MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by forgotoldacc | 2025-10-28 14:42:49+00:00
They're about as smart as a person who's kind of decent at every field. If you're a pro, it's pretty clear when it's BSing. But if you're not, the answers are often close enough.

And just like humans, they can be very confidently wrong. When any person tells us something, we assume there's some degree of imperfection in their statements. If a nurse at a hospital tells you the doctor's office is 3 doors down on the right, most people will still look at the first and second doors to make sure those are wrong, then look at the nameplate on the third door to verify that it's right. If the doctor's name is Smith but the door says Stein, most people will pause and consider that maybe the nurse made a mistake. We might also consider that she's right, but the nameplate is wrong for whatever reason. So we verify that info by asking someone else, or going in and asking the doctor themselves.

As a programmer, I'll ask other devs for some guidance on topics. Some people can be absolute geniuses but still dispense completely wrong advice from time to time. But oftentimes they'll lead me generally in the right way, but I still need to use my own head to analyze whether it's correct and implement the final solution myself.

The way AI dispenses its advice is quite human. The big problem is it's harder to validate much of its info, and that's because we're using it alone in a room and not comparing it against anyone else's info.
by halayli | 2025-10-28 14:43:24+00:00
I don't know what kind of data you are dealing with but its illogical and against all best practices to have this many keys in a single object. it's equivalent to saying having tables with 65k columns is very common.

on the other hand most database decisions are about finding the sweet spot compromise tailored toward the common use case they are aiming for, but your comment sound like you are expecting a magic trick.
by theamk | 2025-10-28 14:43:50+00:00
The website mentions Kickstarter, and Kickstarter page [0] has "Founders" section. It's pretty fuzzy, but at least there are founders' names. But the country of jurisdiction is not mentioned anywhere, and it is very important for remote KVMs.

> Founder Team

> Our founders and team work remotely, scattered across the world, including Germany, China, and New Zealand. We gathered experience from the field of design to software engineering & hardware development. We are the right blend of people, sharing expertise in our team. We're server enthusiasts and thriving to create products that also, literally, work for us. Co-Founders of JetKVM - Adam Shiervani(left), Lian Duan(right)

> Lastly, we are not the only ones, who are dedicated and working full-time on this project. A number of contractors, specializing in various fields are helping us every day, to move forward and unfold the potential of our ideas.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jetkvm/jetkvm/descripti...
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-28 14:43:52+00:00
> When it comes to the appearance of conflict, I am not an ideal owner of The Post. Every day, somewhere, some Amazon executive or Blue Origin executive or someone from the other philanthropies and companies I own or invest in is meeting with government officials. I once wrote that The Post is a “complexifier” for me. It is, but it turns out I’m also a complexifier for The Post. - https://archive.is/flIDl

It kind of shocks me how someone seemingly can understand those things, but then continue to try to helm the ship. You know you're having a negative impact, why stay at that point, unless you have some ulterior motive?

I don't feel like Washington Post becoming a shadow of itself is any surprise, when even the owner is aware of the effect they have on the publication, yet do absolutely nothing to try to change it.

Disclaimer: former subscriber, part of the exodus that left when the publication became explicitly "pro-capitalism" under the guise of "personal liberties" or something like that.
by danaris | 2025-10-28 14:44:49+00:00
...YYyyeah, that says a lot about you, and nothing about the project in question.

"Forced you to lie"?? Are you serious?

If the project says "no AI", and you insist on using AI, that's not "forcing you to lie"; that's you not respecting their rules and choosing to lie, rather than just go contribute to something else.
by skepticATX | 2025-10-28 14:45:19+00:00
It’s much easier to accept fatalities caused by other humans because there is someone to hold responsible. Will autonomous vehicle companies be held responsible when they cause fatalities?

It also goes beyond just the total number of fatalities. Just like we don’t accept DUIs, we shouldn’t accept negligence or laziness from autonomous vehicle developers even if their product is safer than human drivers.
by freedomben | 2025-10-28 14:45:36+00:00
If you're going to make the sample size one, and use the most egregious example, you make pretty much anything that has ever been born or built look terrible. Given there are millions of people using chat, GPT and others for therapy every week, maybe even everyday, citing a record of being 0-1 is pretty ridiculous.

To be clear, I'm not defending this particular case. Chat GPT clearly messed up bad.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-28 14:45:38+00:00
Our standard approach for new medical treatments is to require proof of safety and efficacy before it's made available to the general public. This is because it's very, very easy for promising-looking treatments to end up being harmful.

"Before declaring that it shouldn't be near anyone with psychological issues" is backwards. Before providing it to people with psychological issues, someone should study whether the positive impact is greater than the negative.

Trouble is, this is such a generalized tool that it's very hard to do that.
by dr-j | 2025-10-28 14:45:44+00:00
Fair point—my last reply was too long. Here’s the concise version: • What it is: Personal journaling + goals; not a team PM tool (no sharing yet). • Habit & wellbeing: Baseline + weekly model → small, specific nudges. Projects are optional. • Coach: Optional AI that summarizes your patterns; complements (doesn’t replace) a human mentor. • Privacy & cost: Journals stay on-device; by default no raw text leaves the Mac. AI is per-prompt/opt-in; typical use is modest. (HN readers can DM/email for a perpetual license + tokens to test.) • Action: I’m tightening the site copy and adding a clear “why” explainer.

Thanks for the nudge.
by aquariusDue | 2025-10-28 14:46:05+00:00
For a clumsy person like me wire-wrap seems even harder than the usual stuff around soldering, that said I'll look into it more because it seems incredibly interesting.

Also it's nice hearing about Ben Heck in the wild, when I first started fiddling with Arduino I watched his YouTube videos on the element14 channel. Though from what I remember he's long since left. Another channel that I remember fondly is EEVblog even though both were about electronics the content itself didn't have much overlap if I recall correctly.
by troyvit | 2025-10-28 14:46:19+00:00
I think it depends on the feature set you're looking for. My nextcloud instance is basically online OpenOffice apparently. It doesn't match Google Docs in speed, responsiveness, UI or UX, and it costs me like $18/month to run, but it seems relatively light-weight. There's no idiotic gemini crap or a pop-up begging me to try it though, and all my data is my own. I'm not the Austrian government but that's the feature set I was looking for.
by cestith | 2025-10-28 14:46:20+00:00
It’s worth remembering this was Bell Labs. It was a research and development organization. These weren’t line maintenance people and telephone operators free to create things during their work. They did a lot of applied research and a lot of pure research at Bell Labs back in the day.

Lasers, fiber optics, underseas cables, communication satellites, transistors, discovery of the cosmic microwave background, and more came out of that organization. It was largely supported by the consent deal between the US government and AT&T that allowed them a telephone monopoly so long as their non-telephone research and inventions didn’t get marketed separately. So they’d create things that helped the company and the rest of the world, and then just release those things to the rest of the world.
by unyttigfjelltol | 2025-10-28 14:46:35+00:00
We see with trains and jets that the public does not accept deaths with the same benign resignation as automobiles.

The question is: will turning all the cars into a collective Borg operated by Big Tech upend our indifference to auto fatalities?

Already we see that all the latest catastrophes from self-driving cars make much better press, so no, society will not give Waymo a “pass” for just killing a few people through a corporate cost-benefit analysis, particularly when those people never accepted the risk of dealing with Waymo in the first place. And you can substitute the name of any other car company there.
by rchaud | 2025-10-28 14:46:46+00:00
I'd say the vast majority of Excel users in business are working off of a CSV sent from their database/ERP team or exported from a self-serve analytics tool and using pivot tables to do the heavy lifting, where it's nearly impossible to get something wrong. Investment banks and trading desks are different, and usually have an in-house IT team building custom extensions into Excel or training staff to use bespoke software. That's still a very small minority of Excel users.
by imiric | 2025-10-28 14:46:48+00:00
Nice! I won't use this since screensavers are much more interesting when not limited to characters, but this is a neat project.

Screensavers are a lost art. I still enjoy them, but at some point we just gave up on them. In the era of CRTs they had a practical purpose (they're screen savers, after all), but modern OLED displays also suffer from burn-in for which screensavers would be useful. My enjoyment is purely aesthetic, though. Sometimes I just want to have something pleasing to glance at in the background, instead of a black screen.

Nowadays most operating systems and desktop environments don't even support them. The state of the art on Linux still seems to be `xscreensaver`, which does have many great ones, but the collection is static, and most of it is visually stuck in the 90s. I wouldn't even try getting it to run on Wayland, and when I last looked into it, it required some hacks and 3rd-party tools.

Also, I've always found the feature of screen locking and screen saving to be orthogonal. Often I want to see pretty graphics without locking my screen, and viceversa.
by lvl155 | 2025-10-28 14:47:29+00:00
LLM derived AGI is possible but LLM by itself is not the answer. The problem I see right now is that because there’s so much money at stake, we’ve effectively spread out core talent across many organizations. It used to be Google and maybe Meta. We need a critical mass of talent (think Manhattan Project). It doesn't help that the Chinese pulled a lot of talent back home because a big chunk of early successes and innovations came from those people that we, the US, alienated.
by Scubabear68 | 2025-10-28 14:47:43+00:00
I have to disagree. There are many areas where things are extremely deterministic, regulated financial services being one of those areas. As one example of zillions, look at something like Bond Math. All of it is very well defined, all the way down to what calendar model you will you use (360/30 or what have you), rounding, etc. It's all extremely well defined specifically so you can get apple to apple comparisons in the market place.

The same applies to my checkbook, and many other areas of either calculating actuals or where future state is well defined by a model.

That said, there can be a statistical aspect to any spreadsheet model. Obviously. But not all spreadsheets are statistical, and therein lies the rub. If an LLM wants to hallucinate a 9,000 day yearly calendar because it confuses our notion of a year with one of the outer planets, that falls well within probability, but not within determinism following well define rules.

The other side of the issue is LLMs trained on the Internet. What are the chances that Claude or whatever is going to make a change based on a widely prevalent but incorrect spreadsheet it found on some random corner of the Internet? Do I want Claude breaking my well-honed spreadsheet because Floyd in Nebraska counted sheep wrong in a spreadsheet he uploaded and forgot about 5 years ago, and Claude found it relevant?
by malthaus | 2025-10-28 14:47:44+00:00
... and it will turn into a "technically true" rat race between the main players on what the definition is exactly while you can ask any person on the street with no skin in the game who will tell you that this is nowhere near the intuitive understanding of what AGI is - as it it's not measured by scores but instead of how real and self-aware your counterpart "feels" to you.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-10-28 14:47:49+00:00
When I search a definition I get three results:

1. Behavior or treatment in which physical force is exerted for the purpose of causing damage or injury.

In the case of the shooting examples the idea is to destroy the clay pots or damage the target. Baseball isn't quite on that level. I'm not sure what a gun can be aimed at without intent to damage it.

2. Intense force or great power, as in natural phenomena.

A gunshot definitely feels like an intense force. You could argue it for a strike from a baseball bat but it's quite relative and of course you can strike gently much more easily than you can shoot gently.
by xyst | 2025-10-28 14:48:02+00:00
LPL (Lock Picking Lawyer) has been making a fool of MasterLock and other physical security products/marketing for many years.

Guess ML realizes it’s best to be humiliated online where a small subset of population would never buy their products anyways. Rather than humiliate themselves in public like Proven Industries did (Barbara Streisand effect?)
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-10-28 14:48:04+00:00
> if I paste a 30 line (heated) chat conversation between my wife and I

i can't imagine how violated i would feel if i found out my partner was sending our private conversations to a nonprivate LLM chatbot. it's not a friend with a sense of care; it's a text box whose contents are ingested by a corporation with a vested interest in worsening communication between humans. scary stuff.
by tinyhouse | 2025-10-28 14:48:10+00:00
That's fair. I actually didn't realize it's been already 4+ years since he took over as CEO. I do think that we haven't heard the last word of Amazon Anthropic's partnership. Microsoft is already deep in OpenAI, and Google, while also a major stakeholder in Anthropic, directly competes with Gemini (API, code, etc). Amazon has foundation models but not really in the game, so this partnership is likely to continue. Both sides need it (Amazon for staying in the AI game and Anthropic for the resources and cash)
by eclark | 2025-10-28 14:48:21+00:00
I am the author/maintainer of rs-poker ( https://github.com/elliottneilclark/rs-poker ). I've been working on algorithmic poker for quite a while. This isn't the way to do it. LLMs would need to be able to do math, lie, and be random. None of which are they currently capable.

We know how to compute the best moves in poker (it's computationally challenging; the more choices and players are present, the more likely it is that most attempts only even try at heads-up).

With all that said, I do think there's a way to use attention and BERT to solve poker (when trained on non-text sequences). We need a better corpus of games and some training time on unique models. If anyone is interested, my email is elliott.neil.clark @ gmail.com
by TZubiri | 2025-10-28 14:48:33+00:00
Damn if you do something, damn if you don't.

I think that the approach and advantage of CA/US companies is to be bold and do shit ("you can just do things"/"move fast break things"), they consciously manage huge legal liabilities (which are not minor in the US), I don't know how they manage to stay afloat, probably tight legal teams, and enough revenue to offset the liabilities.

But the scope of ChatGPT is one of the biggest I've seen so far, by default it encompasses everything, whatever is out of scope it's because they specifically blacklist it, and even then they keep on dishing out legal, medical advice, and psychiatric advice.

I think one of the systemic risks is a legal liability crisis, not just for chatgpt, but for the whole US Tech market and therefore the stock market (almost all top stocks are tech). Like if you start thinking what will the next 2008 would be, I think legal liabilities are up there, along with nuclear energy snafus and war.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-28 14:48:37+00:00
> Does anyone really think we are close to AGI? I mean honestly?

Some people believe capitalism is a net-positive. Some people believe in a all-encompassing entity controlling our lives. Some believe 5G is an evil spirit.

After decades I've kind of given up hope on understanding why and how people believe what they believe, just let them.

The only important part is figuring out how I can remain oblivious to what they believe in, yet collaborate with them on important stuff anyways, this is the difficult and tricky part.
by malka1986 | 2025-10-28 14:48:53+00:00
> I don't accept the unregulated and uncontrolled use of LLMs for therapy for the same reason I don't accept arguments like "We should deregulate food safety because it means more food at lower cost to consumers"

That is not the argument. The argument is not about 'lower cost', it is about availability. There are not enough shrinks for everyone who would need it.

So it would be "We should deregulate food safety to avoid starving", which would be a valid argument.
by the_decider | 2025-10-28 14:48:59+00:00
Interesting example use-case of sharing encoding Airbnb reputation on the blockchain to be shared across competing services. There remains a question however of how to get buy-in from those competing businesses to integrate their website or app in order to display that decentralized reputation information. Though in theory, one could encode the address of the short-term rental or house to be easily accessible on the blockchain.
by catketch | 2025-10-28 14:49:10+00:00
not really an accurate take -- it's less of a pause and more of a slowdown from original plans to move non 911 platforms. Macans and Cayennes still are more than half of their business, EV Macans outsold ICE mayans, and a new EV Cayenne is about to be launched.

The profit collapse is more a matter of accounting write downs for their R&D

Make no mistake, they still have issues because sales are collapsing in China (and much of that pressure is from EV upstarts), and there's been a pushback in US on EVs in part due to political shifts.

So we'll continue to se EV, ICE and hybrid development from Porsche, just at a different mix. But it's not going to be easy for them regardless. They have a precarious place in the upmarket mix where a lot of competition is coming for the intro luxury segment, and the volume in the exotic segment is too low to really sustain operations at Porsche's scale.

Still in a better spot than, say, an Astin Martin which would have been better off financially last couple of years just giving customers cash instead of letting them buy cars and lose money on every one
by n1xis10t | 2025-10-28 14:49:19+00:00
In my experience google still seems to have the broadest collection, so I use it when I have a search that doesn’t return many results.

Usually I use duckduckgo, but mostly out of habit. It has the same results as bing, and I’m dubious as to whether or not it’s actually private because I get location specific results from them which come from bing. Bing/duckduckgo isn’t nearly as broad as google, and it also is dumb in the same way as google because it has a bunch of AI spam.

For quality of ranking, and human results, I have had good experiences with marginalia (https://marginalia-search.com/). It only has about 1 billion pages in it’s index, so it won’t be nearly as good for obscure things, but for quality of results I am fond of it. I don’t use it very often though and maybe I should.

This is a great list of search engines with independent indexes: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...

I think it would be great if someone made a meta-search engine with as many engines from that list as possible, and focussed on really good ranking. A tool like that could be best for obscurity and result quality. Unfortunately the meta-search engines that I know of don’t use many sources, and they don’t get all the available results before re-ranking them.

Oh also, there are a surprising number of engines that shut down under suspicious circumstances. This is a good article about those ones: https://archive.org/details/search-timeline
by input_sh | 2025-10-28 14:49:41+00:00
I wouldn't measure how good/fast/performant a library is looking at the results of the very first LLM attempt at doing a trivial task using that library. If you don't know the libraries well enough to spot some improvements the LLM missed, the only thing you're judging is either how sane the defaults are or how good the LLM is at writing performant code using that library, none of which are equivalent to how good the library is.

Also, performing well in a prototype scenario is very different than performing well in production-ready scenario with a non-trivial amount of templates and complex operations. Even the slowest SSGs perform fast when you put three Markdown posts and one layout in them, but then after a few years of real-world usage you end up in a scenario where the full build takes about half an hour.

Kinda cool that you can do that in an afternoon, but absolutely useless as a benchmark of anything.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-28 14:49:52+00:00
I know, I know, murka bad, but my driving test decades ago had a left turn out of a driveway, a 3-pt on a road with real traffic, parallel parking, and an intersection with right on red to return to the testing center, located in a terrible parking lot (i.e. designed in accordance with modern standards) that had a ton of stupid lines that "normal people" cut but you have to follow as part of the test.
by alain94040 | 2025-10-28 14:50:20+00:00
> Does anyone really think we are close to AGI?

My definition of AGI is when AI doesn't need humans anymore to create new models (to be specific, models that continue the GPT3 -> GPT4 -> GPT5 trend).

By my definition, once that happens, I don't really see a role for Microsoft to play. So not sure what value their legal deal has.

I don't think we're there at all anyway.
by condiment | 2025-10-28 14:50:33+00:00
This is not a controversial take, the evidence already exists.

There's a website tracking deaths associated with Teslas, including 61 autopilot fatalities. This has not deterred people from continuing to use autopilot, because using autopilot is a sensible decision. Use of autopilot reduces accidents sixfold in a trend that has been improving over time.[1] Waymo has better statistics and even better performance.[2]

These technologies are going to change the world in a huge way. I'd wager that within 10 years, every luxury car will be outfitted with Waymo sensor kits. Nobody will care how it looks. Within 20, you won't be able to buy consumer insurance for a car you drive yourself.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport [2] https://waymo.com/safety/impact/
by TZubiri | 2025-10-28 14:50:43+00:00
I know that minors under age 13 are not allowed to use the app. But 13-18 is fine? Not sure why. Might also be worth looking into making apps like these 18+. Whether by law or by liability, if someone 20+ gets, say, food poisoning by getting recipes from chatgpt, then you can argue that it's the user's fault for not fact checking, but if a 15yo kid gets food poisoning, it's harder to argue that it's the kid's fault.