MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by al_borland | 2025-08-09 23:27:02+00:00
With a lot of this being normalized, they likely see it as low risk. If lightning strikes and they end up in the top .1% from age 18 - 21, they could be set for life. If not, the office job will still be there.

Only time will tell if that risk was worth it. I had a coworker who had a friend who put some videos out, pre-OF. Eventually her friend group found out, and she eventually disappeared to go try and start over. Who knows how many times this might happen to a person. As much as the vocal few try and equate it to working at Starbucks, it has a social cost that few are willing to bear.
by therein | 2025-08-09 23:28:44+00:00
Have you not seen Sam Altman on a well polished stage? Did he not look confident? That's your answer. Stop asking questions and learn to trust ChatGPT 5 because Sam Altman says it is now PhD level and he is scared. It's not like he says that every single time his company releases something that's no more than an iterative improvement.

ChatGPT 2.5 scared Sam Altman so much a few years ago. But he got over it, now he calls it a toddler level intelligence and is scared about this current thing.

Get onboard the AI train.
by sashank_1509 | 2025-08-09 23:28:56+00:00
Let me try to make a defense of Legacy Admissions (highly unpopular I know). I come from a country with a purely meritocratic examination based college admissions system. I even cracked the hard examination and attended a top college. But the fact is the exam world is the exam world and the real world is the real world. The real world doesn’t run on examinations and IQ tests. Real impact means connections, wealth, and then maybe intelligence if considering technology. If you remove the people born into privilege, from attending your college, all you succeed is in making your college irrelevant, not those people irrelevant. It’s better if rather than being a fully closed circle, they also interact with the smartest, most charismatic, most talented people in a country etc. Of course it would be ideal if those born into privilege also could clear the SAT etc, but then it would also be great if we were ruled by a benevolent philosopher king, that’s not the real world, in the real world concessions have to be made.
by simonw | 2025-08-09 23:29:01+00:00
The problem with your argument here is that you're effectively saying that developers (like myself) who put effort into figuring out good workflows for coding with LLMs are deceiving themselves, and are effectively wasting their time.

Either I've wasted significant chunks of the past ~3 years of my life or you're missing something here. Up to you to decide which you believe.

I agree that it's hard to take solid measurements due to non-determinism. The same goes for managing people, and yet somehow many good engineering managers can judge if their team is performing well and figure out what levers they can pull to help them perform better.
by minimaxir | 2025-08-09 23:29:25+00:00
LLMs don’t see token ids, they see token embeddings that map to those ids, and those embeddings are correlated. The hypothetical embeddings of 538, 423, 4144, and 9890 are likely strongly correlated in the process of training the LLM and the downstream LLM should be able to leverage those patterns to solve the question correctly. Even more so since the training process likely has many examples of similar highly correlated embeddings to identify the next similar token.
by duskwuff | 2025-08-09 23:29:29+00:00
This article feels extremely imprecise. The syntax of the "language" changes from example to example, control structures like conditionals are expressed in English prose, some examples are solved by "do all the work for me" functions like the "toPdf()" example...

This whole thing feels like an elaborate LLM fantasy. Is there any real, usable language behind these examples, or is the author just role-playing with ChatGPT?
by Nevermark | 2025-08-09 23:29:31+00:00
This is like hardcore libertarians, anarchy-capitalists. If they were dropped into a stateless (failed state) area, where they would have complete formal sovereignty, any but the super wealthy (who could afford private security, water and food quality systems, etc.), would soon leave, become impoverished, or die tragically at the behest of other legally unencumbered "self-sovereign" actors.

The excuses they might make, that libertarianism requires some basically supportive context (provided by who? and in what system?) to get off the ground, also undermine the arguments of the hard-independent individual crowd.

(I happen to think that "libertarianism" is a fruitful collection of ideas and insights, but in the context of many other systems with complementary ideas and insights. On a practical level, we need the best of many systems working together.)
by nobody9999 | 2025-08-09 23:30:08+00:00
>Grandfather paradox says the riders on the ship won’t experience most of the time of the ride

No. The Grandfather Paradox[0] says nothing of the kind:

The consistency paradox, commonly known as the grandfather paradox, occurs when the past is changed in any way.[5] The paradox of changing the past stems from modal logic: if it is necessarily true that the past happened in a certain way, then it is false and impossible for the past to have occurred in any other way, so any change to the past would be a paradox.[13] Consistency paradoxes occur whenever any change to the past is possible.[6] A common example given is a time traveler killing their grandfather before their parents' conception, thus preventing the conception of themselves. If the traveler were not born, they could not kill their grandfather; therefore, the grandfather proceeds to beget the traveler's ancestor who begets the traveler. This scenario is self-contradictory.[5] One proposed resolution for this paradox is that a time traveller can do anything that did happen, but cannot do anything that did not happen.[5] Another proposed resolution is simply that time travel is impossible.[14]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_paradox
by jasongill | 2025-08-09 23:30:15+00:00
I recently converted all of my (5 in 3 buildings) mini splits on my property to be controlled by Home Assistant. It took some research but all I ultimately needed was:

https://cloudfree.shop/product/ductless-hvac-wi-fi-module/

this USB ESP32 module which works out of the box on Midea-produced units (Carrier, Electrolux, Pioneer). I have a few units that are other generic brands which apparently are rebranded "Aux" brand units, so I re-flashed the ESP32 board above to work with Aux units by doing `brew install esphome` and then `esphome run auxminisplit.yaml --device /dev/tty.usbserial-210` where auxminisplit.yaml is https://gist.github.com/jasongill/35a13e458b6d109ca2bbefeab4...

That worked perfectly for me and should cover like 90% of all minisplits (Midea and Aux make a ton of brands units), let me know if that works for you.
by Jtsummers | 2025-08-09 23:30:49+00:00
You completely missed the point of my original comment, I'll take a second stab at it:

1. Framework branded themselves as the company for DIY computer repairability and maintainability in the laptop space.

2. They've now released a desktop that is less repairable than their laptops, and much less repairable than most desktops you can buy today.

That's what I consider a curious move.

The hardware choice may provide a good reason to solder on the RAM, but I wasn't commenting on that and have no idea how anyone could read my comment and have that be their takeaway.

I was commenting on a brand throwing away the thing it's marketed itself for. In exchange for repairability, you now get shiny baubles like custom tiles for the case.
by al_borland | 2025-08-09 23:30:50+00:00
How does this get rolled out? Does the board or directors vote it in to replace the C-Suite? Surely the C-Suite isn’t going to eliminate their own jobs.

If it’s the board, the next logical question is what’s stopping an AI board of directors from existing, voted in by the shareholders?

And if all this happens, will anyone actually be willing to work for an AI? I don’t think I could.
by unsnap_biceps | 2025-08-09 23:30:55+00:00
I currently live in a petty remote area and we have literarily zero homeless folks in our hamlet area. (We actually have a fairly robust program that provides housing for folks in need). We have one fast food restaurant in the area and it's a McDonalds. It was one of the main hangouts for folks in the area. We would have weekly meetups there. After Covid, they closed the seating area and installed the touch screens. They went from employing around 7 to 9 folks down to only 3 and talking with the franchise owner, they're not planning to ever hire back up and re-open seating. He did mention that the gross revenue is way down, but net revenue is about the same and his stress in managing the location is way reduced with the headcount reduction and simplification of the business.
by tmnvdb | 2025-08-09 23:31:10+00:00
You have again answered with your customary condescension. Is that really necessary? Everything you write is just dripping with patronizing superiority and combatative sarcasm.

> "classical reasoning uses consciousness and awareness as elements of processing"

They are not the _same_ concept then.

> It's only meaningless if you don't know what the philosophical or epistemological definitions of reasoning are. Which is to say, you don't know what reasoning is. So you'd think it was a meaningless statement.

The problem is the only information we have is internal. So we may claim those things exist in us. But we have no way to establish if they are happening in another person, let alone in a computer.

> Do computers think, or do they compute?

Do humans think? How do you tell?
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-08-09 23:33:06+00:00
The vacuum work, finding/fixing leaks, etc can be a real nightmare, even with the expensive equipment. Personally I would much rather pay an HVAC technician to just come and pull the vacuum. They already have the gear, and they can diagnose when your vacuum still doesn't pull all the way for the 3rd time. Then if you don't get a precharged unit, they can also fill it.
by Lammy | 2025-08-09 23:33:15+00:00
> It’s a subscription product, but it has an insanely generous free tier that covers basically anything you’d ever want to do as an individual.

Tailscale do have a very nice product, but privacy-conscious users should be aware that you must disable Tailscale's real-time remote collection of your behavior on your “private” network. See KB1011: https://tailscale.com/kb/1011/log-mesh-traffic

“Each Tailscale agent in your distributed network streams its logs to a central log server (at log.tailscale.io). This includes real-time events for open and close events for every inter-machine connection (TCP or UDP) on your network.”

It's possible to opt out of this spying on Unix/Windows/Mac clients by starting Tailscale with `--no-logs-no-support` or `TS_NO_LOGS_NO_SUPPORT=true` environment variable (see https://tailscale.com/kb/1011/log-mesh-traffic#opting-out-of...), but it is not currently possible to opt out in the Android/iOS clients: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/13174

For an example of how invasive this is for the average user, this person discovered Tailscale trying to collect ~18000 data points per week about their network usage based on the number of blocked DNS requests for `log.tailscale.com`: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/15326

Also see their privacy policy: https://tailscale.com/privacy-policy#information-we-collect-...

“When you use the Tailscale Solution, we collect limited metadata regarding your device used to access the Tailscale Solution, such as: the device name; relevant operating system type; host name; IP address; cryptographic public key; user agent (where applicable); language settings; date and time of access to the Tailscale Solution; logs describing connections and containing statistics about data sent to and from other devices (“Inter-Node Traffic Logs”); and version of the Tailscale Solution installed.” (emphasis mine)

Anyway, the reason I quoted that part of your post is because Tailscale are using some Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt tactics here by naming the privacy-preserving option “no-support”, and if you are a free user then you aren't getting support from them anyway, so there should be no downside to keeping your private network private :)
by mdp2021 | 2025-08-09 23:33:59+00:00
I have done this test extensively days ago, on a dozen models: no one could count - all of them got results wrong, all of them suggested they can't check and will just guess.

Until they will be able of procedural thinking they will be radically, structurally unreliable. Structurally delirious.

And it is also a good thing that we can check in this easy way - if the producers patched the local fault only, then the absence of procedural thinking would not be clear, and we would need more sophisticated ways to check.
by richard_cory | 2025-08-09 23:34:45+00:00
This is consistently reproducible in completions API with `gpt-5-chat-latest` model:

``` curl 'https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --header 'Authorization: Bearer <your-api-key>' \ --data '{ "model": "gpt-5-chat-latest", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry" } ] } ], "temperature": 0, "max_completion_tokens": 2048, "top_p": 1, "frequency_penalty": 0, "presence_penalty": 0 }' ```
by b112 | 2025-08-09 23:35:32+00:00
Not by Debian it isn't.

https://www.debian.org/releases/

Buster has not been supported by Debian for many years.

Buster LTS was EOL last summer. Note that LTS is supported by volunteers via a non-profit, not Debian (though they do a good job).

ELTS is paid support, again not by Debian.

Do look at Debian's wiki for more info on support timeframes, and what LTS and ELTS means.
by rpdillon | 2025-08-09 23:35:49+00:00
This is how I develop all the software that I don't work on professionally. I have a variety of small web servers with various capabilities that I use. The latest is Copy Party, which I learned about from HN a couple of weeks ago. My apps are then single files that know how to write modified copies of themselves back to the server. The server is dumb, it doesn't really know that it's anything other than just a file upload. I then use SyncThing to replicate that folder structure across all my devices so I have offline access by default.
by MostlyStable | 2025-08-09 23:35:51+00:00
To whatever extent this is true (I'm not convinced it is, schools that aren't prestige aren't "irrelevant"), it is an indictment on the schools. This argument is a capitulation to the signaling hypothesis of higher ed. I believe at the least a weak version of the hypothesis, but I absolutely do not believe we should just roll over and say "well, that's the way it is". It may be the way things work, but this is a very important is/ought distinction. I think we should be fighting _very_ hard for the "ought" version.
by nullc | 2025-08-09 23:36:11+00:00
If anyone here is interested in creating more reliable mesh messaging, you might want to consider store&forward with efficient reconciliation as a primitive.

I helped create a library for reconciliation which might be useful: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/minisketch

One notion would be to divide time in to periods small enough to keep messages relevant, but big enough that all devices can be in sync well beyond that-- say an hour. Then constantly try to get every device it total sync over the last N periods. This kind of model can benefit from mobile devices... e.g. magnet a hub onto a trash collection cart and someone is magically ferrying messages from one side of the event to the other even if there are radio holes in the middle.

Use of efficient reconciliation keeps the traffic closer to O(devices + messages) rather than O(devices * messages) created by 'everyone repeats' messaging.

Unfortunately it hasn't really been an option open to the sort of devices that meshtastic runs on because they're extremely limited in memory.
by FMecha | 2025-08-09 23:36:11+00:00
I didn't have Disney Vault thing in mind when I came up with that. LRG's (and similar companies) schtick was that they're semi-upfront about pandering to collectors, especially with the extra goodies (sometimes of varying quality when they finally delivered).

EDIT: Especially for physical releases of streaming-only shows/films, since these companies mainly do that for digital-only games.
by pxc | 2025-08-09 23:36:36+00:00
Here's an example of what gpt-oss-20b (at the default mxfp4 precision) does with this question:

> How many "s"es are in the word "Mississippi"?

The "thinking portion" is:

> Count letters: M i s s i s s i p p i -> s appears 4 times? Actually Mississippi has s's: positions 3,4,6,7 = 4.

The answer is:

> The word “Mississippi” contains four letter “s” s.

They can indeed do some simple pattern matching on the query, separate the letters out into separate tokens, and count them without having to do something like run code in a sandbox and ask it the answer.

The issue here is just that this workaround/strategy is only trained into the "thinking" models, afaict.
by cnst | 2025-08-09 23:36:41+00:00
Re going to author's profile, I usually just give up, and go to the URL to fix the address.

You'd think clicking on author's name in commit log view would bring you to their profile — social coding, after all — yet it simply filters the log by author.

Just checked, apparently, they do have a tooltip popup in "Commits" log view to go directly to the author, but who has the time to wait 1s until the tooltip's appearance? Clicking on the name simply filters commits by the author, clicking again, just reloads the same page you're already on — but, hey, at least they didn't break the URL addresses yet!
by bluGill | 2025-08-09 23:37:40+00:00
Code should be about fire safety for the fire department if it burns. if you can't build on the lot then it needs to be because of something there - or if they are planning to build it (a new utility) then they need to rebuy the easement every 10 years until they do. Height is limited only by airport flight lines.

everything else is none of your business. (Okay, I might have missed something but it is on those lines)
by RatchetWerks | 2025-08-09 23:38:36+00:00
According to the HVAC industry it is the correct term, based on my experience.

I agree with your logic both modes of operation (heat/cool) are both pumping heat.

Cripple is a fairly strong word here. HVAC is hyper optimized for cost/simplicity at the expense of comfort and efficiency. Which kills me. The industry is also stuck in the 80s in terms of power electronics. Variable speed control on the fans and compressors are a BIG deal. Like 20k for the gear. Even though the BOM cost is dirt cheap. Look at Carrier Infinity if you are curious

MANY Megawatts worth of power would be saved if they just included a directional valve, some speed control PCB and electronic expansion valve
by Trashmetoday | 2025-08-09 23:38:40+00:00
Both good comments. We would be happy with a steam roller, but there may be some display value to the right organization. And I guess one could attribute the donation to the late general's estate. We tend to be anonymous people however. But, you could imagine 3- and 4-star generals diving up post war items found with H----- or his senior staff. (Thats the story passed to me, I'm not planning to investigate it, and I do not want to spin this up as too big of a deal). But, we do not want to donate something and have it found on being auctioned to a group of people that honor this stuff.
by MPSFounder | 2025-08-09 23:38:46+00:00
I grew up there. Rarely saw any asian kids, although it is changing these days. The Jews were in the affluent neighborhoods (like Grosse Pointe), they wished to be white and avoided Detroit at all costs. But nice try. I am white. Detroit areas I grew up in were mostly black. The few whites there were not rich (we were not rich). But again. I don't expect someone defending legacy systems to understand this. What part of Detroit are you from? Or are you just an apologists for your rich masters who seek to buy their way out of a holistic review, so their kids can attend top schools and America can become segregated again, except this time, on the basis of income and equality? I am not a Russian bot. Are you an Israeli bot that is charged with covering a genocide somewhere? Maybe that's why you want to undermine fairness in the US. Aren't our taxes enough little bot bud?
by mikehearn | 2025-08-09 23:39:38+00:00
This is a well known blindspot for LLMs. It's the machine version of showing a human an optical illusion and then judging their intelligence when they fail to perceive the reality of the image (the gray box example at the top of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion is a good example). The failure is a result of their/our fundamental architecture.
by nobody9999 | 2025-08-09 23:39:52+00:00
>Pre-COVID, I used to go to a small kabob restaurant in Silicon Valley. During COVID, I'd order from them via Doordash. The food wasn't as good cold, though, even if re-heated. After COVID, I started going back in person. Often, I'd be the only in-person customer, despite a steady stream of deliver drivers going in and out. Now, they're out of business.

Because DoorDash/GrubHub/UberEats/etc. charge the restaurants more than their gross margins. In such an anvironment, unless a restaurant raises prices 25-30%, they're eventually going out of business.

I'd say that these companies are most certainly not providing 25-30% value add. Rather, it's just leeching off restaurants and their customers.

It's disgusting and has killed many, many restaurants where I live (NYC), even though we already had a culture of delivery before these parasites came along.

And more's the pity.
by MPSFounder | 2025-08-09 23:40:07+00:00
The OP mentioned Jews and Asians (look at the original comment bud). I don't cry. I define my country, and I will do everything in my power to make sure it does not disenfranchise anyone for the benefit of rich minorities at the expense of those who regard America as their homeland. You being a Jew does not entitle you to disenfranchise others, although I sense a theme given the situation abroad. Quotas have been eliminated for decades. The current victims of the world are still the blacks that are trapped in ghettos, the Palestinians being starved by fellows of yours, and many Americans that escaped wars. Our job is making sure anyone in America is given a fair shot. Giving suburban kids points because they never had to hold a job is not something I am willing to do in any of my companies. Feel free to do it in yours
by shasheene | 2025-08-09 23:40:25+00:00
Debian's tagline is the "universal operating system". It's a distribution with active ports on a very large number of architectures [1], even incredibly obscure ones.

The goal of universal compatibility that separates the Debian project from commercial software and even other open-source projects.

The legacy x86 architecture is still far more popular than some that platforms that Debian advertises as having official support for and there has been x86 based processors manufactured for niche applications until recently, eg, AMD Geode and others.

I find it really unfortunate Debian Project is removing official support for new x86 installations. The silver lining is it seems like they'll be an unofficial port and it's likely niche distributions like MX Linux and AntiX will maintain their own builds.

It would be ideal if open-source can develop stronger mechanims to keep support for the large numbers of these relatively niche architectures (eg, through increased usage of emulation over real hardware).

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/SupportedArchitectures