MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by like_any_other | 2025-08-29 15:40:37+00:00
> I fail to see how any of this is novel. [..] this whole thing seems suspicious.

It would be suspicious if it wasn't granted, as it would mean the patent office is unusually hostile to the claimant. Granting junk patents is par for the course, and the patent office is a bad joke, the 1-click patent [1] is just one of countless examples [2]. The most obvious thing in the world is "novel" to them if they can't find a patent (they only bother looking at patents) for it in their cursory prior-art search.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click - patents the what, not the how. Equivalent to getting a patent on "machine that flies", and then suing anyone that actually went through the trouble of figuring out aerodynamics, or hot air balloons, or rockets.

[2] https://wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org/wiki/Example_software_pa...
by gitaarik | 2025-08-29 15:40:44+00:00
So I assume then you would also be completely obedient when the government or companies wants instant access to all your data all the time, because of safety you know. Just because there are a few of these stupid rebels, the whole world shouldn't be an unsafer place right? And of course they are not gonna misuse this power, why so suspicious? It's all silly conspiracy theories. Big tech and the government are here to protect us!
by ojosilva | 2025-08-29 15:41:25+00:00
After trying Cerebras free API (not affiliated) which delivers Qwen Coder 480b and gpt-oss-120b a mind boggling ~3000 tps, that output speed is the first thing I checked out when considering a model for speed. I just wish Cerebras had a better overall offering on their cloud, usage is capped at 70M tokens / day and people are reporting that it's easily hit and highly crippling for daily coding.
by cithorum | 2025-08-29 15:41:50+00:00
What if you could train and inference without any hallucinations?

What if you could offload training and inferencing onto the SSD’s SATA controller instead of a GPU?

Well it turns out you can, and the result is: lossless hyper-compression, 100x smaller files, a nearly 50,000x cost reduction in terms of terabytes learned per watt, a 44x reduction in upfront hardware costs, indirect-encryption that resists man-in-the-middle attacks, and you gain the ability to train and infer on mission critical datasets such as VMs and DNA in real-time.

By pushing AI compute to the edge of the SSD controller (away from CPU and GPU memory) we unlocked a new type of storage computing engine with far and wide practical uses.

JAM was originally developed for speeding up transfer times in industrial site-to-site datacenter backups, and to significantly reduce the memory footprint required for cross-domain learning operations, but has turned into a more general purpose archival tool.

This post is our first formal announcement since the inception of our JAM product almost 10 years ago, a public demo is provided on our website.

We are eager to hear your thoughts.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-08-29 15:42:32+00:00
Humans are capable of using formal logic to reach a provably correct conclusion from valid premises. That conclusion can then be used as premises for a further conclusion. Follow the logic the other way and using our powers of observation, and sensing, we can gather base level truths and know that what we are saying is correct in an absolute sense.

Computers use formal logic all the time to output truth, LLMs, however, do not.
by soraminazuki | 2025-08-29 15:42:59+00:00
You can train commercial AI with your data right now without screwing over everyone else on the planet. It's easy, just publish your entire trove of personal data on a website and AI crawlers will happily gobble it all up. You can publish your name, home address, work, government-issued ID, financial transactions, chats, browser history, location history, surveillance footage of your home, all for free. So what are you waiting for? Just do it now if you want to share data that badly, there's no need to wait for the approval of "privacy maximalists."
by idiotsecant | 2025-08-29 15:43:03+00:00
Hundreds of years? Starlink satellites are on decaying orbit that would last 5 years, tops. That includes their debris. This post is unnecessarily licking the boots of the richest westerners in modern times.

He doesn't allow Chinese access because the government of China doesn't want him to and he thinks he will make more money keeping them happy than if he pissed them off.
by tiniuclx | 2025-08-29 15:43:06+00:00
Times have changed a lot since Garry broke through with the infamous Garry's Mod. That's where I got my first taste of programming - writing a PID controller for a tank turret so I could point the tank's gun using my mouse.

Today, it's easier than ever to get started making games (even I can do it! [0]) but standing out in a crowded marketplace is very difficult. The music industry saw a very similar trend about 10-15 years ago, with the release of consumer recording equipment. In both cases it lead to a 'de-professionalization' of the industry, where most participants are amateurs but most of the success still goes to established studios - barring one-in-a-million outliers such as Garry's Mod, or other indie darlings like Hollow Knight, Balatro, Stardew Valley.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3627290/Botnet_of_Ares/
by deepsun | 2025-08-29 15:43:07+00:00
The main pain for me is that most tools now sexualize the emojis: they force me to choose between :man-facepalm:, :woman-facepalm: and just :facepalm:.

For. Every. Single. Emoji.

I don't remember a case when I really wanted a sexualized version, I always want to express just an emotion. Just remove all the prefixed versions, and leave the pure one.
by lm28469 | 2025-08-29 15:43:10+00:00
Food is a good example actually, for example nestle spent decades making coffee "cool" in japan even though it was never a cultural hit there, and Japanese people do "genuinely" love their sweet caffeinated drinks, because both are a drug so why wouldn't they love it! I'm still not going to defend nestle

https://medium.com/better-marketing/nestle-japan-coffee-4640...

How many people finally buy their 911 thinking they'll have "made it" just to realise it's yet another trinket trophy of the never ending rat race? If my comment made even a single person question their opinions I'll be content, as for the others I don't really care, it's not my time nor money, do what you please
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-08-29 15:43:21+00:00
I worked on CNNs in Japan during the AI winter and then later on DARPA/CALO (which several years later morphed into Siri.) When I got to Amazon, I begged the powers that be to avoid projects that replace humans and think about projects that augment humans. This was a decade ago and Amazon kept hiring UoW researchers who would come in, over-promise and under-deliver and then go back to academia after they collected sufficient data for their next paper.

I don't claim to be an expert, but you don't have to be an expert to properly evaluate risk.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-29 15:43:23+00:00
"...can tell you in the real world - essentially zero AI rollout in accounitng world for anything serious."

The jobs the reseearchers concluded were affected were "unregulated" ones where there are no college education or professional certification requirements, e.g.,

receptionists translators software "engineers"

"Not sure what these guys are studying..."

Apparently, they studied payroll data from ADP on age, job title and headcount together with, who would have guessed, data from an AI company (Anthropic)

https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications/canaries-in...

This study has not been peer-reviewed
by bstsb | 2025-08-29 15:43:33+00:00
roblox is a good suggestion. i know it's often criticised, especially for its profit margins, but developers get a massive potential audience, free unlimited multiplayer hosting, and many monetisation streams with little setup.

the company could definitely do with better PR, and their child safety features are good but not perfect by any means. i'd still say it's a good choice if you're trying to make a game easily and quickly

disclaimer: i've made money from Roblox's DevEx program
by mikewarot | 2025-08-29 15:43:33+00:00
At this point, I've settled on Visual Studio Code using GitHub Copilot's ChatGPT5 preview.

It's an Agent, instead of previous offerings that basically had you copy/pasting code, then error messages. It's not perfect by any means, but it does what you tell it in a given folder, writes code that you've asked for, and then fixes it's own mess when things break, like Python indentation going awry, etc.

I'm a Pascal programmer, with a passing familiarity to Python, but I've got a mass of code that it's written for my Passion Project (I'm old, and retired), with a suitable warning posted at the start of the README.md as a warning to those who wander in.

The thing you have to do, is keep an eye on your goals, and tell keep it on track with your project. My project is nearly impossible, involving too many levels of abstraction for the LLM to keep up with... it's close, but not quite there. I've had to pull it out of a few rabbit holes.[1] (To be fair, they seemed like good places to dig for answers)

If you treat the output of LLMs as instant legacy code, and the LLM itself as a junior programmer, you might just do ok with an Agent based code generation tool.

Good luck

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_the_rabbit_hole
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-29 15:44:31+00:00
Absolutely so.

I don't know how accurate it is right now, but previously, people have had to sue Tesla to get telemetry data from their own vehicle, not to use against Tesla, but to use in accident lawsuits against other parties.

Meanwhile, without your consent, Tesla will hold press conferences using your telemetry data to throw you under the bus (even deceptively) to defend themselves. "The vehicle had told the driver to pay attention!" NHTSA, four months later: "The vehicle had issued one inattention alert, eighteen minutes prior to the collision." (emphasis mine)
by extraisland | 2025-08-29 15:44:36+00:00
>The difference between new and init is not knowable from reading their names. The same is true of pickle. By definition, that makes them unintuitive.

By that standard nothing is. At some point if you are using a programming language you are going to have to RTFM. None of things you cherry-picked would be used by a novice either.

Every example you gave are what I call are "Ronsil" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_exactly_what_it_says_on_t...).

Even the pickle.dumps() example is obvious when you read the description for the module and works exactly the same to json.dumps(), which works similarly to dumps() methods and terminology in other programming languages.

I feel like I am repeating myself.

> A lot of languages work for RAD including Clojure, C#, and JavaScript. This is nothing special about Python.

Nonsense. None of those I would say are RAD. JavaScript literally has no standard lib and requires node/npm these days and that can be a complete rigmarole in itself. C# these relies heavily on DI. I have no idea about Clojure so won't comment.

All the RAD stuff in C# and JS is heavily reliant on third party scripts and templates, that have all sorts of annoying quirks and bloat your codebase. That isn't the case with Python at all
by bccdee | 2025-08-29 15:44:58+00:00
You've struck at the essential problem of dualism. If thoughts are nonphysical, how can thoughts influence our physical bodies? If consciousness does not interact with the physical world, but merely arises from it, then how can we possibly discuss it, since anything we describe is causally linked to our description of it?

Descartes thought the soul was linked to the body through the pineal gland, inspiring a long tradition of mystic woo associated with what is, in fact, a fairly pedestrian endocrine gland.

Further reading, if you're interested:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dualism/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/

Personally, my take is that we can't really trust our own accounts of consciousness. Humans describe feeling that their senses form a cohesive sensorium that passes smoothly through time as a unique, distinct entity, but that feeling is just a property of how our brains process sensory information into thoughts. The way we're built strongly disposes us to think that "conscious experience" is a real distinct thing, even if it's not even clear what we mean by that, and even if the implications of its existence don't make sense. So the simple answer to the hard problem, IMO, is that consciousness doesn't exist (not even conceptually), and we just use the word "consciousness" to describe a particular set of feelings and intuitions that don't really tell us much about the underlying reality of the mind.
by kibwen | 2025-08-29 15:45:27+00:00
I've only heard of this concept in academic languages, I don't feel knowledgeable enough to recommend any specific one. In terms of mainstream languages, I think an analogous concept is the use-before-initialization analysis that languages like Rust employ, e.g. if I have a variable defined like this:

let x: u8;

I can't actually do anything with this variable:

foo(x); // error

Except I can apply the initialization operator:

x = 42;

And now I can do things with this variable as usual.

But consider that the type of x hasn't changed as a result of the initialization. Beforehand it was a u8, and afterward it was still a u8, and yet something about the state of the variable changed my ability to use it in various contexts. I believe that typestate is something like this, generalized to allow variables to flow through states (like a compile-time state machine) to ensure that things happen in the correct order.
by ac29 | 2025-08-29 15:45:31+00:00
> It's a gigantic Atom.

While Intel's E cores share some history with the Atom line, they have almost no resemblance to the Atom line you might remember from the netbook days. In fact, Intel hasnt made a consumer Atom in a decade (there are still Atom processors for the embedded market).

The first E cores came out a few years ago with performance similar to Skylake and performance has only increased from there. Intel's first Xeon E core processor from last year even outperformed the some of the big core Xeons from the year before: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-6780e-6766e/10
by diggan | 2025-08-29 15:45:41+00:00
> now it's making me wonder if Discord is really archiving CSAM material for two years and not helping law enforcement unless a proper warrant is involved

Yes, of course, to both of those. Discord is a for-profit business with limited amount of humans who can focus on things, so the less they can focus on, the better (in the mind of the people running the business at least). So why do anything when you can do nothing, and everything stays the same? Of course when someone has an warrant, they really have to do something, but unless there is, there is no incentive for them to do anything about it.
by jakogut | 2025-08-29 15:45:48+00:00
It's at least partially a design and engineering problem. Sig shoehorned the hammer-fired P250 fire control unit into the P320, which is striker fired. The P250, being hammer fired, uses a fully cocked hammer capable of setting off a primer when dropped, and the P320 (to my understanding) also uses a fully cocked striker, meaning less trigger input is required for firing.

Hammer fired guns are capable of doing this safely because they have a sear geometry that requires moving the hammer back against spring pressure with trigger input a very short distance before the hammer drops. Along with a functioning sear block in case the hammer slips off the sear without trigger input, this makes them very safe.

Basically every other striker fired gun on the market uses a semi-cocked striker with a trigger widget and sear block, which is a copy of Glock's design, and it's quite safe.

Sig deviated from this design without fully proving it out. Their guns don't have trigger widgets, which allows the trigger to move under momentum when dropped, causing repeatable firings. The fully cocked striker design leads to a shorter, crisper pull, but a sear slip leads to uncommanded firings, unlike a semi-cocked design, which doesn't have enough energy to fire a primer.

Combine this with poor control of manufacturing, intermingling of parts designed and intended for different calibers, as well as factories in the US and India with varying levels of quality control and poor spec for parts to begin with (metal injection molding for fire control parts), and safety critical systems like the sear block have been shown to not be 100% reliable. It's a system of cascading failures resulting in a firearm that's unsafe to carry loaded.
by AIPedant | 2025-08-29 15:45:57+00:00
I have no idea what point you're trying to make. I am aware the selection process is different. If you understand the argument now but you're just splitting hairs about whether it's similar to Monty Hall, fine let's agree to disagree. If you don't understand the argument and are trying to use the dissimilarity to Monty Hall as a counterargument then I don't think I can help you any further.

This is not coherent as written:

If I flip a dime and a quarter, and tell you that one of them is heads, do you have increased chance of knowing if either particular one is heads? This is more liar's dice than it is monty hall.

"Increased chance of knowing" is nonsense. What you mean is "increased chance of being correct if I guess the dime came up heads instead of tails" and this is obviously true. Given at least one of the two coins came up as heads, the probability that the dime is heads is 2/3rds, not 1/2.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-08-29 15:46:04+00:00
A requisite of common sense is understanding, and LLMs do not possess any sort of understanding. The one in charge of this ordering system doesn't know what a water is. It doesn't know what a beefy 5 layer burrito is, and it certainly doesn't comprehend the majesty of the grilled steak burrito. It doesn't know what they are, why a human would want one, what a human would do with it, nor does it understand why it's absurd to order 18,000 of them.

These. Are not. Intelligent. Machines. They are fantastically complex and interesting word generators, and in that capacity, they do well. Anything beyond that and the cracks start showing REALLY quick. The only reason they sound vaguely coherent and respond the way they do is because that is what they were trained to do: to participate in conversations to the best of their ability, and talk like people do. That's a fascinating technology by itself, and it's remarkable that it works as well as it does, including that it manages to get a lot of stuff factually correct; and, to emphasize, this is a tech with real applications; however it's extremely easy to then prescribe knowledge to it based on that ability it does have, and it simply possesses NONE. It doesn't know the first thing about anything it's saying.

You're asking a mechanical turk to think. It won't do it.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-29 15:46:34+00:00
If you talk to a human they're free to discuss your ideas with someone else. Why should LLMs be any different? The likelihood of these models reproducing your ideas word for word is essentially zero anyway.

More to the point, respecting your wishes to keep those conversations confidential would risk stifling human progress, so they have to be disregarded for the greater good.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-08-29 15:46:35+00:00
It's not intellectual superiority. They've already offshored all the other jobs they can. If they could offshore my job, they would. But it's very hard to find reliable talent anywhere, much less offshore. It is easier to find the talent here, and there's more of it. Then there's the complexity of hiring, the timezones, language barrier, and all the other small complications that add up.

Once you have world-class experts all over the developing world, my job might disappear. But you need experience to get there, which they aren't getting, because they aren't here. It's privilege 101: if you have it, you get more of it; if you don't have it, you don't get any of it. We're very privileged to be high-value domestic workers.

And by the way, remote work has been a thing here for decades, yet the calculation hasn't changed. Our remote jobs are still safe.
by ChocolateGod | 2025-08-29 15:46:38+00:00
> Imagine the environmental impact of POW running on everyone's browser all the time globally just to use the internet.

Systems that use more electricity for no other reason than use more electricity and raise bills should be illegal imho, as that's what Anubis does and why it blows my mind people think PoW is a good idea.

Imagine you bought a TV and there was a device in the TV that did /nothing/ but just use more electricity to persuade agaisnt people having too many TVs in their house.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-08-29 15:47:07+00:00
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-integrity

> It uses journaling for guaranteeing write atomicity by default, which effectively halves the write speed.

That seems like a poor fit for swap IMO.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/device-ma... says,

> There’s an alternate mode of operation where dm-integrity uses a bitmap instead of a journal. If a bit in the bitmap is 1, the corresponding region’s data and integrity tags are not synchronized - if the machine crashes, the unsynchronized regions will be recalculated. The bitmap mode is faster than the journal mode, because we don’t have to write the data twice, but it is also less reliable, because if data corruption happens when the machine crashes, it may not be detected.

It's not clear to me if that would be okay for swap (as long as you don't hibernate, maybe) or if it's sufficiently protected from corruption.
by agile-gift0262 | 2025-08-29 15:47:21+00:00
On Android WhatsApp also requires access to all media files on the phone in order to use certain features that don't really need them, but that sound plausible.

For example, when you receive an audio message, if you want to listen to it, it will request full media access. Android apps can access media files they have created, so this permission isn't needed. But without granting media access (or tricking it into thinking it has it, like with GrapheneOS' storage scopes), WhatsApp won't let you listen to the audio. Same when trying to open an image full screen instead of just the in-chat preview.

If this were a small developer, I could assume it was done that way accidentally or to cut some corners. Coming from Meta, I can only assume malice.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-08-29 15:47:31+00:00
In current models? None that I know of. The problem with Transformers and LLMs are they're stochastic... rather like glorified Markov chains that don't understand what they're talking about. Rather, the "understanding" is baked into the syntax of the language.

In the old days there was a project called Cyc (later OpenCyc) that tried to build a collection of rules about the real world. If you could somehow marry the "inference about the real world" from Cyc with the plausible text output of transformers, you would probably have something like an AI that had some base level of common sense. I leave it to people smarter than me to figure out how to do this, 'cause I would need a research budget and a couple years just to get to the point where I felt I was asking the right questions.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-08-29 15:47:46+00:00
> and could not be held liable because their firm is effectively beyond the reach of the US legal system.

this is a big one. last F500 I was at dropped Tata for several internal support teams due to belief that they were messing with proprietary code and/or had screwed things up so badly they warranted a lawsuit -- but had no legal levers to chase them for damages.

ditto for the one-off programmer who sexually harasses people while remote -- how does a remote worker sue, or get sued, and under what law?

or finance / tax -- who pays the payroll tax?