MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by VBprogrammer | 2025-09-22 12:38:25+00:00
I don't love Tesla (though I would like an electric car). I don't think it's unlikely that someone driving could have hit that or caused an even worse accident trying to avoid it.

However, I'm sure a human driver in the loop would have reacted. The driver sitting there watching a machine do it's thing 99% of the time and being expected to step in to save that situation though is a horrific misreading of human nature.
by stn8188 | 2025-09-22 12:38:27+00:00
That was a neat video, I wasn't aware of the FX architecture in that detail. I loved my FX series... I had a 6300 that got me through engineering school, and now the same basic desktop serves as my kids' gaming computer (though I was able to upgrade to a cheap 8350). It definitely still holds it's own with the older games that I let the kids play!
by that_guy_iain | 2025-09-22 12:39:29+00:00
How about we compare it with something more realistic? Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON. Since 1971, the 5 eyes countries have been spying on people en masse and scanning communications.

You probably don't like the comparission because you want to be an alarmist who is acting like this is new. All the fears you have, have literally been proven to be...
by IanCal | 2025-09-22 12:39:33+00:00
This should be very familiar to people working with data in a lot of jurisdictions. I can speak to Europe but I think similar things exist elsewhere - data is less restricted in how and what you collect than it is how you use it. This makes a lot of sense, you should be able to have a basic record of ip addresses and access times for rate limiting, but that shouldn’t mean you can use it for advertising.

Similarly it seems reasonable that shops should be able to record for some purposes but not all.
by benterix | 2025-09-22 12:39:35+00:00
I noticed some companies ask for a LI profile, and sometimes this field is mandatory. So a few years ago I created an empty LI profile, just saying "consultant" started 20 years ago.

Strangely enough, it wasn't a problem at all. They'd still call me, interview me and make an offer. So I believe people overestimate the importance of LI, at least for some cases.

This is an important issue from me because it's the only so-called "social" site that seems somewhat enforced by the system we're living in, so it has been abused in various ways as people believe they have no choice but to share the details related to their education, past and present employment with the general public.
by ubermonkey | 2025-09-22 12:39:41+00:00
A shockingly useful "quick and dirty" estimate for C to F for temps humans are likely to encounter is 2x + 30. It's not precise at all, but for purposes of "what does that feel like outside" or "should I bring a sweater" it works pretty well.

21C would, by this estimate, be 72F. The true conversion is just shy of 70F, so, again, it's not correct but it's close enough for this kind of conversation.
by Sammi | 2025-09-22 12:39:41+00:00
I see a lot of whitewashing of Charlie Kirk on social media at the moment that this quote reminds me of. The guy made a killing from speaking hate and then he got killed by hate himself. Like the guy that's always in the jurassic park movies, that doesn't think letting the t-rex out will be much of a problem, and then he get's killed by the t-rex and everyone else needs to deal with the t-rex of hate and far wingism walking the streets.
by egorfine | 2025-09-22 12:39:48+00:00
> Have you tried?

Then:

> Then run [...] Then try [...]

I believe that last time I tried, systemd had different semantics (no mask/unmask, etc), but memory might fail me here.

Thing is, I don't want to do any of those things. It is not looking healthy to me that a simple unix instance needs dancing around to execute /etc/rc.local. The only solution that looks sane to me is "if /etc/rc.local is present and executable - run it". Yeah, I can understand the security implications of that.

> but nothing stops you from also running a cron

For now. Apple already deprecated and banned cron from running on macOS instances in favor of their absolutely batshit insane launchd (which was the inspiration for systemd, hence the inherited brain damage).

Before long Ubuntu will ship with no cron installed and then just a bit later it won't even be available in packages. Not even as a rust rewrite.
by q3k | 2025-09-22 12:39:49+00:00
Two economists are walking in a forest when they come across a pile of shit. The first economist says to the other “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The second economist takes the $100 and eats the pile of shit.

They continue walking until they come across a second pile of shit. The second economist turns to the first and says “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The first economist takes the $100 and eats a pile of shit.

Walking a little more, the first economist looks at the second and says, "You know, I gave you $100 to eat shit, then you gave me back the same $100 to eat shit. I can't help but feel like we both just ate shit for nothing."

"That's not true", responded the second economist. "We increased the GDP by $200!"
by elzbardico | 2025-09-22 12:39:55+00:00
I have a long-running interest in NLP, LLMs basically solved or almost solved a lot of NLP problems.

The usefulness of LLMs for me, in the end, is their ability to execute classic NLP tasks, so I can incorporate a call for them in programs to do useful stuff that would be hard to do otherwise when dealing with natural language.

But, a lot of times, people try to make LLMs do things that they can only simulate doing, or doing by analogy. And this is where things start getting hairy. When people start believing LLMs can do things they can't do really.

Ask an LLM to extract features from a bunch of natural language inputs, and probably it will do a pretty good job in most domains, as long as you're not doing anything exotic and novel enough to not being sufficiently represented in the training data. It will be able to output a nice JSON with nice values for those features, and it will be mostly correct. It will be great for aggregate use, but a bit riskier for you to depend on the LLM evaluation for individual instances.

But then, people ignore this, and start asking on their prompts for the LLM to add to their output confidence scores. Well. LLMs CAN'T TRULY EVALUATE the fitness of their output for any imaginable criteria, at least not with the kind of precision a numeric score implies. They absolutely can't do it by themselves, even if sometimes they seem to be able to. If you need to trust it, you'd better have some external mechanism to validate it.
by fsloth | 2025-09-22 12:40:54+00:00
If you notice only after two weeks the project is off-kilter I would guess the chance of that happening without an LLM is not low either.

These are not _tools_ -they are like cool demos. Once you have a certain mass of functional code in place, intuition - that for myself required decades of programming to develop - kicks in and you get these spider sense tinglings ”ahh umm this does not feel right, something’s wrong”.

My advice would be don’t use LLM until you have the ”spider-sense” level intuition.
by tedggh | 2025-09-22 12:41:01+00:00
I got my first Tesla last year and my first trip with FSD was just after the launch of V13, so I could not compare it to earlier versions. But I was shocked by how good it was. I completed a 800 miles trip with a handful of interventions, most or all of them likely unnecessary. Even with rain the system worked well. I don’t understand how the system was not able to see this obstacle and slow down or change lanes. Did they have traffic tailgating? I can see some edge cases where there’s really no way to avoid something like this safely. In any case it’s pretty unfortunate and it will make me be even more cautious when using FSD.
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-22 12:41:58+00:00
I'm a bit curious why this couldn't have been covered earlier by simply having the OS disable some cores on a 4-module 8-thread part. After all the video does point out that if only one thread uses one module, it as full access to all the resources of the module.

Also, the benchmark is clock-for-clock, so while the older Phenom II looks like it's ahead, the Buldozer should be able to go faster still.

All that said, I really enjoyed this retrospective look.
by pred_ | 2025-09-22 12:42:13+00:00
Unlawful processing of data is absolutely not “opt out” by default, and simply assuming that “legitimate interest” applies does not mean that you can allow on opt out.

Here's just a quick reminder that if you're a LinkedIn user based in an EU member state, and if you do not believe that “legitimate interest” applies, you can file a complaint with your national supervisory authority (SA)/data protection authority (DPA); see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_data_protection_autho...
by IanCal | 2025-09-22 12:42:54+00:00
> How the hell does the government have the right to decide what this private company can do on their private land?

Unless you think a grocery store should be allowed to grab you and sell your organs then you agree that this private organisation should be subject to some limitations about what it can do on its own land. The question is then where the line should be between its interests and the interests of those who go on the land.

You can be absolutist about this, that’s certainly a position, but it’s extremely far from mainstream.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-22 12:42:55+00:00
I find it disturbing that many people don't seem to realize that chatbot output is forced into a strict format that it fills in recursively, because the patterns that LLMs recognize are no longer than a few paragraphs. Chatbots are choosing response templates based on the type of response that is being given. Many of those templates include unordered lists, and the unordered list marker that they chose was the em-dash.

If a chatbot had to write freely, it would be word salad by the end of the length of the average chatbot response. Even its "free" templates are templates (I'm sure stolen from the standard essay writing guides), and the last paragraph is always a call to further engagement.

Chatbots are tightly designed dopamine dispensers.

edit: even weirder is people who think they use em-dashes at the rate of chatbots (they don't) even thinking that what they read on the web uses em-dashes at the rate of chatbots (it doesn't.) Oh, maybe in print? No, chatbots use them more than even Spanish writing, and they use em-dashes for quotation marks. It's just the format. I'm sure they regret it, but what are they going to replace them with? Asterisks or en-dashes? Maybe emoticons.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-22 12:43:07+00:00
> Any human who has watched ships come in to a harbor would be able to trivially tell you: We see the masts before the ship.

Of which, until recently, there were very few. Civilizations developed not just on the coasts, but along the rivers, and until ~industrial revolution, the bulk of people at any given time didn't really have a chance to see the sea.

> The only way anybody can come up with "Flat Earth" is by living in the middle of a continental landmass.

Yup, that is still true for humanity; what's changed in the last few hundred years is trains, cars, airplanes, and them all becoming broadly accessible to people.

Still, that was then. Today, "flat Earthers" are mostly just peer groups of shitposters or extreme contrarians.
by comrade1234 | 2025-09-22 12:43:43+00:00
I just got back from a trip to the USA where I spent about five days driving around Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin and the number of shredded truck tires on the highways was flabbergasting.

From what I understand, in the USA when a truck tire wears down they put a new layer of tread on it. But it doesn't seem to work very well as it eventually peels off.
by lukan | 2025-09-22 12:43:46+00:00
I know some who fucked up their whole life, because they believe that crazy shit for real. (Living now alone in a remote hut and waiting for the day when they come to take him away from there, because he also does not believe in paying taxes)

I can give you the adress, but maybe be a bit careful. To him you might be one of the evil NASA brainwashers.
by wheybags | 2025-09-22 12:43:49+00:00
I think you're misinterpreting what I meant. I was not trying to diminish the cultural importance of any other medium of expression. What I was getting at is that I feel the unique thing about programming is that the gap between thought and effect on the world is as small as can be. That it maps my thoughts onto external effects as directly and immediately as humanly possible. You can disagree if you like, but I'd appreciate it if you didn't baselessly accuse me of being uncultured.
by bob1029 | 2025-09-22 12:43:58+00:00
Play testing is the most important part of game development. Indies who struggle to come up with concepts are really sleeping on this. If you run play tests well enough your roadmap will almost write itself. Players will do and ask for things that you would never dream of.

I think an intense culture of playtesting is why valve software puts out games so rarely. Their new strategy seems to be to keep a title semi-secret for years while a small army plays it full time. If Deadlock makes it to market, it is almost certainly going to be an acceptable game to most who are even remotely interested in the genre.
by baobabKoodaa | 2025-09-22 12:44:03+00:00
Could you clarify what you mean by "weekly hours, not total hours"? If you input weekly hours and a completion date, doesn't that achieve exactly what you want? The contract will be valid until the date that you specify, and during the time that the contract is valid, you can charge approximately the amount of weekly hours specified. For example, if you have agreed to charge 40 hours per week for 4 weeks, then that is the same thing as agreeing to 160 hours in total. The wording in the generated contract is such that you don't have to work the exact same amount of hours each week, you can work more during one week and less during another week.

Perhaps you mean that you want to lock down an exact, specific number of hours, rather than allowing any sort of flexibility on the total number of hours? This would be better suited for the "project based billing" option, but as you said, that one doesn't have the option to set a completion date. The reason why it doesn't have the possibility to set a completion date is that it would create an ugly contractual situation in the case where the deliverables are not completed by the agreed-upon date.
by andrewacharlton | 2025-09-22 12:44:15+00:00
I've been an SEO consultant for 10 years+ and we have been manually updating content for a clients for years to add more value for users and optimise for freshness for Google. I built this after seeing how good the deep research products were from OpenAI and Google, and being surprised at how solid LLMs are at sticking to your writing style and tone of voice given the context of a full article.

Would love and appreciate your feedback!
by billy99k | 2025-09-22 12:44:48+00:00
"Married almost 20 years myself, I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone, even though we are very happy together. There is just too much risk, most of your outcome is luck. I was lucky, as are others whose marriage lasts until death, but many are not. Date, love, explore, connect, enjoy lengths of a shared timeline together, but don’t get married. It’s a potentially unnecessary property and tax optimization agreement."

I've been married for 15 years myself. Like most things, luck comes to the prepared. When you are dating someone, you can tell within a year or two if you will be compatible in the long term.

Everyone in my friend group has been married for 10 years+ with no hints of divorce. We were all unmarried when we met. I don't think this is luck.

"(the poly people I know use LLCs to manage shared property ownership and operating agreements, which seems to work without much issue, power of attorney and other legal instruments are available for medical directives, authority, and access between partners)"

The poly people I know are always moving from one complete mess to another in terms of mental/emotional states. You aren't recommending marriage, but think a 'poly' relationship is any better?
by gloosx | 2025-09-22 12:44:51+00:00
It’s funny — Chat Control is not aimed at people who actually care about privacy. Those will always find a way to keep using encryption. The math doesn’t vanish because a law says so, and the open-source projects aren’t going away.

What it really does is push "regular" people back into surveillance by default. Most already assume their chats might be scanned or their phone might be listening, so they self-censor anyway. The law just bakes that into the mainstream tools, while the rest of us will keep using the same workarounds we always have.
by mortimerp9 | 2025-09-22 12:44:56+00:00
Meta AI is releasing two new resources for AI agents research: - GAIA 2 Benchmark: An updated approach to agents evaluation

• 800 dynamic scenarios across ten realistic universes

• Tests adaptability, robustness to failure, and time sensitivity

• Moves beyond static benchmarks to evaluate real-world agent capabilities

- Agents Research Environments (ARE): A simulation platform for agents research

• Dynamic, evolving environments that mirror real-world complexity

• Built-in reward signals and comprehensive evaluation tools

• Realistic apps (email, calendar, file system, messaging) with realistic data

• Event-driven architecture that creates dynamic scenarios for multi-turn tasks
by tapoxi | 2025-09-22 12:45:39+00:00
>Bluefin is, fundamentally, a container image that you run with your preferred container runtime (Docker, Podman, whatever).

Nope, you don't execute it like a container. Although it is an OCI-compatible container image and can be built using Docker/buildah/etc, it's "executed" (well, deployed) using bootc (boot container). This is a technology that basically blasts the container out to a filesystem tree using a technology called OSTree. OSTree is the same technology behind Flatpaks.

The older, pre OCI-based version of this tech is called rpm-ostree.

>Because Bluefin is a container image, updates are all-or-nothing, i.e. atomic. You download the updated image, then reboot into it next time you're ready to reboot.

Key word being atomic, you can layer packages onto the container image. This gives you some flexibility without needing to rebuild the entire container. For example, I use Kinoite and I depend on zsh which isn't shipped in the image. If I `rpm-ostree install zsh` and reboot, I now have zsh layered and it'll be automatically re-layered after every upgrade.

It's very much having your cake and eating it too. You get all the benefits of an atomic system's stability and ease of upgrades but you don't trade much flexibility for it.
by duxup | 2025-09-22 12:45:43+00:00
I recall reading about mountain climbing and some experienced climber was joking about the folks who are all about the weight and gear and so forth. He didn't say it was unimportant, but he did say that everything that makes him better than the amateurs, or even amateurs better than other amateurs had nothing to do with gear or weight fixation.

It was the same thing when I got into photography. It's always easy to talk about the easily measurable things. This lens is better than that and so on. Gear is cool and fun...

But the old guy with the beat up camera and not optimal lens shooting next to me ... he will take better photos almost every single shot.
by everdrive | 2025-09-22 12:45:54+00:00
It's an interesting topic. We don't have anything near as extreme in Western culture. But, I'd argue that our quirk is that we constantly tell people to just be themselves, to be their "true selves," to be "true to themselves," etc. We say it incessantly and loudly. And then, in reality, it's often not what people actually want, and that sort of behavior is often punished.

Again, I think we're quite different from the Iranian example, but the conflicting advice brings its own confusion.
by pmontra | 2025-09-22 12:46:19+00:00
Those humans saw the debris. What happens next when a human is actively at the wheel is that the driver should look at all mirrors, decide whether to change lane or brake, execute. Or anything else that could lead to a movie like multiple car accident. Hitting the debris is the least dangerous line of conduct if there are cars all around. That looked like an empty road but who knows.

By the way, playing a lot of racing videogames is a great training for dealing with that sort of stuff, except maybe getting good at mirrors. I've been in a few dangerous situations and they were only the 10th thousand averted crash. Nothing to think, only reflexes.
by pbasista | 2025-09-22 12:46:28+00:00
Anecdotal: I am surprised how the basic Tesla autopilot often cannot even read the speed limit signs correctly. In perfect lighting conditions. It just misses a lot of them. And it does not understand the traffic rules enough to know when the speed limit ends.

I know that the basic autopilot is a completely different system than the so-called FSD.

But equipped with that experience from the basic autopilot, it does not surprise me that a large debris on the road was completely missed by the FSD.
by whstl | 2025-09-22 12:46:47+00:00
> with Xcode, go to fargler settings click on narg screen

I hate how this looks "accessible" to people in theory, but in reality finding those screens is more like playing a hidden object game.

Also, I hate how those things keep changing around in all kinds of software, but especially Apple. Somebody probably thinks "yeah maybe we should move the Fargler settings from the Narg to the Birp screen", and makes dozens of internet "documentation" (and sometimes their own!) obsolete.
by tsimionescu | 2025-09-22 12:47:01+00:00
This may be a language issue, but saying "I hope this causes a compilation failure" implies that you don't know if it does - this is probably why you got down voted, since the article very explicitly says that this doesn't cause compilation failure. You may have meant that you hoped it wouldn't do this - in that case you should have used a construction like "I'd hoped this would have caused a compilation failure".
by amelius | 2025-09-22 12:47:18+00:00
What I wonder about is why we don't use the XOR principle more.

If A is a copyrighted work, and B is pure noise, then C=A^B is also pure noise.

Distribute B and C. Both of these files have nothing to do with A, because they are both pure noise.

However, B^C gives you back A.
by Aaargh20318 | 2025-09-22 12:47:29+00:00
Related to this is the omitting of units. I encountered something like this in the Android SDK (years ago, dunno if it’s still like this).

setFontSize(float): sets the font size.

Cool. Sets the font size in what? Points? Pixels? Device-independent pixels? Which of the 12 different types of measurement Android supports is used here? I can’t remember exactly what it turned out to be, but I know it wasn’t the unit I expect for fonts (points).
by TZubiri | 2025-09-22 12:47:35+00:00
Llm models are not just fed data, they are trained and fine tuned well beyond the original data, not only by pruning the data, but by a process we call fine tuning, which can produce as arbitrary a result you want It has been done for western markets (openai is a western company), but clearly not for persian culture. It's quite possible that the persian version is mostly a westerner type of dialogue but with a translator in the middle.

The only weird and entitled part is that they ask that other's llms learn taroof? Why not just train your own and teach it to do whatever you like.
by thinkcontext | 2025-09-22 12:47:51+00:00
The BJPs brand of ethnonationalism does have a kinship with MAGA as we've seen with the bromance Trump and Modi. But the recent tariffs have greatly changed many Indians' views on Trump, though I haven't seen anything about the views of Indian Americans specifically.

I can't help but be reminded of Steve Bannon's comments about their being too many Indian tech CEOs.