MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aytuakarlar | 2025-09-12 09:54:59+00:00
I’m building Project Chimera, an open‑source neuro‑symbolic‑causal AI framework. The goal:

Combine LLMs (for hypothesis generation), symbolic rules (for safety & domain constraints), and causal inference (for estimating true impact) into a single decision loop.

In long‑horizon simulations, this approach seems to preserve both profit and trust better than LLM‑only or non‑symbolic agents — but I’m still refining the architecture and benchmarks.

I’d love to hear from the HN community:

• If you’ve built agents that reason about cause–effect, what design choices worked best?

• How do you benchmark reasoning quality beyond prediction accuracy?

• Any pitfalls to avoid when mixing symbolic rules with generative models?

GitHub (for context): https://github.com/akarlaraytu/Project-Chimera

Thanks in advance — I’ll be around to answer questions and share results from this discussion.
by wtbdbrrr | 2025-09-12 09:55:34+00:00
Ponzi's going all out, huh? Unbelievable ...

You don't need alignment if you don't go all the way to super-intelligence aka free intelligence. And since nobody is gonna let that happen ever, #mass_surveillance, nobody needs alignment.

So all these centers and centers of centers are just more opportunities to sell hardware and take away actually necessary jobs. Like two different commissions in one Bundesland to assess whether the measures during the corona pandemic were "xyz". JAAA. NEEEIN.

I would say gg, Ponzi, but you are not a winner or an authority if you beat the shit out of and poison pups and think you're a champ when you keep them in cages once they grow up.

This is all so weird. What the fuck xD
by pjc50 | 2025-09-12 09:56:14+00:00
> mock USA for George Floyd

Crime committed by the police.

> Korean shop owners

What's criminal about Korean shops?

> school shootings

Gun control means no more school shootings. See Dunblane.

> law must be enforced in multicultural nations

Nobody ever said it shouldn't, but it has to be enforced in a fair and even-handed way.
by hahajk | 2025-09-12 09:56:41+00:00
> Almost bo problem...

I've heard this before but I don't think I believe it. I spend many hours every week 1. picking up clutter and putting it away 2. sorting clean clothes into drawers (I have a family of 5) and 3. shuttling dishes to/from the dishwasher.

I would pay quite a bit of money to stop doing those things. Especially #1. Is there a simple non-humanoid automation I'm missing?
by adityaathalye | 2025-09-12 09:56:50+00:00
Very much this. In fact, I had made a note about earning "professor points", in my (giant) blog post [0] describing my org-mode use...

6. Professor Points: I also get intermediate tex output for free, which I don't need, but may please you if you are a professor (or said professor's hopelessly sleep derived grad students).

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[0] Discussed here recently:

Why and How I use “Org Mode” for my writing and more (2022) (evalapply.org) 217 points by sebg | 6 months ago | 64 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157672
by traceroute66 | 2025-09-12 09:58:25+00:00
> For example, they patch OpenSSH source code in a way that...

Isn't it the same thing with the RedHat downstreams ? (Not necessarily OpenSSH but other packages)

IIRC RedHat do all sorts of things to keep their gov / corp customers happy, also usually in the name of backwards compatability, all of which then end up in the downstreams.
by nilus0sora | 2025-09-12 09:58:26+00:00
I was intrigued enough by this comment to create an account.

I noticed you mentioned ‘radio’. Do you mean HAM? Like you key up on local 2m repeaters with your HTs? (Our twins got their tech licenses in middle school and we had appointed check-in times during the day).

I applaud you for being in the heart of the tech Beast but not subject to it.
by b112 | 2025-09-12 09:58:31+00:00
Tesla went into humanoid robots to pump the stock.

Everything else in your comment is more locked to direct observable info.

However this really isn't. And frankly every CEO wants a healthy stock price, that doesn't mean the primary goal is "pump the stock", which is what you are stating is the goal here.

That said, the Chrysler/Stellantis thing is just weirdosville. One thing I liked was this new platform:

https://www.caranddriver.com/ram/1500-ramcharger

but:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64781518/ram-ramcharger-1...

They put all that work into it, hype, pre-launch, and it's even built on a common platform. The truck is basically the same as their pure-electric version, as the engine is simply used as a generator to charge. No major changes to the rest of the vehicle, just an added engine.

You may wonder why I like this? Well I was hoping it's carry over to smaller Jeeps or even cars. I live in a rural area, and it gets quite cold here (-40C sometimes), which really reduces range. I want a PHEV, but also with a backup power plant.

This is that.

It also reduces a lot of the complexity of a hybrid. No dual drive train, or one part driven by gas engine, the other electric.

I can see myself driving much of the summer with the engine only coming on rarely, but then needing the engine more and more in the winter. But at least I'd be on battery most of the time, even then.

Heck, I can drive 100s of km without there being a fast charger here.

We need bridge vehicles for the time being.

But my rambling really goes back to, they developed the platform, started selling it, but held off on this final piece because of.. reasons?

Weirdos.
by lm28469 | 2025-09-12 09:58:48+00:00
Have you been to these countries lol ? It's not like they're all preppers who could be fully self sufficient in case of an alert, not even for 3 days.

The people in Warsaw, Stockholm and Copenhagen aren't more prepared than the people in Madrid or NYC, most people in medium/large cities give 0 shit about these scenarios, they're the same as everywhere else. Having studied in Denmark I can tell you that if anything the Danish youth is even more oblivious to risks in general given that they live in such an utopia. The state and older generations might be more aware of their perilous position but that's about it.
by helsinkiandrew | 2025-09-12 09:59:28+00:00
This is eerily similar to Finlands scheme: https://www.azernews.az/region/239068.html

Which is backed up by stock piles of essential goods: https://www.huoltovarmuuskeskus.fi/en/organisation/the-natio...

The 72Hour emergency preparedness sites suggest every household have some emergency cash: https://72tuntia.fi/en/
by tamimio | 2025-09-12 10:00:04+00:00
I did that around 1.5 years ago. I was at the thrift store and found an MP3 player "SanDisk Clip Sport Go" for $2.99, modded it to increase the memory from 32GB to 256GB, and now I have all my music there in a very small form factor that I had to put an AirTag on to find it! It also has FM radio, a screen, actual buttons, and the battery lasts a week with normal use. It doesn't have Bluetooth; however, I just attach a Bluetooth dongle "1Mii Safefly Pro" and can pretty much have high-quality audio to my speakers and headphones or even my car, and yes, I also found that dongle for $3.99 at the thrift store. Both are less than one month's subscription.
by pjc50 | 2025-09-12 10:00:26+00:00
You're going to have to unpack "allowed". Are you saying that the Apple model will win so heavily that separate parts will not be available? What change are you expecting?

NVIDIA not selling cutting edge other than in bulk is a phenomenon of the AI bubble, which will eventually deflate. (I'm not saying it will go away, just that the massive training investments are unsustainable without eventually revenue catching up)
by bogdan | 2025-09-12 10:00:29+00:00
> It never ceases to amaze me in worst way possible how quite a few people here keep treating them as something more, over and over

A lot of people are investing in Apple, most likely you are indirectly as well, if not you then your pension. Not surprised some people would defend everything they do. Then you have the die-hard fans and I'm sure there's some PR peeps going around especially how it easy it is nowadays with AI.
by Etherlord87 | 2025-09-12 10:01:05+00:00
I was looking through the comments to see if someone already mentioned it. Great webpage!

However the one in OP has an amazing graph intuitively explaining the numeric space partitioning - the vertical axis is logarithmic, and the horizontal is linear for each row on its own, but rows are normalized to fit the range between the logarithmic values on the vertical axis. I guess it's obvious once you're comfortably understanding floats and could do with some explanations for those still learning it.
by teamonkey | 2025-09-12 10:01:32+00:00
They have active Peltier coolers and you use mains power, a portable battery box, or the 12V output from your car. You also need to power a computer or laptop to capture the images.

Roboscopes like the Seestar are an all-in-one kit and have internal batteries that last about 3-4 hours (although for the moon you don't need more than a minute or so). The S50 can take uncompressed video, which you can then process as GP describes but, compared to a more powerful setup, the camera is 1920x1080 and uncooled, the framerate is limited to 30fps, and it only has a 50mm aperture.
by petercooper | 2025-09-12 10:02:15+00:00
Over the years, I've had a few instances of spiders causing a related issue with our Ring doorbell camera. Like getting a notification of someone at the front door in the middle of the night, then you load it up and a giant spider is just sat right on the lens. Never had any bell presses, but I guess in this case it's one of those conducting plates.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-12 10:02:18+00:00
> "Well, they should have hired Americans", even if that is completely infeasible

Who determined it is infeasible and how was it determined? Show me the data and the process that lead to this conclusion. It's a car assembly plant, not a semiconductor fab that requires niche advanced degrees only available in Taiwan.

Surely the required labor can be found across a country of 300 million people, or easily trained from other adjacent fields that have lost workers due to economic driven redundancies or who want to switch careers for whatever reason.

>Then, when these places stay poor, they'll blame foreign governments, Democrats, "bureaucrats in DC"

Why shouldn't they be blamed? They're the ones telling their voters at election times that there'll be a factory opening where they live and then the voters rejoice and think "woo-hoo, more jobs for us" but then the bureaucrats are like "well, actually, those jobs will go towards imported foreigners, not to you, because you're not qualified enough or some other bullshit reason" and then the voters will clap back with "well I'm a product of YOUR education system mf-er, so it's YOUR fault that I'm not qualified enough". If you were them, wouldn't you be pissed too?

Funny how HN likes to criticize and gaslight people that it should be societally acceptable that foreigners being brough to take manufacturing jobs from locals, but they throw a hissy rage fit when H1Bs are being brough to the US to take their cushy tech jobs. Hypocrisy much?

Edi: love the empty angry downvotes with no explanation and no counter arguments simply because my detailed argument goes against the narrative. Means I'm right.
by walthamstow | 2025-09-12 10:02:28+00:00
I've been to most of them, though since COVID only to Denmark. I have friends in London from all of them too, and my cousin from London lives in Stockholm.

In my opinion, and that's all I have here, they are much, much more likely to do the right thing for their neighbour in an emergency than a Briton or American.

All of my friends from Baltic nations are concerned about Russia. All of them. Maybe its an age thing, we're early 30s and some have children.
by user34283 | 2025-09-12 10:02:59+00:00
The functional advantage should be obvious as soon as you open a book or website.

Particularly so if the content has a table, grid, or similar.

Typing isn't perfect, but it's somewhat better.

Photos and images are so much better on the foldable.

For videos the advantage isn't so great, but at least you don't need to rotate the phone. You can watch both horizontal and vertical content.

Considering how most customers prefer a large phone, I'd rather bet on foldables becoming the default.
by whatever1 | 2025-09-12 10:03:14+00:00
All of these can be done much better on the cloud (I can spawn as big of a machine as my pocket can afford). And with today’s tooling (vs code & jetbrains remote development) you don’t even notice that you develop on a remote machine and not your local.

So the desktop developer market is for those who are not willing to use cloud. And this is a very small minority.

(FYI I am not endorsing cloud over local development, I just state where the market is)
by peterfirefly | 2025-09-12 10:03:33+00:00
> but does not exercise executive or policy-making power

This is largely but not entirely true. It's also largely true by convention/Realpolitik ("try and exercise your powers and see how long you stay king!") and not by law.

> absolute monarchies (in which a monarch is the only decision-maker)

The monarch was essentially never the only decision maker in absolute monarchies. Nominally, yes. In practice, not at all. Going against too many established interested was seriously bad for the monarch's health.
by lelanthran | 2025-09-12 10:03:45+00:00
I think this does not bode well for you; be honest with yourself - if you're making simple mistakes like using the term "Async Programming" to refer to something new, your prompting and/or code reviewing is probably not going all that well.

Sure, it can look good now, when there's no legacy, but if you ever move into having to maintain that code you're going to be in a tough spot.
by croes | 2025-09-12 10:03:45+00:00
He doesn't need to say it, but for many of his fans the so not so good parts (if you're non white or female) resonate. You do know what a dog whistle is?

And talking about the spread of misinformation, Kirk spread the lie of the stolen election that led to the January 6 riots and caused multiple deaths.

BTW maybe you can comment under some of the other commenters where I try to explain than words aren just words and can cause damage, you seem to have the same opinion, whereby my reach is far below Kirk's so I think I have a much lower risk of creating a deranged individual than people like Kirk have.
by matwood | 2025-09-12 10:04:09+00:00
> Turns out they are as addicted to texting with their kids all day as their kids are addicted to the same.

This is wild to me. When I was growing up, my mom would make sure I didn't sleep through my alarm as she was walking out the door for work. My dad worked shift work in a factory so I would only randomly see him. Usually after the brief morning 'get up!' I wouldn't see either of my parents again until the street lights came on at night and I rushed home to eat. Once I could drive, I had a job after school until ~10PM, so I would go days without seeing my parents. I grew up in the 80s/90s.
by lazide | 2025-09-12 10:05:25+00:00
The point is not to be effective (at the stated goals), or follow the laws, or be competent at following the laws.

The goal is to ‘look tough’ for the base, demonstrate the power to act without having to follow the laws, and overall - inspire fear. To extract concessions and inspire fear based loyalty.

The weirdest part to me is that people still don’t seem to understand this?
by sysguest | 2025-09-12 10:06:03+00:00
idk after this fiasco, Hyundai will have a big time trouble finding competitive workers who would want to go to the USA...

I mean, prior to this, just a small possibility of being sent to the US was a big perk (job descriptions often highlighted this in bold fonts) Hence, companies would rotate people to hush complaints ("that guy gets to go to the US more than me!")

now... if being sent could mean "you could be banned from entering/working in US", it's a big no-no

Anyway, this will mean extra costs + less competitive people going to the USA (they should be forced to go, so... it'll probably be people with career dead-ends, whom americans might not want to 'learn from'...)

the only fix to the issue: officially commit huuuuge working visa quota for s.koreans...
by atoav | 2025-09-12 10:07:13+00:00
I never went to the cloud and have a well currated and sorted file-based record collection. Where a few years back people would look at me like a weirdo for not "just" using spotify, some of them have come around to asking me how to do it my way.

I have most of my music on my phone and can listen to it with zero network connection. There have been multiple instances where I have been the only person with music..
by arielcostas | 2025-09-12 10:07:48+00:00
> This is factually wrong already. In summer, London is not UTC+0.

Yeah, the "regular" time is UTC+0, with it changing in the summer. I'm aware it's a really poor implementation, but it is there as a separate option from "UTC" itself preserving the same offset (0) all year.

> The problem is that it has a very US-centric view of what DST is. You can mostly ignore it in the US when calculating time zones because the entire country changes DST at the same time. This is not the case internationally.

Probably the reason they, for some reason, split the setting for "Amsterdam, Bern, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna" and "Brussels, Copenhaguen, Madrid, Paris" even though they all follow the same timezone and change simultaneously.
by pas | 2025-09-12 10:08:08+00:00
why? the usual OSI licenses all work through copyright, and through conditional granting of rights (hence the name license)

for a parent granting irrevocable royalty-free usage rights to anyone is equivalent to putting it into the public domain, no?

both copyright and a patent grants exclusive rights to the rightsholder (right to perform, modify, or in case of patents to use the invention in the way covered by one of the claims), and the rightsholder is free to include more persons in the group of authorized users (ie. extend the rights to others, and can do so conditionally - hence the Apache2 patent grant)

can you please explain where my understanding is incorrect or missing something? thanks!
by mtmail | 2025-09-12 10:08:17+00:00
"We haven't done any advertising product yet. I kind of...I mean, I'm not totally against it. I can point to areas where I like ads. I think ads on Instagram, kinda cool. I bought a bunch of stuff from them. But I am, like, I think it'd be very hard to…I mean, take a lot of care to get right."

https://mashable.com/article/openai-ceo-sam-altman-open-to-a...
by rkomorn | 2025-09-12 10:08:35+00:00
Do you use it as a gaming PC (or for other high GPU load activities)? And if so, what's your take on noise under load?

Edit: I guess this is a senseless question if the case really only uses passive cooling. I was assuming there would still be fans somewhere.

I despise my current PC's fan noise and I'm always on the lookout for a quieter solution.
by epolanski | 2025-09-12 10:10:03+00:00
> there is no way to recoup the development cost

You recoup the costs by *selling more iphones* because they have functionality the competition does not have.

Investing in your platform is not "giving it away for free", it's making sure consumers have reasons to buy your products and not competitors.

If tomorrow Samsung phones offer this out of the box, and any earbuds maker can access it Samsung will gain sales and users that would've looked at iPhones for this feature won't.

The lengths people will go to justify nonsensical margin-protecting walled garden business choices is insane.
by dns_snek | 2025-09-12 10:10:09+00:00
> they should just prevent collusion and regulatory capture monopolies.

Is there any reason why you're picking your words so carefully as to include "regulatory capture monopolies" but exclude "anti-competitive behavior" as the umbrella term?

Regulating anti-competitive behavior is precisely what the EU is doing with the Digital Markets Act. The EU recognizes that a company does not need to be a monopoly to have severely detrimental effects on the free market.
by user34283 | 2025-09-12 10:10:25+00:00
I gave that a try, but it wasn't particularly economic.

I considered buying a keyboard for this case. I then decided against it. Probably carrying a MacBook Air makes more sense if I want to get work done on the go.

That said, I'm happy with my new Pixel 9 PF. It's better than the iPhone 16 Pro Max.

I also own various Apple devices, but I can't say there's any ecosystem integration I particularly miss.

Instead of iCloud I just use Google Drive now. I can still do facetime calls on my Mac. Also I continue to use the Home app on the iPhone.
by jajko | 2025-09-12 10:11:33+00:00
My wife is a doctor but exact opposite of power user for phones and technology overall. She switched from android to iphone 13 mini when it came out, I recommended it to her and thought Apple is ideal platform for her. Bough her ipods pro too, chargers and so on.

The only, literally only thing she liked was the seamless integration of airpods with phone, hated literally everything else about the hardware and mainly iOS/software. Too dumbed down for her, some trivial things she does often are simply not possible on iOS and that's it, no way on earth to change that without voiding warranty, if at all.

So now she bought Samsung S24 and couldn't be happier. The switch made airpods pro basically useless or more like supremely annoying to use (there's an anti-competitive case or two against Apple in this, degradation is very obvious and on purpose), so she gave them away and happy with whatever plugs she picked up from ocean of available and good enough hardware for her use.

My boss is same story - bought into Apple ecosystem with some older pro max variant maybe 5-6 years ago, then of course airpods and watches followed. The very definition of power user. Switching now back to android (pixel 10 pro), hates the products at this point.

These are people who don't care about price much but want best usability and convenience for them. From opposite side of spectrum of users. Me, I never had A device and probably never will, but I respect them for success and innovation they bring to the whole industry. Good competition literally helps everybody in long run.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-09-12 10:11:34+00:00
Not really, if some noob deploys janky code they don't understand, than someone will eventually worm it for sure. Containerization has not prevented an uptick in nuisance traffic from Cloud providers, but made it orders of magnitude worse.

Qubes, Gentoo, and FreeBSD are all a better place to start if you are interested in this sort of research. Best of luck =3
by wdfx | 2025-09-12 10:12:20+00:00
It's a dev workstation for me.

Currently inside is an i7-9600 which I limit to 3.6ghz and a cheap 1050ti.

The CPU is technically over the TDP limit of the case but with the frequency limit in place I never exceed about 70degC and due to my workloads I'm rarely maxing the CPU anyway.

There is zero noise under any load. There is no moving parts inside the case at all, no spinning HDD, no PSU fan, no CPU fan, no GPU fan.