MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AstralStorm | 2025-11-07 16:31:46+00:00
It's not even that. Only a kernel of the LLM is trained using RLHF. The rest is self-trained from corpus with a few test questions added into the mix.

Because it still cannot reason about veracity of sources, much less empirically try things out, the algorithm has no idea what makes for correctness...

It does not even understand fiction. Tends to return sci-fi answers every now and then to technical questions.
by coliveira | 2025-11-07 16:32:29+00:00
Tesla never traded on value. It has always been a kind of meme stock. The CEO will promise the sky, give 10% of what he promised. The shareholders will praise that as something incredible, then change the focus to another area. Now they're again changing the focus to Ai and robotics, even though Musk himself has a competitor company in this area. It's a never ending game that in a decent country should have stoped long ago.
by the_gipsy | 2025-11-07 16:32:37+00:00
Yes, this is exactly the problem with go's recipe.

Either you copypaste the same interface over and over and over, with the maintenance nightmare that is, or you always have these struct-and-interface pairs, where it's unclear why there is an interface to begin with. If the answer is testing, maybe that's the wrong question ti begin with.

So, I would rather have duck typing (the structural kind, not just interfaces) for easy testing. I wonder if it would technically be possible to only compile with duck typing in test, in a hypothetical language.
by theamk | 2025-11-07 16:32:42+00:00
Why is it OK for AI models to don't credit the training data, even if they reproduce the code almost verbatim?

The AI companies are not big fans of crediting - once they get access to _any_ learning data, all attribution disappears. So I am pretty surprised you are even asking this question - of course they won't credit anything they don't have to. This is in their ethics.

(Now if the customer requires it, they will expend the effort... I am sure if you pay them enough money, they will credit anyone you want)
by petsfed | 2025-11-07 16:32:46+00:00
A lot of reasons, but the two big ones are:

1) the American cult of self-reliance. The idea that people will not value something they did not themselves work for, even if its given to them by a close friend or family member, is basically synonymous with "the American dream". "Socialism" is so bad to Americans that they would rather have diabetics die because they can't afford the lifesaving medicine they need, than to give handouts to such people, just for them to develop a "dependency". There's even an entire health-influencer industry built around the idea that all health problems not directly caused by trauma are because the person suffering just isn't trying hard enough to be healthy, and not, you know, because of a social and economic system that's actively corrosive to human health. "You're sick because you're too lazy to avoid trans-fats" basically the gist of RFK Jr's ideology.

2) Americans are so opposed to thinking more than 3 months ahead that all they see with that 20% price increase is the impact it has on them right now. The easy access to instant gratification is steadily eroding our ability to be patient or suffer any hardship. This has been growing for a long time (c.f. fresh fruits and vegetables of all stripes, year round) but has reached a sort of fever pitch with the advent of same-day delivery for a vast array of bits and baubles.
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-07 16:32:58+00:00
Using a HN post to talk about something unrelated you wanted to talk about anyway, has been part of HN for years. Probably because a lot of people feel with the rise of 140-character type social media, there are fewer and fewer venues on the internet where you can substantially talk to educated and non-brand-hustling people about the things that you think about.
by gdulli | 2025-11-07 16:33:29+00:00
This is just cynical brain poisoning. My health insurance company isn't a person who cares about me, but that was never the deal. Their interests are aligned with mine. I'm in a blue state and can get the covid vaccine for free despite the federal level fuckery. That is because my insurer cares about profit, which means they act on the science of it without the culture wars and demagoguery. They know I'll be net healthier with the vaccine, therefore more profitable to them.
by assbuttbuttass | 2025-11-07 16:33:35+00:00
I love standard ml (I'm currently writing a compiler for it), but it's far from perfect. There are weird special cases in the language definition like the ad-hoc overloading between int and real, or the annoying value restriction. Records also feel half-baked, with no support for updating fields or for partially-specified records where the full set of fields is not known
by estebank | 2025-11-07 16:34:15+00:00
That strategy is ok if the expected user is a fellow developer. For anyone else, a back trace is spilling your guts on the floor and expecting the user to clean up. A tool for wider usage should absolutely detect the error condition and explain the problem as succinctly as possible with all the information necessary for a human to be able to solve the issue. Back trace details are extraneous information only useful for a software developer familiar with the codebase. There's of course a difference when talking about unexpected incorrect state, something like a fatal filesystem or allocation error that shouldn't happen unless the environment is in an invalid state, a nice human error then is not as necessary.
by tome | 2025-11-07 16:34:45+00:00
I developed my Haskell library Bluefin to program in this way, not as a security measure but just as a way to help structure programs in a coherent way (which is one of the benefits of many well typed Haskell libraries). In principle the same idea could be use for high assurance software, but that's not what I'm going for specifically. Anyway, I find writing in this style much more convenient than in any other Haskell style.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bluefin
by random9749832 | 2025-11-07 16:34:54+00:00
The difference I am highlighting isn't that it is wrong to think about how to make your game "fun" but the perspective you are thinking about it from. You can try to treat creating fun using a scientific or neurological framework or you can think about it from a more artistic standpoint. When Shenmue chose to make you start doing forklifting (and while I can't prove it) I am sure this was more of a artistic decision and they weren't thinking about it in terms of extrinsic or intrinsic rewards. At least to me it is obvious when something is designed more by an artist and less by someone trying exploit human psychology.

That isn't to say there isn't any logic to the design of great games but also something much more intuitive to their design decisions that doesn't follow known principals or science.
by bellamoon544 | 2025-11-07 16:35:40+00:00
GEMPIX2 is a community-driven tool using Nano Banana 2 for AI image generation. Users create images using prompts, ideal for artists and designers. It's an independent resource, not affiliated with Google, promoting AI exploration. Features include image creation, a user community, AI technology, customization, creative exploration, and an easy-to-use interface.
by nosianu | 2025-11-07 16:35:40+00:00
Except I would have been allowed to install it on that laptop, I just didn't have the original media with me, and I also did not care.

I also, again already having paid for the original license years before, got a cracked Warcraft III Russian edition (offline only, no BattleNet, obviously), so if you want to tell more stories to show what a bad person I am, here is one more to add.

I did watch a lot of movies in my life that I never paid for though, so there is that. If they ever have one reasonable ad-free subscription that covers them all (also across borders, like Asian anime) I promise to sign up for that. Haven't watched anything at all in over a decade though, except for the occasional Twitch or Youtube. I don't even have a TV.

I guess for some people making sure everybody follows the rules is more important than anything else. I admit that I am the occasional rule breaker, including as a pedestrian crossing a red light when I feel stopping all traffic just for little me when there are plenty of large gaps in traffic is more reasonable.

So yes, thanks for pointing that out, I'm not a model citizen. I don't even feel bad about it. Also, physical goods are obviously exactly the same, so your made-up story is totally relevant, and nobody asks the question why you changed it from a virtual to a physical good when you had complete artistic freedom. Maybe your story would not be as convincing?
by atmavatar | 2025-11-07 16:36:18+00:00
> We have static types

But several of our most popular languages don't (e.g., Javascript, Python), with Javascript having particularly ugly behavior.

> standard data formats

We're moving from more formalized data formats (XML) to far lesser formalized data formats (JSON). For example, the former gives relatively powerful tools (through XSD) to define types and what constitutes valid values, while the latter doesn't even have a standard date format. Perhaps JSON schema will one day invalidate most of this concern, but it's still pretty young and not widely utilized AFAICT.
by 9rx | 2025-11-07 16:36:21+00:00
> You can only buy good/services that are for sale

The world is full of custom car builders. Buying a something like the F-150, but without the undesirable computing components, is quite practical and very possible.

It'll be expensive, which I expect is what you were really trying to say when you pretend there is no such thing for sale, but you're just returning us to the heart of discussion: The F-150 is cheap, comparatively, because it has already priced in the tracking subsidy. You're accepting of those undesirable terms because the lower price makes it compelling enough to do so.
by ascagnel_ | 2025-11-07 16:36:25+00:00
My thought has been a 20- or 30-year term, with one or two renewals at a nominal fee, would work wonders. Orphaned works basically disappear overnight, and the vast majority of works will have exhausted their useful commercial life within those 20-30 years.

I'd also argue that works eligible for copyright must submit a modifiable edition (eg: source code or a DRM-free copy) that is made available to archivists immediately and the general public once the copyright term expires.
by akerl_ | 2025-11-07 16:36:30+00:00
Can you give an example?

To pick one of my own: defamation is something that is determined based on your actions and the state at the moment they happen. If I say something potentially defamatory about you, it’s judged based on what I knew at the time, what I said, and how it would be understood by a reasonable person at that time.

You can’t rock up later and say “well looking back at this thing you said 10 years ago, we now know it was false” or that a reasonable person today would think differently about it.

By contrast, if we made a rule saying that culturally significant games are due some set of societal protections, a game dev has no way to know if their game would meet that threshold when they release the game.
by jimbobimbo | 2025-11-07 16:36:44+00:00
"But accepting the full S3Client here ties UploadReport to an interface that’s too broad. A fake must implement all the methods just to satisfy it."

In NET, one would simply mock one or two methods required by the implementation under the test. If I'm using Moq, then one would set it up in strict mode, to avoid surprises if unit under test starts calling something it didn't before.
by KPGv2 | 2025-11-07 16:36:45+00:00
Nota bene, this isn't the Farmer's Almanac everyone's thinking of. You're probably thinking of the Old Farmer's Almanac, which has been in publication since the 1700s and is the oldest continuously published periodical in North America.

I live in Texas and have never seen this Farmer's Almanac in my life. But the Old Farmer's Almanac has been on the store shelves my whole life, and they're still publishing.

Neither is accurate tho. Both are around 50%.
by hirvi74 | 2025-11-07 16:37:57+00:00
> Lattner's interview with Theprimeagen.

Oh, sick! Thank you for bring this to my attention. I didn't even know this interview existed. I watched Lattner's three interviews with Lex (though I'm not a indifferent about Lex). I do love Theprimeagen though -- he represents us neurodiverse devs well.

> a compiler that barfs at even the simplest SwiftUI code

I have never used Swift UI. I honestly have used Swift mainly for automating a lot of stuff I used to do with Applescript or little scripts for minor things. I have never actually used Swift for any GUI application development.

> That's why you end up with 200+ keywords [1] with more added each release.

Sure, like I previously said, no language is perfect. I am less concerned about the number of total keywords vs. the average number of keywords required to accomplish what I need. I do not feel like I honestly have had to use any more than what I commonly user in .NET/C#. In fact, I think C# might honestly be worse.

https://github.com/e3b0c442/keywords

> `guard let self = self else { return }`

I think you can do something like this as Swift 5 or 6:

`guard let self else { return }`

Don't quote me though (It's also not much better looking, imo).
by russdill | 2025-11-07 16:38:05+00:00
It's not a matter of power, but energy. It may take it twice as long as a 220v circuit, but when it's an unattended appliance that doesn't really matter. Per cycle they use about a gallon of water (3-4 per load total). Going from 70F to 140F requires 170Wh for a gallon of water. So if you run it at 1000W it takes 10 minutes.
by everdrive | 2025-11-07 16:39:34+00:00
LLMs are quite new, so you might honestly want to save your comment and return to it in a few years. For social media, I think you can point to directly social media with regard to the Arab Spring as well as the Rohingya genocide, and many, many mass shooting events. I'm sure there's more, that's just off the top of my head.

Much like legacy media, social media is certainly not _wholly_ or necessarily even _primarily_ responsible, but I think there's little doubt it played a role.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-07 16:39:50+00:00
> Collective action problems aren’t solved by individually performing the action

This is a truth that a lot of the west, particularly Americans, struggle to accept. We keep trying "the free market and individual incentives must solve all problems" over and over, and fail over and over.

Huge problems require collective action to solve. Collective action requires good coordination, strong institutions, leadership, and most importantly, the societal willingness to not always optimize for the individual's freedom/desires/expectations. None of these are currently present in America.
by jayd16 | 2025-11-07 16:39:56+00:00
It's an interesting discussion.

Developing an application is applying techniques but by nature, you don't really build the same application many times such that you can come up with rules that the daily grunt applies without thought.

What is the software equivalent of spacing studs interspersed with fireblocks that we're not doing?

In software, easily repeated steps and proper practices are moved to the runtime/language/compiler etc.

Is it too conceited to argue that each application is more unique than each housing structure? I'm not sure. But we do actually have many many practices in place that are automatically handled.
by GistNoesis | 2025-11-07 16:40:17+00:00
There are two types of stops : soft stops, and hard stops.

- Soft stops is when the dynamic graph computation overhead is too much, which mean you can still calculate, but if you were to write the function manually or with a better framework, you could be 10x faster.

Typical example involve manually unrolling a loop. Or doing kernel fusion. Other typical example is when you have lots of small objects or need to do loops in python because it doesn't vectorize well. Or using the sparsity efficiently by ignoring the zeros.

- Hard stop is when computing the function become impossible, because the memory needed to do the computation in a non optimal way explode. Some times you can get away with just writing customized kernels.

The typical example where you can get away with it are custom attention layers.

Typical example where you can't get away are physics simulations. Like for example the force is the gradient of energy, but you have n^2 interactions between the particles, so if you use anything more than 0 memory preserved during the forward pass per interaction, your memory consumption explode. And typically with things like Lagrangian or Hamiltonian neural networks where you look the discover dynamics of an energy conserving system, you need to be able differentiate at least three times in a row.

There are also energy expanding stops, where you need to find work-around to make it work like if you want to have your parameters changing shape during the optimization process like learning point clouds of growing size, and they spread you thin so they won't be standardized.
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by PaulHoule | 2025-11-07 16:40:58+00:00
In 1980 they opened a new mall in Manchester, NH which was an hour from DEC’s headquarters and they had an actual DEC retail store that I bought a copy of that book from.

Notably DEC machines like the PDP-11 gave a timesharing BASIC experience that was similar to having your own Apple ][ or TRS-80 but a little bit better, probably the best thing was saving your files on a hard drive.
by knicholes | 2025-11-07 16:41:39+00:00
I've found a page on Facebook that regularly posts single white mothers with black babies on supposed dating profiles with very demanding requirements for men. The comments are loaded with people saying that they deserve their current situation, enforcing racial stereotypes, etc. It's not hard to see that these are AI generated, as there are maybe 5-8 posts a day like this, and the images are pretty clearly AI generated. Regardless, they get the engagement, and they sell the shirts. Easy way to automate a business, I guess, but at what cost?!
by Twey | 2025-11-07 16:41:49+00:00
On second thought the tribal testing framework here is a bit simplistic, and there's some cross-tribe pollination, to varying levels of success.

The ‘maker’ tribe also tests with HCI assessments like GOMS and other methods from the ‘soft’ sciences like psychology and sociology, not just economics/business science.

Model-checking and complexity proofs (and complexity type systems) are mathematical attempts to apply mathematician-programmer methods to engineer-programmer properties.

Cyclomatic complexity is an attempt to measure mathematician-programmer properties using engineer-programmer methods.
by duxup | 2025-11-07 16:42:04+00:00
I have my view history turned off on Youtube. It appears that means I get a lot of low quality ads. Questionable health products, really questionable health products, "5G blocking beanies that prevent brain fuzzing", gross out advertisements about poop, and so on.

It really lowers my perception of Youtube as a product as just any old site with content, but also scams / creepy stuff. Youtube don't care I suspect, it's money for them, and it re-enforces my desire to not give them money... so yeah they take money form who they can.
by KPGv2 | 2025-11-07 16:42:12+00:00
> Their audience is old people who buy the book at the cashier line at Walmart.

That's the Old Farmer's Almanac. I don't know where this Farmer's Almanac is on the shelves, but it's certainly not at Walmart, which carries a different publication that's even older.

Confusing names, yes, because one is TFA and the other is TOFA.
by dingnuts | 2025-11-07 16:42:13+00:00
this website exists as an advertisement for a brand. the people here are hustling harder than anywhere! it's worse than LinkedIn! that's why this website is a constant dick measuring contest -- it's a news site run by a venture capitalist firm about startups!

Why would you think this place is not absolutely full of shills?

the Internet is so dead, I'm sure I'm arguing with a bot. I need to go outside..
by tekbruh9000 | 2025-11-07 16:42:27+00:00
Here's an example of how reliance on traditional media leads to detrimental outcomes: https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die...

Anyone from far away lands, kings, priests, CEOs, rando on HN reaching into your mind... all engaged in information shaping to encourage allegiance. It makes instinctual sense for NY Times editors to get others to risk their health through limited coverage. Biology is self selecting and instinctual to the core; it does not run in high minded philosophy, just physics. The only way to confirm our efforts now matter is stay alive longer to verify. Something entropy does not afford our individual biology.

I have taken to ignoring those not on the cutting edge of health science and essential technology for food safety and production. Everyone else is gaming clicks.
by troyvit | 2025-11-07 16:42:31+00:00
Here are the things that get me, and maybe it's because I haven't configured it well yet.

1. On firefox first start-up is slow after unlocking to actually find a password for a site. The interface says, "No logins for xyz.com" for maybe 5 seconds before the login loads.

2. Along those lines when I open it first thing in FF the box for its password isn't focused and I have to click it.

3. The keyboard combo to open it also only works in Chrome.

4. To add a new login I have to go to the site. I haven't figured out how to do it from within the plugin.

5. We get alerts at least once a week about service disruptions but they don't seem to actually affect me.

6. I like Bitwarden's command line tool but I bet 1Password has something at least as good that I haven't found yet.
by pwdisswordfishs | 2025-11-07 16:42:56+00:00
> Being able to shape the narrative

Don't overestimate your success. I remember reading the original prison post and (a) seeing how thick the attempt to do that sort of "shaping" was, and (b) still coming away thinking, "Just... wow" (not in a good way).

Even if it seems like you're winning because all you're seeing is people falling over themselves to tell you how awesome your story is and how awesome you are, take a look around the room. If it's a room of 10 and the praise is really only coming from 6 people, don't neglect to account for the fact that there are 4 other people in the room who are also capable of thought, and they probably have thoughts (and the fact that they can see the other 6 people reacting the way they are can be a factor in whether to voice them).

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by lenkite | 2025-11-07 16:44:07+00:00
Seriously, there is requirement to CPU draw UI components too ? OP didn't say that and it sounds crazy anyways. Even your point-of-sale terminal units with displays have integrated GPUs. Popular Ex in 2025: Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 SoC (octa-core ARM) with Adreno 430 GPU.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-07 16:44:14+00:00
That's an interesting - and falsifiable - observation.

Quick check: 1984 rates 15103 mentions, 01984 42. So about 0.3%.

For 2015 it is 69000 vs 89 for 02015.

But not all of those are years, there are some other cases in there as well.
by omnibrain | 2025-11-07 16:44:25+00:00
Morrowind had (and still has) a huge modding scene. Especially because it's even more mod friendly as its successor. A big plus back in the day was that the Construction Kit came with the original game disks. So you had direct access to the real dev tools. Like Unreal came with UnrealEd but with access to an Open World RPG instead of "just" a shooter.

Nexus Mods started as portal for Morrowind mods.