skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the responses seem to be answering a different question: "Why does LeCun think LLMs won't lead to AGI?" I could answer that, but the question you are asking is "Why does LeCun think hallucinations are inherent in LLMs?"

To answer your question, think about how we train LLMs: We have them learn the statistical distribution of all written human language, such that given a chunk of text (a prompt, etc.) it then samples its output distribution to produces the next most likely token (word, sub-word, etc.) that should be produced and keeps doing that. It never learns how to judge what is true or false and during training it never needs to learn "Do I already know this?" It is just spoon fed information that it has to memorize and has no ability to acquire metacognition, which is something that it would need to be trained to attain. As humans, we know what we don't know (to an extent) and can identify when we already know something or don't already know something, such that we can say "I don't know." During training, an LLM is never taught to do this sort of introspection, so it never will know what it doesn't know.

I have a bunch of ideas about how to address this with a new architecture and a lifelong learning training paradigm, but it has been hard to execute. I'm an AI professor, but really pushing the envelope in that direction requires I think a small team (10-20) of strong AI scientists and engineers working collaboratively and significant computational resources. It just can't be done efficiently in academia where we have PhD student trainees who all need to be first author and work largely in isolation. By the time AI PhD students get good, they graduate.

I've been trying to find the time to focus on getting a start-up going focused on this. With Terry Sejnowski, I pitched my ideas to a group affiliated with Schmidt Sciences that funds science non-profits at around $20M per year for 5 years. They claimed to love my ideas, but didn't go for it....
Everyone hates tariffs because they are now created by the executive branch of the government at a whim of one person. Undermining democracy and creating economic uncertainty globally.
A lot of the change in behavior probably corresponds to more work from home and social isolation. I haven't been to a sit down restaurant in over 5 years, but I still grab a to go meal about once a quarter. With inflation, I'm less price sensitive too when I buy my quarterly big mack, so I go for it and supersize, may get mcnuggets too. So work from home and inflation probably factor in.
Given how hard and how long the fossil fuel industry has been fighting tooth and nail to suppress science, kill public and private projects, and fund bogus studies, all to avoid ever losing even a fraction of their ironclad control of the energy market, I think it's fair to deny them the benefit of the doubt at this point.

If they're saying or doing something that would stand in the way of or compete with the existing rise of renewable energy, even without any specific evidence, I believe it is fully justified to say they are doing it for selfish reasons that will harm literally every other human being on the planet.
Can you build Product Hunt for AI Indie Games only using AI?
Yes... yes, you can. Here's how - https://youtu.be/SxX0lqGfEsQ
Licking dirt off your hands isn't the same as being exposed to pollen.
> Something that always bugs me is restaurants that charge $2 or $5 surcharge for takeout. I'm saving the restaurant a ton of money by not using the dining room, why would they discourage that?

Because takeout isn't competing with the dining room. Customers don't go to a restaurant and then choose between those options; they've already planned whether to eat in or out. Restauraunts charge that because customers have shown they will pay it. Once you have that meal in mind, that $2 or $5 doesn't discourage you.
Protocol changing though. Early childhood exposure now recommended to weak doses and a supervised schedule for reactive kids which reduces anaphylaxis risks. Parter carries an epipen and we keep hoping some remediative treatment for adults will emerge but nothing yet.
Sorry, you're right. I guess it allows you to just change settings. Still, its unclear what those settings constitute, and how easily a keylogger could be embedded there.
How can I download this browser on Fedora too?
> I'm of course also just as critical of having Meta run the world's communication industry instead of Google, but that's the duopoly

Don't forget Apple with their iMessage protocol.
Oh shit, that's me!

Feel free to ask any questions.
> I've also heard of an acquaintance that they cancelled plans because their (Garmin™) Body Battery was too low.

This sounds like someone who just feels like they need to provide tangible evidence for their reason being "I feel terrible"
people stopped making these systems because they simply didn't work to solve the problem

there's a trillion dollars in it for you if you can prove me wrong and make one that does the job better than modern transformer-based language models
My initial point exactly
I have left WebGl disabled and do not miss anything so far (maybe in the future?).
Just not my use case.

Network disabled is a straw man argument.

If somebody already has made the effort of creating an extension and maintaining it, why not use that?
India doesn’t have low hygiene levels.

Thats nothing more than a racist TikTok trend.

Indians do have a different conception of public urban space which matches more closely with how the urban public in Europe would treat public space a 100 years ago, but that’s not surprising because proper urban cities in India are about as old as urban cities in Europe were a 100 years ago.
A massive hole!
There's deniable encryption to counter the wrench attack
There have been dozens, called anything from Message+ to Joyn. Most seem to be shutting down, though, because nobody used RCS since its inception from somewhere around 2009 and renewed interest in launching RCS services around 2012.

There are a few implementations on Github. https://github.com/android-rcs/rcsjta seems to be the most complete but uses an older version of the spec. https://github.com/Hirohumi/rust-rcs-client is a modern implementation.

The spec is here: https://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/technologies/netwo... if you're looking to implement it yourself.
I do hope removing the soot doesn't precipitate degenerative reactions. Looks amazing!
I grew up in some kind of village turned suburb, in France. I remember there being a field a few 100 meters away from home. So kinda rural?
You are 100% correct.
Heavily depends on where the servers reside.
Just a rough estimate for the case that the failures are non related.
No, they complain about it because they care about web development... That should be obvious.
Musk says first mission to Mars will launch next year
The narrative you gave above is by definition not a first party source.

Here's a first party source explaining your misunderstanding of the situation: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms...

And here's another credible source explaining Mozilla's mistake in making this decision based on language that was only present in a draft version of the CCPA, as opposed to the final version, but which also made it to Wikipedia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43276624

Most of the conversation on this topic never moved past the first misunderstanding, just a bunch of irrational kvetching at Mozilla by people who read an (incorrect) summary of the situation.
It's not a competition! The collaborative video game loved by players
The problem with "people who get shit done" lies in the people themselves. Are they level headed and honest? Are the impulsive and deceptive? These things matter.

Also, "getting shit done" doesn't have intrinsic positive value, and infact it is problematic when the shit in question is "really stupid shit".

If a business fails, that is ultimately of little significance in the context of a country or the world. If a country fails, that is very significant in the context of that country and potentially the world.
Not really. Defence in depth is an example.

If things were perfect you only need 1 layer of security. Things aren't perfect, that doesn't mean we should just give up and have no security, we have multiple layers of good security as while it's not perfect, it's better than nothing.
Just force price transparency. Force drug makers to advertise the selling prices of their drugs, and enforce price discrimination laws. Force insurance and PBM companies to advertise the drug prices if purchased through insurance or PBM. Everybody should be paying the same price. And if not, everyone should be allowed to find out if they can pay a lower price.

And yes, get rid of PBMs. They are toxic middlemen who want their 'cut' for doing nothing at all.

See Gale (2023): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10441264/
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
The Netlify docs are quite bad so I can see this happening. Also, the Netlify Functions ate locked to one AWS region too.
Hi, author here, that could absolutely be the case for me. I'll add a note about that when I next get to a computer.
I 100% agree with this and sampling from thought space rather than "thinking" in terms of language. I spent forever writing up an NSF grant proposal on exactly this idea and submitted it last May. I haven't heard back, but it probably won't be funded.
First principle? Don't respect traditions—burn them.

No threads waiting on locks, no hard pauses for resizes, no conventional polling mechanisms. Instead, nubmq's entire architecture revolves around one relentless obsession: never let a client wait. Everything else—adaptive sharding, real-time migrations, soft expiry handling—is just engineering fallout from aggressively challenging every assumption Redis and Memcached made decades ago.

Would love to see which of these breaks with convention you're most curious (or skeptical) about!
I have a US passport. I use it when I go to another country.

When I have traveling within the US I never take my passport. There is zero need and I may lose it so why even bother taking it when it serves no use?

My trip was a 6 week long road trip from the south eastern US through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, up to Seattle in the northwest, and then back to the south eastern US.

I had no intention of going to Mexico or Canada. They are fine countries but that was no the intent of this trip so I left my passport at home.

During this trip I learned that the US border patrol has set up border inspection points about 10 to 50 miles inside the US. Most of the southern border are remote desert regions where people can cross on foot and then try to meet up with someone in a vehicle on the other side. So the border patrol doesn't just patrol the actual border but has checkpoints inside the US on the roads near the border.

You don't need a passport to get through these as you never left the country.

But I was driving a vehicle (Honda CR-V) with an open cargo area that showed it was full of luggage, bags of food, and lots of water bottles. I probably looked suspicious like I was picking up immigrants on foot or smuggling drugs.

I wasn't. I was on a big road trip and wanted to be prepared for days if my car broke down on a side road and I was stuck in a desert area waiting 3 days to be rescued.
I recently started using one of these. The other day, I was working out on a rowing machine and received an alert (twice!) that my heart rate was extremely high. I was surprised because I wasn't even pushing myself that hard, and I am a fit person in general.

Upon research and asking around, I understood that it's more of a false positive. A more paranoid person may have reacted differently in such a scenario. So, consistency alone may not always suffice.
>Sites on the Cloudflare Pro plan are not affected by this somehow.

This has been my general experience with cloudflare. Their free plan is abysmally slow. And even their Pro plans add significant (30ms+) overhead to requests.
It's like the fat % on my bathroom scale. I know it's not perfect (in fact body % measuring is incredibly hard with massive error margins even in the most expensive/intrusive tests) but I'm not looking for exacts, I'm looking for trends and I've seen them where I expected to. So yes, the % may be bogus but I can use all that data to see trends which is all that matters (to me).
Hype for this is extremely premature, they've only drilled inches in a lab.
I rarely do pure CDN setups for cloudflare because the edge workers platform is just too good not to run everything there that is possible. BunnyCDN and most other edge worker offerings are a joke in comparison. Given that workerd is apache 2.0 licensed its strange no other offering goes into that direction.
Surgical Reading: How to Read 12 Books at Once (2022)
> the wrench treatment is extremely unlikely in most democracies

If you prefer ... substitute "wrench treatment" for the democratic wording: "jail time and the associated criminal prosecution process"
Sure, whataboutism seems bad, but have you considered other bad things? (2020)
Is it just me or does this post sound ridiculously unprofessional?
What if that child was to become a Hitler otherwise?
What do you mean? I've ported JS code from ActiveX to modern (circa 2017) browsers. It mostly works with some renames.

I'm not sure what your message is referring to.
IMO there is likely another agenda at play. For example, perhaps they will be told later that they could earn a reprieve if they "adjust" their search algorithm to silence critics and political enemies.
It knew where it was selenographically, which is what the author means by "relative to the surface of the moon", I think.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the riff and associations. Have you see TAB ? Do you feel there's any Fight Club connection? If you haven't seen either (for a while) they are definitely worth a rewatch!
I personally wouldn't trust all my most valuable personal info to a small, closed-source browser like Vivaldi
I'm really curious to see if this kind of diffusion works with "guided generation" / grammars as well. There's a lot of "structure" in code that you could use for minimising the low hanging fruit errors, and focus on the logic of the code instead.
get ur brain worms checked out
It's all quite random and also depends on genetics. I lived in rural area with very little air pollution, played outside. Yet I got multiple allergies, including hay fever, and hay was plenty in the area. Many of my close relatives have some auto-immune related diseases as well.
As a leader in the field of continual learning, I somewhat agree, but I'd say that catastrophic forgetting is largely resolved. The problem is that the continual learning community largely has become insular and is mostly focusing on toy problems that don't matter, where they will even avoid good solutions for nonsensical reasons. For example, reactivation / replay / rehearsal works well for mitigating catastrophic forgetting almost entirely, but a lot of the continual learning community mostly dislikes it because it is very effective. A lot of the work is focusing on toy problems and they refuse to scale up. I wrote this paper with some of my colleagues on this issue, although with such a long author list it isn't as focused as I would have liked in terms of telling the continual learning community to get out of its rut such that they are writing papers that advance AI rather than are just written for other continual learning researchers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11908

The majority are focusing on the wrong paradigms and the wrong questions, which blocks progress towards the kinds of continual learning needed to make progress towards creating models that think in latent space and enabling meta-cognition, which would then give architectures the ability to avoid hallucinations by knowing what they don't know.
It seems insufficiently secure to just trust that the people who designed the ciphers you use, and who also are responsible for breaking ciphers at state-level, would tell you if they could break those ciphers. Hahaha :)
I feel this author's pain.

I too jumped for a Jolla after Nokia's departure, with a 3D printed keyboard, thinking the experience of having this hackable Linux phone with on-device app development would be just as good as it was on the N900

Nothing has come close since. The perfect tactile feedback of the keyboard is hard to describe, the python apps you could mod and debug on a roadtrip, submitting patches on the fly to the upstream author.

The FM transmitter to play your music anywhere there wasn't an aux, the infrared to change your TV channel whilst relaxing on the couch, the kickstand and camera cover for the perfect convenience and privacy.

And the Maemo community was excellent, with many talented devs bringing their efforts to other ARM devices, and spawning orgs like Meego and Postmarket.

I can't put into words the budding hope and excitement there was at the time, but it just petered out once it became clear that camera specs and CPUs were all consumers cared about...
This is a very common trope in any Israel/Gaza debate. Person A says 'Palestinians' and Person B judos that into 'Hamas' to make Person A's point sound extremist.
Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services, it looks like Claro should support RCS (still branded as "joyn" though, so could be an outdated version of the spec).

I don't think carriers had much of a reason to invest in RCS servers up till recently, because only Android really supported it and that came with a free, third party server. Maybe now carriers will start caring.

By online statistics, Brazil seems to be a WhatsApp country, though, so I don't think many people will be using carrier services for chat. In turn, I don't think carriers will be quick to invest in servers and software to provide RCS to customers very soon.
stop eating brain worms
If all the endpoints share the same resource constraints and traffic patterns, sure you can just scale up the monolith.

Even otherwise, yes, you sure still can, just like you can write the service in bash if that’s how you want to spend money.
Hi! Stumbled on an old comment of yours about vhs tapes + recording cycling off satellites. Would love to hear about your system!

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That is also used if you want to share a video at a particular timestamp with someone. E.g. check this out it happens 40s in. YouTube.com....&t=40s
I read this and I thought it was a bad writing, and I assumed (right or wrong) that (metaphor ensues):

The airplane's pilot could see where the ground was and he estimated it was 1000m-1200m below. But the instrument of the airplane were malfunctioning and reported that the ground was at 500m (or 5000m). This caused the plane to override/resist the pilot's manual landing efforts causing the plane to ultimately crash but not allowing the wheels to come down and the flaps to do turn.

So two different mechanisms, providing contradicting evidence, and the lack of a 'higher' deciding authority to use 'judgment' and/or other inputs to 'decide' which reported measurements are more accurate, and thus make the viable decision/take the viable action.

I get that for such devices every-gram-counts, and perhaps from now on some devices/mechanisms that are truly single-points-of-failure, will get 2x or 3x for redundancy/contingencies. If your ABC-camera fails, it's 'ok' you can still get images from your DEF and GHI will give you some data, reducing to 80% the output of the mission, but still not making it 5%. Your 'landing equipment' fails, and you get out only 5% of the value (flying/trajectory/telemetry of flight/perhaps some eclipse photos).
> I guess it was just a talking point to shit on Apple’s approach?

It started with Apple promoting the "green bubble = inferior" thing. Google responded by insisting the iMessage experience with Android was only bad because Apple refused to support RCS. Now here we are.

The RCS protocol is much better than SMS/MMS. But there are also plenty of better protocols out there. Both can be true.
Curious as to whether Mullvad will respond the same way Signal did to Sweden's assault on E2EE.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/26/signal_will_withdraw_...
Sound very stressful. I hope you and your family are doing well. I had problems with asthma in kindergarten and it is very scary for the first few times, after that I at least knew the drill and that I wouldn't die.
From searching the codebase, I can only find eval() used in the markdown and the specs.

You’re totally right that eval()’ing unknown code is terrible but it doesn’t look like the gem itself is doing that.

The usage of eval() is in a user written tool in the docs. Definitely a bd example and should probably be changed
"That is a ridiculous proposition. Electric vehicles themselves were being pushed hard around the world before China"

I never said they are first, I said they lead at the EV industry and usage, the amount of resource and how people use EV is gargantuan even compared to the west
> There's deniable encryption to counter the wrench attack

The trouble with deniable encryption is its viable use-case is very narrow.

It is, for example, not viable to use deniable encryption when exchanging messages with others.

If the authorities, through whatever means, get the a copy of an encrypted message you sent, and they have done sufficient metadata homework to link it back to you, find your address and come knock on your door, then you are going to seriously struggle with a deniable encryption defence.
in 2d, but not in 3d though (like in the video on top of the article)!
In what way does that relate to the works of Vint Cerf?

Genuinely curious.
Yes, you are correct.

Which only further enhances the overall point, there is no reasonable auto marketplace data (actual or even projected) to support the current valuation.

The "Magnificent 7" should really only be 6 with Tesla being the odd one out.

Some of the reports on it from stock market "analysts" are almost comical and often rely on an appeal to tradition --- it's always been this way. Exactly the sort of nonsense cold hard "analysis" is supposed to cut through.

It's as if there is some significant pressure to emotionally support the big investors that are heavily bought in.
Sounds to me like it's doing spam/phishing/virus scans on-device because cloud servers can't.
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That's better than all SEO tools and probably most analytics imo (only measured SEO tools myself) ... the value in tracking is mainly in spotting trends.
Renewal is all that matters.

Namecheap is $14.95 renewal for me (I believe this is slightly discounted due to how many domains I have)

Porkbun is $11.06

That may not seem like much but it’s a couple hundred dollars a year difference for me (some TLDs have a bigger spread).
I've had an iPhone for many years and just recently discovered the Health app.

My phone has a lot of my "steps", an estimate of my calories, data about my walking stability, and tons of other stuff. You don't even need a watch to get +/- 65% accuracy on anything except heart rate.
You get this same pattern with a lot of stories about software. Features are often implemented in a way that’s simple for the developers, but not really a great fit for what’s actually needed. Then typically some story is given to justify why the resulting limitations or usability issues are actually a good thing.