MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jdboyd | 2025-12-01 23:02:32+00:00
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by adleyjulian | 2025-12-01 23:02:33+00:00
> LLMs get over-analyzed. They’re predictive text models trained to match patterns in their data, statistical algorithms, not brains, not systems with “psychology” in any human sense.

Per the predictive processing theory of mind, human brains are similarly predictive machines. "Psychology" is an emergent property.

I think it's overly dismissive to point to the fundamentals being simple, i.e. that it's a token prediction algorithm, when it's clear to everyone that it's the unexpected emergent properties of LLMs that everyone is interested in.
by qeternity | 2025-12-01 23:02:34+00:00
> but V3 (from February) has a 32B parameter model that runs on "16GB or more" of VRAM[1]

No. They released a distilled version of R1 based on a Qwen 32b model. This is not V3, and it's not remotely close to R1 or V3.2.
by edelbitter | 2025-12-01 23:02:37+00:00
This new "please accept cookies and scripts to prove you are running Google Chrome without Adblockers" Internet does not exactly look like mission accomplished to me. And that is before we even get to the part of the Internet that goes straight to "please run this Android app so we can ask Google who truly owns your device".

If Mozilla was not busy "offering" (renamed the no-thank-you setting once again) so many "experiences" they could be doing much of the same stuff they did back in the day.
by antgoldbloom | 2025-12-01 23:02:57+00:00
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by jwnin | 2025-12-01 23:03:05+00:00
Not shilling, but Microsoft Teams with a Premium license does this, and it works very well. I am not sure how I feel about this, though - not everything needs to be 'on the record'. It's beneficial for most topics, but most != all.

In one conversation, their AI saw right through me tiptoeing around a delicate matter where a problem was caused by a client's inaction. The meeting summary laid it out correctly, but it wasn't great from a relationship perspective.
by danielheath | 2025-12-01 23:03:12+00:00
Ten years ago, if it didn't understand what I meant, it told me so after 1-2 seconds.

Now, it'll show a loading indicator for 5-6 seconds and then do nothing at all... or do something entirely unrelated to my request (eg responding to "hey siri, how much is fourteen kilograms in pounds" by playing a song from my music library).
by elAhmo | 2025-12-01 23:03:22+00:00
Siri is probably among the products which had the most exposure to users (probably a billion+ users throughout iPhone's history) without capturing that opportunity to actually do anything meaningful with the huge user base it got for free.

A decade and a half is insane timeline in tech industry, and huge majority of users use Siri the same way today as 15 years ago, setting a timer or an alarm clock.

If they had 0 improvements over these 15 years the situation wouldn't be much different than today.
by AlekTurkmen | 2025-12-01 23:03:26+00:00
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by swyx | 2025-12-01 23:03:47+00:00
brief career timeline:

1980s - silicon graphics / general magic

1990s - chief technologist, netscape

early 2000s - CTO Tellme (speech recognition)

late 2000s - CTO Metaweb (knowledge graph) -> acquired into Google

2010s - Google head of Machine Intelligence, Search, Gmail Smart Reply, etc, then took over Google Search and ML driven ranking (BERT)

2018 -> SVP ML/AI Apple to merge Siri/Core ML/all AI offerings under one roof

2023-2025 - led Apple Intelligence push

March 2025 - removed as head of Siri

Dec 2025 - retirement

would love to do an exit interview with him on the last 4 decades in building ai assistants!

-- https://x.com/markgurman/status/1995617560373706942?s=20

cv of his successor Amar Subramanya - 16 years at GDM - head of eng for Gemini chatbot/training. joined microsoft in JULY this year.. and now poached to Apple. lmao.
by ASalazarMX | 2025-12-01 23:04:03+00:00
> The Chinese Room is just a roundabout way of pleading human exceptionalism

Au contraire, LLMs have proven that Chinese Rooms that can casually fool humans do exist.

ELIZA could be considered a rudimentary Chinese Room, Markov chains a bit more advanced, but LLMs have proven that given enough resources, LLMs can be surprisingly convincing Chinese rooms.

I agree that our consciousness might be fully explained by a long string of deterministic electrochemical reactions, so we could be not that different; and until we can fully explain consciousness we can't close the possibility that a statistical calculation is conscious to some degree. It just doesn't seem likely IMO right now.

Food for thought: If I use the weights to blindly calculate the output tokens with pencil and paper, are they thinking, or is it a Chinese Room with a HUGE dictionary?
by c64e7c165b9a40b | 2025-12-01 23:04:23+00:00
Not me.

Location: US Remote: N/A Willing to relocate: Fuck no. Technologies: Beside the point.

Many years ago this industry adopted management philosophies like Agile/Scrum in an effort to reduce a craft to factory work - and in the process reduced developer efficiency by many times. Now we have AI and every developer is instead a manager of very fast robot monkeys hammering out garbage.

Why would I want to be hired in this environment? I'd rather starve.
by zz3 | 2025-12-01 23:04:52+00:00
Some of your comments seemed to be removed, but for clarification, transwomen are women and transmen are men. Why not just use those terms in general? Why say "males," when you are actually talking about transwomen, which is a more accurate and relevant description? Then talk about pre and post transition, since that is the whole point of the discussion surrounding sports (criteria and debates around transition).
by codemac | 2025-12-01 23:05:03+00:00
While I have several disagreements with this deck, there are two large ones:

1. In my experience, a lot of teams don't have long enough meetings to avoid the litany of small meetings. For example, a lot of staff meetings could easily be 2 hours and then cancel many project specific meetings that have 50%+ of the same attendees later in the week. They also enforce a cadence of execution - everyone knows they need to prepare for the weekly staff meeting, rather than many small meetings every day. It also avoids the problem of people feeling not included - you're always invited to the one huge meeting every week, it's up to you to attend or skip.

2. The problem with meeting culture cannot be solved with education on how to say no, it's about admitting that attending meetings actually does convey a lot of things. Lots of information is not shared outside of meetings. Seniority of attendees actually does have a huge impact on visibility in folks' careers. A lot of the advice in this slide deck feels like it should work, but doesn't in practice because of self interest.

The education that needs to happen is quite different imo:

- leadership needs to be done through writing

- meetings should be recorded and minutes sent out broadly, along with allowing silent attendance.

- decisions need to give time for dissent outside of meeting attendees before committing.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-12-01 23:05:07+00:00
It's almost as if .. if noise, property damage, enviro damage, injury and death.. are the problems, then we should regulate everything that do those things equally rather than trying to pick winners among various transport modes. But among other things, this would mean holding people responsible for the incredible damage anyone can do with a car and the people will not stand for being told they cannot go vroom vroom. Additionally since we refuse to regulate until there is a crisis, anything that is new automatically has an advantage over anything that is old, regardless of which causes fewer issues per unit of work (package delivery etc).
by jk426820 | 2025-12-01 23:05:07+00:00
Current AI “comfort templates” often increase dependency loops rather than reduce emotional risk. Soft validation is interpreted as relational commitment by dependency-prone users, unintentionally reinforcing emotional reliance.

A safer, non-emotional interface can be built by combining:

• Behavioral deflection (micro-actions) • Gamified micro-challenges (tabletop-style) • GPT as a Dungeon Master (fictional distancing) • AI-moderated multi-player rooms

This shifts user attention away from emotional absorption and toward: physiological reset, narrative buffering, and group-based stability.

Full framework explained here.
by doctorwho42 | 2025-12-01 23:05:08+00:00
Further more, who thinks our little voices matter anymore in the US when it comes to the investor classes?

And if they did, having a counterweight against corrupt self-centered US oligarchs/CEOs is actually one of the biggest proponents for an actual powerful communist or other model world power. The US had some of the most progressive tax policies in its existence when it was under existential threat during the height of the USSR, and when their powered started to diminish, so too did those tax policies.
by biglyburrito | 2025-12-01 23:05:09+00:00
Nah, ksec had a great post in a thread a few months ago about a number of senior execs Tim Cook has promoted to positions to which they're ill-suited. John Giannandrea was just one of many such people:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43436174

An organization of Apple's size doesn't fail due to the mistakes of a single person, unless that person is the CEO.
by trentnix | 2025-12-01 23:05:12+00:00
Our first two children were born at the hospital. Both were induced. Everyone was healthy, but looking back each was a miserable, expensive, condescending experience.

After those experiences, my wife then went on a journey to learn everything she could about childbirth and healthcare. The more she learned, the more she became convinced that the entire system is flawed. The pressure to get an epidural, induce (conveniently between 8-5 on a weekday), or to use a C-section is immense. While each intervension is tremendously important in high-risk and edge cases, they are utterly unnecessary in the vast majority of births. But they are used for the majority of births, anyway. Some argue they may even have some damaging effects to the mother and child, but I concede that's not the medical mainstream opinion.

When my wife became pregnant with our third child, the delivery was during the Covid lockdown. Hospitals refused visitors, demanded masks, and were even more impersonal than normal. Although I was initially skeptical, she convinced me that we should use a birth center and a midwife. The birth center was practically next door to a hospital and we talked through how to mitigate risks if something went wrong.

It was a fantastic experience in nearly every way. Our son was born at 7:45 AM and we were home by 11:00 AM. It was substantially more affordable than a hospital birth.

My wife just had our fourth child earlier this year. Once again we used a midwife but this time we had a home birth. You couldn't have paid me to accept a home birth when we were new parents. I wish I knew then what I know now.

I know it's not for everybody (and especially those dealing with high-risk scenarios), but a midwife and home birth is an option if you want to avoid the hospital racket. It's significantly less expensive, more convenient, and every bit as safe for the vast majority of births.
by riotnrrd | 2025-12-01 23:05:15+00:00
Statistics are not theft. Judges have written over and over again that training a neural network (which is just fitting a high-dimensional function to a dataset) is transformative and therefore fair use. Putting it another way, me summarizing a MLB baseball game by saying the Cubs lost 7-0 does not infringe on MLB's ownership of the copyright of the filmed game.

People claiming that backpropagation "steals" your material don't understand math or copyright.

You can hate generative tools all you want -- opinions are free -- but you're fundamentally wrong about the legality or morality at play.
by ethbr1 | 2025-12-01 23:05:27+00:00
Well, if we want to be technical about it, the 2008 crash did happen because some structural forces (banks) were perfectly happy to originate highly risky mortgages in exchange for higher face value rates.

Which had the side effect of allowing a lot of people who couldn't otherwise afford homes to purchase them by allowing them access to more leverage than they likely should have had.

So wealth isn't always aligned.
by toast0 | 2025-12-01 23:05:56+00:00
When you say

> I pay that at least much for my family, hence why I used it

and your article says

> Having a $200/mo smartphone is now a participation cost for many things such as getting access to your banking information remotely, medical records, and work / school.

It sounds like you're trying to communicate that you pay at least $200/month per smartphone for your family? Or you don't value precision in communication.

I know you've got a lot going on with a small business, and a new kid... but if money is important to you, maybe spend the time to switch to prepaid phone plans. There's lots of options [1], whatever network you need, you can do direct operator plans, MVNO owned by the operator, or like actual MVNO. If you're short on time and T-Mobile's network works for you, MintMobile has a promo going right now where $180 pays for 12 months of "unlimited" which is $15/month if you divide it out.

> I also pay $1250 per month to TriNet for the privilege of being able to buy their health insurance in the first place - sure, I get some other benefits too, but I’m the only US-based employee currently so this overhead is really 100% me.

Do you live in a state with a reasonable healthcare exchange? You might want to shop and see if an off the shelf plan from the exchange is better than paying TriNet to get access to their insurance; it may well be, but you should check. If you only have one US employee, and it's you, there's a lot of expense for not a lot of value IMHO. It's not really Apples to Apples though --- I think a lot of the TriNet plans have out of state coverage where a lot of exchange plans don't.

[1] https://prepaidcompare.net/
by peter422 | 2025-12-01 23:06:12+00:00
Perhaps my language was too imprecise.

My argument is that specifically the best care in the US is the best in the world. We have the best doctors and the best technology and the best treatments. This is not completely universal but it is also generally accurate.

Whether or not this care is accessible or the median quality is care is good, that is different.

I’m just saying we do get something for the money, it’s not like it all gets thrown down the drain. The best and brightest come to the US to get some of the huge spigots of money in the US healthcare system and it does drive innovation.
by hnfong | 2025-12-01 23:06:31+00:00
Reproducibility of results are also important in some cases.

There are consumer-ish hardware that can run large models like DeepSeek 3.x slowly. If you're using LLMs for a specific purpose that is well-served by a particular model, you don't want to risk AI companies deprecating it in a couple months and push you to a newer model (that may or may not work better in your situation).

And even if the AI service providers nominally use the same model, you might have cases where reproducibility requires you use the same inference software or even hardware to maintain high reproducibility of the results.

If you're just using OpenAI or Anthropic you just don't get that level of control.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-12-01 23:06:51+00:00
From the outside looking in it really feels like Apple focused so much on privacy and now has no strategy of how to make that work with AI right now.

People increasingly seem to forgo the idea of retaining the data for themselves because they find AI products so fascinating / useful that they're just not caring, at least for the moment. I think this might swing back in the favor of Apple at one point, but right now it is kind of fascinating how liberally people throw everything at hosted AI models.
by lousken | 2025-12-01 23:06:56+00:00
Honestly this doesn't fit my usecase. If I understand it correctly, it is just like any other retention policy meaning it is not related to the fact that the attachment was deleted by user, but it just deletes everything after a certain point.

I don't mind storing things that people can access for many years - if I wanna see that funny picture from 10 years ago, I should be able to find it (even though GUI in Element sucks for that now). But what I do care about are things they uploaded accidentally or that they wanted to delete for whatever reason and it stayed on my server.
by anon7000 | 2025-12-01 23:07:19+00:00
It’s probably not too complicated, more a matter of how to expose settings to users in a way that makes sense. Every flag could be automatically turned into a better UI or menu somewhere, but then you have thousands of settings no one cares about which would be easy to use incorrectly. The stuff that shows up in context menus and settings needs to be a least a little bit curated for it to make sense. about:config isn’t exactly hard to use either (there’s an actual UI, not the code shown in the blog post).

In this case, yeah, having a single option to toggle off AI settings makes plenty of sense to curate a settings page for! But it’s probably a prioritization or product problem, not a technical issue.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-12-01 23:07:22+00:00
It wasnt about "respecting users", or "agency" but simply implemented standards properly.

That's the story of how Netscape succeeded against MSIE. Only they didn't. Firefox did.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape:

In November 2007, IE had 77.4% of the browser market, Firefox 16.0%, and Netscape 0.6%
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-01 23:08:02+00:00
It's utter horseshit. "New element" is partially completed, linking to a video of Microsoft claiming a new coolant fluid, oh and the link to the "paper" is a link to a blog post that is 90% advertising and at no point even pretends to claim there is a "new element" of some sort.

One of his requirements is "Borders don't exist" like jeeze

It's just lies. These people are all lies, or worse, are so utterly divorced from reality and don't even know what the words they say mean

The person who runs that site claims to be an "ai expert", and leads with his "Doctor" title despite nobody being willing to tell you what he got his doctorate in, and spends all his time writing pop-"sci" slop. One brag point the instution that sells his speaking services points out is that his dissertation was adapted into a book about "Smart people are naturally smart and better than you" and brags about how it involved "Dr Rupert Sheldrake", the well known pseudo-scientist

>He is a AI consultant whose 2021-2022 experiments with Leta AI and Aurora AI have been viewed over 5 million times.

>Alan completed his Bachelor of Science (Computer Science, AI, and Psychology) at Edith Cowan University, 2004; studied Gifted Education at Flinders University, 2017; became a Fellow of the Institute of Coaching affiliated with Harvard Medical School, 2017; and received his doctorate from Emerson, 2021. Alan’s dissertation was adapted into a book featuring Dr Rupert Sheldrake, Connected: Intuition and Resonance in Smart People.

>Alan was a major contributor to human intelligence research and practice. As chairman for Mensa International’s gifted families committee, Alan served two consecutive terms sharing best practice among 54 countries, and his work on gifted education was referenced in the Department of Education’s High Potential policy.

Look at all that title inflation baby! Surely executive material!

I mean just come on I can't believe people who fall for this trash are able to breathe

Classic grifter trash.
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-12-01 23:08:08+00:00
Apple's geotargetting was at least in the past tied to where device was sold. Example is FaceTime in UAE: phones sold there will never have working FaceTime anywhere but if you bring your American phone in, it seems to work.

But easy enough to tie it to iCloud region - you have to set your device and iCloud to Indian region to be able to use many of their region specific payment methods (ie UPI)
by DrewADesign | 2025-12-01 23:08:10+00:00
Could you share a bit about your use case/experience? Siri does what I need it to do— send messages, create reminders and calendar entries, look up basic facts and cites the source, play music, add things to lists, etc. I’m curious if you’re trying to do things that I haven’t, or if you’re just having a very different experience with those same things? Or maybe just have higher expectations for it?

Edit: why in gods name are people downvoting me for politely asking about someone’s differing experience?