MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vessenes | 2025-08-03 17:46:41+00:00
Actually, Anthropic has put out some research showing that hallucination is a thing their models know they do; similar weights are activated for ‘lying’ and ‘hallucinating’ in the Claude series. Implication - Claude knows - at least mostly - when its hallucinating.

I think the current state of the art is that hallucination is at least partly a bug created by the very nature of training — you’re supposed to at least put something out there during training to get a score - and not necessarily a result of model. Overall I think that’s hopeful!

EDIT: Update, getting downvoted here.. Interesting! Here’s a link to the summary of the paper. https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language...
by dbvitapps | 2025-08-03 17:46:44+00:00
You know that moment when you're building an app and need to extract specific data from documents...but you also need the exact pixel coordinates where that data lives? And then you realize most OCR APIs give you text but no spatial context? Or if they do, you need to train the model otherwise it won't understand what your document is?

Yeah. Been there.

That's why we built Ninjadoc AI - specifically for developers who need both the data AND the coordinates from any document type.

Instead of wrestling with complex computer vision libraries or training your own models, you just visually define what you want to extract. Think of it like creating a JSON schema, but by drawing boxes on your document.

Our API returns structured data with exact bounding box coordinates for every field. No template matching. No brittle regex parsing. No "wait, where exactly was this field located again?"

Developers have told us it's a game-changer for building document annotation tools, automated form processing, or any app that needs spatial awareness of document content.

The best part? Zero setup. Just POST your document, define your schema visually, and get back clean JSON with coordinates.

Works with invoices, contracts, forms, receipts, medical records - basically any document where you need to know both WHAT the data is and WHERE it lives.

Would love to hear from fellow devs! https://ninjadoc.ai
by LexiMax | 2025-08-03 17:47:34+00:00
I don't use them terribly often, but one thing that old control panel windows did was pack a lot of information into a small amount of space.

Device Manager has that nice tree setup allowing me to see problematic devices a lot quicker.

Drive management has that nice table of physical devices on the top and then partitions on the bottom.

The old-school network adapter page shows me every network device in a single window, real or virtual, and I can mess around with their settings a lot faster with right-click properties.

And of course the services manager allows me to make sure that certain services arent running, like Windows search indexing - I use voidtools Everything instead.

That said, those tend to be the exceptions and not the rules. I've actually been quite pleased with the progression of the settings window over the course of Windows 10 and 11. A special shout out to the new fonts page as it is light years better than what came before.
by stogot | 2025-08-03 17:48:24+00:00
> Project Stargate is financial fiction masquerading as infrastructure. The pitch: $500 billion total, $100 billion right now, trust us on the rest. OpenAI threw in $19 billion of Monopoly money for 40% ownership, which is like buying Manhattan with Pokémon cards.

I’m going to use this analogy somewhere

The math is modern art. OpenAI gets exclusive access[1] to $100 billion worth of data centers for $19 billion in private stock that's worth precisely nothing until an IPO that may never come.

This is incredible if true
by PartiallyTyped | 2025-08-03 17:48:37+00:00
It’s worth reading 0 to 1, it outlines Thiel’s views on startups, which can be illuminating on his broader views.

He emphasizes that sales and distribution are just as important as the product itself, and he is particularly blunt about the need to convince people to become customers, even if your product is truly superior.

> “If you’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business — no matter how good the product.”

Thiel argues that great products don’t sell themselves, contrary to the romanticized idea many founders have. Even if your product is objectively better, people won’t automatically understand or adopt it. You must persuade them, market effectively, and create distribution channels — either through salespeople, viral growth loops, partnerships, or targeted marketing — to bridge the gap between product and user adoption.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-03 17:49:20+00:00
Character aren’t words though, and many words are at least two characters. Heck, most given names are two characters. 3k characters covers most of the words frequently used in modern Chinese (the estimate ranges from 2K to 4K characters), the remaining 70k characters that you don’t learn by sixth grade aren’t as useful (well, 囧 can be used as an emoji in a pinch).
by OneMorePerson | 2025-08-03 17:49:41+00:00
Nowadays with so many people having lounge access via credit cards it's not like you have to sit at the gate in a noisy environment anymore.

For me I get there 2 hours early, quickly verify my gate wasn't changed (sometimes that info only shows up on the internal monitors at the airport), and then go to the lounge and read a book, code, do whatever. Free drinks and snacks.
by andsoitis | 2025-08-03 17:50:09+00:00
> Other personality changes are subtler but still unsettling, like when models start sucking up to users or making up facts.

My understanding is that the former (sucking up) is a personality trait, substantially influenced by the desire to facilitate engagement. The latter (making up facts), I do not think is correct to ascribe to a personality trait (like compulsive liar); instead, it is because the fitness function of LLMs drive them to produce some answer and they do not know what they're talking about, but produce strings of text based on statistics.
by const_cast | 2025-08-03 17:51:10+00:00
> If the work is pleasing, there's no preference.

Okay, but it's not.

> And I've seen a couple of articles in the last several months where humans thought that AI-generated works of art were created by humans.

Yes, and there's also human created works of art that are three blue stripes on a white canvas.

Look, If I poll 1000 people, how many would rather listen to AI music rather than their favorite artist? 1, if I'm lucky?

After a certain point we have to acknowledge what is actually going on, here in real life where real humans lives, and put aside what we think might be going on. People, currently, do not like AI music or AI TV or whatever the fuck. They just don't.
by HappMacDonald | 2025-08-03 17:51:17+00:00
> the long accepted idea that lower case is easer to read than upper case

uh.. that sounds to me about as accepted as "cursive is easier to read than print".

Upper case is the canonical form of our alphabet (as written in Latin) while lower case is a newer addition (adapted from many greek letter shapes) that may be easier to write in rapid succession, but as such that also makes it one step towards cursive.

When I was a child in elementary school I was taught that "you all have to learn cursive because when you grow up that's what adults use, they don't use print any more". I remember thinking about that while driving with my parents, and asking them "if adults use cursive exclusively like my teacher says then why are all the road signs in print"?

I can levy that same query to your statement: if it is a long accepted idea that lower case is easier to read, then why are all of the road signs (which famously prioritize ease of reading) always written in all caps?
by jakelazaroff | 2025-08-03 17:51:19+00:00
Two thoughts here:

1. An ideal society would be structured such that you wouldn't need to buy a truck you use as a car 90% of the time. But that society doesn't exist here, and you shouldn't feel guilty about living by incentives you didn't create. Maybe you do need a truck!

2. But we're not talking about people who compromise to make 10% of their trips more convenient; we're talking about people who never use their truck for truck things. A car would be better choice for them 100% of the time, yet they still drive a truck.
by skhameneh | 2025-08-03 17:52:57+00:00
I was talking to an old colleague/friend about distillation, trying to understand how to steer distillation with regards to removing irrelevant regions of a larger model when training a smaller model. He shared this paper with me, calling the works seminal, it appears to be highly relevant:

Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.03341
by vessenes | 2025-08-03 17:53:13+00:00
To be fair, the most-forbidden technique is a concept and a proposal, not an iron law.

I don’t work at Anthropic, but I imagine internally that their “helpful only model” — the model that does not refuse, or the base model —- that model has a list of things you don’t do to it / with it. And I bet you’re right this technique is on that list.

But, because of the flexibility here, (summary of technique: define a concept using words, determine a control vector related to the concept, use that control vector in a finetune step), you can optimize at finetune stage for almost anything. I don’t think they’ll stop using a technique like this. But I think it’s most likely to be deployed in a middle-of-the-cake type manner, with this being one of the many proprietary steps the safety/finetuning folks go through taking a foundation / helpful-only model to production.

On those terms, I’m not sure this is that scary.
by crote | 2025-08-03 17:53:25+00:00
You might be interested in the book "The Cuckoo's Egg"!

It describes how in 1986 the compute time accounting at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was off by 75 cents - literal theft of compute time, in other words. Long story short: it was a hacker in Germany, compromising a large number of US government computer systems in order to spy for the KGB.
by laurencerowe | 2025-08-03 17:53:34+00:00
I guess my question here is if you are already writing Rust do you care about per-request isolation so much? If you don't then deploying a container to AWS Lambda or GCP Cloud Run is already pretty easy. It might be possible to offer better cold start performance with the TinyKVM approach, but that is still an unknown.

For the Varnish TinyKVM vmod they brought up examples of running image transcoding which is definitely something that benefits from per request isolation given the history of exploits for those kinds of C/C++ libraries.

It's worth noting that Cloudflare/AWS Lambda don't have per-request isolation and that's pretty important for server side rendering use cases where code was initially written with client side assumptions.

Not sure this will ever turn into a business for me personally - my motivation is in trying to regain some of the simplicity of the CGI days without giving up the performance gains of modern software stacks. Though it would be helpful to have a production workload to improve at some point.
by nkrisc | 2025-08-03 17:53:45+00:00
Clearly art has regressed even further. If you look at Pablo Picasso’s works from the 20th century you can see there is even less understanding of perspective and form. If you look at others like Kandinsky you’ll see modern has actually lost all sense of objectivity and merely reduced to shapes and colors.

(I’m being sarcastic and yes, the two artists were chosen for also for the joke some of you may be thinking of).

Not all art styles throughout history valued realism.
by freejazz | 2025-08-03 17:54:25+00:00
They actually do. Might be less people than before, but plenty still do. I live in a moderately cool neighborhood in Brooklyn. It's crazy Thursday through Saturday. Bars, parties, everyone everywhere, parks full. Baseball, run crews, volleyball and slack-liners. There was a hacky-sack club. Outdoor farmers market, packed. Tiny little street-corner vintage flea, packed. Restaurants spilling out everywhere.

Maybe get outside if you really think that people "actually don't" or that there aren't "enough" of them. Society is right here, chugging along.
by Kwpolska | 2025-08-03 17:54:41+00:00
Developers working for Apple platforms are used to their software being broken by Apple every once in a while, so they need to update it to match the latest OS’s expectations. In the Windows world, 30-year-old Win32 apps can still run on Windows 11, as long as they don’t use any egregious hacks. And if they stop working on an Arm PC, Microsoft will be to blame.
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by babyshake | 2025-08-03 17:55:15+00:00
One of these is not like the others:

ideas related to current projects musings about blog posts, articles, user feedback “what if” suggestions photos from recent trips or hobbies rubber ducking a problem

it seems like the goal is to split #random into #work-random and #not-work-random. but #ramblings seems like a weird naming convention. Why is an idea related to a current project a "rambling"?
by const_cast | 2025-08-03 17:55:15+00:00
People without legs and arms on permanent disability weren't gonna be working anyway.

And anyone who is on "welfare" and can work a nice job, would do so, because being on welfare sucks major ass.

You think there's people sacrificing a fucking salary for 400 dollars worth of SNAP a month that they have to spend on raw, uncooked foods? Come on. Does that even begin to make sense?
by lasantosr | 2025-08-03 17:55:54+00:00
A few years ago, I started building intelli-shell as a personal project to solve a problem I constantly faced: forgetting complex shell commands and then wasting time digging through my .bash_history.

What began as a simple project has now matured into a tool I'm proud to release as v1.0.0. This version is a complete rethink, moving beyond just my own needs to focus heavily on user experience and customization. The goal is to make your command history not just a log, but an interactive and searchable knowledge base.

It's designed to be fast, intuitive, and highly configurable. I built it to fill a void I saw, and I'm hoping it can be useful to others who live in the terminal.

It's open-source, and I'd love to get your feedback—the good, the bad, and the brutally honest.
by zevon | 2025-08-03 17:55:55+00:00
Well, there is the Fabricademy (an offshoot of HTMAA / the Fab Academy) for all sorts of things related to textiles: https://textile-academy.org/

But yes, generally speaking, the focus is on digital(ish) fabrication which is probably not entirely surprising - it's a course by the Center for Bits and Atoms.
by HappMacDonald | 2025-08-03 17:56:07+00:00
Unfortunately "Every fruit has its seed (yes even seedless ones, in that circumstance the seed is the effort humans put into grafting it)" which is a saying that clarifies in all situations far beyond fruit, any replicating system that is of benefit to a third party must also wrap some portion of its benefit into self-replication that does not immediately benefit a third party.

Whether that takes the shape of money or some different shape, it remains the case that "free benefit" cannot exist, and that any beneficial system requires some kind of give to supplement the take that it offers.

Finding a way to establish that with balance is the challenge.
by benreesman | 2025-08-03 17:56:29+00:00
False, wrong, mistaken, and other balderdash.

They don't have anything against regulators and they certainly don't have anything against dumb regulators.

They've got a little red laser dot on the forehead of regulators who don't want a payday after a term of "public service".

"Because we poor public servants are always looking for some fat, private sectors payoff down the road. But I'm not looking, and by the time they can pull the strings to force me out, they'll be ruined."

- Chrisjen Avasarala

https://youtu.be/yBFJGz5P_G8
by hirvi74 | 2025-08-03 17:56:34+00:00
I am not sure. It would not surprise me though. As an American, we are always striving to turn the most mundane activities into competitions for some reason...

For what it is worth, I also think British English is more consistent than American English in pronunciation.

For example, you all pronounce "Zebra" like "Zeh-bra" and "Zeppelin" like "Zehp-pellin" if I am not mistaken.

American English, where I live, would say "Zee-bra" and 'Zehp-uh-lin." for no good reason. Fundamentally, I think that was also my issue with phonics. So many spoken words have more complex sounds replaced with shorter sounds like "uh", "un", "in", "an", "oh", etc..

Simple words like:

Definitely => "Def-in-ut-ly"

Interesting => "In-tra-sting"

etc..

> As mentioned in the article, I still occasionally use the technique if and when I come across an unknown word.

Don't get me wrong, I do too, but even as an adult, it's usually the words with French etymologies that burn me.

Trivial example would be "resume" (like applying for a job -- yes, Americans often drop the accent on the 'e'). No way sounding out the word would have mapped to "Rez-oo-may" without previous knowledge. Somehow 'Receipt' => "Re-seat", "Debt" => "Deht", "Motion" => "Mo-shun", and so on.

I think phonetics of germanic words: hunger, anger, hack, ball, etc. are far more consistent.
by viraptor | 2025-08-03 17:57:11+00:00
If you don't question the basics, you will miss they grass is not always green, depending on environment https://www.australianplantsonline.com.au/imperata-rubra-jap... https://www.oztrees.com.au/product/austrostipa-scabra/ So yes, sometimes you need to study that before assuming that what you usually see is natural rather than shaped.
by refulgentis | 2025-08-03 17:57:38+00:00
IMHO employing personality attribution as a lens might obscure more light than it sheds.

I tend to prefer the ones we can tie to the thing itself, i.e. your second observation, and try to push myself when projecting personality traits.

FWIW re: your first observation, the sucking up phrase has a link to an OpenAI post-mortem for the incident they are referring to - TL;Dr training response to user feedback
by roxolotl | 2025-08-03 17:57:39+00:00
The reason you have to show up so early is because the downside of missing a flight is huge. Absolute best case you’re at a large city flying to another large and an airline, likely different from the one you planned on traveling on, can get you on their next flight within the hour. This is going to be pricy. The next best case is you’re able to get a flight out the same day but hour later maybe for free or a small up charge if it’s the same airline.

Then you also have problems on the other end. You can easily lose a whole day at your destination. That might mean the car you’re planning to rent is no longer available, the person picking you up is no longer free, you miss an connection etc.

Of course if we have one hour electric commuter flights which just turn around and go again that makes things very different. Worst case, assuming there’s seats, you’re out two hours and on the next flight. So what the article is describing is a totally different game.
by sfn42 | 2025-08-03 17:58:57+00:00
This is why you always need to adjust your speed so that you are capable of comfortably stopping in the area of road that you can see clearly.

If you're going around a blind turn or over a hill or any other situation where you can't see very far ahead, you need to slow down so that you can safely react to surprises in the road.

If your driving puts you in situations where a girl walking in the road exposes you, then you are not driving safely. You should always be able to handle that situation, if you can't then you are going too fast.

This goes for any road, including highways, and any vehicle, including fully loaded semi trucks and bicycles, go-karts, whatever. The only situation in which this does not apply is in racing on closed tracks.

The law in most places agrees - if you had hit that girl then you would have been held liable.

Thats not to say the pedestrian wasn't acting recklessly, but considering the pedestrian was a child we can't really blame them. An adult should know better than putting themselves in front of a fast moving vehicle though. Most pedestrians involved in accidents could have avoided it by paying attention. It's generally the people who just walk out in front of moving cars that get hit by cars. A car hitting pedestrians on the side walk is much rarer.

I look both ways before crossing a one way street and I never walk into a pedestrian crossing until I am sure that the oncoming car is stopping. I realize that strategy doesn't work everywhere in the world, in Bangkok you pretty much just walk into traffic and hope that a few dozen motorists see and avoid you. But in many places cars will stop to let pedestrians cross.
by const_cast | 2025-08-03 17:59:39+00:00
Arguably, that's why humans have to socialize - because socializing is hard and you often lose.

The reason ChatGPT as a friend works for people is because it never fights back and has zero mind of it's own. It's an ego-boosting machine, perfect for a narcissist on the fringes of society.

Having friends means doing work. It means compromising, it means doing stuff you don't want to do purely for other people's benefit. That's why it builds character - because it pushes you outside of your comfort zone.

ChatGPT is the opposite. It expands your comfort zone and entrenches you in it -by only feeding you comforting things while simultaneously deluding you into thinking you are pushing your boundaries. But, you're not, it's merely masquerading as socialization.

This makes it much more dangerous than, say, a TV. The TV is not trying to lie to you and convince you you're socializing. But ChatGPT does, and those that want to believe that very comforting lie, will.
by lostlogin | 2025-08-03 17:59:48+00:00
> There is no demand for massive SSDs.

Then why can I buy 22TB spinner by disks so easily?

I’d love to go solid state, but the cost should be phenomenal.

Judging by comments here, the server options also require a lot of cooling, and keeping the noise down is the point for me (along with keeping heat + power down, and speed).