MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ceejayoz | 2025-11-04 16:02:31+00:00
Again:

> > The communications unearthed as part of the Twitter Files do not show coercion, Twitter’s lawyers wrote, “because they do not contain a specific government demand to remove content—let alone one backed by the threat of government sanction.”

That was the case for the Biden laptop story, too. (And SCOTUS, thus far, seems to agree; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murthy_v._Missouri)

Again: Musk's own lawyers argued in court that the Twitter Files don't actually show what Matt Taibbi claimed they do.

(Taibbi also publicly claims Musk is now censoring him. https://x.com/mtaibbi/status/1758230628355485979)

> though sometimes it went the other way, it was much less frequent

While I tend to doubt that assertion, "Left-wing terrorism outpaces far-right attacks for first time in 30 years" perhaps points to a reason for a difference if it exists. https://www.axios.com/2025/09/28/left-wing-terrorism-far-rig...

The current administration seems just fine with similar jawboning. https://www.theverge.com/policy/799473/facebook-meta-ice-jaw...
by hyperbovine | 2025-11-04 16:02:34+00:00
Code gen is the absolute best case scenario for LLMs though: highly structured language, loads of training data, the ability to automatically error check the responses, etc. If they could mimic reasoning anywhere it would be on this problem.

I'm still not convinced they're thinking though because they faceplant on all sorts of other things that should be easy for something that is able to think.
by 4cidBurn | 2025-11-04 16:02:58+00:00
I went through a bunch of HTML pages, but most didn’t have much worth keeping. The main .warc I pulled had a ton of profiles and other data, though it looks like most of the site didn’t get scraped in time. I managed to extract 63,993 songs from the various .warc files. If you’ve got a way to reach you (Twitter or email works), I can share the torrent and instructions on how to rebuild and sift through everything.
by munchbunny | 2025-11-04 16:03:02+00:00
> that asymmetry is weirdly powerful for specific problems.

100% agree when it works in your favor. We use it for exactly that situation where a non-zero false positive rate is fine and you can choose how much memory to devote to getting it closer to zero.

There have a been a couple times though where we've needed a "keep everything not on this list" operation, and unfortunately bloom filters don't work well for that situation. There are alternatives, but none as elegantly compact as bloom filters.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-11-04 16:03:32+00:00
> The fact is that a worm and I are both alive in a way the model is not. We seek self-preservation. We are changeable. We die. We reproduce and evolve.

Mutability should not automatically imply superiority, but either way that's something a great many people are currently working very hard to change. I suspect that it won't be long at all before the descendants of todays LLM's can learn as well, or better, than we can.

Will you then concede that human consciousness isn't "special", or just move the bar further back with talk of the "soul" or some other unprovable intangible?

> In my mind a set of LLM weights is about as alive as a virus (and probably less so).

I wonder what the LLM's would think about it if we hadn't intentionally prevented them from thinking about it?
by tamnd | 2025-11-04 16:04:17+00:00
I learned about Calabi Yau manifolds a long time ago and have forgotten most of the details, but I still remember how hard the topic felt. A Calabi Yau manifold is a special kind of geometric space that is smooth curved and very symmetrical. You can think of it as a shape that looks flat when you zoom in close but can twist and fold in complex ways when you look at the whole thing.

What makes Calabi Yau manifolds special is that their curvature balances out perfectly so the space does not stretch or shrink overall.

In physics especially in string theory Calabi Yau manifolds are used to describe extra hidden dimensions of the universe beyond the three we can see. The shape of a Calabi Yau manifold affects how particles and forces behave which is why both mathematicians and physicists study them.
by ckemere | 2025-11-04 16:04:26+00:00
Looking at the discussion I’m struck by how there are really two “goods” that are conflicting in people’s minds. Many of those of us who are parents embrace the idea of sacrificing to make our kids lives easier and better than our own. We recognize how what our parents have provided us has helped us and want to give even more to our own children/grandchildren. It seems to be a general principle of society that we should enact policies that encourage people to sacrifice for their children?

But also the accumulation of wealth drives so many negative issues in society that we want to lessen. And extreme wealth seems to make things even worse.
by dragonflytech | 2025-11-04 16:04:29+00:00
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by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-04 16:04:51+00:00
That’s just it, why should parents feel a moral obligation to be careful with their spending above helping their kids through college, helping them early on and then after that, it’s time for parents to “enjoy their best lives”.

But let’s be realistic. The median income of a retired couple is only around $85K a year.

https://www.gobankingrates.com/retirement/planning/what-aver...

The median net worth is around a quarter million.

https://www.cnbc.com/select/average-net-worth-of-americans-a...

Parents should set expectations early on - don’t have any expectations that our job is to make your life easier once you are launched Once you decide to get married and have kids, your life is your responsibility. If my wife and I have any excess after taking care of all of our needs and wants. We will help our adult children. Even now at 51 and 49. Our older son (28) knows that we will help him a little but not much and our younger son 23 knows that the subsidies are cut once he turns 26.

I save “enough” for retirement for my wife and I to be comfortable. But we aren’t over savers. We travel a lot, and enjoy ourselves.

We asked our younger son was he absolutely sure he didn’t want to go college. We told him once he made that choice, we were moving to Florida, left him in Atlanta at our house and he and two of his friends paid us (heavily subsidized) rent for a year and a half and we helped them move out on their own when we sold our home.

We have a two bedroom and one is an office. There is no room for our kids to move back in Even when we leave for months at a time we rent it out as a short term rental (prime location six miles from Disney).
by Ajedi32 | 2025-11-04 16:04:52+00:00
When you're either unwilling or incapable of understanding other people's perspectives it is indeed very difficult.

Try this: steelman the argument that what Musk did all those months ago wasn't a "literal Hitler salute". If you can do that, I suspect you'll find it a lot easier to have nuanced discussions about that topic (and possibly others) going forward.
by haolez | 2025-11-04 16:05:16+00:00
On a side note, what tools that leverage Datalog are in use by the HN crowd?

I know that Datomic[0] is very popular. I've also been playing with Clingo[1] lately.

[0] https://www.datomic.com/

[1] https://potassco.org/clingo/
by theptip | 2025-11-04 16:05:21+00:00
> a high chance that our brains require "write access" to function

There are multiple learning mechanisms that happen on different time-frames, eg neural plasticity, hippocampus are both longer-term processes for memory consolidation. Whereas the content of “RAM” might be better modeled as a set of fast dynamic weights representing ions and neurotransmitter concentrations.

My hunch is that you could model the latter fast weights in volatile memory, but I wouldn’t count these as “modifying the structure”.

Do you have any particular systems in mind where you have reason to believe that permanent modification is required for brains to function?
by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-04 16:05:23+00:00
You're describing perception, not the lived experience that gives those perceptions meaning. Yes, a lion sees trees and rain. But a lion doesn't have 'hiking', it has territory patrol. It doesn't 'hide in bushes', it stalks prey. These aren't just different words for the same thing; they're fundamentally different frameworks for interpreting raw sensory data. That's Wittgenstein's point about form of life.
by aj_hackman | 2025-11-04 16:05:30+00:00
What pushed you to Catholicism? I see the Catholic church as an amalgamation of human innovations that attempt to turn focus away from Christ and towards the inevitably sinful authority of the church. As much as I can't stand the watered-down one-size-fits-all non-denominational sermons of my youth, or the few fire and brimstone sessions I've been witness to, at the very least their prayers go directly to God.
by usrbinbash | 2025-11-04 16:05:38+00:00
> Scaling applies to multiple dimensions simultaneously over time. A frontier model today could be replicated a year later with a model half the size

Models "emergent capabilities" rely on encoding statistical information about text in their learnable params (weights and biases). Since we cannot compress information arbitrarily without loss, there is a lower bound on how few params we can have, before we lose information, and thus capabilities in the models.

So while it may be possible in some cases to get similar capabilities with a slightly smaller model, this development is limited and cannot go on for an arbitrary amount of time. It it were otherwise, we could eventually make a LLM on the level of GPT-3 happen in 1KB of space, and I think we can both agree that this isn't possible.

> giving the LLM a harness that allows tool use like what coding agents have

Given the awful performance of most coding "agents" on anything but the most trivial problems, I am not sure about that at all.
by Findecanor | 2025-11-04 16:05:49+00:00
He had been one of the signatories of the "think-tank" Project for the New American Century's [1] founding statement of principles, alongside 24 others, including Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz.

During the Clinton administration, the PNAC had lobbied for invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan — and then Iran from two sides, to install puppet regimes and secure the oil supply.

When GWB took over, Cheney became vice president and the administration got filled with many other PNAC members.

... and the rest is history.

The PNAC's membership lists and manifestos were at the time publicly available on their web site, now on archive.org [2].

It repeatedly surprises me that so few people didn't and still don't know about the PNAC.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_C...

2. https://web.archive.org/web/20070208013451/https://www.newam...
by niall00c | 2025-11-04 16:05:52+00:00
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by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-04 16:06:02+00:00
Math formalizes regularities by abstracting away irregularities - that's precisely my point. Any formal system achieves its regularity by limiting its scope. Math can describe aspects of reality with precision, but it cannot capture reality's full complexity. A 'universal language' that can only express what fits into formal systems isn't universal at all: it's a specialized tool that works within constrained domains.
by Joker_vD | 2025-11-04 16:06:17+00:00
> Kitty and Ghostty are the only terminals that correctly support Variation Selector 15,

Really? Because IIRC they "support" it by treating the preceding emoji character as being Narrow instead of Wide. This is completely unsupported by anything in the Unicode standards: the codepoint sequences that affect the East Asian Width of their first codepoints are explicitly enumerated, and none of them have emojis and/or VS-15 in it. So no, it's not "correctly" supported. Emojis are Wide (terminal width 2) with or without VS-15/VS-16, and if fonts have textual renditions of them that are only 1 cell wide, well, that's the fonts' problems, just as fonts that have e.g. glyphs for Playing Cards block with visible width of 1.5 (I am looking at you, Google Noto) are wrong too.
by refulgentis | 2025-11-04 16:07:04+00:00
The Register version* is missing one of the worst parts --- this is with active engagement from support, each time. And the automated system(s) kept doing their thing on multiple levels - not just re-suspending the same account for the same reason.

Only pointing it out because that shook me: for years I've been thinking "if only there was active support" or "if only they could flag 'this account is getting screwed by mistake, take no automated action'...and both of those things were there, and that doesn't even help. The flaw is so fundamental :\

* discussion yesterday, on author's original blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798827
by abtinf | 2025-11-04 16:07:38+00:00
To make a programming game true to life, it could have a prestige mechanic where you keep all your code/scripts, but the api introduces breaking changes and you have to rewrite.

“Good job! Halfway through the workday on Thursday, some big brain engineer in a distant department has decided to change the order of for loop clauses in the interpreter, so now it’s “for variable declarations; variable modifications; conditional checks {}”. They adamantly refuse to revert the change because “it makes more sense to group variable stuff together”. Prod is down now. Have fun!
by ktrend27 | 2025-11-04 16:07:41+00:00
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by klausa | 2025-11-04 16:07:46+00:00
You've been lucky in that the countries you've travelled to all stamped your passport.

This gets much murkier in the EU, or being a non-citizen with Global Entry traveling to the US, etc.

To get a driving license in Japan without having to retake the exam, I had to prove that I lived in the country that issued my license for at least 90 days after I got it (presumably because they had some issues with people getting licenses in jurisdictions that are... easier to get the licenses in.).

This was a _very_ non-trivial thing to do for a document I first got over ten years ago, in a country that is part of the Schengen zone.
by reify | 2025-11-04 16:08:12+00:00
piss poor guide

not something a noob should follow

start off with the apt family of update commands;

then a cursory one liner for arch or majaro, obviously there are no ther arch distros out there.

sudo pacman -Syu # Arch or Manjaro

then apt commands all the way to the end

apt list --installed sudo apt remove package_name sudo apt purge package_name sudo apt autoremove sudo apt clean sudo apt autoclean

Then a look at systemctl:

systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled sudo systemctl disable service_name systemctl --type=service --state=running

shit!
by exasperaited | 2025-11-04 16:08:15+00:00
To a fairly significant extent, the Morris worm is why there haven't been more; it did prompt something of a culture shift away from trusting users to trusting mechanisms, mostly by prompting people to realise that the internet wasn't only going to be in the hands of a set of people who were one or two degrees of separation apart. It didn't make sense to assume people would treat it with reverence like a giant beautiful shared space.

It's most obviously paralleled by Samy Kamkar's MySpace worm, which exploited fairly similar too-much-trust territory.
by slightwinder | 2025-11-04 16:08:26+00:00
Humans first start with recognizing the problem, then search through their list of abilities to find the best skill for solving it, thus "autocomplete" their inner shell's commandline, before they start execution, to stay with that picture. Common AIs today are not much different from this, especially with reasoning-modes.

> you're not throwing guesses until something statistically likely to be correct sticks.

What do you mean? That's exactly how many humans are operating with unknown situations/topics. If you don't know, just throw punches and look what works. Of course, not everyone is ignorant enough to be vocal about this in every situation.
by smt88 | 2025-11-04 16:08:29+00:00
Your argument seems to be that Cheney's culpability for hundreds of thousands of dead civilians, trillions of wasted dollars, and multiple regime changes in the Middle East were all kind of OK because they [checks notes] didn't end global US hegemony?

That's an incredibly Machiavellian take, on par with Alex Karp justifying the building of SkyNet/1984 because we can't lose our global leadership position.
by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-04 16:08:43+00:00
You're conflating two different questions. I'm not arguing LLMs are mature or reliable enough for high-stakes tasks. My argument is about why they produce output that creates the illusion of understanding in the language domain, while the same techniques applied to other domains (video generation, molecular modeling, etc.) don't produce anything resembling 'understanding' despite comparable or greater effort.

The accuracy problems you're describing actually support my point: LLMs navigate linguistic structures effectively enough to fool people into thinking they understand, but they can't verify their outputs against reality. That's exactly what you'd expect from a system that only has access to the map (language) and not the territory (reality).
by consumer451 | 2025-11-04 16:08:47+00:00
The surprising thing to me is when you look at Starlink, there was a very expensive blocker there: consumer phased array. Prior to Starlink, I think the cheapest consumer unit was around $50k. That did not stop Musk from charging ahead.

Is there some technological thing about LiDAR that would prevent similar cost reductions? Or, is it just the philosophical difference over pre-mapping, and not doing so?
by empath75 | 2025-11-04 16:09:47+00:00
> I have to disagree here. When you are tasked with dividing 2 big numbers you most certainly don't "autocomplete" (with the sense of finding the most probable next tokens, which is what an LLM does), rather you go through set of steps you have learned.

Why do you think that this is the part that requires intelligence, rather than a more intuitive process? Because they have had machines that can do this mechanically for well over a hundred years.

There is a whole category of critiques of AI of this type: "Humans don't think this way, they mechanically follow an algorithm/logic", but computers have been able to mechanically follow algorithms and perform logic from the beginning! That isn't thinking!
by breakbread | 2025-11-04 16:10:03+00:00
Long time ago, while running cat5 in a large open ceiling, I stepped off of a large metal beam onto what I thought was the concrete ceiling of an outdoor awning, but was in fact droptile. Fell right through, of course, and landed more-or-less on my back. The floor was that hard institutional carpet.

I don't remember anything about the fall itself. After hitting the floor I immediately got to my feet, realized the breath had been knocked out of me, tried to call my partner's name, then sat back down. I think the pain came shortly after that.
by 6d65 | 2025-11-04 16:10:16+00:00
Keep up the good work and thank you for sharing.

I wasn't sold about the source level snapshot tests, they seemed clunky and not that universal. But, I am definitely giving snapit a try after this blog post, and the other two linked.

I might have to add a few things, most notably the support for multiline strings for more readable ascii art based prints, but I have a good feeling about this, but will see how it goes.
by cholantesh | 2025-11-04 16:10:52+00:00
There is no mention of rape, let alone mass-rape, let alone mass-rape that was sanctioned and systematized by Palestinian authorities and venerated by the Palestinian public in the article you linked. That aside, no, the normalization of punitive rape as retribution for war/revenge rape is not the hallmark of a healthy society, particularly one that anoints itself a beacon of post-Enlightenment, secular, liberal democratic values in a region it purports is barren of them.
by sameermanek | 2025-11-04 16:10:55+00:00
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by orwin | 2025-11-04 16:11:35+00:00
It's already cost effective. Lidar prices have been divided by like 10 in a bit more than a decade. I've read a Wall street story about a SV company that wanted to enter the Lidar market for cars, only to bifurcate to a weird scam and a SPAC when they realized as the prices fell that Lidar would never be a very profitable.

Lidar production costs have already scaled. Now it need more miniaturization (which will help with production costs even more) and something against diffraction.
by convolvatron | 2025-11-04 16:11:55+00:00
I used to keep a vt100 at the head of my bed, roll over and check on things a few times at night. 3am and everything is screwed. can't really log in anyplace, or start any jobs. The bus doesn't run until 5:30, so I just get dressed and walk across the bridge the to lab. Visitors center isn't open, so I just sneak through the exit by the guardhouse. They're civilian contractors, they either don't see me, or recognize me and don't care.

Since it's all locked up, I just reboot the big vax single user - that takes about 10 minutes so I also start on a couple of the suns. You have to realize that everything including desktops runs sendmail in this era, and when some of these machines come up they are ok for a sec and then sendmail starts really eating into the cpu.

I'm pretty bleary eyed but I walk around restarting everything single and taking sendmail out of the rcs. The TMC applications engineer comes in around 7 and gets me a cup of coffee. He manages to get someone to pick up in Cambridge and they tell him that's happening everywhere.