MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by burnt-resistor | 2025-12-07 17:29:14+00:00
I don't know NC law. Does it have an "invitation to treat" practice there where prices marked are a customer relations issue rather than a legally-binding offer?

To attain change, enough people have to:

1. Correctly identify the source of their misery, because it ain't [insert scapegoats].

2. Find others who agree with them.

3. Make a plan for effective countering of 1.

4. Use intestinal fortitude and endure temporary setbacks to achieve 3. to overcome 1.

5. Prevent 1. from ever happening again structurally, culturally, and through vigilant participation.

The 0th problem is the political operating system is captured by criminals and power has centralized grotesquely in ways that defeat the fundamental function of separation of powers. All elected officials corrupted by lobbyist bribes need to face accountability and have a code of ethics and integrity, because continuing down this path is the road to ruin.
by aarroyoc | 2025-12-07 17:29:20+00:00
At least where I work, writing new Java code is discouraged and you should instead use Kotlin for backend services. Spring Boot which is the framework we use, supports Kotlin just fine, at the same level as Java. And if you use Jetbrains tools, Kotlin tooling is also pretty good (outside Jetbrains I will admit it is worse than Java). Now, even in new Java projects you can still be using Kotlin because it is the default language for Gradle (previously it was Groovy).
by jimnotgym | 2025-12-07 17:29:39+00:00
>dependent on Microsoft programs such as Word or Excel

This kind of suggests that they have a bunch of VBA scripts in the tax department and the legal team are dependent on sharing 'track changes' in contracts. It will do the world a favour if the VBA is forced out. Don't know what they will do about 'track changes', it is ubiquitous in the contract world. Hopefully they will force government suppliers onto the libre alternative.
by sholladay | 2025-12-07 17:30:26+00:00
I’m only aware of two times that Apple has revoked certificates for apps distributed outside of the App Store. One was for Facebook’s Research App. The other was for Google’s Screenwise Meter. Both apps were basically spyware for young teens.

In each case, Apple revoked the enterprise certificate for the company, which caused a lot of internal fallout beyond just the offending app, because internal tools were distributed the same way.

Something may have changed, though, because I see Screenwise Meter listed on the App Store for iOS.

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-research-app-root-certi...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/google-screenwise-unwi...
by andsoitis | 2025-12-07 17:30:31+00:00
When you hover over someone's blue checkmark, it says: "Verified account" with a hyperlink to "learn more" which take you to this page: https://help.x.com/en/managing-your-account/about-x-verified... where it says:

Your account must meet the following criteria to receive or retain the blue checkmark:

- Complete: Your account must have a display name and profile photo

- Active use: Your account must be active in the past 30 days to subscribe to X Premium

- Security: Your account must have a confirmed phone number

Non-Deceptive:

- Your account must have no recent changes to your profile photo, display name, or username (@handle)

- Your account must have no signs of being misleading or deceptive

- Your account must have no signs of engaging in platform manipulation and spam
by michaelt | 2025-12-07 17:30:42+00:00
> OpenAI has disabled a feature in ChatGPT that suggested third-party applications [...] “There are no live tests for ads – any screenshots you’ve seen are either not real or not ads,” Mr Turley wrote.

Here's what people were seeing: https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1995357492713570735

Looks pretty clear-cut to me - that's an advert for peloton.

And someone who decompiled a recent version of the chatgpt android app https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligenc... found new classes like 'com.openai.feature.ads.data.AdTarget' and 'com.openai.feature.ads.data.SearchAdsCarousel'

That peloton received the advertising "free with your purchase of platform services" doesn't mean it's not an advert.
by frmersdog | 2025-12-07 17:30:44+00:00
Russia in Afghanistan. America in Afghanistan. America in Iraq. America and France in Vietnam. France in Algeria. France in Haiti. Britain in Ireland.

Honorable mention to Britain in America and Germany in France, where guerilla/resistance forces were instrumental in the eventual allied victories, even though the invaders were eventually toppled by outside armies.

I dunno, maybe Berliners would prefer becoming Ukrainian War-era Kyiv instead of WWII-era Paris after all.
by KHRZ | 2025-12-07 17:30:53+00:00
LLMs can actually make up for their negative contributions. They could go through all the references of all papers and verify them, assuming someone would also look into what gets flagged for that final seal of disapproval.

But this would be more powerfull with an open knowledge base where all papers and citation verifications were registered, so that all the effort put into verification could be reused, and errors propagated through the citation chain.
by figassis | 2025-12-07 17:31:24+00:00
It is absolutely the reviewers job to check citations. Who else will check and what is the point of peer review then? So you’d just happily pass on shoddy work because it’s not your job? You’re reviewing both the authors work and if there were people to at needed to ensure citations were good, you’re checking their work also. This is very much the problem today with this “not my problem” mindset. If it passes review, the reviewer is also at fault. Not excuses.
by nyankas | 2025-12-07 17:32:11+00:00
The German government actually started and funded quite a few projects supporting FOSS development over the past few years. For example, ZenDis was founded in 2022 to develop open-source software for the public administration. They are the driving force behind openDesk, which is shaping up to be a great office- and collaboration suite. Also, there's the Sovereign Tech Agency, where open-source projects can apply for direct funding. The available funds aren't as big as I'd like them to be, but it's not as if there's no funding coming from the German government.
by salawat | 2025-12-07 17:32:16+00:00
What you don't do (deny for systemic purposes) has just as much impact as what you actively do. The blood remains on your hands for just letting a denial the insurer sets up skate by.

If you're a medical professional here, and God help you if you are; and if you work for these assholes, they are killing people and using you to do it. You are enabling them by being willing to provide that "medical oversight". It's a feature you can't work through every case, and the only one getting enriched is them!

Get out while you still have a soul left.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-12-07 17:32:39+00:00
Offtopic, but I made the mistake once of buying groceries from Amazon and they instead sold me a package of cheddar cheese that was completely blue from mold. Some "quality" inspections they got going don't bode well for public-private "partnerships" that outsource essential government functions to a corrupt third-party that's likely to be owned by a craptastic private equity hedge fund.
by dmix | 2025-12-07 17:33:13+00:00
Netflix's paid+ads plan costs 50% less than the standard paid only version with no ads.

I could see ChatGPT search results having affiliate links for shopping stuff even for fully-paid users.

There's a lot of competition in this space, so we'll see what users tolerate. But it's going to be tough getting around the fact this stuff is expensive to run.

Things like this are only 'free' for a reason.
by buildbot | 2025-12-07 17:33:26+00:00
Yes, if they did not solder on the memory it would use more power. The longer the lines are to your DRAM, the more impedance there is and you need higher drive power on your memory controller. LPDDR has been soldered forever as far as I know, though with the introduction of CAMM (compression attached memory modules), this has changed. I don’t know but I would bet money CAMM is still higher power for less bandwidth than DRAM packaged on the SoC base die or however apples does it.
by hylaride | 2025-12-07 17:33:40+00:00
That's kind of what I'm asking. I did have a former co-worker write a micro service in Kotlin around 2018. He said that as nice as the language is, the ecosystem was (at the time, not sure how it is today) so utterly dominated by Android development, that he said he wouldn't recommend using it again - half the time he was calling out Java anyways.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-12-07 17:33:49+00:00
Sure the market will have ups and downs, commoditizing your complement is not an investment in the complement, its an investment in their business to increase sales of their primary market by decreasing costs for their customers.

They can choose how strong they commoditize their complement: perhaps buying up and expanding operations of RAM manufacture (an investment indeed, or a revenue insurance if a GPU competitor springs up), or more expensive buying up IP and licensing IP below market prices to novel RAM factories in friendly nations perhaps with exclusive priority or agreed prices for RAM at specified volumes etc., or even more expensive buying up IP and putting in public domain. The most optimal depth of commoditization would have to be calculated by such a GPU manufacturer.
by andy12_ | 2025-12-07 17:33:59+00:00
This is an oversimplification of what Titans does. The model performs nested learned, where the model learns during inference, and during training the model weights learn _how and what_ to learn during inference. If the input contains junk of irrelevant information, the model most likely learned during training to assign low surprise query and key embeddings to those tokens, because learning those junk tokens would have hurt the overall ability of the model to predict subsequent next tokens (and thus, it would have had increased the training loss).
by dataflow | 2025-12-07 17:34:34+00:00
I don't commonly do this and I don't know many people who do this frequently either. But it depends strongly on the code, the risks, the gains of doing so, the contributor, the project, the state of testing and how else an error would get caught (I guess this is another way of saying "it depends on the risks"), etc.

E.g. you can imagine that if I'm reviewing changes in authentication logic, I'm obviously going to put a lot more effort into validation than if I'm reviewing a container and wondering if it would be faster as a hashtable instead of a tree.

> because I want to make sure my suggestion is correct.

In this case I would just ask "have you already also tried X" which is much faster than pulling their code, implementing your suggestion, and waiting for a build and test to run.
by saimiam | 2025-12-07 17:35:03+00:00
> The LLM doesn't know what "reliable" sources are, or "real knowledge". Everything it has is user text, there is nothing it knows that isn't user text. It doesn't know what "verified" knowledge is. It doesn't know what "fake data" is, it simply has its model.

Is it the case that all content used to train a model is strictly equal? Genuinely asking since I'd imagine a peer reviewed paper would be given precedence over a blog post on the same topic.

Regardless, somehow an LLM knows things for sure - that the daytime sky on earth is generally blue and glasses of wine are never filled to the brim.

This means that it is using hermeneutics of some sort to extract "the truth as it sees it" from the data it is fed.

It could be something as trivial as "if a majority of the content I see says that the daytime Earth sky is blue, then blue it is" but that's still hermeneutics.

This custom instruction only adds (or reinforces) existing hermeneutics it already uses.

> walking around thinking you have a solution to hallucinations

I don't. I know hallucinations are not truly solvable. I shared the actual custom instruction to see if others can try it and check if it helps reduce hallucinations.

In my case, this the first custom instruction I have ever used with my chatgpt account - after adding the custom instruction, I asked chatgpt to review an ongoing conversation to confirm that its responses so far conformed to the newly added custom instructions. It clarified two claims it had earlier made.

> My understanding is that hallucinations are a result of physics and the algorithms at play. The LLM always needs to guess what the next word will be. There is never a point where there is a word that is 100% likely to occur next.

There are specific rules in the custom instruction forbidding fabricating stuff. Will it be foolproof? I don't think it will. Can it help? Maybe. More testing needed. Is testing this custom instruction a waste of time because LLMs already use better hermeneutics? I'd love to know so I can look elsewhere to reduce hallucinations.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-12-07 17:35:22+00:00
You may need to explain more? I don’t think I missed the big idea - the metaphor of a separate plane or higher dimension that contains ideas not expressible in the ordinary one is a nice metaphor, and does apply well to some things (Kuhn’s paradigms in history of science come to mind, e.g. Newtonian Mechanics versus Relativity). I just don’t think it really applies well here. What business concepts or thoughts can you express in Clojure that you can’t express in Python or Rust?
by jascha_eng | 2025-12-07 17:35:38+00:00
OpenAI and Anthropic at least are both pretty clear about the fact that you need to check the output:

https://openai.com/policies/row-terms-of-use/

https://www.anthropic.com/legal/aup

OpenAI:

> When you use our Services you understand and agree:

Output may not always be accurate. You should not rely on Output from our Services as a sole source of truth or factual information, or as a substitute for professional advice. You must evaluate Output for accuracy and appropriateness for your use case, including using human review as appropriate, before using or sharing Output from the Services. You must not use any Output relating to a person for any purpose that could have a legal or material impact on that person, such as making credit, educational, employment, housing, insurance, legal, medical, or other important decisions about them. Our Services may provide incomplete, incorrect, or offensive Output that does not represent OpenAI’s views. If Output references any third party products or services, it doesn’t mean the third party endorses or is affiliated with OpenAI.

Anthropic:

> When using our products or services to provide advice, recommendations, or in subjective decision-making directly affecting individuals or consumers, a qualified professional in that field must review the content or decision prior to dissemination or finalization. You or your organization are responsible for the accuracy and appropriateness of that information.

So I don't think we can say they are lying.

A poor workman blames his tools. So please take responsibility for what you deliver. And if the result is bad, you can learn from it. That doesn't have to mean not use AI but it definitely means that you need to fact check more thoroughly.
by hnfong | 2025-12-07 17:35:53+00:00
IMHO what should change is we stop putting "peer reviewed" articles on a pedestal.

Even if peer review is as rigorous as code reviewed (the former which is usually unpaid), we all know that reviewed code still has bugs, and a programmer would be nuts to go around saying "this code is reviewed by experts, we can assume it's bug free, right?"

But there are too many people who are just assuming peer reviewed articles means they're somehow automatically correct.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-12-07 17:36:04+00:00
> Waydroid, for instance, requires that your kernel is compiled in basically "Android mode" (e.g. binder enabled).

Waydroid needs you to have a single kernel module, which is in mainline Linux and just happens to be disabled in many desktop builds. That hardly makes it an "Android mode" kernel, and I certainly see no reason why it should make the system no good.
by constantcrying | 2025-12-07 17:36:21+00:00
Absolutely correct. The real issue is that these people can avoid punishment. If you do not care enough about your paper to even verify the existence of citations, then you obviously should not have a job as a scientist.

Taking an academic who does something like that seriously, seem impossible. At best he is someone who is neglecting his most basic duties as an academic, at worst he is just a fraudster. In both cases he should be shunned and excluded.
by jimnotgym | 2025-12-07 17:37:23+00:00
I wonder if it is in fact easier in a German region than a bank though. A bank has massive compliance complications, where the state insists on rules being met, so their are teams of people trying to make sure no rules being broken, and therefore anti-change. Germany is a Federal system, and the region has law making powers, a bit like a US state. Therefore it can set the rules to make sure migration to a new system happens. If big fixes are not allowed, they have themselves to blame. At a bank it is the state causing the friction.
by wrs | 2025-12-07 17:38:04+00:00
The essay’s thesis is “most people don’t consider Lisp because they don’t know what’s different and special about it”. I think that’s unarguably the case. You equated that with “everyone else is stupid”, which is uncharitable and not at all what the essay says. Why would you even bother to write an essay if your audience is too stupid to understand what you’re saying?
by lukan | 2025-12-07 17:38:08+00:00
For hunting in a way you want? Not having to pay taxes? Raise your children in the nomadic hunter livestyle? I think schooling (and lots of other things) is mandatory in the US as well. And child protection service etc. exist. So it might be easier in the US to cosplay as a forest nomad for some time (and I know some people did it as eremits for a bit longer) but a real nomadic livestyle means living with other people together in a tribe. That does not work (just the rule to move camp after 2 weeks prevents that).
by lapcat | 2025-12-07 17:38:23+00:00
The article is about macOS apps, but you're talking about iOS apps.

Apple revokes macOS Developer ID code signing certificates all the time, mostly for malware, but occasionally for goodware, e.g., Charlie Monroe and HP printer drivers.

Also, infamously, Apple revoked the macOS Developer ID cert of Epic Games, as punishment for their iOS App Store dispute.
by joshribakoff | 2025-12-07 17:38:31+00:00
I am not an electrician, but when I did projects, I did a lot of research before deciding to hire someone and then I was extremely confused when everyone was proposing doing it slightly differently.

A lot of them proposed ways that seem to violate the code, like running flex tubing beyond the allowed length or amount of turns.

Another example would be people not accounting for needing fireproof covers if they’re installing recessed, lighting in between dwelling in certain cities…

Heck, most people don’t actually even get the permit. They just do the unpermitted work.
by Muller20 | 2025-12-07 17:38:41+00:00
In general, a citation is something that needs to be precise, while LLMs are very good at generating some generic high probability text not grounded in reality. Sure, you could implement a custom fix for the very specific problem of citations, but you cannot solve all kinds of hallucinations. After all, if you could develop a manual solution you wouldn't use an LLM.

There are some mitigations that are used such as RAG or tool usage (e.g. a browser), but they don't completely fix the underlying issue.
by treetalker | 2025-12-07 17:38:48+00:00
Is the swing toward lower-end chips appreciably caused by the Trump administration (tariffs, push for a return of U.S. manufacturing, Apple's kowtowing to Trump (e.g., pressure to "kiss the ring" / Tim Apple's golden present to the president), etc.)?

Asking out of genuine curiosity because I know very little about chip manufacturing and Apple's internal processes and politics.
by segmondy | 2025-12-07 17:38:50+00:00
It's quite foolish of you to make that assumption. To begin with, with my timezone and when I could get to it, I was starting 12 hrs after the release so the leaderboard was useless. I was writing about it openly on the internet, pointing out the huddles I faced and how much effort it took to get the LLM to generate the correct solutions.
by denimnerd42 | 2025-12-07 17:39:05+00:00
it's too expensive to move with closing costs and realtor fees :( It's almost always better to buy the most expensive house you can if you you still have a way to increase your earning potential in your career. if you could move without a 6% fee and $xx,xxx financial fees it would definitely be better for everyone overall except the industries who have inserted themselves into these transactions
by ModernMech | 2025-12-07 17:39:43+00:00
> "Artisanal" languages like Lisp, and Forth can be fantastic at solving problems elegantly, but that's not the most important thing to optimize for in big organizations ... Many of the tools that come from big tech are designed to ease the challenges of organizational scale.

I think the field of programming languages has grown enough that we have to start acknowledging the future of programming largely won't be in the context of what it means for devs working at large corporations. One of my favorite talks is from Amy J. Ko called A Human View of Programming [1], which argues there are many other ways to look at programming than "tool for generating business activity" and "mathematical construct", which heretofore have been the dominant views of programming languages.

Because there are so many other forms and purposes programming languages can and will take (she goes through them in the talk), so evaluating them and creating them solely on how well they are able to fit into a corporate R&D pipeline is a very narrow and short-term view of the field.

Indeed, it's been the case for a long time now that most people who write programs are not in fact professional software developers. The most used language in the world is Excel, by several orders of magnitude, and it's the opposite of everything devs say a "proper" language must be. There's something we as a field still need to learn from that.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjkzAls5fsI
by whymememe | 2025-12-07 17:40:47+00:00
"Without any external pressure, multiple peoples concluded that settling and eating grass was preferable to being nomads."

Portraying it as an individual choice is inaccurate. The process of populations becoming sedentary(and agrarian) spans over multiple generations and wasn't really reversible. The early settlements likely only worked because they had some method to force people from leaving and the later settlements had to be sedentary because their neighbours were sedentary, it had a cascade effect. Oversimplified but that's the gist.
by Vespasian | 2025-12-07 17:40:50+00:00
Recent comments (and by now published strategy) of the US administration have certainly shifted public and political perception. Not necessarily 180° but enough too make such projects/attempts more viable.

In the end, from a European/German perspective, it matters little whether these thoughts/comments/strategies are a negotiation tactic, "trolling", serious threats or something else entirely. And the fact that "Government adjacent" people like Elon Musk behave the way the do certainly doesn't help.

The fear that the United States may use it's tech companies as blunt offensive weapens does now exist (in a semi-abstract form) where it didn't 5 or 10 years ago.

I think at this point in time nobody can say what the end result will be or how things may develop in the future. Either on the political or the technological field.