MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jordanmorgan10 | 2025-08-29 16:14:21+00:00
Another awesome project that does this for Apple's docs: https://llm.codes/

Also, Apple has started shipping docs like this, too. They are a bit hidden but you can find them here:

/Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/PlugIns/IDEIntelligenceChat.framework/Versions/A/Resources/AdditionalDocumentation
by captainmuon | 2025-08-29 16:14:41+00:00
Back when I was studying physics, we frequently had to do calculations with error propagation. I tried to implement something very similar in C++ and in Python, but never finished it. I also thought it would be neat if a spreadsheet program could understand uncertainties, and also units, so you could enter 1m +- 10cm and it would propagate the errors correctly. If you laid out the data with one column for the values and one for the errors, I had a couple of OpenOffice macros that would perform the calculations.

Another place where I think this would be neat would be in CAD. Imagine if you are trying to create a model of an existing workpiece or of a room, and your measurements don't exactly add up. It's really frustrating and you have to go back and measure again, and you usually end up idealizing the model and putting in rounder numbers to make it fit, but it is less true to reality. It would be cool if you could put in uncertainties for all lengths and angles, and it would run a solver to minimize the total error.
by bccdee | 2025-08-29 16:14:52+00:00
> Yes, but we are nowhere near this limits yet.

Says who?

> Given enough resources, we can have enough particle generators as there are particles in a car.

Given by whom? I said in practice—you can't just assume limitless resources.

> Except when the 300IQ thing is found by chance. When the system is reproducible and you aren't bound by resources, then a small chance means nothing.

We're bound by resources! Highly so! Stop trying to turn practical questions about what humans can actually accomplish into infinite-monkey-infinite-typewriter thought experiments.

> We don't think other humans are intelligent solely by their behaviour

I wouldn't say that, haha

> It's not about encoding the result of having understood. It's about the process of understanding itself.

A process can be encoded into data. Let's assume it takes X gigabytes to encode comprehension of how a hard drive array works. Since data storage does not grow significantly more complex with size (only physically larger), it stands to reason that an X-GB hard drive array can handily store the process for its own comprehension.
by tracker1 | 2025-08-29 16:14:54+00:00
I'm inclined to agree... I think the issue is that there are some areas where liabilities and a severe lack of consequences should not be the same as others.

In a similar vein, even as a libertarian minded person, I don't like the idea of private prisons at all, I don't feel a company should be incentivized towards keeping people locked up and suspended of their rights. Not that I don't believe in prisons, only that they shouldn't be businesses.

I think with medical facilities, that there should be far less protections from liability, and more severe repercussions from any coverup, non-reporting or mis-reporting of harm/accident/injury. Not to mention more, regular inspections and audits, along with camera/recording requirements.
by echelon | 2025-08-29 16:15:01+00:00
> The process of enshitification has turned simple tasks complicated and everyone wants a different, privacy destroying, frustrating to use "app", each of which has a slightly different UI paradigm, a mandatory subscription I've forgotten to cancel for two years straight, and a confusing name to remember. I now have something like 90 apps installed on my iphone, and I can only remember what something like 40 of them do.

This is because apps were never allowed to be installed like desktop software or as easy to access as websites. Developers had to cram in as much as possible and take as many permissions as possible because of how difficult Apple and Google made it.

If you could just search the web for an app, click a link, and have it instantly start working natively (sandboxed, with permissions), the world would be an amazing place.
by Flere-Imsaho | 2025-08-29 16:15:13+00:00
> the user, holodeck style, describes what they want and it is assembled in front of them.

I think people have their head in the sand about how disruptive generative AI will have, not just to the game industry, but all entertainment industries.

It has started with music, 2D and 3D art, text to voice (voice actors no longer needed). Entire 3d environments, and then worlds, characters, story lines will be generated on the fly. The people holding IP will be the big winners (Disney, etc). If you don't hold any IP then you'll be shit out of luck.

I too started in the games industry 20+ years ago, and would not have recommended it even then. Crunch was brutal, the pay was low, and I left feeling like I hadn't learnt software best practices or really progressed in my skill set compared to people working in "boring" enterprise shops.
by lazide | 2025-08-29 16:15:17+00:00
Eh, or that’s a coverup.

As is classifying all the documents about the pistol and its issues.

There is nothing even remotely credibly related to national security about the P320 or issues related to it.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the military has a very long history of covering up issues with corruptly procured weapons.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-29 16:15:41+00:00
Yes it can. It simply means the subclass implementation has no access to a this pointer. When would undefined behaviour occur here? When a function tries to use a parameter that does not exist in the function signature, that's a compile time error not UB.

Maybe you think that, because a this pointer is needed for dynamic dispatch? A this pointer exists there, it is just not passed to the implementation.
by proteal | 2025-08-29 16:15:52+00:00
I bet the folks who implemented the system do have checks and balances. The article said they placed 2 million successful orders which realistically can’t happen without some form of error correction. These reports seem like black-swan Taco Bell orders that break the system despite any safeguards against it. Luckily there’s no way the guy behind the counter is pouring 18,000 waters lol. I agree with you too - “Taco Bell Employee Fucks Up Order” is only newsworthy because an AI did it when the real headline should read “AI Successfully Processes 2M Taco Bell Orders”
by brokencode | 2025-08-29 16:16:44+00:00
That’s the dream with dependent type systems, but from my very limited exposure to them, it seems like it’d be very difficult to encode complex constraints like all of your company’s business logic in this way.

Not saying it can’t be done, but I think it’s a bit telling that no such language has ever caught on.

Unit testing can also be used to verify such constraints and is much simpler. It obviously doesn’t guarantee correct behavior like a proof, but if the tests are comprehensive, it can do a great job.
by KaiserPro | 2025-08-29 16:16:49+00:00
Apple's sleep data is fucking suspect to start with.

I went through a stage of getting insomnia (or I was woken up by something). I would wake up, get out of bed for 30 minutes, then get back. it would be registered as light sleep stage

I once got the running shits, I was on the toilet shitting my life force out for three hours. It claimed I was only awake for 20 minutes that night.
by phkahler | 2025-08-29 16:16:59+00:00
McDonalds was testing a system like that with one at a location near me. I found it quite useful and good at taking my order. When it messed up there was a backup person to take over and get it right. Normally McDonalds has one person doing two jobs - taking orders and also collecting money and giving change at the first window. This AI was relieving that person of the order-taking job, but they still listened in and would take over if needed. I'm not sure that would ever increase profits, but it definitely reduced the burden on that person working two jobs. It worked well enough IMHO that I was hoping they'd roll it out to more locations, but the canceled it so I guess my experience was not universal ;-)
by zipy124 | 2025-08-29 16:17:00+00:00
This is all costs included. Thats 22k tokens per second per node, so per 8 h100's. With 12 nodes they get 264k tokens per second, or 950 million an hour. This get's you to roughly $0.2021 per million at $2 an hour for an h100, which is what they go for on services such as runpod.io . (cheaper if not paying spot-price + volume discounts).
by Mallowram | 2025-08-29 16:17:15+00:00
First off, we don't use predictions, that's another model, it's false (Spontaneous Brain Northoff or read Mofakham's papers).

In terms of words, they barely represent and never reference. Any statement like that serves primarily status gain, not know knowledge transmission (I proved this from the first statement above as well).

The reality is CS built a math model from totally false premises as it relates to communication and knowledge. It works for efficient value trading using symbols in place of actions. Does it have a future, no.

The problem is how do we shift to a real neurodynamic system of sharing?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cXtU97SCjxaHCrf8UVeQGYaj...
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-08-29 16:17:36+00:00
The original hot rods were invented because young people could literally go to a junkyard and build them. They were practically free junk/trash. It was a totally different world. When built from junkyard parts became $100,000 it became a lot less popular.

Americans today are also a lot more stuck up/image conscious. Grandma thought it was cool/impressive grandpa built a car out of junk, the average date today would call that worse than a poverty wagon and make someone undateable. I have a stick shift Ford Focus ST. It's incredibly fun to drive, practical, good for the environment, but it definitely turns dates away because it's a poverty wagon.
by ozgune | 2025-08-29 16:18:02+00:00
The SGLang Team has a follow-up blog post that talks about DeepSeek inference performance on GB200 NVL72: https://lmsys.org/blog/2025-06-16-gb200-part-1/

Just in case you have $3-4M lying around somewhere for some high quality inference. :)

SGLang quotes a 2.5-3.4x speedup as compared to the H100s. They also note that more optimizations are coming, but they haven't yet published a part 2 on the blog post.
by dudefeliciano | 2025-08-29 16:18:10+00:00
lol wtf kind of reply is that? Maybe relevant for the proprietary system part. I guess you would be fine with a tax advisor or therapist charging you more for a "gossip free service" where they will not disclose your personal information if you just pay more.

To be clear, i don't use claude for any of those purposes, it's the principle i am talking about.
by currymj | 2025-08-29 16:18:23+00:00
i think skepticism is healthy, but they've handled this in a fairer way than any other online product i've used before.

they gave me a popup to agree to the ToS change, but I can ignore it for a month and still use the product. In the popup, they clearly explained the opt-out switch, which is available in the popup itself as well as in the settings.
by ironmagma | 2025-08-29 16:18:28+00:00
> By that standard nothing is.

Okay, and? I didn't make the claim that some other language was all that. I was dispelling the claim that Python is.

> Even the pickle.dumps() example is obvious

Well, we've so far been restricted to function names which is what the claim was. There are plenty of cryptic other names in Python like ABCMeta, deriving from `object`, MRO, slots, dir, spec, etc.

The idea you can't do RAD with libraries is insane. Games are developed rapidly, and a lot of game engines use C#. The fact that you're using Unity, a very large dependency, means nothing regarding whether you can do RAD, which is more about having the right architecture, tooling, and development cycle.
by ddtaylor | 2025-08-29 16:18:49+00:00
I'm not accusing anyone of fabricating anything.

I'm saying we do not have any way to verify the details.

Where is the court document?

Isn't this a forensics expert that testified in court? Why aren't they named? Wouldn't most forensics "hackers" be elated to be quoted?

From the article:

> The hacker, known online by his X handle @greentheonly, did not testify in the case.

It seems like a strange grey zone to have a hacker that uncovers all the information but will not testify in court, etc. I don't see how this wouldn't introduce chain of custody problems, etc. for the evidence which is why he would ultimately be testifying. Perplexing.

EDIT - Meh, whatever. If you guys want to read articles that have zero proof and believe whatever they say because some anonymous hacker is quoted, etc. go for it. I don't get paid to educate anyone here.
by kstrauser | 2025-08-29 16:19:27+00:00
I’m asking out of complete ignorance here, and I’d like to learn. Why don’t these have nearly perfect safety mechanisms? To my naive mind, it seems easy to add a push button that comes between the striker and bullet, or locks the striker in place. Obviously it’s not that trivial or they’d probably have done it. Why is that?

I’ve owned rifles that had safeties that made it impossible to pull the trigger. Don’t these?
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-08-29 16:19:54+00:00
> Define understanding. And give evidence that humans have it.

Defining such terms is notoriously difficult, but the evidence is readily available. A human cashier would've told someone ordering 18,000 waters and Taco Bell to go away, because a human understands why that request is nonsense.

I leave the why and the precise origin of that to the philosophers, not my field. That said as someone who experiences understanding and knows ordering 18,000 waters is nonsense, I feel qualified to say this LLM is not capable of it.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-29 16:20:12+00:00
Tested this yesterday with Cline. It's fast, works well with agentic flows, and produces decent code. No idea why this thread is so negative (also got flagged while I was typing this?) but it's a decent model. I'd say it's at or above gpt5-mini level, which is awesome in my book (I've been maining gpt5-mini for a few weeks now, does the job on a budget).

Things I noted:

- It's fast. I tested it in EU tz, so ymmv

- It does agentic in an interesting way. Instead of editing a file whole or in many places, it does many small passes.

- Had a feature take ~110k tokens (parsing html w/ bs4). Still finished the task. Didn't notice any problems at high context.

- When things didn't work first try, it created a new file to test, did all the mocking / testing there, and then once it worked edited the main module file. Nice. GPT5-mini would often times edit working files, and then get confused and fail the task.

All in all, not bad. At the price point it's at, I could see it as a daily driver. Even agentic stuff w/ opus + gpt5 high as planners and this thing as an implementer. It's fast enough that it might be worth setting it up in parallel and basically replicate pass@x from research.

IMO it's good to have options at every level. Having many providers fight for the market is good, it keeps them on their toes, and brings prices down. GPT5-mini is at 2$/MTok, this is at 1.5$/MTok. This is basically "free", in the great scheme of things. I ndon't get the negativity.
by jibe | 2025-08-29 16:20:17+00:00
1: It isn't a hair trigger, it is still a 6 to 6.5 pound pull.

2: The trigger is what it is, the military and police departments chose it for what was.

I agree, the police in particular, should use a gun that takes more effort to fire. But don't blame Sig for this, it isn't a design flaw.
by adrian_b | 2025-08-29 16:20:22+00:00
The E-cores are just rebranded Atom cores.

The evolution of the Atom cores has been continuous in the series ... Silvermont, Airmont, Goldmont, Golmont Plus, Tremont (also included as E-core inside Intel Lakefield), Gracemont (from Alder Lake/Raptor Lake/Alder Lake N/Amston Lake), Crestmont (from Meteor Lake/Sierra Forest), Skymont (Lunar Lake/Arrow Lake), Darkmont (Clearwater Forest).

All the cores of this series have been designed in succession by the same team and the improvements between them have been incremental. These cores have always been intended as competitors for various Arm Cortex-A cores, e.g. Goldmont Plus for Cortex-A75, Tremont for Cortex-A76, Gracemont for Cortex-A78, and now Darkmont/Skymont for Neoverse V3/Cortex-X4.

Before Tremont, these Atom cores were used only in homogeneous CPUs. In recent years only those sold for industrial applications have retained the brand "Atom". The most recent CPUs branded as "Atom" have been launched last year.

For now, it does not matter whether one refers to any of these cores as "Atom" cores or as "E-cores", because either name refers unambiguously to the same cores. "Atom" seems preferable, because it is more clearly Intel-specific. One could refer as "efficient cores" to cores in CPUs made by others.

The first E-cores were the Tremont cores of Intel Lakefield, which was launched in Q2 2020, which were paired with Ice Lake cores, and which had a performance much less than Skylake cores. Only the next generation of Atom cores a.k.a. E-cores, Gracemont, has reached performances comparable with Skylake. While Gracemont was first launched in Alder Lake, later it has become widely available in Atom-branded CPUs.
by wat10000 | 2025-08-29 16:20:25+00:00
I completely agree about responsibility for life-critical systems. I wouldn't put this in that category, though. Even on airliners, black boxes aren't treated quite as critically as the stuff that'll kill you then and there. Consider the recent crash in Korea where the black box shut off because it was designed without any backup power if the engines failed, or the Alaska Airlines flight where the voice recording was overwritten because it wasn't shut off after landing.

I'd argue that this data is far less important in cars. Airline safety has advanced to the point where crashes are extremely rare and usually have a novel cause. Data recorders are important to be able to learn that cause and figure out how to prevent it from happening again. Car safety, on the other hand, is shit. We don't require rigorous training for the operators. Regulations are lax, and enforcement even more lax. Infrastructure is poor. We're unwilling to fix these things. Almost all safety efforts focus on making the vehicles more robust when collisions occur, and we're just starting to see some effort put into making the vehicles automatically avoid some collisions. What are we going to learn from this data in cars? "Driver didn't stop for a red light, hit cross traffic." "Driver was drunk." "Driver failed to see pedestrian because of bad intersection design which has been known for fifty years and never been fixed." It's useful for assigning liability but not very useful for saving lives. There's a ton of lower hanging fruit to go after before you start combing through vehicle telemetry to find unknown problems.

Even if you do consider it to be life-critical, uploading the data and then deleting the local copy once receipt is acknowledged seems completely fine, if the server infrastructure is solid. Better than only keeping a local copy, even. The issue there is that they either have inadequate controls allowing data to be deleted, or inadequate ability to retrieve data.
by m-schuetz | 2025-08-29 16:21:45+00:00
Yeah, of course I'm lazy, why would I want to do unnecessary extra work? If a tool has bad UX that demands more effort than it should, I will find a different one. I have a limited amount of time to spare. If there is no other tool, I'll do a "good-enough" job and move on to more important tasks. Luckily, alternatives usually exist. Krita instead of Gimp, Cuda&OpenGL instead of Vulkan, C++ instead of Rust, etc.
by octaane | 2025-08-29 16:21:59+00:00
Important context buried at the bottom:

"Passenger rail analysts said that it isn’t unusual for rail operators to pad their schedules when introducing new trains, especially if they will run alongside older ones. For example, during a rollout, a railroad might schedule more generous dwell time at stops, they said."

Also, the new schedule is only about 15 mins longer than the old one...this is a big nothingburger.
by ddtaylor | 2025-08-29 16:22:14+00:00
The article is paywalled, but it also only calls the person "the hacker" and then says this:

> The hacker, known online by his X handle @greentheonly, did not testify in the case.

So, we have information that we cannot prove being given by a person who won't testify in court? How is this proper chain of evidence, etc.?
by tensor | 2025-08-29 16:22:23+00:00
I was explicitly told by a patent lawyer that the patent office only considers other patents as prior art. Science papers and textbooks don't count and they don't look for prior work in them.

The vast majority of software patents likely shouldn't be granted either because of prior art or because they are obvious to practitioners of the art. The boat to fix the system has long sailed, and there is little point in talking about reforming it under the new US regime.
by wewxjfq | 2025-08-29 16:22:27+00:00
I have no horse in the AI race or in the US-China rivalry, but at the time the hype felt weird. There was so much gloating that rubbed me the wrong way, and frankly, I notice that in plenty of China-related discussions. I always wonder: Why would Westerners, whom I suspect frequent the sites I visit the most, frolic so much that China is #1? Last time I was befuddled was during the India-Pakistan scramble. The comments were only focusing on how a Chinese jet downed a French jet and I thought to myself: There are two nuclear powers going at it and all they talk about is China? The French, too, later claimed that this was a concerted effort by bots.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-08-29 16:23:13+00:00
The majority (37!) of states do not require consent or notification, and there is no federal requirement (so as long as the recorder is in a one party state, the recording is legal). There is also no requirement that a person let you know that a third party is on their side of the line listening, taking notes and willing to testify.

You should just assume that any phone call with stakes is being recorded and that anything you say can be considered binding. Verbal contracts are valid almost everywhere, so what you say on the phone does have legal consequences regardless of whether it was recorded. Courts will also accept your notes about a phone call as evidence in the absence of a recording.
by jeffbee | 2025-08-29 16:23:21+00:00
"Consumer Atom" is now, and has been for years, contradictory. The Atom brand has long been reserved for Xeon-equivalent customers while the lesser implementations of the same idea now calls itself Pentium or Celeron or, my personal favorite, just "Intel Processor". Incredible marketing.

Anyway as you note these are excellent cores, and having 576 slightly wimpy cores in a box is an idea worth considering.
by lazide | 2025-08-29 16:23:26+00:00
The Sig P320 also has another major issue with the trigger failing to properly reset or pull correctly, requiring all sorts of weird (official) modifications.

What do you want to bet this is a variant of some sort of light pressure against the trigger at some point in the past (including even just heavy movement!) causing a stuck trigger, plus these other issues, resulting in an uncommanded discharge ‘randomly’?

The FBI analysis showed truly terrible wear characteristics and quality control for the fire control parts which can’t be helping.
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-08-29 16:23:32+00:00
Offtopic:

> Truly adventurous users may take their chances with the unstable ("sid") release.

It's been years since I've run Linux as a daily driver, but when I did it was Sid, and it didn't feel particularly adventurous. Over a 10-15 years timespan, I think there were 2 breakages, one of them being the difficult KDE 3.x transition.

I've long meant to try Fedora, but apt/dpkg is in my muscle memory, and I never got the handle of dnf/rpm.