MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by doctorpangloss | 2025-09-12 02:03:43+00:00
> other maybe extremely basic edge cases were missed?

The whole testing enterprise is kind of stupid. Pray tell, if their stupid little benchmark said, "this niche little smaller model performs the best" would anyone listen to it? No.

The thing that is fucked about benchmarks is that we only pay attention to the ones that match these vibes: "The latest models from the biggest companies should perform the best." That's why they are stupid. They could be the most brilliantly administered (they're not), nail execution (they don't), but it still has to confirm vibes.

And listen these guys are serious academics, they're very smart people, but on the other hand, you know, I'm still right. The team doesn't have a secular, objective explanation for why nobody talks about benchmarks that don't confirm the biases of the public for what should perform well. Three people are commenting on just this post alone, but the stuff that I am saying: crickets.

The only reasonable explanation for "why do people ignore [LLM tests that show that some non-giant corporation LLM is the best]?" trades on cultural and humanities stuff that are outside their expertise. They don't see that the stuff the humanities people are saying generalizes to what they do. That would be too inconvenient. Every testing system suffers from this bias anomaly, it's just easier to talk about this with something secular like LLMs compared to say, tests of children.

They hear biases and they're like, "something something, Algorithmic Justice League." Their brains turn off and they think that until someone gets in front of Congress and points a finger, nothing in the humanities applies to them. Wrong. The Princeton lab has probably met with a lot of humanities people, and there was a lot of head shaking and agreement, but it's not like, something that tells them that their whole enterprise doesn't make sense makes them stop and pursue anything else. It's just in one ear and out the other.

Doing free tests for giant corporations to market their shit, and then toiling away in obscurity when the tests do not market huge corporation's shit: it doesn't make sense period. But that's what they're doing.

If you need a simple theory for how Big LLM performs so well on SWE-Bench, it's as simple as: well they've seen the questions by running them, obviously, and someone has also tested the questions in their own personal chatbot sessions sometime in the past, and these are online systems, and OpenAI, Anthropic and Google run ETL pipelines that paraphrase user data for salient inputs to train on, so of course, they've all been trained on the test set. In reality, if these things were so fucking good as SWE Bench said, they'd be making a bajillion bucks making all this enterprise software, or they'd show even 1 novel math discovery, or whatever. But they do not have something as powerful as the benchmarks say, so that doesn't happen.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-09-12 02:03:52+00:00
I mean there was a :

1.5 In 2020 Democrats [did whatever and won the election].

So it's not all bad.

But yes, while my comment didn't go over their faults, the Democrats have plenty of their own too. But being blamed for doing nothing when you don't have the power is hardly their fault.

Ultimately, people in US politics on both sides are playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes.
by the_af | 2025-09-12 02:04:45+00:00
I agree with the sentiment, and I do have a blog (of which I'm the only visitor as I don't advertise it).

However... for me, the communities come first. I mean I do have a goal in my internet usage, and this goal comes before any principled stands (mostly; there are exceptions). So if, for example, the hobby communities around games and crafts I enjoy form in Facebook, what can I do? Facebook sucks as a platform, but I want to be in those communities because I enjoy being part of them. It's a trap, but one where there's no easy way out.

As for YouTube: my search history and the algorithm are my main use of YT; I wouldn't dream of turning them off. Because I basically use it for two things, my hobby things (subscribed to several channels I like) and watching cartoon clips with my daughter, all the algorithm ever recommends me is exactly those two things: cartoon clips and things related to my hobbies. Never rage bait, never random nonsense. When I click accidentally on rage bait inducing stuff, I remove it from my watch history; I know this isn't perfect but it works in the sense I don't get recommended that crap.

Also, YouTube Premium because I can't stand ads. Yes, I'm aware I'm paying the mafia thugs to leave me alone. It sucks.

This is no defense of YouTube, I know it can turn to shit any minute, but at least for me the algorithm works.

The one thing that is absolutely driving me nuts is the AI-driven en-slopification of the internet. I wish AI got magically banned from most venues. I want to interact with humans and human-created stuff, not AI spam. I think this is a battle that cannot be won, to my eternal sadness.

Again I must repeat I do agree with the sentiment of the blog post, and I wish the internet got de-enshitified again. I'm not sure it's that easy though.
Show HN: OllaMan – An Elegant GUI for Ollama AI Model Management and Chat
by Sulfide6416 | 2025-09-12 02:05:10+00:00
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by jacobjjacob | 2025-09-12 02:06:33+00:00
If the consumers in EU don’t like the legal and predictable effects of the DMA in this case, how is Apple subverting the democratic process? If the act isn’t having the intended effect, then either voters will change their minds or it will need to be reformed. But this sounds like a successful outcome of the law insofar as preventing anticompetitive behavior.

Subverting democracy, to me, would involve things like dark money campaigns and lobbying.
by pineaux | 2025-09-12 02:07:05+00:00
Actually, what they mean is squatters. In many parts of Europe -especially germany and spain- it's quite normal for 16 to 25 year olds to squat abandoned buildings and live there until the police kicks them out. These kids tend to get intoxicated and do stupid stuff. Like ringing a bell in the middle of the night. The squatting thing is seen by many as a measure against speculation on living space and at the same time giving young kids a cheap place to live and get on their feet. In most places in Europe the squatting is semi-allowed because of remnants of old roman law. It's quite fascinating and -in my opinion- a tragedy that it is disappearing.
by sjdhshjd | 2025-09-12 02:08:31+00:00
I’m all for human-written content.

But, AI search is here. When you write for hours will it be just to have AI quote or amalgamate it, so you can have a link sit by it that few will click on? Or will you submit it to some old Yahoo-like index, HN, or peer-messaging app that reaches maybe typically 10 people typically or 100,000 once for your 15 minutes of fame?

When you write something fairly long, don’t do it for the clicks, unless you need the money. If you have something to say that’s that you think is important, sure, write it, but don’t bet on anything but making a few people mad. Do it because it’s what you want to do. AI can’t take that away from you, yet.

I’m sure I’ve recently read something great that was written by AI, though. It’s not all slop. It’s only a matter of time now before Armageddon.
by 0xWTF | 2025-09-12 02:09:20+00:00
In case you haven't contemplated this logistics challenge before: the key is you need to stock shelf-stable products in these stores and at some point in their shelf life, transfer them out to other stores for actual consumption and back fill the emergency stores with fresh lots of new shelf stable products. You're just buying more shelf-stable supply once and then managing the transit through the supply chain with speed bump before the last mile.
by famouswaffles | 2025-09-12 02:10:36+00:00
>Show me a racist quote

If you don't see anything racist in that article, then congrats you're racist.

>Where does he use a racial slur

You think that's the only way to be racist ?

>or say someone is something negative because of their race?

Are you blind, willfully obtuse or is your reading comprehension just this poor ?

"If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified." This is not racist? Are you fucking stupid ?

“I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights” - Charlie Kirk

Oh the irony. The more i learn about this piece of shit, the less i care about his death.
by vesche | 2025-09-12 02:11:31+00:00
I bought a zfold 7 about a month ago, it has been without a doubt the coolest new device I have purchased in many years. It's unbelievably thin, if you use it in normal phone mode you can't even tell that it's a fold. I have installed so many fun apps. I downloaded Mihon which is a manga/comic reader and I've read the first 10 volumes of Berserk, it's such a great experience reading manga on the fold screen. I also got NetherSX2 which is a PS2 emulator, it's insane to me that a phone can emulate PS2 games perfectly, I played thru a good bit of Kingdom Hearts one night with a Switch controller connected via bluetooth. I also downloaded ReadEra and have read some of the Malazan fantasy series on the device. I can play Oldschool Runescape while watching YouTube videos at the same time. I have RVNC viewer and have used it to connect to a Linux system downstairs to manage one of my systems. The split keyboard on fold mode is super easy and fast to type on, I'm using it right now to send this message. The web browsing experience is great because unlike iPhone, I can have uBlock origin and desktop mode websites look great on the fold screen.

Having both a phone and tablet in your pocket is phenomenal. I don't think I can go back at this point. Apple knows this, which is imo why the rumor is the new iPhone 17 will have a fold option for a higher price. If you think it's gimmicky, you haven't tried it yet.
by llm_nerd | 2025-09-12 02:11:39+00:00
I can't speak to how CoreML worked for you, or how the sharp edges cut. I triply wouldn't comment on ANE, which is an extremely limited bit of hardware mostly targeted at energy efficient running of small, quantized models with a subset of features. For instance extracting text from images.

CoreML is pervasively used throughout iOS and macOS, and this is more extensive than ever in the 25 versions. Zero percent of the system uses MLX for the runtime. The incredibly weird and nonsensical submissions weird contention that because ANE doesn't work for them, therefore Apple is admitting something is just laughable silliness.

And FWIW, people's impressions of the tech world from their own incredibly small bubble is often deeply misleading. I've read so many developers express with utter conviction that no one uses Oracle, no one uses Salesforce, no one uses Windows, no one uses C++, no one uses...
by RyanOD | 2025-09-12 02:11:39+00:00
Congratulations! Who knows what the world will look like when your kids are in middle school / high school, but I would recommend strongly resisting social media / phones before they are in high school.

This can be tricky if all their friends / school communicates through such mediums as your kids may feel isolated. And yes, many schools promote the use of apps / social media as a shared means of communication for clubs, sports, etc. - which is maddening.

And, as parents, model reading physical books, not your phone.
by rimunroe | 2025-09-12 02:14:32+00:00
I was responding to you saying we could make fridges which could easily last 40-50 years without maintenance (and somehow not cost much more).

> Yes but how old are the B-52s? And how much maintenance?

They get heavy, months-long maintenance where they replace major components (often including major structural ones) every four years. Presumably there is more frequent minor maintenance before then. I don’t imagine their age of 70ish years is really relevant since I assume they’re approaching Ships of Theseus at this point.
by unangst | 2025-09-12 02:15:25+00:00
Our collective (‘free’) doomscrolling comes with an actual cost: we are the product being served.

Reminds me of the last line of R.E.M.’s ‘Radio Song’ (1991)… “Now our children grow up prisoners All their life, radio listeners” < https://open.spotify.com/track/5UBeN0XvvIvnEjyp6uThr4?si=V_Q...>
by wan888888 | 2025-09-12 02:17:17+00:00
Wait till you see Swiss-German

English vs. German vs. Swiss-German Nut vs. Nuss vs. Nüssli Mess vs. Durcheinander vs. Chrüsimüsi Rascal vs. Lausbub vs. Glünggi Chicken vs. Huhn vs. Güggeli
by s1artibartfast | 2025-09-12 02:18:09+00:00
Is significantly more for pensions. The article says 1% of retirement is for retirement plans, which are predominantly 401ks.

The article claims pensions, on the other hand, as one of the leading investors in private equity.

The term retirement plan is radically different from pensions.

By way of example, your local teachers union pension is probably massively invested to private equity. Your tech worker 401k is not.
by YZF | 2025-09-12 02:19:06+00:00
Show me the data.

Everything I see around me, in data and anecdotally, tells me that in my unequal society (Canada) everyone is doing better and governance is not controlled by rich people. The current government that won the elections would not be the preferred government of the ultra rich who want to make a little more money on the backs of everything else (which honestly is not a thing as far I can tell).

Marianna Mazucato's writings look interesting but I'd have to dig in more. Rutger Bregman seems like much less of an expert in the domain and I'm not sure his ideas vibe with me but might take a look.
by TazeTSchnitzel | 2025-09-12 02:19:09+00:00
I don't think Denmark in particular is preparing, because at the end of the year their national postal service will cease to deliver letters (after the government removed the legal requirement for it to do so), and more than 85% of Danes will only be able to receive government and commercial letters in digital form via a privately owned cloud service (e-Boks). That is an alarming level of concentration. If I were hypothetically in control of a state that was planning to go to war with Denmark and had the resources for hybrid warfare, I know which company's servers I'd want to take down first.
by layer8 | 2025-09-12 02:19:24+00:00
The proof in the pudding will be if machines will be able to develop new art styles. For example, there is a progression in comic/manga/anime art styles over the decades. If humans would stop (they probably won't) that kind of progression, would machines be able to continue it? In principle yes (we are biological machines of sorts), but likely not with the current AI architecture.
by et-al | 2025-09-12 02:20:06+00:00
This is a perennial topic:

- 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-val...

- 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prep...

It’s tougher to quantify and building a connected community than just profiting off users, though.
by concinds | 2025-09-12 02:21:06+00:00
> It is not reasonable, IMO, to require that every feature you ship has an API that is ready for public consumption.

It is, if we're talking about features designed to boost sales of your other products while preventing competitors from offering those features.

Look, even if they're able to compete fairly, those competitors might remain inferior options for other reasons. But Apple having to compete will make their products better. All of their best achievements came from fierce competition as the underdog. Apple's current situation is not good for it.
by foxfired | 2025-09-12 02:21:58+00:00
I've been steadily watching my Google traffic plummet as AI overviews continue summarizing my content. My search impressions have remain the same though.

However, RSS! People have literally emailed me to tell me that they are unsubscribing from my newsletter but "Don't worry, I follow you through RSS." My traffic is larger than ever thanks to RSS. I syndicate the full content, not just a summary, yet people still click and visit my tiny blog.

Google traffic, mainstream social media, all of them don't care about my blog. But from time to time, random people send me an email, and that makes up for it.
by tedsanders | 2025-09-12 02:23:10+00:00
I work at OpenAI and I'm happy to deny this hypothesis.

Our goal for the router (whether you think we achieved it or not) was purely to make the experience smoother and spare people from having to manually select thinking models for tasks that benefit from extra thinking. Without the router, lots of people just defaulted to 4o and never bothered using o3. With the router, people are getting to use the more powerful thinking models more often. The router isn't perfect by any means - we're always trying to improve things - but any paid user who doesn't like it can still manually select the model they want. Our goal was always a smoother experience, not ad injection or cost optimization.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-12 02:24:46+00:00
Analogy: It's true that TNT is, on its own, just a tool, and vastly useful for mining and demolition.

But if the major vendor and purveyor happens to be Blow Thine Enemies To Tiny Bits Incorporated, developing faster fuses and embedded shrapnel, then people are right to be concerned about "The TNT stuff".
by jwitos | 2025-09-12 02:24:47+00:00
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This role will include work on platform, infrastructure, and data. However, we are also looking for someone who will lead work on security & compliance (from HIPAA and SOC2 to regulatory submissions). You need to be proficient with Python. You are going to lead the infra development for our systems that are going to help patients around the world get the right cancer drugs.

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by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-12 02:24:50+00:00
> Looking at a phone is a problem to the extent that it cuts you off from real interactions in society.

I am confused here. Is reading the New York Times in paper form, on an e-reader, or a mobile phone different? If you are reading on a mobile phone, can you "just put it down when something else wants their attention"? Also, I was a subscriber to NYT for about 15 years, but quit about 10 years ago when the content got more and more click/rage-baity. (This is probably true of most large US newspapers.)

Final comment about paper vs digital newspapers: I much prefer paper because the adverts are print-only (no motion/animation) and there are no auto-play videos. It is much less distracting.
by rmunn | 2025-09-12 02:24:50+00:00
> Also, YouTube Premium because I can't stand ads. Yes, I'm aware I'm paying the mafia thugs to leave me alone. It sucks.

uBlock Origin has been able to block 100% of Youtube ads in my experience so far; granted I don't visit Youtube all the time. I also use yt-dlp to download videos so that I can timeshift them and watch them later when I'm not connected to WiFi and yet not burn through my phone data. This also happens to exclude ads, though that's not my primary purpose in using it.
by idle_zealot | 2025-09-12 02:24:58+00:00
> If the consumers in EU don’t like the legal and predictable effects of the DMA in this case, how is Apple subverting the democratic process

The issue is that Apple isn't following the law. It's breaking it and then miming to its customers that its actions are on account of the law. That misrepresentation is meant to convince citizens of the EU that DMA is a bad law with consequences they don't support so that they pressure their representatives to get it removed.

It's Apple making a big show of directly harming consumers as part of a misinformation campaign to get policy that limits their power repealed. To me that reaches the bar for subverting democracy.
by kamaal | 2025-09-12 02:25:39+00:00
>>Companies tend to assume that somebody else is paying for the development of open-source software, so they do not have to contribute.

I think if you are a billion dollar company using these tools, sponsoring maintenance isn't a lot to ask.

Curiously enough this came up even during the days of Perl.

I don't think Perl got its due, especially given the fact that even until most recently almost everything of importance was done with Perl. Heck internet was made possible because of Perl.
by const_cast | 2025-09-12 02:25:42+00:00
The trouble with videos is you can just... choose not to include stuff that obviously refutes your argument.

The reality is that global warming is definitely happening, and also the Earth is definitely not flat. But it's pretty easy to make a super convincing argument that the Earth is flat - you just don't mention any of the math behind why the Earth is round and then you can have a 5 hour long video filled to the brim with evidence the Earth is flat.

And it's not even lying. We're not saying anything that's not true. We're just choosing to omit data and evidence that proves us wrong. We can even include fake data and evidence, if we want, and refute that - ie build a strawman.