MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fzeroracer | 2025-08-06 00:21:05+00:00
Why not just look up the information directly instead of asking a machine that you can never truly validate?

If I need information, I can just keyword search wikipedia, then follow the chain there and then validate the sources along with outside information. An LLM would actually cost me time because I would still need to do all of the above anyways, making it a meaningless step.

If you don't do the above then it's 'cheaper' but you're implicitly trusting the lying machine to not lie to you.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-06 00:21:24+00:00
> and _then_ blame themselves.

I was responding to a comment about Americans blaming others, not dieters blaming themselves.

The concept of "blame" isn't really helpful anyway. The problem I frequently see is that blame becomes something to be avoided, which turns into a game of externalizing the source of the problem, which makes people think the problem is out of their hands.

A similar pattern happens in addiction and addiction counseling, where well-meaning friends and family try to soften the blow by telling the person that the addiction was not their fault, it was the result of their circumstances or bad influences. Addiction counselors have to undo this thinking and find a way to gently get the person to take some ownership of their role in arriving at the problem, which is the first step to having some control over correcting it.

For nutrition, when people convince themselves that they have a hidden metabolic disadvantage that makes caloric restriction not work for them, they're more likely to give up than anything.
by tkgally | 2025-08-06 00:21:36+00:00
What I’ve sometimes done when trying to make sense of recent LLM research is give the paper and related documents to ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and ask them to explain the specific terms I don’t understand. If I don’t understand their explanations or want to know more, I ask follow-ups. Doing this in voice mode works better for me than text chat does.

When I just want a full summary without necessarily understanding all the details, I have an audio overview made on NotebookLM and listen to the podcast while I’m exercising or cleaning. I did that a few days ago with the recent Anthropic paper on persona vectors, and it worked great.
by babel16 | 2025-08-06 00:21:40+00:00
Thank you so much for the feedback! The dictionary look up feature is a great idea-- I had never thought of it before, but it does solve a pain point with the game you've articulated well.

The desktop UI suggestions are also very helpful. I've updated the desktop version with some minor hover effects and cursor styling. I've mostly been focused on mobile, so it was good hear some feedback for desktop.
by thimabi | 2025-08-06 00:22:45+00:00
That is so cool! Thanks for the Gemini team for working on that, a great and innovative feature.

Just a heads up: as I tried to print several stories to PDF, most times one of the generated images did not appear on the PDF. It’s surely a bug of some sort, because regenerating stories eventually makes it go away. Hope these kinds of issues will be fixed soon.
by schoen | 2025-08-06 00:22:48+00:00
I should just have put the printable character chart right here in the post for people to compare:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F .. 2 ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? 4 @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O 5 P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ 6 ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o 7 p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~

I don't have a mnemonic for punctuation characters with second nibble >9, or for the backtick. The @ can be remembered via Ctrl+@ which is a way of typing the NUL character, ASCII 00 (also not coincidental; compare to Ctrl+A, Ctrl+B, Ctrl+C... for inputting ASCII 01, 02, 03...).
by JimDabell | 2025-08-06 00:22:58+00:00
I’ve implemented those for the next-largest coffee chain. They did the same thing as Anthropic here, for the reasons everybody gave already. Taking money in exchange for future service is a pain to account for if it never gets collected. If somebody loads up a gift card with $100 and then destroys the gift card, you don’t want that $100 to stay on your books forever. It’ll just keep mounting up and up over the years until you have a massive theoretical debt that in practice can’t ever be collected. So they put expiration dates on so they can clear those things off their books. It’s a completely ordinary thing to do, it’s not a rip-off.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-06 00:23:11+00:00
Having an opinion is a constitutional right. You can't tell people not to have an opinion. That is stupid. People vote for many reasons while a lot of those vote on a single issue. If the person receiving their single issue vote means there's baggage to get their one hot button item then so be it. I voted for someone not for what they represented so much as it was a vote not for the other person. The person receiving my vote definitely didn't make me all smiley and thinking panacea was on the way. In fact, my last 3 votes were this way.
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-08-06 00:23:13+00:00
It's not just that they used a game controller, they used a super cheap crappy controller instead of something backed my a major company with millions of R&D funding or a modern device with better sensors (hall effect/TMR) better suited for controlling vehicles in something other than an arcade game.

Like, they couldn't even spring an extra ten bucks for the same controllers that Navy uses.
by corimaith | 2025-08-06 00:23:22+00:00
The future of games was MMORPGs and RPG-ization in general as other genres adopted progression systems. But the former two are simply too expensive and risky even today for AAA to develop. Which brings us to another point, the problem with Western AAA is more about high levels of risk aversion, which is what's really feeding the lack of imaginative. And that's more to do with the economics of opportunity cost to the S&P 500.

Anyways, crafting pretty looking worlds is one thing, but you still need to fill them in with something worth doing, and that's something we haven't really figured out. That's one of the reasons why the sandbox MMORPG was developed as opposed to "themeparks". The underlying systems, the backend is the real meat here. At most with the world models right now is that you're replacing 3d artists and animators, but I would not say that is a real bottleneck in relation to one's own limitations.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-06 00:23:29+00:00
It's a long story. His description of "dieting" was extreme calorie restriction. He was eating something like 800 calories per day (don't quote me on the exact number) and then was complaining that he didn't feel well when doing that (to the surprise of absolutely nobody).

Then it turned into a false dichotomy between the 800 calorie severe calorie restriction or no dieting at all. Then he just started declaring he'd delete any comments that suggested dieting.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-08-06 00:23:57+00:00
Transparency is win-win.

My hope is the data informs of a few (even one is too many!) problematic individuals among a giant mass of good folks doing their best every day.

Removing problematic individuals (if politically possible!) radically improves the average quality of policing.

With luck and a few years, trust can rebound.
by twodave | 2025-08-06 00:24:22+00:00
It’s more nuanced, I think.

Some of those in power do understand science and technology, and have responsible stances.

Some … understand …, and have intentionally-irresponsible stances.

Some do NOT understand, and choose positions either based upon bad information or other priorities entirely.

And those of us not in power are routinely lied to by all four groups, making us question the reputation of literally everything.

I think the end state of this is sort of the dragon eating its tail—not only do those in power no longer understand science and technology (or use their understanding to manipulate others), but the disease then spreads to most everyone else.
by snickerbockers | 2025-08-06 00:24:23+00:00
That was Hiroshima. Although there was a high number of civilian casualties it was actually chosen on the basis of its importance to the Japanese imperial army, both as a base and an industrialized city.

>Hiroshima was a supply and logistics base for the Japanese military.[117] The city was a communications center, a key port for shipping, and an assembly area for troops.[78] It supported a large war industry, manufacturing parts for planes and boats, for bombs, rifles, and handguns.[118]

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima...
by wat10000 | 2025-08-06 00:24:45+00:00
That’s not what I was saying. Obamacare and the ACA are the same thing. The ACA is the official name and Obamacare is an attempt at a derogatory nickname which became common. Hating one and liking the other is an inherently contradictory position. And yet it’s one a lot of people hold. That’s not a different point of view, that’s not having even the most basic understanding of the thing you have an opinion about.
by brotchie | 2025-08-06 00:25:15+00:00
Look at the induced demand due to Claude code. I mean, they wildly underestimated average token usage by users. There's high willingness to pay. There's literally not enough inference infra available.

I was working on crypto during the NFT mania, and THAT felt like a bubble at the time. I'd spend my days writing smart contracts and related infra, but I was doing a genuine wallet transaction at most once a week, and that was on speculation, not work.

My adoption rate of AI has been rapid, not for toy tasks, but for meaningful complex work. Easily send 50 prompts per day to various AI tools, use LLM-driven auto-complete continuously, etc.

That's where AI is different from the dot com bubble (not enough folks materially transaction on the web at the time), or the crypto mania (speculation and not utility).

Could I use a smarter model today? Yes, I would love that and use the hell out of it. Could I use a model with 10x the tokens/second today? Yes, I would use it immediately and get substantial gains from a faster iteration cycle.
by pstuart | 2025-08-06 00:25:26+00:00
Police should be self-insured, backed by their pension fund. They have no skin in the game for accountability of their abuses, and the taxpayers end up paying for it.

"According to the data, 65 out of the nation's 300 largest cities spend 40 percent or more of their general budgets on policing." https://www.statista.com/chart/10593/how-much-do-us-cities-spend-on-policing/
by klardotsh | 2025-08-06 00:25:43+00:00
Self-plug for a tongue-in-cheek license I wrote to say exactly that, for exactly this reason :) https://codeberg.org/klardotsh/fork-off-public-license

Fully agreed. FOSS maintainers don't owe you anything. You can ask for whatever you want, politely, but accept no or "maybe when I have the spoons, which may be never" as an answer, and don't push.
by keeda | 2025-08-06 00:25:46+00:00
The quote is from the paper linked in the article: https://s3.amazonaws.com/real.stlouisfed.org/wp/2024/2024-02...

It's actually based on the results of three surveys conducted by two different parties. While surveys are subject to all kinds of biases and the gains are self-reported, their findings of 25% - 33% producitivity do match the gains shown by at least 3 other randomized studies, one of which was specifically about programming. Those studies are worth looking at as well.
by nigeltao | 2025-08-06 00:25:51+00:00
> Compressing QOI with something like LZ4 would generally outperform PNG.

https://github.com/nigeltao/qoir has some numbers comparing QOIR (which is QOI-inspired-with-LZ4) vs PNG.

QOIR has better decode speed and comparable compression ratio (depending on which PNG encoder you use).

QOIR's numbers are also roughly similar to ZPNG.
by munificent | 2025-08-06 00:26:41+00:00
Here's a more balanced take:

"Build Your Own Lisp" is an opinionated, idiosyncratic take on one style of programming in C and one way to implement a Lisp-like language.

If you go into it treating it like an intro textbook to the "standard" way of implementing an interpreter, it may lead you astray. Worse, it may lead you astray without realizing it if it's your first book on the topic.

On the other hand, if you approach it as following an author as they deliberately wander off the well-trod path of implementing Lisps with recursive descent and all the other classic techniques, then you can have a good time and maybe get some interesting ideas out of it.

For what it's worth, I quite enjoyed the book. But I had enough programming language experience already to know when the author was teaching you the basics versus teaching you their own thing.

The more the world world becomes aggregated, summarized, averaged, and watered down, the more I crave stuff like this that is quirky and unique.
by defrost | 2025-08-06 00:27:16+00:00
By fortunate happenstance it's much the same as the annealing temperature of glass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annealing_(glass)

which means you can throw in a pizza when you've finished at the kiln for a day and pull it out ready a minute or so later (depending on when you start the temp. step down cycle, current annealing oven temp. etc.)
by UncleEntity | 2025-08-06 00:27:56+00:00
Other than it starting out trying to produce a full and complete web app (or whatever) for my daily yak shaving session instead of the normal "let's talk about and work through this thing" the new Opus 4.1 seems to 'get it' a lot quicker than the old daffy robot did. It asked pertinent questions to understand the system we are working on and accomplished the goal of updating the design document so I don't have to keep explaining details at the start of every chat session. Something, by the way, it always previously failed to do causing me to have to explain stuff each and every time before forward progress could be made.

I do agree it did hit the token limit a lot quicker than before where I could chat for hours without worrying about it.

Either way, still have one last yak to shave for this project so we'll see how efficient it is with that. If it accomplishes the task before burning through all the tokens then win, win, I suppose.
by ProofHouse | 2025-08-06 00:28:11+00:00
Can anyone specifically working or with expertise in this field, give even a best guest breakdown (or better) of the technology and architecture, system design or possibly even the compute requirement's of how they think this was implemented? Very curious as to how thing works and methods employed, as they are atm tight lipped generally. So kind of curious for those who are specialists in this space what they could surmise or speculate on the implementation of Genie 3
by Aurornis | 2025-08-06 00:28:55+00:00
Eggs have about 60 calories each.

Cooking 2lbs of ground beef could yield a little over 1500 calories (Source https://www.uhhospitals.org/health-information/health-and-we... )

A tablespoon of heavy whipping cream is 50 calories.

There's nothing incompatible with what you wrote and a 2500 calorie diet.

This confuses a lot of people who associate certain foods with becoming fat, or think that eating fat makes you fat.

It's entirely possible to eat what you described and maintain a neutral weight.

There isn’t any real secret to this: This combination of foods leads to you eating a calorically neutral amount every day.

That’s a horrifying amount of saturated fat per day, though. This is an extreme risk for heart disease.
by lemonwaterlime | 2025-08-06 00:29:05+00:00
I'm consistently baffled at why software engineering is the only engineering to obsess over a mythical "10x" contributor. Mechanical, electrical, civil, and chemical engineers do not have this concept.

What makes an excellent engineer is risk mitigation and designing systems under a variety of possible constraints. This design is performed using models of the domains involved and understanding when and where these models hold and where they break down. There's no "10x". There is just being accountable for designing excellent systems to perform as desired.

If there were a "10x" software engineer, such an engineer would prevent data breaches from occurring, which is a common failure mode in software to the detriment of society. I want to see 10x less of that.
by jdiff | 2025-08-06 00:29:06+00:00
Even large hosted models fail at that task regularly. It's a silly anecdotal example, but I asked the Gemini assistant on my Pixel whether [something] had seen a new release to match the release of [upstream thing].

It correctly chose to search, and pulled in the release page itself as well as a community page on reddit, and cited both to give me the incorrect answer that a release had been pushed 3 hours ago. Later on when I got around to it, I discovered that no release existed, no mention of a release existed on either cited source, and a new release wasn't made for several more days.
by jefftk | 2025-08-06 00:29:34+00:00
> Do note that peak spending on rail roads eventually amounted to ~20 percent of the US GDP in the 19th century.

When you go so far back in time you run into the problem where GDP only counts the market economy. When you count people farming for their own consumption, making their own clothes, etc, spending on railroads was a much smaller fraction of the US economy than you'd estimate from that statistic (maybe 5-10%?)
by mattmaroon | 2025-08-06 00:31:19+00:00
I think we all have to learn the lesson, when we are young, that forcing people to do something they really don't want rarely ends up going well. You always hope they'll later have some epiphany that you were right, but they almost never really do what you want them to (you wanted them to support the open source project) and even if you were right, they'll rarely figure that out.
by ninjin | 2025-08-06 00:31:45+00:00
> Is it even valid to have additional restriction on top of Apache 2.0?

You can legally do whatever you want, the question is whether you will then for your own benefit be appropriating a term like open source (like Facebook) if you add restrictions not in line with how the term is traditionally used or if you are actually be honest about it and call it something like "weights available".

In the case of OpenAI here, I am not a lawyer, and I am also not sure if the gpt-oss usage policy runs afoul of open source as a term. They did not bother linking the policy from the announcement, which was odd, but here it is:

https://huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-120b/blob/main/USAGE_P...

Compared to the wall of text that Facebook throws at you, let me post it here as it is rather short: "We aim for our tools to be used safely, responsibly, and democratically, while maximizing your control over how you use them. By using OpenAI gpt-oss-120b, you agree to comply with all applicable law."

I suspect this sentence still is too much to add and may invalidate the Open Source Initiative (OSI) definition, but at this point I would want to ask a lawyer and preferably one from OSI. Regardless, credit to OpenAI for moving the status quo in the right direction as the only further step we really can take is to remove the usage policy entirely (as is the standard for open source software anyway).
by binarymax | 2025-08-06 00:32:34+00:00
Our intern worked on a similar DSPy project last year for contracts, though the classifier was much simpler: binary classification of whether the line was the start of a new section or not. We saw some success, but it wasn’t a revelation, and in the end we ended up keeping our giant regex classifier since it was much faster and much cheaper (free). I do really like DSPy though - maybe looking again with a more well defined set of classes would work better.
by kristjansson | 2025-08-06 00:33:17+00:00
> Ollama does not use llama.cpp anymore;

> We do use GGML

Sorry, but this is kind of hiding the ball. You don't use llama.cpp, you just ... use their core library that implements all the difficult bits, and carry a patchset on top of it?

Why do you have to start with the first statement at all? "we use the core library from llama.cpp/ggml and implement what we think is a better interface and UX. we hope you like it and find it useful."
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-06 00:33:35+00:00
I agree of course. Only note is when I say coffee with heavy cream, I mean like half a cup of it into espresso to make a cream latte.

And over a cup whipped for desert.

But I'm also 6'4".

When I ate the standard American diet I was about 40 lbs heavier than I am now.
by aurizon | 2025-08-06 00:34:13+00:00
Kick the Tariff dog too often and it will bite. Huge Aluminum/copper/wood tariffs have moved Canada to export diversely. These supplies are tight and this year's production has been purchased in Europe/Japan/Asia who are short. Since the USA can not plant magic 1 year wood seeds = new growth 10-20 years out. Houses use a lot of wood/copper/aluminum = a bad 2-3 years comes knocking. Plastic(PEX) can make pipes, but they are a lower quality. Bamboo grows fast and can be used for glued under pressure wood for most uses, but it is not cheap made in the USA
by neom | 2025-08-06 00:35:10+00:00
Suno lets you download the stems, also no affiliation at all just really like the tool and have spent a lot of time with it: Suno is night and day better than this product, by a mile. https://soundcloud.com/charlielabs/charlie (everything on this account I made with Suno, sometimes through Abelton if I'm not feeling lazy)
by JimDabell | 2025-08-06 00:35:27+00:00
> > "Until you dive deeper and discover that most of what the AI agents provided you was completely wrong..."

> Oddly enough, I don't think that actually matters too much to the dedicated autodidact.

I think it does matter, but the problem is vastly overstated. One person points out that AIs aren’t 100% reliable. Then the next person exaggerates that a little and says that AIs often get things wrong. Then the next person exaggerates that a little and says that AIs very often get things wrong. And so on.

Before you know it, you’ve got a group of anti-AI people utterly convinced that AI is totally unreliable and you can’t trust it at all. Not because they have a clear view of the problem, but because they are caught in this purity spiral where any criticism gets amplified every time it’s repeated.

Go and talk to a chatbot about beginner-level, mainstream stuff. They are very good at explaining things reliably. Can you catch them out with trick questions? Sure. Can you get incorrect information when you hit the edges of their knowledge? Sure. But for explaining the basics of a huge range of subjects, they are great. “Most of what they told you was completely wrong” is not something a typical beginner learning a typical subject would encounter. It’s a wild caricature of AI that people focused on the negatives have blown out of all proportion.
by guerby | 2025-08-06 00:36:44+00:00
Proxmox ships a tool that verify if everything is right for the update (eg: pve8to9), and the wiki documentation is extensive and kept up to date.

At work we started with 6.x a few years ago, upgraded to 7.x a bit after releases, then same with 8.x without issue.

We'll wait a reasonable while before upgrading to 9.x but I don't expect any issue.

Note : same with integrated ceph update, did Reef to Squeed a few weeks ago, no issue.