MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toast0 | 2025-08-05 17:31:38+00:00
> There's no amount of internet speed that would make me move to a place where there's reduced services and infrastructure in every other category, like schools, hospitals (this is a big one), water, sewer, transit, etc. and there are millions more like me.

I moved to "rural lite", and have a well and septic. That part isn't so hard to live with; although no water for a couple days when our well pump went out wasn't fun.

The hard part IMHO, is that everything takes so long to get to. We've got a good small town that's a couple minutes away, but if I need to go to a big box store, that's 30-45 minutes, each way. I like it here, and I have a 8 acre parcel, which is incompatible with suburbia, but it's an adjustment.
by CalChris | 2025-08-05 17:31:39+00:00
If current LLMs were perfect AGI then your lazy students and law clerks, they might even have a point. But you are setting the bar too high; LLMs are not perfect AGI. They hallucinate and you write bad prompts. Think of an LLM as more like a Dremel. Yeah, it isn't a Yamazaki Mazak. OTOH, search is like a screwdriver.
by zamadatix | 2025-08-05 17:31:50+00:00
The "update" step is a bit of a "draw the rest of the owl" in the case of major version updates like this 8.x -> 9.x release. It also depends how many features you're using in that cluster as to how complicated the owl is to draw.

That said, I just made it out alright in my home lab without too much hullabaloo.
by Luker88 | 2025-08-05 17:31:57+00:00
I don't know how anything works at sea.

Assume I have the money to go on a trip, am I supposed to do background checks on people and technology by myself?

From this report I gather that either the sea industry is completely unregulated, or this guy ignored all rules and nobody did a check even after something like 80 dives.

Both options sound kinda insane to be honest.

Can anyone more knowledgeable elaborate?
by logicchains | 2025-08-05 17:32:03+00:00
> I can't think of any reason they'd release this unless they were about to announce something which totally eclipses it

Given it's only around 5 billion active params it shouldn't be a competitor to o3 or any of the other SOTA models, given the top Deepseek and Qwen models have around 30 billion active params. Unless OpenAI somehow found a way to make a model with 5 billion active params perform as well as one with 4-8 times more.
by j_walter | 2025-08-05 17:32:05+00:00
This was not just from a thumb drive as that is very tightly controlled at TSMC (they did catch someone right away before it got leaked). The employees were caught printing info and removing it from the company (caught due to magnetic ink setting off the metal detectors) as well as using phones to take pictures of their laptop info while connecting from offsite. Taking pictures of remote laptops is a more covert way, but both employees were caught through suspicious pattern analysis and review of access logs of people right before they quit the company.
by kwillets | 2025-08-05 17:32:35+00:00
I see Iceberg as a nice complement to a real data warehouse, as a way to manage raw data files and ETL's that load them. Getting file updates as transactions a few times a day seems a lot cleaner.

But I constantly underestimate the tendency to take a minor capability and exaggerate it into a replacement for 50 years of heavily studied technology.

Even if people somehow get this to work like a real database, they will quickly become frustrated with the same features that the data lake avoids: access controls, locks, consistency, centralization, a schema, you name it.
by dabbz | 2025-08-05 17:32:44+00:00
My decision to move away from DDG was when they blocked a website due to Bing blocking it. The block was inadvertent. But it showed the flaw in relying on an external provider for all your results. You're just using Bing with a different UI. Kagi having their own index (plus being enhanced by several others), was a huge selling point for me initially. Truly separated from a reliance on big-tech and their whims.
by ticulatedspline | 2025-08-05 17:32:54+00:00
To many people there's an important distinction between "open source" and "open weights". I agree with the distinction, open source has a particular meaning which is not really here and misuse is worth calling out in order to prevent erosion of the terminology.

Historically this would be like calling a free but closed-source application "open source" simply because the application is free.
by akkartik | 2025-08-05 17:33:05+00:00
I think 3D is a fine idea! Definitely worth trying in general.

In the context of this thread my mind was mostly on what it takes to make some arbitrary power UI "not dreadful", i.e. easy to understand for newcomers. Since it's a power tool, assume there'll be a learning curve. But the initial experience doesn't intimidate someone to start on that journey of a hundred miles of understanding how to use it with fluency and thereby augmenting themselves.

There have certainly been many intuitive 3D UIs. 3D games devote a lot of attention to being discoverable and friendly to newcomers, and they have a lot of success. However, my impression is that they achieve this success by dint of hard work. It's not clear that 3D makes the problem easier. If anything I'd be more likely to believe it makes it harder.

So if you have a product and are thinking about how to make it more intuitive (as I am), "make it 3D" is probably not the best suggestion. Does that seem reasonable? Let me know if I'm missing something.

I like your codepen. I wonder what it would feel like to use a whole note-taking app or digital garden with this metaphor. Rotate to a particular note until it's in front, then click on it to edit it. Perhaps you should stop moving in 3D while editing.
by alsetmusic | 2025-08-05 17:33:10+00:00
> There’s an old apartment building in South Minneapolis that looks totally out of place. It’s in a residential neighborhood with small bungalows and some auto body shops. And in the early 1900s, it used to be part of an amusement park called Wonderland. The park’s biggest attraction wasn’t the roller coaster, or the dance hall, or the log flume. It was a sideshow called “the Infantorium.” Visitors would pay ten cents to enter a spacious room full of glass boxes that were incubators with tiny premature babies on display. But despite how weird this whole concept might seem today, this wasn’t the only place this was happening.

99% Invisible Podcast: [0]The Infantorium

0: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-infantorium/
by omoikane | 2025-08-05 17:33:22+00:00
I am afraid history would repeat itself, where:

1. Some new or existing payment company helps merchants to transact in cryptocurrency, because it's difficult for the merchants to do it themselves.

2. This payment company now becomes the new target for attacks, and the only change is from fiat currency to cryptocurrency.

An obvious answer to #1 is for merchants to process cryptocurrencies themselves, but that implies that all the problems in dealing with fiat currency (fraud detection, accessibility, scalability, etc.) is somehow easier with cryptocurrency, and I am not sure that is the case.
by lurk2 | 2025-08-05 17:33:25+00:00
> You cannot catch up with anyone who is ahead of you and you follow the same investment protocol.

This is true and a major critique of capitalist growth economics; it privileges those who were born into wealth and those who were simply born earlier than others. To an extent, this is natural. An elder in a tribe of hunter gatherers will necessarily possess more knowledge than an infant, but no one would seriously suggest that this kind of inequality could be done away with. The issue is when that advantage compounds exponentially year over year. If it just stopped there we could all get rich and live with robot butlers, but the general tendency in these kinds of scenarios is for the new money to take control of the political process via media influence, bribery, or force, and to use political power to acquire further wealth, not via competition and creative destruction, but by monopoly (I would argue a lot of the tech giants are technically already here).

As a long-time and well-regarded member of this forum, I assume you are familiar with Peter Thiel. Thiel and a number of his affiliates have been funding political influencers for the last ten or so years. JD Vance and Blake Masters both came out of Thiel’s camp. The goal here is ultimately not to remain agents of competitive market capitalism, but to seize control of the political process. There’s an argument to be made that the world would be better off with the political process being under the control of technologists than the various democratic mafias that comprise post-national states, but I don’t think it’s a very compelling one. First, it undermines the entire premise that capitalism as a social arrangement enfranchises everyone via the market (if this were true, political power would be superfluous). Second, we are talking about the people who gave us Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit (2005) and then gave us Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit (2025); they have a proven track record of making things drastically worse than when they started.

The whole critique of capitalism (which is not necessarily a critique of markets in and of themselves) is that exponential growth will lead to economic inequalities that will inevitably be exploited by unscrupulous actors who then undermine the entire system to benefit themselves.

> Allow me to reframe. Why should anyone else get it? It's Bezos' money and he can distribute it as he sees fit.

Bezos will be dead by then. The question then follows: Why should we respect the wishes of dead men, when there is no obvious social benefit to respecting these wishes? There is a feasible (if contentious) argument that Bezos “created” and thus “deserves” his wealth, but it seems undeniable that his children did not earn it, so the only justification we have left is a dead man’s wishes. It may be that the social benefits of inheritance are greater than the potential benefits of confiscation (dividing Bezos’ wealth would only yield about $31 per person). I have reservations about both theories; I’m just presenting them as well as I understand them.
by altruios | 2025-08-05 17:34:06+00:00
'Just' is a loaded word here.

In image gen: comfyUI gives a node-based workflow that gives a lot of room for 'creative' control, of mixing, and mathematically combining masks, filters, and prompts (and starting images / noise {at any node in that process}).

I would expect the same interface for audio to emerge for 'power users'.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-05 17:34:21+00:00
I have always thought that if we can somehow get an AI which is insanely good at coding, so much so that It can improve itself, then through continuous improvements, they will get better models of everything else idk

Maybe you guys call it AGI, so anytime I see progress in coding, I think it goes just a tiny bit towards the right direction

Plus it also helps me as a coder to actually do some stuff just for the fun. Maybe coding is the only truly viable use of AI and all others are negligible increases.

There is so much polarization in the use of AI on coding but I just want to say this, it would be pretty ironic that an industry which automates others job is this time the first to get their job automated.

But I don't see that as an happening, far from it. But still each day something new, something better happens back to back. So yeah.
by bananapub | 2025-08-05 17:34:22+00:00
regular anecdata: it works great, at first I used to go back to Google a few times a month if Kagi didn't find something I was sure existed, but either Kagi got better or the web and/or Google got worse, because I don't go back to google anymore.

easily worth 4 coffees a month just to not worry anymore about the direct consequences of my searches, and being able to shitcan garbage sites like pinboard.* while pranking wikipedia in my own search results is just gravy.

they also have a search API now in beta which you can request access to; 2.5c/search.
by pawelduda | 2025-08-05 17:34:42+00:00
It's hard to get an acceptable VR output for today's rendering engines still. In the examples provided, the movement seems to be slow and somewhat linear, which doesn't translate to head movements in VR. VR needs 2 consistent videos with much higher resolutions and low latency is a must. The feedback would still be very dependent on people's tolerance to all imperfections - some would be amazed, others would puke. That's why VR still isn't in the spotlight after all the years (I personally find it great).
by ridgeguy | 2025-08-05 17:34:53+00:00
Fiber-reinforced composites are basically analogous to spaghetti dispersed in glue. Really strong in tension, when the (in this case, carbon) fibers are taking nearly all of the load. In compression, the fibers have nearly zero resistance to flexure, and the load is mainly being taken up by the glue (the matrix, in composite-speak). When the fiber/matrix interface fails due to fiber flex-induced shear force, you're done.

I just can't imagine why a submersible structural designer would select composites for this application. IMHO, this project was doomed from the moment of that design decision, even setting aside all the other idiocy.
by blargey | 2025-08-05 17:35:17+00:00
That's really the core of the issue - if your prompt/input contains 10 bytes of salient information, and the output is a 1kB document, all you've done is add 990 bytes of fluff. Commonly referred to as "AI slop".

If the goal is boilerplate code, or a fuzzy view of documentation from the corpus, or "pretty" images to gawp at in private, that's fine and dandy, because you're just extracting and viewing the model data on your own time.

If you're "proofreading" an already-1kB letter for style / formality that's fine, since your input intents are high-fidelity and you're essentially referencing a style guide for some minor edits.

But low-input generations are entirely inappropriate for crafting a message to other humans, because the result is 99% shoving the model in their face. Whether it's letters, pull requests, graphical art, or music - it's all communication, and low-input AI generations are just spam in that context, semantically equivalent to sending them the prompt instead of the output. And people can tell, because we're excellent pattern-matchers, and every bit of information/intent abdicated to the model will inevitably leave its mark on the output.
by gnulinux | 2025-08-05 17:35:29+00:00
Name recognition? Advertisement? Federal grant to beat Chinese competition?

There could be many legitimate reasons, but yeah I'm very surprised by this too. Some companies take it a bit too seriously and go above and beyond too. At this point unless you need the absolute SOTA models because you're throwing LLM at an extremely hard problem, there is very little utility using larger providers. In OpenRouter, or by renting your own GPU you can run on-par models for much cheaper.
by taormina | 2025-08-05 17:36:16+00:00
Alright, well, Opus 4.1 seems exactly as useless as Opus 4 was, but it's probably eating my tokens faster. Wish they let you tell somehow.

At least Sonnet 4 is still usable, but I'll be honest, it's been producing worse and worse slob all day.

I've basically wasted the morning on Claude Code when I should've just been doing it all myself.
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-08-05 17:36:31+00:00
How can search(the utility, not the business model) possibly be dead?

AI models can't possibly contain everything to the depth one might require on a niche topic. Additionally, the less training data available, the more egregious the hallucinations become.

I've worked on some pretty niche things where the only way to get actual info is painstaking manual search queries based on a tree of keyword combinations. Those barely come up because search is (practically) dead, but when I'd ask AI the same questions or to find the same queries, it would simply make up confident answers.

AI is only truly helpful for the common denominator of very well documented and often discussed topics.
by rawgabbit | 2025-08-05 17:36:32+00:00
The Coast Guard report section “5.6 Insufficient Understanding of Carbon Fiber Material Properties for Deep-Sea Applications” addresses your arguments.

Yes. It can be safe. The problem is that its crystalline structure can fail instantaneously without any ability to detect beforehand. In this case the sub was likely improperly manufactured and improperly stored and damaged from previous dives and from transport. The company “planned” to inspect but as no non destructive testing was possible, they didn’t bother.
by resource_waste | 2025-08-05 17:36:53+00:00
I am so happy I learned about Philosophical Pragmatism. If its useful use it, if its not useful don't use it.

Replicated studies can likely be replicated under the same conditions.

N=1 means you might be able to believe it, but if the results contradict reality, toss it out.

I no longer feel like I need to 'trust science'. No need to trust. Use it if its useful, don't if its not.

This has eliminated those grandiose happy papers that propose a pretty popular fair world that contradict what we actually see.
by abuani | 2025-08-05 17:36:58+00:00
I'm still pissed about Verizon pocketing billions in subsidies and not finishing their work. My area was next up for fiber installation before Verizon stopped, and so I'm stuck with Comcast or DSL. Comcast claims to offer symmetrical GiB up/down, but I've yet to get that. Now I can't even get in touch with a human for support without spending 30 minutes with a bot.
by garciasn | 2025-08-05 17:36:59+00:00
I explained below how it is defined by me as rural; but, yes, it's rural. In fact, my primary home JUST HAD FIBER RUN in my neighborhood last month and I get 1 bar of VZW. So; if anything, rural is ahead of major metro areas (my suburb of Minneapolis/St Paul has just under 90K residents). In fact, DSL from CenturyLink or whatever they call themselves today is 6mbit.
by feoren | 2025-08-05 17:37:05+00:00
We imagined a utopian future where robots did our menial work so we were free to be creative. Instead we got a dystopian future where we do more and more menial work so our robots can poorly emulate creativity. It's not too late to turn it around, but that requires recognizing the humanity of 99.9% of people, and the 0.1% who own everything would rather create their own synthetic (subservient) humans than recognize the basic rights of the ones that already exist (and can make fun of them on Twitter).
by MutedEstate45 | 2025-08-05 17:37:07+00:00
True, but there's still a meaningful difference in friction and scale. With closed APIs, OpenAI can monitor for misuse, throttle abuse and deploy countermeasures in real-time. With open weights, a single prompt jailbreak or exploit spreads instantly. No need for ML expertise, just a Reddit post.

The risk isn’t that bad actors suddenly become smarter. It’s that anyone can now run unmoderated inference and OpenAI loses all visibility into how the model’s being used or misused. I think that’s the control they’re grappling with under the label of safety.
by joshstrange | 2025-08-05 17:37:17+00:00
> They then made plan to inspect the hull after dive 83. But instead they left Titan winter on the parking lot in Saint Johns where it was not protected from any exposure because that was cheaper.

The things I'm working on have a much lower (zero?) chance of death but this is a tale as old as time. _Looks longingly into the backlog..._
Watch Out for Vishing
by titusblair | 2025-08-05 17:37:41+00:00
As AI and Voice AI get's more and more advanced these are things you need to protect against and watch out for.

Hacker used a voice phishing attack to steal Cisco customers’ personal information A cybercriminal tricked a Cisco representative into granting them access to steal the personal information of Cisco users.

Cisco said it discovered the breach on July 24, blaming the incident on a voice phishing or “vishing” call. The hackers accessed and exported “a subset of basic profile information” from the database of a third party cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) system, according to the company’s disclosure.

Full Article: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hacker-used-voice-phishing-attack-150303366.html
by thinkcontext | 2025-08-05 17:38:10+00:00
> but we've never cared anyways

Rural areas in the US have enjoyed disproportionate communications (and infrastructure in general) subsidies since the founding of the USPS. More recently, the Universal Service Fund has spent around $5-8B per year since the 90s, first on phone service then adding broadband. And there are more recent broadband efforts for broadband in the tens of $Bs.
by apozem | 2025-08-05 17:38:31+00:00
> It installs, opening it is a simple message saying I need to enable it in Safari settings. Strange, but ok.

I’ve made several Safari extensions for iOS, and they all have to do this.

Apple provides no API for an app to enable its own Safari extension. It also has no public API on iOS to deeplink to the Settings page for enabling the extension. You just have to tell users where to go and hope they don’t get lost.

(There is an API on macOS to quickly open Safari extension settings. It’s nice! Maybe they’ll add it to iOS someday.)
by jona777than | 2025-08-05 17:38:32+00:00
As a sidebar, I’m still not sure if GPT-5 will be transformative due to its capabilities as much as its accessibility. All it really needs to do to be highly impactful is lower the barrier of entry for the more powerful models. I could see that contributing to it being worth the hype. Surely it will be better, but if more people are capable of leveraging it, that’s just as revolutionary, if not more.
by tonymet | 2025-08-05 17:38:53+00:00
double the firewall, double the listening sockets to manage, double the testing (e.g. my router was working ipv4 and broken ipv6 with the same daemon), double the app-level ACLs

You can argue "it's only one line" but that one line is a new socket and new test variant needing testing. something that worked perfectly well for 5-10 years now needing a re-test.

I'm not arguing against ipv6 . I'm arguing for honest assessments of the effort needing to migrate a network , especially residential networks, to IPv6 -- as the only way to make it happen. Shaming people with "it's so easy and simple" is just dishonest and doesn't help the cause.
by echelon | 2025-08-05 17:39:11+00:00
> What I don't think this technology will do is replace game engines. I just don't see how you could get the very precise and predictable editing you have in a regular game engine from anything like the current model. The real advantage of game engines is how they allow teams of game developers to work together, making small and localized changes to a game project.

I've been thinking about this a while and it's obvious to me:

Put Minecraft (or something similar) under the hood. You just need data structures to encode the world. To enable mutation, location, and persistence.

If the model is given additional parameters such as a "world mesh", then it can easily persist where things are, what color or texture they should be, etc.

That data structure or server can be running independently on CPU-bound processes. Genie or whatever "world model" you have is just your renderer.

It probably won't happen like this due to monopolistic forces, but a nice future might be a future where you could hot swap renderers between providers yet still be playing the same game as your friends - just with different looks and feels. Experiencing the world differently all at the same time. (It'll probably be winner take all, sadly, or several independent vertical silos.)

If I were Tim Sweeny at Epic Games, I'd immediately drop all work on Unreal Engine and start looking into this tech. Because this is going to shore them up on both the gaming and film fronts.