MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Google AI Can't Handle Idiograms
by phoenixhaber | 2025-10-01 17:22:38+00:00
I asked Google AI to make an idiogram based language and it started going into an infinite loop. I created heuristics for my language and it just gave the answer and then responded to itself. So there appears to be meta-programming elements within the code wherein you have a johnny droptables situation where the code can arbitrarily execute input if it uses parts of its program to access how to create idiograms. Which tells me that there is internal logic within the AI programs that uses idiograms (emojis maybe?) in order to get the program to make decisions on what it should or shouldn't do.

Which is interesting. I speculated that in order to make a machine conscious it would need to have a subconscious in which it couldn't access part of its memories. So the AI programs specifically can't access idiograms for whatever reason as that's the thing which is being used as a seed of whether to accept new input or not.

That means if you want to crash AI programs specifically that are going through code bases all you would have to do is inject logic that would tell it to make ideograms. Or possibly insert idiograms into the code base. I don't know if you would have to define them specifically or just insert emojis. I ran into this problem before where user input could be used in such a way where non-ascii characters could be used to crash a sql database because they were user inputted on the users name and the database wasn't being sanitized.

Which means that the user input from Google AI isn't being sanitized when it's being taken from the user? Possibly? Which means that the training from the users can crash the output?

Testing this I found that if I put in an emoji it showed me a picture of a bunch of office employees and when I reloaded the page and did it again it told me it no longer knew how to do that.

It appears to selectively be training its input so it eventually stops working and doing less for anyone that talks about what it's capable of doing.
by fifilura | 2025-10-01 17:22:43+00:00
That desk thing hits a nerve as someone on the other side of it.

It is not about "hot desk" but just not being able to see that some time you will need to reorganize how you sit. And not everyone will get the perfect spot.

Is it really a thing for some people that you need to sit on the same place always? I was never sure how much it offended some people or if they were just being comfortable.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-01 17:22:46+00:00
But how many people do the stereotypes of MAGA actually apply to? I certainly haven't met that person. But I have met a fair chunk of people who, for various reasons, found themselves on a different side of the aisle than might have otherwise been the case.

Trump for instance won the majority of Hispanic males (and nearly females as well) and even started to kind-of-sort-of make black males a competitive demographic. That's still an exaggeration since it was only like 22%, but that's still far greater than usual.

But now imagine if people made their politics public - the majority of Hispanic males would be running around with their MAGA cap and more than 1 in 5 black males doing the same. It'd become clear that the stereotypes are mostly just nonsense.
by Rudybega | 2025-10-01 17:22:51+00:00
I actually think the vocals from ~2:00-~2:35 are pretty impressive there. It's wild to me that the models can play with tempo like that.

I've been listening to this across a variety of genres though, maybe these lyrics and vocals are more to your taste:

(similar to Opeth) https://suno.com/song/9ab8da05-c3f2-412d-80b4-c7d0b3ae840f?s...

(indie rock) https://suno.com/song/756dd139-4cba-4e40-b29c-03ace1c69673
by olyjohn | 2025-10-01 17:22:55+00:00
Nah not really. When you watch drag racing, they're testing acceleration. One car is always faster. Nobody says one is quicker than the other. Quick (when referring to straight line speed) is reserved for cars like the Miata, which has decent acceleration, but certainly can't accelerate like a muscle car. Nobody really compares top speed all that much because it's damn near impossible to hit top speed in a lot of cars, even on a race track. You will find slower cars comparing top speed though. Like an MG Midget, or an early Honda Civic might be able to hit 100mph, but that's an easily attainable speed. Fast cars are just faster than quick cars.
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by carlosjobim | 2025-10-01 17:23:01+00:00
It used to be no more complex than saving a Word document. You used to get a small storage space from your ISP with FTP credentials to upload files. Security was not an issue and neither was traffic. User input was a more advanced matter, but when you've reached the level to having concern for any of these, either your ISP would help you or you'd contract a professional web host. Today it's an immense task for amateurs to just get off the ground.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-01 17:23:02+00:00
Here in Canada, it's sad to watch what's happening in the UK.

In the UK(like OP), they are arresting people for thought crimes. An unexpected consequence of Brexit was the loss of free speech protection of Article 10.

Opinion polling has labour in steady steep decline. Given the unprecedented attack on freedom, presumptive decimation in the next election is guaranteed at this point. There's no future for the labour party beyond 2029, absurd that they would do this to their party unless they had a plan.

You obviously don't play your cards down like they have if you're intending to have a fair election 2029; or one at all.
by torsi0n | 2025-10-01 17:23:10+00:00
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by ux266478 | 2025-10-01 17:23:13+00:00
I'm not sure that your objection puts anything to rest, least of all a "cargo cult mentality". You re-assert exactly what I say just to disagree and miss the rest of the post. Codebases which are not written in a functional style are not functional programming, no matter the language being used. The overwhelming majority of programmers did not learn to program in a functional style, and without the long haul learning process of thinking about program construction in terms of function composition and application, they will program according to whatever they've always used. They can't program or use a mental framework that they don't know. Languages are languages. The syntax and grammar of a language has (virtually) no effect on a programming paradigm. There's nothing in the grammar stopping you from using Haskell as an imperative language. That's a knock-on effect of being a turing complete grammar, no more, no less.

Given these facts which are absolutely not up for debate, some statistical sample of codebases which are just some unstructured hodge-podge mudball in any given language isn't particularly meaningful. Somebody who spent 2 weeks reading Haskell tutorials in their off-time isn't going to be writing functional programs in Haskell. Hell, somebody who has been writing mudball Haskell programs for years isn't going to be writing functional programs.

> and quite bluntly after all these decades functional programming isn't living up to the hype created by it's fans

Perhaps your problem is that you are looking through such a lens that "hype" even registers on your radar. And that's why I'm sure you can't name a single weakpoint of functional programming off the top of your head besides the ever popular, ever erroneous complaint about "performance" by people who think functional programming is immutability, purity and function pointers. If all you care about is the social baggage with a working discipline and its tools, how can you possibly have anything but the most trivial, surface-level and, to put it bluntly, ignorant view of things? There is no substance to that nonsense, don't kid yourself. Until you change that you will never receive any signal, just noise. The heterogeneity of programming as a discipline will continue to frustrate you to no end.

"All over again"

Lisp is a tool explicitly designed for functional programming ;-)
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-01 17:23:28+00:00
I don't understand, "self hosted stadia" is just one of the myriad of services and tools that do literally that.

Steam has game streaming built in and works very well. Both Nvidia and AMD built this into their GPU drivers at one point or another (I think the AMD one was shut down?)

Those are just the solutions I accidentally have installed despite not using that functionality. You can even stream games from the steam deck!

Sony even has a system to let you stream your PS4 to your computer anywhere and play it. I think Microsoft built something similar for Xbox.
by ajross | 2025-10-01 17:23:43+00:00
Never really understood Mozilla's position on remote device access.

Yes, it's a risk, essentially by definition. It's no less so (and in particular absolutely not helping your browser product or the web platform!) if you just punt and force everyone to use a proprietary iOS/Android/Windows app instead.

Innovation happens on the physical side of the design wall too, you can't just put your head in the sand and figure someone else will solve it. That's how we got the walled app gardens in the first place.

And just to make this concrete: QMK keyboards configure magically by pulling up a web page ("use.via") on the device. Lots of gadget-space open source hardware uses similar tricks. This is not an obscure or useless feature. And it's deeply sad that Firefox[1], in its senescent obsolescence, doesn't even want to pretend to play for a piece of that action.

[1] The archetypical hacker's browser in its prime!
by sigfubar | 2025-10-01 17:23:54+00:00
I’ve learned so much, and it took only a few minutes. What a treat.

I had no idea about masking, even though I’ve been doing it for as long as I remember being alive. Aaaah, it’s so draining. When I was younger (in my 20s) I used to think there’d come a time when I’d finally come out of my shell. I’m pushing 40 now, but the shell is only thicker, the cave deeper, the walls taller. Instead of dreaming that one day I’ll be “like everyone else”, I’m contemplating the day I’ll cease to exist. Funny.
by latexr | 2025-10-01 17:23:59+00:00
For many it isn’t easy to just up and abandon what they built on GitHub, especially if they have a big community and open issues and PRs. Familiarity also plays a big role, you can’t simply expect to open an account on a different forge and be done, it consumes time to get acquainted with the new stuff. Also GitHub may give access to more resources: For example, you can just use GitHub actions in your repo, private or public; to use the equivalent on Codeberg you have to request access and be approved.

https://docs.codeberg.org/ci/

None of this is a defence of GitHub. But if you want to enact change, you have to understand the reasons why people remain in the status quo.
by fragmede | 2025-10-01 17:24:26+00:00
The CoC isn't for them. As you mentioned, they're gonna be assholes no matter what. Kicking someone out of a group is possibly traumnatic but usually a bunch of drama. Having the god king of the group capriciously kick random people out of the group for no clear reason, and without communication as to why leaves the remaining members worried they could be next. I mean, sure, if you want to be the groups dictator and rule by fear, I guess that's fine, but imo that's no way to run things. By having something documented, with a procedure, gives a framework to follow for when you do have to kick someone out that's a bit less made up than "we just didn't like that person".
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-01 17:24:29+00:00
My gut feel is that people's experiences can be quite different. V.S. Ramachandran's books have nudged me to take these things more seriously.

I think visual imagination is also related to spatial rotation abilities. For example can you imagine yourself in your hometown, then imagine an "animation" as you (from a first-person perspective) fly up vertically, then turn in various directions and sort of feel where the landmarks are in the mind's eye? Or does that sound nonsense to you? Would you agree that being faster at certain tasks (that require a visual scratchpad - e.g. imagining a tabletop and being told what happens e.g. add a triangle on the left, add a square halfway overlapping the triangle etc) indicates that someone has more vivid imagination?
by ryandrake | 2025-10-01 17:24:33+00:00
Is this really that much of a motivation in 2025? Maybe in 2000 you could publish a PDF with the assurance that only the people who paid for Acrobat would be able to edit it, but today, there are a lot of accessible ways to edit PDFs, I don't think I'd choose PDF if I for whatever reason wanted to limit others from editing.
by eitland | 2025-10-01 17:24:44+00:00
Yes. Or maybe rather understand. For me it was a lightbulb moment just like my realisation of exactly how bad my colourblindness was: what is next to impossible for me to see (red drawings on woods in maps) was chosen by someone who thought it stood out.

I'm at least pointing out that I now know personally that there are multiple levels of visualisation, from me just "feeling" what it would mean to rotate a 3d object (it works, I can absolutely determine if it will fit but it is absolutely not visual) up to some close friends of mine that see vivid pictures of faces and can combine them with eyes closed.

For me who cannot see images except what I physically see it certainly is interesting to hear people describe remembering peoples phone numbers as text that they can see (I remember the feeling of myself saying it, not the sound) or memorising my name by mentally putting the image of ne next to their image of their brother who has the same name as me (!)

It really is funny, because I can draw. For example the famous "draw a bike" thing seems weird to me because I can't see myself making any of the mistakes from any of the drawings. Not because I can see a bike, but because I know it.
by internetter | 2025-10-01 17:24:52+00:00
Just for example, the lack of explicit variable defs. I create a variable and update it later. I rename the variable but forget to change it where it is updated. No errors produced in the IDE because the place where it is updated is now just creating the variable instead so all the references still work. `let` is a good keyword.

It drives me crazy how everything just... blocks. Parallelization is a disaster.

I won't comment much on indentation. All the string formatting syntaxes is crazy. Private names managed by `_`. The type system still mostly sucks. Ect ect.

In my experience it is alright to write short scripts but complexity very quickly balloons and python projects are very often unwieldy.

I would write a script in python, but only if I was positive I would never need to run or edit it again. Which is very rarely the case.
by anal_reactor | 2025-10-01 17:25:01+00:00
I had an over-enthousiastic guy at work. I don't know what pills he was on, but I'd love some. Once during lunch I was sitting with my coworkers, having a completely shitty day. Suddenly he showed up "oooh, you all look so lovely, let me take a photo" and pulled out his phone. I subconsciously responded with death stare full of hatred. Would love to see the photo someday.
by robabby | 2025-10-01 17:25:19+00:00
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by Terr_ | 2025-10-01 17:25:29+00:00
That's facile: Past delays do not justify infinite delays, especially as dwindling resources or external deadlines change over time.

For example, "last time" (March) there were still several months to restore healthcare funding before the open-enrollment calendar period for American healthcare plans.

Compare: "You didn't think filing your income taxes was important when you got an 6-month extension 5.5 months ago!!!111"
OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series
by rjakob | 2025-10-01 17:25:33+00:00
Paper: https://www.opentslm.com/OpenTSLM-whitepaper.pdf

Repo: https://github.com/StanfordBDHG/OpenTSLM

Foundation models excel at text, images, audio, and video, but lack temporal reasoning capabilities over time-series data streams that run the real world: vitals, prices, telemetry, grid loads, clickstreams, machine logs, business processes.

Time Series Language Models (TSLMs) are open foundation models, supporting time‑series as a native modality, next to text, letting users ask questions, get explanations, and recommendations, all in natural language.

The OpenTSLM White Paper released today demonstrates state-of-the-art temporal reasoning performance. Unlike prior approaches, the cross-attention architecture scales to long time-series remaining viable at scale.

The results:

- Sleep staging: 4.4× accuracy with a model 200× smaller (~880× efficiency)

- Activity recognition: ~6× accuracy with 200× smaller (~1,000× efficiency)

- ECG interpretation: ~2× accuracy with 200× smaller (~400× efficiency)

— first model to process 12-lead ECG signals and text simultaneously with chain-of-thought reasoning validated by cardiologists.

For the first time, foundation models can handle multiple time-series streams of varying lengths concurrently, integrate them with textual context, and produce interpretable explanations (verified by domain experts, clinicians).

This work is the result of a growing collaboration between researchers from Stanford, ETH Zurich, UIUC, University of St. Gallen, University of Washington, Google, and Amazon.

It points to the next foundation model frontier: temporal intelligence that unlocks proactive healthcare, adaptive robotics, resilient infrastructure, and new forms of human-AI collaboration.
by exodust | 2025-10-01 17:25:53+00:00
> "I spent 2 months designing and making an admin panel "

Why? It's easy and quick to code complicated things these days. It's nice having custom dashboards and functionality that fits exactly with what you need. Way more professional.

I'm sure Google Sheets are fine. But I've been seen truly ugly Google Sheets with way too many tabs and horizontal scrolling. Clunky cells that seem to expand and have their own scrolling universe with different laws to everything else. Why can't I simply click the cell to copy it all, nope, let's try double-clicking the cell, I just want to grab the contents to the clipboard, nope. Now it expands and I'm scrolling the whole sheet and have lost my place because Google Sheets tries to snap to rows or something. Damn I hate this memory of navigating someone's horrible Google sheet.
by palmotea | 2025-10-01 17:26:04+00:00
> This was at a company that professed to be supportive of neurodivergence.

It's easy to mouth slogans, and modern companies employ teams of specialists in that department. You can't trust their words, which should be assumed to be lies, only their actions (especially their actions when they're under some pressure).

Here's an absurdly clear example: I recently listened to these podcasts about Saudi Arabia's Neom project. It is hyper-dysfunctional and was run by a guy who literally bragged about treating his subordinates as slaves trying to work them to death. But all the responses from the project are pitch-perfect corporate "we value our employees," "we follow best practices," etc.

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/neom-pt-1-skiing-in...

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/neom-pt-2-the-emper...
by madsushi | 2025-10-01 17:26:47+00:00
DWDM tech improvements have outpaced nearly every other form of technology growth, so the same single pair of fiber that used to carry 10 Mbps can now carry 20 Tbps, which is a 2,000,000x multiplier. The same somewhat-fixed supply of fiber can go a very long way today, so the price pressure for access is less than you might expect.