MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somesigmaperson | 2025-11-10 22:11:20+00:00
If I ever have to have kids i would let them use things like ChatGPT when they are teenager I wouldn't trust an elementary schooler to use it the probably cant even understand it but I could see no problem letting a teenager using it... by teenager I consider around late 7th early 8th grade, I don't know any other country grade layout I'm referring to American grades (sry for any weird Grammer I'm not to well on that)
by VWWHFSfQ | 2025-11-10 22:11:23+00:00
> The homeless encampment problem in Seattle today is roughly now back at the same level of problem we had 20 years ago.

See, this is wild to me. Seattle has a long-time notorious problem with Tent Cities and even now it's just completely normal. I remember The Jungle under I-5 at Beacon Hill was a big problem. I'm sure it still is.
by pmarreck | 2025-11-10 22:11:34+00:00
The choice to go to WebAssembly is an interesting one.

WASM3, especially (released just 2 months ago), is really gunning for a more general-purpose "assembly for everywhere" status (not just "compile to web"), and it looks like it's accomplishing that.

I hope they add some POSIXy stuff to it so I can write cross-platform commandline TUI's that do useful things without needing to be recompiled on different OS/chip combos (at the cost of a 10-20% reduction from native compilation- not a critical loss for all but the most important use-cases) and are likely to simply keep working on all future OS/chip combos (assuming you can run the wasm, of course)
by salawat | 2025-11-10 22:12:21+00:00
...No it isn't. It's the heart of the matter. The license plate, combined with cross border surveillance data providers, is enabling dragnet surveillance and enforcement of unconscionable law.

Stop trying to play down how tech is enabling authoritarianism. We can't have databases of beneficial ownership to facilitate investigation of white collar crime, but we can run after random women getting abortions enabled by networked cameras?

Society can't be trusted with half the tech we've given them.
by superkuh | 2025-11-10 22:12:53+00:00
For local TTS for a podcast I'd try the quantized .gguf versions of Microsoft VibeVoice large in comfyui to clone my voice from a ~30 second speech sample the apply it to marked-up text of the desired podcast. But it'd be nowhere near real time and require dedicating a $300 GPU to it. And the quantized version often goes off the rails and loses consistency in voice tone or accent. So just one run often isn't enough and I you have to piece the good parts of many separate runs together. It's not set it and forget it.

I do a lot of desktop screen-reader and pdf/doc/epub/etc text to speech every single day. It's been 20 years and I still use Festival 1.96 TTS with voice_nitech_us_slt_arctic_hts voice because it's so computational cheap and just slightly a step about normal festival/espeak/mbrolla/etc type TTS quality to be clear and tolerable. In terms of this local "do screenreader stuff really fast" use case I've tried modern TTS like vibevoice, kokoro tts, sherpa-onx, piper tts, orpheus tts, etc. And they all have consistency issues, many are way too slow even with a $300 GPU dedicated to them, and most output weird garble noises at unpredictable times along with the good output.
by Terr_ | 2025-11-10 22:13:22+00:00
I think it's less of a revision and more a return to a core meaning.

Privacy isn't a mechanic, it's a capability, and most reasonable people DO expect, implicitly, that that they can travel unremarked under most circumstances.

I think most people would agree that a government drone swarm specifically tasked to follow you everywhere in public (loitering outside buildings) would be an invasion of privacy. Especially when it is illegal not to be wearing some equivalent of license plates.
by majorchord | 2025-11-10 22:13:45+00:00
> If you have already checked-in online and your smartphone or tablet dies, you will receive a free of charge boarding pass at the airport.

> If passengers don’t have a smartphone or tablet, as long as they have already checked-in online before arriving at the airport, they will receive a free of charge boarding pass at the airport.

https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/lp/explore/digital-boarding-pa...
by yodsanklai | 2025-11-10 22:14:08+00:00
> is it about doing, or is it about getting things done?

It's both. When you climb a mountain, the joy is reaching the summit after the hard hike. The hike is hard but also enjoyable in itself, and makes you appreciate reaching the top even more.

If there's a cable car or a road leading to the summit, the view may still be nice, but I'll go hiking somewhere else.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-10 22:14:36+00:00
This actually looks pretty good. The key takeaway I got was that they know their business is dependent upon Intellectual Property rights, and that Generative AI in final outputs or productive work undermines the foundation of their future success vis a vis discounting or dismissing IP Law and Rights.

That’s likely to be the middle ground going forward for the smarter creative companies, and I’m personally all for it. Sure, use it for a pitch, or a demo, or a test - but once there’s money on the line (copyright in particular), get that shit outta there because we can’t own something we stole from someone else.
by andrewstuart | 2025-11-10 22:14:58+00:00
>> I fucking hate this.

>> And I can not help, but feel dusgust and shame. Is this what programming is now?

I love it. LLM assisted programming lets me do things I would never have been able to do on my own.

Never a greater leap in programming than the LLM.

No doubt the process is messy and uncertain and all about wild goose chases but that’s improving with every new release of the LLMs.

If you understand everything the LLM wrote then you’re holding it wrong.

I don’t hear developers disowning their work because they didn’t write the machine code that the compiler and linker output. LLM assisted programming is no different.

I’m excited about it and can’t wait to see where it all goes.
by tom_ | 2025-11-10 22:15:07+00:00
The Windows version is decent too. They seem to be at least partly different code bases, which is nice in some respects, but does mean they're not quite the same. The Mac version is less good about doing git submodule update when required, and sometimes the side panel state can be wrong; the Windows version seems to occasionally forget the state of the delete after applying option when doing git stash pop.

Despite having some annoying aspects, it is (as if you even needed to ask) still better than using the command line, and, importantly, has yet to annoy me enough to actually switch to something else. Though as an Emacs fan I do have Magit on my list.
by toisanji | 2025-11-10 22:15:10+00:00
From reading that, I'm not quite sure if they have anything figured out. I actually agree, but her notes are mostly fluff with no real info in there and I do wonder if they have anything figured out besides "collect spatial data" like imagenet.

There are actually a lot of people trying to figure out spatial intelligence, but those groups are usually in neuroscience or computational neuroscience. Here is a summary paper I wrote discussing how the entorhinal cortex, grid cells, and coordinate transformation may be the key: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12068 All animals are able to transform coordinates in real time to navigate their world and humans have the most coordinate representations of any known living animal. I believe human level intelligence is knowing when and how to transform these coordinate systems to extract useful information. I wrote this before the huge LLM explosion and I still personally believe it is the path forward.
by programjames | 2025-11-10 22:15:10+00:00
Large latent flow models are unbiased. On the other hand, if you purely use policy optimization, RLHF will be biased towards short horizons. If you add in a value network, the value has some bias (e.g. MSE loss on the value --> Gaussian bias). Also, most RL has some adversarial loss (how do you train your preference network?), which makes the loss landscape fractal which SGD smooths incorrectly. So, basically, there's a lot of biases that show up in RL training which can make it both hard to train, and even if successful, not necessarily optimizing what you want.
by anonymousiam | 2025-11-10 22:15:13+00:00
Reading through to the end of the README.md on the GitHub page, I noticed that he's claiming copyright on the code, even though he admits that 3/4 of it is machine generated, and he doesn't understand it all.

It reminded me of the legal challenges for copyright of content that was not created by a human. In every case that I'm aware of so far, courts have ruled that content that wasn't created by a person cannot be copyrighted.
by lenova | 2025-11-10 22:16:27+00:00
> This all started by trying to build an alt-protocol like Gemini or Gopher as a minimal writing and publishing experience.

I took the briefest of looks at the Gopher/Gemini/alt-publishing scene and found it interesting (though I went no further than surface level research). I'd be interested in hearing more about where this experimentation took you!
by depr | 2025-11-10 22:16:40+00:00
When can we be done with these cheap comments? It has really become tiring to have a comment tree on every HN post for people who don't know what the article is about. As the author often didn't submit their own article it is just a complaint with no possible resolution. Instead of taking a few seconds to find out what the article is about and maybe even clarifying it for your fellow readers, you are taking that time to write a comment that only detracts from a possible conversation.

If you can't bring yourself to search for 5 seconds and find out what an article is about, maybe you just close it and move on.
by Muromec | 2025-11-10 22:16:44+00:00
>but what kind of AI needs to be trained with "a person's religious or political beliefs [or] ethnicity", anonymized or not?

It's a category thing. There is personal data and then there is sensitive personal data, which is the enumerated list you quoted.

Snarky non-answer reply is of course -- the kind of ШІ that makes autistic roman salutes and accelerates from 0 to 1933.
by TexanFeller | 2025-11-10 22:16:50+00:00
I used to get that constantly when I was backing up to a Synology NAS. I switched to an ASUSTOR AsusFlash NAS connecting over SMB and haven't had a single problem since. New NAS is M.2 based and can easily saturate its 10gbe link.

Side note, Synology is dead to me. Synology became consumer hostile with trying to force you to use their drives, they don't have good small scale M.2 options(at least as of last year when I upgraded), and their stuff doesn't even work for me reliably.
by spwa4 | 2025-11-10 22:16:58+00:00
Why do you doubt that is exactly what is happening? The EU governments are demanding to view all communications by it's citizens AND has given itself the right to use all sorts of AI technology (like facial recognition) on private data (like faces for example). Privacy protection, even for your medical records, only exists against private companies. Which means that the people you want privacy from, your medical insurance, which is part of the government nearly everywhere in Europe, both has access and can do with the data whatever it wants under EU legislation.

Does anyone seriously expect EU legislation will protect people from the obvious: training AI on chat messages and then using violence (ie. police action) just based on online messages?

Oh right.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/policing-speech-online-germany-...
by pmarreck | 2025-11-10 22:17:08+00:00
The stats I've seen show a 10-20% loss in speed relative to natively-compiled, which is effectively noise for all but the most critical paths.

It may get even closer with WASM3, released 2 months ago, since it has things like 64 bit address support, more flexible vector instructions, typed references (which remove runtime safety checks), basic GC, etc. https://webassembly.org/news/2025-09-17-wasm-3.0/
by palmotea | 2025-11-10 22:17:17+00:00
> A large nuclear exchange between great powers (and currently there are 3 great powers, the US, China and Russia) would be followed by the use of conventional military forces. E.g., The US would try to capture and hold the major ports of the power or powers that attacked it because holding those ports is the most effective way of denying the power the ability to deploy its own conventional forces outside its own territory and the ability to rebuild its nuclear stockpile.

Do you have a source for that? Because that's pretty unbelievable action to take after a full nuclear exchange that leaves every major city and military base in ruins. I'd expect most if not all the US's force-projection power would be gone immediately after a nuclear war. Sure, maybe there'd be aircraft carriers out in the ocean, but with limited ability to resupply, they'd probably lose their effectiveness sooner than later.
by kazinator | 2025-11-10 22:17:18+00:00
"git gui" is not just a wrapper for commands; it has usefully different workflows.

For instance, you can visually select a range of lines in a file, and stage those lines.

This is much easier than doing "git add --patch" and using edit, where you are deleting unwanted lines starting with +, turning - lines into context and whatnot.

I have found it useful to fire up "git gui" during rebase workflows with conflicts. It helps with the "git add" commands you would have to do to add conflict-resolved files into the patch and whatnot.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-11-10 22:17:19+00:00
> Here is a summary paper I wrote discussing how the entorhinal cortex, grid cells, and coordinate transformation may be the key: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12068 All animals are able to transform coordinates in real time to navigate their world and humans have the most coordinate representations of any known living animal. I believe human level intelligence is knowing when and how to transform these coordinate systems to extract useful information.

Yes, you and the Mosers who won the Nobel Prize all believe that grid cells are the key to animals understanding their position in the world.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2014/press-releas...
by observationist | 2025-11-10 22:17:55+00:00
Superhuman TTS is well within the capabilities of the big AI labs. Even Google had voice indistinguishable from human back in 2017, but they deliberately kneecapped it because of the potential for misuse. Boomers and older folks are not culturally or mentally equipped to handle it - even the crappy open source voice cloning we had in 2019 got used to scam people into buying gift cards.

Because of the potential for abuse, nobody wants to release a truly good, general model, because it makes lawyers lose sleep. A few more generations of hardware, though, and there will be enough open data and DIY scaffolding out there to produce a superhuman model, and someone will release it.

Deepfake video is already indistinguishable from real video (not oneshot prompt video generation, but deliberate skilled craft using AI tools.)

Higgsfield and other tools allow for spectacular voice results, but it takes craft and care. The oneshot stuff is deliberately underpowered. OpenAI doesn't want to be responsible for a viral pitch-perfect campaign ad, or fake scandal video sinking a politician, for example.

Once the lawyers calm down, or we get a decent digital bill of rights that establishes clear accountability on the user of the tool, and not the toolmaker, things should get better. Until then, look for the rogue YOLO boutique services or the ambitious open source crew to be the first to superhuman, widely available TTS.
by alyxya | 2025-11-10 22:18:05+00:00
Personally, I think the direction AI will go towards is having an AI brain with something like a LLM at its core augmented with various abilities like spatial intelligence, rather than models being designed with spatial reasoning at its core. Human language and reasoning seems flexible enough to form some kind of spatial understanding, but I'm not so sure about the converse of having spatial intelligence derive human reasoning. Similar to how image generation models have struggled with generating the right number of fingers on hands, I would expect a world model designed to model physical space to not generalize the understanding of simple human ideas.
by samdoesnothing | 2025-11-10 22:18:08+00:00
> Take Herb Sutter for example, who argues that "memory safety" as defined in this article is an extreme goal and we should instead focus on a more achievable 95% safety instead to spend the remaining effort on other types of safety.

I don't really see how that's a) a scepticism of memory safety or b) how it's not seen as a reasonable position. Just because someone doesn't think X is the most important thing ever doesn't mean they are skeptical of it, but rather that the person holding the 100% viewpoint is probably the one with the extreme position.
by ryadh | 2025-11-10 22:18:11+00:00
Thanks for your detailed reply. It is great to see that you have been experimenting with this approach.

We published a public demo of the Agentic Data Stack, I'd love to hear your feedback https://clickhouse.com/blog/agenthouse-demo-clickhouse-llm-m...

Keep in mind that it's not fully "fair", since these public dataset are often documented in the internet so already present in pre-training of the models underneath (Claude Sonnet 4.5 in this case)
by oasisbob | 2025-11-10 22:18:25+00:00
"The Jungle" isn't at all the same now, and is mostly cleared out from its heyday in ca 2018.

The larger problem with "The Jungle" is that nobody can agree on what it means, and where it is. I used to live on Beacon Hill, and the way journalists used the phrase was all over the place. Incidents anywhere from the I-90/I-5 interchange to the camps under I-5 all the way south to Georgetown, to the camps up in the woods in the East Duwamish greenbelt were all called "The Jungle".
by pturing | 2025-11-10 22:18:59+00:00
Hi, synesthesia researcher here! (1)

Here's a few relevant things we know:

- Synesthesia is not rare. You probably know someone that has synesthesia, even they haven't mentioned it.

- There are many forms of synesthesia. Many documented forms that we know of, and very probably a bunch we haven't documented yet.

- There are cases of tasks where we are able to measure enhanced performance of that task by synesthetes. (2)

- While some synesthetes do have a single form of synesthesia, it is common for synesthetes to experience multiple forms. We've found cluster groups where subjects with a given form are more likely to have another form within the same cluster.

From the other writings on the OP's site, we can see that they report to have at least two forms of Colored Sequence Synesthesia: Grapheme -> Color, and Day of the Week -> Color.

Their report of their experience in the linked article sounds like possibly Shape -> Motion. This is a form they could have, and it's plausible that someone already known to be a multiple synesthete might also experience this.

It is also plausible that someone with a Shape -> X type of synesthesia would be able use that to spot the odd shape out faster than others.

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(1) I maintained the online synesthesia battery for a number of years while working in the Eagleman Neuroscience Lab at Baylor College of Medicine

(2) Some of these are ones that allowed us to study synesthesia on a larger scale by testing online! Among those, one particularly notable form of test is Stroop Interference. Genuine synesthetes are able to respond much faster and more accurately, and we get a good clear separation between them and controls.
by stmw | 2025-11-10 22:19:05+00:00
Fair point re: Zig vs Rust, but my larger point was about exceptions by any other name, in the linked article:

"Instead, when returning an error, rather than jumping to the return address, we look it up in the side table to find a corresponding error recovery address, and jump to that. Stack unwinding!

The bold claim is that unwinding is the optimal thing to do! .."
by piskov | 2025-11-10 22:19:30+00:00
I don’t understand why you keep bringing motion sickness.

When you want to see something at different distances, you not only change focus but also pivot eyes at a certain angle (towards the nose or not).

This angle is fucked with near-displays. And that inconsistency persists for hours.

It’s like you would use walking sim and your foot starts bending at not usual angles to accommodate some sick-built walking surface of the sim.
by mothballed | 2025-11-10 22:19:53+00:00
How much raising of the typical pleb draftee do you think is done by the politician declaring the war? Society is just a collection of people. Even if there is some original debt from being raised that forms a binding contract with a minor that never consented to it, which I don't take on face, it's hard to imagine how politicians declaring a draft trump the senior shareholders of that contract (the family that did the bulk of the raising).

In any case I would hope we would reject the notion that you can become a slave and made to die for the state because you allegedly owe them for something they did for you before you were old enough to even wittingly object or agree to it.
by Yoric | 2025-11-10 22:19:57+00:00
> Building yet another CSV exporter? Who gives a damn.

The problem with memory unsafe code is that it can have unexpected and unpredictable side-effects. Such as subtly altering the critical data you're exporting, of letting an attacker take control of your CSV exporter.

In other words, you need quite a lot of context to figure out that a memory bug in your CSV exporter won't be used for escalation. Figuring out that context, documenting it and making sure that the context never changes for the lifetime of your code? That sounds like a much complex proposition that using memory-safe tools in the first place.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-11-10 22:20:00+00:00
This is just victim blaming people for assuming they lived in a polite society with safeguards for their rights at a higher level.

People are allowed to leverage trust in society to make tradeoffs. Or should we ban all forms of delivery because it can be abused at the extremes of the system to mug the drivers? Should every single store have every product locked behind glass and armed guards to light up any shoplifters, lest it be their fault for being robbed?

You're acting like they should have known the President would take complete control of the government and all other branches should cede while a Gestapo was deployed against the populace. And even then, they would only be buying time. The fascists will install their own mass surveillance anyway whether you like it or not. They're fascists!

Maybe blame every Republican and Republican voter for installing a fascist government instead of a city that had the audacity to think they could leverage stability to make their lives a little better.

And, for what it's worth, I know folk here like to pretend "this is just to spy on you", but that's just your rhetoric. The city doesn't care about where you go. But this kind of data is used frequently rape and murder cases, as traffic cameras are often some of the best evidence available. And the analytics collecter can be useful for all sorts of civil engineering, policy, and architectural decisions.

Now do I agree with the mass surveillance? Do I think the motivations were entirely pure? No, not really. But do I think you're being a bit of a drama queen and blaming the wrong people? Absolutely.