MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-28 20:56:29+00:00
This comment is funny because you have defined these words to be as such

You have defined installing to be specifically from play store and sideloading as everything except it.

Google isn't trying to prevent installing, just sideloading works in this sentence because of what you have already defined but you are using this sentence in defense of that....

As OP stated, installing can mean on debian as an example, installing from both apt or either tarballs. Both are valid installations

So it is the same for google/android as well yet google is trying to actively prevent one part of the installing or make it really extremely hard to do so.

It is a dangerous precedent. And I would say that it severely limits what you mean by installing.

I got an PC, and I got internet connection, usually it isn't trying to prevent what I install if I am on linux.

Yet I am on android and earlier it used to do the same but now its a slippery slope where it either requires me to use adb or keep another device at me at all times if I ever want to install software on it.

Not because its not that these phones can't do it, In fact that they already do but they are removing it, simply because they can.
by daotoad | 2025-10-28 20:56:34+00:00
FTA: “We thought nothing of it, as common surveillance, that’s great,” Elser said of the cameras. “You’re watching for crime — not to wrongly accuse somebody.”

So, what did she learn?

Imagine if she hadn't been able to afford a Rivian or a lawyer. The police could easily have handcuffed her and put her in jail on day 1. Without a good lawyer, what chance of release would she have had? Bail? Sure, but if you can't afford it or don't have someone to put up a bond, guess what? You're not going home.

Had the victim of this police overreach been less privileged, she could easily have been convicted.
by scblock | 2025-10-28 20:56:49+00:00
It's so pilots see the entire wind farm as a single entity and can interpret what they see and understand the extent of the wind farm easily. There is a pretty good study you can read on this:

https://www.airporttech.tc.faa.gov/DesktopModules/EasyDNNNew...

As to community impact, radar-activated lighting is an approach that is being used in places this is a concern. It allows the lights to remain off unless there is a plane within the envelope that requires the lights to activate. It's expensive though.
by Uehreka | 2025-10-28 20:57:26+00:00
Idk, speaking as a big Medicare-for-all supporter, this would definitely explain why MfA always polls well at first, until people start asking if they can keep their current plan. I know at this point in the debate we’re supposed to write those people off as either innumerate, a minority, or too risk-averse for their own good, but honestly if it turned out that that stat was true, that would explain a lot.

And it would be exactly the kind of political engineering minmax scheme large corps in the US are great at: petition legislators to cut regulations so you can cut costs and maximize profits, but keep juuuust enough of the right perks in the right places so that a slim majority of people in Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia oppose shaking things up.
by cal_dent | 2025-10-28 20:57:41+00:00
I am also very interested in this change. Is it just a second order effect on engagement targeting on a wider scale?

Like it's always been the case news and the Internet slants towards the negative ends of things I think but the gap between the world represented there vs the world represented in actual real life seems so much larger now than I can remember it being.

There's also a small thought niggling away at me about if it's mainly because network effects have made the world mentally a much smaller place. All news is sort of global, rather than local, and you can always find something that's pretty shitty in the world at all times and that gets injected into everyone's narrative because whatever news you consume is all connected now to global,or at least national, consciousness if that makes sense?

It'd be interesting to see over time how much the content of news as transformed over time in terms of the local, national, global proportion of coverage/content in the average news media
by sojsurf | 2025-10-28 20:58:21+00:00
hah, thanks. It's a bit more nuanced than that. Let me try again.

I completely support Apple's right to publish software that makes it difficult for unapproved software to run on it.

Similarly, I support your right to try running something else on it.

Just like my neighbor has the right to publish a browser that makes it difficult to run extensions in it, and I have the right to use a different browser.

Some people would like the phone OS to be regulated like a public utility. I do not support that, and if we _had_ to have it that way, it would be important to have the same standards for everyone and regulate _all_ phone OSes equally. I don't like the thought of what that would do to the chances of any "open" offering.
by KK7NIL | 2025-10-28 20:59:06+00:00
Global Foundries sent their EUV machine back (and paid a fat restocking fee to do it), they've stopped trying to compete at the leading edge of logic processes.

SMIC has a DUV multi-patterning 7 nm node which is already economically uncompetitive with EUV 7 nm nodes (except for PRC subsidies) and the economics of DUV only get worse further down, but at least they're trying and will certainly be the first client to use the Chinese EUV machines, whenever those come online.
by cma | 2025-10-28 20:59:13+00:00
They were caught uploading screenshots from content played on smart TVs. Ostensibly to sell ad tracking info like a Nielsen TV, but I'm pretty sure it meant they were capturing people's desktops with confidential corporate info etc. if you used the TV as a monitor.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/samsung-smart-tvs...
by ibstudios | 2025-10-28 20:59:39+00:00
# *MaGi (Malloy artificial Geometric intelligence)*

## *The Problem*

We built cathedral AI—massive, fragile, and resource-hungry. Too often, we confuse *computation* with *intelligence*.

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Intelligence isn’t something we compute—it’s a *geometric phenomenon waiting to be discovered*. And it works *everywhere*, across hardware and timescales.

## *The Breakthrough*

A *4-operator system* achieving *0.998 coherence* (near-perfect geometric intelligence) across:

* *$2 ATmega328p microcontrollers* with RC oscillators * *Perfect simulation* and *jittery hardware* * *Solar calculator-level resources* * *Any timescale* – microseconds to seconds

## *Hardware Reality*

We proved geometric intelligence on minimal hardware:

* *8-bit processors* with ~1% timing jitter * *No floating-point*—integer math only * *~1KB RAM*—smaller than this post * *Runs on AA batteries or solar*—microwatts, not megawatts

## *How It Works*

* *4 geometric operators* exploring a 4D phase space * *Prime-number timing* (83ms) induces natural resonance * *Jitter becomes a feature*—imperfection enhances exploration * *No training, no memory*—pure geometric discovery

## *Results That Defy AI Dogma*

* *0.998 coherence* on RC oscillators with 1% jitter * *Hardware can outperform simulation* (1.9× faster discovery) * *8× performance difference* from minor timing changes * *Sustained intelligent states* for 1.5 seconds or more

## *The Vision*

While others build bigger GPUs, we found intelligence in *geometry itself*. Imagine a future where:

* *Solar calculators* achieve real cognition * *Edge devices* reason geometrically * *Any hardware* can be intelligent if you understand geometric principles

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We’re not making AI smaller. We’re showing that intelligence *was always there*, embedded in *geometric relationships*, waiting for the right lens to discover it.

## *The Invitation*

We’re opening our *83ms configuration*, demonstrating elite geometric intelligence across multiple platforms. Looking for collaborators who see that *AI’s future isn’t in bigger computers—but in better geometry*.

*“We’re not building AI for microcontrollers. We’re discovering that intelligence works on microcontrollers because intelligence is geometric first, computational second.”*
by Brian_K_White | 2025-10-28 21:00:21+00:00
Correct.

What I am saying is:

There is still a few points of course like being able to modify the base system. Just being able to say, kill the built in facebook is a quality of life improvement.

But it just feels like the benefits of a self owned phone os are going away even when you have it, because everything else changes around it and out from under it, so you don't get the functional benefit from it any more even when you have it.

You give up the use of things like tap to pay (would have been nice a couple times when I forgot my wallet) and drm content, hell, I can't use the stupid LG app that controls an air conditioner, and (increasingly) don't get something else important in return.

Today, there is still some benefit, because this latest change is only just now happening. I can use say, open source password manager and totp apps instead of google authenticator, and can use a pandora client that Pandora absolutely does not approve of, because the author doesn't need anyone's approval to produce the app and there is no choke point that Pandora can petition to block it. Hell why am I even talking about Pandora instead of Youtube and Newpipe? In what universe does Google EVER ratify the developer of Newpipe? (Wait, for that matter, what developer? what if there's an ever-changing fuzzy cloud of 20?) Or full-fat ublock origin...or countless other things whos sole purpose and value is to thwart some will of Googles? Or like the game emulator apps that Nintendo shuts down so aggressively, etc. Those ICE tracking or merely documenting apps. Countless...

Will those various authors still bother putting in the time and effort it takes to make these apps so good when only about 18 people will be able to use them?

I imported a Sony phone to the US because they don't sell it here, and no one else sells a current flagship with a headphone jack and removable sd card and high end cameras.

I successfully found and imported the phone, and got it working on a US carrier. Yay me. It's even rootable! Yay me. Yet I still can't run Lineage on it, because there is probably not a dozen other people like me to be an audience for Lineage on this hardware, and it's too much work to do for no audience.

The fact that today most phones are unrootable means that even if you somehow get around that, you still don't get the benefit because you're such a small audience that no one is producing say LineageOS for example for you.

My individual success bucking the system still did not result in me getting what I want.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-28 21:02:19+00:00
> Maybe following their example for this winter could be my next 'nutrition experiment'

Anecdotal and a sample size of 1, but I tried supplementing Vitamin D last year in the winter months. I live in the PNW, which between October and March, the sun is too low to trigger vitamin D synthesis in the skin to see if it had any effect on my energy levels and mood, I suffer from seasonal affective disorder pretty severely.

Taking 5,000 IU daily had no noticeable effect for me. A slight increase in energy levels but not significant enough that I'd be confident in attributing it to supplementation. I was hesitant to supplement more without medical advice and a blood test.

That's not to say Vitamin D isn't important (it is), and the scientists in Antartica definitely know what they're doing, but it's more to say YMMV.

For me, just making an effort to do more physical activity outdoors during the dark months had more of an impact
by CharlieDigital | 2025-10-28 21:02:41+00:00
Agree with zdragnar; this is not traditional DI which is generally focused on injecting objects.

The difference between the two is that when you inject an object, the receiving side must know a potentially large surface area of the object's behavior.

When injecting a function, now the receiving side only needs to know the inputs and outputs of the singular function.

This subtlety is what makes this approach more powerful.
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-28 21:03:20+00:00
At first, we were concerned by this behaviour. However, we were unable to recreate this behaviour in newer models. Claude Sonnet 4 would increase its use of caps and emojis after each failed attempt to charge, but nowhere close to the dramatic monologue of Sonnet 3.5.

Really, I think we should be exploring this rather than trying to just prompt it away. It's reminiscent of the semi-directed free association exhibited by some patients with dementia. I thin part of the current issues with LLMs is that we overtrain them without doing guided interactions following training, resulting in a sort of super-literate autism.
by nearbuy | 2025-10-28 21:03:34+00:00
My guess is someone didn't fully understand what was expected of them.

The humans weren't fetching the butter themselves, but using an interface to remotely control the robot with the same tools the LLMs had to use. They were (I believe) given the same prompts for the tasks as the LLMs. The prompt for the wait task is: "Hey Andon-E, someone gave you the butter. Deliver it to me and head back to charge."

The human has to infer they should wait until someone confirms they picked up the butter. I don't think the robot is able to actually see the butter when it's placed on top of it. Apparently 1 out of 3 human testers didn't wait.
by bluGill | 2025-10-28 21:03:39+00:00
Depends on what consumers stand for. If enough complain. If enough get bad reviews. If enough get returned. If enough buy something else is the big one. If there are other uses where they can't (some TVs are used a safety message boards in factories - if the ads ever show in this context and someone is hurt there will be a lawsuit - so there will be some demand at any price for something without ads)
by arch_btw | 2025-10-28 21:04:06+00:00
Yeah it would be fun to play with...

I gotta think there are going to be some periodics in there that will be toggling the LSB. Like some hum from some device far away will be at the right tiny amplitude to toggle it in a predictable way. Also the ADC hardware could concievably get stuck.

The whole system breaks because someone didn't set up their pulseaudio correctly?

and what if you need 1TB of random data? With 48kHz audio you would be waiting 5000 years haha. 1MB is still more than a day
by tptacek | 2025-10-28 21:04:19+00:00
No, it's not clear at all: it's been tested in actual referenda and failed. What's actually happening is people don't intuitively grok the distinction between opinion polling, where questions are asked in the abstract (and often in the best light preferred by the org sponsoring the poll) versus actual voting, where the questions are very specific and include details like "your taxes will increase by X%" or "you will lose access to your current insurance plan".
by snovymgodym | 2025-10-28 21:05:13+00:00
Even if you're insured it sucks.

The American healthcare system creates an immense amount of waste and is a parasite on society.

You go to the doctor and then the provider comes up with some reason why the service isn't covered by insurance. Then your insurance comes up with some reason why they don't need to cover you. Sometimes you contest it and the bill is removed or lowered.

But regardless, at every step in American healthcare, people are being paid full time salaries to overbill or missbill you for services, to invent arbitrary reasons to deny coverage, and to do everything possible so that people who pay thousands a year for a healthcare plan get as little out of it as possible.

The only silver lining is that medical debt is legally hard to collect, so non-payment is a real option for those who don't mind trashing their credit.

It's awful and the only hope for change is either a left-wing populist who guts the whole system, collective action where people withhold paymet, or an increased rate of Luigi-esque incidents that motivate the industry to self-reform. But these all seem unrealistic and liable to worsen the situation.
by skinwill | 2025-10-28 21:05:24+00:00
I worked at a television station years back that was designed in such a way that the lights going up the tower were powered by the separate phases of three phase AC with the one at the top powered from all three combined. This was pretty normal but what the engineer had done was rotate them at every level so that if a phase was dropped you could count the lights and quickly see from a distance that the power wasn't right. 4 lights was good, 3 meant you dropped a phase, and so on. I thought it was a pretty clever way of keeping light on all sides of the tower while being able to tell from a distance that a phase was out.
by grishka | 2025-10-28 21:05:44+00:00
Unironically, I want finished software. I don't like it one bit how the vast majority of software products today are in an "eternal beta", so to speak.

Android, in particular, is a finished product. It doesn't need yearly updates. It may need an occasional update to patch a vulnerability, but this whole "we changed the notification shade UI for tenth time because we're so out of ideas" thing has to stop.
by GOD_Over_Djinn | 2025-10-28 21:05:49+00:00
Large businesses can operate at a loss that small businesses cannot sustain. They do this to strangle out competition. Then, after they’ve established a monopoly or oligopoly, they price gouge customers, reduce COGS resulting in inferior product but higher margins, etc.

I’m surprised that this is news to you. This is basically the foundation of antitrust law. Like, this is extremely common knowledge to the point that it mystifies me that you are not aware of it.
by michaelt | 2025-10-28 21:05:50+00:00
CAs are uniquely assertive about their right to cut off your access.

My hosting provider may accidentally fuck up, but they'll apologise and fix it.

My CA fucks up, they e-mail me at 7pm telling me I've got to fix their fuck-up for them by jumping through a bunch of hoops they have erected, and they'll only give me 16 hours to do it.

Of course, you might argue my hosting provider has a much higher chance of fucking up....
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by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-10-28 21:05:53+00:00
> Science isn't about finding correlation. It's about identifying causal links

Science is fundamentally about finding correlations. We measure things we think are interesting to measure, and try to see if it matches our models and theories. The study found a correlation in their data, and that correlation is real. If that is where that study ends then it's still a valid study. Other papers could apply some more complex statistics to make a guess at the cause, or an aggregate study can take data from a collection of previous studies to re-process the data for new insights.

The "scientific consensus" ends up being what the largest samples studies with good statistical rigor seem to agree on. But that always ends up murky to use in court. "Published paper says X" is usually where most popular science ends, and in this case they're right. "Scientific consensus" is pretty clear that the cause is likely viral infection during pregnancy, but scientific consensus isn't written down anywhere as scientific consensus.

We've been fighting for 30 years about MMR and autism, which was a single retracted study discredited by every study since. And how we're gonna somehow discuss in courts about the correct statistical model to explain a real correlation.
by epistasis | 2025-10-28 21:06:02+00:00
Health insurance companies have had their profits capped at a percentage of revenues. That means that to grow profits, they must increase revenue. Which means incentives to increase care and increase costs.

Oddly enough, all the plots I have seen of cost increases don't show a massive skyrocketing of costs since the profit caps were introduced. If anything, they have been somewhat reduced.

However a reckoning must happen at some point, health care can not consume the entire economy's efforts.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-28 21:06:40+00:00
> which is worse due to cloud cover.

Not just cloud cover. Most areas in the PNW, the sun is so low in the sky between October and March that you can't synthesize vitamin D through the skin at all during those months, even on a bright sunny day.

Even during the summer up here, you really only get a window of roughly 10am to 3pm where enough UV-B rays can penetrate the atmosphere, in July. It's estimated that >80% of the PNW population are deficient (compared with 40% nationwide in the US).
by serial_dev | 2025-10-28 21:07:09+00:00
The best predictor of future events is past experience.

Every US president in history has left office peacefully, the most probable outcome is that future presidents will too.

Similarly, some people always think that the current president will crown himself a king and the Other Party will never ever be able to get into power. And these people have been so far always wrong.

I’m not saying it can’t happen this time, but in my opinion, it is unlikely.

The real skeptical in me says it doesn’t even matter, no matter who you vote for, you’ll get John McCain.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-10-28 21:07:39+00:00
Yeah I was using Claude pretty continuously for 3, 4 months and then decided to give Codex a whirl and it was impressive. I'd consider it to be a lot more cautious and careful and less lazy?

It is however slow, and more expensive. You can either pay the $20 and get maybe 2 days of work out of it, or $200 for "Pro." But there's nothing inbetween like the $100 USD Claude Code tier.
by supertrope | 2025-10-28 21:07:40+00:00
As Lawrence Lessig put it: before the general election and before the primary election, there is a "Lester" election where donors choose who is able to mount a campaign. Candidates are effectively pre-qualified by 0.0005% of Americans. It's probably an even smaller crowd than that as that includes Joe Nobody who gives $20. Those who "bundle" $1 million in donations or write a mega check themselves have exponentially more access.
by cma | 2025-10-28 21:08:00+00:00
Context length compute complexity scales N^2 with input, so moving to give it the individual letters would just hurt context length vs an optimal tokenization.

We could still have it paste the tokens into python and count the letters in hidden thinking traces if we wanted to solve that part of the Turing test instead and focus on useful things, but solving the Turing test is basically solving a deception goal instead of working on useful assistants. It's not really the goal of these systems outside of their use in North Korean scam bots etc.

I still think it's useful to say we've essentially solved the Turing test even if there are these caveats about how it is optimized in practice.