MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by godelski | 2025-08-08 17:31:40+00:00
Considering your other comment, you may not consider it a hallucination but the fact about the airfoil was wrong. I'm sure there was information in the training that had the same mistake because that mistake exists in textbooks BUT I'm also confident that the correct fact is in the training as you can get GPT to reproduce the correct fact. The hallucination most likely happened because the prompt primes the model for the incorrect answer by asking about Bernoulli.

But following that, the "airfoil" it generates for the simulation is symmetric. That is both inconsistent with its answers and inconsistent with reality, so I think that one is more clear.

Similarly, in the coding demo the French guy even says that the snake doesn't look like a mouse haha.
by Y_Y | 2025-08-08 17:32:32+00:00
> I never understood why so many people are horrified at the idea of small amounts of the machine-generated code being manually committed straight into the repositories.

If you haven't understood maybe you could think more about it, or ask, or reduce the hyperbole until you're looking at something reasonable.

The anount of code were talking about here is by no measure small, nor is it "horrifying" people. Your post reads like the kind of weird advocacy that shows up in Jira pissing matches.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-08 17:32:39+00:00
By underreported, I don't mean "nobody mentions it when it happens" in the sense of news reporting.

What I mean is, there is no really deep reporting on what it means in terms of long-form journalism.

And I mean this internationally and apolitically. There is very little serious discussion about what scientific, technological and economic illiteracy means when it is found in positions of power, and why it is that the new orthodoxy is simply to resist correction.

We have these discussions (belatedly) about judges and lawyers, especially in the light of the Post Office scandal in the UK (and in relation to the Lucy Letby trial, where there appears to have been a simple, astonishing agreement between the prosecution and the defence to not use statistics).

But we do not talk enough about how leaders on all sides are content to keep pushing the same uncorrected points, again and again, and it's not disqualifying. Politicians can simply choose not to "recognise" the correction, to use the parliamentary term, and that is sort of where it stops.

I do think the Epstein story is interesting because it is one of those things where perhaps the base understands that someone in office has lied to them, regardless, because the story directly contradicts itself now.

But I think it's survivable. If he doesn't complete this term it won't be the reason given, at any rate; his very obvious cognitive and physical decline will be.
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by elehack | 2025-08-08 17:33:05+00:00
Yep. With the solution discussed, as I understand it, the e-mail program just needs to be modified to request a focus token and send it along with the URL request to the browser or the OS browser dispatch service to keep the expected behavior.

This could be abstracted by libraries (e.g. a method in Qt to open a URL in the system browser automatically gets the token) so each application doesn't need to be updated separately, or possibly even OS services.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-08-08 17:33:34+00:00
The others' points are valid. Google Drive is rather expensive, Hetzner is cheaper and works well enough.

However, it also depends on how you use that data. In my case, I'm a Sunday photographer, so I tend to wrangle multiple GB of data at a time. I usually edit my photos locally, but I sometimes will want to revisit older stuff. I can download it, but it's a PITA and s_l_o_w. Google drive file stream is terrible for this, you never know if the files are uplaoded or not. Onedrive isn't any better. I haven't tried dropbox.

Hetzner has some storage box which exposes SMB but doesn't seem to enforce encryption nor IP filtering, so I'm not very comfortable with that.

Also, my internet connection pretends I have 5 Gb down, 0.5 up. The down part is usually as expected (my machine only has a 1 Gb nic), but upload is sometimes very slow. Running a local NAS is much faster. It's ZFS, so backups are trivial to send to encrypted offsite storage.

It also doesn't need to run 24/7, which helps with power usage (0.22 €/kWh here).

> I'll just add, as you grow older, you come to realize that time is a finite resource, and while money may seem like it is finite, you can always make more money.

Indeed. Waiting around for files to transfer gets old quick. I have better things to do with my time. My NAS needs a whopping five minutes of my time every now and again when a new kernel comes out.
by fabioz | 2025-08-08 17:34:10+00:00
It'd have been really nice to have that PEP in as it'd have helped me not have to write local imports everywhere.

As it is, top-level imports IMHO are only meant to be used for modules required to be used in the startup, everything else should be a local import -- getting everyone convinced of that is the main issue though as it really goes against the regular coding of most Python modules (but the time saved to start up apps I work on does definitely make it worth it).
by adventured | 2025-08-08 17:34:41+00:00
OpenAI for its part is tracking to $12-$15 billion in annual sales. If they slapped a basic ad model for referring onto what they're already doing, it's an easily profitable enterprise doing $30+ billion in sales next year. Frankly they should have already built and deployed that, it would make their free versions instantly profitable and they could boost usage limits and choke off the competition. It's the very straight-forward path to financially ruining their various weaker competition. Anthropic is Lyft in this scenario (and I say that as a big fan of Claude).
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-08-08 17:34:52+00:00
tbf as a leftist my wariness of anything called "abundance" is that people to the right of me have been using that word and words like it for decades and the outcomes tend to go one of three ways:

1) nothing actually happens

2) the thing labelled "abundance" actually makes things worse for the average person but makes the aggregate economic statistics look good

3) the thing that gets delivered is so pre-compromised and watered down that it bears only the most tenuous connection to what was actually promised ("free healthcare" -> "a conditional subsidy to buy health insurance and an additional open enrollment period" and "student loan forgiveness" -> "actually processing the forgiveness for people who were already legally qualified under PSLF and not much else for anyone else")

and in the mean time it's used as a reason why democrats are abandoning common cause with people like me. "Queer advocacy is the right thing to do but it's a loser at the polls. Let us make you rich instead, then you can be your own advocate" and then they just sorta...don't do that.

but also as a leftist if I couldn't agree more with "if Democrats are to be the party of government, they have to become the party of making government work; and too often, it simply doesn’t". As the only party that wants things that are at least occasionally compatible with what I want the democratic party's ability to not get anything done regardless of the resources they have to hand is astounding.
by dabockster | 2025-08-08 17:35:21+00:00
LLMs in general are going to make C/C++ development viable again for the masses. A big reason everything went to web frameworks was memory safety - even big frameworks like Electron and React Native are memory safe overall. Writing low level code by hand was a migraine experience, even for experienced devs. AI changes this relationship entirely, even if you just use it as a pair programmer. I've had even small 8b models correctly call out memory unsafe code and suggest fixes. Larger models are even better.

Local LLMs? A new renaissance. All that power without having to pinky swear with a cloud provider that they won't just take your generated code and use it for themselves.

Expect to see some awesome Windows and Mac apps being developed in the coming months and years. 100% on device, memory safe, and with a thin resource footprint. The 1990s/2000s are coming back.
by autoexec | 2025-08-08 17:35:25+00:00
> It's almost like they don't want me to know where my files are.

I think this might actually be true in some cases. Especially where companies want your files on their cloud servers. It's better for them if you don't think about what's stored locally or remotely. It's better for them if you don't think at all and just ask them for whatever you want and let them decide what to show you or keep hidden from you. It's easier for them to get metrics on what you're doing if you type it out explicitly in a search box than it is for them to track you as you browse through a hierarchy you designed to get to what you want. You're supposed to feel increasingly helpless and dependent on them.
by DonHopkins | 2025-08-08 17:35:33+00:00
The Movable Feast Machine (movablefeastmachine.org)

44 points by mekaj on Nov 20, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10600001

The T2 Tile Project:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1M91QuLZfCzHjBMEKvIc-A

Artificial Life Creation T-0 and Launching - T2sday Update 3135:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8kOkLPwNNw
by oconnor663 | 2025-08-08 17:36:10+00:00
The fast thing: 100/300 per day -> 640 per day (ish)

The expensive thing: 100 per week -> 200 per week

This is...the opposite of a nerf? The numbers goed up? (We can quibble about the daily vs hourly difference, but certainly for me the weekly cap was the only thing that mattered.)
by senderista | 2025-08-08 17:36:36+00:00
But the usage of "purpose" here simply doesn't make sense on any plausible interpretation I can find. Scott Alexander tried as well and failed:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/come-on-obviously-the-purpo...

More discussion:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/highlights-from-the-comment...

Here is a counterpoint:

https://rivalvoices.substack.com/p/the-purpose-of-posiwid-is...
by ManBeardPc | 2025-08-08 17:36:43+00:00
The US matters, it has a big influence and could force companies around the globe to hurry up the transition. Just because the emissions may have peaked a lot of it is just outsourced. Also just reducing is not enough. We already missed important goals.

Fossil fuels losing economic viability is a small light at the end of the tunnel. But even that may not help if politic is making bad enough laws.
by ewoodrich | 2025-08-08 17:36:58+00:00
I consider the $10/mo to be an incredible value ... but only because of the unlimited 4.1 usage that can be provided to other compatible extensions (Roo Code, Cline support it) with the VS Code LM API.

Unlike some other workarounds this is a fully supported workflow and does not break Copilot terms of service with reasonable personal usage. (As far as I understand at least. Copilot has full visibility into which tools are using it to make chat requests so it isn't disguising or impersonating Copilot itself. When first setting it up there's a native VS Code approval prompt to allow tool access to Copilot and the LM API is publicly documented).

But anything unlimited in the LLM space feels like it's on borrowed time, especially with 3rd party tool support, so I wouldn't be surprised if they impose stricter quotas for the LM API in the future or remove the unlimited limit entirely).
by lbhdc | 2025-08-08 17:37:02+00:00
I almost exclusively self host the models I use.

Currently I am using llama.cpp for an interactive repl chat. I was previously using Alpaca (a GTK GUI), but was annoyed with how slow it was and some random crashes. I am transitioning some of this to self hosted in the cloud for things that can't run on my laptop.

I am looking to get away from my current interface, and write my own. Mostly for experience of deeply integrating agents into a program. If anyone knows a good library for interacting with a local model that doesn't involve standing up a webserver I am interested :)

My daily driver is gemma3n. Its been a nice balance between speed and performance without spinning up my laptop fans.

I am super interested in local models, partially because there is no friction from managed services, but also because I think as small models become more viable we will see an explosion of apps incorporating them.
by standardUser | 2025-08-08 17:37:33+00:00
> The goal of AGI is to make programs that can do lots of things.

What do Genie and GPT have to do with AGI? I'm sure the people who stand to make billions love to squint and see their LLM as only steps away from an AGI. Or that guy at Google who fell in love with one. But the rest of us know better.
by godelski | 2025-08-08 17:37:44+00:00
> cultural vs something innate

I wonder about this too because it seems to have to do with long term planning. Which on one hand seems to be one of the greatest feats humans have accomplished and sets us apart from other animals (we don't just plan for hibernation) but at the same time we're really bad at it and kinda always have been. I think there is an element of the "Marshmallow experiment" here. Rewards now or more rewards in the future. People do act like there's an obvious answer but there's also the old saying "one in the hand is worth two in the bush." But I do think we're currently off balance and hyper focused on one in the hand. Frankly, I don't think the saying is as meaningful if we're talking about berries instead of birds lol.
by nkassis | 2025-08-08 17:37:50+00:00
Was the same in the 1990s I'd contend. I distinctly remember talking to my dad about how the internet was going to revolutionize everything. As a teenager I was all into everything going on. His words were "This won't last they don't have enough customers and costs are too high" I'd like to give him credit for predicting this but I don't think he was alone in that realization.

This is were AI maybe today cost too high, not enough customers. Some firms will survive (Amazon/Google of the AI era) others will fold.

I think there plenty of success stories out there but there a lot of snakeoil propped up by VCs.

Who will be the pet.com of the 2020s?

Also everyone and their cab drivers have money in Nvidia right now. I think we all get hurt here.
by latchkey | 2025-08-08 17:37:55+00:00
You learn to talk aloud instead of just doing everything in your head. Two minds are always better than one. It becomes a great collaboration.

This gets combined with how they "fire" people there. If your pair isn't keeping up and contributing enough, then people stop wanting to pair with them and they get rotated out to another team or entirely. That effectively means that the person sitting next to you, can actually help you.

It does get really intense because if you're having a hard day or week say in your personal life, you still have to be on your game or you have to explain your situation as best as you can. But the thing is, everyone who walked into the door of Pivotal, knew the rules ahead of time. You were there, because you wanted to be there, not because it was just another job.

I liken it a lot to joining the military, which is what it felt like. A bit cultish too. All-in-all, I had a great experience there, learned a ton, and it changed my thinking forever.
by jkaptur | 2025-08-08 17:38:04+00:00
"... if all knowledge were stored in a structured way with rich semantic linking..." this sounds a lot like Google's "Knowledge Graph". https://developers.google.com/knowledge-graph. (Disclosure: I work at Google.)

If you ask an LLM where you can find a structured database of knowledge with structured semantic links, they'll point you to this and other knowledge graphs. TIL about Diffbot!

In my experience, it's a lot more fun to imagine the perfect database like this than it is to work with the actual ones people have built.
by itintheory | 2025-08-08 17:38:06+00:00
> everything that originated on the internet can most likely be found there again

I would that this were true. I guess it depends on what you mean by "the internet", but there's a reason the Internet Archive exists. Sure, you don't need to back up your recent Firefox installer or your Debian ISO but lots of important and valuable data can't be found on the internet anymore. There are very valid reasons that groups like Archiveteam [1] do what they do, not to mention recent headlines like individuals losing access to their entire cloud storage [2].

[1] https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Main_Page [2] https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/aws_wipes_ten_years/
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-08-08 17:38:28+00:00
Yeah, I honestly don't believe the hype for GPT-5 at all, although I do believe LLMs are awesome, but it feels still to me like they are chasing, e.g. Anthropic, but something is fundamentally off. I may be wrong, maybe there are some cases where it will perform much better. But it just doesn't seem as solid to me as Claude still.
by amanaplanacanal | 2025-08-08 17:38:31+00:00
I personally didn't give a rats ass how someone came to be in the US. I'm much more interested in whether they are assaulting and/or stealing from people.

The bureaucracy around immigration is insane. Most of our ancestors didn't have to do anything to come here except just show up. And that worked out excellently for the US. Now we are killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.
by whynotmaybe | 2025-08-08 17:39:22+00:00
With Dart/Flutter, it's often recommending deprecated code and practice.

Deprecated code is quickly identified by VSCode (like Text.textScaleFactor) but not the new way of separating items in a column/row by using the "Spacing" parameters (instead of manually adding a SizedBox between every items).

Coding with an LLM is like coding with a Senior Dev who doesn't follow the latest trends. It works, has insights and experience that you don't always have, but sometimes it might code a full quicksort instead of just calling list.sort().
by OnlineGladiator | 2025-08-08 17:39:50+00:00
You realize you're an enormously privileged, wealthy individual telling other people that don't have your wealth and privilege how they should feel the same as you? You don't even say "in my experience" you just condescend to others that they should recognize how great the world is for the 0.1%, completely unaware that it isn't great for people that can't afford food and housing. Nobody gives a shit about their TV when they're hungry on the street.
by zzzeek | 2025-08-08 17:41:10+00:00
Gonna call this an antipattern. Do you need all those modules imported in every script ? Well then you save nothing on loadup time, the time will be spent regardless. Does every script not need those imports ? Well they shouldn't be importing those things and this small set of top level imports should be curated into a better, more fine grained list (and if you want to write tools, you can certainly identify these patterns using tooling similar to that which you wrote for LazyImports).
by close04 | 2025-08-08 17:41:31+00:00
You are moving the goalposts and supporting your generic point only under very narrow assumed conditions.

There’s always a “right tool for the job”. Sometimes it’s the cloud. Sometimes it isn’t. The article is for people who found the cloud isn’t a good fit and need something at home.

A lot of people have large collections of music or movies. Or want to keep full control over some data no matter the cost. Or need it to work without internet. There are many solid reasons to avoid the cloud and use your own solution.

You are arguing that your original assertion isn’t wrong, people’s stated needs must be wrong. Because you have different needs so others must be doing it wrong. And this undermines everything else you say.
by lesuorac | 2025-08-08 17:41:42+00:00
> And not to mention the special assessments that started showing up in 2025. You could make all sort of assumptions, but there is nothing special about the community.

It's pretty sad that both parts of the statements are true. Special Assessments occur when HOAs aren't capitalized correctly to cover the costs of largely maintenance and this issue is very wide-spread that being a part of an HOA that keeps issuing them isn't 'special'.

Although the alternative is basically your HOA fees would go up but whatever the special assessment is (divided by duration between them) which probably makes it harder to sell the house since you have to claim higher HOA fees compared to a correct capitalized one.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-08 17:41:57+00:00
We also have them in Germany and not just in the countryside, but also in big cities. This very common especially in the current weeks in summer when all the fruits are ripe. But it is not so formal as in the picture, it is mostly just a plastic bag, or a cartoon box on a table with the price on the cardboard. Child toys, furniture and honey is of course available the full year. In the alps milk and cheese is very common. I don't think we have a special name for this, it's just somebody selling something.

This concept also exists in some smaller hotels, there it's called "Kasse des Vertrauens".

I think people who would steal something from them fail to understand that everything in society is based on trust. Stealing erodes that, and I can't comprehend living in a society were this concept can't exist. It seams to me that this is the meaning of society and civilization.

Edit: And yes of course that is all with cash.
by whateveracct | 2025-08-08 17:42:42+00:00
My health care costs have a pretty clear soft upper bound given how HDHPs (and most plans) are structured. Deductible and out of pocket max makes it easy to be responsible and budget into an emergency fund.

In terms of non-exceptional costs, I'd say I spend about as much on medical bills every year as I do keeping my cars in good shape. Less than my house and less than I spend on hobby stuff, my cats' vet, or jewelry haha.
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-08 17:42:45+00:00
> Am also interested in the current understanding of culpability in the US for operating an exit node.

It's a little ambiguous.

Section 230 (which continues to be under attack) provides some legal immunity, along with the DMCA is a safe harbor against copyright infringement claims for the Tor relay operator. Running a middle relay is generally fine and safe.

But, running an exit relay is risky. Even if you can't be held legally liable for the traffic coming from the exit, you could still get raided, and it has happened before where exit node operators have been raided after the traffic coming out of it was attributed to the node owner.

That being said, it's legal to run an exit node (for now). The problem is more so dealing with the inevitable law enforcement subpoenas or seizures, and having the money and resources to prove you are innocent.