MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andy99 | 2025-10-27 00:36:17+00:00
That sounds correct though more fundamentally we don’t know what intelligence or consciousness are. It’s almost a religious question, as in our current understanding of the universe does not explain them but we know they exist. So regardless of embodied intelligence, we don’t even understand the basic building blocks of intelligence, we just have some descriptive study of it, that imo LLMs can get arbitrarily close to without ever being intelligent because if you can describe it, you can fit to it.
by nchmy | 2025-10-27 00:36:27+00:00
The average speed/connection is not 4G LTE.

And react usually is not just 100kb.

SSR html is vastly faster for all parties involved. So much so that all spa frameworks have introduced some sort of server rendering, astro is growing a lot, and things like htmx, datastar, hotwire etc are all getting a lot of fawning attention.
by alganet | 2025-10-27 00:36:36+00:00
LLMs are trained on human data, and aimed at perform tasks in human roles. That's the goal.

It is supposed to be super, but superhuman. Able to interact with us.

Which leads us to the Turing Test (also, not a test... "the imitation game" is more of a philosophical exploration on thinking machines).

My comment assumes this is already understood as Turing explained.

If the thing is not human, then there's absolutely no way we can evaluate it. There's no way we can measure it. It becomes an impossible task.
by Marsymars | 2025-10-27 00:36:51+00:00
I suspect that "smartphone" isn't just shorthand, and that the friction-free nature of smartphones (and their by-default emotive-triggering functionality that the article mentions like notifications, face ID, etc.) have a large hand in the problems.

If we had the same modern platforms for infinite scrolling social media and news, sports gambling, microtransaction-powered games, etc., but if we all carried dumb phones, and when you wanted to get your tiktok fix you had to walk to the desktop computer in the living room, log in, and open up the web browser to browse tiktok, I suspect that the problems would get markedly better.
by ajross | 2025-10-27 00:40:01+00:00
Good grief. Can't it just be whimsy? Must everything be a conspiracy these days? They have a tunable threshold for when the car will attempt a lane change. Set it too high and it makes too many and annoys the occupants. Set it too low and it fails to choose the right lane and spends more time in traffic. That's all it is.

They just named the low threshold case after a fun driving movie because joke. Is that really so hard to believe?
by giardini | 2025-10-27 00:40:20+00:00
This model (DeepSeek-OCR) aligns particularly well with what we know about written language and the human act of reading.

The Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) on the left side of the brain is where the visual representation of words is transformed to something more meaningful to the organism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_word_form_area

The DeepSeek-OCR encoding (rather than simple text encoding) appears analogous to what occurs in the VWFA.

This model may not only be more powerful than text-based LLMs but may open the curtain of ignorance that has stymied our understanding of how language works and ergo how we think, what intelligence is precisely, etc.

Kudos to the authors: Haoran Wei, Yaofeng Sun, Yukun Li. You may have tripped over the Rosetta Stone of intelligence itself! Bravo!
by DarkmSparks | 2025-10-27 00:40:36+00:00
Name a single success.

The best treatments on the market slows cognative decline measurements for up to 6 months "maybe" (could just be the result of pain relief), dates back to like 2001, and have nothing to do with amyloids.

>but this did not invalidate the whole research avenue

Indeed, multiple treatments in very expensive human trials based on the research avenue failing to show any kind of measurable clinical efficacy invalidates the research area.

The latest being from just a few days ago

https://www.biospace.com/drug-development/alector-scraps-dem...
by raincom | 2025-10-27 00:42:21+00:00
All hybrid mattresses follow the same formula, with some differences: bottom panel + pocketed coils (support layer) + foams (transition layer) + foam/natural fibers (comfort layers) + top panel ( with tack and jump quilting). Then use a tape edge machine to sew the mattress. For edge support, two techniques are used: foam encasement or thicker gauge pocketed coils. Love to see who Thuma contracted out to make these mattresses.

There are too many bed in box marketing companies masquerading as mattress companies. It is a crowded field. Good to see Sketchers (shoe company) and Thuma (furniture company) start selling mattresses.

The cost of materials to make a mattress is just 25% of the retail price. Shipping costs and comfort exchanges, along with marketing, eat into the margins.
by RyeCatcher | 2025-10-27 00:43:02+00:00
Author here. I've updated the article based on your feedback. Thank you.

Key corrections:

Ollama GPU usage - I was wrong. It IS using GPU (verified 96% utilization). My "CPU-optimized backend" claim was incorrect.

FP16 vs BF16 - enum caught the critical gap: I trained with BF16, tested inference with FP16 (broken), but never tested BF16 inference. "GPU inference fundamentally broken" was overclaimed. Should be "FP16 has issues, BF16 untested (likely works)."

llama.cpp - veber-alex's official benchmark link proves it works. My issues were likely version-specific, not representative.

ARM64+CUDA maturity - bradfa was right about Jetson history. ARM64+CUDA is mature. The new combination is Blackwell+ARM64, not ARM64+CUDA itself.

The HN community caught my incomplete testing, overclaimed conclusions, and factual errors.

Ship early, iterate publicly, accept criticism gracefully.

Thanks especially to enum, veber-alex, bradfa, furyofantares, stuckinhell, jasonjmcghee, eadwu, and renaudr. The article is significantly better now.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-10-27 00:43:06+00:00
>I find it mildly amusing that there are so many people claiming that it's 100% on one side or other, when it's trivially easy to see why that can't be GUARANTEED TO BE the case.

Yup. And it can't be guaranteed that the sun will rise tomorrow.

As such, want to bet on it?
by alganet | 2025-10-27 00:45:22+00:00
You are wrong. Please read the Turing paper:

https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/turing.pdf

> A number of interrogators could be used, and statistics compiled to show how often the right identification was given

Turing determines that we need enough competent-interrogator passes just to estabilish a statistical certainty, not ~everyone. I tend to agree with him on this.
by rincebrain | 2025-10-27 00:45:26+00:00
There's a lot of people who have remarked on necessity being the mother of invention - I claim that it's possible to maintain that even when you're no longer constrained, but it takes a discipline often lacking in people.

If you know you have 2 weeks and 100k to shoot an episode, and that everyone from the top down knows more money and time isn't coming, then you have no choice but to deliver it, no matter the corners cut. It's very hard to keep that attitude and pressure if people are aware that the budget limits are a polite fiction if you're convincing enough. (One might draw parallels to Steve Jobs' remarks about how the most important thing is not knowing when to say yes, but knowing when to say no.)

One might look at Team Cherry (Hollow Knight, Silksong) for an example of maintaining this - they made an enormous amount of money off Hollow Knight's success, and instead of scaling out the team markedly for Silksong, they mostly used the money as padding against any pressure to deliver it sooner, and worked at their own pace, to their own satisfaction.
by xorcist | 2025-10-27 00:46:35+00:00
An import tax works just like any other tax. You decide a law that "import of fresh fruit from Mexico is as of (date) subject to a 10% tax" together with details about exactly what fruit is considered fresh, how to calculate the tax, and where to pay.

Punishing their own nationals is very explicitly how this is sold to the voter base. "Prices are going to go up for you but unfortunately we have to do this to try to stop our neighbor from raising their import tax explicitly on goods from us".

Taxes are not a problem if everyone plays by the same rules. The problem for the economy is that some imports are subject to tax and others aren't, or when domestic goods aren't subject to the same tax. Picking winners and losers in an economy by political has never before in history turned out a winning concept.
by farhanhubble | 2025-10-27 00:47:22+00:00
Great work hunting the bug down the stack. The writeup is top notch. I wish I documented some of the nastiest bugs I found in such detail.

Funnily, only a few days ago I was thinking about just how far the field has come since 2014 or so when you'd build a computational graph, initialize weights manually and so on, versus now, where you just have to use a library like Ultralytics or HuggingFace most of the time. Then I thought about just how many deep, undetected bugs there would be in this mountain of abstraction. Bugs that make the computation invalid.
by btilly | 2025-10-27 00:48:50+00:00
You shouldn't be citing articles about the first 100 days, when you're given a reference with much more current results.

There are many different pollsters, each of which has slightly different numbers. Here are Nate Silver's average of the polls giving approval for historical presidents at this point in their office who were then polling below 50%. (Obama, at 51.8% just missed the cutoff.)

45.8% Bill Clinton

43.7% Trump (current term)

43.6% Joe Biden

39.1% Gerald Ford

38.0% Trump (first term)

So really, despite how mad so many people are, his popularity is not that low by historical standards.
by card_zero | 2025-10-27 00:49:29+00:00
Well yes, but if this actually happened it would open up a new frontier. We'd have an entire galaxy of unspoilt ecosystems* to shit in. Climate anxiety would go from being existential dread to mere sentimental indignation, and everybody would be interested in the latest news from the various interstellar colonies and planning when to emigrate. Mental illness epidemics would clear up, politics would look like an old-fashioned activity, the global mood would lift, and people would say "global" much less often.

* Ecosystems may require self-assembly
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-27 00:50:33+00:00
according to the article

> Oil companies and automobile manufacturers (especially General Motors, which owned the patent jointly filed by Kettering and Midgley) promoted the TEL additive as an inexpensive alternative superior to ethanol or ethanol-blended fuels, on which they could make very little profit.

Functionally, as others have commented, it is there to reduce knocking. But lead was used instead of ethanol (aka alcohol) because it was more profitable despite being poisonous.
by iancmceachern | 2025-10-27 00:51:14+00:00
I used to work for a guy who did.

He got his start because he had a security clearance and knew how to install and repair ccd camera systems do he did so for rocky flats and Cheyenne mountain. Then they asked him to build a box that had a film video camera that would take images of a crt display for record keeping. This was before it was possible digitally. So he did, he made 2. Then they needed a lift to bring down the Hughes projectors they used in Cheyenne mountain, the old kind with 3 color crt projectors. It needed to drop down the projector so they could change it out in less time than it took a nuke to come from Russia, so he did. He founded a company to keep making them, they still make them to this day.
by al_borland | 2025-10-27 00:51:14+00:00
PHP is often mixed into files that contain other languages. Even in the example, the PHP is in a JavaScript file. How does “use php” alone tell the system what is PHP and what might be another language.

It would be nice to be able to use PHP in a file that has the file extension for the primary code it contains, like HTML, but it still seems like there needs to be a way to define where one language ends and other begins.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-27 00:51:35+00:00
Some people wouldn’t, we call it falling into the wiki hole for a reason.

I’ve spent more hours than a sane person should just hopping from one topic to another and often end up reading about something I had no idea was a thing an hour earlier.

But I also use YouTube only for documentaries and read a lot generally, my only social media is HN and Reddit (though not a lot).

I’m just not wired for engagement the way most the people in my life seem to be.

Other than Bank App, Kindle and Firefox I have nothing installed on my phone it didn’t come with, iOS is basically same on my iPad.

I don’t find the modern web very engaging and use unhook/ublock origin to keep YT what I want it to be which is a no distraction source of documentaries.
by api | 2025-10-27 00:51:42+00:00
The same is true for life extension in mice. We can massively extend the mouse life span but it doesn’t replicate in humans.

The reason there is pretty easy to grasp. Mice are a short lived more R-selected (lots of offspring, lower parental investment) species. They haven’t been heavily selected for longevity, which means there’s more low hanging fruit, more opportunities to tweak something and make a mouse live longer.

Humans meanwhile are among the longest lived large mammals and are extremely K-selected (few offspring, high parental investment). That means evolution has probably already tweaked all the easy life extension related knobs in humans. Going further will require going beyond the capacities of existing mammalian physiology, which is a lot harder. Probably possible, but requires a lot deeper of an understanding of what’s happening and more radical interventions.
by p_ing | 2025-10-27 00:54:02+00:00
Sadly the BSDs are not well known.

I asked a major employer why they're using Linux + Apache for an RP when OpenBSD + HAProxy + CARP is a significantly better option. Crickets.

I want a good laptop for OpenBSD (or FreeBSD, at the least) that isn't 10 years old or weighs 5+ lbs.
by schoen | 2025-10-27 00:54:30+00:00
It does get worse in the sense that there could be languages whose description is incompressible (we can simulate this, assuming hash functions approximate random oracles, by saying "choose a secret key; now the language is 'every string whose HMAC value under that secret key is even'").

If you accept some axiomatic assumptions about infinite sets (that are common in mathematics; I'm not sure exactly what the weakest required axiom is for this), then you can even believe that there are infinite languages that have no finite description at all, very much akin to the commonplace claim that there are real numbers that have no finite description at all. There are formulations of mathematics in which this is not true, but most mathematicians seemingly work in formulations in which it is true.

I even expect that we can probably prove this directly using the powerset operation and diagonalization, which doesn't require particularly strong assumptions about infinities.
by margalabargala | 2025-10-27 00:54:33+00:00
I'm sorry to have upset you so badly. This might not be the site for you if you react so poorly to someone pointing out the things you say are not self-consistent. Considering your opinions of the site's staff, this will be no great loss for you.

I'm not up to the task of remembering your username. Since you care, feel free to remember mine and not reply to future comments.
by zozbot234 | 2025-10-27 00:54:46+00:00
> Relatedly, "x32" style "32 bit pointers on a 64 bit architecture" ABIs are not difficult to define but they also add a lot of extra complexity in the software stack for something niche.

I'm not sure that there's much undue complexity, at least on the kernel side. You just need to ensure that the process running with 32-bit pointers can avoid having to deal with addresses outside the bottom 32-bit address space. That looks potentially doable. You need to do this anyway for other restricted virtual address spaces that arise as a result of memory paging schemes, such as 48-bit on new x86-64 hardware where software may be playing tricks with pointer values and thus be unable to support virtual addresses outside the bottom 48-bit range.
by Nextgrid | 2025-10-27 00:55:03+00:00
It’s both interesting to see all the creative ways people find to exploit LLM-based systems, but also disappointing that to this day designers of these systems don’t want to accept that LLMs are inherently vulnerable to prompt injection and short of significant breakthroughs in AI interpretability will remain hopelessly broken regardless of ad-hoc “mitigations” they implement.
by mbrumlow | 2025-10-27 00:55:18+00:00
The buyer might pay more. If the importer (which is often a foreign institution) tries to pass the cost along to the customer. And the customer looks at the product group and decides to buy the higher priced item. But on average the tariff is doing what it was meant to do.

Promote the consumption products provided by a different vendor. Namely ones that tariffs don’t apply to.

It’s not a hard concept to understand, and talking about who pays is a distraction. Namely because it will be case by case involving 3 or more parties who won’t all chose the same choices they have every time.
by ajross | 2025-10-27 00:55:22+00:00
This is all true, but in practice end consumer demand tends to be much more elastic for almost everything else in the chain. You don't get to decide not to buy toothpaste for more then $2.50 when you run out, you need a new phone when your old one breaks (and not when the price goes back down), etc... Consumers buy products to fill needs, and *needs* are the inelastic part.

In particular your "Let's imagine" case is sort of ridiculous. There are no such goods, nor anything even comparable. The very existence of inflation disproves the idea (since if those inelastic goods existed, they'd see demand drop to zero if the price needed to inflate).
by vrinsd | 2025-10-27 00:55:23+00:00
This is really great work, but can you comment on whether or not any Google-based "safebrowsing", etc is still enabled in the code base?

Have you thought about merging your efforts with ungoogled-chromium (Android)?

There USED to be an ungoogled-chromium for Android (circa v88 chrome, the APK is still available for download) that also allowed extentions.
by nopinsight | 2025-10-27 00:55:37+00:00
Creative problem solving and commonsense physics are missing, among others.

It is a valuable contribution but the CHC theory from psychology that this is based on is itself incomplete.

By commonsense physics, I mean something like simulating interactions of living and non-living entities in 3D over time. Seems more complicated than the examples in the web site and in most tests used in psychometrics.

Creative problem solving with cognitive leaps required for truly novel research & invention could lie outside the rubrics as well. The criteria in CHC are essential but incomplete I believe.
by p_ing | 2025-10-27 00:55:57+00:00
QQ for the LLM folks -- is this possibly due to the lack of determinization of LLM output?

If I code a var blah = 5*5; I know the answer is always 35. But if I ask an LLM, it seems like the answer could be anything from correct to any incorrect number one could dream up.

We saw this at work with the seahorse emoji question. A variety of [slight] different answers.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-10-27 00:56:52+00:00
> Do people actually ignore a comment explaining a problem with the code as written just because it wasn't a blocking review ?

I have worked with individuals who would assign NULL to a pointer, then immediately dereference it. I would bring up that this obviously would not do anything useful. The response I would get was that they already had the code working in their dev. environment, so there could not be any bugs.
by satisfice | 2025-10-27 00:57:07+00:00
"Working together, these agents function more like a digital QA team than a set of tools."

No. They. Don't. Testing cannot be automated. What the author seems to think is that testing is just an elaborate output checking process. This process, although useful, does not reproduce what a tester-- who is a real person-- does.

What the author is describing is a tool that they believe is especially flexible or powerful. It could be that. Or it could be more of an elaborate placebo that makes you think the product has been well tested, when it has been only shallowly tested.

The testing is done by the tester who uses this tool. That tester must guide it and analyze its output. The tester, being a fully socialized and accountable human being, is at least capable of taking responsibility for the work. The tester is not some magic box you find lying on a shelf at the Old Wise Man's Shop of Wonders.

I found this article because I am developing training for testers on how to responsibly apply AI tools to testing. It's an interesting article with more than zero content to it. I with the author did not feel the need to indirectly denigrate hardworking and skilled testers with such hyperbole.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-27 00:58:07+00:00
We actually don't know that there isn't a solution to gluttony, addiction, and other self-destructive and compulsive behaviors.

The brain is somewhat stupid and can be tricked by very primitive things, like bright lights. We might also be able to un-trick it, maybe with medication. That's kind of what were seeing with GLP-1 agonists.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-27 00:58:18+00:00
Linux does none of those things. That's user space stuff. Linux loads your ELF and jumps to its entry point. That's it.

Linux is so great you're actually free to remake the entire user space in your image if you want. It's the only kernel that lets you do it, all the others force you to go through C library nonsense, including Windows.

The glibc madness you described is just a convention, kept in place by inertia. You absolutely can trash glibc if you want to. I too have a vision for Linux user space and am working towards realizing it. Nothing will happen unless someone puts the work in.
by andybak | 2025-10-27 00:58:53+00:00
If AI code is non-copyrightable, does this not achieve the aims of copyleft by different means?

I'm playing a bit fast and loose here but there's a solid idea at the heart of this statement - I'm just on the cusp of going to bed so wanted to post a placeholder until tomorrow. The gist is "what do copyleft licences aim to achieve as an end goal - and what would non-copyrightable code mean in that broader context?"
by dietr1ch | 2025-10-27 01:00:21+00:00
So, It leverages on HTTP range requests to try fetching only what's needed, but to me it seems that it's something that should be efficiently achievable without having to have a unified document.

In my filesystem I could arrange things to be easy to fetch

ls ~/Org/Social/2025/10/

and then fetch the documents I didn't have.

I feel that all this logic is just to workaround problems that may arise when fetching multiple small files, mostly tied to overhead and artificial data ordering when fetching a set of tiny files. Hasn't HTTP3 fixed most of them already?
by mbrumlow | 2025-10-27 01:00:25+00:00
Finally. It’s not a cut and dry as one side or the other. People have lost their minds. It’s case by case for every product and every consumer.

Some companies might chose to loose the margin (few but still passable ). Some might try to pass some or all to the sale price (which creates all sorts another dynamics) and finally the customer does not have to buy that product. There are many note breakdowns that all adjust who pays and when they pay.