MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-13 03:29:39+00:00
For mistakes that aren't just nitpicks, for the most part you can't overlook them without something to fix them with. And ideally this fixing should be collaborative, figuring out if that actually is what they mean. It's definitely bad to think you simply know better or are better at arguing, but the opposite end of leaving seeming-mistakes alone doesn't lead to a good resolution either.
by Syzygies | 2025-08-13 03:29:45+00:00
I'm hoping to code Bezier animation in OCaml/F# in four dimensional space time, with a moving vantage point. Offload rendering each time slice frame to worker threads.

I'm surprised Bezier-rs is all about curves. Sure, fonts, but I can't be alone here in seeing curves as a special case.

It's easy as a pure mathematician to write off Bezier theory as "specialized" but it's simply the right way to work with polynomials on a simplex.
by rafabulsing | 2025-08-13 03:29:48+00:00
Google does not have a monopoly on distributing apps on Android phones.

Microsoft does not have a monopoly on distributing software on Windows.

Hell, Apple itself does not have a monopoly on distributing software on MacOS.

Really, you could say the same about, AFAICT, every single major operating system that has ever existed, other than iOS.
by spaceywilly | 2025-08-13 03:31:15+00:00
I’ve had more success this way as well. I will use the model via web ui, paste in the relevant code, and ask it to implement something. It spits out the code, I copy it back into the ide, and build. I tried Claude Code but I find it goes off the rails too easily. I like the chat through the UI because it explains what it’s doing like a senior engineer would
by shubhamjain | 2025-08-13 03:31:17+00:00
Even if AI progress all stops and we are stuck with these models, it would at least take a few years to make use them to the full potential. What gets lost in this AGI debate is how impressive are these models without even reaching it. And the places where it has been applied are just tip of the iceberg.

It's just like dot-com bubble, everyone was pumped that Internet is going to take over the world. And even though, the bubble popped, the Internet did eventually take over the world.
by davorak | 2025-08-13 03:31:48+00:00
> If you don't want to distinguish between empathy and understanding

I said "This seems to artificial separate empathy and understanding" not that they had the same meaning, or that empathy is used only for one meaning

The artificial separation in Bloom's definition I quoted above because it removes or ignores aspects that are common to definition of empathy. After those parts are removed ignored and argument is constructed against the commonly recognized worth of empathy. Of course the commonly recognized value of empathy is based on the common definition not the modified version presented by Bloom. Also artificial because it does not obviously form a better basis for understanding reality or dividing up human cognition. There is only so much you can get from a wikipedia article, but what is in this one does not layout any good arguments that make me go "I need to pick up that book and learn more to better my understanding of the world."
by rayiner | 2025-08-13 03:32:00+00:00
I assumed the person asserting that poverty causes crime was generally familiar with the crime statistics for poor countries in asia and africa (Bangladesh being an archetypal poor country in Asia). Specifically, the homicide statistics, which are the most reliable proxy for crime because homicides are well reported even in developing countries.

And if you aren’t familiar with the homicide statistics in asia and africa, how can you have an opinion on poverty and crime?
by dijit | 2025-08-13 03:32:07+00:00
I really don’t get why people are so bent out of shape about iPhones being a closed ecosystem.

But I am a game developer and console app distribution requires laborious requirements to ship anything meaningful, it’s just an ordinary part of playing the game.

Ironically: all our games end up being better* optimised for all platforms because of the requirements and accessibility is not an afterthought. But hell, is it arbitrary sometimes to get a cert pass and it is definitely frustrating.
by m463 | 2025-08-13 03:33:08+00:00
I learned about fans many yea^H^H^H decades ago when I had a sun external scsi disk box.

One day at Fry's Electronics I found they sold external scsi cases. So I bought a case and a cheaper bare scsi drive and hooked it to my sun.

The fan was quieter too!

and after a few months, the fan started getting louder. and louder. and then one day when the drive seemed to stop responding, I found it had failed.

sun fans were annoyingly loud, but they had one interesting property: THEY ALWAYS SPUN.
by analog31 | 2025-08-13 03:35:49+00:00
Beware. I took a poke from the focus anode of a CRT when I had a job repairing mainframe terminals in the early 80s. I thought I had discharged it, but apparently I didn't.

I had to sit down in a quiet room for the rest of the work day, before I could function again. It was probably 13 kV, which was typical for monochrome displays back in the day.

Also, anything in a CRT television can kill you because TV's tended to have a "hot" chassis. The repairmen always plugged a TV into an isolation transformer so they could ground its chassis while working on it. There's a lot of counterintuitive things about those old electronics due to clever cost reductions.
by rayiner | 2025-08-13 03:36:12+00:00
> Who is going to draw that line? You?

That’s why we have courts?

> People are complex and not intrinsically good or intrinsically bad. Just the idea that there are wholly good people and wholly bad people is kind of disgusting

This seems like a religious belief. I’m not going to argue religion with you, but the data shows that 2/3 of all crime is committed by just 1% of people: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3969807 (“The majority of violent crimes are perpetrated by a small number of persistent violent offenders, typically males, characterized by early onset of violent criminality, substance abuse, personality disorders, and nonviolent criminality.”).

El Salvador dropped the homicide rate by a factor of 50 in a decade by imprisoning just 2% of the population. Let’s say we can’t go that fast because we have due process and whatnot. But once someone is convicted of a violent crime, why can’t we just double the sentences to keep them off the streets longer?

I’d even be willing to make the prisons nice, like in Norway. The point is to get them off the streets.
by zaza12 | 2025-08-13 03:36:16+00:00
Hi All,

Just discovered that someone created a video tutorial for Samarium, the Laravel based open sourcet ERP project I have been working on. Pretty surreal moment!

I have been posting about its updates here as well before. I just saw the video in youtube. Its the first time someone has made a youtube video of the project so i got kinda excited and thought of sharing here.

The video walks through the installation process and gives a nice overview of what the project is about. Always amazing to see when people in the community take time to create content around open source projects.

For those interested:

GitHub: https://github.com/oitcode/samarium

YouTube tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD4Wr8cT1CU

As the author, I know there are many bugs and lacking features in the project maybe, and also many part of the code needs refactor. But seeing a video someone else has made - that really gives added motivation.

Also, thanks to all the comment and feedback I had got here when i had posted before. I have implemented some of those, and it has been helpful.

Thanks and have a good time all.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-08-13 03:37:02+00:00
Me neither until I changed habit. It just means (a) having the ingredients - in season food boxes help here forcing you to do something with all the food and (b) chop (if needed) / cook (if needed) / eat.

The weird trick here is you dont need to win masterchef or even make cafe standard food. Chuck it all in a frying pan and mix and then eat. I find the mix of flavour from variety makes it quite edible.

If I have to use a skillet AND an oven that's too much work. One appliance max :)
by throawaywpg | 2025-08-13 03:37:48+00:00
Prisoners are not subject to minimum wage laws and are routinely paid wages far below it. In fact, the average wage for prisoners seems to much lower than my generous $1.25 an hour. But then, im a benevolent-ish overlord.

"They earn, on average, between 13 cents and 52 cents per hour nationwide. " https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploit...
by ehnto | 2025-08-13 03:37:48+00:00
I add to my prompts something along the lines of "you are a highly skilled professional working alongside me on a fast paced important project, we are iterating quickly and don't have time for chit chat. Prefer short one line communication where possible, spare the details, no lists, no summaries, get straight to the point."

Or some variation of that. It makes it really curt, responses are short and information dense without the fluff. Sometimes it will even just be the command I needed and no explanation.
by magicalhippo | 2025-08-13 03:37:49+00:00
Similar in Norway, though not it's only for production defects and not expected wear and tear from regular use, or misuse etc.

However it's on the seller to prove it was not a production defect if they don't want to fix or refund.

Back when CD burners kept getting faster and faster my buddy bought a 4x writer and ended up with a 52x writer as they kept breaking down after 12-18 months. IIRC he went through four or five before getting the 52x which lasted.
by hug | 2025-08-13 03:37:56+00:00
Sure, the example is any company that doesn't run a market, and any company where its marketplace is fungible with another marketplace. AirBnB may have four times the market cap of Vrbo, but their addressable market, both vendor and consumer, is the same set of people.

The monopoly that Apple controls is not Apple's goods, it's the control of the sale of goods of other vendors to consumers who have no comparable choice but to transact via Apple. The consumers are the people who would have to spend $1,000 to switch to a different market, and then have to re-purchase every good they'd purchased from the previous market.

It's not like Walmart, where the consumer can walk across the road to Target and buy the exact same thing at a similar price. Imagine if every time you wanted to switch which big-box store you shopped at they charged you a $500 entry fee and you had to re-buy all of your household electronics.

I would also, in a general sense, suggest that in the only obvious direct competitor market, Google does not exert monopoly power, because you can install F-Droid as an alternate marketplace. They are anti-competitive in other ways, though, to your earlier point.
by m463 | 2025-08-13 03:38:57+00:00
oh my.

My quality of life changed SO MUCH when I put in vlans.

machines go onto the appropriate vlan.

the winner was the "jail" vlan. Any machine on it can't get out. Maybe for updates through a filtering proxy like privoxy.

Every house should have vlans like this.

the status quo of "every machine can talk to the internet" or "buy our cloud-based router" is just uncomfortably common.
by repeekad | 2025-08-13 03:40:27+00:00
I think the issue is the compute power needed for good voice models is far from free just in hardware and electricity, so any good text to audio solution likely needs to cost some money. Wiring up Google vertex AI text to speech or the aws equivalent is probably something chat gpt could walk most people through even without a CS degree, a simple python script you could authenticate from a terminal command, and would maybe cost a couple bucks for personal usage

A service you can pay for of that simplicity probably doesn’t exist because there are other tools that integrate better with how the blind interact with computers, I doubt it’s copy and pasting text, and those tools are likely more robust albeit expensive
by kimixa | 2025-08-13 03:41:21+00:00
> It's still mind boggling to me that governments didn't say "Don't wear a mask for yourself -- wear one to save your neighbor."

I mean... they did?

Like in the UK's guidance literally the second sentence is "Face coverings are primarily worn to protect others because they cover the nose and mouth, which are the main sources of emission of the virus that causes coronavirus infection (COVID-19)."

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-wh...
by joe_the_user | 2025-08-13 03:42:16+00:00
I think both the literature on interpretability and explorations on internal representations actually reinforce the author's conclusion. I think internal representation research tends to nets that deal with a single "model" don't necessary have the same representation and don't necessarily have a single representation.

And doing well on XYZ isn't evidence of a world model in particular. The point that these things aren't always using a world is reinforced by systems being easily confused by extraneous information, even systems as sophisticated as thus that can solve Math Olympiad questions. The literature has said "ad-hoc predictors" for a long time and I don't think much has changed - except things do better on benchmarks.

And, humans too can act without a consistent world model.
by eru | 2025-08-13 03:43:39+00:00
> A lot of that success is from reinforcement learning techniques where the LLM is made to solve tons of math problems after the pre-training “read everything” step, which then gives it a chance to update its weights. LLMs aren’t just trained from reading a lot of text anymore. It’s very similar to how the alpha zero chess engine was trained, in fact.

It's closer to AlphaGo, which first trained on expert human games and then 'fine tuned' with self-play.

AlphaZero specifically did not use human training data at all.

I am waiting for an AlphaZero style general AI. ('General' not in the GAI sense but in the ChatGPT sense of something you can throw general problems at and it will give it a good go, but not necessarily at human level, yet.) I just don't want to call it an LLM, because it wouldn't necessarily be trained on language.

What I have in mind is something that first solves lots and lots of problems, eg logic problems, formally posed programming problems, computer games, predicting of next frames in a web cam video, economic time series, whatever, as a sort-of pre-training step and then later perhaps you feed it a relatively small amount of human readable text and speech so you can talk to it.

Just to be clear: this is not meant as a suggestion for how to successfully train an AI. I'm just curious whether it would work at all and how well / how badly.

Presumably there's a reason why all SOTA models go 'predict human produced text first, then learn problem solving afterwards'.

> I think the biggest limitation LLMs actually have, the one that is the biggest barrier to AGI, is that they can’t learn on the job, during inference. This means that with a novel codebase they are never able to build a good model of it, because they can never update their weights. [...]

Yes, I agree. But 'on-the-job' training is also such an obvious idea that plenty of people are working on making it work.
by safercplusplus | 2025-08-13 03:43:45+00:00
Yeah, but C++ now supports "user-defined" annotations which effectively allow you to add the equivalent of any keyword you need, right? (Even if it's not the prettiest syntax.) For example, the scpptool static analyzer supports (and enforces) lifetime annotations with similar meaning to Rust's lifetime annotations.

I believe gcc actually does support `__attribute__ ((pure))` to indicate function purity. (I assume it doesn't actually enforce it, but presumably it theoretically could at some point.)
by taberiand | 2025-08-13 03:43:55+00:00
Why would it cause someone to waste their life in misery? On a personal level, for everyone, doom is imminent and everything is pointless - 100 years is nothing, we all will die sooner or later. On larger time scales, doom is imminent and everything is pointless - even if everything was perfect, humans aren't going to last forever. Do people waste their lives in misery in the face of that reality? Why would believing humans are likely to wipe themselves out due to climate change lead to misery?

If anything, avoiding acknowledging the reality and risk of climate change because of the fear of what it might mean, is miserable.
by m463 | 2025-08-13 03:44:37+00:00
People who are enchanted by this sort of thing should check out openwrt:

https://www.openwrt.org

Many common off-the-shelf routers can run openwrt, and it is very nice to not only own your router, but your network as well.

People who do the sort of hacking like the author of this article get newer unsupported routers up and running on openwrt and share the results.
by blackqueeriroh | 2025-08-13 03:46:04+00:00
You seem to fail to understand what empathy is. Empathy is not understanding another person’s point of view, but instead being able to analogize their experience into something you can understand, and therefore have more context for what they might be experiencing.

If you can’t do that, it’s less about you being rational and far more about you having a malformed imagination, which might just be you being autistic.

— signed, an autistic
by swengcrunch | 2025-08-13 03:46:19+00:00
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by eru | 2025-08-13 03:47:14+00:00
> I’m no AI expert, but the fact that you have “prompt engineers” [...] gives me pause.

Why? A bunch of human workers can get a lot more done with a capable leader who helps prompt them in the right direction and corrects oversights etc.

And overall, prompt engineering seems like exactly the kind of skill AI will be able to develop by itself. You already have a bit like this happening: when you ask Gemini to create a picture for you, then the language part of Gemini will take your request and engineer a prompt for the picture part of Gemini.
by nunez | 2025-08-13 03:47:15+00:00
Honestly, thank goodness.

I drink much less than I used to. I never suffered from bad hangovers, but I didn't like feeling slow the next day or experiencing the poor sleep that comes with lots of drinking.

Having quality NA options means that I can space out my alcohol even more by having an Athletic in between full beers, or having a mocktail after a cocktail.

Speaking of mocktails: Lots of bars are realizing that mocktails are literally just juices with insane margins (they're often charged the same as a cocktail, which has the alcohol priced in). It is much easier to find actually good mocktails these days, which is great.
by JNRowe | 2025-08-13 03:48:07+00:00
There is also a `-b` flag to get it back in to the shape you'd expect from cal. I find the week column easier to read in that form:

w| Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 31| 1 2 3 32| 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Perhaps worth noting that ncal's -w is ISO-8601 compliant¹, which may surprise some people around new year as week numbers can reset in December or January.

[Said as someone who aliases cal to "ncal -wb" mostly just to get the correct first day of the week for their locale.]

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date
by aurareturn | 2025-08-13 03:48:15+00:00
There are many ideas (society enhancing ones) that I have that I can't do due to context size being too low, inference being too slow, or price being too high.

For example, I want to use an LLM system to track every promise a politician makes ever and see if he or she actually did it. No one is going to give me $1 billion to do this. But I think it would enhance society.

I don't need an AGI to do this idea. I think current LLMs are already more than good enough. But LLM prices are still way to high to do this cost effectively. When inference is as cheap relatively as serving up a web page, LLMs will be ubiquitous.
by idiotsecant | 2025-08-13 03:48:22+00:00
This is not true. There are some special exceptions (rotating kerr ring singularities) but in general there is no 'upward' direction away from the singularity. Space becomes timelike. There is only forward, toward the singularity. You can expend energy and accelerate toward the singularity slower, but every particle within the event horizon can move only closer to the singularity. There is absolutely no moving away from the singularity. Full stop. If you think there is, you are misunderstanding something fundamental about the model.
by drjeats | 2025-08-13 03:49:25+00:00
Ghostty is trying to be a speed demon terminal, so I'd expect it to use ReleaseFast.

The current build system docs don't prioritize one build mode over another:

https://ziglang.org/learn/build-system/

> Standard optimization options allow the person running zig build to select between Debug, ReleaseSafe, ReleaseFast, and ReleaseSmall. By default none of the release options are considered the preferable choice by the build script, and the user must make a decision in order to create a release build.

But for more opinionated recommendations, ReleaseSafe is clearly favored:

https://zig.news/kristoff/how-to-release-your-zig-applicatio...

> ReleaseSafe should be considered the main mode to be used for releases: it applies optimizations but still maintains certain safety checks (eg overflow and array out of bound) that are absolutely worth the overhead when releasing software that deals with tricky sources of input (eg, the internet).

https://zighelp.org/chapter-3/

> Users are recommended to develop their software with runtime safety enabled, despite its small speed disadvantage.

If you could somehow collect real-world data, the overwhelming majority of Zig programs aren't released and have likely only made debug builds :P
by blackqueeriroh | 2025-08-13 03:49:34+00:00
Wait, hold on.

1) the word is “empathetic,” not “empathic.” 2) are you saying that people should not be empathetic to minorities?

Do you know why that is what’s taught in DEI trainings? I’m serious: do you have even the first clue or historical context for why people are painstakingly taught to show empathy to minorities in DEI trainings?
Show HN: Novie – Free AI Video Prompt Workspace for Veo3 and Creators
by sumit_entr42 | 2025-08-13 03:50:46+00:00
I'm a college student building solo and just released Novie, a free tool to help anyone create better prompts for AI video generators like Veo3.

It has:

Idea Mode: Make full prompts fast with style and mood picks

Pro Mode: Detailed control scene-by-scene, including characters and negatives

Ready-to-use templates: Modify and use right away

I made Novie to solve my own frustration with confusing and inconsistent AI video results. Would love feedback or ideas for new features!

Try it: [Novie](https://noviestudios.vercel.app)

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