MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by janalsncm | 2025-10-01 23:55:57+00:00
> What would a "hallucination free" LLM do with that?

To me, there’s a qualitative question of what details to include. Ideally the most important ones. And there’s the binary question of whether it included details not in the original.

A related issue is that preference tuning loves wordy responses, even if they’re factually equivalent.
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by achierius | 2025-10-01 23:56:24+00:00
No, that's not true. We can tell because farmers, by and large, strongly resisted attempts to push them off of their land, and generally only moved into cities in large surges every time the economy slumped (Baumol's cost disease having lead to cost increases for the tools they needed to do their farming). Before the modern era, cities were actually net-negative growth rates due to disease, starvation, exposure, murder, etc. -- a fact which was certainly not true of the countryside. Even just operationally we can think -- how common was it for farmers to lose an arm to a threshing machine, to develop black lung from inhaling coal, to take orders from another man like he was their boss? People liked being farmers, people liked owning their own land, people liked being their own boss, people liked feeding themselves, people liked to be independent and self-reliant. All of that goes away when one moves to the city to work in a factory or mine.

What you're saying is a common understanding, but it's a false one, rooted in Victorian-era attitudes towards medieval peasants that really have nothing to do with reality.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-01 23:57:11+00:00
Or, God forbid, worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandahar_massacre

United States Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales murdered 16 Afghan civilians and wounded six others in the Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province, in the former Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Nine of his victims were children, and 11 of the dead were from the same family. Bales was taken into custody later that morning when he told authorities, "I did it".
by bigyabai | 2025-10-01 23:57:14+00:00
It literally is that easy. The edit history is public precisely so you can identify when the hasbara and wumao goons plaster up their propaganda. If they make a citation that comes from a sketchy or unsubstantiated source, you can contest it and have the misinformation removed. This happens pretty often with tabloid-aligned cable outlets, including Rupert Murdoch's Fox network. Obviously it's less of a problem for outlets with fewer retractions, such as Reuters and AP. If that's "highly biased" then Fox needs to reflect on their own opportunism and journalistic integrity.

Like I said originally - Wikipedia is an annotated source aggregator. If it so happens that the liberal-aligned sources are the only ones reporting on war or hate crimes, then you'll have to excuse the moderators for ignoring the protests of Fox News Australia and Times of Israel. Your reputation matters, in journalism.
by amanaplanacanal | 2025-10-01 23:57:30+00:00
You keep saying a supermajority is required, when it simply isn't. There is nothing in the constitution or law that requires it. It is simply a custom that the Senate has done it in the past. But it has also been a custom that the president faithfully executes the laws that Congress passes, which this administration doesn't.

We'll see what happens after the midterms. I don't expect this president to finish his term.
by NedF | 2025-10-01 23:57:40+00:00
> steelmanning

The thread replies show what deadbeats Hacker News users are.

The worlds knowledge base could be turned to video.

Like Khan academy but rather than old out of date videos instant upgrades from rerunning / correcting a prompt.

In practice it's not good enough to do this but no more so than other applications. It could be an interesting first iteration. /end steelmaned.
by dckimGUY | 2025-10-01 23:57:43+00:00
Hi everybody! I have finally started with the menu system for my project, and I know that I can't cover everything at the same time. So, I am putting this public question: What should the menu have?

Which menus are more important? I know that I can make one that will appear in the middle of the screen, and maybe be more comprehensive in it's selection.

Just now, I am focusing my attention on the 'side-shelf' style menu which is on the right side of the screen when you first start the program.

Any input would be greatly appreciated.
by ggm | 2025-10-01 23:58:12+00:00
without going full conspiracy, how much of the AI hype is driven by entities highly invested in the emerging surplus power from gas and coal, or who think they can make bank on a small nuke SMR play if they get the correct contracts with a Datacenter?

If we stopped doing insane things with GPUs then what's left is a viable business with CDNs and cloud computing for purposeful activity.

Burning coal 24/7 to make dali-m images is silly. But, if I was long on SMR I would totally play up how much power they need and if need be, co-fund the GPU farm to buy my power.

Is that not just the electricity version of the GPU maker taking a position in the AI sector as long as the money comes back to buy GPU (which btw, just happened bigly)
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by nonmaskable | 2025-10-01 23:59:48+00:00
Is it normal to feel tired all day... As a student in a CS major, experiencing tiredness all week long has just become a "common" thing. Just like all of my friends...

This is why I am writing today — I am really trying to solve this endless problem. For instance, I feel that many people are experiencing the same thing, but not for the same reasons.

This is why I made this little survey; I want to understand the subject better to find a solution to this...

You have the link — it's anonymous and free. Have a great day!
by typewithrhythm | 2025-10-02 00:00:00+00:00
You hire discount engineers when you want to move to a maintenance and value extraction stage, something widespread in the industry at the moment due to changes is startup incentives and interest rates making entrenched players feel more safe.

It's not about "global equilibrium", because that misses completely that hiring a very expensive westener still has positive roi, but only if you are attempting to innovate.
by djoldman | 2025-10-02 00:00:25+00:00
... for this specific use case (financial documents).

These corpora have a high degree of semantic ambiguity among other tricky and difficult to alleviate issues.

Other types of text are far more amenable to RAG and some are large enough that RAG will probably be the best approach for a good while.

For example: maintenance manuals and regulation compendiums.
by throwup238 | 2025-10-02 00:00:45+00:00
> However as of this year it's got ~$600B of exposure and $400MM in funds.

The California FAIR plan only has $377 million in liquid funds because it pays premiums for $5.75 billion worth of reinsurance. Roughly 1% of their clientele (by value) would have to lose their homes to put the plan under strain. That's what may happen with the Palisade/Eaton fires, for the first time in nearly sixty years. Current estimates are $5-9 billion in claims, so the current worst case scenario is a multibillion dollar bailout by the state (not federal!) which is well within the state's budget.

Also a nitpick: (almost?) no one is receiving $3 million on a FAIR plan even in the Palisades or Malibu. That's the theoretical maximum but since it doesn't cover the value of the land, the actual coverage is much lower.

I have a lot more to say about the circumstances of these latest fires (several of my friends lost their homes in both neighborhoods) but suffice it to say I don't think this disaster is representative of future liabilities.
by miltonlost | 2025-10-02 00:01:07+00:00
> Playing into the belief that it is either side (on this specific issue) just furthers that problem. Watch the rhetoric: Republicans blame Democrats, Democrats blame Republicans.

Playing into your game of "They're both at fault!" removes the fact that one has consistently reneged on their promises to the other party and acts in bad faith consistently. Or like Trump refusing to release money that COngress had already appropriated. Centrism isn't enlightened, but foolish.
by mnk47 | 2025-10-02 00:01:38+00:00
You can just use the official Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Gemini extensions on VS Code. You get diffs just like in Cursor now. The performance of these models can vary wildly depending on the agent harness they're on.

The official tools won't necessarily give you the best performance, but they're a safer bet for now. This is merely anecdotal as I haven't bothered to check rigorously, but I and others online have found that GPT-5-Codex is worse in Cursor than in the official CLI/extension/web UI.
by bfeynman | 2025-10-02 00:03:12+00:00
frontier labs do finetuning of their models for software dev using the terminal/cli driven style, annotating datasets to solve programming in this fashion, and fine tuning will almost always make for better performance. Cursor as mostly a wrapper is just using the underlying foundation models in their framework and orchestrating on top of that, as opposed to doing actual learnable objectives in training to make things better.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-10-02 00:04:17+00:00
So in your comparison, on the one hand are laws that are shared by literally every nation (having and maintaining a border), and on the other hand is a historical edge case where citizenship was deleted.

I think it’s pretty easy to achieve consistency by just being opposed to deleting citizenship, but being in favor of maintaining and enforcing a border? No contradiction there.

I don’t see what’s calloused about it, either. People voluntarily relocate with their children, who do not have a choice in the matter, all the time. If the parents are sneaking into and hiding in a country, I don’t see what’s so different about the family being removed to their place of origin vs the family voluntarily relocating, from the perspective of the child.

Once the child is 18 they have their own choice to continue hiding in a country they are not in legally or to return to their place of origin. Like, if I was forcibly returned to where my family is from in Europe due to similar circumstances, I would not be that upset about it. These people are only mad because the place they are from sucks. That is not the problem of America or Americans.
by spicyusername | 2025-10-02 00:04:43+00:00
No, I'm not using any tricks (or implications) to argue that people often use psychological diagnosis (self or otherwise) as an excuse not to deal with the complexities of life.

I'm arguing that directly and asserting that web sites like the one posted are exactly the kind of things that make it easy for people to do that because they are relatable to basically everybody.
by threecheese | 2025-10-02 00:05:06+00:00
It certainly makes a dull discussion, but frankly we need to have it. Post-AI HN is now a checkbox on a marketing plan - like a GitHub repository is - and I’m sick of being manipulated and sold to in one of the few forums that wasn’t gamed. It’s not minutiae, it’s an overarching theme that’s enshittifying the third places. Heck even having to discuss this is ruining it (yet here I am lol).
by akavi | 2025-10-02 00:05:30+00:00
> We're going to stabilize around 10 billion by 2080 according to projections and then decline, hopefully reaching some kind of Star Trek utopia at some point.

10 billion is gonna be the high end by the looks of things, and that decline is going to be hardly conducive to utopia. The math of dependency ratios is inescapably painful.
by JonChesterfield | 2025-10-02 00:06:29+00:00
Solid marketing play.

Streaming company IP to Microsoft is a dumb thing to do. Solid reason to not permit Copilot.

This doesn't cleverly usurp the silly backwards IT team, it's sending confidential data to Microsoft for the benefit of Microsoft and the detriment of your company. I.e. clear cut firing offense.

If the above makes sense to you, consider not using the windows 10/11 spyware system and/or not sending all company email through their servers.
by bfeynman | 2025-10-02 00:06:51+00:00
you're missing that open ai and anthropic are finetuning their models for their coding agents, i.e. using rl and annotating datasets and optimizing for them with directly learnable parameters. Cursor is just able to use whatever foundational model apis are available (not sure if or when labs might give programmatic access to coding agents). I'm sure they are trying to train OSS models but those fall way short performance wise of proprietary ones.
by Retric | 2025-10-02 00:08:05+00:00
The grids is minimally impacted by EV’s. A great deal of charging happens at night when there’s vast excess capacity in generation and transmission. Even if you assume it’s split 24/7 each car only uses roughly 500 watts averaged throughout a year.

More importantly if 100% of new cars went electric it’d still take 25 years to finish so it’s a rounding error to grid operators outside of a trivial number of substations for fast chargers. As crazy as it sounds when you include training LLM’s are using more electricity than every EV combined.
by g42gregory | 2025-10-02 00:08:17+00:00
I would also add that many (most?) companies/entities do not sell software but have large IT departments that could write software for internal consumption. Think Exxon, BP, Caterpillar, Airlines, Gov Labs/agencies, DOD, etc...

Internally, they could actually write 1,000X more software and it will be absorbed by internal customers. They will buy less packaged software from tech firms (unless it's infrastructure), internally they could keep the same headcount or more, as AI allows them to write more software.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-10-02 00:08:23+00:00
"McCarthy’s detractors, meanwhile, found his writing overly mannered, his characters overly masculine, and accused him of relishing the violence he wrote about so vividly."

Yeah, maybe his detractors were on to something.

I haven't even started "The Road" because of its reputation. I have only read "Child of God" and wondered why someone might write about the worst among us. But then I'm not a fan of Quentin Tarantino as a filmmaker for the same reason.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-02 00:09:26+00:00
Just about every modem that can do actual real 4G cell phone connectivity is built around a SoC that blows the socks off your usual microcontroller.

The cheapest noname 4G USB stick you can buy now probably has a Qualcomm MSM8916 in it, and runs, I shit you not, Android.

As you can imagine, development with this kind of thing can be rather involved. No open development kits are available. There are no reference designs that don't require you to sign off on an NDA to access it, and Qualcomm wouldn't even want to talk to you unless you are at least "MOQ 100000+" tall.

The best you can do is get an existing modem module that hopefully doesn't bury too many of the interfaces you want, try to run your firmware on it, and then design your own board around that.

Which would probably yield a device that's inferior to most cheap smartphones or even feature phones.
by protocolture | 2025-10-02 00:09:29+00:00
There was a Turnbull era report that suggested they could have energy security AND water security, long term, by building 70 - 120 pumped hydro dams. Pumped Hydro would give them heaps of energy storage, and the dams could be tapped in severe droughts.

We got Snowy 2.0 out of that process, and a few state governments have some fast tracked private pumped hydro dams, but ultimately there isnt enough political spine in the whole country to tackle it.

We cant really scale renewables without storage, and battery storage at scale would probably suck up the worlds supply of lithium. The big battery in SA is great for market arbitration, and smoothing out the frequency, but if it was tapped to supply baseload, would not give you very long. The demand for these batteries would be huge if its left to them.

As it is we will move slowly in kinda the right direction, and probably get very lucky. Thats how Australia works usually, just a country of people gambling constantly on remaining relatively lucky.
by bigwheels | 2025-10-02 00:09:49+00:00
Still not clear - the tool calls come from the model, so what is being cached by Muscle Memory?

Also:

After my time building computer-use agents, I’m convinced that the hybrid approach of Muscle Memory is the only viable way to offer 100% coverage on an RPA workload.

100% coverage of what?

I guess it'd be great if you could clarify the value proposition, many folks will be even less patient than myself.

Best of luck!
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by speff | 2025-10-02 00:10:11+00:00
I saw an interesting fact the other day. Not one democratic politician has apparently ever called the GOP Nazis or Trump Hitler. Can't find any examples of "trash" either. There was the infamous "deplorables" example by Clinton, however that was for a subset of GOP voters - not all of them.

It mostly seems to be the peanut gallery which uses that language - but never the leaders. So I'm left to rhetorically wonder, who's pushing the narrative that Dem politicians use that language? I even had coworkers who told me that Pelosi and Schumer are stoking the fires by calling our president Hitler. And yet they never said that...
by paraxion | 2025-10-02 00:10:35+00:00
I think a thing a lot of people are missing in the comments - which OP even mentions in the description above - is that this simulates their experience, not every experience. It's like the oft-repeated mantra "if you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person". For one person, maybe both eating and skipping breakfast aren't great choices - sometimes there aren't any good choices. You're either dealing with a caloric defecit and you're going to risk doing something that'll make you stand out - ie: unmasking - or you're doing something that doesn't feel good at the time, and will sap your immediate energy. It might be as simple as 'eating breakfast gives me time which I'll unwisely use for circular thinking or stressing'.

For me, even though I didn't personally relate to a lot of the situations and experiences - not a software dev, working for a small company that knows and supports my neurodiversity - the overall feel had just enough familiarity for me to go "yep", and it actually got me thinking about my own choices and self-care, on a day where I'd been beating myself up about things outside my control.

Good work, OP.
by p_ing | 2025-10-02 00:11:32+00:00
Sadly for those neurodivergent who do not see the social bits as 'useful'. Social bits are, ultimately, useful, even for those with Autism, even if masking et. al. is exhausting.

Humans are social creatures. We can't live in a vacuum nor on our own without support from other humans (i.e., food production).
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