MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sovietmudkipz | 2025-08-28 16:49:10+00:00
Sci-fi readers who’ve read Ender’s Game will recognize this style of software as similar in concept to the Mind Game Ender Wiggins plays. In the book, the Mind Game renders a game world based on the subject’s mind (conscious, subconscious) in a mechanically similar way to how dreams work for us IRL.

I’m excited for AI rendered games.
by samtheprogram | 2025-08-28 16:49:18+00:00
Yup, just rebase.

I just commit with a “wip!”-prefaced message whenever the LLM pauses and says it’s finished, including new files. You can squash and cleanup later, or revert back to a state before it screwed up.

Also doubles as a way to cohesively look at the changes it made without all the natural language and recursive error/type fixing it does while working.

I don’t understand why people are making it so complicated. You’re saving a minute per iteration with the LLM, tops, at risk of losing control or introducing hard to find issues. It is the definition of diminishing returns.
by tantalor | 2025-08-28 16:49:25+00:00
I think you are asking "how did the person who told you there is at least one girl learn that".

The answer is: it doesn't matter how because that is an unambiguous statement.

It means "you can assume the family does not have two boys".

I think people are actually getting hung up on "you are told" as if that could be a lie, or some kind of trick, when it is really just supposed to mean "here is some more information that you can rely on".
by yencabulator | 2025-08-28 16:49:48+00:00
It looks like the glass is fully accessible: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/CBR_Buil...

The sentence you quoted continues:

> protecting the floors from the elements and allowing work to progress on the interior as floors above were still under construction.

so it seems the main benefit was that the construction could be pipelined better as the already in place glass helped shelter the interior.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-08-28 16:50:09+00:00
When you are operating at scale you are likely to use a small model during the auto regressive phase to generate sequential tokens and only involve the large model once you've generated several tokens. Whenever the two predict the same output you effectively generate more than one token at a time. The idea is the models will agree often enough to significantly reduce output token costs. Does anyone know how effective that is in practice?
by estebarb | 2025-08-28 16:50:22+00:00
Thanks for the answer. For instance, usually those containers are used as indexes in DBs, so they contain pointers to data, not the data itself. That is an scenario where the references shouldn't be invalidated.

Idk if it may be possible to introduce "semantic monitors". Say, a field within a class and an external container must be updated together. In practice the only time when I have needed to break the single ownership is for keeping internal data views. I know it is safe, but convincing Rust of that is painful.
by nunez | 2025-08-28 16:50:26+00:00
I bought FSD full-boat twice. I always treated FSD as an aspirational goal and that what I was actually buying was a very advanced L2 ADAS. Given that I use ADAS regularly and it was better than anything else commercially available, it was an easy buy. I use it every day and still believe that it was worth the money.

That said, I was really upset when Tesla announced that HW3 cars will not be retrofitted with HW4, as they have stated many times that they will upgrade cars as new revisions were released until they achieved FSD.
by realityfactchex | 2025-08-28 16:50:32+00:00
Why?

Because people have to know about the product and give a care for it.

In other words, Marketing is hard unless you 1) have a ton of money or 2) get "lucky" (right time/place) 3) have the right network/connections already in place to supercharge the 'launch'.

That is why, IMHO.

That is also why 1) being prolific and 2) very persistent are important for success. (Hence, always be launching.)

They're not buying the product. They're buying what it does for their ego or life. People buy on emotion, in addition to whatever it does for them.

But they have to know it exists, first.

Hence, why Ads / "influence" is such a big biz online.
by yepguy | 2025-08-28 16:50:37+00:00
My new bookmark solution is email, with some extra steps to get back single click bookmarking.

1. Use Raindrop and its browser extension (or mobile app) for saving bookmarks.

2. Subscribe to the RSS feed of my new bookmarks.

3. Use Feedmail to send my bookmarks to me via email, with the full scraped article text included.

Email is a durable format with lots of powerful tools and easy automation. My bookmarks and workflow can survive the death of any of these services. I can tag, search, and read my bookmarks anywhere along with all of my other feeds, newsletters, and notifications. I can also easily forward an article I've bookmarked this way, or reply to self if I want to save my own commentary on it.
by RandomBacon | 2025-08-28 16:50:43+00:00
This type of thing seems almost like a non-event these days, I initially passed on this HN topic before going back and upvoting, and then writing this :-/

Such are the times we live in.

If I have kids, is there anyway to prevent this from happening to them while still living a somewhat normal life (not secluded in the woods, although with survey flights (airplanes taking routine, detailed, arial pictures of large areas) and satellites, that may not be enough anymore)?

I assume even to get them on your insurance, the insurance company will make handing over their Social Security Number a non-negotiable.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-28 16:51:05+00:00
> Static member functions are tied to the class while virtual member functions are tied to the object.

That's nice, but the entire point is, that the caller doesn't know the type of the object, it only has a supertype. That's why you need dynamic dispatch here. Of course you can implement dynamic dispatch without function pointers, but it is done with function pointers here. If you don't want to name dynamic dispatch implemented with function pointers a vtable, OK, that's fine, but that's the definition I am familiar with.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-28 16:51:31+00:00
>Or as a question: Why can't we do that stuff?

Because over the past decades the interests that used to focus on growing the pie have pivoted to scooping up more of the pie (usually by getting government, or government adjacent entity, to pull some string).

Imagine the year is 1950/60/70/80 and you are a lobbyist for a construction product manufacture. What do you tell your paid off political to vote for? Stuff that lowers cost, creates more development, etc, of course. Because for every mil spent industry wide you know your employer nets $10, or whatever.

In 2025 you'd wine and dine a bunch of IBC jerks and insurance jerks and maybe even government jerks to get them to phrase things so that the industry is "incentivized" to use your employer's class of products, to the detriment of literally every participant in your sector for whom a different class of product would have otherwise been superior in their situation.

This sort of pivot to zero sum behavior has permeated damn near every class of economic activity, only in the most cutting edge spots of cutting edge sectors and the lowest margin, lowest sophistication, lowest security/moat sectors do you see anyone lift a goddamn finger to grow the pie.
by shermantanktop | 2025-08-28 16:52:01+00:00
Another of my online lives is on guitar forums (TGP etc), populated by diverse set of non-geek characters. An eternal question that comes up is “why are they charging so much for this guitar? The parts can’t be that expensive. I bet I could just…”

And the only viable answer is the ol’ capitalist saw: they charge what buyers are willing to pay.

That never quite satisfies people though.
by trod1234 | 2025-08-28 16:52:21+00:00
The problem with your reasoning is that its discriminatory in the parameters you set.

When you set impossible constraints that neglect requirements for sustainability, and tell people to do the impossible, you pigeonhole and sieve only the people you are actually looking for (the ones that can meet that sieve).

The lying, and deceit that you do, naturally occur after-the-fact (which blind people don't notice, often making them evil). The danger of most deceit and lying occur where you say something truthful omitting something important that they know, but then later contradict yourself in the outcome. These are called lies of omission. Deceivers and Vipers take full effect of these actions pretending its not them, its the circumstance, but a circumstance they control.

Of course the middle team would be the only ones left, after all you tortured your senior team having them baby a LLM driving them to burnout, and the junior team lacked the knowledge that makes the difference between Junior and Mid, to be productive. You set a filter that only your midlevel team could meet, and any conclusions you make will equally conform to your initial decisions in the criteria you set which is you don't want to hire young people, or old people. You want them just right, and there are laws against age discrimination. People have tried to get around these laws for years, and have never had more luck in evading these than now; with the advent of blackbox AI which can obscure these type of decisions through hiding them in the weights. Short term, there will of course be more profit, long-term the lawsuits will get you, and your good character which you thought you had will not be good.

Additionally, you have your perfect team left that is wholly dependent on LLM, who won't be able to solve the rare but inevitable problems the senior level people would (before they occur).
by corysama | 2025-08-28 16:52:39+00:00
> how are these 2 comparable at all. the latter looks like a terrible travel agency ad.

Don't focus on the emotional context of the scenes. Look at the physical content. They are both contain stonework, plants and a human. They are both large, detailed scenes lit by strong sunlight and a bright sky. As far as rendering technology requirements go, they are very similar.

> scratches my brain in a very unpleasant way, it's hard to describe the sensation. The closest thing is "disgust"

There is strong discontinuous motion effect because of how the video tech is based on a sequences of "first frame, last frame" inputs spliced together. There are a couple seconds where her behavior gets uncanny valley --particularly her hands on the door. Wouldn't be a concern in an unrealistic video game. But, would be in a this-realistic game regardless of the tech. And, there is a very slight warble in the fine details. But, you have to really look for those to distinguish them from MPEG artifacts.

I expect what a lot of people here are feeling when they watch the video is disgust based 90% or more just on the fact that the video was AI generated :/
by stephenlf | 2025-08-28 16:53:03+00:00
Remember when Amazon Video moved from serverless back to a monolith because they were using S3 for storing video streams for near realtime processing? This feels the same. Except Amazon Video is an actual company trying to build real software.

Amazon Video’s original blog post is gone, but here is a third party writeup. https://medium.com/@hellomeenu1/why-amazon-prime-video-rever...
by tavavex | 2025-08-28 16:53:09+00:00
I don't know why you're interpreting my post like it's written in an accusatory or aggressive way. Seriously, multiple people have done this in response to me and I don't know why. I never speculated on the validity of any of this, or said that it was all woo or fake. Please, kindly leave your "groupthink" and "harshes your mellow" at the door.

All I said is that understanding this topic for someone with no personal experience of what's being described is difficult, especially since there are multiple groups (yes, some of them more focused on unprovable 'woo' than others) who take an interest in this. In those descriptions, telling apart reality from magic is hard when speaking to someone new - but that's not saying that the underlying topic is magical at all.

This compounds the fact that I have no frame of reference to understand what most people here are describing. I wish I had a better reference, but this is genuinely the best I can do as someone with no experiences like these.

Thanks for the extended description of what "breathwork" entails, the disambiguation was very helpful.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-08-28 16:53:10+00:00
>but people I’ve seen doing it were more likely to be implicitly (or, fairly often, explicitly) referencing historical real-world

Covered by my short phrase "out of".

>Though common to all three (authoritarian history, dystopian fiction, and the present American regime) is concealment of the fact of detention,

Yes, which is why only you and I can talk about it. No one else here even knows about the detentions, since they're so concealed. Have you not noticed that not only are they not concealed, but that the detention centers get honest-to-god marketing names ("Alligator Alcatraz")?
by rimunroe | 2025-08-28 16:53:14+00:00
Does the "<business logic>" part involve a bunch of irreducible boilerplate too or something? What's it like?

If it doesn't, then I feel like even in the JavaScript world of 2015 you could write "app.put("/mypath", business_logic)" and that would do the trick, and that was a very immature language ecosystem.
by jfecher | 2025-08-28 16:53:19+00:00
> I'm actually hoping to find a way to blend Nick's approach seamlessly with reference counting (preferably without risking panics or deadlocks) to get the best of both worlds, so that we can consider it for Mojo. I consider that the holy grail of memory safety, and some recent developments give me some hope for that!

Ante's approach manages to blend a similar scheme for safe, shared mutability with Rc. There are some examples on the most recent blog post on its website of it. IMO combined with its shared types it emulates high-level GC'd code very well.
by throw0101a | 2025-08-28 16:53:21+00:00
> It is a bad thing and anyone who thinks otherwise is acting in bad faith.

The problem is that there are people who genuinely believe it is not a bad thing.

> Bad faith (Latin: mala fides) is a sustained form of deception which consists of entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings while acting as if influenced by another.[1] It is associated with hypocrisy, breach of contract, affectation, and lip service.[2] It may involve intentional deceit of others, or self-deception.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith

These people are not pretending and saying these things for clicks or whatever. When they say they like this, and want more, it would be prudent to prudent to take them at their word.
by delusional | 2025-08-28 16:53:21+00:00
> The government we call authoritarian is delivering what Western democracies struggle to: stuff that actually works. Their infrastructure works. Extreme poverty collapsed. Life expectancy increased by 10 years. They can plan 20 years ahead while Western politicians can't plan past the next election.

This is such an America centric point of view. Plenty of central Europe is delivering longer life expectancy and better public infrastructure, without the authoritarian state (at least if you ask anybody but an American).
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-08-28 16:53:31+00:00
So is OpenAI capable of not making a new model at some point? They've been training the next model continuously as long as they've existed AFAIK.

Our software house spends a lot on R&D sure, but we're still incredibly profitable all the same. If OpenAI is in a position where they effectively have to stop iterating the product to be profitable, I wouldn't call that a very good place to be when you're on the verge of having several hundred billion in debt.
by ankit219 | 2025-08-28 16:53:41+00:00
Oh nothing official. There are people who estimate the sizes based on tok/s, cost, benchmarks etc. The one that most go on is https://lifearchitect.substack.com/p/the-memo-special-editio.... This guy estimated Claude 3 opus to be 2T param model (given the pricing + speed). Opus 4 is 1.2T param according to him (but then I dont understand why the price remained the same.). Sonnet is estimated by various people to be around 100B-200B params.

[1]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kc262HZSMAWI6FVsh0zJ...
by fnordlord | 2025-08-28 16:53:43+00:00
I had one of these and used it a lot in 8th and 9th grade. Then in the fall of 10th grade, I woke up one morning with the left side of my body numb and ended up having 6 grand mal seizures in the afternoon. The doctors never figured out why and they haven't come back but my mom forbid me from it after that. I do wonder if anyone else experienced that.
by leoc | 2025-08-28 16:53:57+00:00
In memory-safety discussions it needs to be borne in mind that 'simply fix the hardware' is also a viable approach; or at least it's a lot more viable than it was or seemed to be a few decades ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Hardware_Enhanced_R... . Memory-safe BSD and applications running on real memory-safe RISC-V hardware apparently already exist, though obviously, yes, even in a best case existing architectures would not come close to being fully displaced for a long time. That said, I really hope the process isn't being further delayed by attempts to grub license money.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-08-28 16:54:26+00:00
While this very much looks like AI slop, it does remind me of a wonderful little book (which has many more equations): Formulas Useful for Linear Regression Analysis and Related Matrix Theory - It's Only Formulas But We Like Them [0]

That book is pretty much what it says on the cover, but can be useful as a reference given it's pretty thorough coverage. Though, in all honesty, I mostly purchased it due to the outrageous title.

0. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-32931-9
by jstgunderscore | 2025-08-28 16:54:58+00:00
This discussion always seems to revolve around art requiring one or more of the following factors:

- Intention to create

- Effort in creation

- Transformation of the medium/canvas

- Originality

- Meaning as interpreted by the artist

- Meaning/influence to the consumer

- Cultural influence of the art

Without an extensive discussion to define all of these terms, I think its fair to say that there are many human-created works with little-to-no amount of many of these factors, yet a lot of people would still classify them as art. Yet if a AI creates something that satisfies just as many or more of these factors, people seem far more hesitant to call it art.

I'm neither Pro or Anti "AI can create art," as defining what qualifies as art has been a futile exercise since forever. I feel similarly about the AI intelligence and consciousness questions; if we can't define it for ourselves, how can we hope to define it for another entity? I think the discussions can be productive in fleshing out your viewpoint, but otherwise are fruitless.

Ultimately I think humans are highly functional biological machines that have created something that can mimic us convincingly, and we should just come to terms with that without getting bogged down in debates over definitions.
by cagey | 2025-08-28 16:55:07+00:00
> There's only one way this country can be saved and, regardless of the process to get there, it would culminate in a new constitution.

NYT op-ed from 8/14 agreeing: "Abolish the Senate. End the Electoral College. Pack the Court. Why the left can’t win without a new Constitution."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/opinion/trump-democracy-t... https://archive.is/uNIPL
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-08-28 16:55:27+00:00
I looked into buying one a while back, and the spec sheet said it was using a 9 year old processor, and PinePhone uses a 13 year old processor.

It wasn't "discontinued," no one was working on it for years, and it was pointless to purchase.

The PinePhone is an outdated ripoff.
by wahern | 2025-08-28 16:55:44+00:00
> Walking through the ancient towns another reality hit me: China doesn't need us anymore. These towns were packed with only Chinese tourists, I counted maybe ten Westerners the whole week. No Starbucks, no McDonald's, no Western chains at all.

What? New Orlean's French Quarter doesn't have McDonalds or Starbucks, either. And how is it shocking that a historical district in a province not internationally well known would have mostly domestic tourists?

> China has built its own enormous internal market—its own tourism, its own brands, its own everything. They've turned inward not from isolation but from self-sufficiency.

Is this person completely ignorant about Chinese history? Precisely nothing has changed about China, the culture has always been like this, if only because they've always been so large. There's a reason they've always called themselves the Middle Kingdom (i.e. the center of the universe). Large countries are like this, generally. The USA is like this. Perhaps the author is American and that's why they're so shocked when they begin to see the world through others' eyes.
by Teever | 2025-08-28 16:56:18+00:00
The House Select Committee on the CCP has been publishing the results of war games with China over Taiwan and the results are pretty dismaying.[0]

They show the US narrowly holding Taiwan at the cost of dozens of ship, hundreds of planes and the depletion of missile stockpiles that have lead times measured in months to years.

China dominates the shipbuilding industry[1] and can easily rebuild whatever ships they lose while the US will be dependent on South Korea and Japan to rebuild whatever they lose.

At the same time China is stockpiling commodities[2] and has come to dominate the solar and battery manufacturing industry[3] by building a tightly integrated and automated supply chain which will greatly reduce their dependency on imported hydrocarbons should war break out.

America can't even muster up enough artillery shells to fight a proxy war with Russia right now and is in complete and utter disarray politically.

You should be paying attention to these kinds of articles instead of dismissing them. The next few years are not going to be very kind to America.

[0] https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites...

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/countries-dominate-global-s...

[2] https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/07/23/w...

[3] https://apnews.com/article/china-climate-solar-wind-carbon-e...
by logicchains | 2025-08-28 16:57:02+00:00
It's absolutely propaganda. China's GDP per capita is around $15k while the US's is around $60k; China still has a long long way to go, decades at best, before the average Chinese person's standard of living is comparable to the average American's. And given the population aging/low birthrate problem is even worse in China than in the US, it's going to be a struggle to get there.

China simply has a population around 4x larger than America's, so even at a much lower level of development/standard of living it can still have a very big impact on the overall global economy.