MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by antonvs | 2025-10-23 20:50:25+00:00
Right, this is something many people seem to miss. LLMs are at best similar to some module in the brain. A full intelligence is almost certainly going to require a mixture of models and a bunch of connections and architecture to tie it all together.

There seems to be a bit of "if your only tool is a hammer" going on with the desire to have a single model do everything.
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by nishantmodi | 2025-10-23 20:50:36+00:00
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by doodlebugging | 2025-10-23 20:51:52+00:00
>Wi-Fi sensing as a broader technology could theoretically be used for surveillance if someone controlled devices on both sides of your walls. It's similar to other wireless technologies in that regard. The key is controlling your own hardware.

Does this mean that a nosy neighbor or someone else who wanted to surveil your residence could accomplish this by placing multiple devices around but not necessarily on your property so that a mesh is created that effectively covers your residence? Sounds like a stalker tool or a tool for burglars to use to determine when a building is unoccupied so that they can get in and out without being interrupted. Wealthy homeowners, like professional sports players, have already become targets of burglars who use team schedules to understand when a place will be unoccupied. The NFL's Joe Burrow I think is the most recent victim.

I guess the effective range of each device factors into this if you were determining mesh coverage.

How would one protect their residence from similar surveillance?

EDIT: I like this concept and see that this could help me here in managing deer traffic across my property. I would like to give them a reason to take another path so knowing exactly when they are on the property is useful data. Game cameras and ordinary security cameras set up as game cameras have a noticeable lag and so they don't send the alert until they finalize a video and by that time the animal has absconded, but not before chewing my fruit trees.
by kbrkbr | 2025-10-23 20:52:00+00:00
Right? All these "features", but they don't get the very basic stuff right a lot of times. User input is very very important for the user.

On iPhone swipe keyboard something that feels like a random generator replaces not only the word you swipe, but the word before, and in 2/3rds of cases with random nonsense pairs.

And you can't turn it off without turning off the similar word proposals you definitely want.

It's a strange design decision and I think the implementation is not up to the task.

I'm not staying cause I like it, but because I dislike the other options more.
by neilv | 2025-10-23 20:52:04+00:00
Did you want to emphasize or clarify the first danger I mentioned?

My read of the "Um" and the quoting, was that you thought I missed that first danger, and so were disagreeing in a dismissive way.

When actually we're largely in agreement about the first danger. But people trying to follow a flood of online dialogue might miss that.

I mentioned the second danger because it's also significant. Many people don't understand how safety works, and will think "nobody got shot, so the system must have worked, nothing to be concerned about". But it's harder for even those people to dismiss the situation entirely, when the second danger is pointed out.
by simonw | 2025-10-23 20:52:11+00:00
I just ran it like this and got the same correct result:

curl https://api.openai.com/v1/responses \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \ -d '{ "model": "o1", "input": "Multiply 87654321 × 98765432", "reasoning": { "effort": "medium", "summary": "detailed" }, "tool_choice": "none" }'

Result: https://gist.github.com/simonw/52888b6546dcfc6a9dcc75bcf171b...

I promise you it is not using anything else. It is performing long multiplication entirely through model reasoning.

(I suggest getting your own OpenAI API key so you can try these things yourself.)
by robertkrahn01 | 2025-10-23 20:52:21+00:00
What an incredible loss. I first met Vanessa almost 20 years ago while she was working for impara in Magdeburg. We were colleagues until 2017. She introduced me to Cory Doctorow's Little Brother novels. We attended Hackers together. She was an incredible programmer, a role model and very kind soul. I learned a lot from her. May she find peace wherever she is now.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-23 20:52:27+00:00
Sigmund Freud is a person who became rich protecting rapists. His best paying product? "Consultancy".

What did that mean? He'd testify in court how women invite rape. How it is the dream, the deepest desire of every woman to get raped, ideally by their own sons and brothers, and they do everything possible to achieve that. Of course, he only testified for (a lot of) money. Oh, and he'd testify that because such women were a "danger to public morals", they should be incarcerated. He achieved that outcome (women accuses man of rape, Freud testifies, man goes free, woman gets locked up in one of Freud's facilities, paid for by the man, of course)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_Coverup

Oh and just in case you think men came off better: you know what the deepest desire of men is? Murder. Both murdering and getting murdered. He meant (just as he did with women) in general, that every last man desired to murder every other man in existence, and specifically his father, then rape his mother.

Freud's paid testimonies got more than one rapists off scot-free and their victim incarcerated.

You see where the problem with psychological theories is and how bad it gets? Because, of course, Freud immediately preceded something called "industrial psychiatry". Don't look it up. You don't want to know.

And, as your very comment illustrates, this has not caused psychiatry to distance themselves from the man. Of course, psychiatry hasn't even seen the need to distance themselves from the holocaust:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05112-1

( https://archive.ph/rOW5I )
by jjk166 | 2025-10-23 20:53:31+00:00
> That views laws as self-executing abstractions, which they are not. Laws necessarily are enforced by people.

No it doesn't. The laws are statements of what people in power will do under particular circumstances. This view only makes sense if people are executing the laws. The moment you stop executing the laws, suddenly you don't have laws.

Prosecutorial discretion is another beast entirely. Considering circumstances on a case by case basis is necessary for functional justice, as lawmakers can not possibly foresee all circumstances and even if they could the enforcers of laws have practical limits. A cop letting you off with a warning for speeding is discretion. It is not permission for you or anyone else to ignore the speed limit in the future. The law is still there, and you should expect to suffer the consequences if you break it.

We don't need laws when they ask us to do something we'd want to do anyways. Laws exist for the sole purpose of getting people to do the things they would rather not do, or to prevent them from doing things they would prefer to do. If the law can be violated when it is convenient for the lawmaker, you do not live in a nation of laws.
by toobulkeh | 2025-10-23 20:53:34+00:00
This is just pedantic noise. "Don't improve the model by using code gen" - problem "Write better architecture" - solution

It's literally the same thing. Sure, OpenAI's branding of ChatGPT as a product with GPT-5 is confusing, because GPT-5 is both a MODEL and a PRODUCT (collection of models, including GPT-5).

But does it matter?
by peter422 | 2025-10-23 20:53:52+00:00
If your definition of “making money” is turning bitcoins into USD at bitcoins low point, and then paying that back to them in 2 years, alright.

You can have whatever opinion you want about the bankruptcy process, but FTX was most certainly insolvent, due to fraud, and at that point whatever happened after the recovery to make people as whole as possible (which for many was not even close) really shouldn’t get credited to SBF.
by Jweb_Guru | 2025-10-23 20:53:56+00:00
The prosecution was not political lol, he went out of his way to support money laundering on the Binance platform. The reason he complied with the prosecution and pled guilty rather than try to fight it out in court was that they were able to produce a ton of evidence that he deliberately ignored regulators and regulations designed to prevent money laundering in order to make money off sanctioned groups and criminal organizations using the exchange as a way to circumvent KYC/AML laws. Please don't take what Balaji says about companies he invested in at face value.
by steveklabnik | 2025-10-23 20:54:06+00:00
It was just like, in what context? To print a log? To rebase something? "get" is not a command exactly. That's it.

Some of it is also what a "branch" means to different people can mean different things: https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/23/branches-intuition-reality/

But yeah, as others have said, not really possible in a general way, sadly.
by lowboy | 2025-10-23 20:54:07+00:00
If you're looking to model git branches as much as possible with jj bookmarks and assume that:

- the working copy has a bookmark pointing to it

- there's some ancestor with a bookmark

- there's a single linear path between the two with no other bookmarks in between

Here's an example that represents a branch containing 3 commits named "bookmark-05ff" branched off of "bookmark-6825".

> jj log -r y:: -T builtin_log_redacted @ urplyywu user-482a 2025-10-23 13:24:52 bookmark-05ff a334e2e1 │ (empty) (redacted) ○ lxxtnlxw user-482a 2025-10-23 13:24:46 git_head() 7e32fa6b │ (empty) (redacted) ○ omktyuos user-482a 2025-10-23 13:24:13 7668b0bb │ (empty) (redacted) ○ ykzktoux user-7b7f 2025-10-23 13:23:47 bookmark-6825 98bfcbde │ (empty) (redacted) ~

In this case, the following log would get you the commit pointed to by "bookmark-6825":

> jj log -r 'latest(ancestors(@) & bookmarks(), 2) ~ @' -T builtin_log_redacted ○ ykzktoux user-7b7f 2025-10-23 13:23:47 bookmark-6825 98bfcbde │ (empty) (redacted) ~

I'm using the builtin_log_redacted output template. Normally you'd have actual bookmark names, descriptions, user, etc.

Also note this bakes in a lot of assumptions and is brittle. As many others have said, it’s not generalizable.
by vunderba | 2025-10-23 20:54:10+00:00
Between sweeping abuse of executive orders, declaring emergency powers, and the pardon system (there's a reason it used to be called the "royal pardon"), my only hope is that this will finally open the public's eyes to the MASSIVE overreach that a US president has. It needs to be heavily curtailed.

The pardon system in particular really pisses me off. The argument that one rando at the top of the pyramid somehow magically knows better than the entire judicial system is such a load of horsecrap. For any injustice that the pardon system might be able to correct, it can and does just as easily introduce more injustices.
by daveguy | 2025-10-23 20:54:11+00:00
Well, to be fair, 7 million showed up in the streets on Saturday. Up from 5 million before and up from 3 million before that. The last election was decided by 2.3 million votes.

Edit1: That's not to say don't worry about it. That's to say everyone can show their displeasure with peaceful protest and involvement/activism that will make it clear the people of the US disagree with this corruption. No matter how much any internet groups scream "stolen".

Edit2: people vastly underestimate, in their media bubbles, how many showed up from "red" states.
by latexr | 2025-10-23 20:54:24+00:00
> I'm not sure why Presidents were given the ability to pardon.

Won’t somebody please think of the ~~children~~ turkeys?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Thanksgiving_Turkey_P...

Joking aside, Wikipedia does have a history of it. It goes way back, way before the USA was even a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_pardons_in_the_United_...
by mattmaroon | 2025-10-23 20:54:30+00:00
You clearly have never been through a lawsuit. If they choose to fight it, it is a few years, not a few months.

Also, a lot of people who build a house do not live in them for a very long time. In fact, there is no data to show they live with them for longer than people who buy existing homes.

I am certain that if you went through this, you would find it to be a very large problem.
by jrockway | 2025-10-23 20:54:35+00:00
I mean, we shut down the government and so now we're just waiting (a year) for the midterms. What else do you expect people to do?

Among other things, people are constantly challenging Trump in court and have reversed many of his policies. For example, my passport needed to be renewed this year and he signed an executive order saying I couldn't get an accurate one. The ACLU sued him and now I have an accurate passport. Living your best life in spite of his attempts to ruin it is a valid form of resistance. He wants to erase trans people. I'm out there not being erased. That's something.
by scrlk | 2025-10-23 20:54:54+00:00
> They were verbatim copies of Western op-amps, logic gates, and CPUs.

DEC etched a great Easter egg on to the die of the MicroVAX CPU because of this: "VAX - when you care enough to steal the very best".

https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
by conradev | 2025-10-23 20:55:12+00:00
That makes me so happy to hear! I programmed my dad's old TI-82 to stay entertained in high school math, and I always wondered if kids would do that with Shortcuts.

you can see where it all started back in 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49JJnJ2i4oc
by marcuskane2 | 2025-10-23 20:55:36+00:00
> by having a Honduran guy come into the country and do his job for half the price, then use that to compete with him for an apartment, increasing his cost of living

So the immigrants are making half the income, but also paying more for rent? So your thesis rests on the notion that the Honduran is paying like 80% of his income in rent?

Feels... unlikely.
by chrisco255 | 2025-10-23 20:55:40+00:00
Nobody said he's going to stab you. This is international politics and the stakes are higher than you can imagine, because hypersonic intercontinental Russian nuclear warheads are arrayed across the Arctic ocean from Greenland and Canada and pointed at North America. That's why NORAD has operations out of Greenland. That's why NATO exists. That's why you can't rule out "military action" over Greenland. Greenland can choose to be independent, but the U.S. won't allow them to host Russian nukes or Chinese nukes were it to fall to that as it did with Cuba in the 1960s.
by akerl_ | 2025-10-23 20:55:52+00:00
Did I express outright incredulity about logging failed attempts?

If you’re a company trying to meet a compliance regime and you don’t already have a central IDP, that’s step zero. None of the NIST requirements say “you must have an IDP”, but a massive portion of them are trivial with an IDP and a massive pain in the ass (both to implement and evidence to auditors) without one.
by steveklabnik | 2025-10-23 20:57:03+00:00
jj does do better here: its called the "mega merge" https://steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tutorial/advanced/sim...

Combined with jj absorb, some people just work this way all the time, even.

> I like having a straightforward stack of patches that I can push, pop and reorder and list.

You can work this way too, what you'd want is `jj rebase` with -A, -B, and -r: r for the revision, and A and B for the before and after you want to move it too. This lets you reorder things however you want pretty straightforwardly. I tend to work in a stack of patches too, or at least, way more than I used to.
by jrockway | 2025-10-23 20:57:08+00:00
I see. I guess you guys keep merging in your upstream branch until it's finally time to merge a PR into that branch? A lot of people like that workflow but it never really made sense to me.

I personally feel like your employer's policy is unusual for PR branches. Other people force pushing? Bad. Force-pushing to `main`? Bad. But force pushing to your own branch when you can delete it and re-create it? Just a waste of your time for no real reason. I wonder what the justification is.
by testing22321 | 2025-10-23 20:57:41+00:00
Creating a global crisis is an excellent way to hold onto power.

Not that they started it or want it to continue, and not that I think Zelenski is anything other than a hero, but the case in point is Ukraine not holding elections since the war started.

When Zelenski told trump there have been no elections during the war trump, on camera, was delighted and said “very good”.
by jmull | 2025-10-23 20:58:11+00:00
SBF/FTX was also a massive donor (using customer money) to Republicans. They routed that money through Ryan Salame, I guess to avoid appearing to be as unprincipled as they actually were.

The common theme to the donations ("payoff" or "bribe" might be more accurate), whether to D or R was to weaken any push for crypto regulations.
by walkabout | 2025-10-23 20:58:43+00:00
Oh of course they were dystopias. But at least they were cool and there was a fair amount of competence floating around.

My point is exactly that we got the dystopia but also it's not even a little cool, and it's very stupid. We could have at least gotten the cool dystopia where bad things happen but at least they're part of some kind of sensible longer-term plan. What we got practically breaks suspension of disbelief, it's so damn goofy.

> The primary "technology" of star trek was socialism lol.

Yep. Socialism, and automatic brainwashing chairs. And sending all the oddball non-conformists off to probably die on alien planets, I guess. (The "Original Series" is pretty weird)
by neuralRiot | 2025-10-23 20:59:08+00:00
I think I’ve said this too many times already but the core problem here and with the “AI craze” is that nobody realy wants to solve problems, what they want is a marketable product and AI seems to be the magic wrench that fits in all the nuts and since most of the people doesn’t really knows how it works and what are its limitations the happily buy the “magic dust”.
by Fnoord | 2025-10-23 20:59:11+00:00
SBF was/is left (and I suppose mostly signaled rich in that camp), Ulbricht libertarian, but they were caught and therefore had to serve time in jail regardless. That is how our system works. SBF specialized in large scale grifting (like Madoff), Ulbricht in providing an anonymous platform for trafficking. They're competitors of Trump, but given their experience, intelligence, and disadvantage (jail time) if bend loyal they're an asset.

It isn't about any of these people though. Trump is about only one thing: himself (a trade he shares with someone like KJU of North Korea). Specifically, as a narcissist, Trump is all about his image: business and might makes right, no matter the rules. Trump therefore hates the left, truth, honesty, ethics, empowering the weak and minorities, et cetera. Most importantly, he is signaling here: 'if you do business with me, we do the criminal path, and you get caught then I have the power to pardon your sentence.'

Whether Trump is currently a criminal or not, he was and is a convicted felon.

The above is also why I very much suspect Ghislaine Maxwell has dirt on Trump.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-23 20:59:18+00:00
Interpreting constitutions and very old laws requires a different frame than modern laws that merely say something different than you'd like them to.

Why does the First Amendment say "freedom of speech, or of the press" and make no mention of radio or TV or the internet? Because, of course, it was enacted in 1791. The drafters can't be expected to have listed things that didn't exist yet and it's obvious to everyone that it's meant to apply to this category of things even if we're now using fiber optics and satellites instead of dead trees.

But if you're interpreting a law from 20 years ago instead of 200 and nothing relevant has changed that the drafters couldn't have predicted when it was enacted, the fact that someone is doing what you said instead of what you meant is entirely down to you being bad at saying what you mean and that ought to be on you rather than on them.
by taftster | 2025-10-23 20:59:36+00:00
Fair and good point. Sharp black bothers me, so just adding in a little hue is nice for my eyes. But that's me, of course.

Noting also that this text is #000000 black, per the CSS. Maybe the background color helps soften it a little? Like contrast white/black is hard on the eyes, but HN is not?
by apatheticonion | 2025-10-23 21:00:02+00:00
> As a positive I don't have the cross-platform woes anymore

It's certainly better than it was, that said Apple really try to isolate themselves by intentionally nerfing/restricting MacOS software to Apple APIs and not playing ball with standards.

> My sister had that cool game that ran on her DOS machine at college, or heck, she just had a file on a floppy disk but I couldn't read it on my Mac.

My MacBook Pro has an integrated GPU that supposedly rivals that of desktop GPUs. However, I have to use a second computer to play games on... which really sucks when travelling.

Apple doesn't even have passthrough e-GPU support in virtual machines (or otherwise), so I can't even run a Linux/Windows VM and attach a portable e-gpu to game with.

The M5 was released and has a 25% faster GPU than M4. Great, that has no effect on reading HN or watching YouTube videos and VSCode doesn't use the GPU so... good for you Apple, I'll stick to my M1 + second PC set up
by pronik | 2025-10-23 21:00:13+00:00
Haven't done anything with memory so far, but I'm extremely sceptical. While a functional memory could be essential for e.g. more complex coding sessions with Claude Code, I don't want everything to contribute to it, in the same way I don't want my YouTube or Spotify recommendations to assume everything I watch or listen to is somehow something I actively like and want to have more of.

A lot of my queries to Claude or ChatGPT are things I'm not even actively interested in, they might be somehow related to my parents, to colleagues, to the neighbours, to random people in the street, to nothing at all. But at the same time I might want to keep those chats for later reference, a private chat is not an option here. It's easier and more efficient for me right now to start with an unbiased chat and add information as needed instead of trying to make the chatbot forget about minor details I mentioned in passing. It's already a chore to make Claude Code understand that some feature I mentioned is extremely nice-to-have and he shouldn't be putting much focus on it. I don't want to have more of it.
by xpe | 2025-10-23 21:00:16+00:00
My main issue is how Trump said one thing and did another:

> “It won’t interfere with the current building,” Trump said on July 31. “It’ll be near it, but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.” - NBC

It seems probable he ignored any number of laws about how he did it, too.