MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by array_key_first | 2025-09-30 17:41:32+00:00
> Your use of the "playing stupid" cudgel is not helpful.

Its not meant to be helpful, it's meant to be true. Sorry about it.

> Uhhh, yeah. Instead of crippling society by suggesting we remove our eyeballs or brains (or their electronic equivalents), let's fix the actual problems.

Ahh see here's the underlying problem: you have a religious belief that you're quickly trying to pass off as an argument!

You cannot, under any circumstances, just compare humans to computers for free.

Humans have special rights, and have always had special rights, forever. You cannot just undo millions of years of understanding and expect me to go along with it.

A camera DOES NOT HAVE RIGHTS. A camera is not an eyeball. And LLM is not a brain. And so on and so on.

Some LLM singularly type folk, call them tech Christians, hold the belief that technology will soon supercede humanity and therefore LLMs are equivalent to Brains.

But that is a belief. Let me repeat that. That is a belief. That is not argument.

Right now, computer programs do not have rights. Its not an if, not a but, not a maybe - they don't have rights.

We're allowed to do this because we are human. We give ourselves special privileges.

That's why if I eat a good steak then that's just a nice dinner. But if I chop you up and eat you, I'm going to prison.

We haven't even given fucking cows rights yet. And they're literally alive and conscious. We can't just give cameras or programs rights. Come on man.

> Instead of accusing others of playing dumb, let's hear: how do _you_ see an internet age free of patriarchal and sexist structures emerging?

Slowly, over time, and predominantly not by objectifying women by proposing we should be allowed to take naked pictures of them whenever we want. Duh.
by andrekandre | 2025-09-30 17:41:46+00:00
they are most likely using a controller hooked up to a bot/laptop that exploits flaws in the code with inputs at high speed (much faster than a human could) that injects code into live games

a good video that makes this tech more understandable (with explanations at the beginnimg and an amazing demo at the end) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNbkv_DJ0f0

and some background https://tasvideos.org/ArbitraryCodeExecutionHowTo
by mrmanner | 2025-09-30 17:41:50+00:00
> On the government endpoint, which returns X that the platform uses as "evidence" for you being an adult, yes, that's tied to your identity, as the certificate/whatever is tied to your identity.

In this scenario the government knows all the age-restricted sites I've visited. I'd argue that is worse than if all the age-restricted sites I've visited know who I am...

(FTR I don't know what I think about age restrictions in general, but I'm pretty sure there's no implementation that comes without negative side effects)
by fidotron | 2025-09-30 17:42:05+00:00
Can you say how mathematics is inherently abstract in a way consistent with your day-to-day life as a concrete person? Or is your personhood also an abstraction?

I could construct a formal reasoning scheme involving rules and jugs on my table, where we can pour liquids from one to another. It would be in no way symbolic, since it could use the liquids directly to simply be what they are. Is constructing and studing such a mechanism not mathematics? Similarly with something like musical intervals.
by Grikbdl | 2025-09-30 17:42:06+00:00
Explicit errors are not correctness issues. Some numerical instability issues in certain algorithms in certain corner cases might be considered as such though.

Regardless, overall, these are grossly of another complexity and seriousness than the base sum function being just wrong, or cultural issues among developers with not verifying inputs "for performance", or things of that nature. The scientific Python community has, in my experience, a much higher adherence to good standards than that.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-09-30 17:42:27+00:00
What an un-fun reputation to have!

I’m not even against pre-recorded spots by whoever the sponsor is if that’s his deal though the conversion rate on those are not as good. It’s just the completely random ads that the podcaster(s) don’t even know are playing on their show. The entire reason advertising on podcasting was more effective in the 2010s and early 2020s was because there was a little more trust with their listeners, there’s a relationship at play even if it’s parasocial. If they were actively reading on air, I assumed that they vetted the company and it at least passed the smell test (though plenty sure didn’t, I would say the bar was a little higher than other media formats).
by layer8 | 2025-09-30 17:42:41+00:00
Some old console games have bugs that effectively allow to reprogram them to whatever you want, just by pressing the right buttons on the gamepad in the right sequence at the right time (due to the bugs leading to out-of-bounds memory writes or similar). In this particular case, SMB is being reprogrammed into streaming Bad Apple from controller input, where the data being streamed is input via thousands of button presses per second.

You could in theory perform this on the original SNES hardware with the original SMB game cartridge, if you can press the buttons on the gamepad fast enough and with the right timing.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-30 17:42:46+00:00
The reduced horsepower relative to M-series isn't a problem for me as much as efficiency is. Both Intel and AMD seem to struggle with building a CPU that doesn't guzzle battery without also seriously restricting performance.

This really sucks. The nice thing about high end (Mx Pro/Max) MBPs is that if you need desktop-like power, it's there, but they can also do a pretty good job pretending to be MacBook Airs and stretch that 100Wh battery far further than is possible with similarly powerful x86 laptops.

This affects ultraportables too, though. A MacBook Air performs well in bursts and only becomes limited in sustained tasks, but competing laptops don't even do burst very well and still need active cooling to boot.

On the desktop front I think AMD has been killing it but both companies need to start from scratch for laptops.
by imiric | 2025-09-30 17:42:51+00:00
What journalism? Most of these sites copy their content from each other or social media, and give it their own spin. Nowadays most of them use AI anyway.

Actual journalism doesn't rely on advertising, and is subscription based. Anyone interested in that is already subscribed to those sources, but that is not the audience this service is aiming for. Some people only want to spend a few minutes a day catching up with major events, and this service can do that for them. They're not the same people who would spend hours on news sites, so these sites are not missing any traffic.
by bfogelman | 2025-09-30 17:43:06+00:00
haha honestly a little bit ya. One key thing we've learned from working on this is that lowering the barrier to working in parallel is key. Making it easy to merge, context switching, etc are all important as you try to parallelize things. I'm pretty excited about "pairing mode" for this reason as it mirrors an agents branch locally so you can make your own edits quickly and test changes.

We've also shipped "suggestions" under beta (think CI pipelines for your parallel agents) which might feel a little different. The idea is to use LLMs and your regular coding tools (pytest, pyre, ...) to verify that the code produced by the agents is actually correct.
by ksec | 2025-09-30 17:43:45+00:00
iPad M5 vs M4 [1], this is coming from leaked unbox video of M5 iPad Pro. So it should be legit.

Single-Core Score 4133 3748 110.3%

Multi-Core Score 15437 13324 115.9%

Same maximum clock speed. So assuming no special thermals solution on the new iPad Pro such as vapour chamber. This is 10% pure IPC improvements although the M5 has 6MB L2 Cache. 2MB higher than M4.

Not shown here are the E-Core performance. Which if we were to trust the A19 Pro test they are 20 to 30% higher than previous generations. And GPU is also a lot faster on A19 Pro.

M5 also comes with 12GB Memory as baseline, which is 4GB higher than M4 you get on iPad Pro. I hope M5 MacBook Air continues to get 16GB as baseline, looking like a very decent upgrade for anyone that is on M1 or still on Intel platform. Would be perfect if MacBook Air gets Vapour Chamber like iPhone Pro. I don't mind paying slightly more for it.

[1] https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/14173685?baseli...
by ranger_danger | 2025-09-30 17:43:47+00:00
> it is still somewhat disingenuous.

Depends on your perspective IMO... if I either think there is reason to believe they are spying on people for nefarious purposes, or if I do not want them to allow the government to spy on me without a warrant, I'd prefer they not have that ability to begin with, regardless of whether it's code sitting on the device or the web traffic that transits through them.

> So why single out Cloudflare?

Because I believe they have a much larger influence and percentage of traffic than all the alternatives combined, but you're right, they all have the same weakness and I would like a solution to it.
by f30e3dfed1c9 | 2025-09-30 17:44:00+00:00
This is true, but as far as I can tell, does not benefit me much. That's why I mentioned Stripe as something that probably does benefit me indirectly.

But a lot of the YC companies in particular seem to be making software I don't care about to sell to other companies making other software I don't care about to sell to other companies making other software I don't care about, and so on. The benefit to me of all this activity seems to be so close to zero that the difference doesn't matter.
by fresh_broccoli | 2025-09-30 17:44:34+00:00
Also, they talk about "echo chambers" and "full spectrum of global perspectives". Representing all perspectives sounds great in theory, but how far should it go?

Should all politicians' remarks be reproduced verbatim with absolutely no commentary, no fact-checking and no context? Should an article about an airplane crossing the Pacific include "some experts believe that this is impossible because Earth is flat?"

Excessive bias in media is definitely a problem, but I don't think that completely unbiased media can exist while still being useful. In my expierence, people looking for it either haven't thought about it deeply enough, or they just want information that doesn't make their side look bad.
by Olshansky | 2025-09-30 17:44:37+00:00
In theory, I'd agree. That said, I do suggest being open minded here.

Sharing this because I got genuine value out of it. Not just a "cool hype demo".

The key here is: 1. Prompt is created using the context from from a long conversation with the CLI. 2. You use the generate prompt as a "v1" and MANUALLY edit it. 3. I'm constantly iterating on my prompt writer.
by nitwit005 | 2025-09-30 17:44:51+00:00
That's less a SQL issue, than a general issue with attempting to optimize based off of heuristics. Generally when "hints" are supported that's what'll happen every time (baring the hint not being executable).

But, remember that a lot of users wanting to query things aren't going to be app developers. They'll be wanting to do a one off query or run some report. You'll tend to need an optimizer no matter what.
by leephillips | 2025-09-30 17:45:32+00:00
This is a typical example:

• The documentation (currently) of the function warns not to use it this way;

• This is a rather perverse use of the function(s) that would be unlikely unless you’re trying to break things;

• The discussion on the issue page demonstrates the exact opposite of a culture not caring about correctness;

• This kind of stuff doesn’t matter to all the scientists who are actually using Julia to do real work.

Nevertheless, sum!() and friends should be, somehow, made to avoid this problem, certainly.
by doctoboggan | 2025-09-30 17:46:03+00:00
> The rumors about an upcoming touchscreen Mac are interesting

What rumors have you seen? Anytime I've seen speculation, Apple execs seem to shut that idea down. Is there more evidence this is happening? If anything, Apple's recent moves to "macify" iPadOS indicate their strategy is to tempt people over into the locked down ecosystem, rather than bring the (more) open macOS to the iPad.
by otterley | 2025-09-30 17:46:23+00:00
As an attorney, I'm trying to understand what you're getting at.

His opinion, while interlocutory and not binding precedent, will be cited in future cases. And his wasn't the only one. In Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc., No. 23-cv-03417 (N.D. Cal. June 25, 2025) Judge Chhabria reached the same conclusion. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.41...

In neither case has an appeal been sought.
by entrepy123 | 2025-09-30 17:46:58+00:00
IMO, 996 is kind of a scam to get people to work less and therefore be less competitive.

Real silicon valley works 24/7, only taking breaks to sleep.

The more people that work only 996, the better people can do who work 24/7.

Unless this means hourly wage workers. In which case, is that really "silicon valley" working? In which case, yes, web search show that generally California caps that at 72 hours/wk in general. So, 12 hours/day with 1 day off makes sense.

What is the fuss? People do what they sign up for. You don't like it, do something else, inventing the alternative if necessary?

I would do it if the rewards were good, if it was fun, or if I had to.
by thejash | 2025-09-30 17:47:03+00:00
Nope, not based on vibekit, but it looks like a cool project!

Our approach is a bit more custom and deeply integrated with the coding agents (ex: we understand when the turn has finished and can snapshot the docker container, allowing rollbacks, etc)

We do also have a terminal though, so if you really wanted, I suppose you could run any text-based agent in there (although I've never tried that). Maybe we'll add better support for that as a feature someday :)
by kbolino | 2025-09-30 17:47:10+00:00
(can't respond directly and don't have the rep to vouch)

> Span bounds are guaranteed to be correct at all times and compiler explicitly trusts this (unless constructed with unsafe), because span is larger than a single pointer, its assignment is not atomic, therefore observing a torn span will lead to buffer overrun, heap corruption, etc. when such access is not synchronized, which would make .NET not memory safe

Indeed, the lack of this restriction is actually a (minor) problem in Go. It is possible to have a torn slice, string, or interface (the three fat pointers) by mutably sharing such a variable across goroutines. This is the only (known) source of memory unsafety in otherwise safe Go, but it is a notable hole: https://research.swtch.com/gorace
by Forgeties79 | 2025-09-30 17:47:34+00:00
Frankly it’s borderline unethical that they offered 8gb models past like…M1. 12gb isn’t enough IMO for anyone who wants a machine that will last but at least it’s a step in the right direction.

My friend with an M3 MacBook was complaining about the speed. I told them that was ridiculous and they must be doing something incredibly intensive. I came and took a look at it - I know chrome tabs are a memory hog but my God this thing slowed to a crawl with even lightweight usage despite being weeks old. I told him to return it immediately.
by edanm | 2025-09-30 17:48:47+00:00
> When you say "given ZFC", you're assuming a lot.

Errr, I'm just assuming the axioms of ZFC. That's literally all I'm doing.

> In what sense do [numbers that can't be finitely specified] exist?

In the sense that we can describe rules that lead to them, and describe how to work with them.

I understand that you're trying to tie the notion of "existence" to constructability, and that's fine. That's one way to play the game. Another is to use ZFC and be fine with "weird, unintuitive to laypeople" outcomes. Both are interesting and valid things to do IMO. I'm just not sure why one is obviously "better" or "more real" or something. At the end, it's all just coming up with rules and figuring out what comes out of them.
by fractal4d | 2025-09-30 17:49:01+00:00
Seems to me that the images on Bourke's site _are_ produced using the general "Buddhabrot" technique (splatting points onto an image). Although each image appears to only represent a single orbit sequence and the reject condition is inverted so that only stable orbits are shown.

I've personally found the technique very versatile and have had a lot of fun playing around with it and exploring different variations. Was excited enough about the whole thing that I created a website for sharing some of my explorations: https://www.fractal4d.net/ (shameless self-advertisement)

With the exception of some Mandelbrot-style images all the rest are produced by splatting complex-valued orbit points onto an image in one way or another.
by outlore | 2025-09-30 17:49:04+00:00
in a computer graphics course i took, we looked through how popular film stories were tied to the technical achievements of that era. for example, toy story was an story born from the new found ability to render plastics effectively. similarly, the sora video seems to showcase a particular set of slow moving scenes (or when fast, disappearing into fluid water and clouds) which seem characteristic of this technology at the current moment in time
by timeinput | 2025-09-30 17:49:12+00:00
I know television is not newspapers and magazines, but they at least had to have some level of standards bodies (I'm fairly sure they at least did in the early 90s), and I remember Psychic Friends Network ads on tv which is clearly in the realm of palm readings. I guess maybe it wasn't insulting to the intelligence of people watching late night TV in the early 90s?
by sfink | 2025-09-30 17:49:19+00:00
A dag represents a partial ordering. (Strictly speaking you could have redundant edges in a dag which wouldn't change the partial ordering, so dag != partial order.)

upriver/downriver is the partial order relationship between nodes.

elevation is partway to a complete topological ordering -- as in, an assignment of elevations to nodes must follow the partial ordering, but there are multiple possible assignments in general, so it is a way to produce a set of elevation groupings but not the only way.

For example, if you have UP -> A -> B -> DOWN and UP -> X -> DOWN, then you could make elevation grouping {UP}, {A, X}, {B}, {DOWN} or {UP}, {A}, {B, X}, {DOWN} and both groupings satisfy the same partial ordering (and follow the same dags).

You could make a canonical elevation grouping by doing a breadth first search from the root node(s) and grouping by distance from the roots, or a different one by starting from the leaf/leaves. Though then the distinction between dags and partial orders comes in; your canonical grouping would have to be a BFS of a minimal dag without any "redundant" edges (any edge where removing it would not change the partial ordering).

You can't derive a dag or even just its partial ordering from either a topological ordering or an elevation grouping. Topological ordering A,B,C could come from A->B->C or from A->B, A->C (or the edgeless A, B, C!) Elevation grouping {A}, {B, C}, {D} could come from A->B->D, A->C->D or A->B->D, A->C.

I think you could order all of these from least information to most?: 1. topological ordering 2. elevation grouping 3. partial ordering 4. dag
by traceroute66 | 2025-09-30 17:49:34+00:00
> but I mean, 20% is not that much for 99% of the population.

As long as you're ok being tethered to the wall, and even then, guzzling power.

The whole point of Apple Silicon is that its performance is exactly the same on battery as tethered to the wall AND it delivers that performance with unmatched power efficiency.

Its the same on pure desktop. Look at the performance per watt of the Mac Mini. Its just nuts how power efficient it is. Most people's monitors will use more power than the Mac Mini.
by cs702 | 2025-09-30 17:49:45+00:00
Interesting. Nothing prohibits us from thinking of pretrained LLMs as dynamical systems that take a token state and compute an updated token state: x_{n+1} = LLM(x_n), starting from an initial token state x_0. Surely we can compute trajectories (without sampling, for determinism) and study whether LLMs exhibit chaotic behavior. I don't think I've seen research along those lines before. Has anyone here?
by stronglikedan | 2025-09-30 17:50:27+00:00
It it can automatically do my returns, I'm in! It would save me so much money since there's something in me that just doesn't like doing returns. When I'm buying, I tell myself "hey, no problem, free returns!", but when it comes time to actually do the return I procrastinate until the return window closes most of the time. I don't know if it's return anxiety or what.
by bunderbunder | 2025-09-30 17:50:28+00:00
I've tried doing things like that. Results reminded me of that old chestnut, "Answers: $1. Correct answers: $50."

Concrete example, last week a colleague of mine used a tool like this to help with a code & architectural review of a feature whose implementation spanned four repositories with components written in four different programming languages. As I was working my way through the review, I found multiple instances where the information provided by the LLM missed important details, and that really undermined the value of the code review. I went ahead and did it the old fashioned way, and yes it took me a few hours but also I found four defects and failure modes we previously didn't know about.
by CharlesW | 2025-09-30 17:50:48+00:00
I understand the point you're making, but FWIW I run Windows and Linux under Parallels and it works great. Colima/Lima is excellent, too: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

Windows on ARM performance is near native when run under macOS. `virtiofs` mounts aren't nearly as fast as native Linux filesystem access, but Colima/Lima can be very fast if you (for example) move build artifacts and dependency caches inside the VM.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-30 17:50:52+00:00
> see people trying to justify

Tangential pet-peeve: "That's fixed with private blockchain", which is the equivalent of "That's fixed with Segways that have a second set of wheels and the self-balancing is disabled."

There's a bunch of people busy reinventing decades-old old tech/accounting, either because they never bothered to learn what was actually new about "blockchain", or because they can't bear to admit that the new stuff wasn't really good/necessary.

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[Edit] To digress into specifics, the characteristic that sets "Blockchain" apart from what we already had (distributed databases, Merkle trees etc.) is fulfilling a product requirement: That node-membership is distributed and uncontrollable. That's what causes a cascade of anti-abuse features.

But outside of wild-west cryptocurrency, that usually isn't necessary, nor even desirable when you consider the rest of the cycle-burning baggage and complexity that comes with it.
by BatteryMountain | 2025-09-30 17:51:19+00:00
Spidey senses tingling: so they have access to a huge install base (millions of kids/teenagers/adult gamers), often times with rootkits/spyware on kernel level (anti cheat), often games needs admin mode to even work, with most devices having microphones/webcams, often with high speed fibre connections... What could possibly be the reason for buying EA? Direct view into family life of citizens around the world. Nice way to gather kompromat.
by kanjun | 2025-09-30 17:51:45+00:00
Great question! Agents in Sculptor run in containers vs. locally on your machine, so they can all execute code simultaneously (and won't destroy your machine).

Containers also unlock a cool agent-switching workflow, Pairing Mode: https://loom.com/share/1b02a925be42431da1721597687f7065

Ultimately, our roadmaps are pretty different — we're focused ways to help you easily verify agent code, so that over time you can trust it more and work at a higher level.

Towards this, today we have a beta feature, Suggestions, that catches issues/bugs/times when Claude lies to you, as you're working. That'll get built out a lot over the next few months.