MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by motorest | 2025-08-13 11:49:44+00:00
> And research articles indicate that when the model computes that it should employ sycophantism it becomes less useful in every other way, just like a real sycophant.

The end goal of a sycophant is to gain advantage with their flattery. If sycophant behavior gets Claude's users to favour Claude over other competing LLM services, they prove to be more useful to the service provider.
by PedroBatista | 2025-08-13 11:50:11+00:00
I get the feeling this Perplexity guy is a mix of SBF the bitcoin dude with the Palantir guy but actually dreams to be early Elon, or a troll. Maybe another another deep state plant? If we really want to go that road..

Either way, how does Perplexity even envisions to become a stable business? Let alone buying the browser with +80% worldwide share.
by tlarkworthy | 2025-08-13 11:50:29+00:00
It's all written up and linked in the notebook and executable in your browser (if you dare to insert your OPEN_AI_KEY, but my results are included assuming you won't).

The evals were coding observable notebook challenges, simple things like create a drop down, but to solve you need to know the observable standard library and some of the unique syntax like "viewof".

There is a table of the cases here https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/robocoop-eval#cell-2...

So it's important the prompt encodes enough of the programming model. The seed prompt did not, but the reflect function managed to figure it all out. At the top of the notebook is the final optimized prompt which has done a fair bit of research to figure out the programming model using web search.
by Jotalea | 2025-08-13 11:52:18+00:00
It looks a lot like the game I "made" with one single prompt a few months ago.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67a125b3-15cc-8001-9863-13372338e3...

Here's a video in case you don't want to play it yourself

https://files.catbox.moe/v842wp.mp4
by gruturo | 2025-08-13 11:52:32+00:00
I think the parent poster didn't imply that TKL keyboads are intrinsically superior (on the other hand, unless your task is in the 1% benefiting from a keypad.... they kind of are IMHO, at least they're more portable and don't waste space on a desk), but rather described 2 possible attributes of better keyboards, not necessarily related.

On laptops, usually a keypad is an automatic indicator of a terrible product meant for the less knowledgeable audience. The keypad causes the rest of the keyboard to be squished to the left, with the hands now shifted off center and closer than normal. Awful experience every time.
by nobleach | 2025-08-13 11:52:50+00:00
I think we could compare hardware AND software.

Hardware: Apple announced an ARM based CPU and started shipping. It was _mostly_ a seemless experience thanks to Rosetta2. The performance on these well-built machines was outstanding. Even the Intel-based machines previously had really strong performance. The machines themselves (on average) were among some of the most well-built. Yes, there were outliers with the butterfly keyboards. Yes there were outliers with silly features like the touchbar. We're talking on average.

Software: Apple's OS is just a boring Unix that works. Yes I realize that Unix is in name only - but on top of that XNU microkernel really is a lot of BSD. Having the GNU tools available AND Sound/Fingerprint Reader/HiRes Display that actually scales... that is still not the reality in Linux. (I still love Linux btw - I keep multiple machines around the house running it) So not having to spend a great deal of time fiddling with config files when I plug in an external monitor actually is a big deal. Most folks don't want the hassles of messing with pavucontrol just because they switched to their external audio setup. Most folks will appreciate when they drag a window to that exterinal monitor that the HiDPI didn't cause text to go wonky.

So those are the areas where Apple is just massively superior. They nailed it in the "it just works" department. They've nailed it in the "quality hardware" department.

Windows also does fairly well in a lot of these areas.

As far as running Linux on Apple hardware? I had a buddy come into a meeting running Gnome+Ubuntu on his MacBook Pro back around 2017... as soon as he plugged into the projector, it was a mess. I'm sure it's gotten better since then.
by alberth | 2025-08-13 11:52:58+00:00
I think it’s similar in that…

- Everyone knew the Internet (and now AI) was going to be transformational.

- It was clear it would reshape economies and open up entirely new possibilities.

- But no one really knew what the killer use case would be, or how big any given Internet (now AI) business might get.

So, like a gold rush, huge amounts of money poured in, and everyone hoped their idea would turn into the next massive market.

——

There’s also parallels between NVIDIA and Cisco.

When the Internet was in its infancy, Cisco stock soured because the thinking was that Cisco networking is what’s ultimately going to power the Internet. (Much like how NVIDIA powers AI).

But what happened was that, new networking companies entered the market and it was found that the Internet economics was so large it overshadowed the relatively small networking needed for it in comparison.
by 47282847 | 2025-08-13 11:52:59+00:00
Sounds like you might want to dig into what these organizations do for its members besides assignment and management (not sale! you cannot own IP addresses) of shared number resources, to get a better understanding of their membership fees! I am a big fan of RIPE as an organization and appreciate their work (and less so of ARIN but I have little exposure).

Financial reports are public, and fee structures including salaries and all work areas and work groups are decided and voted on by its members. The highest body of the RIPE non-profit is the general assembly.

I manage two RIPE LIRs, and signup was not more work than joining any other member association. There is an annual invoice, and various payment processor options for that. I wouldn’t want it to be less “bureaucratic“ since I benefit from their processes and transparency. If they didn’t guard it, all of it would be in the hands of a Musk-like soulless broken person hiding behind a tax-evading corporate structure with zero accountability. No thank you.
by copularent | 2025-08-13 11:53:17+00:00
Delusional market fundamentalist bullshit in its most pure form. Good job.

Many governments around the world have figured out the US unemployment rate filter trick. What is actually being measured at this point is not important.

The market fundamentalist are performing a type of data ritual to the market gods with the unemployment rate. Make the data look good and the gods will reward us.
by austin-cheney | 2025-08-13 11:53:34+00:00
* Consulting. Businesses are fond of repeating mistakes with great dedication that sometimes it takes some outside help to steer the ship right to great animosity from the people writing code.

* Accessibility. Accessibility isn’t a huge challenge unless you’re in a business with a pattern of largely ignoring it. Then it can be a huge challenge to fix. AI won’t be enough and it nightly likely require outside help.

* Speed. If you want faster executing software you need to measure things. AI will be learning from existing code that likely wasn’t well measured.
by tim333 | 2025-08-13 11:53:54+00:00
I figure there are two sides to philosophy. There's the practical aspect of trying to figure things out, like what it matter made of - maybe it's earth, water, air, and fire as the ancient Greeks proposed? How could we tell - maybe an experiment? This stuff while philosophical leads on to knowledge a lot of the time but then it gets called science or whatever. Then there's studying what philosophers says and philosophers said about stuff which is mostly useless, like a critique of Hegel's discourse on the four elements or something.

I'm a fan of practical philosophical questions like how does quantum mechanics work or how can we improve human rights, and not into the philosophers talking about philosopers stuff.
by al_borland | 2025-08-13 11:54:30+00:00
For those who work in jobs where this content doesn’t matter, or might be required viewing, they know it. These people are the exception, not the rule.

There also is some degree of differentiation between the classic NSFW and gore, which is either to tag it as gore or NSFL.

This whole post just seems like someone trying to get upset about something no normal person has a problem with. This trend of trying to normalize everything to the point where we can’t even differentiate between safe and unsafe content for typical workplaces or polite company, is much more problematic than the NSFW tag. I’m so tired of these types of takes.
by Lio | 2025-08-13 11:55:25+00:00
I treat LLMs as a tool.

I want it to have empathy so that it can understand what I'm getting at when I occasionally ask a poorly worded question.

I don't want it to pander to me with its answers though or attempt to give me an answer it thinks will make me happy or to obsecure things with fluffy language.

Especially when it doesn't know the answer to something.

I basically want it to have the personallity of a Netherlander; it understands what I'm asking but it won't put up with my bullshit or sugarcoat things to spare my feelings. :P
by guestbest | 2025-08-13 11:55:32+00:00
It didn’t last past 2001 (lasted from 1996ish to 2001) and much of the money was stock and not real money so the paper millionaires never had the money since it never vested by the time they were hired until the time the dot com company went bust. VA Linux was a prime example of a company that didn’t have a profitable exit and evaporated with the market correction that I remember started in late 2000. The 9/11 attacks in NYC erased any chance of a dot com recovery.

Everyone knew there was this thing called the internet because cable broadband was being deployed everywhere and being sold for less than cost. That company whose name I couldn’t remember went bust I think around 2003(?) and I think AT&T took them over and doubled the price.

I remember someone showing me that you could do to domino’s pizza website and get a free pizza (unlimited orders) just for going to their website. I think that was 2002-3(?). There were lost of giveaways during that era. It all came to a stop as the internet grew and costs pilled up more so than the dot com bust.
by holsta | 2025-08-13 11:55:37+00:00
> Hardly a "roll out across the UK".

What's your threshold for when it becomes a problem? Should we wait until it becomes a problem, or should we try to stop this level of facial recognition?

You should also assume this is a proof of concept. It'll get improved and scaled down to run on every police vehicle, and on every camera the police already control.
by forinti | 2025-08-13 11:56:00+00:00
A food court near my house has slowly turned into an improvised coworking space.

It's relatively quiet (as food courts go). For a while, the café even offered a whole day's worth of coffee for a reasonable price.

What I don't get is why the increasingly empty malls in my state don't incentivise this more. At the very least they'd earn something from parking and some food and drinks.
by ehnto | 2025-08-13 11:56:40+00:00
> If you're completely new to the problem then ... yes, it does.

Of course, because I am not new to the problem, whereas an LLM is new to it every new prompt. I am not really trying to find a fair comparison because I believe humans have an unfair advantage in this instance, and am trying to make that point, rather than compare like for like abilities. I think we'll find even with all the context clues from MCPs and history etc. they might still fail to have the insight to recall the right data into the context, but that's just a feeling I have from working with Claude Code for a while. Because I instruct it to do those things, like look through git log, check the documentation etc, and it sometimes finds a path through to an insight but it's just as likely to get lost.

I alluded to it somewhere else but my experience with massive context windows so far has just been that it distracts the LLM. We are usually guiding it down a path with each new prompt and have a specific subset of information to give it, and so pumping the context full of unrelated code at the start seems to derail it from that path. That's anecdotal, though I encourage you to try messing around with it.

As always, there's a good chance I will eat my hat some day.
by aa-jv | 2025-08-13 11:56:41+00:00
The RP2350 is one hell of a tool, and I've seen it being used to solve some extremely thorny problems with great success.

So I'm pretty sure there are plenty of folks who understand whats going on, especially if they approach their study of the Ashet from the perspective of the RP2350.

Basically, its one hell of a swiss army knife for building computer systems.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-13 11:56:58+00:00
Like I said, maybe I'm not understanding which "unspecified values" we're talking about. The freeze semantic is a problem when we've said only that we don't know what value is present (typically one or more mapped but unwritten bytes) and so since we never wrote to this RAM the underpinning machine feels confident to just change what is there. Which means saying "No" isn't on the compiler per se. The OS and machine (if virtual) might be changing this anyway. If you know of Facebook's magic zero string terminator bug, that's the sort of weird symptom you get.

But maybe you're talking about something else entirely?
by csdreamer7 | 2025-08-13 11:57:45+00:00
This means their servers are very old ones that do not support x86-64-v2. Intel Core 2 Duo days?

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/05/building-red-h...

Think of how much faster their servers would be with one of those Epyc consumer cpus.

I was about to ask people to donate, but they have $80k in their coffers. I realize their budget is only $17,000 a year, but I am curious why they haven't spent $2-3k on one of those Zen4 or Zen5 matx consumer Epyc servers as they are around under $2k under budget. If they have a fleet of these old servers I imagine a Zen5 one can replace at least a few of them and consume far less power and space.

https://opencollective.com/f-droid#category-BUDGET

Not sure if this includes their Librapay donations either:

https://liberapay.com/F-Droid-Data/donate
by octopoc | 2025-08-13 11:57:47+00:00
> The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in mid-May. That happened just a week after Pulliam filed an equal employment opportunity complaint against an assistant chief and the police union accused the department of deliberately falsifying crime data, according to three law enforcement sources familiar with the complaint.

> Union officials said there is a larger trend of manipulating crime statistics.[1]

[1] https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-police-commander...
by amai | 2025-08-13 11:58:35+00:00
„A crucial mistake,’ according to Lighthizer, had been to let China into the WTO and treat it as just another country like America’s free-market allies.“

I agree. The WTO should be limited to democratic countries. It was a huge mistake to have countries like China, Russia and Saudi-Arabia in the WTO. These countries don’t play by the rules and consequently should be punished by the highest tariffs possible.

Therefor I‘m in favor of tariffs on good and services from dictatorships. But I‘m against tariffs on goods and services from democratic countries.
by machiaweliczny | 2025-08-13 11:59:06+00:00
I think they know this but don’t have causality built-in. In the sense they aren’t incentivised to understand holistically. Kids around 4 years old are spamming with “why? why? why?” questions and I think this is some process we need yet to reproduce. (BTW I suspect they ask this as manifestation of what is going in their brain and not real curiosity as they ask same question multiple times)
by dotancohen | 2025-08-13 11:59:16+00:00
I love this take. I do something similar, in that my journal is completely isolated

For journal entries I record voice notes. I can do it quicker, and I can do it while I'm e.g. driving or walking. I feel that I capture a bit more emotion with it too. I've been doing this for about 20 years, but only in the last year have I been writing a python application to organize and transcribe the notes.
by snickerdoodle12 | 2025-08-13 11:59:24+00:00
All I know is that, as a user, whenever I encounter a .net project I have to put in more effort to run it versus a golang project.

This matters for these tools because they're usually distributed via npm packages and then invoked by a javascript wrapper. So you want something with a small binary that runs on pretty much every windows/mac/linux system no matter the configuration.
by beardyw | 2025-08-13 11:59:38+00:00
> is there going to be an impending crash leaving only the ‘best and brightest’ on the other side?

The way it usually goes is that the prize goes to best real life application. It's not entirely clear what that is just yet. I was involved in web commerce in the 90s and there was a good bit of casting around looking for applications. And not really any mobile use, though I did a bit of that too. It's hard to visualise the future.
by xoa | 2025-08-13 12:00:14+00:00
>What is the answer?

WHITELISTING. It's utterly infuriating the obvious, time tested strategy with all the technological pieces already in place and an easy slot-in for government isn't at the tip of everyone's tongue. Just setup a set of new TLDs, ".kids1", ".kids2", ".kids3" etc, with kids1 being appropriate for anyone ages 0-4 years old, kids2 ages 5-9, kids3 ages 10-14, etc. Or whatever permutation experts and the public say make the most sense. Governments can set the requirements for anyone or any organization who wants to register a domain there to ensure all content is controlled, no user submitted content (or only submissions from registered people/orgs like schools say), no algorithmic engagement usage allowed, no advertising or whatever else is desired. It's also trivial to add that in under country TLDs so every single nation that wants to regulate their own can do so to their own standards. An alternate similar approach would be to have a single ".[ccTLD].kids" domain and then legally required DNS txt info site-wide as well as standardized metadata tags at the top of every single page going into more granular detail about content by category (like if some parents though their kids were ready for a higher age bracket of world news before being ready for a higher bracket of something else).

With age-appropriate content under its own TLDs, all the other technical pieces are easy to slot in as well. It'd be absolutely trivial for OS makers to have parental control mode simply gate a given user into whatever TLDs match the age or content levels set by the parents. It's very easy to imagine a nice GUI at the router level combining TLD-restrictions with VLANs and PPSKs such that a parent can "add a child" and it spits out a separate WiFi password that gates the child into their own age appropriate stuff.

The general internet should be a free for all for adults (or adult level), period. Access at all should imply someone is ready to navigate it. Trying to restrict and sanitize it is evil, wrong, and also just plain fucking stupid since it'll never work well. We can easily make a child internet however.
by projektfu | 2025-08-13 12:01:36+00:00
Again, the term GMO is not what you're looking for. In the first article, a zookeeper is quoted making much the same mistake.

Here is a list of approved bioengineered foods in the US:

https://www.ams.usda.gov/rules-regulations/be/bioengineered-...

All the fruits on the list are engineered for properties other than sweetness.

The term you're looking for is "bred". Fruits have been bred to be sweeter, and this has been going on a long time. Corn is bred for high protein or high sugar, but the sweet corn is not what's used for HFCS.

Personally, I think the recent evidence shows that the problem is not so much that fruit is too sweet, but that everything is made to be addictive. Satiety signals are lost or distorted, and we are left with diseases of excess consumption.
by superluserdo | 2025-08-13 12:03:00+00:00
I basically implemented exactly this on top of whisper since I couldn't find any implementation that allowed for live transcription.

https://tomwh.uk/git/whisper-chunk.git/

I need to get around to cleaning it up but you can essentially alter the number of simultaneous overlapping whisper processes, the chunk length, and the chunk overlap fraction. I found that the `tiny.en` model is good enough with multiple simultaneous listeners to be able to have highly accurate live English transcription with 2-3s latency on a mid-range modern consumer CPU.
by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2025-08-13 12:04:21+00:00
You probably know the Law of Archimedes. Many people do. But do you know it in the same way Archimedes did? No. You were told the law, then taught how to apply it. But Archimedes discovered it without any of that.

Can we repeat the feat of Archimedes? Yes, we can, but first we'd have to forget what we were told and taught.

The way we actually discover things is very different from amassing lots of hearsay. Indeed, we do have an internal part that behaves the same way LLM does. But to get to the real understanding we actually shut down that part, forget what we "know", start from a clean slate. That part does not help us think; it helps us to avoid thinking. The reason it exists is that it is useful: thinking is hard and slow, but recalling is easy and fast. But it not thinking; it is the opposite.
by cjs_ac | 2025-08-13 12:04:25+00:00
While I'm very interested to see what the outcome of your experiment, I think this choice of content will be a bad test. Calls for the dissolution of Parliament are innocuous, but support for a proscribed terrorist organisation is beyond the scope of Ofcom and, if it is investigated, would be investigated by the Secret Intelligence Service. Depending on the relationship that the country where you live has with the United Kingdom, you may be denied service by financial institutions, for example.

Starting with less extreme content, such as a how to buy drugs guide, and gradually escalating to provoke a response, would be wiser.
by stevage | 2025-08-13 12:04:57+00:00
As a Dvorak user on a laptop it was confusing seeing a QWERTY keyboard on the screen that didn't seem to have anything to do with anything.

The wpm score is also a bit meaningless when you're typing individual words at a time. My normal typing score is around 120wpm and this was scoring me at 64wpm. It's more about reflexes than about typing speed per se.
by rickdeckard | 2025-08-13 12:05:08+00:00
> I do agree with your point that the people who suffer from the policy breach have to be pragmatic in their handling. But ultimately, let's not let pragmatism and stoicism lead to businesses spectacularly breaking policies in hopes of being told "well the cats out the bag now, the victims can deal with it, you might has well continue".

I fully agree, and that's IMO the core-issue here: This strong-arm approach of just forcing the problem to be solved in your favor by scaling as fast as possible and then pleading how uneconomic it would be for you to change course, insisting that the other side should be pragmatic about this.

I don't remember this was a working strategy in the past (imagine a car-company just accelerating sales of a faulty car to scale THEIR issue and avoid having to do a recall), but nowadays it could even be turned into a geopolitical topic...