MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by j1mr10rd4n | 2025-11-03 23:11:41+00:00
Geoffrey Hinton's recent lecture at the Royal Institute[1] is a fascinating watch. His assertion that human use of language being exactly analogous to neural networks with back-propagation really made me think about what LLMs might be able to do, and indeed, what happens in me when I "think". A common objection to LLM "intelligence" is that "they don't know anything". But in turn... what do biological intelligences "know"?

For example, I "know" how to do things like write constructs that make complex collections of programmable switches behave in certain ways, but what do I really "understand"?

I've been "taught" things about quantum mechanics, electrons, semiconductors, transistors, integrated circuits, instruction sets, symbolic logic, state machines, assembly, compilers, high-level-languages, code modules, editors and formatting. I've "learned" more along the way by trial and error. But have I in effect ended up with anything other than an internalised store of concepts and interconnections? (c.f. features and weights).

Richard Sutton takes a different view in an interview with Dwarkesh Patel[2] and asserts that "learning" must include goals and reward functions but his argument seemed less concrete and possibly just a semantic re-labelling.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkdziSLYzHw [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21EYKqUsPfg
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-03 23:11:49+00:00
Chat/text over LoRa always sounded intriguing! I'm merely a 1000km away from Sicily (which antirez say they wanna cover with the network at first), I wonder if it would be possible to do what AM radio does, bounce against the ionosphere and get huge ranges for transmission? Maybe it would need way too much transmission power? Maybe hopping all the way P2P style makes more sense, although surely would be slower.
by chrysoprace | 2025-11-03 23:12:09+00:00
I'm always running tmux so it's not typically a feature I look for, but as you mention it doesn't seem to trigger a find for terminal scrollback. Wezterm doesn't do this either so maybe that's an iTerm thing. I always assume Ctrl keybindings will trigger emacs mode shortcuts in the tty.

Update: Windows Terminal doesn't do it either.
by Narishma | 2025-11-03 23:12:15+00:00
Can you point to some source for that? I've never heard of a game using that resolution. The vast majority of them used the standard 320x200, either in CGA, EGA or VGA. The first two ran at 60Hz, VGA at 70Hz. A few games in the mid to late 90s started to use some non-standard tweaked VGA modes but by then Windows 95 started taking over gaming. You can check Wikipedia or Mobygames if you don't believe me.
by strken | 2025-11-03 23:12:29+00:00
My experience has been that a SQL database is an easier foundation to build on top of than a distributed event streaming log until you run into performance issues that can't be solved by understanding your database better and/or scaling vertically, and that companies which run into performance issues can afford to migrate to other technologies and/or pay for a good ops team, while companies which started using message queues for systems handling 5 requests per second often struggle to make their system sound and get features out the door.
by vidarh | 2025-11-03 23:13:18+00:00
We can measure the physiological activity, but not whether it gives rise to the same sensations that we experience ourselves. We can reasonably project and guess that they are the same, but we can not know.

In practical terms it does not matter - it is reasonable for us to act as if others do experience the same we do. But if we are to talk about the nature of conscience and sentience it does matter that the only basis we have for knowing about other sentient beings is their self-reported experience.
by brucehoult | 2025-11-03 23:13:46+00:00
Sure of course I followed that link. I've really got no idea what the horizontal axis is! But there is a huge cluster of results between 1x and 1.5x execution time.

And, the kind of code he is interested in is not necessarily the same as the kind of code I'm interested in. In fact I know it's not!

As one more data point, compiling my little benchmark with gcc, without any optimisation flag.

1964ms gcc primes.c -o primes -O 3723ms fil-c primes.c -o primes -O 3753ms gcc primes.c -o primes 16334ms fil-c primes.c -o primes

Fil-C with -O is almost identical to gcc without.
by sharts | 2025-11-03 23:14:01+00:00
If this were actually a real problem then, perhaps, rather than just posting grievances on a blog, people should (en masse) just start hounding their employees directly since most of them will proudly announce their affiliation via LinkedIn and other social media.

This is the only way. Why would people who build these things give a crap if their quality of life is great save for a blog post?

They are your customer service. All of them. And your complaints will eventually meaningfully get addressed.
by junon | 2025-11-03 23:14:58+00:00
I agree with you, don't get me wrong. I'm just pointing out that comparing the two as if disproving an inherently empirical thing (we're in a simulation) also disproves a belief-system/faith-based thing (God or religion) is nonsensical in that the second isn't rooted in empiricism, algorithms, nor the scientific method. They don't believe God is something to be proven or disproven, he just is and that's that (as per their faith).
by Izkata | 2025-11-03 23:15:11+00:00
We have VB deployments that haven't been changed at all in about that long. Finally got approval to do a rewrite last year, which is python 3.6 due to other dependencies we can't upgrade yet.

It got this bad because the whole thing "just worked" in the background without issues. "Don't fix what isn't broken" was the business viewpoint.
by tomhow | 2025-11-03 23:15:16+00:00
We've banned this account because it seems to be a recruitment agency from the email address and style of posting. The guidelines at the top of the thread are clear: "Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards". If we've got this wrong, you're welcome to email us (hn@ycombinator.com) and we can discuss how to make your posts compliant with the rules.
by krukah | 2025-11-03 23:15:29+00:00
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by zenlot | 2025-11-03 23:15:51+00:00
TL;DR:

* Kotlin with compose multi platform started catching up and winning the market.

* Apple got worried and started supporting Swift on android, not fully yet, UI only available with external tools.

* Qt with C++ still winning it all.

* People realizing that they don't need this Kotlin / Swift play started writing mobile apps in game engines: Unreal, Godot, Unity.
by freedeng | 2025-11-03 23:16:12+00:00
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by paulnasca | 2025-11-03 23:16:15+00:00
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by alexpetros | 2025-11-03 23:16:36+00:00
> Why bother with v4 at all? If it dilutes that simpler interface?

v4 makes almost no changes to the interface, other than to flip inheritance to be off by default.

> I think that even with req/resp morph leads to a simpler majority use case and that's what Turbo and Datastar have both shown. No?

Although you can use the idiomorph extension for htmx, I personally don't think idiomorph is simpler, because there's an algorithm choosing what parts of the page get replaced based on the server response; I prefer to specify exactly what parts of the page get replaced in much simpler terms, a CSS selector, with `hx-target`.

Per [1] above, my style is minimize partial page responses wherever possible, so the ones that I do have are bespoke and replace a specific thing.
by fakedang | 2025-11-03 23:16:56+00:00
I'm actually building an app on the side and went the other way around on this. Migrating from Typescript back to Python. Granted, my gripes were more with NextJS rather than Node or Typescript.

Using Django was so intuitive although the nomenclature could do a bit better. But what took me days trying to battle it out on NextJS was literally done in an hour with Django (admin management on the backend). While Django still looks and feels a bit antiquated, at least it worked! Meanwhile I lost the entirety of the past weekend (or rather quite a bit of it), trying to fight my code and clean up things in NextJS because somehow the recommended approach for most things is mixing up your frontend and backend, and a complete disregard for separation of concerns.

My new stack from now one will likely be NextJS for the frontend alone, Django for the CRUD and authentication backend, Supabase Edge functions for serverless and FastAPI if needed for intensive AI APIs. Open to suggestions, ideas and opinions though.
by kakapo5672 | 2025-11-03 23:17:11+00:00
It's not accurate to say we "wrote the code for it". AI isn't built like normal software. Nowhere inside an AI will you find lines of code that say If X Then Y, and so on.

Rather, these models are literally grown during the training phase. And all the intelligence emerges from that growth. That's what makes them a black box and extremely difficult to penetrate. No one can say exactly how they work inside for a given problem.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-03 23:18:00+00:00
Until it can be included together with, instead of separately as an "and", genocide studies, this unnecessary distinction will continue to fuel ethno-nationalist extremism and neocolonial arrogance.

It's ironic that the Palestinian civil registry is maintained by Israel and issues different colors of identification cards and vehicle number plates to discriminate against Palestinians as varying tiers of subhumans. No one really knows how many people are dead because often there isn't anyone left in previously large families to update the registry during the years of systematic and wanton bombing of civilian "safe" areas.

PS: Zionism != Judaism, Palestinian != Terrorists
by cweagans | 2025-11-03 23:18:03+00:00
> It's not like a team wanted to rewrite it in PHP, which we can all at least agree would be madness.

That seems like the same argument that TFA is making, but in reverse. I think it's just as invalid. PHP is a perfectly fine language for many things. There is plenty of greenfield development being done in PHP these days + a substantial amount of PHP in production all over the place. Unilaterally writing it off as "madness" seems pretty disingenuous to me.
by shamansir | 2025-11-03 23:18:10+00:00
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I am always innovative and creative, always exploring new areas, very communicative. That said, I am also learning on the failures / critique and very focused on the project(s) I develop/contribute to, as well as the team I am with.

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by jrflowers | 2025-11-03 23:18:48+00:00
Most criticism of Zitron tends to boil down to either “he’s mean/vulgar” or “he has an opinion”. Recently I saw an article that implied that Ed Zitron, owner of Ed Zitron PR and author of a couple books about public relations, was hiding the fact that he’s a PR guy.

Off the top of my head I think that he might’ve gotten inference costs wrong in an article and then corrected it, but usually I don’t see many people poking holes in his numbers.
by dgfitz | 2025-11-03 23:18:52+00:00
> I’ll find you a buyer…I just—enough,’ Altman said on Gerstner’s podcast.”

Hopefully nobody reading this has experienced it: these are the words of a true sociopath/addict.

"I'm mad you questioned me" is fucking classic.

I told dang I was out and I am after this. Sorry dang.
by Treading9722 | 2025-11-03 23:19:11+00:00
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by KoolKat23 | 2025-11-03 23:20:29+00:00
When are we as humans creative outside our training data? It's very rare we actually discover something truly novel. This is often random, us stumbling onto it, brute force or purely by being at the right place at the right time.

On the other hand, until it's proven it'd likely be considered a hallucination. You need to test something before you can dismiss it. (They did burn witches for discoveries back in the day, deemed witchcraft). We also reduce randomness and pre-train to avoid overfitting.

Day to day human creative outputs as humans are actually less exciting when you think about it further, we build on pre-existing knowledge. No different to good prompt output with the right input. Humans are just more knowledgeable & smarter at the moment.
by nearbuy | 2025-11-03 23:20:44+00:00
The first article is about someone missing a cerebellum, not part of their cerebrum. That's the motor and balance part of the brain, and as you might expect, the subject of the article has deficits in motor control and balance.

The Biology StackExchange answer just says that frontal lobotomies don't kill you. It doesn't say that lobotomized people function normally.

The other two articles are just misreporting on hydrocephalus. This is a condition where fluid build-up compresses the brain tissue, making it appear like a large part of the brain is missing in CT scans. The pressure from the fluid is actually compressing the brain. While it can damage the brain, there is no way to tell from the scans how much, if any, brain matter was destroyed. Hydrocephalus usually causes death or severe deficits, but occasionally it doesn't.

Even assuming though that it were all true and people could function normally with little or no brain, that doesn't really tell us anything about LLMs, but rather just uppends all of neuroscience. It would seem to imply the brain isn't doing the thinking and perhaps we have something else like an intangible soul.
by ramoz | 2025-11-03 23:21:05+00:00
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by hurrckplgbd | 2025-11-03 23:21:07+00:00
Go ahead, take that slim, speculative, tangential connection and interpret it as permission to inject your hot take into the discussion. Decline to elaborate when your supposition is challenged. You've every right to do that.

Just don't pretend that it's for our benefit or that we downvote it because we're unthinking drones, or that you decline to elaborate because we're simply not capable of having the discussion.

I tell you this because if I were insulating myself inside a bubble and rationalizing my interactions with those who disagree with me as being the reflexive behavior of a hive mind, I would hope someone would point that out to me. So here it is; again, do with the opportunity what you will.
by RajT88 | 2025-11-03 23:21:13+00:00
Calling Wal-Mart a supermarket is a giant stretch. As TFA says, some Wal-marts have groceries, and some have guns, and there is some small overlap between the two, but Wal-Mart is not what anyone would call a "Supermarket" - they are more an "Everything Store" where the "Everything" can vary by location which sometimes includes guns and groceries, but always includes TV's and frozen food and fishing supplies and clothing and shoes and candy and shampoo and razors and so on...

Most people are not buying groceries there, they go to actual supermarkets - near me Jewel-Osco, Mariano's, Aldi, Whole Foods, Kroger - none of which sell guns. Grocery stores do not sell guns by any common definition of the term "grocery store". You've got a corner case off of which your talking point is built. Corner cases do not make good foundations of arguments.

My advice: Come to the US and do some grocery shopping before making more such arguments.
by joemi | 2025-11-03 23:21:14+00:00
> During a fire in the Bronx, firemen laid 7,000ft of hose to get to a suitable water supply and the truck pumped as though it was dipping its feet into the ocean.

"7000 ft" sounds wrong to me. That's over a mile of hose. Feels like that's unnecessarily long. I'd love to learn more about this. Anyone know when or what fire this was?
by jimmis | 2025-11-03 23:22:12+00:00
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by roadside_picnic | 2025-11-03 23:22:14+00:00
Can you just point me to the concrete examples (the most compelling examples in the book would work) where we can see "thinking" that performs something that is currently considered to be beyond the limits of computation?

I never claimed no one speculates that's the case, I claimed there was no evidence. Just cite me a concrete example where the human mind is capable of computing something that violates the theory of computation.

> "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy"

Fully agree, but you are specifically discussing philosophical statements. And the fact that the only response you have is to continue to pile undefined terms and hand wave metaphysics doesn't do anything to further your point.

You believe that computing machines lack something magical that you can't describe that makes them different than humans. I can't object to your feelings about that, but there is literally nothing to discuss if you can't even define what those things are, hence this discussion is, as the original parent comment mention, is "extremely boring".
by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-03 23:22:27+00:00
LLMs don't use 'overall probability' in any meaningful sense. During training, gradient descent creates highly concentrated 'gravity wells' of correlated token relationships - the probability distribution is extremely non-uniform, heavily weighted toward patterns seen in training data. The model isn't selecting from 'astronomically many possible sequences' with equal probability; it's navigating pre-carved channels in high-dimensional space. That's fundamentally different from novel discovery.
by tteap | 2025-11-03 23:22:47+00:00
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