MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krick | 2025-10-06 18:57:18+00:00
FWIW, it says the same when I asked deepseek that question. And while I cannot prove otherwise (I didn't try to specifically do that), I am under very strong impression that past chats influence the future ones. This could be some kind of cognitive bias, but there were some very suspicious coincidences.

I still somehow haven't tried Claude Chat, and while I wouldn't assume it lies about if it remembers anything, I wouldn't just trust whatever these things say about themselves either.
by robtherobber | 2025-10-06 18:57:36+00:00
Unfortunately it is yet another piece from the Economist defending neoliberalism, as it has done from the beginning. Europe is not short on issues, one would have to agree, but the (hidden) author basically frames labour protections as inefficiencies rather than social achievements or desirables, and assumes investor imperatives are the only measure of success. What fairness? And what is this nonsense with people needing shelter, food, and healthcare?

The business enterprise, in this hit piece, should not be simply another tool for improving the quality of life and helping create a society that's worth living in, but the sole purpose of the society itself.

The "cumbersome process for letting go workers comes with hidden costs" aren't really hidden, unlike the author, but transparent social protections ensuring fair treatment, preventing arbitrary dismissal, and stabilising demand. Something a decent society should fully embrace.

> the sheer difficulty of shedding staff en masse—a reality of corporate life—steers Europe’s biggest companies away from making risky bets in innovative fields

No, thank you. Europe's lag in high-tech sectors stems mainly from underinvestment, fragmented capital markets, and US monopoly power, not employment law. Labour rigidity has no strict correlation with innovation deficits (Germany, Scandinavia, France, Japan, and South Korea all had stronger labour protections than the US and managed to become rather innovative), but why bother with data when the point was simply to bash Europe for protecting its workers from predatory businesses? At best, the evidence is mixed and context-dependent (focusing on patents, for example, instead of genuine innovation)[0], and OECD and Eurostat long-term data show that some high-innovation countries have some of the strongest worker protections and unions.

> investments in disruptive breakthroughs [...] require the ability for big companies to hire lots of staff, then later fire most of them if the projects don’t pan out

Likewise, nonsensical economic justification for precarious work. For the most part, innovation depends on R&D funding, talent, and public infrastructure, not firing freedom (which businesses are guaranteed to abuse). Rather than treating humans as disposable risk capital, the author should take a look at US's own history and they will undoubtedly notice that a significant part of the innovation that it benefits from today was developed when the US had huge taxes, immense investments in R&D and public infrastructure. [1]

Strong social and environmental protections should be the bare minimum for any democratic society. Remove that, and no economic system, whether capitalist or not, is worth having.

[0] https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/report...

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259014512...
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-10-06 18:57:50+00:00
I think most in Europe prefer the better living standards and higher life expectancy for most of the population.

The american style lack of employment protection may play a part in fostering innovative companies, although I suspect being the primary superpower with the world's reserve currency may also play a part too.

How is being incredibly innovative making everyone in the US happy? I just see a lot of division and unhappiness right now. And some very rich people.
by nomdep | 2025-10-06 18:57:53+00:00
I was misremembering it. Now that I've checked, it's clear that the claim was that the money was for paying "the team" [1], which consisted of André Arko and David Radcliffe [2]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150919025358/https://rubytoget...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150919025603/https://rubytoget...
by amdsn | 2025-10-06 18:57:59+00:00
I don't share your doubts. Even people not directly exposed to the bubble may be indirectly exposed by way of funds they've invested in or retirement accounts, or even just by having invested in something that invested in something that may evaporate with the bubble. Not to mention jobs that may disappear, which will result in the people who held those jobs being less able to spend their money, which has knock-on effects in the rest of the economy if it happens at large enough scale.
by disiplus | 2025-10-06 18:58:14+00:00
Honestly I see how somebody like kayak.com would build a "app" they work through commission, they don't care from where is the booking coming from. But they will sort the flight tickets based where do they earn the best commission. What's in there for me as a user ?. Also will openai let different providers pay for the top placement when somebody tries to buy ticket on chatgpt ?
by egypturnash | 2025-10-06 18:58:25+00:00
> The main drawback of all these techniques [such as PS/AI's 'Puppet Warp'] is that they require running a solver, making them very computationally expensive, which is not ideal in a real-time environment.

What kind of system are these people running this on, I've been grabbing collections of paths in Illustrator and pushing them around in realtime with Puppet Warp for years.

Also I turned off the "automatically generate puppet pins" switch ages ago because it never guessed right and I got tired of deleting a bunch of pins before dropping my own in.
by Fischgericht | 2025-10-06 18:58:35+00:00
Offer self-hosted and I would buy.

Do not assume that companies are willing to put ALL of their intellectual property into your hands. Even if you would not be some startup where any sysadmin could steal and sell my data any time without you even noticing it, you will get hacked just like everyone else that stores interesting data. The data you have access to is absolutely perfect for the global data blackmailing gangs. As soon as you are successful, you will have every black hat hacker and their dog knocking on your doors.
by citizenpaul | 2025-10-06 18:58:43+00:00
>Can I have insider knowledge about a company that the company in question doesn't itself know yet?

Yes. However you can get around it by simply back filing a disclosure (whoops im sorry)after the fact since everyone in congress does it and it has literally never been legally pursued and never will be. I'm not being sarcastic something like 80% of congress disclosures are 2 years late or more. I don't remember the exact numbers but its insane. Just another spin on too big to fail, they can't arrest us because they would have to arrest all of congress and collapse the country.
by aerugo_ | 2025-10-06 18:59:24+00:00
What I really want to know is - how do LLMs understand time series at all? Admittedly, even the best LLMs are not fantastic at analyzing time series and tabular data, but they also don’t completely suck at it. Why is that? They seem better at it that my intuition tells me they should be.

In my opinion we need a multi-modal model that is great at both tabular datasets and text analysis. Most analytical work in economics, policy, public health, medicine etc requires a combination of crosschecking between both. Current gen LLMs are not good enough at generating novel insights by looking at tables and text at the same time. I also haven’t have found any data on this so please serve it to be on a plate if I’m wrong.
by hnlmorg | 2025-10-06 18:59:34+00:00
I’ve covered those points already in other responses. It’s probably worth reading them before assuming I don’t know the differences between the most basic of networking terms.

I was also specifically responding to the GPs point about latency for DB replication. For backups, one wouldn’t have used live replication back then (nor even now, outside of a few enterprise edge cases).

Snowmobile and its ilk was a hugely expensive service by the way. I’ve spent a fair amount of time migrating broadcasters and movie studios to AWS and it was always cheaper and less risky to upload petabytes from the data centre than it was to ship HDDs to AWS. So after conversations with our AWS account manager and running the numbers, we always ended up just uploading the stuff ourselves.

I’m sure there was a customer who benefited from such a service, but we had petabytes and it wasn’t us. And anyone I worked with who had larger storage requirements didn’t use vanilla S3, so I can’t see how Snowmobile would have worked for them either.
by Jolestest | 2025-10-06 18:59:45+00:00
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by nylonstrung | 2025-10-06 19:00:14+00:00
There are a lot of other cases that extend well beyond LMArena where it was shown certain benchmark performance increases by the major US labs were only attributable to being over-optimized for the specific benchmarks. Some in ways that are not explainable by the benchmark tests merely contaminating the corpus.

There are cases where merely rewording the questions or assigning different letters to the answer dropped models like Llama 30% in the evaluations while others were unchanged

Open-LLM-Leaderboard had to rate limit because a "handful of labs" were doing so many evals in a single day that it hogged the entire eval cluster

“Coding Benchmarks Are Already Contaminated” (Ortiz et al., 2025) “GSM-PLUS: A Re-translation Reveals Data Contamination” (Shi et al., ACL 2024). “Prompt-Tuning Can Add 30 Points to TruthfulQA” (Perez et al., 2023). “HellaSwag Can Be Gamed by a Linear Probe” (Rajpurohit & Berg-Kirkpatrick, EMNLP 2024). “Label Bias Explains MMLU Jumps” (Hassan et al., arXiv 2025) “HumanEval-Revival: A Re-typed Test for LLM Coding Ability” (Yang & Liu, ICML 2024 workshop). “Data Contamination or Over-fitting? Detecting MMLU Memorisation in Open LLMs” (IBM, 2024)

And yes I relied on LLM to summarize these instead of reading the full papers
by lenerdenator | 2025-10-06 19:00:17+00:00
Indie's great. It's what things should be. But the things that put bread on tables for the industry as a whole, that's just monetized to all hell at this point.

I'd argue that recreational products (which video games very much are) should remain unreasonably cheap. I get screwed on every other aspect of existence, the thing that I use for an escape shouldn't replicate this.
by usamaasfar | 2025-10-06 19:00:35+00:00
I’m not using “opinion” as a metaphor for algorithmic bias. I mean actual human belief — the creator’s philosophy about how the world should work, embedded into the system’s reasoning.

Once AI begins interpreting context rather than merely executing logic, neutrality becomes an illusion. Every system already encodes a worldview — whether explicit or accidental. The real challenge for builders is to have there own worldview.
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-10-06 19:00:43+00:00
> Cannabis use in the past year and past month remained at historically high levels for both adult age groups in 2023. Among adults 19 to 30 years old, approximately 42% reported cannabis use in the past year, 29% in the past month, and 10% daily use (use on 20 or more occasions in the past 30 days). Among adults 35 to 50, reports of use reached 29%, 19%, and 8%, respectively.

https://nida.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/2024/08/canna...
by seplox | 2025-10-06 19:01:03+00:00
I think that minimum redundancy is a wiser ethos. There are a couple of places where the weight penalty versus cost of failure makes the decision a no-brainer.

In my case, that means bringing aquatabs to back up my primary water treatment system and a second way to strike my stove. An extra 2 grams for aquatabs versus 4 weeks of greasy diarrhea? Check. Ten grams for a second mini bic or small fire steel versus cold soaking meals that I designed for cooking? Check.

But I do agree with you that bringing less in general frees you to move faster, go farther, and enjoy the journey even more.
by wcoenen | 2025-10-06 19:01:14+00:00
> Too bad my balcony faces east

This is not necessarily a disadvantage. If you have a contract with pricing based on the 15-minute intervals of the day-ahead market ("dynamischer Stromtarif"), then the electricity price spikes in the morning and evening. Typically with such a contract, you also get this higher price for injecting power back into the grid. And the price will almost always be lower than a traditional contract outside of these spikes.

A vertically oriented panel is also ideal for this scenario, because the sun will be low above the horizon when the panel is producing power in the morning.

edit: after looking into a bit more, it seems in Germany you may not actually get dynamic feed-in pricing. Too bad. I assumed that this was the case, because it works like that here in Belgium.
by toast0 | 2025-10-06 19:01:55+00:00
Apple has a bit of an easier time, because they can (and do) lean on cellular carriers that restrict access to their push servers. And they have 17.0.0.0/8

But they say port 5223 and 2197 with fallback to 443 [1]. Google says 5228-5230 and 443, with a couple outliers [2].

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/102266

[2] https://support.google.com/work/android/answer/10513641?hl=e...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-06 19:01:58+00:00
>rather than engage in a city-wide political process and agitate for raising their taxes and using the proceeds to pay for additional police.

The thing is that they are more likely than non-wealthy citizens to be agitating city hall anyway. They'd just rather decrease taxes and have more control of their money than do anything to improve the city as a whole. If it gets too bad they just leave the city.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-10-06 19:02:04+00:00
The Steam Hardware/Software Survey [0] answers this.

Look up the MSRPs of the most common GPUs. Very very few are over $1,000. If you want to interpret "multithousand" to be >= $2,000, then the answer becomes VERY small (less than 0.5%), as the highest MSRP gaming GPUs are the RTX 5090 and RTX 3090 Ti, both which technically have an MSRP of $1,999, that typically only applies to the "Founders Edition" releases done by NVIDIA. 3rd party AIBs (MSI, Gigabyte, Zotac, etc) typically charge a bit more.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
by hluska | 2025-10-06 19:02:23+00:00
I read some of the supporting documents, namely the entire prompt that created the chat log and many pages of the chat transcript and with respect to the researcher, this isn’t a very good test.

John only uses the generative AI for pseudo-therapy. The conversations are repetitive and John has one hell of an awful life. Between the hardcore suicidal ideation, the drinking problem, the pathological lies, abuse and fraud, old John here has a lot of problems and only talks about them. I’m not a medical professional, but if I was I’d lobby to get “completely fucked” added to the next edition of the DSM. John is in such a crisis that if we were close friends and he told me this stuff, I would be in a hell of a state because he’s clearly crying for help, clearly needs professional help but he’s beyond the level of the typical police wellness check. I’d genuinely be concerned that he would get charged with something really bad, or do something drastic and get killed by a responding police officer.

I wonder if we need to test this on someone who is in such a severe crisis. I also wonder at what point privacy is less important than safety - I wouldn’t characterize John as “safe”; he’s an abuse victim who is obsessed with his abuser’s approval, a pathological liar who destroys careers over getting caught in lies and the kind of person who puts the ideation on suicidal ideation.

Fact is, if you told a therapist half of what John told ChatGPT they would have some ethical requirements around safety. A generative AI doesn’t, and with people like John maybe that’s a safety issue even more than a privacy issue.
by bojan | 2025-10-06 19:03:30+00:00
> Looking at the EU market: Does it work? Is that your reading?

The EU single market isn't really single yet - and that is in my views the biggest obstacle to innovating start-ups being able to scale. If you want to release EU-wide you have to make sure you also comply to 27 national jurisdictions. It's hard. I work at financial services, and we really have to carefully grow and release per country. The UK would have been nice, but being even more different, for the company of our size they are a total no-go.

But I do think it works. The European countries with strong workers' protection are very attractive destination for knowledge immigration, they make a good chunk of top-10 in Human Development Index, and the whole of top-10 if you adjust it by inequality (so if you look at median at not an average).

> I am sure there are ways to try and force companies, but I would suspect it's fairly complicated politically

Less complicated in the EU than basically anywhere else in the world.
by runarberg | 2025-10-06 19:03:43+00:00
Whoops, a standard off by a factor of 100 error.

StarLink got 2 million new subscribers in 2024. Meanwhile the internet got 200 million new users. So even if every new StarLink subscriber would be a new internet user (which is obviously not true) they would still only account for 1% of new internet users. The real number is off course much much much lower.
by caminanteblanco | 2025-10-06 19:04:12+00:00
My thoughts exactly. And even if there is some need to use the LLM for something sensitive, most platforms have some sort of incognito mode. Not that it's going to stop the government, etc. from accessing the chat, but useful for the same things you would use a browser's incognito mode for: something you don't want accessible with a basic history search
by doakes | 2025-10-06 19:04:44+00:00
This is my exact experience! I really tried for 6 months and I just couldn't avoid fumbling around. For example, the experience of going in/out of fullscreen is jarring.

What's funny is that when someone first learns about Alt+Tab it's like the best cheat-code for any desktop navigation, but after switching to Niri, Alt+Tab seems like a silly way to layout your windows.
by leptons | 2025-10-06 19:05:07+00:00
>What would count as proof of AI trajectory to AGI?

It depends on who you ask. There is no absolute for definition of "AGI". Sam Altman defines it in monetary terms, because that benefits him. I have a very different idea of what "AGI" means. It's really very subjective, so I don't have a definite answer for you. I'm sure you'd define "AGI" differently than I would, so having this discussion is kind of a waste of my time.

The peo1ple pouring money into "AI" are doing so in the hope that it will become more reliable someday. My educated guess is that it won't, due to the underlying mechanisms that it is built on. Predicting the next word in a sentence according to grammatical rules is a long, long way off from a machine knowing and understanding how truthful the resulting sentence is.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 19:05:19+00:00
> Satellite reentries in 2022 (mostly pre-megaconstellation) were already raising stratospheric AlO levels by 29.5% above normal levels

Those findings are simulated, not observed. Hence "potential."

> it's a non-trivial change in chemical composition over the entire globe, and effecting a complex and poorly-understood part of the climate system. What could go wrong?

Perhaps a lot. Perhaps not much. It's a good question to study. But if this is an issue, it's solvable--carbon composite satellite structures could use a boost in demand and funding.
by mrweasel | 2025-10-06 19:05:43+00:00
Sounds about right, but they also don't need to, all the OpenBSD specific configuration is mostly done in the same manor, meaning that if you know PF, then the configuration language for httpd, relayd or OpenSMTPd isn't all that foreign to you.

JSON is generally a pretty poor configuration language, so I wouldn't hope that it would be adopted.
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-10-06 19:05:45+00:00
I think people can excuse the Pied Piper's in market bubbles if they earnestly believe that what they are pushing is worth it / revolutionary even if they realize it is absurdly valued. What OpenAI and Nvidia are doing is insultingly in everyone's face. It's just a so obvious that it's become a bit of a punchline.
by emilsedgh | 2025-10-06 19:05:47+00:00
I see a lot of negative comments here but to me, it was obvious this is where OAI should land.

They want to be the platform in which you tell what you want, and OAI does it for you. It's gonna connect to your inbox, calendar, payment methods, and you'll just ask it to do something and it will, using those apps.

This means OAI won't need ads. Just rev share.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-10-06 19:06:29+00:00
I imagine the answer is "Higher quality" or "Better customization". You can get extremely precise control over the render pipeline on a CPU since you can calculate pixels however you want.

But...with today's world of pixel shaders (Really, a world that's existed for 10+ years now), I'd be surprised if there's actually any benefit to be had these days. With a proper pixel shader, I doubt there's anything you could do on a CPU that you couldn't do on a GPU, and the GPU would be massively parallel and do it much faster.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-06 19:06:33+00:00
I didn’t claim the risks are minor, I am just arguing against the notion of it being “printing money”, as if they have the powers of the Treasury.

> Do you recall what “people familiar with finance” did with CDOs and mortgage-backed securities during the financial crisis? That didn’t work out so well either, despite all parties being aware of the risks.

There was straight up fraud involved in the underwriting for the mortgages where verification (or rather underwriting itself) was not being done.

This deal is a transparent bet on an outcome with no deceived party.
by ProfessorLayton | 2025-10-06 19:07:11+00:00
Unfortunately autocorrect on iPhones at least has been garbage recently. It used to fix words as they were typed, and underlined in red if it couldn't guess, to completely rewriting more than one word going back and giving no visual indication that it happened. This is especially problematic when texting quickly/casually without perfect grammar and it ends up butchering lots of words.

Oh and it's even worse than that if the keyboard is set to support more than one language, where autocorrect will just do whatever it wants.

In the end I just turned autocorrect off on my phone.

The correction bar is a bit better, but it likes to reorder words and often lags even on my new iPhone 17PM.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 19:07:22+00:00
> threshold we are speaking of cannot allow any fragments, because they start chain reaction and destroy more satellites

Kessler cascades are localised to specific orbits. In low-earth orbit, they're a problem for a few years.

They're going to be annoying. But not catastrophic.

> there is always one which is on the highest level

Highest level?
by alphazard | 2025-10-06 19:07:58+00:00
Testing for impairment from THC is not as simple as testing for impairment from alcohol. It's a molecule that is similar to normal endogenous chemicals, and the human body is good at building tolerance to it.

Here is a video (timestamped to the relevant content) of an expert explaining to Huberman why it is so difficult to assess impairment from blood levels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jouFvyRZntk&t=6072s

The study in TFA may just be finding that nearly half of drivers in Ohio are habitual cannabis users, or used cannabis in the past few days.