MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Arkhaine_kupo | 2025-12-03 17:07:38+00:00
> I say this is a world model because it is a objectively a model of the world.

a world model in AI has specific definition, which is an internal representation that the AI can use to understand and simulate its environment.

> Long-term memory and object permanence don't seem necessary for thought. A 1-year-old can think, as can a late-stage Alzheimers patient

Both those cases have long term memory and object permanence, they also have a developing memory or memory issues. But the issues are not constrained by their context window. Children develop object permance in the first 8 months, and similar to distinguishing between their own body and their mothers that is them developing a world model. Toddlers are not really thinking, they are responding to stimulus, they feel huger they cry. They hear a loud sound they cry. Its not really them coming up with a plan to get fed or attention

> Listing human capabilities that LLMs don't have doesn't help unless you demonstrate these are prerequisites for thought. Helen Keller couldn't tell you the weight, direction, or size of a rolling ball

Helen Keller had understanding in her mind of what different objects were, she started communicating because she understood the word water with her teacher running her finger through her palm.

Most humans have multiple sensory inputs (sight, smell, hearing, touch) she only had one which is perhaps closer to an LLM. But conditions she had that LLMs dont have are agency, planning, long term memory etc.

> Can you point to the speed-of-light analogy laws that constrain how LLMs work in a way that excludes the possibility of thought?

Sure, let me switch the analogy if you dont mind. In the chinese room thought experiment we have a man who gets a message and opens a chinese dictionary and translates it perfectly word by word and the person on the other side receives and read a perfect chinese message.

The argument usually goes along the idea of whether the person inside the room "understands" chinese if he is capable of creating 1:1 perfect chinese messages out.

But an LLM is that man, what you cannot argue is that the man is THINKING. He is mechanically going to the dictionary and returning a message that can pass as human written because the book is accurate (if the vectors and weights are well tuned). He is neither an agent, he simply does, and he is not crating a plan or doing anything beyond transcribing the message as the book demands.

He doesnt have a mental model of the chinese language, he cannot formulate his own ideas or execute a plan based on predicted outcomes, he cannot do but perform the job perfectly and boringly as per the book.
by mmsc | 2025-12-03 17:08:02+00:00
Hackernews' submission guidelines clearly state: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." [0]

The Wiz post has significantly changed since it was first published (and how it looked when first posted to HN), FYI -- see [1]. When it was published, it was a summary of the React announcement, and was somehow longer than the original and yet provided less useful information than the original.

In any case, the "tell" is the syntactic structure (as Chomsky would say) and certain phrases used in the post.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20251203162416/https://www.wiz.i...
by hopelite | 2025-12-03 17:08:19+00:00
Or maybe if they do trade, their trades have to be on a month long delay. The transparency should take out any corruption on the duration and it will incentivize their investment on long term gains and allow the public to also participate and make their insider knowledge.

The current lag timed reporting requirement is a decent start, but fact of the matter is that it still allows Reps to take advantage of insider knowledge to profit and thereby basically be bribed in circuitous ways not really all that different than a mobster/teamster accidentally leaving behind a suitcase of cash after they dinner party the politician invited him to, just even more obfuscated and structured.
by hypeatei | 2025-12-03 17:08:33+00:00
> Do you also advocate putting a little pot of cash ...

Yes, obviously I would support that /s

The idea of increasing pay for members of Congress is that we naturally discourage seeking out other forms of building wealth and/or paying bills while in office regardless of existing laws. You can also have laws that explicitly stop things like insider trading too, but obviously you can't solve for every scenario so this would be a blanket solution.

I understand that corruption can't be solved by this one action and that members can still be corrupt after a pay increase, but on the whole, I think it'd be a positive change. It's a hard problem to solve without burning everything down... which only sounds good in theory and may not result in a better system.
by IgorPartola | 2025-12-03 17:08:40+00:00
Literally laughed out loud about this. You might have missed some of the things that prominent leaders with "skill, knowledge, and expertise" have been doing:

https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2025/9/kennedy-calls-f...

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/26/politics/james-inhofe-sno...

Or an even older one: https://rollcall.com/2018/02/16/flashback-friday-a-series-of...

We are definitely not sending our brightest.
by bob1029 | 2025-12-03 17:08:52+00:00
> If you ask audiophiles online they will swear up and down that a cheater plug, balanced cables, or optical isolation will fix it - that will not fix it.

Lifting the ground on my studio monitors absolutely fixed my noise problems. I run them off a MiniDSP 2x4HD, so other sources like EMI aren't really a factor.

The problem I have with a double conversion UPS is that it isn't an ideal sinusoidal source. It implies it is on the tin, but when you've got protected loads with PWM power delivery slamming around 1+ kilowatts, there's no way to guarantee a smooth waveform with a typical ~2500VA unit. Directly passing through to the grid could provide cleaner power under the most transient conditions.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-03 17:09:00+00:00
When it comes to making mistakes I'd say that people and animals are moral subjects who feel bad when they screw up and that AIs aren't, although one could argue they could "feel" this through a utility function.

What the goal of AGI? It is one thing to build something which is completely autonomous and able to set large goals for itself. It's another thing to build general purpose assistants that are loyal to their users. (Lem's Cyberiad is one of the most fun sci-books ever covers a lot of the issues which could come up)

I was interested in foundation models about 15 years before they became reality and early on believed that the somatic experience was essential to intelligence. That is, the language instinct that Pinker talked about was a peripheral for an animal brain -- earlier efforts at NLP failed because they didn't have the animal!

My own thinking about it was to build a semantic layer that had a rich world representation which would take up the place of an animal but it turned out that "language is all you need" in that a remarkable amount of linguistic and cognitive competence can be created with a language in, language out approach without any grounding.
by benmmurphy | 2025-12-03 17:09:15+00:00
I suspect the commit to fix is:

https://github.com/facebook/react/commit/bbed0b0ee64b89353a4...

and it looks like its been squashed with some other stuff to hide it or maybe there are other problems as well.

this pattern appears 4 times and looks like it is reducing the functions that are exposed to the 'whitelist'. i presume the modules have dangerous functions in the prototype chain and clients were able to invoke them.

- return moduleExports[metadata.name]; + if (hasOwnProperty.call(moduleExports, metadata.name)) { + return moduleExports[metadata.name]; + } + return (undefined: any);
by pierrec | 2025-12-03 17:09:39+00:00
Both statements are true. We have a strong tendency for integer ratios in harmony, and just intonation often sounds out of tune.

Integer ratios are the base upon which harmony is built. Temperament is a subtle modification that sounds very close to integer ratios, but allows more complex harmonic structures where dissonance is evenly spread out across all the relationships between tones.
by frellus | 2025-12-03 17:09:46+00:00
Absolutely. My wife is Japanese, and they still teach "home economics" there (and no, it's not sexist .. both boys and girls have to attend classes). They learn the following, basically life skills:

* proper nutritional eating

* balancing a budget (saving, spending)

* simple skills like how to stitch and sew their clothes when there is a hole or button needs to be fixed

I looked at their text books and my jaw hit the floor. All up to date, amazing pictures and instructions, little anime characters teaching life skills in a fun way. I was blown away, it was both practical and fun.

My daughter got a class like this in her charter school, they learned how to change a tire for a car and such. She absolutely loved it. They ran scenarios like, "if you made $<x> amount of money per year, and you want to live around $<y> how could you do it?", and she learned how she would get a roommate, how to split rent effectively and make a monthly budget.
by bombcar | 2025-12-03 17:10:01+00:00
Exactly - the key is to have very high-level and outcome-driven guidelines and not trying to micromanage everything; that allows various methods to be tried, and the best ones will start to be emulated.

(Another underlying reality is that the vast majority of people will say education and healthcare are "very important" but very few people will move to improve either of those - beyond going out of state for college.)
by quietbritishjim | 2025-12-03 17:10:05+00:00
Oops, that's what I meant to say! So much for my correction.

I actually heard, many years ago, the higher derivatives referred to as "jerk" (3rd, as you said), "jolt" (4th) and "jounce" (5th). But that contradicts the Wikipedia article that says "jounce" is 4th derivative.
by Scubabear68 | 2025-12-03 17:10:32+00:00
Digging around, OK that makes sense. But even in the context of C and C++, there are often more ways the compiler can't help you than ways it can.

The most common are on function calls involving array operations and pointers, but a lot of it has to do with the C/C++ header and linker setup as well. C and C++ authors should not blithely assume the compiler is doing an awesome job, and in my experience, they don't.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-12-03 17:10:33+00:00
> But importantly the ChatGPT app experience at least for iPhone/Mac users is drastically superior vs Google which feels very Google still. So Gemini would have to be drastically better answer wise than ChatGPT to lure users from a better UI/UX experience to Gemini.

Opposite is true for a larger market. Gemini is great and available with one button click on most consumer phones. OpenAI will never crack most Android users by this logic of yours
by karimf | 2025-12-03 17:10:57+00:00
Given that most Next.js and RSC apps run on Vercel, I’m wondering if they’re doing the same thing. There’s no information about this in their latest blog post [0].

Update: They do similar thing. Mentioned here [1]

[0] https://nextjs.org/blog/CVE-2025-66478

[1] https://vercel.com/changelog/cve-2025-55182
by bccdee | 2025-12-03 17:11:01+00:00
> Admitting you were wrong requires not erasing the evidence of what you said.

I don't think there's really an obligation to announce to newcomers, "hey, an earlier version of this post was overly inflammatory." But you should be forthright about your mistake to people who confront you about it, which is what's happening in the forum thread you linked. I think this is all fine.
by solveit | 2025-12-03 17:11:20+00:00
The bright side is that it should eventually be technically feasible to create much more powerful and effective guardrails around neural nets. At the end of the day, we have full access to the machine running the code, whereas we can't exactly go around sticking electrodes into everyone's brains, and even "just" constant monitoring is prohibitively expensive for most human work. The bad news is that we might be decades away from an understanding of how to create useful guardrails around AI, and AI is doing stuff now.
by mrsmrtss | 2025-12-03 17:11:28+00:00
Yeah, I agree that Windows sucks, but I would not abandon .NET for this reason. .NET is solid and is only getting better. There is no reason to believe that Google, Oracle, or any other big greedy company is any better than Microsoft. I moved to Linux years ago and am very happy with the move. Developing .NET in Linux has been a very smooth experience, and I don't miss Windows at all. Also, gaming is a lot better in Linux than it used to be.
by nuc1e0n | 2025-12-03 17:11:30+00:00
The article claims that AI services are currently over-utilised. Well isn't that because customers are being undercharged for services? A car when in neutral will rev up easily if the accelerator pedal is pushed even very slightly, because there's no load on the engine. But in gear the same engine will rev up much less when the accelerator is pushed the same amount. Will there be the same overutilisation occurring if users have to financially support the infrastructure, either through subscriptions or intrusive advertising?

I doubt it.

And what if the technology to locally run these systems without reliance on the cloud becomes commonplace, as it now is with open source models? The expensive part is in the training of these models more than the inference.
by op00to | 2025-12-03 17:11:31+00:00
> Viewers are already used to black bars, and we watch lower-resolution content constantly.

This is actually not as common as you think. It is common for "normies" to see 4:3 and think "This is not HD". People really, really hate black bars.

What's more surprising to me is that content providers don't keep stuff in 4:3 and just shove ads on the side.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-12-03 17:11:34+00:00
MMA is a sweet deal if you can swing it.

Know a few folks who went through it, and several went straight military. Part of the reason is that you're still obligated to military service via the MMAm just as a Navy reserve officer, and the Naval services (Navy, Marines, Coast Guard) will generally take you since you're an academy grad and already know naval military leadership.

You're also obligated to the federal gov, not necessarily the service, so you could in theory try to be an Army officer.
by beepbooptheory | 2025-12-03 17:11:35+00:00
Have you tried to go back to the old way, maybe just as an experiment, to see how much time you are actually saving? You might be a little surprised! Significant "reprompting" time to me indicates maybe a little too much relying on it rather than leading by example. Things are much faster in general if you find the right loop of maybe using Claude for like 15%-20% of stuff instead of 99.7%. You wouldn't give your junior 99.7% ownership of the app unless they were your only person, right? I find spending time thinking through certain things by hand will make you so much more productive, and the code will generally be much better quality.

I get that like 3 years ago we were all just essentially proving points building apps completely with prompts, and they make good blog subjects maybe, but in practice they end up being either fragile novelties or bloated rat's nests that end up taking more time not less.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-12-03 17:11:50+00:00
Having worked in China for 9 years on their Z visa, you can totally go work there especially if you have skills. Koreans, Japanese, Indians, you’ll see them in the bigger tech cities. But they aren’t so thrilled about lower skilled immigration…eg what has been going on in Guangzhou with Africans, I don’t expect they will lean into that yet since they still have plenty of poor people to draw from in rural areas.
by canucktrash669 | 2025-12-03 17:12:05+00:00
Neither of them tracks leaders. They just say:

"This fund, which we like to refer to by its trade ticker, “[NANC/GOP],” invests in equity securities purchased or sold by [Democratic/Republican] members of Congress and their spouses

https://subversiveetfs.com/nanc/ https://subversiveetfs.com/gop/

So far my YTD is right in their range. But if leaders have a 47% edge, then I'm interested.
by flohofwoe | 2025-12-03 17:12:35+00:00
> Nah, if windows stayed with OpenGL instead of inventing its own, gaming on linux would be far easier for decades.

The problem with OpenGL is that it is a complete mess compared to the D3D APIs (D3D was the better designed API since at least D3D9, arguably even D3D7). Also DirectX wasn't just about rendering, it also covered sound, input and networking - although most of that has been dissolved into regular Windows APIs since quite a while).

Also, Vulkan repeats some of the same problems that OpenGL had, but at least Vulkan is an uptodate mess, not a deprecated mess like GL.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-03 17:12:47+00:00
It's "wonderfully" human way.

Just like sometimes you need senior/person at power to tell the junior "no, you can't just promise the project manager shorter deadline with no change in scope, and if PM have problem with that they can talk with me", now we need Judge Dredd AI to keep the law when other AIs are bullied into misbehaving
by IanCal | 2025-12-03 17:14:41+00:00
Why does this conflict? Faster people doesn't negate the requirement for building systems that maintain safety in the face of errors.

> but it does seem fairly obvious to me that directly automating things with AI will probably always have substantial risk and you have much more assurance, if you involve AI in the process, using it to develop a traditional automation.

Sure but the point is you use it when you don't have the same simple flow. Fixed coding for clear issues, fall back afterwards.
by digikata | 2025-12-03 17:14:51+00:00
Garage is really good for core S3, the only thing I ran into was it didn't support object tagging. It could be considered maybe a more esoteric corner of the S3 api, but minio does support it. Especially if you're just mapping for a test api, object tagging is most likely an unneeded feature anyway.

It's a "Misc" endpoint in the Garage docs here: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/reference-manua...
by dzaima | 2025-12-03 17:14:56+00:00
That only matters for things with side-effects; and changing the `&&` to `&` doesn't get it to optimize anyway.

You can check - copy the LLVM IR from https://godbolt.org/z/EMPr4Yc84 into https://alive2.llvm.org/ce/ and it'll tell you that it is a valid refinement as far as compiler optimization goes.
by forgetfulness | 2025-12-03 17:14:57+00:00
Reputation will only become more important as AI generated content permeates society, the name behind what you’ll read, watch or listen will be a bigger factor in whether anyone would commit minutes to hours to consuming what could be slop.

I think this erosion of trust will have far reaching consequences and people will become less open to ideas and experiences front strangers.

Running your brand into the ground in the early days will be costly.
by mbreese | 2025-12-03 17:14:57+00:00
It was better. When it first came out, it was a pretty simple API, at least simpler than alternatives (IIRC, I could just be thinking with nostalgia).

I think it's only gotten as complicated as it has as new features have been organically added. I'm sure there are good use cases for everything, but it does beg the question -- is a better API possible for object storage? What's the minimal API required? GET/POST/DELETE?
by shagie | 2025-12-03 17:15:10+00:00
I'm saying the idea that you can do one test for software engineering and never have to study again or be tested on a different domain in the future isn't something that professional engineering licensure solves.

Furthermore, licensure requires state level legislation and makes it harder for employees (especially the EIT) to change jobs or move to other states for work there.

Licensure, the way that people often point to it as a way to solve the credentials problem vs interviews, isn't going to solve the problems that people think it would.

Furthermore, it is only something if there is a reason to do it. If there isn't a reason to have a licensed engineer signing off on designs and code there isn't a reason for a company to hire such.

Why should a company pay more for someone with a license to design their website when they could hire someone more cheaply who doesn't have a license? What penalties would a company have for having a secretary do some vbscripting in excel or a manager use Access rather than hiring a licensed developer?
by Cold_Miserable | 2025-12-03 17:15:12+00:00
Baldur's Gate linux native build performed poorly on Gamers Nexus tests.

Where's a proper comparison between the fastest linux OS "CachyOS" and Windows 11 LTSC with all the crap removed, particularly the biggest offenders: Defender, Update, Edge, "fullscreen optimizations" and all the weird little services from print spooler to NPSV_xxx "now playing service" ?
by abainbridge | 2025-12-03 17:15:15+00:00
eg 4:

int foo(char const *s) { if (s[0] == 'h' && s[1] == 'e' && s[2] == 'l' && s[3] == 'l') return 1; return 0; }

The outputs 4 cmp instructions here, even though I'd have thought 1 was sufficient. https://godbolt.org/z/hqMnbrnKe
by vultour | 2025-12-03 17:15:17+00:00
Do you expect Sam Altman to come on stage and tell you the whole thing is a giant house of cards when the entire western economy seems to be propped up by AI? I wonder whose "sober" analysis you would accept, because surely the people that are making money hand over fist will never admit it.

Seems to me like any criticism of AI is always handwaved away with the same arguments. Either it's companies who missed the AI wave, or the models are improving incredibly quickly so if it's shit today you just have to wait one more year, or if you're not seeing 100x improvements in productivity you must be using it wrong.
by randomNumber7 | 2025-12-03 17:15:24+00:00
You can also produce 10x the goods with the same amount of workers or let the other 9 work in other jobs.

The difference is that previously there still had been plenty of (low skill) jobs where automation didn't work. Pizza delivery, taxi driver, lots of office jobs with repetitive tasks etc.

Soon there will be nothing for the average joe as the machine will be better in all tasks he could perform.
by arevno | 2025-12-03 17:16:02+00:00
> cheaper housing would help the kids more, but that has more entrenched interests opposed to it (almost every homeowner)

I hear this often, but as a homeowner, I don't understand it. Assessed value tracks market value, and the last thing I want is property taxes rising.

The only homeowners who would prefer rising prices are those looking to sell or over-leveraged landlords.
by soganess | 2025-12-03 17:16:27+00:00
Engineers are not exactly famous for people-pleasing. Maybe management, but engineering? Maybe some fresh junior?

I'm not convinced that the existence of a low-probability event justifies normalizing the regular occurrence of a much more likely (and negative) event, like a belligerent engineer throwing a fit in a design meeting. I'd go as far as to say I'm open to more people-pleasers in engineering.

Also, fwiw, if you want to know why someone changed their mind, you can just ask them and see how you feel about the answer. If someone changes their mind at the drop of a hat, my guess is that their original position was not a strongly held one.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-12-03 17:16:58+00:00
> The patch script is written in PHP, just run php patch.php "path/to/Mac OS ROM.hqx.src" with your build of vasmm68k_mot in the same directory.

It's 100% valid, but I always forget that PHP is a general-purpose scripting language:) And I assume it's a patch script and not just patch(1) because it seems to be interactively looking at the ROM to find the right things to modify?