MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reissbaker | 2025-08-12 10:18:02+00:00
We don't store prompts or completions for the API (our privacy policy says "for longer than 14 days," as mentioned elsewhere in this thread — we don't actually store them at all, but the 14 day legal guarantee is to make sure that if someone accidentally commits a log statement, we have a little bit of time to catch it and revert without being in breach of policy). And, we don't train on your data, even for messages in the UI: we only store UI messages in order to let you view your message history, not for training.

Compared to using — for example — DeepSeek from deepseek.com, I think we're much more private. Even compared to using OpenAI and opting-out of your data being used for training, we're still more private, since OpenAI makes no guarantees for individuals that they don't store the data — notably, any data ever sent to them is apparently now being shared with New York courts (and the New York Times!) due to their ongoing legal battle with the New York Times [1]. And compared to using OpenRouter with "data_collection: deny", we uh, actually work :P Surprisingly sad how many broken model implementations there are if you're just round-robin-ing between inference companies... Especially reasoning models, and especially with tool-calling.

(And if something's broken, you can email us and we'll generally fix it; OpenRouter doesn't actually host any models themselves, so there's not much they can do if one isn't working well other than just de-list.)

1: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/nyt-to-start-sea...
by simiones | 2025-08-12 10:18:36+00:00
> where it certainly hadn’t seen the questions before?

What are you basing this certainty on?

And even if you're right that the specific questions had not come up, it may still be that the questions from the math olympiad were rehashes of similar questions in other texts, or happened to correspond well to a composition of some other problems that were part of the training set, such that the LLM could 'pick up' on the similarity.

It's also possible that the LLM was specifically trained on similar problems, or may even have a dedicated sub-net or tool for it. Still impressive, but possibly not in a way that generalizes even to math like one might think based on the press releases.
by energy123 | 2025-08-12 10:19:30+00:00
This is so true. Another thing, a model might be better at something in general, but worse if the context is too long. Looking at how GLM-4.5 is trained, on lots of short context, this may be the case for it.

GPT-5: Exceptional at abstract reasoning, planning and following the intention behind instructions. Concise and intentional. Not great at manipulating text or generating python code.

Gemini 2.5 Pro: Exceptional at manipulating text and python, not great at abstract reasoning. Verbose. Doesn't follow instructions well.

Another thing I've learned is that models work better when they work on code that they themselves generated. It's "in distribution" and more comprehensible to them.
by notahacker | 2025-08-12 10:19:55+00:00
Smaller jet aircraft on the same route generally means relatively expensive operating costs: some costs like landing slots and pilots are essentially fixed, whilst others like maintenance, fuel and capital costs don't scale down linearly. The marginal profit on an individual economy class seat might be small, but 100+ of them cover a large portion of the fixed and semi-fixed costs of operating the aircraft, and are relatively easy to fill.

Long range business jets which can comfortably accommodate a typical narrowbody business class cabin exist: nobody is certifying them for all-business class scheduled flights because it wouldn't be profitable to do so; likewise the all-premium 32 seat A318 configuration hasn't been adopted anywhere except the NYC/LON route it didn't really have the range for because it wouldn't be profitable elsewhere. Boom's bet is that supersonic changes that.
by glimshe | 2025-08-12 10:20:02+00:00
I feel sad every time I think about Fry's and the death of big box electronics retail. I still long for those trips where I'd simply spend hours looking for what's new. Amazon can't deliver the same high and neither can Microcenter, the not-so-bad modern version.

Don't get me even started about Radio Shack :'(
by Applejinx | 2025-08-12 10:20:20+00:00
Huh. Alternate explanation: there's a layer of indirection, drawing upon the unthinkable size of the source data, so rather than 'issue forth tokens as if there is a person answering a question', you've got 'issue forth tokens as if there is a person being challenged to talk about their process', something that's also in the training data but in different contexts.

I'm not sure statements of 'aha, I see it now!' are meaningful in this context. Surely this is just the em-dash of 'issue tokens to have the user react like you're thinking'?
by cjs_ac | 2025-08-12 10:20:38+00:00
The problem with an on/off switch is that you have to open the app to change the setting, which means that most people will have it off most of the time. I don't necessarily think the Pear Ring is a better idea than yours; I only raised it to show that other people have tried these low-tech ways to improve dating and have also failed.

If you think about how meeting new people currently works, there's a bit of sizing people up to decide what sort of chances you have or whether they're a creep before you decide whether to go and talk to them - I think that's the crucial aspect your idea is missing.
by wzdd | 2025-08-12 10:20:46+00:00
> The mechanism that the model uses to transition towards the answer is to generate intermediate text.

Yes, which makes sense, because if there's a landscape of states that the model is traversing, and there are probablistically likely pathways between an initial state and the desired output, but there isn't a direct pathway, then training the the model to generate intermediate text in order to move across that landscape so it can reach the desired output state is a good idea.

Presumably LLM companies are aware that there is (in general) no relationship between the generated intermediate text and the output, and the point of the article is that by calling it a "chain of thought" rather than "essentially-meaningless intermediate text which increases the number of potential states the model can reach" users are misled into thinking that the model is reasoning, and may then make unwarranted assumptions, such as that the model could in general apply the same reasoning to similar problems, which is in general not true.
by mongol | 2025-08-12 10:20:54+00:00
I don't think the racist label applied to Ny Demokrati is clear cut. It turned out that some of their elected representatives acted this way, but it was not part of their message or program as they won their seats. I see it as more a side effect of quickly populating a party with members without proper wetting.

As background, this party was founded about 8 months before the election in 1991, almost like a fluke. It was not a grass roots movement, but by charismatic founders that quickly had to build an organisation around some hollow ideas about less bureaucracy and lower taxes.
by xvector | 2025-08-12 10:21:56+00:00
> But more broadly, taxing the rich costs nothing

It does though.

1. As one of "the rich" that progressives target continuously, I still can't afford a house in CA. I'm moving to Washington and CA will lose many median Californians' worth of income.

2. Nearly every EU country that attempted wealth taxes (another form of "taxing the rich") recalled them due to capital flight that offset the tax income.

3. California has passed the peak of its Laffer curve, where higher taxes don't provide higher returns due to capital flight. https://www.ipi.org/ipi_issues/detail/californias-laffer-cur...

4. I personally don't feel the value in working harder or smarter to earn more, because the marginal returns are so low due to taxes. Discouraging innovation is not good for the country.

> We can progressively tax all to symbolize something about economic fairness

Despite the common memes the US has one of the most progressive tax systems in the world. https://manhattan.institute/article/correcting-the-top-10-ta...

Anyways, "taxing the rich" simply doesn't get us there:

1. You could liquidate every billionaire, including all their assets, and you wouldn't fund the government for 9 months.

2. The rest of us that progressives consider "rich" are W-2s that already pay a fuckton in taxes. If you look at the sources above, this is explained clearly.

3. Contrary to the meme, the biggest objective gap in tax income is not on the rich but on our middle class, which does not pay its fair share wrt our EU counterparts (explaining the gap necessary to fund the desired social services, which taxing the rich would not cover due to its comparatively small size). 40% of Americans pay no federal income tax! https://freakonomics.com/podcast/ten-myths-about-the-u-s-tax...

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Finally, at the core of your assumption is the idea that more taxes help. As someone that has worked in both government-funded labs and government contracting, I can promise you they don't. The sheer wastage is mind boggling, honestly sickening. It makes the our tech mega corps look tiny. I used to have a progressive view on taxation until I saw the infinite money black hole that was government spending.
by latexr | 2025-08-12 10:23:14+00:00
> Or did you mean to say "more interesting"?

I did, yes, that was a typo. I did notice it after the edit window was closed but the submission hadn’t had any traction so it felt silly to reply to my own comment to correct it.

Glad the submission was resurrected, I think it deserves it. My original comment was precisely to convince people to give it a read.
by somat | 2025-08-12 10:23:38+00:00
Yeah, that is the tricky part. The problem is that black holes are eldritch interstellar cryptids, and for the most part physics gives up and goes to cry in the corner the minute you start asking about "what's in a black hole?"

But in this specific case, you get one odd conclusion. if it takes forever to enter a black hole. is it impossible for anything to pass the event horizon? It sounds like this is observation dependent. but from an external point of view you are unable to observe anything entering the black hole. and from an internal point of view, the universe will instantly age and die when you try and enter the hole.(and if hawking radiation actually exists you will see the black hole shrink and pop the instant you try and enter it) either way nothing is getting in.

Is most of the mass of the star that formed the black hole actually stuck in a time dilated shell just outside the event horizon? Or perhaps all the mass is eternally stuck collapsing. and never actually reaches the density required to pass the event horizon. is that another way to define the event horizon? the point where time stops.

Time dilation makes my head hurt.
by benjiro | 2025-08-12 10:24:34+00:00
You forgot the read the original text above my response.

> I looked Neon recently, and it appears that it's designed as a SaaS product from the outset; while it is technically possible to self-host the individual components of the architecture, it does not look trivial, in large part because the control plane is closed source (and probably extremely specific to Neon's SaaS operations).

This is a good reason to go with multigres vs Neki (assuming Neki gets integrated into planetscale vs a standalone multigres ).

The two announcement's regarding Neki smells like its going to be proprietary or heavily tied into planetscale. See the gauging interest two months ago with sign ups. The current signing up ... Feel very marketing focused.

https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-for-postgres#nova-v...

> If your company runs Postgres at a significant scale and this is something that interests you, reach out.

> Sign up for the private preview of PlanetScale for Postgres waitlist here.

https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-neki

> To stay up to date with the latest developments on Neki you can signup at neki.dev.

Where as the multigres via Supabase points to github repo's, the license, etc...

https://supabase.com/blog/multigres-vitess-for-postgres

> Like Vitess, Multigres will be open source using the same license: Apache 2. You can follow the repo here.

We shall see, but one is running and acting like pure open source project, and another is being announced how the marketing department of a proprietary software company works.

And the timing is interesting. Coincidence that both Neki and multigres got announced right at the same time? I am suspecting there has been some background drama going on with planetscale and supabase. But that is off-topic.

Like i said, and i agree with the poster i responded too: That Neki smells like its going to be tied into planetscale.
by 63stack | 2025-08-12 10:24:37+00:00
After running the installer (or any exe) bottles scans the registry for certain keys (I don't know the specifics) and if it finds that new programs have been installed, it automatically adds an entry under "Programs" in the Bottles UI (which is under the "run executable" button).

You also have the option to manually add installed executables under the "Programs" section, or into the "Library" section (Library is global, programs is per-bottle-sandbox)
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-12 10:25:02+00:00
It’s fair to question the funding sources of lodgings in a pragmatic way, and doubly so when one lives on a boat.

In the case of 100R, they seem to have had a lot of help from Patreon folks (per Wikipedia), though I don’t know if this was their sole source of income or funding for their lifestyle. It’s interesting that folks can live like this and share it with the world, and I don’t think that these particular folks have any ulterior motives, and I have not heard anything bad about them. They seem like they’re fairly aboveboard (pun intended).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Rabbits
by bigfudge | 2025-08-12 10:25:10+00:00
But this essentially has to collapse down to 2 or 3 parties unless these preferences are for graphically concentrated. Which they don’t seem to be. Reform might wipe out the tories with Lib Dem’s cleaning up the scraps, but that doesn’t really move us forward. In fact it’s likely to entrench the moderate left into holding their nose and voting labour?
by paffdragon | 2025-08-12 10:25:41+00:00
Somewhat related, I was quite surprised when I discovered that my Samsung phone was sharing ALL my clipboard with all my other Samsung devices, including passwords copied into the clipboard, and even preserving the history. I can't remember if the sharing was enabled by default or I opted in by accident. I assume it also goes through their servers to reach my other devices. I could disable the sharing, but still can't turn off the clipboard history, even switching to a different keyboard, the Samsung keyboard still captures the clipboard and saves the history, when I switch the keyboard to Samsung everything is there... I guess my next phone won't be Samsung.
by klelatti | 2025-08-12 10:27:08+00:00
So you’re saying that someone who worked in government on online regulation has carried on that interest outside at a charitable foundation and has had some influence in drafting this legislation?

Not that surprising really is it? And all that is advertised on the individual’s bio online.

The only dubious thing you allude to are ‘financial ties’ to Yoti which are completely unsubstantiated. In fact I took the trouble of looking at the Carnegie Foundation’s accounts [1] and for the last two years at least they have had virtually no donor income at all so they are certainly not being funded by Yoti. Perhaps you would like to be more specific about these ties?

I don’t like this legislation much but creating a controversy when there isn’t one isn’t going to get it changed.

Edit: Just to add that the Carnegie Foundation seems to be about as independent and transparent as you can get which might be why it’s been influential. If you don’t think Google, Meta et all have all been lobbying furiously behind the scenes then I don’t know what to say.

Happy to take downvotes for calling out a fake conspiracy theory (‘there’s something going on’).

[1] https://carnegieuk.org/publication/annual-report-and-account...
by afro88 | 2025-08-12 10:28:22+00:00
I have a real world problem I gave o1 when it came out and it got it quite wrong. It's a scheduling problem with 4 different constraints that vary each day, and success criteria that need to be fulfilled over the whole week.

GPT-5 Thinking (Think Longer) and Opus 4.1 Extended Thinking both get it right.

Maybe this unique problem is somehow a part of synthetic training data? Or maybe it's not and the paper is wrong? Either way, we have models that are much more capable at solving unique problems today.
by senko | 2025-08-12 10:28:51+00:00
I ain't lugging that setup around :)

I have a VPN so all its resources are available in a Starbucks via ssh and/or RDP.

This one was a custom build with maxed ram, heaps of storage, a modest Nvidia card with as much VRAM as possible without breaking the bank, etc.. stuff I personally needed. A cheap workstation (or a much more expensive Mac) won't have that exact combo.

So aside from ergonomics, it's also customizability to my idiosyncratic wants and needs.
by bakugo | 2025-08-12 10:28:56+00:00
The video I linked to is long but goes through all of this.

Pretty much nobody writing games in C++ uses raw pointers in entities to hold references to other related entities, because entities can be destroyed at any time and there's no simple way for a referring entity to know when a referenced entity is destroyed.

Using some sort of entity ID or entity handle is very common in C++, the problem is that when implementing this sort of system in Rust, developers often end up having to effectively "work around" the borrow checker, and they end up not really gaining anything in terms of correctness over C++, ultimately defeating the purpose of using Rust in the first place, at least for that particular system.
by fsloth | 2025-08-12 10:29:06+00:00
”it's neither "programming"

Sure it is.

Modern ecosystem is sadly full of API:s like WPF on Windows that are both verbose and configuration heavy. Now, some people may be able to internalize xaml with little effort but not all us - and then you basically move forward iteratively, looking for code example, trying this or that … basically random walking towards something usable.

Or you use an agentic LLM and it does this peeking and poking for you, and with decades old APIs like WPF likely has enough context to do the thing you asked it to do far more competently than you could train yourself to program WPF in a few days.

Of course in the context of this example WPF was your main duty, you _would_ learn the ins and outs of it.

In quite many jobs a task like this may not infact be even among your top ten duties but you need to do it.

In these sort of situations a LLM is really nice. The worst it provides is a good first guess how to do something.

If your contex is something like radiology treatment then no, don’t use LLM!

But there are thoushands of miserable non-critical but necessary components in production for which LLM is just fine.
by amiga386 | 2025-08-12 10:29:11+00:00
I'd propose that Parliament bind itself and say "UK Government cannot create THESE types of law".

The courts can then adjudicate on whether Government did or didn't stray into self-prohibited territory.

This already exists in the Scottish Parliament, which has the power to legislate on devolved matters, but not reserved matters and excluded matters. If it does legislate in these latter areas, or the UK Government thinks it has legislated in these areas, off to the Supreme Court they go.
by gambiting | 2025-08-12 10:29:19+00:00
Basically yeah. Where I live virtually all kinds of community centres have closed down due to lack of funding, even a local library had to close because local council has no money to keep it running. As a teenager there is nothing to do around here, a town of 20k people next to a 300k city. And then I see people complaining that "oh there are teenagers around the park at night" - yeah, because they have literally nothing else to do. And they aren't even causing anyone any harm, they just sit there and chat most of the time. But I see local neighbours groups all being like "someone needs to do something about these youths!" - like yeah, no shit, but so far the only solution anyone has is to "silently sit at home, not using the Internet, not going anywhere with friends, and end up well adjusted adults anyway". 6th largest economy in the world and it can't even keep a library open.
by ljf | 2025-08-12 10:30:44+00:00
Just looked up my email - and in 2012 I paid £10 4 hours in the Regus shared working space in central London - I think a 7 hour day might of been £12 but I don't have a full booking. From memory it was behind Bond Street - I was working for a small company in East London, and was taking the afternoon off to interview for another role. I wanted to be able to work right up until the interview and have somewhere to get changed into my suit, so didn't want to work from a cafe. I'd seen the offer in various 'business' magazines at the time, it wasn't brilliant, and I wouldn't have been happy their full time, but it was perfect for the day I needed it for.

Prior to that time we had been paying £330 a month for a desk on Dean Street Soho - but that was a monthly rolling contract as you say, and we'd just moved to some free space in Farringdon, where a friend was letting us use a desk (I think in part to make their office look busier).

There was a drop in place in East London that offered similar day prices back in 2010, as I went to look around it - but it was too noisy for me - was walking distance to the Silicon Roundabout - but I can't remember what it was called.
by eru | 2025-08-12 10:31:07+00:00
> [...] undefined behavior, executing e.g. both the true and the false branch of an if-statement or none etc.

Or replacing all you mp3s with a Rick Roll. Technically legal.

(Some old version of GHC had a hilarious bug where it would delete any source code with a compiler error in it. Something like this would technically legal for most compiler errors a C compiler could spot.)
by einpoklum | 2025-08-12 10:33:39+00:00
> GMail

She can access her GMail account using a mail client like Thunderbird (which is deteriorating, but works), or any one of many other alternatives:

https://rigorousthemes.com/blog/top-free-open-source-email-c...

> Facebook

I could recommend avoiding that particular tar-pit, but if your mom is there, maybe try:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=facebook+lite+desktop&ia=web

that's apparently a lighter-weight client, though I can't vouch for it.
by grafmax | 2025-08-12 10:34:40+00:00
Poverty is the underlying driver of most crime. Poverty, in turn, is the result of wealth hoarding by the ruling class.

Authoritarian intervention can lower crime at the expense of democratic rights. (Let’s not kid ourselves, the NG will not be used to “facilitate” protest in DC.). Effectively, an authoritarian response to crime further consolidates the power of the ruling class.

Trump has steadily encroached on constitutional rights throughout his term. He is indifferent to the root causes of crime. He is really only interested in crime insofar as it allows him to identify more people he doesn’t like as criminals, and to use harsher measures against them.
by avidiax | 2025-08-12 10:36:19+00:00
This is certainly an improvement over a lab test, but a continuous monitoring solution would dramatically expand the utility.

You could rate employers on the median cortisol levels of their employees during and after the work day.

At an individual level, those of us that are not very self-aware of our stress levels could monitor it objectively and determine stressors and implement and monitor interventions to reduce stress.