MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vunderba | 2025-12-05 21:22:23+00:00
I just re-ran that image through Gemini 3.0 Pro via AI Studio and it reported:

I've moved on to the right hand, meticulously tagging each finger. After completing the initial count of five digits, I noticed a sixth! There appears to be an extra digit on the far right. This is an unexpected finding, and I have counted it as well. That makes a total of eleven fingers in the image.

This right HERE is the issue. It's not nearly deterministic enough to rely on.
by intexpress | 2025-12-05 21:22:25+00:00
A few recent Warner Bros films / coproductions

Imagine if these had not had theatrical releases, or, had only had 1 week limited releases just to qualify for awards..

Tenet

Dune

The Batman

Barbie

Furiosa

Twisters

Minecraft

Sinners

Superman

Weapons

One Battle After Another
by brandensilva | 2025-12-05 21:22:41+00:00
Well sounds like I'm the youngest around here. I got it when I was 16/17. Honestly I kind of forgot about it for awhile but have weird nerve pain sometimes when I'm stressed now that I'm 41 so I assume it still lingers in me.

Looking to find out more about the vaccine and it's impacts on existing shingle victims.
by stocksinsmocks | 2025-12-05 21:22:50+00:00
I’m not suggesting comirnanty is wolbachia. If there is reproductive harm, or reproductive harm passed on to children, then we will not know for a long time.

I believe that you’re well read on the CDC’s messaging on this topic. I’d like to bring to your attention that glyphosate was scientifically shown to pose no harm, but that key paper was retracted 25 years later. Pfizer is making over $10B/yr on comirnanty and at one point it was over $50B. Would you lie for that kind of money? Could you imagine someone who would?
by Benjammer | 2025-12-05 21:22:52+00:00
It always feels to me like these types of tests are being somewhat intentionally ignorant of how LLM cognition differs from human cognition. To me, they don't really "prove" or "show" anything other than simply - LLMs thinking works different than human thinking.

I'm always curious if these tests have comprehensive prompts that inform the model about what's going on properly, or if they're designed to "trick" the LLM in a very human-cognition-centric flavor of "trick".

Does the test instruction prompt tell it that it should be interpreting the image very, very literally, and that it should attempt to discard all previous knowledge of the subject before making its assessment of the question, etc.? Does it tell the model that some inputs may be designed to "trick" its reasoning, and to watch out for that specifically?

More specifically, what is a successful outcome here to you? Simply returning the answer "5" with no other info, or back-and-forth, or anything else in the output context? What is your idea of the LLMs internal world-model in this case? Do you want it to successfully infer that you are being deceitful? Should it respond directly to the deceit? Should it take the deceit in "good faith" and operate as if that's the new reality? Something in between? To me, all of this is very unclear in terms of LLM prompting, it feels like there's tons of very human-like subtext involved and you're trying to show that LLMs can't handle subtext/deceit and then generalizing that to say LLMs have low cognitive abilities in a general sense? This doesn't seem like particularly useful or productive analysis to me, so I'm curious what the goal of these "tests" are for the people who write/perform/post them?
by zerkten | 2025-12-05 21:23:00+00:00
A common setup was to have a folder hierarchy similar to email. Blogs were in folders organized by topic using whatever approach you felt best. You'd then dip into parts of the hierarchy. There often wasn't an aggregated feed that you could use but you could see a list of all items per blog. Each blog would then be highlighted or show a count when there was new content.

I said blog instead of feed because social networks had a focus on the single scrolling feed as a list of content aggregated from different authors. Some RSS clients embraced this to a degree, but it didn't start out that way. Twitter was the first social network I really used in 2007 to follow bloggers I subscribed to, and it took a while to adjust to this firehose of interspersed content. That wasn't an uncommon sentiment from devs.
by jon-wood | 2025-12-05 21:23:01+00:00
100% this. Go and spend time with the people using your software. Even better, use it yourself.

One of the companies I’ve worked for did food delivery, and in food delivery during Christmas week everybody works operations - either you’re out in a van with one of the regular drivers helping them carry orders that are three times larger than any other week, or you’re handling phone calls and emails to fix whatever problems arise. Either way without fail January every year would see a flurry of low effort/high value updates to the software those parts of the business used. Anything from changing the order of some interactions to fit the flow of dropping a delivery to putting our phone number in the header of every admin page.

Absolutely nothing beats going out there and doing the job to discover where the tools you’re responsible for fall over. Bonus points if you can do it at the most stressful time of year when if anything is going to fail it probably will.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-12-05 21:23:03+00:00
> where nations had to build walls

Name the Eastern nations plural that built these walls please. As far as I am aware, the G in GDPR stands for Germany, a country/nation/state which is (and always has been) firmly Western. People on here have such an infantile recollection of actual history.

Anyway, leaving aside debates of where the prime meridian of West vs East falls, it should've been manifestly obvious that in 2025 I was talking about China...

Edit: DPRK counts I guess although I'm not sure how many people would call what they have over there "communism": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Juche_Idea
by samdoesnothing | 2025-12-05 21:23:29+00:00
The precautionary principle clearly states that if you have a chemical that kills living things and you have a company who stands to make a lot of money off of this chemical as long as it's safe for humans, that you should be very very careful about it. Probably should be avoided until there is not just proof from a lab or from paid off scientists.

Kind of crazy that this isn't just obvious to everybody.
by grog454 | 2025-12-05 21:24:06+00:00
What image are you using?

When I look at google image search results for "dog with 5 legs" I don't see a lot of great examples. The first unequivocal "dog with 5 legs" was an illustration. Here was my conversation with Chat GPT.

> How many legs does this dog have?

"The dog in the image has four legs."

> look closer.

" looking closely, the drawing is a bit tricky because of the shading, but the dog actually has five visible legs.

Two front legs (normal)

Two hind legs (normal)

Plus one extra hind leg–like limb drawn overlapping in the back

It seems to be an artistic or anatomical error in the engraving."

Seems fair to me.
by dfee | 2025-12-05 21:24:10+00:00
i was in Bend, Oregon last weekend at the last Blockbuster, and it was really appealing.

- blu ray rentals were 99¢ / wk

- a vast trove of content

- no lock-in or monthly fees

sure, you actually have to make it to the store... but, 2007 never looked better.

now, Netflix was distributing by mail, and i think the promise was for them to stream all their content into homes. but, then it got messy.

but yeah, for 99¢ / movie, I'm happy to pay. i'll even occasionally pay to rent through AppleTV.
by Bender | 2025-12-05 21:24:13+00:00
Out of curiosity, who would YouTube implement an RTA header?

Their app developers unless it is set globally and in that case their network engineering team.

Which resources would have the header and which wouldn’t?

If the app developers send the header on any video flagged as adult then just specific videos. If they created a unique URL that all adult content would reside under then it could potentially be the network engineers. It really depends on how much work they put into it so that more people could view the content assuming user agents become legislated to check for the header.
by matklad | 2025-12-05 21:24:13+00:00
It's not that ironic though --- the number of bugs that were squashed fuzzers&asserts but would have dodged the borrow checker is much, much larger.

This is what makes TigerBeetle context somewhat special --- in many scenarios, security provided by memory safety is good enough, and any residual correctness bugs/panics are not a big deal. For us, we need to go extra N miles to catch the rest of the bugs as well, and DST is a much finer net for those fishes (given static allocation & single threaded design).
by K0nserv | 2025-12-05 21:24:15+00:00
It's not quite a fully formed argument, but I'm coming to the view that Rust mostly requires less cognitive load than other languages. I'm coming at this from the perspective of "cognitive load" meaning, roughly "the measure of the number of things you need to keep in working memory". Rust is no doubt difficult to learn, there are many concepts and a lot of syntax, but when you grasp it cognitive load is actually lower. Rust encodes so much more about the program in text than peer languages so there are fewer things to keep in your head. One good example of this is pointer lifetimes in Zig and C which you have to keep in your head, whereas in Rust you don't.

My own appreciation for Rust is rooted in humility. I know I'm an overgrown monkey prone to all kinds of mistakes. I appreciate Rust for helping me avoid that side of me
by honeycrispy | 2025-12-05 21:24:36+00:00
I love KDE, but it's too buggy for me. About once a day the bottom dock would just disappear. I really wish they'd focus a little more on stability.

I use Sway on CachyOS, and to me it's the perfect DE. Being able to switch between windows in under a quarter of a second indispensable once you've experienced it.
by knollimar | 2025-12-05 21:25:03+00:00
I've been using pyrevit inside revit so I just threw a basic loop in there. There's already a building model and the coworkers are just placing and wiring outlets, switches, etc. The harness wasn't impressive enough to share (alos contains vibe coded UI since I didn't want to learn XAML stuff on a friday night). Nothing fancy; I'm not very skilled (I work in construction)

I gave it some custom methods it could call, including "get_available_families", "place family instance", "scan_geometry" (reads model walls into LLM by wall endpoint), and "get_view_scale".

The task is basically copy the building engineer's layout onto the architect model by placing my families. It requires reading the symbol list, and you give it a pdf that contains the room.

Notably, it even used a GFCI family when it noticed it was a bathroom (I had told it to check NEC code, implying outlet spacing).
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-05 21:25:10+00:00
Most of this is just name calling now, blah blah xenophobia, who cares. I'm talking about the way people feel and you're talking about whether or not they're in the moral right to feel that way. It doesn't matter, people do feel this way and if you refuse to address their concerns then they'll fall in behind others who do.

Remember, the context of this conversation is "Here in Germany I fear the AfD too may get into power, ..."

> muh education though

Do you really believe tha Germans of all people haven't had enough Holocaust Class in school? Get real. You either have to meet people where they are, or accept that they're going to be voting for people that you aren't comfortable with.
by al_borland | 2025-12-05 21:25:21+00:00
Even if resolution times are equal, there is some comfort in being able to see the problem and make progress on it to feel like you're actively doing something. I work in a large enterprise and we have a team dedicated to managing critical incidents and getting everyone together for a resolution. When a 3rd party vendor is the reason for the outage, those calls are really awkward. It's a bunch of people sitting around pressing F5, all frantically trying to make it look like they are actively helping, when no one is actually doing anything, because they can't.

I equate it to driving. I'd rather be moving at a normal speed on side streets than sitting in traffic on the expressway, even if the expressway is technically faster.
by bdangubic | 2025-12-05 21:25:27+00:00
When I bought my S in 2014 people were breaking their necks checking it out, it was the shit - now this car is soooo dated there is no reason to buy 2026 vs. my 2014 (I got new DU, new battery…)

Tesla entire lineup is old outdated cars. Ford has F-150 and then another 50 models to choose from…
by coryrc | 2025-12-05 21:25:30+00:00
> idiot by definition is abnormal

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/idiot "1 Informal., an utterly foolish or senseless person." Nope, no abnormality needed.

There was (and still is in some places) a lot of lead poisoning. That more people are dumber than their genetics would otherwise dictate doesn't make them not idiots in my obviously-informal ranting.

> americans voted for trump because they are tired of democrats looking down on them.

Please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-05 21:26:01+00:00
Friends and family can be influenced, although I'd still trust them above anyone else. But salespeople are incentivized to lie to you (sorry, it's true). Product reviews are astroturfed by bots now. Consumer Reports, too, has been captured by industry, and is largely useless now.

When the metric is "make sales and make as much money as possible", it will be incredibly difficult to avoid bias from people with a vested interest in selling you something. This is why advertising (admittedly, mixed with our current society) is so insidious: it's very hard to find a third party that isn't trying to profit off of you buying something.
by HaZeust | 2025-12-05 21:26:31+00:00
>"Exposure Exposure was defined as receiving a first mRNA dose between May 1 and October 31, 2021. Individuals who were unvaccinated by November 1, 2021, were assigned a random index date based on vaccinated individuals’ vaccination dates."

What?? So any first mRNA dose before May 1st and after Nov 1st 2021 was not considered an adequate exposure? Why are they only defining exposure as the initial dose being administered within a six-month period for a vaccine that was released (A) before that; and (B) still continually offered - though in much lower capacities?

I'm all pro-vax but what? Lol.
by kube-system | 2025-12-05 21:26:36+00:00
> At least kube-system doesn't make the mistake of assuming that all jobs require 2000 hours of work per year, but they fail to acknowledge, much less address, my point that not all jobs are done for survival purposes.

I think we both can agree that there's a lot of nuance when it comes to wages and employment. How much time is someone spending at that job? What type of living situation do they have? What other sources of income do they have in their living situation? What are their expenses? etc.

You're right that not all jobs are done for survival purposes. But colloquially, when people use the term "living wage", they're talking specifically about people who work a wage in order to survive. Which is the reason that most people have jobs.

> Not only is that not an example of steelmanning, it's followed up by an irrelevant bare assertion made without the faintest trace of historical grounding.

Do you mean that in the past people did not survive on a single income? Social and family structures in the past definitely look different than they do today. But that doesn't really have any relevance to the people living in the present. Socioeconomics changes over time. Many of the living situations of the past are straight up illegal today. I know relatives who grew up without electricity or running water and grew their own food for survival. They didn't need the modern concept of a "living wage", but at the same time you can't reasonably expect someone from today's world to do the same thing they did.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-12-05 21:27:19+00:00
Confused where you think I said fruits and vegetables. There is glyphosate in beef and other meat, just because an animal eats it does not wash it away.

And glyphosate is also used for burndown and/or dessication on a number of non-glyphosate tolerant crops such as wheat, oats, beans, potatoes, etc that go directly to the grocery store
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-05 21:27:42+00:00
It’s nice to see business that rewarded customers with convenience win in the end.

Well, except for Netflix refusing their catalogue to be indexed in the TV app on macOS and iOS. I won’t pay for Netflix until they drop that anti customer practice.

If you want me to buy the video content you’re selling, it better be searchable in the TV app. And if not, there should be a better reason than you want to keep people trapped in the Netflix app.
by harmmonica | 2025-12-05 21:27:46+00:00
Couple of unrelated thoughts on this very long thread...

1. I'm sure multiple people have pointed it out, but for all the talk of a bubble, the AOL Time Warner merger was likely the biggest canary in the coal mine for what was to come. History repeats itself with literally the same brand and a lot of the same assets? Sort of depressing if the bubble does now burst because it's like we never learn our lesson

2. Trump wanted the Ellisons because they support him. There's almost no question in my mind the government will fight this. Will they win in court? Hard to say, but my quick thoughts:

If market cap was the basis for antitrust then the answer would be maybe, but that's not the basis for it. Is revenue the basis? No, but Disney generates more than Netflix, so does Comcast, so as a proxy for market share, which I think is somewhat the basis for antitrust (iamaal) it seems like there's no chance this creates some anticompetitive media juggernaut. But then the question is whether streaming is different than more general media. And if it is, how do you define the market when a company like Apple is involved in streaming but not fully a media company? Does that balance things out a bit? I don't think it does because I don't think anyone could claim that Apple counterbalances Netflix in streaming market share. If anything it would be a further argument against Netflix having Netflix and HBOMax.

Now having written all of that, I think the government would win because Paramount streaming with HBO would at least stand a chance in the streaming market against Netflix. And then also increase general media competition because you'd have Disney/ABC, Comcast/NBC, Paramount/CBS with the WBD addition improving Paramount's competitive position relative to the other two.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-12-05 21:28:00+00:00
I used to take this approach when building new integrations. Then I realized (1) most documentation sucks (2) there's far too much to remember (3) much of it is conditional (4) you don't always know what matters until it matters (e.g. using different paths of implementation).

What works much better is having an intentional review step that you come back to.
by JackC | 2025-12-05 21:28:01+00:00
I knew about those internment camps -- because they were widely recognized afterward as a stain on our national character, something never to be repeated.

And I knew about the hieleras[1] and about Guantanamo.

And about so many other instances in history, from so many governments.

But I hoped our arc would not be toward more people treated this way, more proudly. I hoped we would stop running so eagerly toward the poison.

[1] https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/02/28/freezer/abusive-condit...
by buu700 | 2025-12-05 21:28:04+00:00
It's easy for us as humans to correct dumb mistakes made by AI. It's less easy for AI to correct mistakes made by AI.

What's remarkable on Grok's part is when it spends five minutes churning through a few thousand lines of code (not the whole codebase, just the relevant files) and correctly arrives at the correct root cause of a complex bug in one shot.

Grok as a model may or may not be uniquely amazing per se, but the service's eagerness to throw compute at problems that genuinely demand it is a superpower that makes at least makes it uniquely amazing in practice. By comparison, even Gemini 3 often returns lazy/shallow/wrong responses (and I say that as a regular user of Gemini).
by reincarnate0x14 | 2025-12-05 21:28:08+00:00
I think it would be more accurate to say there was not enough cross-licensing. The generally preferable model seems to be service platforms that compete with each other, but with access to all the same production companies that also compete with each other. Vertical integration is an obvious win for the owners, but this fight has been going on since the earliest days of mass media with radio and motion picture studios.

Netflix was the early beneficiary of broad licensing because the draw bridges hadn't been pulled up yet.
by resfirestar | 2025-12-05 21:28:19+00:00
>Some were the sorts of teething issues that one might expect to get better over time, such as trouble integrating AI with existing IT infrastructure. Others were more fundamental. AI tools create new tasks and responsibilities, such as “post-deployment monitoring”, which involves “auditing to make sure [the tool] is still performing at the level of accuracy [that was] on the tin,” as she put it.

This is the kind of process that happens with any new technology. Hinton probably just didn't know because he's never worked outside of academia. A common problem with people commenting about "the future of work", AI-related or otherwise.
by kouru225 | 2025-12-05 21:28:27+00:00
Ngl I feel like most people only accept these criticisms of AI because they’re against AI to begin with. If you look at the claims, they fall apart pretty quickly. The environment issue is negligible and has less to do with AI than just computing in general, the consolidation of resources assumes that larger more expensive AI models will outcompete smaller local models and that’s not necessarily happening, the spread of misinformation doesn’t seem to have accelerated at all since AI came about (probably because we were already at peak misinformation and AI can’t add much more), the decay in critical thinking is far overblown if not outright manipulated data.

About the only problem here is the increase of surveillance and you can avoid that by running your own models, which are getting better and better by the day. The fact that people are so willing to accept these criticisms without much scrutiny is really just indicative of prior bias
by hephaes7us | 2025-12-05 21:28:28+00:00
Personally, I can pay for media, so I believe it's ethical that I do. If someone in my position chooses not to pay, there's a pretty solid argument that the media company is out money they could have had otherwise.

However, not everyone who pirates something was ever going to buy it in the first place. A huge portion of the world lives in sufficiently deep poverty that the option was either: have the thing for free or not have it at all. These folks don't represent lost sales.

Luckily though, "price" is not the same thing as "cost". If they watch for free, it doesn't cost us anything.

Just out of curiosity, how certain are you that "piracy is a minority activity"?
by cnnlives265 | 2025-12-05 21:28:34+00:00
This is the case with just about every status page I’ve ever seen. It takes them a while to realize there’s really a problem and then to update the page. One day these things will be automated, but until then, I wouldn’t expect more of Cloudflare than any other provider.

What’s more concerning to me is that now we’ve had AWS, Azure, and CloudFlare (and CliudFlare twice) go down recently. My gut says:

1. developers and IT are using LLMs in some part of the process, which will not be 100% reliable.

2. Current culture of I have (some personal activity or problem) or we don’t have staff, AI will replace me, f-this.

3. Pandemic after effects.

4. Political climate / war / drugs; all are intermingled.