MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by godelski | 2025-10-28 21:34:45+00:00
> Based on these points, it’s not technically feasible for current LLMs to play poker strongly.

To add to this a little bit it's important to note the limitations of this project. It's interesting, but I think it is probably too easy to misinterpret the results.

A few things to note:

- It is LLMs playing against one another - not against humans and not against professional humans. - Not an LLM being trained in poker against other LLMs (there are token limits too, so not even context) - Poker is a zero sum game. - Early wins can shift the course of these types of games, especially when more luck based[0][1] (note: this isn't an explanation, but it is a flag. Context needed to interpret when looking at hands) - Lucky wins can have similar effects - Only one tournament. Makes it hard to rule out luck issues

So important to note that it is not necessarily a good measure of a LLM's ability to play poker well, but it can to some extent tell us if the models understand the rules (I would hope so!)

But also there's some technical issues that make me suspicious... (was the site LLM generated?)

- There's $20 extra in the grand total (assuming initial bankroll was $100k and not $100,002.22222222...) (This feels like a red flag...) - Hands 1-57 are missing? - Though I'm seeing "Hand #67" on the left table and "Hand #13" in the title above the associated image. But a similar thing happens for left column "Hand #58" and "Hand #63"... - There are pots with $0, despite there being a $30 ante... (Maybe I'm confused how the data is formatted? Is hand 67 a reset? There were bets pre-flop and only Grok has a flop response?)

[0] Think of it this way: we play a game of "who can flip the most heads". But we determine the number of coins we can flip by rolling some dice. If you do better on the dice roll you're more likely to do better on the coin flip.

[1] LLAMA's early loss makes it hard to come back. This wouldn't explain the dive at hand ~570. Same in reverse can be said about a few of the positive models. But we'd need to look deeper since this isn't a game of pure chance.
by antisol | 2025-10-28 21:35:13+00:00
> Not even done by a bad actor, just someone misguided?

I'm not sure how the actor's good intentions makes the information on the wiki accurate?

> quickly corrected

As others have pointed out, it was certainly not "quickly" corrected. And to clarify on "corrected", about half the content on that wiki was simply deleted. A bunch of actual useful edits were definitely removed. And that didn't happen before the Scottish government used it as a source.
by minimaxir | 2025-10-28 21:35:34+00:00
Everyone is sleeping on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image / Nano Banana. As shown in the OP, it's substantially more powerful than most other models while at the same price-per-image, and due to its text encoder it can handle significantly larger and more nuanced prompts to get exactly what you want. I open-sourced a Python package for generating from it with examples (https://github.com/minimaxir/gemimg) and am currently working on a blog post with even more representative examples. Google also allows generations for free with aspect ratio control in AI Studio: https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat

That said, I am surprised Seedream 4.0 beat it in these tests.
by tavavex | 2025-10-28 21:35:49+00:00
> This is a descriptive statement, not a normative one.

It's both. It's not like "sideloading" is a part of natural language that just happened to evolve this way to describe the practice. The terminology was consciously chosen by the same people who designed the OS to describe it. The people who argue against using this term aren't doing it in some accusatory way, like "you use this term, therefore you're an evil brainwashed minion of the enemy", but rather by using language to not set up their argument on the enemy's terms, no matter how insignificant.

It's like how "jaywalking/jay walking" was popularized - the term itself was pretty crass for the time, the word "jay" conjuring thoughts of some kind of drooling, unintelligent yokel. Back when car infrastructure was still in its infancy, how would you argue that cars shouldn't dominate all streets and cities when the government- and industry-approved name for your action was literally "stupid walking"?
by ifyoubuildit | 2025-10-28 21:35:51+00:00
I think the quality ranges a lot.

I got one of these free energy audit things which included swapping out up to 30 or so bulbs with LEDs. Whatever contractor did it seems to have gotten the cheapest bulbs they could, and the majority of them have failed by 4 or 5 years later. So far so good on the name brand ones I replaced them with.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-28 21:35:59+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45726704 - From yesterday.

Actual title of the article is: "A Silicon Valley family wanted their son’s science test graded fairly. It became a battle"

senordevnyc: Check the site guidelines.

> If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
by aboringusername | 2025-10-28 21:36:18+00:00
The only reason Google has decided to lock-down Android is because of apps like ICEblock and the ability for anonymous individuals to mass distribute information that governments do not like. Now, they'll be able to hunt you down by requesting Google hand over every ID document that they process. This sets a chilling precedent for free speech. It enables governments to go after those who dare 'speak out' by using platforms to their advantage. You can no longer 'hide in the shadows' and will need to put your entire identity on the line for your morals and convictions.

Of course, if they could do this with Windows, Linux et al they absolutely would. And general purpose computing will, eventually, be closed and locked down, much like what we are seeing with the internet and ID laws. People would have, and did, think such ideas would be unthinkable 10-15 years ago. Yet little-by-little the screws are being ever tightened. The government wishes to tightly control the information flow and decide what is 'best for you' to see. Preferably their chosen propaganda.

Work-arounds that exist today will likely be closed and forbidden in the future. VPNs to bypass age laws, ADB to bypass install-blocks will all be obsolete. You will be required to identify yourself at all times. I half-expect Google to deprecate and remove the concept of VPN's/ADB on Android entirely and laws will be passed to that affect (restricting the apps themselves, or access to the APIs to verified Android devices/Google accounts). If you don't believe me, you only need to see [1] for the direction of travel.

There is little interest from the regulators to stop this. Perhaps the useless CMA will 'investigate' in 5 years time, decide Google perhaps abused its monopoly and then do absolutely nothing because they have no real re-course over an American company. It's likely governments support this position and will not do anything to influence a change of direction.

Eventually, Linux itself will go the same way, people are just waiting for Torvalds to retire from the project to make their moves, but make no mistake, open general-purpose computing is under threat and there is going to be little we can do to reverse the current trends towards closely monitored and controlled computing.

[1]: https://developer.android.com/google/play/age-signals/overvi...

This will most likely be expanded in the future to limit access to certain 'dangerous' APIs like ADB/VPN's etc. This can also be used 'in app' and across the entire OS to shape your experience of what you can see and do. I wouldn't be surprised if 'unlocking bootloader' required an 18+ verified device.
by SR2Z | 2025-10-28 21:36:50+00:00
No, lots of people willingly stuck their heads in the sand and ignored the abuses that were happening. See Brigida v Buttigieg for a particularly egregious example around the hiring of ATC.

The FAA, on an official test that ATC candidates were required to take, would disqualify applicants if they didn't answer questions like "what was your worst subject in school" with answers like "math" or "science." This explicitly was to increase racial diversity, which is both patronizing in the extreme and really stupid.

When I bring this up in SF, people accuse me of making it up. It's not that people don't remember it, it's that political polarization has blinded us to our side doing batshit crazy things. Another similar example was "defund the police" which is a crazy slogan on its face, yet for a year Democrats felt compelled to sanewash it.

I am about as blue and pro-DEI as someone could reasonably be and I think that this stuff is small potatoes compared to a president who has been continuously trying to send the army in to crush Democratic-leaning cities. That being said, I'm pretty sympathetic to people who are suspicious of DEI because we do not have a good track record of auditing these programs.
by tetha | 2025-10-28 21:37:10+00:00
I can't help but read those as Bolt Thrower lyrics[1].

Singled out - Vision becoming clear Now in focus - Judgement draws ever near At the point - Within the sight Pull the trigger - One taken life Vindicated - Far beyond all crime Instigated - Religions so sublime All the hatred - Nothing divine Reduced to zero - The sum of mankind

Though I'd be in for a death metal, nihilistic remake of Short Circuit. "Megabytes of input. Not enough time. Humans on the chase. Weapon systems offline."

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHYMsbkPAbM
by insane_dreamer | 2025-10-28 21:37:15+00:00
> Every US president in history has left office peacefully,

That's not how I would describe Jan 6 2021 not to mention Trump's other efforts to subvert the election results, and refusal to accept the results to this day.

> 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.

Really? When has there been such a public outcry before? There have never been "No Kings" protests before, because they weren't needed. Even if you hated Reagan, Clinton or Obama, you knew he wasn't going to try to run for a third term, whereas Trump keeps publicly saying he might.
by dang | 2025-10-28 21:37:45+00:00
Yes, the submitted title, "California School District rules that fire does not produce light and heat", broke the HN guideline against editorializing (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). (We've replaced since it with the HTML doc title.)

Submitters: if you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
by daveguy | 2025-10-28 21:37:51+00:00
> 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.

Yeah, we mostly agree. Sorry if I was a bit harsh. I have been very frustrated about the MAHA push away from science based medicine and into lawyer based medicine.

Your point about it being difficult to defend and easy to apply manipulative rhetoric around statistical integrity and methods is a good one.
by gmuslera | 2025-10-28 21:37:53+00:00
More important than that, we are not talking about the temperature you are feeling right now where you are, but global average temperature, and in the context of the 1.5°C over the preindustrial average, we are talking about that average, kept over several years.

What you feel locally is weather, including extreme weather. It can go to extremes in either direction, but with more global average temperature the system have more energy to increase the frequency and how extreme is that weather.

And speed matters. The baseline of preindustrial times is because we started the high emissions trend around there, but we reached 0.5°C by 1930-1950, and 1.0°C by 2015-2017. And the first full calendar year that had over 1.5°C over preindustrial times was 2024, but we need more years to average to talk about the same numbers.
by palmotea | 2025-10-28 21:38:10+00:00
> At what point in history have you owned a particular piece of hardware for use with a particular piece of never-to-be-updated software and installed a major OEM operating system release a full 7 years after release without issue?

> I doubt such a thing has ever happened in the history of consumer-facing computing.

Come on. I've done that and still do: I use an ancient version of Adobe Acrobat that I got with a student discount more than 10 years ago to scan documents and manipulate PDFs. I'd probably switch to an open source app, if one were feature comparable, but I'm busy and honestly don't have the time to wade through it all (and I've got a working solution).

Adobe software is ridiculously overpriced, and I'm sure many, many people have done the same when they had perpetual-use licenses.
by kragen | 2025-10-28 21:38:17+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Chemical_reacti... says "Gasohol E10 (10% ethanol 90% gasoline by volume)" is 33.18MJ/liter, while "Petrol (Gasoline)" is 34.2MJ/liter. That's a 3% difference, which is much closer to your 1% or 2% than to the 10% I had believed. E85 is lower still in energy density.

All of this is assuming the engine has the same efficiency on both fuels, rather than, for example, using a much higher compression ratio on the ethanol.
by gruez | 2025-10-28 21:38:43+00:00
>It's like how "jaywalking/jay walking" was popularized - the term itself was pretty crass for the time, the word "jay" conjuring thoughts of some kind of drooling, unintelligent yokel. Back when car infrastructure was still in its infancy, how would you argue that cars shouldn't dominate all streets and cities when the government- and industry-approved name for your action was literally "stupid walking"?

That makes sense because as you said, "the word "jay" conjuring thoughts of some kind of drooling, unintelligent yokel". The same can't be said for "side", aside from vague accusations that it's not "official" therefore normies think it's bad, but I can't see how you can get away from that accusation without using meaningless phrases like "type 2 install" or whatever (though I'm certain that would get similar amounts of ire for being "second class citizens" or whatever).
by fwip | 2025-10-28 21:39:01+00:00
I don't think it's worth it myself, but here are some of the features of the Samsung Bespoke fridge that use wifi:

Notifications and Alerts: If the door is left open, or the fridge temperature is leaving safe temps, or the water filter needs changing, it can send a push notification to your phone. (Useful if something fails; or if a kid/guest leaves the fridge open by mistake).

Remote control and monitoring: You can use the camera to see the contents of the fridge. You can also adjust the temperature remotely. (Useful if you're at the grocery store and can't remember if you have milk?) It looks like they also have "AI" try to categorize these for you.

Built-in tablet: The touchscreen is basically a builtin tablet. You can use it to display photos (pulled from your online albums), show the weather, or control "smart home" stuff like playing some music on your speakers. I imagine you could also try to put recipes or cooking videos on there. You can also easily order groceries from it or add to your shopping list (with your voice).

I'd rather have a separate device for most of this, but I can understand the appeal, especially if you're not privacy-conscious.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-28 21:39:46+00:00
I am sorry, but none of this is about engineering culture, it might as well apply to Walmart.

It again is pretty clear that Software development has no engineering culture. If you are faced with a problem in hardware, you can not patch it, so much of an engineering culture is about how to define what different parts of the organization want and how they can be fulfilled and validated. This also becomes clear when the article talks about the director, in any hardware company he is the person who must be informed about the processes and who must himself communicate about his state in the development process.

The article brings in the word "Craft" which I think is very descriptive. Software development has a culture of craftsmanship, which values individual contributions of craftsmen, not processes.

(Also a hardware company can not fire 14.000 of their engineers, without becoming non-functional)
by devrundown | 2025-10-28 21:40:03+00:00
Reading. I've never been a huge reader and mainly read non-fiction. I started listening to audiobooks while I walked and that got me interested in books more. Then got a Kindle and started reading more.

From there just got more and more into reading. For some reason I thought you could only read 1 book at a time but that's not true at all. I will have a few on the go at anytime. Just going to the library to sit and read is a nice break from everything. I have so many books I want to read now.
by globular-toast | 2025-10-28 21:40:03+00:00
I don't see the difference, but I do agree that DI is generally used to mean constructing systems. It's what you do in your main or "bootstrap" part of the program and there are frameworks to do it for you. But really it's the same thing. You're just composing functionality by passing objects (functions are objects) that satisfy an interface. It might be more acceptable to just say it's dependency inversion.
by chtl | 2025-10-28 21:40:23+00:00
There is of course not currently any upper bound on BB(6).

I find the question about a probvious upper bound more interesting - There is also not a probvious upper bound on BB(6), as this would require at least some understanding of the high-level behavior of all remaining holdout machines. However, there may soon be a 'probvious' upper bound on the value of BB(3,3) (BB for 3-state, 3-symbol machines). Up to equivalence, there are four remaining machines to decide to find the value of BB(3,3). One is a 'probviously halting' machine which will be the new champion if it halts, and for which probabilistic models of its behavior predict with high probability an exact halting time. One is a 'probviously nonhalting' machine. The two other machines are not well-understood enough to say whether they have any probvious long term behavior, but some suspect that they both 'probviously nonhalt'. If this is true it could be said that a 'probvious' upper bound exists for BB(3,3).
by cj | 2025-10-28 21:40:26+00:00
> In almost every case, ceasing vitamin D intake, combined with a low-calcium diet and corticosteroid drugs, will allow for a full recovery within a month.

Surprised to see just 4 weeks for a recovery. I got retested after 8 weeks (only minor improvement) and wasn't until 16 weeks until the test finally came back in range.

100% no dose is one-size-fits-all. I overdosed from taking a specialty multivitamin (it has a discord channel and everything). So was chatting with people taking the same vitamin, same dosages, also getting tested, but others had no issues at the same doses.

I guess I just absorb vitamin D with great efficiency, who knows.
by kaoD | 2025-10-28 21:41:02+00:00
I know it's common, but I don't think it's "normal" even if it has been "normalized". I wouldn't subject myself to that. If my employer doesn't trust me to act like an adult I don't think it's the place for me.

I could maybe understand it for non-tech people (virus scanning yadda yadda) but for a tech person it's a nuisance at best.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-28 21:41:02+00:00
> Joe: [...] So whenever there's a project on the tower, it's not unusual to see the guys in some kind of a, what do they call those?

> Jeff: A full ghillie suit? Or I don't know what they're called.

If you see someone up in a tall tower wearing a ghillie suit [0]... that sounds like time to call emergency services while avoiding their line-of-sight. :p

(Perhaps they meant "Hazmat" [1])

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghillie_suit

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazmat_suit
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-10-28 21:41:03+00:00
> You don’t get to decide how others people’s devices work.

Perfectly reasonable. It's important that people can decide how their devices work for themselves. No one else should decide for them.

But I'm genuinely curious how you see this principle working in practice when there's effectively a duopoly. What's the path for someone who wants to still have any choices for their device? I'm not seeing an obvious answer, but maybe I'm missing something.
by alterom | 2025-10-28 21:42:02+00:00
Did you just graduate college?

It sure must feel like 2018 was a long time ago when that's more than the entirety of your adult life. I get it.

The rest of us aren't that excited to trust our lives to technology that confidently drove into a highway barrier at high speed, killing the driver in a head-on collision mere seven years ago¹.

Because we remember that the makers of that tech said the exact same things you're saying now back then.

And because we remember that the person killed was an engineer who complained about Tesla steering him towards the same barrier previously, and Tesla has, effectively, ignored the complaints.

Tech moves fast. Safety culture doesn't. And the last 1% takes 99% of the time (again, how long ago have you graduated?).

I'm glad that you and your friends are volunteering to be lab rats in the just trust me bro, we'll settle the lawsuit if needs be approach to safety.

I'm not happy about having to share the road with y'all tho.

______

¹https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tesla-autopilot-steered-driv...
by avn2109 | 2025-10-28 21:42:22+00:00
There is a new generation of bike locks which have the shackle wrapped in a composite coating that mostly destroys angle grinder cutting discs and similar cutting tools. This is likely the best current outdoor bike locking approach as it requires thieves to have either 1) lots of spare discs or 2) a torch or 3) picking skills, and very few thieves have any of those.
by throw310822 | 2025-10-28 21:42:27+00:00
I find it curious that people are celebrating when they manage to not pay (part of) an absurdly wrong bill that can only be either the result of gross incompetence or- much more probably- an attempt at fraud. The actual happy ending of such a story would be that the healthcare provider is sued for damages and/ or attempted fraud, and has to pay back a large multiple of what has asked.
by doix | 2025-10-28 21:42:52+00:00
I agree with your point about "install" vs "sideload".

> Google’s message that “Sideloading is Not Going Away” is clear, concise, and false

Given your(and my) definition, this statement is false. Google isn't taking away sideloading, you can still use adb. I'd say using adb to load an apk from another device is the proper use of "sideloading".

What Google is doing is much worse, they are taking away your ability to _install_ software.

And yes, HN loves splitting hairs. But if it wasn't for the hairsplitting, there probably would be be much discussion. Just most people agreeing with you and a few folks who would prefer to give up freedom for security.
by FreakLegion | 2025-10-28 21:43:07+00:00
Sorry, to clarify: Okta is not for our purposes a relying party and won't do anything to force attestation on relying parties. The second bit of what he wrote is ambiguous, but charitably, could simply mean "I used to argue against requiring attestation, but now I'm not sure". Which is fine, since he has absolutely no pull when it comes to how Okta's product works (and to be fair, I don't think he implied otherwise or even mentioned Okta).