. Syntax is just the notation system for expressing that implementation. When you talk about 'implementation informing requirements,' you're describing the feedback loop of discovering constraints, bottlenecks, and design insights while building systems. That feedback comes from running code and testing behavior, not from typing semicolons. You're essentially arguing that the spelling of your code provides architectural insights, which is absurd.

The real issue here is that you're questioning optimization as if it indicates incompetence. It's like asking why a professional chef uses a food processor instead of chopping everything by hand. The answer isn't incompetence: it's optimization. I can spend my mental energy on architecture, system design, and problem-solving instead of semicolon placement and bracket matching.

By all means, spend your time as you wish! I know some people have a real emotional investment in the craft of writing syntax. Chop, chop, chop!
by AIPedant | 2025-07-07 16:58:02+00:00
I don't think they deemed it "useful":

We’ve never supported ASCII tab; ChatGPT was outright lying to people. And making us look bad in the process, setting false expectations about our service.... We ended up deciding: what the heck, we might as well meet the market demand. [...] My feelings on this are conflicted. I’m happy to add a tool that helps people. But I feel like our hand was forced in a weird way. Should we really be developing features in response to misinformation?

The feature seems pretty useless for practicing guitar since ASCII tablature usually doesn't include the rhythm: it is a bit shady to present the music as faithfully representing the tab, especially since only beginner guitarists would ask ChatGPT for help - they might not realize the rhythm is wrong. If ChatGPT didn't "force their hand" I doubt they would have included a misleading and useless feature.
by vasa_ | 2025-07-07 16:58:09+00:00
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by solfox | 2025-07-07 16:58:23+00:00
I was 100% thinking this. GREAT book. And they, too, shredded books to ingest them into the digital library! I don't recall if it was an attempt to bypass copyright though; in Rainbow's End, it was more technical, as it was easier to shred, scan the pieces, and reassemble them in software, rather than scanning each page.
by codedokode | 2025-07-07 16:58:35+00:00
> "Like any reader aspiring to be a writer, Anthropic's LLMs trained upon works not to race ahead and replicate or supplant them — but to turn a hard corner and create something different," he wrote.

But this analogy seems wrong. First, LLM is not a human and cannot "learn" or "train" - only human can do it. And LLM developers are not aspiring to become writers and do not learn anything, they just want to profit by making software using copyrighted material. Also people do not read millions of books to become a writer.
by variadix | 2025-07-07 16:58:49+00:00
Using more tokens = more compute to use for a given problem. I think most of the benefit of CoT has more to do with autoregressive models being unable to “think ahead” and revise their output, and less to do with actual reasoning. The fact that an LLM can have incorrect reasoning in its CoT and still produce the right answer, or that it can “lie” in its CoT to avoid being detected as cheating on RL tasks, makes me believe that the semantic content of CoT is an illusion, and that the improved performance is from being able to explore and revise in some internal space using more compute before producing a final output.
by bitbasher | 2025-07-07 16:59:28+00:00
I _really_ wanted Postgress' FTS to work for my usecase, but it was simply too slow and didn't have enough flexibility. I can certainly see its use for simpler use cases (fuzzy searching a product/user record, etc). However, it's not a full replacement for a search engine.

I really wanted it to be. I wanted to live in a world where I didn't have to update Postgres and then send the update to re-index the record in solr/es.
by el_benhameen | 2025-07-07 16:59:46+00:00
While I don’t doubt that OPD is ignoring plateless cars, that thread has outdated info. CA now does require temp plates, most places seem to be pretty good about enforcing the rule, and seeing a plateless car now seems (to me) to be a pretty good indicator that the person driving it is up to no good. My city further East in the East Bay is not exactly great about enforcing most traffic laws, but you’ll rarely see a car without a plate or temp these days.
by feraloink | 2025-07-07 16:59:52+00:00
Very heavy-handed paywall. Only let me read one sentence. Linky please?

EDIT: I worry about gen AI but I also worry that Fortune Magazine and exploitative click baiters will try to capitalize on my worry and fears. I need to read the full article. If you don't have the means to provide access, I can get it myself. Thank you for posting this; I didn't mean to be demanding.
by booleandilemma | 2025-07-07 16:59:53+00:00
That was never possible. Many (most?) programmers are imported workers from overseas. American programmers organizing wouldn't be effective, because there's always a programmer that will pop up from somewhere in the world and do whatever management asks, and for lower pay, even. Lawyers, doctors, and therapists don't have this problem. You can't outsource these roles to India or Eastern Europe.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-07 17:00:06+00:00
I think the point of the Milgram experiment was that you could pressure ordinary people to go too far, not that there is a 1-5% population of "psychopaths"

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....

what I find interesting though is that Freud's (non-Freudian) interpretation of sadism seems obscure in the west although it is definitely part of the schema of Japanese pornography. [1] That is, the sadist feels that they an agent of justice (will write 正 on the body of the victim) whether the victim's sin is something most people would recognize as sinful such as "being an email spammer" or "getting drunk at a party and acting like a boor" or something most would be puzzled by such as "dressing like a dork" or "being naive" or something marginal like "gave a lecture about a topic they didn't understand." Whatever it is, the sadist feels like the victim deserved the treatment they got.

[1] Freud, like French Theory, is "big in Japan"
by genrilz | 2025-07-07 17:00:07+00:00
> IRC the plan isn't to use Polonius instead of NLL, but rather use NLL and kick off Polonius for certain failure cases.

Indeed. Based on the last comment on the tracking issue [0], it looks like they have not figured out whether they will be able to optimize Polonius enough before stabilization, or if they will try non-lexical lifetimes first.

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-project-goals/issues/118
by VirusNewbie | 2025-07-07 17:00:52+00:00
So, most of the big companies have offices in LA (FAANG, unicorns/decacorns) but- they're often in a really hard to get to place that is insanely overpriced.

Google is in Playa Vist and Venice, Amazon has a big office in Santa Monica, SNAP is on the west side of LA, etc. A SFH in any of those cities is 4M or more, and the more popular places for families to live is easily an hour and twenty minutes away (burbank, pasadena, the valley).

Orange County has fewer big tech companies but they do have a larger Google and Amazon office (~1k each I belive?), but the cost of living is quite a bit lower.

Less options though if the job situation changes.
by mindcrime | 2025-07-07 17:00:54+00:00
> I feel like I'm the only one who isn't convinced getting a high score on the ARC eval test means we have AGI.

Wait, what? Approximately nobody is claiming that "getting a high score on the ARC eval test means we have AGI". It's a useful eval for measuring progress along the way, but I don't think anybody considers it the final word.
by grogenaut | 2025-07-07 17:01:14+00:00
If they actually cared about safety they'd license it to auto manufacturers and let people roll stop signs when it's safe and warm them when it's not. Or just put cheap traffic lights everywhere to speed up traffic. This is about earning revenue for municipallitues with micro enforcement zones.

(note/edit) I'm talking about flashing lights in the cab like when my car thinks I need to break. Forcing me to break unless I'm about to kill someone. Or just re-thinking the stop sign. The point of stop signs is they're effing cheap. If you're going to put AI cameras on all of them that is no longer cheap, could you not just turn them into lighted intersections that give the green to the right person and remove confusion and detect or have slappers for the pedestrians and just smooth out traffic everywhere? Or is the unsaid thing that stop signs are actually smoother because well you can roll them using your human brain to make decisions?
by Terr_ | 2025-07-07 17:02:00+00:00
I like this mental-model, which rests heavily on the "be careful not to anthropomorphize" approach:

It was already common to use a document extender (LLM) against a hidden document, which resembles a movie or theater play where a character named User is interrogating a character named Bot.

Chain-of-thought switches the movie/script style to film noir, where the [Detective] Bot character has additional content which is not actually "spoken" at the User character. The extra words in the script add a certain kind of metaphorical inertia.
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-07 17:02:24+00:00
> So all they have to do is go and buy a copy of each book they pirated.

No, that doesn't undo the infringement. At most, that would mitigate actual damages, but actual damages aren't likely to be important, given that statutory damages are an alternative and are likely to dwarf actual damages. (It may also figure into how the court assigns statutory damages within the very large range available for those, but that range does not go down to $0.)

> They will have ceased and desisted.

"Cease and desist" is just to stop incurring additional liability. (A potential plaintiff may accept that as sufficient to not sue if a request is made and the potential defendant complies, because litigation is uncertain and expensive. But "cease and desist" doesn't undo wrongs and neutralize liability when they've already been sued over.)
by andrewrn | 2025-07-07 17:02:29+00:00
I worked on strawberry picking robots for a few years as a field robotics engineer. I don't know about Australia but for American fruit growers and to a lesser extent, British ones, the tasks that are actually economically valuable are shockingly hard technically.

Picking strawberries at a rate that beats human pickers, given the endless amount of variables, is insanely hard. Why not pick another task like data collection, you ask, because its just not important enough. So what you have is a bunch of techbros making SISP's and attracting VC's who are hopped up on SaaS sugar rushes, the tech doesn't work and the company folds, and the farmers get disillusioned and less amicable to the next entreprenuer.

In 2025, we're in like the third cycle of this.
by cogman10 | 2025-07-07 17:02:42+00:00
I think part of the problem is that from where I stand, there's no way to tell my programming language (java) "Hey, this thing doesn't need horsepower so prefer to schedule it on little cores." Or conversely "Hey, this thing is CPU sensitive, don't put it on a LITTLE core."

I don't think (but could be wrong) that C++ has a platform independent way of doing this either. I'm not even sure if such an API is exposed from the Windows or linux kernel (though I'd imagine it is).

That to me is the bigger issue here. I can specify which core a thread should run on, but I can't specify what type of core it should run on.
by pornel | 2025-07-07 17:02:49+00:00
You can't use this implementation to bootstrap Rust (in the sense of bootstrapping from non-Rust language or a compiler that isn't the rustc).

This GCC support here is only a backend in the existing Rust compiler written in Rust. The existing Rust compiler is using GCC as a language-agnostic assembler and optimizer, not as a Rust compiler. The GCC part doesn't even know what Rust code looks like.

There is a different project meant to reimplement Rust (front end) from scratch in C++ in GCC itself, but that implementation is far behind and can't compile non-toy programs yet.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-07-07 17:03:40+00:00
As I write this, Claude Code is currently opening and closing various media files on my computer. Sometimes it plays the file for a few seconds before closing it, sometimes it starts playback and then seeks to a different position, sometimes it fast forwards or rewinds, etc.

I asked Claude to write a E-AC3 audio component so I can play videos with E-AC3 audio in the old version of QuickTime I really like using. Claude's decoder includes the ability to write debug output to a log file, so Claude is studying how QuickTime and the component interact, and it's controlling QuickTime via Applescript.

Sometimes QuickTime crashes, because this ancient API has its roots in the classic Mac OS days and is not exactly good. Claude reads the crash logs on its own—it knows where they are—and continues on its way. I'm just sitting back and trying to do other things while Claude works, although it's a little distracting that something else is using my computer at the same time.

I really don't want to anthropomorphize these programs, but it's just so hard when it's acting so much like a person...
by Daviduche03 | 2025-07-07 17:03:41+00:00
OpenAI never released the GPT-4o tutoring demo they showed with Sal Khan—so I built my own from scratch.

This version aims to recreate that experience: real-time, interactive tutoring (especially for math), powered by GPT-4o’s ability to understand text, images, and voice seamlessly.

GPT-4o can reason over sketches, hear your voice, and guide you step-by-step—making it ideal for personalized education. I built this to show what’s possible today, even though the official demo never shipped.

Try the demo: app.brimink.com Feedback welcome—curious what you think, and open to ideas for expanding it.
Tell HN: My 3 competitors are all super polished companies run by solo devs
by gametorch | 2025-07-07 17:03:46+00:00
I'm a solo developer that runs a small AI startup in the game development industry.

The demand is good. After initial marketing, I've seen a lot of organic growth. I get 3-5 new paying customers per day without doing anything. I'm crossing 300 signups soon.

I quickly ran into competitors building the same exact product. These looked like super polished, well-established companies. The websites look nice. The engineering looks solid.

As far as I can tell, they're all run by individual solo developers, too.

I built my entire startup with o3. I already considered myself a good engineer. I think I shipped 2-3x faster than ever before, when building this startup, due to AI. It seems that other developers are exhibiting similar gains.

How long until the first 1-person $100m company? I would bet it happens in 2026. Maybe even 2025.
by shadowgovt | 2025-07-07 17:03:53+00:00
That's pretty much what I'm saying.

There's a fun series of YouTube video essays called "The Whole Plate" that discusses film theory and critique through the lens of Michael Bay's "Transformers" movies. Pretty fascinating stuff, ranging from cinematography shop-talk (you can't remember what happened in a Bay movie because there are rules for holding audience attention and he breaks them on purpose to make you feel anxious) to critical lenses and how the same movie tells a different story depending on the preconceptions you bring in.

The author, Lindsay Ellis, uses Bay's work for a couple of reasons: she actually enjoys the films, they're pop-culture relevant so her target audience is likely to be familiar with them, they have been heavily criticized as having little artistic merit... and they grossed like $4 billion worldwide, so at some point the conversation of what art is becomes irrelevant if the guy doing it bought a mansion off the work.

(As you noted, any debate over the artistic merit of MLP and Discworld will reveal far more about the biases of the debaters than the works themselves, so what would be the point?)
by chaboud | 2025-07-07 17:04:41+00:00
I had a smaller version of this when coding on a flight (with no WiFi! The horror!) over the Pacific. Llama hallucinated array-element operations and list-comprehension in C#. I liked the shape of the code otherwise, so, since I was using custom classes, I just went ahead and implemented both features.

I also went back to just sleeping on those flights and using connected models for most of my code generation needs.
by saulpw | 2025-07-07 17:04:54+00:00
It even says at one point

> I've reviewed the full list of US states

So it's either incompetent when it reviews something without prompting, or that was just another bit of bullshit. The latter seems almost certainly the case.

Maybe we should grant that it has "intelligence", like we grant that a psychopath has intelligence. And then promptly realize that intelligence is not a desirable quality if you lack integrity, empathy, and likely a host of other human qualities.
by grogenaut | 2025-07-07 17:04:57+00:00
Before cars people spent little on petroleum products or motor oil or gasoline or mechanics. Now they do. That's how systems work. You wanna go faster well you need better roads, traffic lights, on ramps, etc. you're still going faster.

Use AI to solve the IP bottlenecks or build more features that ear more revenue that buy more ci boxes. Same as if you added 10 devs which you are with AI so why wouldn't some of the dev support costs go up.

Are you not in a place where you can make an efficiency argument to get more ci or optimize? What's a ci box cost?