MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Animats | 2025-10-27 03:12:19+00:00
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.18212

That 10-axis radial graph is very interesting. Do others besides this author agree with that representation?

The weak points are speed and long-term memory. Those are usually fixable in computing system. Weak long-term memory indicates that, somehow, a database needs to be bolted on. I've seen at least one system, for driving NPCs, where, after something interesting has happened, the system is asked to summarize what it learned from that session. That's stored somewhere outside the LLM and fed back in as a prompt when needed.

None of this addresses unstructured physical manipulation, which is still a huge hangup for robotics.
by tux1968 | 2025-10-27 03:17:49+00:00
Sure, there's little doubt that our biology shapes our experience. But in the context of this conversation, we're talking about how AI falls short of true AGI. My answer was offered in that regard. It doesn't really matter what you think about human intelligence, if you believe that non-human intelligence is every bit as valid, and there is no inherent need for any "humanness" to be intelligent.

Given that, the constant drumbeat of pointing out how AI fails to be human, misses the mark. A lot of the same people who are making such assertions, haven't really thought about how they would quickly accept alien intelligence as legitimate and full-fledged... even though it too lacks any humanity backing it.

And why are they so eager to discount the possibility of synthetic life, and its intelligence, as mere imitation? As a poor substitute for the "real thing"? When faced with their easy acceptance of alien intelligence, it suggests that there is in fact a psychological reason at the base of this position, rather than pure rational dismissal. A desire to leave the purely logical and mechanical, and imbue our humanity with an essential spirit or soul, that maybe an alien could have, but never a machine. Ultimately, it is a religious objection, not a scientific one.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-27 03:18:03+00:00
The gaming market is a good example of how they tried to mitigate this. Firstly, Nintendo tried to not surge the price of the Switch 2 by instead increasing the prices of accessories. Then they raised Switch 1 prices. It might still end up needing to raise the Switch 2 price if this keeps up.

Sony and Microsoft did price hikes outside of the US at first as an example of how other countries may be paying for US tarriffs indirectly. But as of a month ago these had to relent and eventually they did both do price hikes on their systems.
by buu700 | 2025-10-27 03:18:13+00:00
As far as I can tell, passing the Turing test has never been the majority-consensus definition of AGI. It seems to me that the Turing test has fundamentally always been about proving a negative: if something fails the Turing test, it's probably not AGI.

For reference, the term AGI post-dates the Turing test by half a century. I also don't personally remember ever hearing the exact term "artificial general intelligence" prior to 2023 or 2024, or at least it wasn't mainstream the way it is today.

If AGI had truly ever been defined by the Turing test, then Cleverbot should've been hailed as AGI when it passed the test in 2011. Even if we did all agree to call it that, we'd still need some other term for what we actually mean when we say "AGI" today. Cleverbot-era chatbots were cute toys, but they weren't capable of doing useful work of any kind.
by ses1984 | 2025-10-27 03:18:14+00:00
I’m sorry but I feel you missed the point.

Couldn’t someone else just give him a bunch of cash to blow on the test, to spoil the result?

Couldn’t he give away his last dollar but pretend he’s just going to another casino?

Observing someone’s behavior in Vegas is a just looking at a proxy for wealth, not the actual wealth.
by rdtsc | 2025-10-27 03:18:28+00:00
> name literally comes from the Russian town of Asbest

The other way around, since it's pretty much the reason the town exists, they named it after asbestos.

It's not too unusual in the largest country in the world rich with mineral deposits. Other names might be Slantsy (oil shales), Apatity (apatites) and of course, Nikel
by dbigge | 2025-10-27 03:19:10+00:00
To clarify my intent: I’m not arguing that larger OP_RETURN is “good” or “bad.” I’m interested in whether expanding expressive surface area changes the kind of coordination burden Bitcoin requires.

Szabo’s point about minimizing the need for negotiation resonates with me. And if Bitcoin’s blockspace starts carrying more socially or legally charged data, it feels like the social layer may have to do more interpretation instead of letting the system be permissionless money…leading to a tower of babble type of failure.

But maybe this worry is overblown — maybe fee-market neutrality is sufficient to maintain coherence and neutrality.

Genuinely curious how others analyze the tradeoff: • Is blockspace policy just economics, • or does it also define the shared mental model of what Bitcoin may be to different people?
by darksaints | 2025-10-27 03:19:20+00:00
The thing that a lot of western countries should keep in mind about Milei is that he promised a lot of pain before the prosperity would come...and he did it. Inflation continued for 6 months into his presidency, and then it dropped to levels that haven't been seen for almost a decade. Poverty rates rose for almost a year, but then dropped well below what it was before he took office. GDP dropped for a year, but then rebounded pretty spectacularly. This is more than a year of non-stop naysaying from people who used those things as proof that he was wrong, only to be silenced when he turned out to be right. He hasn't been shy about still needing more help, seeking funding from the IMF and the US, but he has at least proven that what he is doing is working.

I have a million reasons to not like Milei, but he is successfully pulling off something that almost no politician ever does without getting voted out first. Anybody who promises pain has to deal with the constant criticism that comes with that pain, and almost nobody can survive that hit to their popularity. Even if you disagree with how he did it, you have to at least admire that he did what he said he would do.

I think a lot of American liberals have a hatred of him because he's right wing, but we should actually be (at least partially) praising him and pointing out his successes have come from being the exact opposite of Trump on issues like tariffs and deficits.
by kragen | 2025-10-27 03:19:49+00:00
The Natural History Museum in La Plata, the National Library, Palacio de Aguas Corrientes, San Telmo antique markets, Palacio Barolo, empanadas, alfajores, ice cream, walk down 9 de Julio, dance in a contact improv jam, Teatro Colón, tour the Tigre delta in a boat, Casa Saltshaker, look at graffiti in Palermo near Gorriti and Thames, Teatro Ciego (blind theater, ideally with a MOTAS), go to some protests, Tango Queer, the bullet holes just to the south of the Pink House, choripan on the street outside any train station (if you eat meat), get your phone stolen in La Boca or Once, Recoleta Cemetery, neighborhood cafés, the Thinker in Plaza Congreso, the Jardín Botánico, see a football game, change dollars or Tether on Calle Florida (the moneychangers yell cambio like a Pokemon), drink yerba mate with friends in Parque Centenario, go to a telo with a friend or MOTAS, I don't know, I can't think of much.
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-27 03:20:22+00:00
I'm actually not. I am assuming other countries would watch that war break out and consider how excited they are about doing that on their own soil. That kind of civil war wrecks the economy of a developed nation, and power brokers in most developed nations are a lot more interested in protecting their wealth than exclusive nationalist ideals.

Practically, I strongly suspect a US that fell to civil war in this current climate would result in the country fragmenting, not entirely unlike the premise of the old "Cyberpunk 2020" fictional setting. DC would, for example, find it remarkably challenging to hold a California that blatantly broke off from it, especially if the federal military resources of that California defected. Especially if it caught allies in neighboring states upon that occurrence.

The end result would be no real "winners;" it'd be the implosion of the United States of America as a national unit into something more approximating some agglomeration of the pieces outlined in https://www.twincities.com/2013/11/16/which-of-this-writers-....

But even if the end result were (not unlike the last American civil war) a reunification with new laws... The US lost about 2 solid years of its GDP to war. That's not good for business and would encourage those with resources to lose to expend them stifling their own domestic "purity" nationalists.
by Rileyen | 2025-10-27 03:22:11+00:00
Just read the article and it instantly brought back memories of when I spent days trying to fix a broken loss in a PyTorch model. Turned out I had passed the wrong optimizer parameters. I ended up digging all the way from the model to the CUDA kernel. Debugging took longer than training.

What’s the trickiest bug you’ve ever run into?
by jjmarr | 2025-10-27 03:22:39+00:00
> Here is something I do not see with reasonable humans who are cooperative: Me: "hey friend with whom I have plans to get dinner, what are you thinking of eating?" Friend: "fried chicken?" Me: "I'm vegetarian" Friend: "steak?"

Go join a dating app as a woman, put vegan in your profile, and see what restaurants people suggest. Could be interesting.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-10-27 03:22:44+00:00
I can't help but facepalm. Putting aside the ridiculousness of launching 83 instances of a custom LLM and calling them 'children', I imagine a decade from now half the AI assisted parliamentary members no longer bother listening or considering anything outside what their 'assistant' suggests to them paving the way to more corruption, contempt for citizens, jerrymandering, surveillance... Actually never mind it's business as usual.
by daxfohl | 2025-10-27 03:22:59+00:00
It's easy: we have reached AGI when there are zero jobs left. Or at least non manual labor jobs. If there is a single non-physical job left, then that means that person must be doing something that AI can't, so by definition, it's not AGI.

I think it'll be a steep sigmoid function. For a long time it'll be a productivity booster, but not enough "common sense" to replace people. We'll all laugh about how silly it was to worry about AI taking our jobs. Then some AI model will finally get over that last hump, maybe 10 or 20 years from now (or 1000, or 2}, and it will be only a couple months before everything collapses.
by drivingmenuts | 2025-10-27 03:23:02+00:00
That performance may backfire, since some of the big supporters are agriculture businesses that rely on illegal immigrants to survive. Mass deportations of the type ICE seems to want will put a lot of those businesses out of business. I'm sure someone up in Washington thinks that poor Americans will step in to fill the gaps, but when it's been tried before those assumptions failed, badly.

I've seen some conspiracy theories that RFK, Jr, et al, want to start labor camps for autistic kids and just about anyone else his bunch can get tagged as defective or deficient or whatever, but I don't think that's going to work out like someone hopes it will.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-27 03:25:24+00:00
What does that have to do with streaming services?

Probably 80% of what is watched is from the last year, a lot of it from the last month. Most of the rest is from the past couple decades. The original US copyright law of 1790 allowed for 28 years.

I mean, I agree current copyright is too long. It's just not that relevant to streaming. Not a lot of people are looking to watch old episodes of Knight Rider for free. (Those who are, I salute you.)
by throwaway173738 | 2025-10-27 03:25:29+00:00
> If the demand curve is very price sensitive - like people might stop buying wool blankets if the price went up 50%, and buy cotton blankets instead - then the tariff will be paid by the suppliers, because they must lower their prices to make the final price the same.

And the people buying cotton blankets are materially worse off than they were before the tariffs were imposed. They have to accept an inferior product until the wool supplier’s prices have adjusted. Or the wool supplier folds and not nobody can buy wool blankets anymore.
by mnhnthrow34 | 2025-10-27 03:26:07+00:00
> I didn't think that would controversial when talking about LLMs, with people rushing to remind me that the mirror is not sentient. It feels like an insecurity on the part of many.

For what it's worth I never thought you perceived the LLM as sentient. Though I see the overlap - one of the reasons I don't consider LLM output to be "truth" is that that there is no sense in which the LLM _knows_ what is true or not. So it's just ... stuff, and often sycophantic stuff at that.

The mirror is a better metaphor. If there is any "uncomfortable truth" surfaced in the way I think you have described, it is only the meaning you make from the inanimate stream of words received from the LLM. And in as much as the output is interesting of useful for you, great.
by biinjo | 2025-10-27 03:26:23+00:00
Don’t feed the trolls. This was your idea and you made something that works. Who cares if its (partially) done by AI. Whomever is taking offense by people using AI for coding, is just having a hard time adapting to the current state of affairs.

It’s here, it’s happening. Try the project, if you like it thats great, if you don’t then move on.

And if you don’t intent to try it for whatever reason that’s fine as well but don’t be salty to the OP for sharing their passion project.
by dlcarrier | 2025-10-27 03:27:24+00:00
Because of the permissive MIT license, they can freely incorporate each others codebase, as can any software project, commercial or not, open or closed.

The Linux codebase, on the other hand, is licensed under a copyleft license that only allows its use in open-source projects that themselves only allow their codebase to be used in open-source projects, and so on. Because of this, Linux can incorporate BSD codebases, but not the other way around.
by dxxvi | 2025-10-27 03:27:37+00:00
So, you want a place to store many files in a short period of time and when there's a new file, somebody must be notified?

Have you ever thought of using a postgresql db (also on aws) to store those files and use CDC to publish messages about those files to a kafka topic? In your original way, we need 3 aws services: s3, lambda and sqs. With this way, we need 2: postgresql and kafka. I'm not sure how well this method works though :-)
by int_19h | 2025-10-27 03:28:23+00:00
This goes all the way to early BASIC, and it's signed because the language didn't have any unsigned numbers to begin with.

The main reason for this particular arrangement is that, so long as you can rely on truth being represented as -1 - i.e. all bits set - bitwise operators double as logical ones. Thus BASIC would have NOT, AND, OR, XOR, IMP, EQV all operating bitwise but mostly used for Booleans in practice (it misses short-circuiting, but languages of that era rarely defaulted to it).
by ics | 2025-10-27 03:28:48+00:00
With bare repos? I was bit by this a few years ago when work switched to "everything on OneDrive" and it seemed fine until one day it wasn't. Following that I did tests with Dropbox and iCloud to find that all could corrupt a regular repo very easily. In the past few months though I've been trying it again with bare repos on iCloud and not had an issue... yet.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-27 03:29:25+00:00
That is not what I wrote, but feel free to interpret it that way if it makes you feel better.

> Having an "Autopilot" mode people get killed by because it doesn't actually drive the car should've been plenty.

Just like you need a pilot paying attention even when a plane is using autopilot, you need a driver paying attention when a Tesla is on Autopilot.

Where is the incongruence?
by jackvalentine | 2025-10-27 03:29:46+00:00
I (in Australia) was looking at weatherboards on the weekend for some work i’m doing and came across the James Hardie ‘Linea’ weatherboards - they’re fibro-cement boards. A couple of things struck me:

1) I’ve noticed the James Hardie ‘brand’ being used openly a lot in the past 5 years. I guess the stigma from their evil handling of asbestosis claims is gone.

2) In the installation manual it had an extensive list of things you have to do to not get silicosis.

No thanks Satan, regular pine weatherboards for me!
by maurycyz | 2025-10-27 03:30:08+00:00
The problem is that believable content doesn't compress well. You aren't going to get anywhere close to that 1:1000 compression ratio unless it's just a single word/character repeated thousands of times.

It's a choice between sending them some big files that will be filtered out long before they can do any real damage or sending them nonsense text that might actually make it's way into their training data.
by dmitrygr | 2025-10-27 03:30:14+00:00
GDP is not always a useful metric. An old economics joke:

Two economists are walking in a forest when they come across a pile of shit.

The first economist says to the other “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The second economist takes the $100 and eats the pile of shit.

They continue walking until they come across a second pile of shit. The second economist turns to the first and says “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The first economist takes the $100 and eats a pile of shit.

Walking a little more, the first economist looks at the second and says, "You know, I gave you $100 to eat shit, then you gave me back the same $100 to eat shit. I can't help but feel like we both just ate shit for nothing."

"That's not true", responded the second economist. "We increased the GDP by $200!"
by akoboldfrying | 2025-10-27 03:30:34+00:00
Your quote does not back up your claim.

My original claim was that the Turing test needs to be passable by ~every adult human. You counterclaimed that Turing himself didn't think so, and provided that quote from the IG paper as evidence. But that quote is in a section about testing digital computers, not humans. Thus it is unconnected to your counterclaim.

I don't know how much simpler I can make it.

Find a quote that actually backs up your claim, or accept that you've learned something about the paper you told me to read.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-27 03:30:42+00:00
> But I'm sure we both agree that any reasonable person should be able to expect a Tesla to drive itself on a straight road without driving into a truck stopped sideways on said road. Or not be confused in really weird and unusual situations like driving against the sun on a bright summer day.

No, which is why it tells you to keep your eyes on the road and pay attention. It’s literally a bunch of cheap cameras and some software trying to draw some lines and keep the car between them and a certain distance behind whatever is in front of it.

>Which again, I have no proof was done in those cases, but it's certainly a trend on social media and on other kinds of websites to show all the activities that you can do while the car is "clearly" driving itself. And even outside of things clearly done for attention, there isn't a lack of reports of people being arrested for reading, watching films, playing games and yes, being fully asleep in Teslas behind the wheel. We're not talking about influencers farming likes, we're talking normal people.

And you can do the same with any other car that has lane assist or whatever feature name that keeps the car in a lane and automatically brakes and accelerates.

> Uhm....good? That's great in fact?

What is the logic here? You are complaining about Tesla Autopilot being unsafe, but also complaining about the thing that makes Tesla Autopilot safer than other automakers’ lane assist/braking feature?
by ryan_lane | 2025-10-27 03:31:13+00:00
> Why did you leap from talking about incels to talking about friends? It's not friends that are the problem, it's partners

Because most of the people saying this kind of stuff tend to be incels, who famously don't have partners.

But my point about friends also applies to partners. Some stuff you need to work out in therapy. Your partner isn't your therapist, and treating them that way gives them the ick, especially early in a relationship.

You're forcing them to bear your trauma. You can expect people really far into a relationship to do this to a point (like nearing engagement, already engaged, or married), but even then it's more fair to share your trauma after you've learned how to bear it yourself, with the help of a professional. Partners should know about your past, especially as it may affect your behavior, but they shouldn't be forced to help you resolve your emotional issues.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-10-27 03:31:18+00:00
There's no comparison to the W Bush years. He was a buffoon that was mocked, but few if any seriously did things like boycott travel to the USA. Now boycotting travel to the USA is commonplace and travel to the USA has plunged.

People are nice and will continue to be nice to nice American tourists but make no mistake, there has been a severe shift both in the actions of regular people and business.
by int_19h | 2025-10-27 03:31:28+00:00
Why couldn't you malloc them? Malloc doesn't care about types, it just wants the number of bytes, and 0 is a perfectly valid value to pass to malloc. Now, it's unspecified whether malloc will give you back a pointer distinct from all other non-freed allocated blocks or NULL, but if you don't rely on address as identity that is irrelevant.
by famouswaffles | 2025-10-27 03:32:52+00:00
>Couldn’t someone else just give him a bunch of cash to blow on the test, to spoil the result?

If you still need a rich person to pass the test, then the test is working as intended. Person A is rich or person A is backed by a rich sponsor is not a material difference for the test. You are hinging too much on minute details of the analogy.

In the real word, your riches can be sponsored by someone else, but for whatever intelligence task we envision, if the machine is taking it then the machine is taking it.

>Couldn’t he give away his last dollar but pretend he’s just going to another casino?

Again, if you have $10,000 you can just withdraw today and give away, last dollar or not, the vast majority of people on this planet would call you wealthy. You have to understand that this is just not something most humans can actually do, even on their deathbed.
by p1esk | 2025-10-27 03:33:38+00:00
Me:

What color is a green eggplant?

ChatGPT:

A green eggplant (also called Thai eggplant or green brinjal, depending on the variety) is actually green on the outside — sometimes solid green, sometimes streaked with white or pale green.

The inside flesh is typically off-white or light cream, just like purple eggplants.

If you mean a green-colored variety (not an unripe purple one), then the skin color can range from pale mint green to deep jade, often with light striping.

Me:

How would an average human answer this question?

ChatGPT:

An average person would probably answer something simple and direct like:

“It’s green.”

Or if they’re being a bit more specific:

“It’s green on the outside and white inside.”

Most people wouldn’t overthink the variety or mention Thai vs. unripe types — they’d just describe what they see.
by int_19h | 2025-10-27 03:34:25+00:00
C and C++ standards demand atomic access to individual chars.

It is not a given that a C/C++ char is a "byte" in the conventional modern understanding of that word, though. sizeof(char)==sizeof(bool)===sizeof(int)==1 is a perfectly valid arrangement for an architecture that is only capable of addressing machine words, and there have been such architectures historically although I'm not sure any are still around today.