MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cal_dent | 2025-12-11 02:17:30+00:00
he clearly states he doesn't understand the topic.

But you don't need to understand to explore the ramifications which is what he's done here and it's an insightful & fairly even-handed take on it.

It does feel like AI chat here gets bogged down on "its not that great, its overhyped etc." without trying to actually engage properly with it. Even if it's crap if it eliminates 5-10% of companies labour cost that's a huge deal and the second order effects on economy and society will be profound. And from where i'm standing, doing that is pretty possible without ai even being that good.
by crapple8430 | 2025-12-11 02:17:34+00:00
While this is undoubtably still an excellent deal, the comparison to the new price of H100 is a bit misleading, since today you can buy a new, legit RTX 6000 Pro for about $7-8k, and get similar performance the first two of the models tested at least. As a bonus those can fit in a regular workstation or server, and you can buy multiple. This thing is not worth $80k in the same way that any old enterprise equipment is not worth nearly as much as its price when it was new.
by rossy | 2025-12-11 02:17:44+00:00
> It’s a targeted advertising machine that is extremely effective on kids and teenagers. It preys on them so, so efficiently. It’s a technical work of art. A young mind is extremely susceptible to the algorithms on those platforms. Much more than adults are, and adults are already really susceptible.

Sure, but the Australian government's definition of an age-restricted social media platform doesn't mention advertising or algorithms at all. Technically, their definition also covers algorithm-free social media like Mastodon, which I'd argue isn't nearly as harmful.

The framing of social media as something that's inherently bad no matter how you do it is a framing that helps social media giants like YouTube, Instagram and Facebook to continue to "do it" in a way that harms people. I'm sure they love the idea that the ills of social media can be solved by banning their least profitable users while doing nothing to regulate what they do with the others. They're probably thrilled that their healthier algorithm-free competitors haven't even entered the conversation. They want to be the tobacco companies of the future, because making addictive things for adults is incredibly profitable.
by Razengan | 2025-12-11 02:18:06+00:00
Non-DotA style RTSes fell to the same trap that all long-established/entrenched products/franchises/entities/collectives do:

Thinking that only their way is always right and there's no room for change.

Until somebody comes and builds something different that fucks their world upside down.

Suggestions for improvement and ease of use on their forums got shot down on their forums by the resident shitters like on every other community.

Now nobody cares about that genre, except those of us who grew up on it.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2025-12-11 02:18:44+00:00
yes, so wasteful to select a different font in 2025. Real cost-saving measure switching from the evil woke-font calibri to the strong masculine Times New Roman. Thank God Marco Rubio was on the case to set the universe back into alignment with this big-balled move.

Terry Gilliam at his most deranged couldn't dream up this nonsense.
by nostrebored | 2025-12-11 02:18:52+00:00
No, not really. Any sufficiently motivated state actor already can. I would be unsurprised to be able to dox you as a mildly interested individual. It is usually not very hard.

People usually reference things that they are ashamed about as a reason to justify this fear of ID based services. I don’t find this compelling whatsoever. Every platform I’m on that is even mildly associated with identity is more enjoyable and interesting. The idea that the marketplace of ideas is slowed by identity is not something I’ve seen in practice. In authoritarian regimes we already see ways to circumvent internet anonymity. So no, I don’t see the downside.

Open to being persuaded here though, about 5 years ago I would have agreed with you.
by levocardia | 2025-12-11 02:18:55+00:00
Add me to the list of "saw nano banana pro, attempted to get an API key for like 5min, failed and gave up." Maybe I am a dummy (quite possible) but I have seen many smart people similarly flummoxed!

You can walk into a McDonalds without being able to read, write, or speak English, and the order touchscreen UI is so good (er, "good") that you can successfully order a hamburger in about 60 seconds. Why can't Google (of all companies) figure this out?
by Timwi | 2025-12-11 02:19:09+00:00
I joined Mastodon, was active, and was chill.

I was talking into the void. I gave up after 6 months of getting no reaction and finding nobody of interest to follow.

(Worse, half of what I wrote is now gone because my instance shut down and Mastodon doesn't even have a feature to migrate any content to a new instance.)
by user2342ca | 2025-12-11 02:19:45+00:00
What Is Visual Thought AGI?

Visual Thought AGI is a blueprint for human-level general intelligence built on the idea that the mind thinks in dynamic, internally generated visual scenes.

Just as the human brain simulates imagined environments before taking action, this architecture relies on continuous visual cognition, spatial reasoning, and scenario modeling to understand and interact with the world.

Instead of relying on language-only token prediction, Visual Thought AGI builds a structured, multimodal model of reality.

It constructs internal visual scenes, updates them with new information, and evaluates possible outcomes in a way that resembles human mental imagery and prefrontal cortex reasoning.

This allows it to perform planning, problem-solving, counterfactual analysis, and creative synthesis at a level closer to human thought than existing systems.

Why This Architecture Matters

Today’s large language models are powerful but limited: they cannot consistently simulate physical causality, maintain stable mental models, or introspect about their own thinking.

Visual Thought AGI directly addresses these limitations by combining symbolic reasoning, generative scene imagination, and self-reflective meta-cognition into a unified system.

By grounding intelligence in visual world-modeling and internal simulation, this design provides the missing functional components needed for true artificial general intelligence.

It merges perception, memory, prediction, and agency into a cohesive cognitive architecture capable of general reasoning, adaptive behavior, and human-level understanding.

The Goal of the Blueprint

The Visual Thought AGI Blueprint offers researchers, developers, and policy leaders a clear, implementable framework for building safe, aligned, and human-like AGI systems.

It explains every major subsystem—from visual imagination to reflective thought—so that the field can move beyond narrow machine learning and into full artificial general intelligence.

This site serves as the official home for the AGI Blueprint. By making the concepts fully open and accessible, the goal is to accelerate transparent, safe AGI development for the benefit of all people.
by npunt | 2025-12-11 02:19:58+00:00
One of the few use cases for LLMs that I have high hopes for and feel is still under appreciated is grading qualitative things. LLMs are the first tech (afaik) that can do top-down analysis of phenomena in a manner similar to humans, which means a lot of important human use cases that are judgement-oriented can become more standardized, faster, and more readily available.

For instance, one of the unfortunate aspects of social media that has become so unsustainable and destructive to modern society is how it exposes us to so many more people and hot takes than we have ability to adequately judge. We're overwhelmed. This has led to conversation being dominated by really shitty takes and really shitty people, who rarely if ever suffer reputational consequence.

If we build our mediums of discourse with more reputational awareness using approaches like this, we can better explore the frontier of sustainable positive-sum conversation at scale.

Implementation-wise, the key question is how do we grade the grader and ensure it is predictable and accurate?
by BalinKing | 2025-12-11 02:19:58+00:00
Honestly, the SCP wiki might scratch this itch for you—it's sci-fi but with a lot of fantasy elements, and I'd put it on the "hard" side of the spectrum. Also, I think Greg Egan's books are pretty out there (the two I've read are Diaspora and Permutation City, whose settings aren't particularly "plausible" IMHO), and they really make you think.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-11 02:20:06+00:00
"success" can be viewed in different lenses. In your lens of "did it make America healthier", sure. I wouldn't be surprised.

My lens is "did America actually learn anything valuable from this period?". And all I see is "We The Government are fine poisoning our citizens as long as we profit from it". A lesson that passed on to cigarettes, then hard drugs, then fast food (which persists to this day), and now with social media. Then The Government wonders why no one trusts them to do the right thing.

In that lens, I'd say prohibition and its downstream effects on how to regulate in general was absolutely awful and damning.
by rayiner | 2025-12-11 02:20:36+00:00
Rights can be inalienable but not universal. These rights are conferred by the government, but arise by virtue of membership in a body politic. For example, the right to vote isn’t universal but the government can’t take it away. Free speech arises out of America’s Anglo history and tradition and was viewed by the founders as a political right that protects democracy. There is nothing inconsistent about saying that this right is inalienable for citizens, but doesn’t extend to visitors who aren’t members of our body politic and aren’t entitled to participate in our democracy anyway.
by jackling | 2025-12-11 02:21:37+00:00
Both the 1500 and 4000 number were confirmed by Lebanon, and no reputable watch organization has credibly disputed them, you're not citing evidence just conjecture on how you believe everything went down due to a relative small bits of information.

> along with a directional sense of the wounded vs. KIA count of the strike

I am not sure what this means.

To add, you're making it impossible to argue anything against your claim. We're discussing how the pagers hurt civilians and if they were properly targetting combatants. You're saying no matter what, since you know the pager was targetting combatants, the evidence that civilians were hurt must be false. Your logic circular.
by yomismoaqui | 2025-12-11 02:22:38+00:00
I started with some series from the alternate universes and I fully recommend them:

- Gundam 00: Gundam as a terrorist - Iron Blooded Orphans: Gundam as a (child) mercenary

After this I you want to watch the original universe (Universal Century) you can start with the 3 movies that summarize the OG series. They are legally on YouTube (search for gundaminfo)
by secstate | 2025-12-11 02:23:37+00:00
I suspect at least part of this has to do with the fact that, relative to four wheeled vehicles, you can buy "impressive" motorcycles for relatively little cash compared to say, buying a truly performant sports car. Combine this low cost with an unrelentingly social pressure to show off, mix in one part social media and two parts a belief that you are invincible and I believe you'll have your cocktail of poor outcomes on fast two-wheeled vehicles.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-12-11 02:24:03+00:00
In all your big-O analyses, remember: n = 3 more often than you think. n = 12 a lot more often than you think. If that's your case, there's nothing wrong with bubble sort unless you have very tight performance constraints.

Worse, big-O always hides a constant factor. What's bubblesort's constant? What's quicksort's? It wouldn't surprise me if, for small enough n (2 or 3, and maybe a bit higher), bubblesort is actually faster.

Note well: I have not actually benchmarked this.

Also note well: Determine what your n is; don't assume that it's either large or small.
by eszed | 2025-12-11 02:24:03+00:00
English major here, and your post is great. It's not complete, of course, but you've hit everything a beginner needs to know to get over the first hump of understanding, in a way that "expert" knowledge sometimes gets in the way of communicating. I doubt the reply I was writing in my head would have been better, and probably would have been worse, so thank you for jumping in.

But (because I have to go there - and I promise getting to this paragraph wasn't the point of the compliments above), Much Ado isn't entirely in verse: the clowns - lower class, all of them (Dogberry, et al) - speak in prose. So, the next layer of the onion, for anyone who wants to pick at it, is noticing in what circumstances writers use different registers, and why. Austin does the same thing: Mr Collins speaks in flat, prosy sentences, except (if I recall correctly) when he talks about his patron, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. I think that has a subconscious effect, even on people who couldn't name an iamb, but once you pick up on it, it's one of those "ooh!" sorts of moments where you get a glimpse behind the authorial curtain.
by waterTanuki | 2025-12-11 02:24:41+00:00
The amount of people who think because something has a few useful edge cases being incompatible with a bubble is staggeringly high. Dot com was a bubble, and yet we still use the internet widely today. Real-estate was a bubble, and people still need a place to live and work.

Just because YOU find the technology helpful, useful, or even beneficial for some use cases does NOT mean it has been overvalued. This has been the case for every single bubble, including the Dutch Tulip mania.
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-11 02:24:47+00:00
This comes down to how people raise their kids, so I don't expect we'll all agree.

> Am I also to let my kids wander in toxic waste dumps? [...] I don't got time to supervise my kids on TikTok or whatever, so... no TikTok.

Ideally I don't want to supervise my kid, in the sense that trying to watch over everything they do, every service they use and every possible interaction is a lost cause.

They can IRL go to toxic waste dumps, buy razor blades at the store and let them rust, there will be no way to foolproof even at that level, and I don't to have to watch over them every single time they go to the store in case they buy razor blades. Teaching them to not buy sharp stuff, avoid rusty things, and not listen to people advising them to do so has better time/effort ROI to me. Kids not allowed to go to the store without parental supervision also has to me a lot more negative impacts.

Arguably teaching kids what to avoid on Tiktok or Youtube is a lot trickier, and there will be craftful attempts at bypassing most parent advices, but I hope we have enough of a safety margin and communication occasions to detect when something's going wrong. And if it happens, I'd prefer it happens now when there's many eyes on the kid to detect the issue, than 5 or 10 years from now when they're alone in the ir dorm, can sign contracts, buy a lot of delicate stuff, get access to drugs, drive, get people pregnant etc.
by defrost | 2025-12-11 02:25:53+00:00
> we disincentivized them.

In Australia, not that much and we (Australia) passed the point of diminishing returns and moved into the zone of incentivising a criminal black market.

The state of play today is that foreign nationals, Syrians and others, are chasing billions in illicit tobacco revenue, denying that to the Government as income, firebombing and shooting up cars, shops, and families of rivals.

The brutality levels have risen to the point where old school leg breaking Chopper Read era crims are speaking out about going too far, involving families and "breaking code".

Social policy always has a balance.
by nostrebored | 2025-12-11 02:26:14+00:00
Oh, I don’t let my children have electronic devices at all.

But schools do. Their friends all have Internet enabled devices in their pockets. The library he goes to has poorly secured devices. The school library does too.

This is what I mean by the ubiquity of the internet. It is functionally impossible to control access to the internet as a parent and allow your children to develop independence.

I do what I can, and have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars at this point to opt in to like minded environments. My oldest at ten is observably different than children at his age and doing great.

His friends that come from poorer families, like the ones that I grew up in, might as well have Roblox as a third parent and suffer from ridiculous behavioral problems. The school curriculum in SFUSD is years behind my curriculum was in Georgia when it was a bottom quintile outcome program.

It does not take much looking to see something is thoroughly wrong. I think a lot of it has to do with the mass experiment of Internet access we’ve run on children.
by energy123 | 2025-12-11 02:27:50+00:00
Like anything it's a matter of magnitudes. My best guess is that any negative side effects are going to be of a trivial magnitude, cancelling out a small amount of the upside on net. At the very least it's an experiment worth running, and if successful, worth extending to further regulations for adults too, especially around mechanics (not the content itself) such as the algorithmic feed.
by savagebrody | 2025-12-11 02:28:00+00:00
Milo is an online MCAT study coach that tells you what to do every day instead of leaving you to guess. You enter your test date, how many hours you can study, and where you’re starting from. Milo then builds a realistic, day-by-day plan that mixes content review, practice questions, CARS, and built-in flashcards over the weeks you have left. When you miss a day or fall behind, the plan quietly updates so it stays doable instead of becoming another failed calendar.

On top of the schedule, Milo tracks how you’re actually doing. You get a clear view of which sections you’re avoiding, how consistent you’ve been, and where your weak spots are based on your own activity. The flashcards are Anki-inspired, with spaced repetition and tagging by subject/topic, so important concepts keep coming back before you forget them. You keep using the books and Qbanks you already like—Milo wraps around them and turns everything into a simple, honest roadmap you can follow.
by stego-tech | 2025-12-11 02:28:51+00:00
I'm right there with you, and it's been my core gripe since ChatGPT burst onto the stage. Believe it or not, my environmental concerns came about a year later, once we had data on how datacenters were being built and their resource consumption rates; I had no idea how big things had very suddenly and violently exploded into, and that alone gave me serious pause about where things are going.

In my heart, I firmly believe in the ability of technology to uplift and improve humanity - and have spent much of my career grappling with the distressing reality that it also enables a handful of wealthy people to have near-total control of society in the process. AI promises a very hostile, very depressing, very polarized world for everyone but those pulling the levers, and I wish more people evaluated technology beyond the mere realm of Computer Science or armchair economics. I want more people to sit down, to understand its present harms, its potential future harms, and the billions of people whose lives it will profoundly and negatively impact under current economic systems.

It's equal parts sobering and depressing once you shelve personal excitement or optimism and approach it objectively. Regardless of its potential as a tool, regardless of the benefit it might bring to you, your work day, your productivity, your output, your ROI, I desperately wish more people would ask one simple question:

Is all of that worth the harm I'm inflicting on others?
by keeda | 2025-12-11 02:28:54+00:00
The unfortunate reality of engineering is that we don't get paid proportional to the value we create, even the superstars. That's how tech companies make so much money, after all.

If you're climbing the exec ladder your pay will scale a little bit better, but again, not 100x or even 10x. Even the current AI researcher craze is for an extremely small number of people.

For some data points, check out levels.fyi and compare the ratio of TCs for a mid-level engineer/manager versus the topmost level (Distinguished SWE, VP etc.) for any given company.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-11 02:32:20+00:00
> These are government regulations regarding kids.

No, they aren't just that, because they are government regulations requiring everyone wanting access to something that cannot be marketed to children under the rules to prove that they are not a child, which is not inherently essential to a regulation of what can be marketed to children.

There is a difference between regulating what can be marketed to children and mandating that vendors secure proof that every user is not a child.

(Just as there is a difference between prohibiting knowingly supplying terrorists and requiring every seller to conduct a detailed background check of every customer to assure that they are not a terrorist.)
by accelbred | 2025-12-11 02:33:49+00:00
Arenas aren't the issue. Its objects with mixed lifetimes and mutability. I cant easily model the lifetimes of objects when there are cases like an instance where buffer memory reachable from the object has a different lifetime than maps/lists. Also these objects could be transively shared or mutable. In order to make a Rust friendly model, I'd have the tree be all shared or all mutable, and have all reachable memory have the same lifetime. This would often mean allocating the full tree into one arena. That is where the overhead comes from. Each arena would need enough memory to store the entire object; currently they can be smaller since they often only need to hold parts of objects, not the entire thing.
by susam | 2025-12-11 02:34:04+00:00
Quicklisp is great and I recommend using it along with a brief introduction in both my Common Lisp setup guides for Vim and Emacs:

https://susam.net/lisp-in-vim.html

https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl

However, for my personal projects, I usually just download the package versions I need from GitHub with curl within a simple while loop:

https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/0.4.0/Makefile#L83-L...

https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/0.4.0/meta/cldeps/fo...

Then I point ASDF to the download directory with CL_SOURCE_REGISTRY and load it in my Lisp program using good old ASDF:LOAD-SYSTEM:

https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/0.4.0/etc/form.servi...

https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/0.4.0/form.lisp#L5

The last four links I have shared above all get automated by a simple QL:QUICKLOAD call if we're using Quicklisp, and that's one of the reasons Quicklisp has become almost a de facto standard in the community.
by msp26 | 2025-12-11 02:34:17+00:00
Hi if the Gemini API team is reading this can you please be more transparent about 'The specified schema produces a constraint that has too many states for serving. ...' when using Structured Outputs.

I assume it has something to do with the underlying constraint grammar/token masks becoming too long/taking too long to compute. But as end users we have no way of figuring out what the actual limits are.

OpenAI has more generous limits on the schemas and clearer docs. https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/structured-outputs#s....

You guys closed this issue for no reason: https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/issues/660

Other than that, good work! I love how fast the Gemini models are. The current API is significantly less of a shitshow compared to last year with property ordering etc.