MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dns_snek | 2025-11-04 09:03:32+00:00
I meant it in the same way the previous commenter did:

> Having seen LLMs so many times produce incoherent, nonsensical and invalid chains of reasoning... LLMs are little more than RNGs. They are the tea leaves and you read whatever you want into them.

Of course LLMs are capable of generating solutions that aren't in their training data sets but they don't arrive at those solutions through any sort of rigorous reasoning. This means that while their solutions can be impressive at times they're not reliable, they go down wrong paths that they can never get out of and they become less reliable the more autonomy they're given.
by watwut | 2025-11-04 09:04:16+00:00
>Males usually do so in physical form but females usually in emotional and mental form,

This is blatantly false. Physical violence is usually extension and escalation of mental and emotional form. Men who beat women verbally and emotionally abuse them first. Verbal abuse rates are similar in men and women, but it is men who commit more physical violence.

> you can compare the porn that men mostly watch vs the dark fantasies that women read in their books. Women's fantasies are usually about abduction, abuse, stalking, pain, among others.

It kinda sounds like your fantasy about what women have fantasies about. Also, there is no shortage of violent degrading porn in video form.
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by reedf1 | 2025-11-04 09:05:09+00:00
What you actually need in most business cases is a 100% auditable, explainable and deterministic workflow. While AI is strictly deterministic - it is technically chaotic. Introducing this in large customer pipelines or in intensive data applications means that even if the AI only does something a bit off 99%, 99.9% or 99.99% you will see large spurious error rates in your workflow. Worst of all these will be difficult to explain - or maybe even purposely hidden, as I have seen some agents attempt to do.
by torginus | 2025-11-04 09:06:24+00:00
Honestly I feel like Jevons Paradox is a distinctly unhelpful way of phrasing phenomena, designed to create a feeling of novelty where there's none.

It's completely obvious that if you need energy, and you have energy source A and B (lets say natural gas and oil), people will use the one that is cheaper.

Oil became cheaper because a new supplier entered the market, and people started using more of it! Jevons Paradox!

The other explanation is that people have an outsize demand for a resource, and are actively making efforts to make it cheaper so they can use more of it, then when it gets cheaper, they use more of it.

Transistors got cheaper and we are using more of them! Jevons Paradox!
by Terr_ | 2025-11-04 09:06:49+00:00
> The kind of strict, formal deduction we teach in logic courses is a special, slow mode

Yes, but that seems like moving the goalposts.

The stricter blends of reasoning are what everybody is so desperate to evoke from LLMs, preferably along with inhuman consistency, endurance, and speed. Just imagine the repercussions if a slam-dunk paper came out tomorrow, which somehow proved the architectures and investments everyone is using for LLMs are a dead-end for that capability.
by robot-wrangler | 2025-11-04 09:07:11+00:00
Generating and displaying diagrams in mermaid, svg, or css has become one of my go-to tests for reasoning. This seems fair because while SVG is admittedly syntactically difficult and maybe not emphasized in training, CSS is certainly a popular output target, and mermaid is very simple. It seems like SOTA should be able to draw and modify things that it "understands".

I'm much more interested in stuff like Venn diagrams and bipartite graphs than pictures of cats or pelicans riding bikes. It's similar to a code-generation problem in that output is a new artifact that's one step away from the problem-presentation, but it has the advantage that it's simpler than code, is less likely to have exact-match training data, usually has one correct answer, and is easy to check. Try making venn diagrams on a few circles with "exactly and only the following intersections" and gradually elaborating the spec.

This is a great way to get a starter diagram boilerplate if that's what you're looking for. One shot prompts for simple things are ok, sometimes. But it always completely falls apart when you try to iterate with small modifications, introducing errors in parts that were correct previously or ignoring requested changes. Maybe it's wrong to conclude anything from that, but to me this looks bad for the "they can reason!" argument and very bad for trusting complicated work in other domains that are harder to check. Haven't read TFA yet, but whether it confirms or denies my gut here hopefully it's going to add some perspective
by walaa_volidis | 2025-11-04 09:08:11+00:00
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by oarsinsync | 2025-11-04 09:08:48+00:00
> Why waste anyone’s bandwidth on this?

The conditional was: If my boss forces me to review it

> As maintainer of some open source projects, there are no circumstances in which...

...you would force yourself to do anything that you don't want to do. Your approach is absolutely correct for the organisational circumstances in which this might happen to you.

There are other organisational circumstances where being the squeaky wheel, even when it's the right thing to do for the business, will be the wrong thing for you personally. It's valuable to identify when you're standing in front of a steamroller, and get out of the way.
by isakfiksdal | 2025-11-04 09:08:48+00:00
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by roxolotl | 2025-11-04 09:09:20+00:00
> The main blockers aren’t technical. Most founders pointed to workflow integration, employee trust, and data privacy as the toughest challenges — not model performance.

These, outside of employee resistance are technical problems. The insistence they aren’t seems to be the root of the misunderstanding around these tools. The reality is that “computers that speak English” are, at face value, incredibly impressive. But there’s nothing inherent to said systems that makes them easier to integrate with than computers which speak C. In fact I’d argue it’s harder because natural languages are significantly less precise.

Communication and integration is incredibly challenging because you’re trying to transfer states between systems. When you let “the machine carry a larger share of the burden,” as Dijkstra described of the presumed benefit of natural language programming but actual downside[0], you’re also forfeiting a large amount of control. It is for the same reason that word problems are considered more challenging than equations in math class. With natural languages the states being communicated are much less clear than with formal languages and much of the burden assumed to be transferred to the machine is returned in the form of an increase in required specificity and preciseness of which formal languages already solve for.

None of this is to say these tools aren’t useful nor that they cannot be deployed successfully. It is instead to say that the seduction of computers which speak English is more exactly that. These tools are incredibly easy to use to impress, and much more challenging to use to extract value.

0: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667...
by nprateem | 2025-11-04 09:09:39+00:00
Datastar looks interesting, but their guide on how to redirect a user is a joke.

async def redirect_from_backend():

yield SSE.patch_elements('<div id="indicator">Redirecting in 3 seconds...</div>') await asyncio.sleep(3) yield SSE.execute_script('window.location = "/guide"')

LOL, they really think it's a good use of server resources to sleep so the client doesn't have to.

[1] https://data-star.dev/how_tos/redirect_the_page_from_the_bac...
by adrian_b | 2025-11-04 09:11:03+00:00
The intention behind "non-fatal strangulation and non-fatal suffocation were made a criminal offence as part of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021" might be good, but I do not see how this can be implemented in practice, because domestic abuse seldom has witnesses, and as noted in TFA "non-fatal strangulation and non-fatal suffocation" frequently leave no marks on the victim, so it is impossible to prove that they have occurred.

I assume that in this legal text "suffocation" means the prevention of respiration by other means than compressing the throat, but it should be noted that this is a modern meaning of the word "suffocation". To "strangle" comes from Ancient Greek, through its borrowing in Latin, while to "suffocate" is the native Latin synonym of "strangle", so originally the two words were completely synonymous. ("suffocate" is derived from "sub", i.e. under, and "fauces", i.e. throat)
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by oarsinsync | 2025-11-04 09:12:36+00:00
Tragically, when you are organisationally impaired from saying 'no', this is the only way (besides, you know, quitting and getting a new job).

It's absolutely soul crushing when you're motivated to do a good job, but have a few colleagues around you that have differing priorities, and aren't empowered to do the right thing, even when management agrees with you.
by dijit | 2025-11-04 09:12:42+00:00
This is true in pretty much every western country sadly.

TV's are really absurdly cheap (and awful) on the low end, we're not talking about your 60" LG OLED with AI TV here, we're talking: a screen with maybe 720p and a viewing angle of: dead centre.

Hiring a handyman is, what, $100/h in most countries, then there's a minimum call-out fee and materials cost- worse "I don't have the part". You're looking at about $300~ easy.

But for $129 you can get this; https://a.co/d/7cdztf8
by vindex10 | 2025-11-04 09:13:27+00:00
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by mafuy | 2025-11-04 09:14:12+00:00
Even assuming that the points you present are all factual, your (more than) eye-for-eye position does not align with Western and democratic values. He is a murderer, so kill him for his crimes, and kill his familiy and friends, too, because they are all guilty, without trial, by association! That's what happened in Gaza and you seem to like that.
by internet_points | 2025-11-04 09:14:27+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#Har...

you would add a special "typeball" into your IBM Selectric Typewriter. Some pics:

https://www.duxburysystems.org/downloads/library/texas/apple...

https://pierce.smugmug.com/Misc/APL-Typeball/i-pjq6hWC
by sprinkly-dust | 2025-11-04 09:14:47+00:00
The remarkable 2, especially if you downgrade the OS to the older 2.x versions, is very hackable. It runs full Linux, I followed a blog post about setting up FDE on it using go and cryptfs [1]. You can make GUI applications, people have even run XFCE, and people have fed handwriting input to another API so routing it internally shouldn't be much harder.

So yes, theoretically you can turn the reMarkable 2 into a emacs lisp machine, although it would take a considerable amount of time.

I haven't read up on the reMarkable Paper Pro, but I think the dev ecosystem for that is very much alive too.

[1] https://blog.redteam-pentesting.de/2021/remarkable-encryptio...
by lukebuehler | 2025-11-04 09:15:10+00:00
If cannot the say they are "thinking", "intelligent" while we do not have a good definition--or, even more difficult, unanimous agreement on a definition--then the discussion just becomes about output.

They are doing useful stuff, saving time, etc, which can be measured. Thus also the defintion of AGI has largely become: "can produce or surpass the economic output of a human knowledge worker".

But I think this detracts from the more interesting discussion of what they are more essentially. So, while I agree that we should push on getting our terms defined, I think I'd rather work with a hazy definition, than derail so many AI discussion to mere economic output.
by otikik | 2025-11-04 09:15:12+00:00
> price per token, which has fallen.

I think that statement is incomplete. It's cheaper because the AI providers are subsidizing the queries by burning cash in order to gain market share. So it's not a price, it's a subsidized and temporary price. Which will likely go up once burnable money runs out / the providers switch from "market acquisition" to "let's try to make this thing profitable at all".
by enraged_camel | 2025-11-04 09:15:57+00:00
This comment is a bit strange.

>> While AI is strictly deterministic - it is technically chaotic

AI is neither deterministic nor chaotic. It is nondeterministic because it works based on probability, which means that for open-ended contexts it can be unpredictable. But properly engineered agentic AI workflows can drastically reduce and even completely eliminate the unpredictability. Having proper guardrails such as well-defined prompts, validations and fallbacks in place can help ensure mistakes made by AIs don't result in errors in your system.
by delichon | 2025-11-04 09:16:41+00:00
> You ought not to endeavour to amuse and deceive your adversary, by pretending to have made bad moves, and saying you have now lost the game

I've done a variation of this in a rated game. Like pretend I accidentally touched a piece and now am compelled to move it. Loud sigh. It was effective at least once, both of us patzers. It hadn't occurred to me that I should feel bad about it. I'm not sure I do.
by klustregrif | 2025-11-04 09:17:35+00:00
You cannot imprison the guilty parties, they write the laws, and under the law you taking any action is criminal and will likely be classified as terrorism or political violence. They can however arrest you for holding a sign at a protest of merely for existing. These days someone just need to yell “I think it’s an immigrant” and true or not, your rights to due process disappear. All the while the scammers get pardoned by the president because they were too profitable in their scams to fail.
by npodbielski | 2025-11-04 09:17:48+00:00
I did not really inspect their code in this detail. I just did it once few years ago when I was exploring integrating with my oidc provider that use. At that time auth code looked not great with static class handling it it somehow. Anyway I meant that if you scanning a lot of files and do some kind of operations for each of them, and obviously you need to save the result. Depending on how you do it. You could ram sqlite DB with thousands of connection. Which is not great way to do it but it is possible.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-11-04 09:17:51+00:00
One of the people running for mayor of NYC is making the argument that if you vote for him, he'll cave to Trump and avoid having soldiers sent to the streets of New York by the President.

Just the latest in a series of moments that make me think "people even just a year ago would not believe you if you told them that was going to happen" as things accelerate.

Regarding one of the threads in the article, the physics and books YouTuber Angela Collier recently proposed the name Mephistos for these failures that boost themselves via connections to fascism, based on the book "Mephisto: a novel of a career" and the real life story it draws on.

It's one of several Faust books she covers in "Faust and the Furious":

https://youtu.be/CnsDc9GDn1Y
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-11-04 09:19:09+00:00
Huh, i stand corrected, thanks! I think this brings both options to similar prices, so at the very least the spirit of the quote is true. Here’s my math:

- My handyman changes $50/hour, but if you find a new person maybe they charge $75-$100/hour

- materials are cheap, probably like $50 total for mud and drywall, or a repair kit

- with two hours labor, the total should be somewhere from $150-$250.

- if the handyman won’t accept a job less than 4 hours, the range is $250-$450.
by alexdowad | 2025-11-04 09:19:40+00:00
ivanjermakov, I don't know if you are an open source maintainer or not (I am, for several projects). If you are, and you follow the policy that "I will never reject PRs because of having no time, I will always get to it eventually", then I salute you. That is a self-sacrificing, altruistic position to take. It's also a very difficult position to maintain for the long term. If you can do it: congratulations!

As for me, my position is: "My project is my house. You want to be a guest in my house, you follow my rules. I really like people and am usually happy to answer questions from people who are reasonably polite, to review and provide feedback on their PRs, and so on. But I won't be pressured to prioritize your GitHub issue or PR over my work, my family, my friends, my health, or my personal goals in life. If you try to force me, I'll block you and there will be no further interaction."

If you don't like that position, well, I understand your feelings.
by mariocandela | 2025-11-04 09:20:07+00:00
Through our honeypot (https://github.com/mariocandela/beelzebub), I’ve identified a major evolution of the RondoDox botnet, first reported by FortiGuard Labs in 2024.

The newly discovered RondoDox v2 shows a dramatic leap in sophistication and scale:

+650% increase in exploit vectors (75+ CVEs observed)

New C&C infrastructure on compromised residential IPs

16 architecture variants

Open attacker signature: bang2013@atomicmail[.]io

Targets expanded from DVRs and routers to enterprise systems

The full report includes:

- In-depth technical analysis (dropper, ELF binaries, XOR decoding)

- Full IOC list

- YARA and Snort/Suricata detection rules

- Discovery timeline and attribution insights
by exDM69 | 2025-11-04 09:20:21+00:00
Two more from the world of analog music/guitar electronics:

1) Ring modulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_modulation

A device used to multiply two analog signals in time domain. Best known for the sound of the Daleks in the original 1960s Doctor Who series. Has some applications outside of music and sound effects. If you can find those old fashioned audio transformers, this effect does not require a power source.

2) Diode clipper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_(electronics)

Two diodes in parallel with opposite polarities. Clips the incoming AC signal to a +/- diode threshold voltage. Put a high voltage gain amplifier stage in front of it and you get the classic electric guitar distortion tone you know and love. Allegedly works best with germanium-unobtainium diodes. In their absence, using two different kinds of diodes can also have pleasant tonal qualities.
by kanwisher | 2025-11-04 09:20:29+00:00
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by wavemode | 2025-11-04 09:20:37+00:00
Google themselves are an AI company (in case anyone forgot) - if LLM-powered search is going to become a popular product, then that's great news for Google. They already have an LLM capable of searching the Web, and they've already integrated it heavily into their search engine, browser, mobile phones, and Office suite.

OpenAI has nothing resembling this ecosystem, and will never be nearly as valuable a place to buy ads. Replacing Google is probably the least realistic business plan for OpenAI - if that's what they're betting on, they're cooked.