MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jchw | 2025-10-16 17:58:45+00:00
You have a point, but I just think it's less intuitive for consumers. Manufacturers often don't even do direct sales, so the only "canonical" price is the MSRP, which is just that, a suggestion. Consumers go shopping at Walmart or Amazon, they don't go "shopping" at Doordash: the menu they're seeing on Doordash is the restaurant menu. In some cases, it is the only online menu that some restaurants even have. To me it is not terribly intuitive that these prices differ.

There is another analog for this, too, though: some retailers indeed would have more or less expensive prices for the same thing when ordering online versus in-store. I think the argument that it isn't unprecedented is pretty solid.

Despite not being entirely unprecedented, I'd still prefer to see this practice ended for food delivery services so it is easier to see the actual true overhead of food delivery services. It really does feel a bit manipulative the way it is right now.
by dismalaf | 2025-10-16 17:59:15+00:00
Ok, excerpt from the definition in your link:

"over other cultures"

And your words:

> obviously excludes

This is you, jumping to yet another conclusion. Promoting one thing over another means promoting one thing more than another. It does not mean exclusion.

> That's hilarious, there's one just above it: "you seem to be having difficulty understanding words"

Not an insult, just a statement of fact at this point.

Your whole argument hinges on you making assumptions that are not inherent to the definition of words. That the most mild form of something MUST automatically lead to the most extreme form.

This is like me saying that because communists had universal healthcare, universal healthcare must automatically lead to Stalinism. Economics, politics and culture are never black and white, it's always various degrees of everything. The US shares elements of both communism and fascism, in fact, every country on earth does. This does not mean every country is either the USSR or Nazi Germany and about to murder millions...
by vector_spaces | 2025-10-16 17:59:36+00:00
The "cost conscious" option in a city with one of the highest median incomes in the US is very different from a cost conscious shopper in a city like Daytona Beach, where practically a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line!

I will also point out that "cost conscious" is one of several shopper profiles that Safeway targets, but broadly speaking Safeway targets a more affluent shopper (although cost conscious isn't the same as non-affluent). The degree to which a particular location services these targets varies by area. But no, these stores target fundamentally different shoppers and think very differently about assortment, at least with regard to the long tail
by supportengineer | 2025-10-16 17:59:48+00:00
Safeway has an in-house organic brand, "O Organics". I can easily go to Safeway and pick up only organic foods. I don't know if that's true for Publix or Kroger.

UPDATE: ChatGPT tells me that at Publix it's called "GreenWise Organic" and at Kroger it's called "Simple Truth Organic"
by wahern | 2025-10-16 17:59:54+00:00
A VM is a reasonably defensible boundary which you can use to make meaningful assessments about exposure and vulnerability. It's like safe sex--you assume your partner has an STD and take measures to prevent transmission. VMs are like condoms, as opposed to herbs or reputation heuristics.

Most of this recent eBPF tooling, especially the products that pretend to mitigate exploits, is just recapitulating the security theater of the Windows world. And we all know how that turned out. Windows' security was a joke until Microsoft changed course and started focusing on correctness and meaningful and defensible architectural boundaries. Sadly the corporate embrace of Linux seems to be pulling the ecosystem along the same path Windows and the big Unix vendors were taken.
by miguelspizza | 2025-10-16 18:00:23+00:00
> The other part is the cohesive interface for the agent itself to use these selectors

We are incubating this over at the WebMCP web standard proposal. You can see the current draft of explainer for the declarative API. https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp/pull/26

Also, great work on the browser agent, this is the best of the DOM parsing/screenshot agents I've used. I was really impressed with the wordle example
by montebicyclelo | 2025-10-16 18:00:23+00:00
Agreed, and its larger context window is fantastic. My workflow:

- Convert the whole codebase into a string

- Paste it into Gemini

- Ask a question

People seem to be very taken with "agentic" approaches were the model selects a few files to look at, but I've found it very effective and convenient just to give the model the whole codebase, and then have a conversation with it, get it to output code, modify a file, etc.
by mati365 | 2025-10-16 18:00:35+00:00
It’s not about frustration, unwillingness to learn, or dismissing the tool altogether. My point is about trust. I just can’t imagine a Next.js app being as easily maintainable 10 years down the road as a Rails one. Honestly, I can’t even picture upgrading to a new major version without breaking something, because the pace of changes is just too fast. Sure, it’s great for small, simple projects. But building a business on it and risking breakages or dropped support? Not for me.
by afavour | 2025-10-16 18:01:37+00:00
It's been so long I can barely remember now but I'm pretty sure it was the lifetime propagation that got me... once one struct had it, every struct using that struct needed one, then there was more than one lifetime and combining them (and establishing the rules of how the lifetimes related to each other) bent my brain out of shape. Rc<> let me sidestep all of that.
by frickinLasers | 2025-10-16 18:01:57+00:00
Yes, it probably is. Have you ever heard of the spherical cow?*

Simplifying the surface makes it possible to model the system with equations that can be solved analytically--which gives theorists something to work on. Modeling more complex systems (which often happens, eventually) typically requires lots of computing power and results in a model that doesn't generalize well.

* https://www.sphericalcowblog.com/spherical-cows
by beyarkay | 2025-10-16 18:01:58+00:00
I'll totally grant that thing will get better over time. But a point that I was (mostly failing) to make, is that software is discrete, NNs are continuous. No matter how buggy your program is, it's got a countable number of lines, so you can have some notion of "all the bugs" (ignoring distributed systems).

But NNs are fundamentally continuous, I don't think it even makes sense to "count" bugs. You can have a list of prompts to which the model gives unwanted output, but it's a completely different ball game compared to regular software.
by humptybumpty | 2025-10-16 18:01:58+00:00
Maybe pricing has something to do with it?

Total 27,00€ ($31.57)

1kg potatos, 0,99€

3pcs bell peppers, 1,03€ (x)

1pcs ginger, 0,90€ (x)

1kg onions, 1,59€

100g garlic, 1,45€ (x)

500g carrots, 0,89€

500g frozen peas, 1,09€

1 can white beans, 1,09€ (x)

fresh fancy bread, 3,69€

400g chicken thighs, 4,99€

1l plain low-fat yogurt, 2,55€

1kg rice, 3,79€ (x)

650g ”farro”, 2,95€

(x) imported, not local

Typical prices in Finland, which is considered to be expensive European country.

Could maybe go down to 20+€ with cheapest options.
by firefoxd | 2025-10-16 18:02:16+00:00
The demo is pretty good despite having limited scale. I couldn't freely move around. Just today I was writing about what might happen if the AI bubble pops, the result will be cheap GPUs for everyone [0]. They say this world model runs on a single H100, if you can somehow get a couple of those on your desk you can run it at locally.

[0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/free-graphic-cards-for-everyone
by ed | 2025-10-16 18:02:20+00:00
> He's also implying that Rails does not use web sockets to communicate with frontend which is not only wrong it should be evidently wrong to anyone who built a Rails app in the last 3 years.

I’m actually a rails dev but I’d reach for phoenix if my app required a large number of persistent sockets (e.g. high-volume MCP servers). I say this mostly because the hosting story is better for phoenix (gigalixir) than rails (heroku, or similar services that run behind a request router). Of course if you want your own infra this argument doesn’t apply. But a $100 gigalixir box can easily serve 100k persistent connections — even a few thousand persistent connections is a non-starter on Heroku.
by surprisetrex | 2025-10-16 18:02:35+00:00
Honestly yeah, the Google Doc has all of the relevant info in it and is about 1/4 the length.

The LLM doesn’t know anything you didn’t tell it about this scenario, so all it does is add more words to say the same thing, while losing your authorial voice in the process.

I guess to put it a bit too bluntly: if you can’t be bothered writing it, what makes you think people should bother reading it?
by andruby | 2025-10-16 18:02:51+00:00
Would this requirement to start from ground zero in current LLMs be an artefact of the requirement to have a "multi-tenant" infrastructure?

Of course OpenAI and Anthropic want to be able to reuse the same servers/memory for multiple users, otherwise it would be too expensive.

Could we have "personal" single-tenant setups? Where the LLM incorporates every previous conversation?
by McNulty2 | 2025-10-16 18:03:02+00:00
Well they did mention one specific, and that is the fact that this service is only for DashMart orders i.e. the first part of any autonomous delivery order is at a DoorDash -controlled and -staffed facility. Where they can babysit the process.

To me that pickup part seems almost more difficult than the delivery end of the journey. If you think about a busy restaurant with app-delivery orders piling up on the counter, how is that order going to get into the autonomous vehicle outside or down the road? Maybe a new service will spring up called mini-Dash where a human has a job running the orders down to the waiting vehicles?
by mbesto | 2025-10-16 18:04:15+00:00
> Contrast with the way a human learns skills - as we gain experience with a skill, we get better at understanding when it's the right tool for the job.

Which is precisely why Richard Sutton doesn't think LLMs will evolve to AGI[0]. LLMs are based on mimicry, not experience, so it's more likely (according to Sutton) that AGI will be based on some form of RL (reinforcement learning) and not neural networks (LLMs).

More specifically, LLMs don't have goals and consequences of actions, which is the foundation for intelligence. So, to your point, the idea of a "skill" is more akin to a reference manual, than it is a skill building exercise that can be applied to developing an instrument, task, solution, etc.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21EYKqUsPfg
by tptacek | 2025-10-16 18:04:16+00:00
If you're talking about American-style bacon, and it tastes like bacon, there's no such thing. They're just exploiting labeling rules by selecting very specific nitrite sources. Nitrites are what give bacon (and ham) its flavor.

<strike>This is before we get to the whole premise of avoiding nitrates. Would you eat a beet? That's a serving of industrial bacon's worth of nitrates right there.</strike>

Later

(Actually, super bad example, since the concern is nitrosamines which are formed in the presence of proteins. The point about the illegitimacy of nitrite-free bacon stands!)
by dpark | 2025-10-16 18:04:31+00:00
Our laws don’t really work like that, at least not in the US. Neither criminal nor civil. This might be a shock, but you are generally not allowed to kill people. We have a whole range of laws that make it a crime for you to hurt or kill people.

If you run an unregulated carnival ride and it falls apart and kills everyone, you’re going to prison. The fact that you have everyone sign a waiver that says “I know this might kill me” will not protect you from your own criminal negligence. Nor will it protect you from the lawsuits the families of the deceased will bring.

In your scenario the person giving out untested medication that kills someone would almost certainly be found guilty of criminal negligence if not worse. Based on that same criminal negligence I imagine that the family would be successful in suing.
by arp242 | 2025-10-16 18:04:32+00:00
> some people just can't stop shoveling down Flamin' Hot Froot Loops.

If over a third if the country has serious problems with this then it seems to me there is a systemic problem, and you can't only chuck it to individual failure.

Doesn't mean there is no individual responsibility at all – but there's a reason obesity rates have risen so sharply and why there are quite big differences between countries of comparable levels of development.

I don't think anyone claimed that it's impossible to eat healthy food – certainly the article didn't.
by steveklabnik | 2025-10-16 18:05:06+00:00
The jj git backend happens to update only one of the two timestamps. There's not a lot of talk about the author date on the jj issue tracker.

I did not dig into the history of the code, so I can't say if it was an explicit design decision or just how it was implemented. Since there hasn't been a lot of demand to change anything here, I didn't see any active discussion about the choice.

EDIT: oh I see martin has said 'we just followed git' here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599741
by vee-kay | 2025-10-16 18:05:12+00:00
So where are those millions of dollars to Mozilla from Google really going?

Mozilla has a staff of around 1700 employees in USA, but it has 1000+ volunteers. Are those volunteers getting a fair share of the profits of this non-profit company? If not, why not?

And even with all that half a billion dollars of revenue every year, why is Mozilla Firefox have a barely ~2% market share?

OK, Let's talk basics and real stuff..

Why has Firefox failed or deliberately delayed to give basic features for years that its major competitors have had for years?

Why is a company getting millions of dollars (from its biggest competitor) for doing the bare minimum (or is that a quid pro quo deal between them)? "Too little, too late" seems to be the norm at Firefox and Mozilla in past few years.

e.g., Firefox users have been demanding Tab Grouping for years (and the other major browsers have had Tab Grouping feature for years), but it was only in April 2025 that Mozilla finally gave that basic feature in Firefox: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-community/

Or is that the implicit deal between Google and Mozilla. "Hey puppet, if you want the carrot, then just keep your head down, and just tick along doing barely anything new, and let me control the world as I see fit."

I'm genuinely wondering: if any other decent non-Chromium FOSS browser got half a billion dollars every year, would it give some tough competition to Chrome and Safari?
by mikkupikku | 2025-10-16 18:05:31+00:00
> "That doesn’t suggest a linguistics conspiracy."

That's Chomsky's point. In Manufacturing Consent, Chomsky explains how the appearance of collusion can arise without conspiracy. Like-minded people hiring and promoting like-minded people isn't a conspiracy, it only looks like one because people with similar incentives and values will behave in similar ways given similar circumstances.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-10-16 18:05:41+00:00
> Even JPMorgan, which prides itself on what Dimon has dubbed a “fortress balance sheet,” suffered $170 million in losses linked to the Tricolor bankruptcy

I wonder if we'll see another wave of regional banks going under.

ETA: Oh https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/regional-banks-and-jefferies...
by afavour | 2025-10-16 18:06:08+00:00
> i think the union here is overreaching

I think concern over company ownership is a core responsibility of a union.

> my advice to anyone working at EA or any unionized white collar jobs in this nidustry and relate to keep your heads down and don't post your thoughts in public.

That's one of the strengths of a union: established rules about what is an isn't acceptable, which include your right to speak out.
by realityfactchex | 2025-10-16 18:06:09+00:00
> best case scenario is walkable neighborhoods with lots of little tasty restaurants at affordable prices around the corner from everybody.

According to the written history, pre-1906 San Francisco had basically that.

It seems that the normal middle-class could afford high-quality, delicious food at restaurants, multiple times per week, due to the abundance of local ingredients and overall economic conditions.

So, how to get that quality and relative pricing today?

Excerpts from "The City That Was: A Requiem of Old San Francisco" by Will Irwin (free eBook, [0], free audiobook [1], HTML version at [2]):

> San Francisco was famous for its restaurants and cafes. > they gave the best fare on earth, for the price, at a dollar, seventy-five cents, a half a dollar, or even fifteen cents. > a public restaurant where there was served the best dollar dinner on earth > The eating was usually better than the surroundings. Meals that were marvels were served in tumbledown little hotels. > A number of causes contributed to this. The country all about produced everything that a cook needs and that in abundance—the bay was an almost untapped fishing pound, the fruit farms came up to the very edge of the town, and the surrounding country produced in abundance fine meats, game, all cereals and all vegetables. [0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3314 [1] https://librivox.org/san-francisco-before-and-after-the-earthquake-by-william-henry-irwin/ [2] https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3314/pg3314-images.html
by beyarkay | 2025-10-16 18:06:15+00:00
Indeed, this has been the most contentious line in the whole piece :D

How do you define "perfect" data and training? I'd argue that if you trained a small NN to play tic-tac-toe perfectly, it'd quickly memorise all the possible scenarios, and since the world state is small, you could exhaustively prove that it's correct for every possible input. So at the very least, there's a counter example showing that with perfect data and training, models will not get stuff wrong.
by cultofmetatron | 2025-10-16 18:06:34+00:00
saem idea, different levels of the abstraction

Kubernetes handles let it crash at the process level. so we have one erland vm running inside a docker container and it is the only tennant on its individual machine. this is managed by kubernetes. kubernetes also exposes a discovery endpoint so that all the erland vms we have can be aware of each other and form a cluster. IF something takes down the erlang vm (its exceedingly rare but it does happen), kubernetes will bring up a new one.

erlang's let it crash apply to its lightweight processes which are really just fancy threads with a vm specific scheduler and heap allocation. if somethign crashes a genserver, erlang handles it.

TLDR: they compliment each other
by buildbot | 2025-10-16 18:07:43+00:00
The industry has been doing RL on many kinds of neural networks, including LLMs, for quite some time. Is this person saying we RL on some kind of non neural network design? Why is that more likely to bring AGI than an LLM?.

> More specifically, LLMs don't have goals and consequences of actions, which is the foundation for intelligence.

Citation?
by theamk | 2025-10-16 18:08:08+00:00
Sure, it is not as edgy Arch or something, but unless you have your own mirror, your stuff can be broken at any time.

To be fair, they are _usually_ pretty good about that, the last big breakage I've seen was that git "security" fix which basically broke git commands as root. There is also some problems with Ubuntu LTS kernel upgrades, but docker won't save you here, you need to use something like AMI images.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-16 18:08:20+00:00
In the post war boom, most of those entry level jobs that could support an entire family were limited to white (itself a heavily restricted term back then) men with a union membership.

Heck, unions themselves were heavily racialized back then.

On top of that, housing was segregated either overtly via race restrictions or covertly by overwhelmingly denying loans or sellers colluding to not sell to "that" family.

You'll hear plenty of these stories from older Black, Italian, Greek, Armenian, Chinese, and Hispanic Americans.
by tcherasaro | 2025-10-16 18:08:28+00:00
I can supply my own anecdata here.

I recently went through 6 weeks of PT for injured tendons / tendinitis in my arms with 0 results.

The therapist suggested we try dry needling + electric stimulation for another 6 weeks. So we did that and I recovered 90% in the second 6 weeks of therapy.

There were side effects but they were minimal and completely gone now.

It looked a little like this except on my arms:

https://youtube.com/shorts/pTEPMgDdy2A?si=MSx7YnmUbApsigWe

I was skeptical but sold on the benefits and relieved to have an effective therapy option to fall back on when it happens again as it does every couple years. Unfortunately, my insurance doesn’t pay for it.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-10-16 18:08:39+00:00
The only closed source license I find acceptable is the BuSL "Business Source License" because it eventually becomes opensource. It guarantees you a 4 year moat on the code before it becomes open source, and it remains source available until then. This ought to be good enough for valid uses and prevents needless license proliferation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Source_License
by nebula8804 | 2025-10-16 18:09:08+00:00
Its more a matter of whats subsidized. All that corn grown thanks to the corn and soy bills passed to support midwestern farmers are used for things such as plumping up cows/pigs/etc, used for a inefficient form of fuel (biodiesel, E85), and finally pumped into all the foods as HFCS among other things. The farmers can keep growing unproductive crops and stay in business (so politicians won't be hearing from them), the government can ensure the farmland processes will be available during wartime and they can check off their requirements of ensuring all citizens have a minimal required number of "calories".

Its a symptom of same thing that is messing up the US in all other areas. Poor governance caused by layers of people all along the stack taking their cut and not caring about the overall picture.
by d0mine | 2025-10-16 18:09:17+00:00
> TRM obtains 45% test-accuracy on ARC-AGI-1 and 8% on ARC-AGI-2, higher than most LLMs (e.g., Deepseek R1, o3-mini, Gemini 2.5 Pro) with less than 0.01% of the parameters.
by bitpush | 2025-10-16 18:09:24+00:00
It is right to be skeptical, but I dont see how monopoly plays into this at all. Even if we assume Google is a monopoly company with Search or Ads, how Waymo delivers has got nothing to do with Search and Ads.

Perhaps you were trying to Google is a big tech company and they have gobs of cash, and that's why they are doing it. Precisely, and it is a public market company - so if it isnt a good use of their money, people will vote with their wallet.

Also, there are other richer companies (Apple etc) who can do exactly this thing. Nobody is stopping or unfairly being affected due to Waymo delivering food.
by jmull | 2025-10-16 18:09:37+00:00
It would be helpful if they included a problem statement of some sort.

I don't know what problem this solves.

While I could possibly read all this and deduce what it's for, I probably won't... (the stated premise of this, "It is as true today as it was in 2011 that Javascript cryptography is Considered Harmful." is not true.)