MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jjangkke | 2025-10-15 17:04:40+00:00
At this point its accurate to say the Cambodian leadership have completely been subjugated through corruption and that they are no longer running the country but Chinese OCGs who are affiliated with CCP and that they are probably influencing it at a state level on all matters.

We are seeing similar attempts in other Southeast Asian countries and even Korea but Cambodia seems like an outlier. It's sad that not enough of these subversive influence campaigns by China is being talked about here.

Once again, it is America leading the way and using its vast intelligence and military power to be a de-facto global police. Obviously DOJ acted because of Americans were victimized but in doing so have done what South Korean government failed to do.

Lot of heat and criticisms against South Korean government now and its embassy in Cambodia that have largely acted in negligence, even telling one of the victims to report it to Cambodian police and don't bother them.
by minimaxir | 2025-10-15 17:04:42+00:00
$1/M input tokens and $5/M output tokens is good compared to Claude Sonnet 4.5 but nowadays thanks to the pace of the industry developing smaller/faster LLMs for agentic coding, you can get comparable models priced for much lower which matters at the scale needed for agentic coding.

Given that Sonnet is still a popular model for coding despite the much higher cost, I expect Haiku will get traction if the quality is as good as this post claims.
by chrismorgan | 2025-10-15 17:04:54+00:00
My dad had similar trouble with an M1 MacBook Pro that got a depleted battery. Two chargers he had wouldn’t work, but fortunately the Anki charger that I used for my laptop did work with one of the cables that I had (though not another). Once it got a little juice into it, then it was fine and he could switch back to his. But I think he was a bit more careful to avoid total depletion after that.

In 2018 I had a phone that entered a boot loop: battery depleted, plug it in, it automatically starts booting, it stops charging while booting, it dies due to depletion, it recognises it’s plugged in and starts charging, boot, stop, die, start, boot, stop, die… I tried every combination of the four or five cables that I had with a car USB power adapter and someone’s power bank, nothing worked. Diverted on my way home (an 8 hour journey) to buy another phone because I needed one the next day. When I got home, I tried two or three power adapters with all the cables and finally found one combination that worked. I learned the lesson that day that allowing devices to deplete completely can be surprisingly hazardous.
by gizmo686 | 2025-10-15 17:04:54+00:00
Rust's memory safety guarantees do not insure the absence of leaks. However, Rust's design does offer significant protection against leaks (relative to languages like C where all heap allocations must be explicitly freed).

The fact that any felt it nessasary to add a "leak" function to the standard library should tell you something about how easy it is to accidentally leak memory.
by ux266478 | 2025-10-15 17:05:04+00:00
It's confirmation bias in favor of faulty a prioris, usually as the product of the person being a cognitive miser. This is very common to experience even within biology, where non-animal intelligence is irrationally rejected over what I like to call "magic neuron theory". The fact that the nervous system is (empirically!) not the seat of the mind? Selectively ignored in this context. The fact that other biologies have ion-gated communications networks as animals do, including the full set of behaviors and mechanisms? Well it's not a neuron so it doesn't have the magic.

"Intelligence describes a set of properties iff those properties arise as a result of nervous system magic"

It's a futile battle because like I say, it's not rational. Nor is it empirical. It's a desperate clawing to preserve a ridiculous superstition. Try as you might, all you'll end up doing is playing word games until you realize you're being stonewalled by an unthinking adherence to the proposition above. I think the intelligent behaviors of LLMs are pretty obvious if we're being good faith. The problem is you're talking to people who can watch a slime mold plasmodia exhibit learning and sharing of knowledge[1] and they'll give some flagrant ad lib handwaive for why that's not intelligent behavior. Some people simply struggle with pattern blindness towards intelligence, a mind that isn't just another variety of animalia is inconceivable.

[1] - https://asknature.org/strategy/brainless-slime-molds-both-le...
by toast0 | 2025-10-15 17:05:05+00:00
There are certainly competition concerns about Google's advertising programs.

But within their advertising market, you compete for placement with other advertisers. If everyone is getting lots of fraud traffic, presumably they adjust their bids for it, if you're getting outbid consistently, it's reasonable to expect that the other advertisers are either getting a better ROI or they have a lower ROI target than you do.

About a million years ago, I was on a team that had a significant ad program, and it was primarily data driven, we'd come up with keywords to advertise on, measure the results and adjust our bids. With a little bit of manual work to filter out inappropriate keywords or to allow a lower ROI on "important" keywords. Of course, our revenue was largely also from advertising, so it was a bit circular.
by bluGill | 2025-10-15 17:05:05+00:00
IF you have things right - which Google has incentive to see to it that you don't - this makes no difference. Because the real measure isn't how much you make per customer, (including those who come by other means) - it people who didn't click on the ad even though seeing it was a part of their decision to buy (they saw the ad on their phone and told their wife who bought it). If you are doing proper add effectiveness measurement you get this data (it is messy data).

Remember what matters is how the ad affects the bottom line. Everything else is just a proxy - you need to check to see if your proxies are good enough.
by tristor | 2025-10-15 17:05:13+00:00
I have never figured out what the point of a tablet is, except for entertainment. I keep wanting to buy an iPad every time a new one comes out, yet I've never bought one, and keep failing to see any point to it. I have a reMarkable device, which is a sort of tablet, but I use it exclusively for taking notes by hand in meetings, which is basically what it is designed for. I have a Kindle, which is kind of like a tablet, and I use it exclusively for reading which is what it is designed for. An iPad feels like it should replace both, but when I actually analyze it, it cannot replace either one.

What really are tablets for other than being a passive entertainment consumption device?
by pron | 2025-10-15 17:05:15+00:00
Project Valhalla will also specialise generics for value types. When you say, "it's hard to bolt on", the challenge isn't technical, but how to do this in a way that adds minimal language complexity (i.e. less than in other languages with explicit "boxed" and "inlined" values). Ideally, this should be done in a way that tells the compiler know which types can be inlined (e.g. they don't require identity) and then letting the compiler decide when it wants to actually inline an instance as a transparent optimisation. The challenge would not have been any smaller had Java done this from the beginning.
by kanaffa12345 | 2025-10-15 17:05:19+00:00
> That CoreML models are prolific on Apple platforms? That Apple devices are prolific?

correct and non-controversial

> An enormous number of people and products [use CoreML on Apple platforms]

non-sequitur

EDIT: i see people are not aware of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
by jng | 2025-10-15 17:05:22+00:00
Oops, sorry about carelessly throwing the "cringe" label at that. Thanks for the transcript which allowed me to enjoy the content, which I did find very interesting.

I haven't watched the video so I am not sure how he actually talks, but what read cringe to me was things like the following paragraph:

"Stephen Robinson: Yeah. So let’s, let’s break it down into address generation versus execution. So, when you have three load execution ports, you need three load address generators. And so that’s there. On the store side, we have four store address generation units. But we only sustain two stores into the data cache."

Which reads weird. "let's" repeated twice, probably a stutter, could be transcribed just once. The "So" or "And so" the interviewee uses all the time at the start of sentences can also be removed for clearer and easier reading most of the time, without loss of meaning. Some sentences can almost be removed completely as they provide no actual information. The previous paragraph could be transcribed like this:

"Stephen Robinson: Let’s break it down into address generation versus execution. When you have three load execution ports, you need three load address generators. That’s there. On the store side, we have four store address generation units. But we only sustain two stores into the data cache."

I hesitate to remove "That's there." so I left it. But everything else I removed, it makes it clearer, and I think I'm not being unfaithful to the original. Removing the duplicate "let's" is a given as it's normal to stutter when speaking, but you don't really want to transcribe that unless the goal is to transcribe the talking imperfections we all have. And all the other things I removed, "Yeah", "So", "And so", are basically the same type of thing.

I thought this was automated because it had so many of the meaningless go-to words and hesitations from the original. Now that you mention it, automated transcription would probably never have produced something this good. And otherwise we are talking about stylistic preference here, always subjective -- although I'd definitely prefer the style of transcription suggest here.

Thanks again. I read chips and cheese with interest, quite often, and enjoy it quite a lot. Keep up the good work. And sorry for the careless put-down.
by KronisLV | 2025-10-15 17:05:45+00:00
> Then I found out they went with an app model and the device could only display a single MacOS window.

There was this program called Immersed for Quest and some other VR headsets (apparently Apple's one too?) that ages ago was quite brilliant: I could connect my laptop or PC and have as many virtual desktops in addition to the real ones displayed around me. Even on my Quest 2, until the strain set in, it was cool to just kinda tune out the room around me and be in a black void surrounded by just the screens of whatever I'm working on.

Sadly, in one update they randomly removed it as a "legacy feature nobody uses", which ruined the program for me, and Virtual Desktop for the Quest also has limited screens you can display, so I can't even do all 4 of my physical ones, nor virtual ones - despite it having worked previously in the other program.

For a little bit, it was a really cool mode of working, but sadly I only got glimpses of it and would need more capable hardware like AVP for that in the first place (Quest 2 very much had its limitations).

Also, this was a pretty cool idea, even if a novelty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js7Y1H5D8cY
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-10-15 17:05:47+00:00
> In the same way there's "nothing substantially different" in humans from any other run of the mill matter.

This is an incredibly intellectual vacuous take. If there is no substantial difference between a human being and any other cluster of matter, then it is you who is saddled with the problem of explaining the obvious differences. If there is no difference between intelligent life and a pile of rocks, then what the hell are you even talking about? Why are we talking about AI and intelligence at all? Either everything is intelligent, or nothing is, if we accept your premises.

> I find that all this talk of "illusion" is nothing but anthropocentric cope. Humans want to be those special little snowflakes,

I wish this lazy claim would finally die. Stick to the merits of the arguments instead of projecting this stale bit of vapid pop-psychoanalytic babble. Make arguments.
by greedo | 2025-10-15 17:05:58+00:00
And direct experience is usually very very flawed in perception. Look into "eyewitness" testimony and how often people's perceptions are extremely flawed and easily manipulated.

Even simple events are difficult to evaluate. One podcaster I've listened to for a decade had an issue on a flight. He bumped into a passenger in front of him and words were exchanged. Eventually he was deplaned by the pilot. In his telling of the story, it was completely outrageous and unwarranted. But obviously to others involved, he was completely in the wrong, enough to be deplaned.

So no, "direct experiences" are definitely filtered.

For another example, my daughters feel unsafe walking alone at night in my city's downtown area. Whereas I, walking at the same time in the same area, don't feel any danger at all. Every human experience is mediated by our past history.
by kibwen | 2025-10-15 17:06:25+00:00
> You can't build iPhone or iPad apps on iPhones or iPads yet, so a decent chunk of that revenue currently relies on the Mac as well.

This is both entirely true and still manages to miss the point. Yes, Apple keeps the Mac around exclusively to accommodate the creation of iOS apps. No, they are not financially incentivized to create new categories of hardware that cater toward productivity when instead they could lock them down and milk that cow for all it's worth via the app store tax.
by thomastjeffery | 2025-10-15 17:06:52+00:00
Not according to the 4th amendment, and precedent set by the supreme court. Police can't just keep notes on every time and place they have seen your license plate. Doing it digitally, and feeding that info to an LLM isn't meaningfully different, apart from how much obviously worse it is.

Flock isn't legal. It simply hasn't been prosecuted, either.
by bluGill | 2025-10-15 17:08:04+00:00
At google I would expect no. However I don't understand why other "portals" are not running their own ads (some are of course - but I think more should). If you are a portal your value is the eyeballs you sell to advertisers, so why are you out soucing this critical part of your business value? This needs to be a core competency you keep in house.
by astrange | 2025-10-15 17:08:08+00:00
Yes, game developers can't revisit old games because they throw out the dev environments when they're done, or their middleware can't get updated, etc.

But it's not possible to keep maintaining 32-bit forever. That's twice the code and it can't support a bunch of important security features, modern ABIs, etc. It would be better to run old programs in a VM of an old OS with no network access.
by epiccoleman | 2025-10-15 17:08:12+00:00
Growing up, the Catholic church which my family attended, and to which our grade school was attached, held the following masses:

* Wednesday evening mass

* Thursday morning mass (this was attended by the school kids, as well as a collection of retirees)

* Saturday evening mass

* Sunday 7am mass

* Sunday 10am mass

There was also a weekly or maybe biweekly Confession.

That was serving quite a small congregation too, so I wouldn't be surprised to learn that bigger parishes have more frequent masses (although in my experience larger parishes often have more than one priest).

Also, the job of a Catholic priest is definitely not limited to performing Mass. They're essentially on call for Last Rites 24/7, but apart from that there's also just various parish events they'll be involved with.

So anyway, I don't want that job, I want the one where you give out vaguely mystical advice and listen to problems once a week, and then during the rest of the week you're like a cool side character at the local pub.
by Retric | 2025-10-15 17:08:21+00:00
In terms of economies of scale Schools can prepare any food using public logistical networks (grocery store etc) a hypothetical donator can do, but they just get more options and easier distribution. A friend ran a nursery school with ~25 kids and even at that scale she could provide snacks cheaper than individual parents. This was a for profit school and parents were themselves paying for the food in both cases, school wins even without considering the cost of ‘free’ labor.

As to health and safety, biology and human nature can’t be hand waved away. Food banks get specific legal protections for cases of food poisoning, but the underlying issues result in people getting sick. Similarly all that wasteful tamperproof packaging comes from real events like the Chicago Tylenol murders, at scale people suck.

There’s also inherent disadvantages when you want food to be preserved without freezing or refrigeration. Jelly is mostly sugar to inhibit microbial growth. Deli meats need to use preservatives you eat while minimally impacting taste when added to meat and we don’t have good options here. That’s why people have refrigerators in their homes, it’s solving a real issue.
by steveklabnik | 2025-10-15 17:08:27+00:00
> Literally any language that does the same will be the same speed but not faster, because there's no way to be faster. It's physically impossible.

There is nothing special about C that makes this true. C has semantics, just like any language, that are higher level than assembly, and sometimes, those semantics make the code slower than other languages that have different semantics.

Consider this C function:

void redundant_store(int *a, int *b) { int t = *a + 1; *a = t; *b = 0; // May clobber *a if (b == a) *a = t; }

Because a and b may point to the same address, you get this code (on clang trunk):

redundant_store: mov eax, dword ptr [rdi] inc eax mov dword ptr [rdi], eax mov dword ptr [rsi], 0 mov dword ptr [rdi], eax ret

That fifth line there has to be kept in, because the final `*a = t;` there is semantically meaningful; if a == b, then a is also set to 0 on line four, and so we need to reset it to t on line five.

Consider the Rust version:

pub fn redundant_store(a: &mut i32, b: &mut i32) { let t = *a + 1; *a = t; *b = 0; // a and b must not alias, so can never clobber *a = t; }

You get this output (on Rust 1.90.0):

redundant_store: mov eax, dword ptr [rdi] inc eax mov dword ptr [rsi], 0 mov dword ptr [rdi], eax ret

Because a and b can never alias, we know that the extra store to *a is redundant, as it's not possible for the assignment to *b to modify *a. This means we can get rid of this line.

Sure, eliminating one single store isn't going to have a meaningful difference here. But that's not the point, the point is that "it's not possible to be faster than C because C is especially low level" just simply isn't true.
by random3 | 2025-10-15 17:08:36+00:00
This needs benchmarks.

Sad if true. I feel my M1 max sluggish too lately. After bragging that this was the longest lived work machine I had and thinking I'm good to wait for M6. This is not good for business, but IMO you need more than raw power to justify upgrades even for professional use - form factor, screen quality, battery, etc.

I think they bet a lot of hardware money on AI capabilities, but failed to deliver the software, so there was no real reason to upgrade because of AI features in the chip (which is literally what they boast on the first line of the announcement - yet nobody cares about making more cute faces)

It's not 100% their fault. Everyone got onto the LLM bandwagon like it's "the thing" so even if they didn't believe it they sill needed something. Except an OS is not a chat interface, and LLMs do suck at stricter things.
by notorandit | 2025-10-15 17:08:46+00:00
Commercial partnership between open source projects and real companies can be tricky if not deadly.

I still remember CyanogenMod powering the first OnePlus One as Cyngn Co.

Lineage OS raised from the ashes of CyanogenMod.

On top of this, any ad blocking and "privacy first" project just shutters in pieces when the hardware manufacturer gives you a bunch of binary-only closed-source modules to be stuck into the kernel.

Stop using apps and run Firefox or any other open source browser. That type of privacy can be (almost) achieved that way.

But if your os runs non-auditable binaries directly into the kernel, then it's clear we are talking about dreams, not reality.
by johnnyApplePRNG | 2025-10-15 17:08:52+00:00
My best friend's father just died at 68 from Multiple Myeloma. And I just attended another friend's father's funderal who was only 65. They weren't even sure which cancer started it all as he was just riddled with it by the time he went to the hospital for "stomach pain".

So I've started talking to friends recently about their weight and how excess body fat significantly contributes towards numerous cancers.

It's been interesting.

The last group I brought it up with steered the conversation towards "all bodies are beautiful bodies" which is true but ... GAH! ... basically the entire western world is in denial about health and diet.

The corporations are fueling this fire, partly I'm sure through steering mainstream media to avoid certain talking points.

How many of you here actually knew that being overweight contributes to dozens of early onset cancers? Be honest.

You can't survive on alcohol, chips and cigarettes... but because people seem to be able to do that for a few decades, everybody just shrugs off health and thinks "I'll be fine".
by FumblingBear | 2025-10-15 17:09:04+00:00
I think I may be the commenter you're referring to, and yes, I have used many different VR devices over the years. I've owned at least 3 other headsets and used 5.

My point in saying the usefulness of it being tied to the ecosystem was more of a negative one than a positive one if it wasn't clear. It is personally useful for me because I have a lot of Apple products at home (though I also have PC and linux stuff too), but I wish my primary use-cases for it were more platform agnostic.

I'm also very in support of aggressive anti-trust legislation and it's probably my biggest point of contention with Apple.

Despite all that, I still like the Vision Pro and think it's an incredible piece of tech that blows every other headset I've tried out of the water for the things I like to do.
by fazkan | 2025-10-15 17:09:22+00:00
I am sure you meant well, but it was your word-choice. Show some grace to the founders trying to build stuff. Its easy to nit-pick ideas and execution. You could have ask the same thing politely.

Focus on local, non-western LLMs, is not a unique differentiation, I am sure Peec can implement it tomorrow, if you guys want to.

Or were you only looking for differentiation so you can build it at Peec.

If two products are solving the same problem, eventually they will converge on the same feature-set. You should know that better.
by leakycap | 2025-10-15 17:09:22+00:00
My M1 Pro with 441 battery cycles won't power back on without the Apple charger it came with if I close the lid or put it to sleep and the battery isn't over 60%... something happens and the computer goes into a sleep state where the battery doesn't drain but no charger except the OG brings it back to life.

Even a Studio Display, which can provide more power than my M1 Pro can use, won't wake it from this state. Apple wants $300 for a replacement battery so I'll just buy a new MacBook at that price, but the charger situation doesn't bode well for M5 MacBook buyers who wonder why their Mac is dead one day (and they just need the exact charger the system wants, but Apple didn't provide it)
by wrs | 2025-10-15 17:09:31+00:00
Claude just analyzed the emotional content of a piece of music for me -- quite accurately -- by just looking at an uploaded PDF of the score. How does that work? "It's a nonlinear system" or "it's a bunch of matrix multiplication" is in no useful way an explanation. That's way down at the bottom of an explanatory abstraction hierarchy that we have only begun to make tools to begin to explore. It's like asking how humans work and getting the answer "it's just undergraduate chemistry!"

The study of LLMs is much closer to biology than engineering.