MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-02 03:49:11+00:00
The LLM doesn't produce erroneous output, its generated tokens fall within the statistical limits of the preset configuration, unless some kind of bitflip messed up the model in memory somehow. An LLM doesn't tell the truth or answer a question, it just spits out tokens. Its training doesn't involve validating whether or not the output forms a true fact or statement, but rather if the output looks like one. For the same reason, an LLM cannot lie, because an LLM doesn't have any intention, nor can it tell the truth. That level of thinking is beyond the capability of an LLM.

The term "hallucinations" are an anthropomorphised interpretation of valid output that's factually incorrect. It happens to people all the time (the human brain will make up any missing memories and subconsciously explain away inconsistencies, which only becomes obvious once you're dealing with someone with memory problems), so it feels like a decent term to use for garbage information produced without any ill intent.

The problem lies with the AI companies convincing their customers that the output generated by their tools is probable to mean anything. Probability engines are sold as some kind of chat program or even as some kind of autonomous agent because the output comes close enough to pass the Turing test to most people. LLMs can only mimic intelligence, interactivity, or any other kind of behavior, they cannot actually think or reason.

If people knew what they were operating, the "hallucinations" wouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately, that would take out most of the confidence people have in these tools, so you won't see the AI salesmen provide their customers with reasonable expectations.
by ehnto | 2025-12-02 03:49:22+00:00
I have the same thought, it must be as it's accounted for in medical practice, but also how would I know? I only have my subjective experience to go by.

I think it is important to accept everyone's own experience of their pain though, I have no idea what someone else is feeling even if I have experienced the same event. Their experience and what they feel could be vastly different, our nervous systems behaving vastly different. It is not a morale failing to feel and be affected by pain.
by nerdponx | 2025-12-02 03:49:26+00:00
I wish I could speak my unlock code so I didn't have to, you know, take my eyes off the road in order to play music or change my GPS destination or something like that.

I'm not saying that way to solve a problem, but I refuse to believe that it has to be as bad as it is. The worst part is that it's still better than the alternative of leaving the iOS ecosystem.

Apple is just so bizarre in general. I would say "nowadays" but I think they have always been like this. It took them how many decades to add a unit converter to the iPhone? And after all that time, they buried it in a menu in the Calculator app?
by heresie-dabord | 2025-12-02 03:50:08+00:00
> ChromeOS is close but still so far in many ways.

I continue to be impressed by ChromeOS. With the Linux development environment (Debian VM), it is a brilliant work environment.

Add Android apps as well and ChromeOS is an awesome convergence platform. There are Chromebooks that are high enough quality that I don't miss anything about Apple OS or Microsoft Windows.

> And for audio production

For specialty use-cases, driver support will favour Windows and Apple OS.

And gaming is still Windows-first, although Linux is improving.
by Krssst | 2025-12-02 03:50:22+00:00
It does not show up in the UI once disabled, does not re-enable again and does not pester the user into enabling it again as proprietary software often does.

I can understand criticism on the development time that may have been better spent, but less criticism against the existence of something that is fairly easily disabled and not user-hostile in intent.

I disabled the AI stuff immediately on my side (through the regular UI, not about:config settings) and never saw anything AI-related in Firefox afterwards.

It's worrying seeing Firefox getting so much more criticism than all the more user-hostile browsers that end up benefiting from such somewhat unwarranted criticism against the most popular non-hostile browser.
by darth_avocado | 2025-12-02 03:50:54+00:00
Yeah I think $5k/month at 15% of your income means you’re making more than $400k/year as household. (Even more if you’re counting it on net income)

The strong household income is the only reason why you’re able to limit how much you spend on housing, which unfortunately is not something most people are able to do, even if they’re renting. I get that renting is cheaper than buying at the moment with the interest rates, but it’s not cheap overall.
by puskark4 | 2025-12-02 03:50:59+00:00
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by atonse | 2025-12-02 03:51:05+00:00
I will start by saying I haven't used Windows as my full time desktop in 20 years. I did use VS/Windows for 2 years while I did a C# project in 2013-2014, managed a bunch of windows servers, used (and liked) powershell, everything, but that was inside a VM on my mac. And the other two windows full-time devs I was helping had never used linux or WSL (and one of them was not terribly keen on the whole idea). But we were all new to WSL. I knew WSL was very easy, and even many devs at MS use it.

So to provide more detail, things were slowed down further because this was one of those teams meetings where you can't just take over, but have to tell someone to type another command and wait for them to type it. The second thing was that the user didn't tell me that they were switching to another user when escalating to admin (cuz I couldn't see that elevated system dialog in the screen share). So it turned out they had installed WSL as a different admin user, so when they went to \\WSL$ (as their original user), it wasn't showing any shares. That set off a lot of googling and claude'ing that went nowhere.

Suffice to say I was ready to end the day after that meeting :-)

A red flag early on was when a bun install took 8 mins when trying to run it on /mnt/c, when it took 200ms on my machine. So I knew there had to be some weird filesystem overhead stuff going on. So then when we got it working beautifully by just using the VM's filesystem, I was personally happy with it but the person on the other end felt this was all too cumbersome and was soured on WSL, even though I tried to explain the differences.

I kept thinking that WSL was the greatest thing since sliced bread and got the message that MS had found a way to make them work beautifully together (especially in WSL2). I'm sure I could've figured this all out on my machine in probably 10 mins.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-12-02 03:51:11+00:00
I’ve got quite a few (very old) downloads coming to my websites, and I don’t want people to lose them. I also want to maintain a no-frills, store-and-forget thing that does not cost much. I was using AWS S3 + CloudFront for a long time, but I realized I was paying over $10 a month for something I didn’t even interact with or check often enough.

I’m OK with a sub-$10/mo budget, but Amazon Web Services doesn’t offer a way to pay recurring charges with Indian Cards. After this thread, I read up a lot yesterday and realized that Amazon AWS India is now pretty well oiled and working. I might stick to it and pay it off in advance. I’d be more than glad to, say, pay off $100 a year and not think about it.

The cost on AWS, I realize, is the S3 storage. Cloudflare is already fronting the CDN aspects of it.

So, I was looking for something with a sweet spot, say, pay something in the lines of $10 a year, at max about $25 a year, and it just dumps all of my files now and, to an extent, in the long term.
by calmworm | 2025-12-02 03:51:15+00:00
Fuck off Sony. Why are the data carriers responsible for anything the end users do? If I use electricity to power a hot plate to cook up marijuanas is the electric company responsible?

Cox can fuck off, too. Ideally they would not have any idea what their customers are doing but that doesn’t make them enough money. They must sell a product and also make their customers a product.
by bigiain | 2025-12-02 03:51:39+00:00
Here's the first video in a series where an American YouTuber restores (and gives away) a 1983 Datsun 280ZX

https://youtu.be/SwSm63W2fNg

Full playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU3vhL4Xvzk&list=PLmhNtwDcrR...
by AngryData | 2025-12-02 03:51:48+00:00
There are a lot of counties that also use construction permits and inspection requirements as a source of income and charge absurd fees for it, on top of being slow and unpredictable even if you do pay. And a slow inspector or slow permit approval also costs money in the form of builder's and laborer's time that you get charged for as they sit around waiting for someone else to arrive.
by tptacek | 2025-12-02 03:52:07+00:00
I read the article. It's extremely unclear to me whether you have ACA-compliant health insurance or not. I've been a startup principal since 2005 and have had PEO coverage at various points since the ACA passed, and it was always ACA-compliant. Could you just answer the question? It shouldn't be a riddle!

(Note that "non-ACA insurance" doesn't mean "insurance you didn't buy on the ACA public marketplace". I've got Anthem Blue Cross through our benefits provider. It is very definitely ACA-compliant.)
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-02 03:52:13+00:00
>They're not refusing contracts to build AI that will take people's jobs, or violate copyright, or be used in weapons.

They very well might be. Websites can be made to promote a variety of activity.

>This is similar to a bakery next to the OpenAI offices refusing to bake cakes for them

That's not what "marketing" is. This is OpenAI coming to your firm and saying "I need you to make a poster saying AI is the best thing since Jesus Christ". That very much will reflect on you and the industry at large as you create something you don't believe in.
by dijit | 2025-12-02 03:52:51+00:00
Actually, I think it's you who's out of touch here.

There's two awful colliding factors here.

1) People absolutely buy features.

I am in the Apple ecosystem, why? Because iMessage on my laptop, seamless copy/paste and the fact that it supports every bit of software I want to run.

2) MBA thinkers value features, for the previous reason. They can show that features move the needle of units sold. It's easier to quantify.

What you and I implicitly understand is that Apple has a captive audience, people will continue to buy MacOS (by virtue of Apple Hardware) for the coming few years at least.

The higher quality the software, the more performant and less buggy: the more likely we stay in the ecosystem longer. This will sell units in the 4-7 year timeframe for sure.

The more Apple focus on this, the larger their moat.

MBA's barely understand how to build a moat, other than monopolising a market by M&A.
by zarzavat | 2025-12-02 03:52:54+00:00
UK isn't commandeering anything.

The UK government hasn't decided yet how digital ID will work, currently it's just a talking point. Probably it will be an app that you install, like the NHS app. Nobody is proposing that it be installed by default.

Apple separately announced that a Digital ID feature will be built into iOS[0] which the UK may use or not use.

> few who don't, so I'm curious what the plan is to bring them in line

They will be told by their employer to get it otherwise they will lose their job. Just the same as now, only at the moment you need a paper passport rather than a smartphone.

[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/apple-introduces-digi...
by ryandrake | 2025-12-02 03:53:11+00:00
I kind of like the iOS settings application. If I want to change some settings for an application, I have one place I have to go to find it. I don't need to launch the app and try to guess where their designer decided to stick settings (probably buried deep in a hamburger menu). I don't have to guess whether a dark gray switch on a light gray background is "on" or whether a light gray switch on a dark gray background is "on" because the app's designer thought it would be cool to not use native controls.

I honestly wish this "central settings" app idea would spread to desktop operating systems.
by klardotsh | 2025-12-02 03:54:28+00:00
If you don't have a university degree, most of EU/EEA immigration policy wants nothing to do with you, even if you're American or have several YoE. Source: am a self-taught US dev who has repeatedly looked into immigration to northern/western Europe over the years. If anything it continually gets more stringent every time I look. Forget looking for jobs, there's not even visa paths for most countries.
by nick__m | 2025-12-02 03:54:37+00:00
Work got me an hp elite book a few year ago and the only thing negative I have to say about it is that the screen is pathetic! Otherwise it's a decent yet overpriced (unless you buy hundreds of them each year like my work place does) laptop. I used to run arch Linux at work but I was denied my favorite OS this time because it's wasn't compatible with the EDR software... So i cannot tell you how bad it is with Linux.

It still hold its charge but then I mostly work on it plugged either via RDP from my personal workstation at home or from the docking station in my office at the campus. So it has less than 50 charge cycles.
by bluedino | 2025-12-02 03:54:45+00:00
My dad has one of these in the garage. Hasn't driven it in a few years because some of the parts are hard to find.

I always thought it was a weird car compared to the 240 or 300 since it was a 2+2. I'm not sure if I've even driven it.

One day I'll probably do a V8 or turbo I6 transplant...
by dpifke | 2025-12-02 03:55:26+00:00
My first car (hand-me-down from my Dad) was a 1980s Datsun, that I managed to total within a few weeks of getting my license, much to the consternation of my younger brother and sister who expected it to eventually be handed down to them as well.

The "left door is open" voice alert will forever be ingrained in my memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hJBko3-oV4 It seemed so futuristic when the car was new.
by kristofferR | 2025-12-02 03:55:39+00:00
Yeah, setting up my router with VLANs/Firewall/NAT etc was so damn frustrating with Ubiquiti compared to the Mikrotik router I had before.

While I could just export my config file with Mikrotik and ask ChatGPT to make whatever changes I wanted in seconds ("here's my config, make a vlan 20 with all my iot devices") and get a fully working config back, with Ubiquiti you just get a bunch of inaccurate "click here and there" instructions back instead since the UI changes slightly all the time.

The switchover was still worth it, as the Ubiquity UI is nicer in daily use (and Mikrotik wifi sucks ass, so I had to use other APs). However, every time I want to change something I wish I had an easily ediable config file to edit, and get LLM help with, instead of a confusing UI to click around in.
by estsauver | 2025-12-02 03:55:50+00:00
Well, those are also extremely limited vram areas that wouldn't be able to run anything in the ~70b parameter space. (Can you run 30b even?)

Things get a lot more easier at lower quantisation, higher parameter space, and there's a lot of people's whose jobs for AI are "Extract sentiment from text" or "bin into one of these 5 categories" where that's probably fine.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-12-02 03:56:23+00:00
I totally get that it’s an understandable political strategy. I just think it’s in defensible as anything but a political strategy, and that it will ultimately make life worse for more people versus simply treating assets as assets, including homes. If homeowners do not wish their homes to be treated as assets, then they could simply forgo the right to profits, but I suspect they will not do that.
by ksk385 | 2025-12-02 03:56:47+00:00
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by safety1st | 2025-12-02 03:57:31+00:00
This is because in any monopoly/duopoly/oligopoly, the product inevitably stops being about what the user wants, and becomes about what the monopolist wants. They're removing features like this because simplifying configurations translates to reduced support costs, and reducing their costs and padding their margin is the name of the game for a monopolist, they believe there's nowhere else for you to go, so they can and will hose you over and over again.

We're now paying the piper for many years of accrued monopoly effects, it turns out the way our IP law is structured, the rights we've granted corporations to sue people who attempt any kind of reverse engineering etc. all privilege the monopolist and encourage the formation of the monopoly, because the entire legal and regulatory system is designed to juice corporate profits and pesky old laws like the Sherman Act which got in the way have essentially been ignored for decades.

One really important thing for people to understand is that until there's a serious change to these dynamics, IT WILL GET WORSE. Mac OS will get worse, FOREVER. So will Windows and all other monopolist products. This is why you really need to switch away from them as soon as you can; life will be an order of magnitude more miserable for whoever's still using these products a decade from now. They will just keep on squeezing whoever's left, harder and harder until the heat death of the universe.
by DaveZale | 2025-12-02 03:57:46+00:00
in the US, it's all about medical "billing codes" so that doctors can be reimbursed for services. What is diagnosed as AD is often the result of vascular issues. Or even long term oxygen deprivation during the night due to sleep apnea. Like cancer, there may not be a single "silver bullet" - it's a situation more like Parkinson's, which Oliver Sacks described as a "constellation" of factors. Whole books on the topic - good ones by conscientious MDs - have been written. One example is, "What if it's not Alzheimers" - good reading if an elder relative is having issues.
by somat | 2025-12-02 03:58:32+00:00
I had to look it up, it's a little obnoxious but it's weird enough that I like it. The intent appears to be that modified versions of gnuplot have to be very clear and explicit that they are not gnuplot or made by the gnuplot team. anyway, here it is. At least it's still shorter than the gpl.

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by makingstuffs | 2025-12-02 03:59:15+00:00
Reading all of these takes stating WFH leads to poor productivity simply doesn’t make sense to me.

If your employees cannot be trusted to fulfil their responsibilities (whether in an office, their home or a tent in a woodland) that is not a geographical issue. It is a mentality issue and you are always going to face productivity issue from that employee regardless of from where they work.

I’ve been told time and time again by an array of managers in a bunch of departments and companies that my productivity never changes. That is regardless of whether I am travelling or at home. This is including being in Sri Lanka during their worst economical crisis and facing power cuts of 8 - 12 hours everyday. As a responsible adult I prepared in advance. I bought power banks which could charge my laptop and ensured they were charged when the power worked. I bought SIM cards for all mobile networks and ensured I had data. It really is simply a matter of taking responsibility of one’s situation and having a sense of respect for, and from, your employer/employee.

Forcing people into working conditions in which they are uncomfortable is only going to harbour resentment towards the company and if you are in a country where workers actually have real rights you will have a hard time firing them.

I fear that this is all simply a smokescreen for the authoritarian shift which has occurred throughout the globe. It started pre pandemic and was exasperated during it. Scary times lay ahead.
by anonymars | 2025-12-02 03:59:58+00:00
We ask of every candidate. At least half the time, I wish I'd done so before getting invested in the "experience" portion, when that ends up not actually translating to ability (and believe me, I am trying to help them to succeed)

The beauty is, even a simple exercise answered quickly like "sum of integers" provides ample opportunity to learn a lot about how they think.

Start digging in to testability, requirement changes, etc. Change it to a rolling sum (producing a sequence instead of a single value). Do they use an array or an iterator? Do they output straight to the console, or produce an actual function? Could the numbers come from other sources (database, queue, etc)? What might the tradeoffs be? If there's something they are unfamiliar with, are they quick on the uptake if you explain it? And so on.