MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by opwieurposiu | 2025-08-07 19:22:07+00:00
If you want simple get a motorcycle. Most do not even have a radio.

I got an almost new BMW 310GS for $5k. Even at that price it has antilock brakes, slipper clutch, throttle-by-wire. Any idiot could ride this bike, and it gets 60-70MPG.

Now I ride it every chance I get and keep the miles off my $40k pickup truck.
by 7thaccount | 2025-08-07 19:22:12+00:00
Edit: the threat of violence is obviously not acceptable in an age of horrifying events like school shootings. I think that goes without saying, but wanted to add to my above comment. As I unfortunately didn't make it super clear.

However, there should be a way to address the risk and prevent acts of terrorism without turning into a police state. A more reasonable response might have been to have the parents come by for a long meeting with the principal, school counselor, and school resource officer to talk about the severity of making such statements - even if she did make it sarcastically as tone/intent is difficult to judge. Then suspend the student for a day or so and have the school resource officer periodically check to ensure she didn't bring any weapons.

To play devil's advocate though, I can't imagine the stress from parents who have children of Mexican descent in such a situation.
by aydyn | 2025-08-07 19:22:29+00:00
I think this is simply due to the fact that to train an AGI-level AI currently requires almost grid scale amounts of compute. So the current limitation is purely physical hardware. No matter how intelligent GPT-5 is, it can't conjure extra compute out of thin air.

I think you'll see the prophesized exponentiation once AI can start training itself at reasonable scale. Right now its not possible.
by soulofmischief | 2025-08-07 19:23:10+00:00
I am not required to respect the police. They are required to respect me, a democratic citizen who has authorized their right to exist－not the other way around.

> I think informing the police about a dangerous attitude in some child isn't the wrong solution

I was regularly beaten at home by religious zealots, before finally being kicked out onto the street and becoming homeless at 16. The police were over at my house every three weeks or less, constantly threatening me with foster care and juvie if I didn't respect my grandfather's right to beat me.

The man would routinely make me choose a weapon, often but not always a belt. He would then beat me savagely with the metal buckle like a whip, all over my body, until I would stop crying, because "men do not cry, I'll teach you how to be a man", and "I'll give you something to cry about".

Every ounce of state intervention made it worse, because of police and administrative corruption. Don't even get me started on how they surveilled me through my school.

Yeah, we do have ideals. And regulations, which... don't always match those ideals. And then we have reality, which... doesn't always match regulations. To ignore reality and say that the regulations are the true reality is honestly a very ignorant and dangerous thing to do, especially when you try to instill this perspective into others.
by krapp | 2025-08-07 19:23:21+00:00
>If Asimov's laws don't work, that doesn't mean we can ignore the idea of them and... Just do nothing.

I don't think anyone is suggesting to just do nothing because Asimov's laws won't work, so much as suggest that people consider why they wouldn't work, and what that means for the problem of AI alignment in the real world.

It may simply be inevitable that AI (if we're defining AI as something like an LLM) can always be talked into or out of anything, given the right prompts. In which case constraints can only work so far and we need to consider what happens when they inevitably fail.
by dang | 2025-08-07 19:23:23+00:00
Discussed once (and I do mean once):

Historical Tech Tree - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44104243 - May 2025 (1 comment)

Edit: oops!

The Universal Tech Tree - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161607 - June 2025 (65 comments)
by doormatt | 2025-08-07 19:23:40+00:00
Just to clarify, how exactly does proving exponential lower bounds for Algphys translate into a proof that no polynomial time algorithm exists for NP-complete problems in the standard Turing model?

Isn’t it possible that your "hard" instances could be solvable in polynomial time by some algorithm that doesn’t rely on geometric modeling or Hamiltonian dynamics?

How do you justify that every polynomial-time Turing machine algorithm can be modeled as a trajectory in your Hamiltonian system?
by tzs | 2025-08-07 19:23:51+00:00
Funny thing about the logic games. I aced that section and enjoyed them.

A few weeks after the test I was looking at the magazine rack at the grocery store, and saw a magazine called "Dell Logic Puzzles". I took a look inside and it was full of the same kind of logic games as on the LSAT, with 5 different difficulty levels.

From the ads in the magazine it was clear that the target audience for this was old ladies.

I bought it figuring that since I had aced those puzzles on the LSAT (and on all my practice tests beforehand) I'd have no trouble with any of the puzzles in the magazine, but the harder ones might provide some mild amusement.

Man was I wrong. I could barely do the level 1 puzzles.
by thepryz | 2025-08-07 19:23:55+00:00
I am shocked that someone who co-founded a research and analytics firm would be concerned about Apple filtering out unsolicited messages! /s

I admit the "undermining democracy" angle seems a bit new, but let's be honest, if our elected officials cared about their constituents, they could conduct town halls and use other mechanisms to determine what their constituents want. Democracy existed well before opinion polls and it will be fine if people are finally able to avoid political spam and misinformation posing as a poll.

We should be continuing to eliminate all the loopholes for politicians and religious institutions in all of our laws.
by zahlman | 2025-08-07 19:24:09+00:00
> Among them is Tennessee, which passed a 2023 zero-tolerance law requiring any threat of mass violence against a school to be reported immediately to law enforcement.

> ...

> Gaggle’s CEO, Jeff Patterson, said in an interview that the school system did not use Gaggle the way it is intended. The purpose is to find early warning signs and intervene before problems escalate to law enforcement, he said.

> “I wish that was treated as a teachable moment, not a law enforcement moment,” said Patterson.

Of course they didn't do things as the Gaggle CEO describes. They were legally compelled not to.

I love a good complaint about corporate meddling as much as anyone, but sometimes it really is the government to blame.
by alistairSH | 2025-08-07 19:24:42+00:00
Yes. The whole point is to prevent land from being an unproductive store of wealth.

Also, there's no reason we can't retain an income tax or some other tax alongside a LVT.

As noted, it's common to have partial LVT - in my county, the property tax is a combo of building and land. IIRC, my little lot of valued at ~$200k and the building at ~$400 (on a house I could sell tomorrow for $700k+). On my 1500sqft lot, that's $133sqft.

Which, looking at recent listings, is about 1/3 the value of infill lots in the area. It's not a perfect comparison - the infill lots are much larger and have different zoning.
by rtp4me | 2025-08-07 19:24:47+00:00
Honestly, I would love for the keyboard input style to go away completely. It is such an unnatural way to interact with a computing device compared to other things we operate in the world. Misspellings, backspacing, cramped keys, different layout styles depending on your origin, etc make it a very poor input device - not to mention people with motor function difficulties. Sadly, I think it is here to stay around for a while until we get to a different computing paradigm.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-08-07 19:24:53+00:00
I'm really surprised this story wasn't a bigger discussion item. This seems like an interesting story for our times (in the tech world). Dribble wanted to be paid for arranging those contacts, but they were really just an entrenched middlemen. I don't see them as having any real creation of value other than a tax on hiring people in that area. A new company with better rules for designers and probably much lower fees could well attract enough designers and buyers of their service to easily supplant them - or at least take a good amount of business.

Plus the actions of dribble looked very kludgey, poor PR and not much customer appreciation. It looks to me like they were trying to very publicly punish Kuznetsov so other people would tow the line. There's another thing, it would have been trivially easy for someone well known like Kuznetsov to connect to possible customers through linked in, once the initial contact was made on Dribble. The moat of Dribble looks like it's going to be filling up with sand.

This just feels like obvious overreach by dribble. But they are doubling down on their side. I look forward to seeing how this ends up.

If you are a middleman who is living off money from connecting people, you better provide a real service, and not just be an entrenched but useless gatekeeper.
by fweimer | 2025-08-07 19:25:19+00:00
The really silly part is that even if you have a license from MPEG LA for your product, you still have to put in a notice like this:

THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED UNDER THE AVC PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE FOR THE PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE OF A CONSUMER TO (I) ENCODE VIDEO IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AVC STANDARD ("AVC VIDEO") AND/OR (II) DECODE AVC VIDEO THAT WAS ENCODED BY A CONSUMER ENGAGED IN A PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY AND/OR WAS OBTAINED FROM A VIDEO PROVIDER LICENSED TO PROVIDE AVC VIDEO. NO LICENSE IS GRANTED OR SHALL BE IMPLIED FOR ANY OTHER USE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM MPEG LA, L.L.C. SEE HTTP://WWW.MPEGLA.COM

It's unclear whether this license covers videoconferencing for work purposes (where you are paid, but not specifically to be on that call). It seems to rule out remote tutoring.

MPEG LA probably did not have much choice here because this language requirement (or language close to it) for outgoing patent licenses is likely part of their incoming patent license agreements. It's probably impossible at this point to renegotiate and align the terms with how people actually use video codecs commercially today.

But it means that you can't get a pool license from MPEG LA that covers commercial videoconferencing, you'd have to negotiate separately with the individual patent holders.
by derekstavis | 2025-08-07 19:25:37+00:00
Derek from Capela here. Marketing was not our primary purpose, but I guess it worked out as such ;)

The primary reason for us engaging early on with Jepsen is that we care a lot about correctness, consistency and reliability, and we wanted the best in this field to establish a baseline of tests that we must make sure our platform passes before we even put it the hands of anybody.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-08-07 19:26:04+00:00
It's because all forms of sampler settings destroy safety/alignment. That's why top_p/top_k are still used and not tfs, min_p, top_n sigma, etc, why temperature is locked to 0-2 arbitrary range, etc

Open source is years ahead of these guys on samplers. It's why their models being so good is that much more impressive.
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-07 19:26:07+00:00
> I'm personally scared if x86 dies the open market of ATX and bring your own OS won't exist as every company will just lock you in to only there stuff on their devices.

I share this fear, and have for a while. x86/the WinTel era has offered a lot of computing freedom, both hardware and OS wise and I believe we are in real danger of losing that. Not just because of an architecture change in isolation either, but also with the recent age verification stuff, and pushes for requiring "verified platforms" to access certain services, we are quickly heading down a proprietary-OS only world if you actually want to interact with web services.
by kjellsbells | 2025-08-07 19:26:15+00:00
I know Perl gets no love here, and for good reason sometimes, but I have a hard time believing that code full of syntactical characters like

if .["found"] then . | .after += [$arg] elif $arg == "--" then . | .found = true else . | .before += [$arg] end

or

for (i = $indicies) if { ~ $*($i) -- } { before = <= { ...

...is more readable and maintainable than:

my ($before, $after) = split /\s*--\s*/, $input; my @list1 = split ' ', $before; ...
by originalcopy | 2025-08-07 19:26:22+00:00
I think there are 2 interesting aspects: speed and scale.

To explain the scale: I am always fascinated by the way societies moved on when they scaled up (from tribes to cities, to nations,...). It's sort of obvious, but when we double the amount of people, we get to do more. With the internet we got to connect the whole globe but transmitting "information" is still not perfect.

I always think of ants and how they can build their houses with zero understanding of what they do. It just somehow works because there are so many of them. (I know, people are not ants).

In that way I agree with the original take that AGI or not: the world will change. People will get AI in their pocket. It might be more stupid than us (hopefully). But things will change, because of the scale. And because of how it helps to distribute "the information" better.
by atonse | 2025-08-07 19:26:34+00:00
Refactors, building non-trivial features (you can first write out a spec and have it follow that), understanding my code, writing tests, writing good quality documentation. Reasoning about my existing data model and where to plug into it.

On and on and on. Coming up with test plans, edge cases, accounting for the edge cases in its programming. Programming defensively. Fixing bugs.
by hansmayer | 2025-08-07 19:26:45+00:00
Exactly this, but it will still be a net negative for all of us. Why? Increasingly I have to argue with non-technical geniuses who have "checked" some complex technical issue with ChatGPT, they themselves lacking even the basic foundations in computer science. So you have an ever increasing number of smartasses who think that this technology finally empowers them. Finally they get "level up" with that arrogant techie. And this will ultimately doom us, because as we know, idiots are in majority and they often overrule the few sane voices.
by RobinL | 2025-08-07 19:26:54+00:00
Totally agree. At the moment I find that frontier LLMs are able to solve most of the problems I throw at them given enough context. Most of my time is spent working out what context they're missing when they fail. So the thing that would help me most is much a much more focussed ability to gather context.

For my use cases, this is mostly needing to be really home in on relevant code files, issues, discussions, PRs. I'm hopeful that GPT5 will be a step forward in this regard that isn't fully captured in the benchmark results. It's certainly promising that it can achieve similar results more cheaply than e.g. Opus.
by woodruffw | 2025-08-07 19:26:55+00:00
> and it would be rather absurd for any Python-based installer to use anything else to do the decompression.

You'd reasonably think, but it's difficult to assert this: a lot of people use third-party tooling (uv, but also a lot of hand-rolled stuff), and Python packages aren't always processed in a straight-line-from-the-index manner.

(I think a good reference example of this is security scanners: a scanner might fetch a wheel ZIP and analyze it, and use whatever ZIP implementation it pleases.)

It's also worth noting that one of the differentials here concerns the Central Directory, but the other one is more pernicious: the ZIP APPNOTE[1] isn't really clear about how implementations should key from to EOCDR back to the local file entries, and implementations have (reasonably, IMO) interpreted the language differently. Python's zipfile chooses to do it in one way that I think is justifiable, but it's a "true" differential in the sense that there's no golden answer.

> (Or maybe there isn't a clear rule for what counts as a "bomb", and PyPI has to choose a threshold value?)

Yes, it's this. There are legitimate uses for high-ratio archives (e.g. compressed OS images), but Python package distributions are (generally) not one of them. PyPI has its own compression ratio that's intended to be a sweet spot between "that was compressed really well" and "someone is trying to ZIP-bomb the index."

[1]: https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT
by jake-salomon | 2025-08-07 19:26:59+00:00
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by vczf | 2025-08-07 19:27:00+00:00
From the abstract of the paper:

> Replacement therapy with lithium orotate, which is a Li salt with reduced amyloid binding, prevents pathological changes and memory loss in AD mouse models and ageing wild-type mice.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09335-x

Another source on lithium orotate:

> LiOr is proposed to cross the blood–brain barrier and enter cells more readily than Li2CO3, which will theoretically allow for reduced dosage requirements and ameliorated toxicity concerns.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8413749/
by OutOfHere | 2025-08-07 19:27:13+00:00
If you want to solve this, archive.org is not enough. We need a distributed p2p streaming immutable chain database to which verifiable content entries can be added to named channels, verified and confirmed by the network. Moreover, we need it to become the default storage mechanism, so sites cannot be mutated in silence. As for which channels the nodes should be a network of, it's simple; it's the channels their owners choose to read.
by wizenink | 2025-08-07 19:27:14+00:00
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by nradov | 2025-08-07 19:27:39+00:00
Jeff Bezos: "I have a saying, which is when the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. And it doesn’t mean you just slavishly go follow the anecdotes then. It means you go examine the data because it’s usually not that the data is being miscollected, it’s usually that you’re not measuring the right thing."

https://lexfridman.com/jeff-bezos-transcript

Most crime statistics aren't very reliable because so many crimes aren't officially reported. The only one I really trust is the murder rate since it's still hard to hide a body. That rate was flat or declining from 1999 - 2019, then spiked back up in 2020 when many police forces kind of gave up on actually enforcing law and order.

https://www.consumershield.com/articles/murder-rate-by-year
by asadotzler | 2025-08-07 19:27:41+00:00
That's not us though. That's a third party worth trillions of dollars that manages a tiny fleet of robot cars with a huge back-end staff and infrastructure, and only in a few cities covering only about 2-3% of us (in this one country.) We don't have steering wheel-less cars and we can't/shouldn't sleep on our commute to and from work.
by jjk166 | 2025-08-07 19:28:05+00:00
400 MPa is better than the best structural steel. 1000 MPa is not for structural steel, it is for high grade steel, the sort you make submarines out of. Why would I list 400 and 1000 for the same value?

Steel is weaker in compression than tension. It's more isotropic than say concrete, but the difference is meaningful in practice.

We're not discussing rupture here. That's for when the pressure is higher internally than externally. We are discussing a submarine, which is a pressure vessel under compression which must also remain buoyant. The specific yield compressive strength is the value which matters.
by nomel | 2025-08-07 19:28:08+00:00
I think a good threshold, and definition, is when you get to the point where all the different, reasonable, criteria are met, and when saying "that's not AGI" becomes the unreasonable perspective.

> how could it possibly be achieved?

This doesn't matter, and doesn't follow the history of innovation, in the slightest. New things don't come from "this is how we will achieve this", otherwise they would be known things. Progress comes from "we think this is the right way to go, let's try to prove it is", try, then iterate with the result. That's the whole foundation of engineering and science.
by Shocka1 | 2025-08-07 19:28:21+00:00
Young in my career I bombed a five person panel interview once with a bunch of questions like this.

One of them I remember being especially unfair - "if one of our systems connections goes down, how would you troubleshoot it"? I had what I thought was a great answer, reviewing logs, looking for errors, verifying the server or system had internet access, etc... They informed me that the correct answer was checking that the ethernet cable was plugged in...

Along with feeling completely defeated after the interview (since I really needed a job at the time), I felt like it was an extremely loaded question and my answer should have gotten a +1, especially since my answer discussed internet access. I did dodge a bullet though. That startup failed 15 months after my interview.
by morleytj | 2025-08-07 19:28:30+00:00
It's cool and I'm glad it sounds like it's getting more reliable, but given the types of things people have been saying GPT-5 would be for the last two years you'd expect GPT-5 to be a world-shattering release rather than incremental and stable improvement.

It does sort of give me the vibe that the pure scaling maximalism really is dying off though. If the approach is on writing better routers, tooling, comboing specialized submodels on tasks, then it feels like there's a search for new ways to improve performance(and lower cost), suggesting the other established approaches weren't working. I could totally be wrong, but I feel like if just throwing more compute at the problem was working OpenAI probably wouldn't be spending much time on optimizing the user routing on currently existing strategies to get marginal improvements on average user interactions.

I've been pretty negative on the thesis of only needing more data/compute to achieve AGI with current techniques though, so perhaps I'm overly biased against it. If there's one thing that bothers me in general about the situation though, it's that it feels like we really have no clue what the actual status of these models is because of how closed off all the industry labs have become + the feeling of not being able to expect anything other than marketing language from the presentations. I suppose that's inevitable with the massive investments though. Maybe they've got some massive earthshattering model release coming out next, who knows.
by pknerd | 2025-08-07 19:28:58+00:00
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