MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-11-09 04:59:27+00:00
This behaviour deeply bothers me, and my family doesn't get it. I've tried to explain it, but I think they're so accustomed to it that it doesn't really matter to them or occur to them as nefarious or malicious.

The way I see it, this type of behaviour by Apple (or any other company doing this) is an invasion of mental real estate. When you force things in front of my eyes that I didn't ask to see, or in my ears, or whatever, that's occupying my brain cycles and space in ways that are entirely uninvited.

Of course, the EULAs and whatnot all require me to agree to this bullshit, so fine, it's technically invited when I opened the application and said "sure, try to sell me your stuff", but to me this isn't the spirit of the software or operating system at ALL, and has been a signal of worse things to come for some time now. It's essentially enshittification.

My answer has been to stop using it. After 25 years of using Apple's computers and around 12 years on their phones, I'm migrating off. No more iPhone, Apple Watch, Airpods, etc. I'm still on a mac and that'll be hard to change, but it's slowly happening. I spent the last week on the ocean and in the woods on a toughbook, and that was kind of fun. It was eye opening to take a computer where I'd never take a macbook.

I find this kind of behaviour totally deplorable anyway, and I can't tolerate it. It's insidious and damaging to their brand because ultimately it's harmful to their users. They want number to go up, I get it, but I'm not their fodder.
by k310 | 2025-11-09 04:59:31+00:00
Trump: We don't want to be the policemen of the world BY BRETT SAMUELS - 04/30/18 [0]

> President Trump on Monday said the U.S. should no longer serve as the “policemen of the world.”

> “We more and more are not wanting to be the policemen of the world,” Trump said during a joint press conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

> “We’re spending tremendous amounts of money for decades policing the world, and that shouldn’t be the priority,” he said."

> Trump ran on the promise that he would extricate the U.S. from foreign wars.

It's to divert attention from Epstein. Every scatterbrained, waffling, destructive, violent and cruel act is to distract from the skeleton in his closet.

[0] https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385521-trump-we-...
by TheCoolGuy | 2025-11-09 04:59:57+00:00
You literally just shift the window over by to the next token once you reach the max amount of tokens you want for context window, NOT with what you train on, (only limited with memory now)

This has obvious issues since you're now losing information from the now unseen tokens which becomes significant if your context window is small in comparision of the answer/question you're looking at. That's why companies try to give stupidly large context windows. The problem is they're not training on the large context window, they're training on something smaller (2048 and above). Due to how attention is setup, you can train on a small amount of context and extrapolate it to any number of tokens possible since they train via ROPE which trains the model because on words and their offset to the neighboring words. This allows us to effectively x2,x3,x10,x100 the amount of tokens we generate vs train with with some form consistency BUT still cause a lot of issues consistency wise since the model approaches more of a "this was trained on snippets but not the entire thing" situation where it has a notion of the context but not fundamentally the entire combined context
by ggreer | 2025-11-09 05:00:57+00:00
Their main differentiator is cost. The Boring Company bid $48.7 million for the initial LVCC loop. The total cost to complete it was $53 million. The second cheapest bid was Doppelmeyer Cableliner, which would have built a people mover for $215M. The people mover would have had about 50% more capacity per station, but at 4 times the cost.

Tunnel cost is mostly dependent on the volume of material removed, which means that cost goes up linearly with length but with the square of the tunnel diameter. Trains and people movers tend to require significantly larger diameter tunnels, so their costs tend to be much higher. Also Boring Company tunnels don't need much infrastructure in them, so they save money on rails, high voltage power systems, rolling stock, etc.
by Hizonner | 2025-11-09 05:03:07+00:00
Um, no, it attempts to compel foreign banks, which may not even have a presence in the US, to disclose information about US citizens, using various threats. It doesn't threaten to throw foreigners in jail, but it does threaten to use US government "clout" against them... and the actors it's trying to put obligations on are absolutely not US citizens.
by mrtnmcc2 | 2025-11-09 05:03:29+00:00
Great question, the latest version has Tx RHCP, and then Rx either LHCP or RHCP controlled with RF switches (in each antenna). This allows point to point links (where the Tx pol and Rx pol should be the same), or "bounce links" where the circular polarization flips with the bounce. I should note RHCP Rx has a bit worse noise figure (LNA is different) but good enough for any line of sight.
by infinet | 2025-11-09 05:04:49+00:00
Indeed, it's a very impressive speed. I have been on few ships of similar size as this sailboat. With their huge, extremely loud, hot, and diesel hunger engine they usually cruise at less than 15 knots. Container ships are outliers. Not sure how much more fuel they burn when sailing at 25 knots vs 15 knots. But they use cheaper heavy oil so perhaps are less sensitive to fuel cost.

Also the same speed feels faster at sea than on the land because waves make sailing like drive off-road. A small boat can feel like fly at 30 knots. 11 knots makes a joyful ride.
by lurk2 | 2025-11-09 05:05:56+00:00
> You assumed for some reason I was talking about deporting people and not attacking people in boats with hellfire missiles.

No, I understood you clearly as you said “outside the United States.” My point was that American military adventurism still wouldn’t justify terrorism. I then went on to describe how the majority of deportees have plainly violated the law, and that even if some proportion of deportees had their rights violated during the deportation process, it would not justify the extrajudicial killing of law enforcement officers.

> I was discussing the disconnect between legal and moral.

What the great grandparent comment was advocating for is battering and / or murdering law enforcement officials on the basis that he doesn’t think foreign nationals should be bound by American immigration law.
by jmward01 | 2025-11-09 05:06:21+00:00
Let's start with a bang. Passports and strictly enforced borders are dumb and this is a clear example of exactly why. Increasingly the digital world -is- the world and arbitrary geographical boundaries are causing nothing but problems. We are taking the ideas of physical borders and passports and, badly, applying that broken idea to a virtual space with typical results. It blows me away that the real problem with strictly enforced borders, virtual or physical, is that they almost always are used to enforce political ideology and rarely do they actually afford protection in any other way. Strict boarders should be looked at highly skeptically and always viewed as a temporary solution that should be solved diplomatically and/or socially. We don't need things like this going from city to city, county to county, state to state but wherever we see an entity that puts a strict boarder in place, virtual or physical, we suddenly see conflict and political games. There are real issues to consider here but the UK is definitely wrong, and creating more long term problems, with this 'solution'.
by WhyOhWhyQ | 2025-11-09 05:06:29+00:00
It is because computation is an interpretation imposed on a physical system from the outside, but that is distinct from my experience of consciousness; your interpretation of my consciousness is irrelevant.

If I impose a computational interpretation onto inert material after the fact, did that material possess the consciousness? Suppose I overlay a projection of the calculation of an AGI onto a circuit board, is that projection equally conscious to if that circuit board did the computation in the usual way?

Said differently, suppose we take a large computer and simulate a sequence of random byte strings. At each tick we contrive a substring and form a new sequence out of these substrings such that the combined sequence of substrings simulates an AGI. Was consciousness present in the original sequence. Is it even necessary to do any computation at all to create the consciousness then since any intelligent sequence can be interpreted out of anything?

No, that is absurd. The reasonable view is that computation is irrelevant and what is relevant is some special physical process.
by tills13 | 2025-11-09 05:06:41+00:00
fwiw I think this is worse than Marko in terms of syntax and certainly in terms of readability. For all its flaws, HTML / XML / like syntax is such a good declarative way of writing UI imo. React would not be as popular as it is today were it not for JSX. Like the other reply to your comment said: this is effectively identical to what JSX compiles to assuming your jsxPragma is `m`
by Razengan | 2025-11-09 05:06:47+00:00
I’ve been braining about a hypothetical language made from the ground up to be ideal for coding gameplay logic, and not worrying about hardware.

I’m designing from the syntax first but have no idea/energy to actually implement the language/runtime or have it be usable with Godot etc.

If I make the syntax and someone likes it, how to get someone to help me make it? :)
by sgc | 2025-11-09 05:11:26+00:00
I not an expert ai user (and have never touched Codex), but anything remotely important I do, I force the smallest context window possible. I just did something very beautiful using that principle, which will soon be ready to show the world. It would have been a garbled pile of garbage with long context windows.

Obviously major architectural changes need a bigger context window. But try to aggressively modularize your tasks as much as you can, and where possible run batch jobs to keep your workflow moving while each task stays a smaller chunk.
by ggeorgovassilis | 2025-11-09 05:11:49+00:00
I came here just to complain about that :-) All LLMs I used seem to give more weight to things at the beginning of the context window and omit many details. Eg. I tried this simple thing: pasted a friend's and my CV into Gemini and asked it to recommend topics for a joint conference presentation. Results depended greatly on the order of CVs pasted in.
by Hendrikto | 2025-11-09 05:12:05+00:00
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by sometimes_all | 2025-11-09 05:12:11+00:00
> You be taking payment by credit card, which doesn't require you to have any local presence.

But you're offering an online product, plus you are taking money from people from all over the world, whose governments have different regulations and points of view, your own business charges differently for different countries, and credit card providers are bound to different fees and/or extra charges for international transactions.

It's not a simple solution.
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-09 05:12:21+00:00
The US government in that case was requesting information on US citizens and not foreign nationals. I put in those last two words ("against foreigners") for a reason. If the UK government was trying to enforce UK law on UK citizens in the US, that's one thing. That's not what is happening with Ofcom, they want to enforce these laws against US citizens in US territory. That is a very blatant violation of US national sovereignty.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-09 05:12:35+00:00
> If you're out driving on public roads do you really have any expectation of privacy?

Expectation of privacy generally comes from taking steps to preserve it. If you put curtains on your windows, any rando can't install a hidden camera in your house to see what's happening behind them. If you don't install curtains on your windows, any rando can stand in the street and see what they see.

The government prohibits you from concealing the number plate on your car. They can't reasonably prohibit you from doing the thing that would establish an expectation of privacy and then use the fact that you didn't do it to say that you don't have one.
by Hizonner | 2025-11-09 05:13:10+00:00
> They also however appear to believe the OPs clients are simply lying about actually geoblocking UK residents

They don't seem to claim that. They claim the block is imperfect, and they demand perfection.

Since perfection is in fact impossible, that means there's no reasonable, actually available action you can take to keep them from fining you, or at least trying to.
by throwaway17_17 | 2025-11-09 05:13:33+00:00
If not ‘inherently negative’, how do you describe power-seeking and inequality?

Also, I read that portion of your comment to suggest that the concepts of inequality and power-seeking are only societally negatives when considering a specific (very recent) period of human history. Is that the claim you’re making? If so, why would classifying inequality as a negative aspect of culture/civilzation/nation/etc not be applicable outside your specifically referenced ~100 year period?
by lurquer | 2025-11-09 05:13:48+00:00
> You’ve got an executive branch stacking all open positions in judicial and legislative branches with their political appointees.

The judicial branch is composed of Judges who are confirmed by the Senate… not the executive branch.

And there are no ‘Legislative branch’ appointees.

I assume you mean the executive branch is making appointments to the executive branch? Who would you prefer to make such appointments? The Postal Serice?
by jakevoytko | 2025-11-09 05:14:02+00:00
With the current crop of LLMs/agents, I find that refactors still have to be done at a granular level. "I want to make X change. Give me the plan and do not implement it yet. Do the first thing. Do the second thing. Now update the first call site to use the new pattern. You did it wrong and I fixed it in an editor; update the second call site to match the final implementation in $file. Now do the next one. Do the next one. Continue. Continue.", etc.
by econ | 2025-11-09 05:15:36+00:00
You could have the world expert debate the thing. Someone who can be accused of knowing things. We have many such humans, at least as many as topics.

Publish the debate as~is so that others vaguely familiar with the topic can also be in awe or disgusted.

We have many gradients of emotion. No need to try quantify them. Just repeat the exercise.
by RobKohr | 2025-11-09 05:16:17+00:00
I like grok for noncoding stuff. I find it hasn't been tuned for "Safety" (meaning it isn't tuned much for political correctness). It also seems good at making images and stories up well. I run some choose your own adventures stories with my kids through it. We tell it who each of their characters are and what the theme is for the night and grok gives them each a section of story and 4 choices. They also have the option of choosing something different then suggested. We have it so it cycles around the turns for everyone. Works pretty well, and if the kids wanna go dark (preteen boy) grok doesn't mind the violence.

Kinda reminds me of the video game from enders game.
by dualogy | 2025-11-09 05:17:19+00:00
> Speaking of writing javascript instead of JSX, I'm a big fan of the hyperscript approach

Speaking of writing JS instead of JSX or your example, I like the vanjs.org approach:

const Hello = () => div( p("Hello"), ul( li("World"), li(a({href: "https://vanjs.org/"}, "VanJS")), ), ) van.add(document.body, Hello())
by ofalkaed | 2025-11-09 05:17:50+00:00
Here is the COLREG order:

Not under command Restricted maneuverability Constrained by draft Fishing (actively dragging) Under sail

Ignoring not under command; in the open sea only the fishing boat has right of way over a sailing boat because the rest are not restricted by maneuverability or draft when in the middle of the ocean unless the crew is negligent. Fishing vessels in the open ocean tend to give way unless they can raise the boat on the radio and get them to change course because they really do not want the sail boat to foul their lines, especially the long line boats. In restricted waters boats under sail often have the right of way because they have restricted maneuverability (restricted by the wind) and their deep keel means they are restricted by draft but it is not so black and white here; if the sailboat can fire up its engine it is more maneuverable than that tug pulling a bunch of barges so if that sailboat has less draft restriction than the tug and its barges, it has to fire up its engine and get out of the way.

But COLREG is not the rule of the sea, just the rule for countries who are a part of the UN. But the truth is that a collision with such a sailboat will not phase these boats and generally writing a check is an insignificant cost and rare enough that it is what they do.
by lurquer | 2025-11-09 05:18:09+00:00
None of which has anything to do with the ‘last days of the Roman Republic.’

Feel free to panic and tear your hair out… that’s what both sides do. Boring. The post, however, make some pretentious analogy to the Roman Republic. The analogy was silly. That’s all. It’s just an annoying variant of Godwins law: Rome or Hitler… the only two analogies available to those ignorant of history.
by LorenDB | 2025-11-09 05:18:31+00:00
I do! I have felt bad vibes from OpenAI for a while now, and eventually defaulted to Grok as somewhat the lesser of many evils. I respect anybody who doesn't wish to use it, but it's good enough for what I need it for. Case in point: it just spit out valid OpenSCAD code for an adapter piece I want to 3D print.
by Kostchei | 2025-11-09 05:18:33+00:00
Human metrics of intelligence have always felt like rubbish. We never did this well. I would describe intelligence as effective adaption leading to survival and growth or prospering. Memorization, comprehension, speed of response etc. those are magnifying factors that are valued, we view them as components of intelligence, but llms are proving this is not the whole, without effective application, they are not intelligence. Perhaps learning is the difference? How to measure that?

Someone describing string theory is the literary equivalent of fractal structures in snowflakes. Lovely, complex, possibly unique, but not proof of a level of intelligence- for the string theorist maybe it is intelligent, perhaps persuading someone to fund their grant, which enables them to eat, shelter etc. Might be a bit harsh on string theory. Saying it is proof of an amount of intelligence leads us to falsifiable statements.
by soueuls | 2025-11-09 05:19:11+00:00
Sure then I don’t comply, so what?

If the UK wants to go full totalitarian it’s alright, they can even consider me a criminal or ban me from entering the country.

I usually avoid traveling to countries doing non sense or that would arrest me for ideological reasons.

The UK would be no different.

But as far as I know, where I live, I am not under UK’s jurisdiction.
by minimaxir | 2025-11-09 05:19:25+00:00
Going off OpenRouter's rankings (https://openrouter.ai/rankings), Grok Code Fast 1 is the most used model by a significant margin, and since those metrics are calculated as of this week, that's after providers stopped giving free promotional access to it. Grok 4 Fast is #5 on that list which was never free.

In terms of models, Grok 4 Fast has essentially zero restrictions on safety, which a) makes it unusable for most applications that allow user input and b) makes it extremely useful for certain applications.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-11-09 05:21:00+00:00
People like to die vote this because it's apocryphal that the purpose of hyperloop was to sabotage public transit but the motive sure fits the crime, musk ain't in the railroading business.

They even derailed (no pun intended) a train link from Building 37 to O'Hare by offering to build a train station in the cavern already dug for a high speed rail terminal that may exist someday in the future. I don't think they ever did anything there but the city was onboard (damn a lot of idioms are train related huh)
by Spivak | 2025-11-09 05:21:08+00:00
This is because your home country has jurisdiction over you and is more than free to write laws punishing you for whatever they want.

This is country B considering something a citizen of country A did while in country A to be a crime. And not that it even matters but in country A that thing is legal. Like country B is a sovereign state and can arrest you for whatever it wants while you're there but the bigger question is whether country A should be mad about it and impress themselves on country B to get them to not do that.

That's really the issue here and exactly what the GRANITE Act he's proposing does.

It seems like the US is actually being too nice here. It's a perfectly reasonable position to reject the notion that a country has global jurisdiction and to consider such an arrest to be a hostile act against the US. I would be pissed the moment a country thought it could punish one of my citizens for something they did while under my jurisdiction—even something that I consider to be illegal.
by lelandfe | 2025-11-09 05:22:36+00:00
ProPublica's reporting has been dogging Boring's heels in Las Vegas on this, I've been reading them religiously. It appears that the city views this project as Cool™ and opts either to not fine or fine pittances for constant violations.

This was their big expose back in January: https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-boring-company-...
by LorenDB | 2025-11-09 05:24:09+00:00
I feel compelled to point out that the Mechahitler thing was prompted by bad actors hiding invisible tokens in tweets, but sure, it's maybe an unpopular opinion.

Basically, the major free options out there for LLMs are OpenAI, Google, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Meta, and Grok. (I could be missing stuff here, but those are the main players.) DeepSeek is out because of China ties. OpenAI and Perplexity have CEOs that seem incredibly shifty to me. I refuse to give Meta and Google any more info than I have to, so I'm avoiding them. Hence we fall back to Grok. Again, maybe not a completely logical progression, but it's my choice and I get to live with the consequences :)
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-09 05:24:34+00:00
Funny how you make tax evasion and money laundering on par with political speech. Fighting for your rights to be corrupt is a pretty weird take. If we can talk someone into doing what we want, that's perfectly legal as long as we or they aren't violating any laws. And nobody complains because getting dirty banks to spill is in everyone's best interests. Remember how happy everyone was at all the FIFA corruption data we uncovered.
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-09 05:24:39+00:00
That’s a very basic way to keep the LLM inferring past the context window size (there’s better, smarter ways) but that’s not at all what the question was which is how they train a 2M token length window. My understanding at a basic level is that you need corpuses that are >2M in length for training data which is where the problem comes in for - there’s only so much long form content and it’s swamped by all the smaller stuff. I think there’s probably tricks now but I suspect it’s still largely an open problem.
by xethos | 2025-11-09 05:24:45+00:00
Agreed, but bluntly: what's the effective difference for Russia? They can't give direct orders, but they also don't have the rest of the world calling foul [about an illegitimate American leader, as we ignore Ukraine for a moment].

I'd say Trump not being an explicit asset gets them 90% of what they're after, with almost no downsides