MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chasd00 | 2025-10-17 19:05:58+00:00
if openAI didn't put a chat interface in front of an LLM and make it available to the public wouldn't we still be in the same AI winter? Google, Meta, Microsoft, all of the major players were doing lots of LLM work already, it wasn't until the general public found out through the OpenAI's website that it really took off. I can't remember who said it, it was some CEO, that OpenAI had no moat but nether did anyone else. They all had LLMs already of their own. Was the breakthrough the LLM or making it accessible to the general public?
by Noaidi | 2025-10-17 19:06:05+00:00
Oh, please don’t be silly. I think this is one of these comments that serve no purpose here. Most Magnets are too weak to possibly affect consciousness.

But the earths magnetic field….

https://www.science.org/content/article/humans-other-animals...

https://www.eneuro.org/content/6/2/ENEURO.0483-18.2019

And Transcranial magnetic stimulation….

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/transcranial-mag...

What is depression other than a change in the state of consciousness?

But I might want to continue and ask you a question, and this is just out of curiosity, do you think consciousness is made of matter?
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-10-17 19:06:13+00:00
> yeah that "model of the world" would mean: babies are already born with "the model of the world"

No, not necessarily. Babies don't interact with the world only by reading what people wrote wikipedia and stackoverflow, like these models are trained. Babies do things to the world and observe what happens.

I imagine it's similar to the difference between a person sitting on a bicycle and trying to ride it, vs a person watching videos of people riding bicycles.

I think it would actually be a great experiment. If you take a person that never rode a bicycle in their life and feed them videos of people riding bicycles, and literature about bikes, fiction and non-fiction, at some point I'm sure they'll be able to talk about it like they have huge experience in riding bikes, but won't be able to ride one.
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-17 19:06:17+00:00
Most EVs aren't enough heavier for this to be a big factor. The only reason some people burn through tires faster is because when you have all-the-torque-all-the-time and can use it silently, it is addicting to do so. This is hard on tires. Boring drivers routinely get the same wear life from tires as they did before.
by helsinkiandrew | 2025-10-17 19:06:33+00:00
> 100M growth in two months suggests literally every single human being on Earth would benefit from using this all the time, and it’s just a matter of enabling them to.

For OpenAI I think the problem is that if eventually browsers, operating systems, phones, word processors [some other system people already use and/or pay for] integrate some form of generative AI that is good enough - and an integrated AI can be a lot less capable than the cutting edge to win, what will be the market for a stand alone AI for the general public.

There will always be a market for professional products, cutting edge research and coding tools, but I don’t think that makes a trillion dollar company.
by ksec | 2025-10-17 19:06:49+00:00
We will soon have 256 Zen 6c per socket, so at least 512 Core per server. Multiple PCIe 5.0 SSD at 14GB/s at up to half a Petabytes storage, and TBs of Memory.

And now Nvidia is in the game for Sever CPU, much faster time to market for PCIe in the future, and better x86 CPU implementation as well as ARM variants.
by foxglacier | 2025-10-17 19:07:15+00:00
How can clicking a link get you hacked? 20 years ago with insecure browsers, yes, but how does that happen today? homograph doesn't matter if you don't even look at the domain name.

If those employees are supposed to do you recommendation and never click links in emails, why don't their employers strip URLs from emails for them? Some of them are a already inserting warning messages for external emails. I think they're supposed to do the white-list-in-head thing which seems awful.
by simonw | 2025-10-17 19:07:58+00:00
Depends which definition of RAG you're talking about.

RAG was originally about adding extra information to the context so that an LLM could answer questions that needed that extra context.

On that basis I guess you could call skills a form of RAG, but honestly at that point the entire field of "context engineering" can be classified as RAG too.

Maybe RAG as a term is obsolete now, since it really just describes how we use LLMs in 2025.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-17 19:07:58+00:00
> Another way to put it is that it writes, sounds and paints as the Internet's most average user.

Yes, I agree, it's not high quality stuff it produces exactly, unless the person using it already is an expert and could produce high quality stuff without it too.

But there is no denying it that those things were regarded as "far-near future maybe" for a long time, until some people put the right pieces together.
by breuleux | 2025-10-17 19:08:36+00:00
I don't think we can be confident that this is how it works. It may very well be that our level of intelligence has a hard limit to how many nines we can add, and AGI just pushes the limit further, but doesn't make it faster per se.

It may also be that we're looking at this the wrong way altogether. If you compare the natural world with what humans have achieved, for instance, both things are qualitatively different, they have basically nothing to do with each other. Humanity isn't "adding nines" to what Nature was doing, we're just doing our own thing. Likewise, whatever "nines" AGI may be singularly good at adding may be in directions that are orthogonal to everything we've been doing.

Progress doesn't really go forward. It goes sideways.
by ibejoeb | 2025-10-17 19:08:50+00:00
You can't use the services until you confirm the account via email. When you sign up, you provide and email address, and the you're presented with this:

"You've successfully signed up. Please check your email to confirm your account before signing in to the Supabase dashboard. The confirmation link expires in 10 minutes."

If you attempt to sign in before verifying, you'll see:

"Account has not been verified, please check the link sent to your email"

So nothing is going to happen. This is probably a bot probing for accounts. The system is operating as intended. No cause for concern.

----

One more bit: when you receive the initial account email, you'll find a note at the bottom confirming the intention:

"If you didn't request for this, you can safely ignore this email."
by mulmen | 2025-10-17 19:08:59+00:00
> Your ICE car will either continue working basically the same, or it will fail catastrophically.

This simply isn’t true. Fuel injectors decay. Catalytic converters decay. O2 sensors decay. Oil decays. Air filters decay. Spark plugs decay. Piston rings decay. All of these things affect fuel economy which directly translates to range.

Additionally the ICE related accessory pumps and sensors decay and fail and need replacement. Individually these are all cheaper than a battery pack but ICE vehicles absolutely have repair costs. They just spread those costs out across the entire complex powertrain.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-17 19:09:01+00:00
It also tells the story that the energy price per mile is insignificant. Vehicles that use gas advertise miles per gallon because it significantly affects costs. They also advertise range (or maybe fuel tank capacity), but not as prominently.

An electric car's miles per energy is not as relevant, because current electricity prices are sufficiently low such that people won't really care whether it's 3 miles per kWh or 5 miles per kWh. They will care about how far they can go on a single charge, hence range is a metric that is often advertised.
by xnx | 2025-10-17 19:09:04+00:00
> I have a ton of idea about how ambient live streams are the Next Big Thing and how to lean into that.)

Are you me?

It's crazy that these giant screens spend most of their time as black rectangles when they could be windows to the world (with very tasteful/quiet/no-motion advertisements).

Happy to pitch to Netflix, Roku, or other streaming services and/or TV manufacturers. :-)
by Razengan | 2025-10-17 19:09:11+00:00
Oh please. Vote-based social networks are way too vulnerable to burying the truth and boosting lies.

It just takes the first 3-4 viewers to downvote you to prevent the next 10000 people from seeing what you said. There's no downside to downvoting just because you don't like what someone says, even if it's true.

And usually no amount of corrections can outshout a lie/mistake with 100+ votes.
by Flamingoat | 2025-10-17 19:09:14+00:00
> It’s not a random moment, they degrade predictably over time and at a very slow rate.

So do traditional vehicles. You need to have them serviced regularly, but otherwise they work fine for literally decades. My uncle has a Volvo 240 GL that car is 50+ year old.

> How much is an ice whole engine replacement in a semi modern car? Not cheap and happens more often than an ev battery dropping dead.

Engine failure is extremely rare. My 1997 Landrover Defender 300TDI is getting upto 300,000 miles and lets just say it hasn't had the easiest life (it was on a farm before I got it). Landrover's aren't known for their reliability.

My old Astra is still on the road (according to the DVLA) and that had well over 150,000 on the clock when I sold it.

> So I mean I’m sorry your wife is irrational about it, but I don’t think that’s indicative of the market as a whole.

His wife isn't irrational. I can get a mid-2000s Diesel that will have decent mileage for less than £4000 in the UK. I see people saying "I only paid $30,000 for this EV". I have never paid more than £10,000 for a car and they last for years and years as long as I get them serviced
by Root_Denied | 2025-10-17 19:09:33+00:00
And you should do some reading into the edit history of that page. Wikipedia isn't immune from concerted efforts to astroturf and push marketing narratives.

More to the point, the history of AI up through about 2010 talks about attempts to get it working using different approaches to the problem space, followed by a shift in the definitions of what AI is in the 2005-2015 range (narrow AI vs. AGI). Plenty of talk about the various methods and lines fo research that were being attempted, but very little about publicly pushing to call commercially available deliverables as AI.

Once we got to the point where large amounts of VC money was being pumped into these companies there was an incentive to redefine AI in favor of what was within the capabilities and scope of machine learning and LLMs, regardless of whether that fit into the historical definition of AI.
by ctoth | 2025-10-17 19:09:43+00:00
You want a "core kernel" with "general language parsing" but no training on real-world concepts.

Read that sentence again. Slowly.

What do you think "general language parsing" IS if not learned patterns from real-world data? You're literally describing a transformer and then saying we need to invent it.

And your TLS example is deranged. You want an agent to discover the TLS protocol by randomly sending ethernet packets? The combinatorial search space is so large this wouldn't happen before the sun explodes. This isn't intelligence! This is bruteforce with extra steps!

Transformers already ARE general algorithms with zero hardcoded linguistic knowledge. The architecture doesn't know what a noun is. It doesn't know what English is. It learns everything from data through gradient descent. That's the entire damn point.

You're saying we need to solve a problem that was already solved in 2017 while claiming it needs a century of quantum computing.
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-17 19:10:06+00:00
Fantastic! Thank you :)

However, even ALPR doesn't show any devices for me:

I'm glad citizens in the EU are more on top of this. I really wish we as USA citizens had access to the same database of GPS coordinates for each Blink, Ring, and Amazon Key device that police do. Does anyone know how/if something like that could be FOIA'd? This seems it would be particularly fruitful if FBI/DHS has a comprehensive dataset for the entire nation.

Though I do worry that they may not "have" the dataset, but rather just have "access" to it via a queryable Amazon/Palantir database/API.
by vanc_cefepime | 2025-10-17 19:10:18+00:00
I have the same UI protect system w 7 cameras. After that incident, I made it local only. I like Unifi gear, but I became super paranoid after that incident.

After some digging around, I found homebridge [0] (with the homebridge-unifi-protect plugin by hjdhjd [1]) which fixed that for me by tying the UI Protect system into Apple's HomeKit ecosystem (which also leverages the homekit secure video that keeps alerts/motion/snapshots on iCloud). Now all our devices are able to have it popup alerts for motions, packages, etc.

It's not perfect, but this way I'm able to get alerts without tying in to Unifi's SSO system. I also still like to open the UI Protect app when I'm not on the local network to sometimes archive videos, view cameras, mess with one of the new UI PTZ cameras, so I have backup access options, including Tailscale. Tailscale doesn't give me the alerts I want, but lets me access the app as if I were still at home. I also have it tied in with HomeAssistant and recently began playing around with go2rtc.

I'm a super-newb when it comes to all this but 2022 is when I began getting fed up with all these privacy nightmares and began to teach myself selfhosting, docker, etc so I can mitigate all this. Unfortunately, I'm the only one who knows how to tinker and keep all this updated. However, I do have documentation for my wife how to access everything and start fresh to make it easier on her by using UI's SSO way so it "just works" as they say in the Macintosh World, when I'm no longer around.

[0] https://homebridge.io/ [1] https://github.com/hjdhjd/homebridge-unifi-protect#readme
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-17 19:10:50+00:00
> For better or worse, Chatgpt has become to AI what Google was to search, even though I think Gemini is also good or even better.

Google definitely has the better model right now, but I think ChatGPT is already well on its way to becoming to AI what Google was to search.

ChatGPT is a household name at this point. Any non tech person I ask or talk about AI with it's default to be assumed it's ChatGPT. "ChatGPT" has become synonymous with "AI" for the average population, much in the same way "Google it" meant to perform an internet search.

So ChatGPT already has the popular brand. I think people are sleeping on Google though. They have a hardware advantage and aren't reliant on Nvidia, and have way more experience than OpenAI in building out compute and with ML, Google has been an "AI Company" since forever. Google's problem if they lose won't be because of tech or an inferior model, it will be because they absolutely suck at making products. What Google puts out always feels like a research project made public because someone inside thought it was cool enough to share. There's not a whole lot of product strategy or cohesion across the Google ecosystem.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-17 19:10:52+00:00
I only talked about pinyin because Chinese familiarity with tones was brought up as a reason why some non-Vietnamese speakers might still recognize the diacritics and get some value from them.

But even beyond that, I highly doubt that the article is really ambiguous without diacritics. I somehow doubt that if the NYT talks about a Hoa Lo prison somewhere in Hanoi, there is any real ambiguity about the actual place they are talking about. Sure, the words in themselves are ambiguous, but the context makes them very clear. This is not about writing Vietnamese without diacritics, which I'm sure is extremely ambiguous. It's only about some place names with very clear context about where and what they are.
by mulmen | 2025-10-17 19:10:55+00:00
We have a pretty good idea how EV packs decay. This isn’t a new technology. Google searches suggest 1-2% decay per year. So a 15 year old car would have 70-85% of original range.

For pack replacements I don’t know, however it seems unlikely you’d really need to. The battery will almost certainly outlast the car. Range will be degraded but I don’t see a lot of 2005 vehicles doing cross country trips either. Even a degraded EV will be useful in town. Many people only drive a few tens of miles a day.

The cost per mile is a simple calculation. It’s a function of your local electricity prices.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-10-17 19:11:11+00:00
I don't know if you will get there, that's far from clear at this stage.

Did you see the recent video by Nick Beato [1] where he asks various models about a specific number? The models that get it right are the models that consume youtube videos, because there was a youtube video about that specific number. It's like, these models are capable of telling you about very similar things that they've seen, but they don't seem like they understand it. It's totally unclear whether this is a quantitative or qualitative gap.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiwADS600Jc
by criemen | 2025-10-17 19:11:40+00:00
> Supposedly the performance of Owen-coder is comparable to the likes of Sonnet4. If I invest in a homelab that can host something like Qwen3 I'll recoup my costs in about 20 months without having to rely on Anthropic.

You can always try it via openrouter without investing in the home setup first. That allows you to evaluate whether it hits your quality bar or not, and is much cheaper. It is less fun than self-hosting though.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-17 19:11:41+00:00
Before she passed, one of my Grandmothers was on Ubuntu for about a decade. I did have to stop by to run updates and install the handful of (windows) games she liked (worked in wine without issue). She had a few games from the late 90's she liked (cards, etc) and I was surprised how well they worked.

She didn't need much hand holding at all, just a working browser and shortcuts for what she needed. Setting up Variety and a folder of cute cat/puppy photos to rotate was a pretty big win for her as well.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-17 19:12:18+00:00
You spent all those words just to come back to the original point: you are prejudiced against the source of the things you consume.

If you want to call out the fact that I'm published I can go scan my contract with US Games Systems, just say the word buddy.

If you ever come back to this message, I made this just with some art I've been working on over the last few days: https://imgur.com/a/Jw1Twbs Hit me back with your artistic output over the last 3 days kthxbai
by rpcope1 | 2025-10-17 19:12:27+00:00
> However, from a certain point onward, the AI itself will contribute to the development—adding nines—and that’s the key difference between this analogy of nines in other systems (including earlier domain‑specific ML ones) and the path to AGI.

There's a massive planet-sized CITATION NEEDED here, otherwise that's weapons grade copium.
by lofaszvanitt | 2025-10-17 19:12:35+00:00
You are missing the point. US has a lot of harmful cultural exports and one of them is streaming, where people degrade and humiliate themselves for money and the like. Then there is yt shorts, then 4chan, then social media.

These slowly degrade societies, like it or not. At least someone tries to do something to weed out the utter, batshit crazy adults, actually childminded idiots, who think the world is their playground.

Any way I see it this is a slow virus, a weapon of sorts. Just politicians usually have their heads lodged in their own back orifice, hence slow reacting.
by Razengan | 2025-10-17 19:12:46+00:00
> moderators in pretty much all online spaces are effectively dictators

This. How do 1-10 or 20 or even 100 people get the "right" to decide what millions of people talk about and see?

What's keeping them from burying/boosting opinions about shit they have strong personal feelings about?

Steve Huffman/Spez of Reddit literally edited users' comments, and they autoban anyone saying "Fuck Spez"
by emp17344 | 2025-10-17 19:12:47+00:00
> 100M growth in two months suggests literally every single human being on Earth would benefit from using this all the time, and it’s just a matter of enabling them to.

This doesn’t make any sense. Popular is not the same as useful. You’d have a more compelling argument if you included data showing that all this increased LLM usage has had some kind of impact on productivity metrics.

Instead, some studies have shown that LLMs are making professionals less productive:

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-17 19:12:53+00:00
Yes! The varying precisions and maths feels like just the start!

Look at next gen Rubin with it's CPX co-processor chip to see things getting much weirder & more specialized. There for prefilling long contexts, which is compute intensive:

> Something has to give, and that something in the Nvidia product line is now called the "Rubin" CPX GPU accelerator, which is aimed specifically at parts of the inference workload that do not require high bandwidth memory but do need lots of compute and, increasingly, the ability to process video formats for both input and output as part of the AI workflow.

https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/09/11/nvidia-disaggregates...

To confirm what you are saying, there is no coherent unifying way to measure what's getting built other than by power consumption. Some of that budget will go to memory, some to compute (some to interconnect, some to storage), and it's too early to say what ratio each may have, to even know what ratios of compute:memory we're heading towards (and one size won't fit all problems).

Perhaps we end up abandoning HBM & dram! Maybe the future belongs to high bandwidth flash! Maybe with it's own Computational Storage! Trying to use figures like flops or bandwidth is applying today's answers to a future that might get weirder on us. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/sandisk-and-sk-hy...
by majodev | 2025-10-17 19:13:06+00:00
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure tries to fill exactly this sweet spot. Cheaper compute than the other hyperscalers, while still offering similar security features (TPM, Shielded Instances, Measured Boot) and a bare-metal-first focus.

Disclaimer, just joined Oracle a few months ago. I'm using both Hetzner and OCI for my private stuff and my open-source services right now. I still personally think they've identified a clever market fit there.
by vorpalhex | 2025-10-17 19:13:06+00:00
Not only is it heard of, it exists, and is also the first line of the Wikipedia article for "flying car".

> A flying car or roadable aircraft is a type of vehicle which can function both as a road vehicle and as an aircraft

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

Often times the ground capability is limited but it means your landing strip doesn't need to be next to your hanger - you can drive it down the road a few miles (usually after folding the wings in).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL-V_Liberty
by jillesvangurp | 2025-10-17 19:13:44+00:00
Not double the range. But you could get one with an LFP battery now that probably has about double the life time in terms of cycles. Closer to 3K cycles rather than 1200-1500 cycles for the NMC batteries common in 2020.

Fun fact, the 2020 model 3 would still have its battery under warranty. That's true for most model 3s with the exception of those that did more than 100K miles or the ones that were sold in 2017. Those would have just started coming out of the eight year warranty. But most of the second hand model 3s are still covered by warranty for their drive trains.

Mostly, second hand buyers can get some decent deals on their cars now and don't have to worry that much about their cars depreciating massively when they sell them on five years later. With EVs most of the depreciation happens in the first few years.