MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jsrozner | 2025-11-13 00:16:05+00:00
One difference is that if it were found that a psychiatrist or other professional had encouraged a patient's delusions or suicidal tendencies, then that person would likely lose his/her license and potentially face criminal penalties.

We know that humans should be able to consider the consequences of their actions and thus we hold them accountable (generally).

I'd be surprised if comparisons in the self-driving space have not been made: if waymo is better than the average driver, but still gets into an accident, who should be held accountable?

Though we also know that with big corporations, even clear negligence that leads to mass casualties does not often result in criminal penalties (e.g., Boeing).
by mcastle | 2025-11-13 00:16:25+00:00
First, thank you for the confidence about Logosive taking off.

You describe an interesting problem with the moat. I'm hoping we can be the choice venue for debates by providing the best debate creation and discovery experience and by also providing larger paychecks to debaters than news channels and podcasts could ever hope to provide to debaters, hosts, and debate promoters, through Logosive's funding mechanism and a large revenue share for all parties involved in the debate.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-11-13 00:16:42+00:00
I built a computer December 2024 with a Ryzen 9900X, 64GB DDR5, 1TB + 4TB SSDs, 4060. If I were to buy the exact same parts now, nearly 1 year later, it would cost about $1,000 more for the exact same components. The memory alone went from $189 to $505. I'm not sure how much of that is from tariffs and how much is due to AI datacenter demand, but that is a massive increase.
by xerokimo | 2025-11-13 00:17:33+00:00
RAISI is always wrong because the whole advantage of the try block is to write a unit of code as if it can't fail so that what said unit is intended to do if no errors occur is very local.

If you really want to handle an error coming from a single operation, you can create a new function, or immediately invoke a lambda. This would remove the need break RAII and making your class more brittle to use.

You can be exhaustive with try/catch if you're willing to lose some information, whether that's catching a base exception, or use the catch all block.

If you know what all the base classes your program throws, you can centralize your catch all and recover some information using a Lippincott function.

I've done my own exploring in the past with the thought experiment of, what would a codebase which only uses exceptions for error handling look like, and can you reason with it? And I concluded you can, there's just a different mentality of how you look at your code.
by keyle | 2025-11-13 00:17:48+00:00
I'm floored. Incredible work.

also check out their interactive examples on the webapp. It's a bit more rough around the edges but shows real user input/output. Arguably such examples could be pushed further to better quality output.

e.g. https://marble.worldlabs.ai/world/b75af78a-b040-4415-9f42-6d...

e.g. https://marble.worldlabs.ai/world/cbd8d6fb-4511-4d2c-a941-f4...
by Jnr | 2025-11-13 00:18:01+00:00
It doesn't have to be bypassed. Those same anti-cheats used by many unsupported titles are enabled for some games and work fine on Linux. So you just have to give the developers some incentive to enable it for their titles. It is a choice made by game developers. Currently they don't see a market on Linux/Steam OS but if Steam Machines become popular, potentially they would be missing a market and decide to join in.
by throwaway81998 | 2025-11-13 00:18:09+00:00
Serious question, not a "what's the point of this" shitpost... My experience with local LLMs is limited.

Just installed LM Studio on a new machine today (2025 Asus ROG Flow Z13, 96GB VRAM, running Linux). Haven't had the time to test it out yet.

Is there a reason for me to choose Gerbil instead? Or something else entirely?
by munk-a | 2025-11-13 00:18:44+00:00
America is allergic to baked in taxes - you've got to keep the appearance of a deal even when there isn't one. America also embraces a lot of junk and hidden fees - ticketmaster is a great example of this.

I think consumers would love having baked in taxes and clear prices and were the government functional I'd hope that a consumer advocacy agency could enforce this - but that's simply not where we are right now.
by sivers | 2025-11-13 00:19:39+00:00
Yes HUGE props to Void Linux. https://voidlinux.org/

Wonderfully under-rated. Robust as anything and SO FAST. It was my sole desktop OS for years, and while I’m dabbling with Debian right now, I miss Void the most. So lean and snappy.

Coming from OpenBSD and FreeBSD, Void Linux feels almost the same. Same rc init scripts and such.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-13 00:19:44+00:00
If I understand this correctly, Valve provides the src packages for the packages they distribute. This person wrote a script to download the src packages and extract them. The README misleadingly claims it's a "mirror" of Valve's private git repos, which is not accurate.

The author wants them to open up their GitLab instance, showing their internal development. That's not required under GPL.

Valve appears to be complying. This person wanted access into their internal development systems, though.

The rest of the README is tens of thousands of lines about capitalism, abstaining from procreation, and withdrawing from society with hundreds of links to videos and hundreds of quotes. It's very strange. These are not the writings of a healthy person, sadly.
by simonw | 2025-11-13 00:19:49+00:00
That really is the most interesting question for me: when will it be possible to run a model that is good enough to drive Claude Code or Codex CLI on consumer hardware?

gpt-oss-120b fits on a $4000 NVIDIA Spark and can be used by Codex - it's OK but still nowhere near the bigger ones: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/codex-spark-gpt-oss

But... MiniMax M2 benchmarks close to Sonnet 4 and is 230B - too big for one Spark but can run on a $10,000 Mac Studio.

And Kimi K2 runs on two Mac Studios ($20,000).

So we are getting closer.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-13 00:20:25+00:00
It's easy to see a future where primary sources post their information directly online (already largely the case) and AI agents make tailored, interactive news for their users.

Sure, there may still be investigative journalism and long form, but those are hardly the money makers.

Also, just like SWE's, writers have that same "do I have a place in the future?" anxiety in the back of their head.

The media is very hostile towards AI, and the threat is on multiple levels.
by acdha | 2025-11-13 00:20:38+00:00
Copyright law isn’t binary and has long-running allowances for fair use which take into consideration factors like scale, revenue, and whether it replaces the original. As a real non-profit, the Internet Archive is not selling its copies of the NYT and it’s always giving full credit to the source. In contrast, ChatGPT does charge for their output and while it may give citations that’s not a given.
by OJFord | 2025-11-13 00:20:53+00:00
But it's simple to fix: keep all values representable. So get rid of 2c if you have them, or 5, but keep the 1.

Since we got rid of the half penny in the UK there simply isn't half penny pricing. (I do remember 2-for-a-penny sweets though, but they'd probably be at least 5p each now anyway.)
by cesarb | 2025-11-13 00:20:58+00:00
> And it's the actual GPU that's outputting a HDMI signal over the Displayport connector, which the adapter than rewires in to a HDMI shaped connector.

There are two kinds of DP to HDMI adapters. The passive ones are like you said, they need special support on the GPU (these ports are usually labelled as DP++), IIRC they only do some voltage level shifting. The active ones work on any DP port (they don't need AFAIK any special support on the GPU), and they do the full protocol conversion.
by skacholia | 2025-11-13 00:21:02+00:00
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by DarkNova6 | 2025-11-13 00:21:08+00:00
Ah, got you.

> I haven't kept aware of changes to Java in the last decade, but the things I didn't like about it then were:

It's almost a shame. I am genuinely impressed with the gains the team has made in both, language aspects as well as JVM technology. They have some brilliant people working on it and I love to hear their talks (Brian Goetz and Mark Reinhold, mostly).

But I suppose I would say the same about .Net, it's just that you guys have much less public exposure of your internal reasoning.
by dactile | 2025-11-13 00:21:23+00:00
There’s a part of San Francisco where almost 30 streets are named after US States. I was curious about this, and ended up downloading 10GB of OpenStreetMaps data to explore. There are about 47,000 streets with state names. “Washington”, with its presidential crossover, is understandably the most common name to appear in a street name (over 9000 occurrences). Like there are 94 streets named North Dekota, but none of them are actually in ND (lots of numbers instead). Meanwhile 39% of streets with “Wisconsin” in the name are located in Wisconsin. I think a fun little glimpse into weird geography. The article includes some visualizations and notes on implementation.
by sedatk | 2025-11-13 00:21:43+00:00
Okay, I already have preferred languages selected: English and Turkish. If I visit a `<html lang="tr">` page I should see date inputs rendered in Turkish culture right? That's not the case unfortunately.

See it for yourself:

lang=en-US -> https://kod.ssg.dev/localetest/

lang=tr-TR -> https://kod.ssg.dev/localetest/index-tr.html
by otterley | 2025-11-13 00:21:57+00:00
> As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ infringing conduct alleged herein, The Times has sustained and will continue to sustain substantial, immediate, and irreparable injury for which there is no adequate remedy at law. Unless Defendants’ infringing conduct is enjoined by this Court, Defendants have demonstrated an intent to continue to infringe the copyrighted works. The Times therefore is entitled to permanent injunctive relief restraining and enjoining Defendants’ ongoing infringing conduct.

This is boilerplate language in a claim seeking injunctive relief. In contract law in law school, you learn there's a historical difference between cases at law (where the only remedy is money) and cases in equity (where the court can issue injunctions). If you want to stop someone from violating your rights, you claim "irreparable injury" (that is, money isn't enough) and ask for the court in equity to issue an injunction.

> It _claims_ harm, but doesn't actually explain what the harm is. Reduced profits? Lower readership? All they say is "OpenAI violated our copyrights, and we deserve money."

Copyright violation, in and of itself, constitutes a judicially cognizable injury. It's a violation of a type of property right - that is, the right to exclude others from using your artistic works without your permission. The Copyright Act specifies that victims of copyright infringement are not only entitled to an injunction, but also to statutory damages as well as compensatory damages to be determined by a jury. See 17 U.S.C. § 504.

Similarly, you don't have to claim a specific injury in a garden-variety trespass action. The violation of your property rights is enough.
by verdverm | 2025-11-13 00:22:05+00:00
We've minimized our usage of the DSL, there is no way for devs to debug it without pushing commits, and it means you have to implement much of your CI logic twice (once for local dev, once for ci system).

IMO, ci should be running the same commands humans would run (or could if it is production settings). Thus our Jenkins pipelines became a bunch of DSL boilerplate wrapped around make commands. The other nice thing about this is that it prepares you for easier migrations to a new ci system
by TrackerFF | 2025-11-13 00:22:14+00:00
Excellent website, I'm an electrical engineer by trade, and play guitar. Back in college tube amps were long, long gone for anything other than microwave engineering.

My first real amp was a JCM800 2203 (technically a JMP "Mk 2 master model", which is just a cascaded JMP/Plexi, which Marshall then later re-released as JCM800 when their export deal expired...but I digress), and when I got into modding this website was my first real encounter with easy explained guides of the circuits.
by MarsIronPI | 2025-11-13 00:22:23+00:00
I'm looking forward to the future of games and movies if these world models keep improving. Imagine if anyone with an interesting idea could sketch it, plug it into a world model and share the result with everyone. It'd open up a huge amount of possibilities.

Not to mention being able to explore worlds from already existing works. Care to go for a ride on a broomstick? How about simply walking into Mordor? It's exciting.
by pegasus89 | 2025-11-13 00:22:54+00:00
The installer is here: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/65B4-2AA3-5F37-42...

The sources of the packages are here: https://steamdeck-packages.steamos.cloud/archlinux-mirror/so...

And for the record most packages come directly from Arch Linux, unmodified.
by jmye | 2025-11-13 00:22:58+00:00
> The implication that title and intro mean to imply is working for companies that build products that are [...] hostile to their users. But the call to action is to.. embed logic in the programs to pluralize properly (in English).

So it's your belief that paying attention to how your tool communicates with it's users (in the language they're speaking) has no implications on user hostility? That's certainly a fascinating point of view that I would guess is in the extreme minority, and probably isn't actually something you believe yourself, if you stop trying to rant about California long enough to consider the words you wrote.

Also, would love if you'd call out where anything about "evil" is actually implied - I would assume that, when you read the actual written words, you'll realize you've added that yourself, and that perhaps you'll be a bit more careful in the future when trying to throw in a slightly wordier Twitter-slap. Or not, I suppose your post is "current social media discourse in an HN post" or whatever.
by tempest_ | 2025-11-13 00:23:00+00:00
Wired networking is faster than wireless, just not in the consumer space.

Most data center networking is 10s of gigabits on the lower end. People are throwing out 10/40gb hardware at this point. There just isnt any pressure in the consumer space. Most people don't even have 1gb internet connection and that is where they access most of their data.
by ringstar | 2025-11-13 00:23:02+00:00
I've been building neural nets in Python & Pytorch for a while but felt like I truly appreciate what was happening under the covers. So I set out to build an autograd engine from scratch in Rust.

This blog is a step-by-step tutorial on how to build nanograd in about 300 lines of code. The github repo is in the blog as well.
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-13 00:23:36+00:00
> I have no idea why are you dissing query languages.

I'm not. I'm pointing out that saying a Horn clause interpreter is a graph query language indicates a fundamental misunderstanding on your part. Prolog handles anything you want to say in formal logic very well (at the cost of not doing anything else well).

SQL on the other handle uses a completely different mathematical framework (relational algebra and set theory). This allows really effective optimization and query planning on top of a DB kernel.

A graph DB query language on the other hand should be based upon graph theory. Which is another completely different mathematical model. I haven't been impressed by the work in this area. I find these languages are too often dialects of SQL instead of a completely different thing based upon the correct mathematical model.

PS I used to write DBs. Discretion is the better part of valor here.
by munk-a | 2025-11-13 00:24:47+00:00
I'd like to clarify that point a bit.

They're allowed to get away with it because of a dysfunctional lobbying driven government. Mils don't exist in the common knowledge and if any reasonable person looked at this they'd call it out. It is useful in accounting but a Mill has never been minted and the last half penny was minted in 1857. It has never been possible using issued physical legal tender in the US to pay a debt of $3.129

The Mill doesn't exist because of some archaic need - it's pure dysfunction and the utilization of it in gas prices is a practice that should and very easily could be made illegal.
by chaboud | 2025-11-13 00:25:02+00:00
The shop will. It can be a lot of money in aggregate. It also creates really pathological purchasing incentives, where spreading out large purchases over several small purchases can yield significant savings for the purchaser.

There's one exceedingly simple answer:

Keep the penny (possibly a new one that is cheaper to make).

We're basically breaking into jail on this one, creating more problems than we're solving.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-11-13 00:25:15+00:00
I recall one of the biggest concerns around the time was that OOOE techniques would not continue scaling in width or depth, and that other techniques would be needed. This turned out to be true, but it was not some fringe idea -- the entire industry turned on this. Intel designed the narrow and less "brainy" Pentium 4 and hoped to achieve performance with frequency, and with HP they designed the in-order Itanium lines. AMD did some speed demon K9. IBM did the in-order POWER6 that got performance with high frequency and runahead speculative execution. Nvidia did a similar thing to Transmeta too, quite a while later IIRC.

All failures. Everybody went back to more conventional out of order designs and were able to find ways to keep scaling those.

I'm sure there were some people at all these companies who were always OOOE proponents and disagreed with these other approaches, but I think your summary has poop colored lenses :) It's a little uncharitable to say their ideas were nonsense. The reality is that this was a very uncertain and exploratory time, and many people with large shreds of cpu arch experience all did wildly different things, and many went down the wrong roads (with hindsight).
by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-13 00:25:23+00:00
I keep hearing that. I don't know law so i have some questions. Do countries/US have to respect that outside their own borders? Why in war is that dispensed with. I.E what is the underlying framework? How is it legal under US law to assassinate people/terrorists outside their borders? (i feel the answer is that in the US and most countries, they can do whatever they want to people outside their borders. I.E. There is no special constitutional protection for them. The only restrictions are aimed at not starting wars. I could be wrong about this. I'm not fluent in your constitution. The UK has no clear constitution either)

These are obvious questions, but i feel we don't agree on fundamentals here so it's important to clarify them.

For you: Do you think the US is facing a serious drug crisis? If they are, who is responsible for it? What do you think the correct response should be?

Do statistics show a significant drop in drug deaths? If yes, and i don't know, why would your response have better results?

Venezuela is too complicated, so i won't include it in my current discourse, unless you think it's the key factor without which no debate could be had. I'm not sure why that would be because there are plenty of other South America drug exporters.
by keyringlight | 2025-11-13 00:25:55+00:00
Something I think contributes is that TSMC seem to be so good at making chips now, it seems like the defect rate must be low enough and they can produce huge chips in volume that a decade ago would be burning money. If you can do that, why bother making less lucrative smaller chips? Also while there's still benefits to shrinking an existing chip with a revised design, I'd guess we're into diminishing returns for what it offers a console whether the chip itself gets cheaper or lets them reduce the bill of parts in other ways.

This is also the first generation where prices have gone up IIRC.
by nomel | 2025-11-13 00:26:16+00:00
> I heard once it will eventually lose it's form entirely

It will be sitting at something like -450F. Could it really lose form!? Is the idea that all the phonons could converge to one point, shifting an atom of metal (which will happen infinitely with infinite time)? Maybe with random photons/hydrogen/whatever "continuously" adding energy?

Neat.
by ogogmad | 2025-11-13 00:26:45+00:00
Slightly off-topic: I've just watched this takedown of an AI-generated chart-topping song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGremoYVMPc&lc=UgxfDvqX1G6kp...

OK, so I've talked about this phenomenon with ChatGPT, and I think that the issue here is that to a lot of people, a song needs to be more than just a "song". There's some sort of requirement for it to be the un-faked result of having certain experiences. It has to relate to something happening in reality, and to be derived from it, and cannot exist in a vacuum separated from the rest of reality. Otherwise to them, the music isn't "real".
by acdha | 2025-11-13 00:27:07+00:00
Each of those claims is not only incorrect but reveals a deep lack of knowledge about all of the measures taken to improve election security in the current century, not to mention the apparent unawareness of the lack of a leftist political party in power.

We already have an electoral system which people who aren’t actively mislead trust. The problem is the same as in other areas where something established far beyond reasonable doubt, such as the reality of climate change or vaccine efficacy and safety, is questioned not because facts are lacking but because a multi-billion dollar propaganda network pushed false claims for political purposes.
by nl | 2025-11-13 00:27:12+00:00
Signal does End-to-end encryption, so they (Signal) can never read it.

The whole point of ChatGPT conversations is so they can be read by the model on the server.

Conversations are kept around because they can be picked up and continued at any point (I use this feature frequently).

Additionally you can use conversations in their scheduled notification feature, where the conversation is replayed and updates are sent to you, all done on the server.

> OpenAI made a choice in how the feature was and is implemented.

Indeed they did, and it was a sensible choice given how the conversations are used.
by jstrieb | 2025-11-13 00:28:02+00:00
Hey, I wrote this! There are a couple of reasons that I included the disclosure.

The main one is to set reader expectations that any errors are entirely my own, and that I spent time reviewing the details of the work. The disclosure seemed to me a concise way to do that -- my intention was not any form of anti-AI virtue signaling.

The other reason is that I may use AI for some of my future work, and as a reader, I would prefer a disclosure about that. So I figured if I'm going to disclose using it, I might as well disclose not using it.

I linked to other thoughts on AI just in case others are interested in what I have to say. I don't stand to gain anything from what I write, and I don't even have analytics to tell me more people are viewing it.

All in all, I was just trying to be transparent, and share my work.