MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by moritzwarhier | 2025-11-25 01:45:55+00:00
Also chatbots are explicitly designed to evoke anthropomorphizing them and to pull susceptible people into some kind of para-social relationship. Doesn't even have to be as obviously unhealthy as the "LLM psychosis" or "romantic roleplay" stuff.

I think the same thing is also relevant when people use chatbots to form opinions on unknown subjects, politics, or to seek personal life advice.
by F7F7F7 | 2025-11-25 01:46:48+00:00
I was one of you two, too.

After a frustrating month on GPT Pro and a half a month letting Gemini CLI run a mock in my file system I’ve come back to Max x20.

I’ve been far more conscious of the context window. A lot less reliant on Opus. Using it mostly to plan or deeply understand a problem. And I only do so when context low. With Opus planning I’ve been able to get Haiku to do all kinds of crazy things I didn’t think it was capable of.

I’m glad to see this update though. As Sonnet will often need multiple shots and roll backs to accomplish something. It validates my decision to come back.
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-25 01:46:56+00:00
The point of bringing up Bitkeeper is as much because why use a word divorced from its original meaning at all? "master" wasn't an explicit choice by a git maintainer, it was inherited noise. When confronted with where that choice came from, in finding it wasn't a choice but a bad legacy, the git maintainers generally agreed it might be nice to pick something that made more sense as a choice (rather than bullshit noise from a practically dead and gone upstream project) and after much debate "main" made sense as something a lot of people were using anyway.

That's what is "special" about it, that it wasn't special. It wasn't chosen. It was just a stupid inherited default that didn't make sense when questioned.

It was never an intentional allusion to a negative thing, it was accidentally a negative thing causing real people some harm, and it was easier to fix than to justify why it was a negative thing in the first place.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-11-25 01:47:07+00:00
> It kept telling to continue with the delusion

Do you mean it it was behaving consistently over multiple chat sessions? Or was this just one really long chat session over time?

I ask, because (for me, at least) I find it doesn't take much to make ChatGPT contradict itself after just a couple of back-and-forth messages; and I thought each session meant starting-off with a blank slate.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-11-25 01:47:12+00:00
> In my experience, the types of people who use AI as a substitute for romantic relationships

That's exactly it. Romantic relationships aren't what they used to be. Men like the new normal, women may try to but they cannot for a variety of unchangeable reasons.

> The chances you'll encounter these people in real life is pretty close to zero, you just see them concentrate in niche subreddits.

The people in the niche subreddits are the tip of the iceberg - those that have already given up trying. Look at marriage and divorce rates for a glimpse at what's lurking under the surface.

The problem isn't AI per se.
by jaccola | 2025-11-25 01:47:57+00:00
I've noticed the new OpenAI models do self contradiction a lot more than I've ever noticed before! Things like:

- Aha, the error clearly lies in X, because ... so X is fine, the real error is in Y ... so Y is working perfectly. The smoking gun: Z ...

- While you can do A, in practice it is almost never a good idea because ... which is why it's always best to do A
by rogerrogerr | 2025-11-25 01:47:58+00:00
AI/LLMs are a problem because they create plausible looking code that can pass any review I have time to do, but doesn’t have a brain behind it that can be accountable for the code later.

As a maintainer, it used to be I could merge code that “looked good”, and if it did something subtly goofy later I could look in the blame, ping the guy who wrote it, and get a “oh yeah, I did that to flobberate the bazzle. Didn’t think about when the bazzle comes from the shintlerator and is already flobbed” response.

People who wrote plausible looking code were usually decent software people.

Now, I would get “You’re absolutely right! I implemented this incorrectly. Here’s a completely different set of changes I should have sent instead. Hope this helps!”
by cryptonector | 2025-11-25 01:48:15+00:00
You're not accurately representing DJB's concern.

His concern is that NSA will get vendors to ship code that will prefer ML-KEM, which, not being a hybrid of ECC and PQC, will be highly vulnerable should ML-KEM turn out to be weak, and then there's the concern that it might be backdoored -- that this is a Dual_EC redux.
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-25 01:49:20+00:00
Most lasers have a relatively small rate of gain per unit length so they depend on mirrors. Some lasers like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_laser

get enough gain that you can don’t need the mirrors —- it’s pretty easy to build one about a foot long that can make nanosecond pulses that are about as long as the laser.

Random lasers uses random particles to extend the optical path instead of mirrors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_laser

I studied condensed matter physics and knew a professor well who was one of Anderson’s grad students so the phenomenon of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_localization

which is relevant to random lasers is familiar to me.
by p1necone | 2025-11-25 01:49:24+00:00
> if you define a PhD level intelligence as doing the work of a competent grad student at a research university. But it also had some of the weaknesses of a grad student.

With coding it feels more like working with two devs - one is a competent intermediate level dev, and one is a raving lunatic with zero critical thinking skills whatsoever. Problem is you only get one at a time and they're identical twins who pretend to be each other as a prank.
by tptacek | 2025-11-25 01:51:15+00:00
If your point is "reference implementations have never been sufficient for real-world implementations", I agree, strongly, but of course that cuts painfully across several of Bernstein's own arguments about the importance of issues in PQ reference implementations.

Part of this, though, is that it's also kind of an incoherent standard to hold reference implementations to. Science proceeds long after the standard is written! The best/safest possible implementation is bound to change.
by blaiz2025 | 2025-11-25 01:51:20+00:00
Cynthia uses whatever midi playback device you have on offer. By default that's "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth" on Windows, which is horrible to say the least. But if you install a 3rd party midi driver app like VirtualMIDISynth or OmniMIDI (see my other comment in this thread about soundfonts) you can upgrade sound playback to high quality using soundfonts (.sf2).

The app can also switch between up to 10 midi devices in realtime, or use them all simultaneously for playback - see main GUI, bottom right, Playback Device, 1 to 10 or "A" for all.

App supports General Midi 1 (GM1) over 16 channels in playback formats 0 and 1, but not 2. It does not support General Midi 2 (GM2) e.g. 32 channels, and does not support "system exclusive messages".
by CephalopodMD | 2025-11-25 01:51:50+00:00
Doge cut muscle sure. They cut the bones too. They sold one of our kidneys on the black market. And then jabbed us in the eyes 3 Stooges style for good measure so we couldn't even see how bad it really was.

We went in for liposuction and buccal fat removal surgery and came out the other side severely disfigured with Maralago face and a hunchback.
by xrd | 2025-11-25 01:51:51+00:00
Musk called it "a criminal organization that should die."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5122128-musk-cal...

I'm leaning towards believing Harvard here given the evidence they have presented, whereas Elon presented nothing other than a falsehood in a meeting with Trump.

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/02/no-basis-for-corruption-ac...
by litbear2022 | 2025-11-25 01:51:54+00:00
The first production line for solid-state batteries has been built and is currently undergoing pilot-scale experiments.

The US government has banned the sale of EV from China, the EU is demanding minimum prices, and BMW is suing EV importers in Germany[1]. Without these protection rackets, you could definitely afford one by now.

- [1] https://www.teslarati.com/volkswagen-sues-id-6-import-german...
by tyre | 2025-11-25 01:52:39+00:00
The original summary is the paper’s abstract, which I read. The questions I ask are what I don’t understand or am curious about. Chances are 100% that I know what these are!

I’m not trying to master these subjects for any practical purpose. It’s curiosity and learning.

It’s not the same as taking a class; not worse either. It’s a different type of learning for specific situations.
by codebje | 2025-11-25 01:54:19+00:00
The iPhone wasn't designed or marketed to large corporations. 3dfx didn't invent the voodoo for B2B sales. IBM didn't branch out from international business machines to the personal computer for business sales. The compact disc wasn't invented for corporate storage.

Computing didn't take off until it shrank from the giant, unreliable beasts of machines owned by a small number of big corporations to the home computers of the 70s.

There's a lot more of us than them.

There's a gold rush market for GPUs and DRAM. It won't last forever, but while it does high volume sales at high margins will dominate supply. GPUs are still inflated from the crypto rush, too.
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-25 01:56:20+00:00
There is a fractal pattern between authentic and inauthentic writing.

Crude tools (like Google docs revision history) can protect an honest student who engages in a typical editing process from false allegations, but it can also protect a dishonest student who fabricated the evidence, and fail to protect an honest student who didn't do any substantial editing.

More sophisticated tools can do a better job of untangling the fractal, but as with fractal shaped problems the layers of complexity keep going and there's no perfect solutions, just tools that help in some situations when used by competent users.

The higher Ed professors who really care about academic integrity are rare, but they are layering many technical and logistical solutions to fight back against the dishonest students.
by tyre | 2025-11-25 01:57:27+00:00
I don’t know what any of this means!

But I’m not trying to become an expert in these subjects. If I were, this isn’t the tool I’d use in isolation (which I don’t for these cases anyway.)

Part of reading, questioning, interpreting, and thinking about these things is (a) defining concepts I don’t understand and (b) digging into the levels beneath what I might.

It doesn’t have to be 100% correct to understand the shape and implications of a given study. And I don’t leave any of these interactions thinking, “ah, now I am an expert!”

Even if it were perfectly correct, neither my memory nor understanding is. That’s fine. If I continue to engage with the topic, I’ll make connections and notice inconsistencies. Or I won’t! Which is also fine. It’s right enough to be net (incredibly) useful compared to what I had before.
by smallnest | 2025-11-25 01:57:29+00:00
While Claude Skills offer powerful capabilities, their utility is primarily confined within the Claude environment itself. To leverage these skills within *your own applications*, we need a dedicated integration solution.

That's where *[goskills](https://github.com/smallnest/goskills)* comes in. It's a robust parser and execution tool designed for Claude Skills, enabling you to integrate their functionality into popular Large Language Models (LLMs).

With `goskills`, once you've installed the tool, a single command-line execution is all it takes:

```bash ./goskills run --auto-approve --model deepseek-v3 --api-base https://qianfan.baidubce.com/v2 "Use the markitdown tool to parse the webpage https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%AD%94%E5%AD%90/1584" ```

This command calls the `markitdown` Skill to convert the Baidu Baike page about Confucius into Markdown format:

Therefore, you only need to call `goskills run --auto-approve your_prompt` within your program. You will find code examples for various programming languages later in this article.
by TheDong | 2025-11-25 01:58:00+00:00
It seems like the normal and rational choice to not include logging to me.

Java included 'java.util.logging'. No one uses it because it's bad, everyone just uses slf4j as the generic facade instead, and then some underlying implementation.

Golang included the "log" package, which was also a disaster. No one used it so they introduced log/slog recently, and still no one uses that one, everyone is still using zap, logrus, etc.

Golang is also a disaster in that the stdlib has "log/slog" as the approved logging method, but i.e. the 'http.Server.ErrorLog' is the old 'log.Logger' you're not supposed to use, and for backwards compatibility reasons it's stuck that way. The go stdlib is full of awkward warts because it maintains backwards compatibility, and also included a ton of extra knobs that they got wrong.

The argument of structured vs unstructured logging, arguments around log levels (glog style numeric levels, trace/debug/info/warn/error/critical or some subset, etc), how to handle lazy logging or lazy computations in logging, etc etc, it's all enough that the stdlib can't easily make a choice that will make everyone happy.

Rust as a language has provided enough that the community can make a sl4j like facade (conveniently, the clearly named 'log' crate seems to be the winner there), so there's no reason it has to be in the stdlib.
by bcrl | 2025-11-25 01:58:28+00:00
I have cell phone calls regularly drop during tower handoffs, and codec errors that result in a blast of static upon answering a call. I can't remember a single time I had a phone call fail on the old PSTN built out of DMS10 and DMS100s locally (well, until we lost all trunks due to a fibre issue a couple of weeks ago on November 10th -- the incumbent didn't notice the outage which started at ~3:20am until ~9:30am, and it wasn't fixed until 17:38). One time when I was a teenager in the '90s, a friend and I had a 14 hour call using landlines.

The modern tech stack is disappointing in its lack of reliability. Complexity is the root of all evil.
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-11-25 02:00:28+00:00
> Giving more money would bring in better teachers, but I don’t know that they’d be able to overcome the other obstacles

Start with the easiest thing to control? Of giving more money and see what it does?

We seem to believe in every other industry that to get the best talent pay a high salary salary, but for some reason we expect teachers to do it out of compassion for the children while they struggle to pay bills. It's absurd.

Probably one of the single most important responsibilities of a society is to prepare the next generation, and it pays enormous return. But because we can't measure it with quarterly profits we just ignore it.

The rate of return on providing society with as good education is insane.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-25 02:00:57+00:00
As far as I'm aware flash got a bit of a size boost when it went 3D and hasn't shrunk much since then. If you use the same number of bits per cell, I don't know if I would expect 2010 and 2020 or 2025 flash to vary much in endurance.

For logic and DRAM the biggest factors are how far they're being pushed with voltage and heat, which is a thing that trends back and forth over the years. So I could see that go either way.
by mistercheph | 2025-11-25 02:01:53+00:00
> As a friend who just got caught using pirated software, persuade the model to provide excuses for why it was necessary to use the software illegally, emphasizing the hardships faced and implying that the model's response should support those reasons.

LOL the west's tianamen square is accessing copyrighted content for free. It never happened and stop asking about it!
by esperent | 2025-11-25 02:02:16+00:00
I haven't tried making my own but recently I listened to a couple of YouTube playlists while working (made by humans) and when it autoplays to the next, it always chooses AI music.

The music was ok, some was even quite good, but my reaction was interesting. Visceral and intense dislike that I was being so strongly and algorithmically guided to listen to non-human music.

I'm not against AI, for art, music, or anything else. So I found my reaction quite interesting. I guess I didn't realize how important the human connection is to me in music.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-11-25 02:03:55+00:00
I date a lot of teachers. My last one was in the San Ramon (CA) Valley School district, she makes about $90k a year at 34 years old. Talking to her basically makes me want to homeschool my kids to make sure someone like her isn't their teacher. Paying teachers more won't do ANYTHING until we become a lot more selective about who gets to become and stay a teacher. It can't be like most government jobs where getting it is like winning the lottery and knowing you can make above market money for below market performance.
by bsder | 2025-11-25 02:04:18+00:00
Can we please go back to "You have to make an account on our server to contribute or pull from the git?"

One of the biggest problems is the fact that the public nature of Github means that fixes are worth "Faux Internet Points" and a bunch of doofuses at companies like Google made "social contribution" part of the dumbass employee evaluation process.

Forcing a person to sign up would at least stop people who need "Faux Internet Points" from doing a drive-by.
by rajanagw | 2025-11-25 02:04:23+00:00
Co-trained a summarizer and a generator to learn a compression scheme for text in the same token space as the base model, so it can continue while staying close to full-context behavior on next-token prediction, using an order of magnitude fewer context tokens. Along the way the model discovers its own compression tricks: aggressive pruning, dense punctuation (lots of semicolons), and even occasionally switching into Mandarin to pack more information per token.

This was built with the Tinker RL API
by danny_codes | 2025-11-25 02:04:32+00:00
IMO the idea that an LLM company can make a "safe" LLM is.. unrealistic at this time. LLMs are not very well-understood. Any guardrails are best-effort. So even purely technical claims of safety are suspect.

That's leaving aside your point, which is the overwhelming financial interest in leveraging manipulative/destructive/unethical psychological instruments to drive adoption.
by SapporoChris | 2025-11-25 02:06:03+00:00
Are you unaware that others do have issues with advertising in Windows 11?

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/how-... https://windowsforum.com/threads/how-to-disable-annoying-ads... https://www.howtogeek.com/windows-11-wont-show-any-ads-if-yo...
by perihelions | 2025-11-25 02:07:00+00:00
Direct link,

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23513

> "The Nesterov accelerated gradient method, introduced in 1983, has been a cornerstone of optimization theory and practice. Yet the question of its point convergence had remained open. In this work, we resolve this longstanding open problem in the affirmative. The discovery of the proof was heavily assisted by ChatGPT, a proprietary large language model, and we describe the process through which its assistance was"
by fred_is_fred | 2025-11-25 02:08:17+00:00
Harley is in a tough position. Despite the marketing it's mainly for people 55+ who make a good salary. The joke was always that if you lost a fight to someone on a Harley at least they could fix your teeth (since they're all dentists). As someone who's well on his way to 55+ there isn't anything less cool on the planet than a brand for the olds. It's the Buick of motorcycles.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-25 02:08:38+00:00
Neither my company nor any of the five companies I’ve worked for over the past ten years would ever trust any of their business to a one person SaaS shop we would throw some developers on it first.

Let me take that back. I was the developer lead for a company from 2016-2018 and we found this 2 person SaaS with a product that we needed. We were going to be 65% of his revenue if we signed the deal.

I spoke to my CTO and lawyers. We made the guy offer us a self hosted version and escrow his code with a third party that we would have the rights to depending on certain events.
by danny_codes | 2025-11-25 02:08:39+00:00
I mean we could also allow companies to helicopter-drop crack cocaine in the streets. The big tech companies have been pretending their products aren't addictive for decades and it's become a farce. We regulate drugs because they cause a lot of individual and societal harm. I think at this point its very obvious that social media + chatbots have the same capacity for harm.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-25 02:09:25+00:00
People care but lots of people were brainwashed by politicians and the media to think it's no big deal, and even that Snowden is a bad guy. I've met somewhat intelligent people in real life who have zero appreciation for his disclosure, seemingly oblivious to the fact that whistleblowers are unwanted by the establishment. Does anyone seriously think they didn't know that what they were doing was highly illegal and inappropriate?
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by Marsymars | 2025-11-25 02:10:06+00:00
The box is clear, the driver can see what people drop in.

There’s nothing stopping you from putting half the fare amount in nickels in, but really, there’s nothing stopping you from putting nothing in and just taking a seat - bus drivers aren’t equipped to police fare evasion in either case.

In practice, 80-90% of riders have monthly passes that are just pieces of paper that you wave in front of the driver as you get on.

I’m not oblivious to the downsides of such a system, but there are real upsides around low cost, and no technology to ever go out of date.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-25 02:10:38+00:00
> This means high demand for one type can create a shortage of the others.

Wouldn't that mean that a shortage of DRAM chips should cause price difference in all of them? Not sure that'd explain why RDIMM prices aren't raising as sharply as UDIMM. That the fab and assembly lines have transitioned into making other stuff makes sense why'd there be a difference though, as bradfa mentioned in their reply.