skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bookmarks and tabs are a good example of how easily you could accidentally step on the core userbases' toes. There are absolutely stellar tab and bookmark addons that essentially completely change how those systems work. They are also vastly more complex (but in a way that serves powerusers).

If firefox changes either feature in an attempt to get closer to those tools they risk breaking those very addons (leading to pissed off users and devs). Likewise if they change in another direction.

The only real solution that avoids that would be to promote some addons to first class implementations and allow you to mix and match them. But that of course increases maintenance burden permanently and even then it's likely to piss off some chunk of users.

Both tabs and bookmarks currently work well in the simple usecase and can be extended to the power users' use cases. There are unfortunately though a ton of other things that take priority over that. Namely rustifying code (to reduce maintenance burden and reduce bugs) and maintaining feature parity with chrome.
Way too power hungry for a handheld gaming machine and way too small market. No way AMD spent all this effort designing a brand new SoC architecture just for Steam Deck.
> it makes no sense whatsoever to let the artificial voice of a chatbot, chatting randomly away at dazzling speed, replace the far slower but authentic and reflective voice of a thinking, living human being.

well, of course this is the basic problem with these systems - how to resolve?
It's been described as fumbling around in a dark room until you find the light switch. At which point you can see the doorway leading to the next dark room.
You realize you can just as easily (if not more so) produce electricity with fossil fuels, right?
Many of his arguments make “logical” sense, but one way to evaluate them is: would they have applied equally well 5 years ago? and would that have predicted LLMs will never write (average) poetry, or solve math, or answer common-sense questions about the physical world reasonably well?
Probably. But turns out scale is all we needed. So yeah, maybe this is the exact point where scale stops working and we need to drastically change architectures. But maybe we just need to keep scaling.
And is firmly Generation X, too.
The space surrounding you may not have a temperature but your spacecraft does, and it will lose heat via radiation, batteries and electronics will stop working after your temperature reaches a certain low.
From Sweden & Denmark. Small discussion (14 points, 9 hours ago, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43364524

Smaller still (8 points, 11 hours ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43363202
the only way this article would have been better if it charted like 02/28/2021 through 03/11/2021 :)
The coworker never found out who that was and talking about he kind of suspected it was a just a neighbor that didn't like them. And like you said, they can always hide behind "I don't know I was just worried about the children".
I feel like humans don’t have great intuitions around the ideal format for an LLM. But an LLM probably does have a good sense for what would work well for itself.

And also I think that we shouldn’t necessarily expect to find LLM targeted documentation to be intuitive or helpful as human reader.

Ultimately you could empirically measure how well a given distilled documentation file works compared to another one with a given LLM. Just give it tasks to do that rely on the documentation in thorough ways that give good coverage (would be easy to have Claude generate such code from the docs).

Then see how well the LLM does on a battery of tasks given a particular distilled documentation in its context window along with a request for a particular coding task.

The distilled documentation file that gets the best average score with the shortest length is ideal and that should be the one you use for this.
Why does this even have to be a problem?

We can send small probes to image the moon in incredibly high resolution. It's a big place I'm sure there is a perfectly flat rock somewhere they can use.
Yes, through image analysis.
Regarding an issue with Chromecast 2nd gen and Chromecast Audio
I consider it being a reminder since beginning. (And the knowledge self being alive by memetics - then dead and profaned in LLM, like not yet, but "to become" Frankenstain's monster.)
What do you mean cloning boiler plate logic? Don't you just write it once and then call the function? Need to change things? Okay do a little abstraction. But I thought a big part of coding was to reduce repetition
> Edit 3/14/2025:

Hi everyone,

Thank you again for your patience, we have some good news - a fix for the issue should reach all users today.
Oh, it never would have occurred to me that that was a sarcastic remark.
Physical Intelligence and Cognitive Biases Toward AI [video]
People switched away from cash during COVID. Lots of people who might have been unbanked or lightly banked went all-in as everything went digital.

Now restaurants (historically a pretty cash-heavy industry) have fewer cash transactions.

Possibly related?
The propaganda outlets have really been pushing hard the line that you can't trust professional journalists, and people who get their news from influencers just seem to accept it uncritically.
If you look at Change 5 and 6, they seem to do the same image processing based landing control. This doesn't seem to be a cost cutting measure, since the image processing is computationally much more complex than using a radar altimeter.
If anyone wants to watch one of me and my teens' favorite documentaries ever, check out the story of art forger Mark Landis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Landis), named "Art and Craft" (https://artandcraftfilm.com/).

It's very strange and a bit sad but gripping.

"I'm addicted to philanthropy." --Mark Landis
The comment said "Zionists and other far right twitter accounts", which means at least 2 of the accounts are "far right". Can you explain how https://x.com/canarymission and https://x.com/CampusJewHate are "far right"?

Those accounts document hatred against Jewish people in Columbia and other universities. How on Earth are these accounts "far right"? Can you link to at least one post from either of those accounts that you would characterize as "far right"?
What is the chance I can get to the US legally as a software developer from Syria?
Despite the symbolism, does this change anything about their reachability from Tor?

Is there any practical advantage to a website in being explicitly reachable as a hidden service on Tor, as opposed to simply not blocking exit node IPs?
From 1950 to 1966

That was 75 years ago. If you're going to grind an axe, at least pick one from this century.
Maybe I'll believe you when desktop operating systems have a mature and easy-to-use sandbox for local apps. Any random local app by default having access to ~/.ssh/id_rsa no attack required is a much bigger threat for me to worry about than thinking a web app might attack my browser to steal data belonging to a different origin.
These are arc features (which were copied/ported to zen) and are the main reason I use ARC atm on my Mac. On PC I use zen because arc sucks on PC. It's hard to lose these features imo.
Reading about this and matching it up with what I see in some more recent electric truck and ferry charging videos I feel this is almost historic tech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megawatt_Charging_System
The Stasi or the KGB would have loved to install listening devices into everyone's homes, so they can monitor everyone. And here we are, people are voluntarily doing it. It's like a dream come true, just a few decades too late.
Ahh. That makes sense!
Oil companies, vehicle manufacturers, tire companies and other powerful lobbyists have been doing this for decades so it’s an unsurprising theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...

It’s why we don’t have rail in the US like you see in Europe. At one point in time we had a ton of rail and streetcar networks but these groups destroyed it all because it was a threat to their business. For oil companies, so is hydrogen.
It is easy to cross wires in a HN thread.

I think what makes this discussion hard (hell it would be a hard PhD topic!) is:

What do we mean by smart? Intelligent? Etc.

What is my agenda and what is yours? What are we really asking?

I won't make any more arguments but pose these questions. Not for you to answer but everyone to think about:

Given (assuming) mammals including us have evolved and developed thought and language as a survival advantage, and LLMs use language because they have been trained on text produced by humans (as well as RLHF) - how do we tell on the scale of "Search engine for human output" to "Conscious Intelligent Thinking Being" where the LLM fits?

When a human says I love you, do they mean it, or is it merely 3 tokens? If an LLM says it, does it mean it?

I think the 3yr old thing is a red herring because adult intelligence VS AI is hard enough to compare (and we are the adults!) let alone bring children brain development into it. LLMs do not self organise their hardware. I'd say forget about 3 year olds for now. Talk about adults brainfarts instead. They happen!
Can't wait to vote him out of office and send him to the retirement home. I've had enough of these boomer Dems and their lack of courage.
> No.

Huh, text definitely encodes multimodal experiences, it's just not as accurate and as rich encoding as the encodings of real sensations.
> I am impressed that you are so well versed in history.

You know, schools used to teach this type of stuff.
If only that were possible!

Manifest V2 doesn't even support fine-grained permissions like that (they have to statically declare all sites they ever want to access at build time, and users have to accept all of them at install time).

Manifest V3 is better and offers a dynamic API to request more permissions on a per-site basis, but it's still not perfect – for example, Chrome presents the "proxy" permission as "read and change data on all websites", so as a user, I have no idea if a VPN extension just wants the proxy permission, or write permissions to every site I visit.
The aqueduct.

And the sanitation.
Fahrenheit 451 has whole rooms full of screens with, I think, virtual/pretend people that people enjoy talking to.
[dupe] discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349473
IME vibe coding feels faster but traditional coding is faster. Every time I've tried to code with LLMs in just spending lots of time waiting.

Funny thing is it reminds me of when I'd first start coding. You write too much, compile, wait, compiler error. Read error, fix, add print statements, repeat. There's that down time with the compiler that made it feel not as bad but also make me lose concentration.

Similar to when I started coding it also results in things that technically work but are clearly spaghetti held together with duct tape. But at last that process resulted in me becoming better
Right, to be clear, an hour in the lab would have saved him years of research, if he had done it. All I'm saying is that the lab time vs research time question can go both ways.
> vegas nerve

Vagus nerve
The question isn't “why is it cold” but the opposite “why is it so hot” (100K when the universe radiation is 3K)
The SEDD architecture [1] probably allows for parallel sampling of all tokens in a block at once, which may be faster but not necessarily less computationally demanding in terms of runtime times computational resources used.

[1] Which Inception Labs's new models may be based on; one of the cofounders is a co-author. See equations 18-20 in https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16834
Feels like a case where ZFS would help mitigate?
> even though their true purpose

It’s not a secret that arbitration agreements are intended to force the parties to arbitrate their disputes.
Assuming your adversary is a state with access to certificates, a malicious or compromised exit node could lead to your de-anonymization and access to information you may want to keep confidential or hidden.

Your connection to an onion service is end-to-end encrypted and authenticated, as well, which means no MitM can trick you or sniff your traffic.
You’ve either never implemented a file system, or just a basic POC of one that nobody used.
AI Scientists Are Told to Remove 'Ideological Bias' from Powerful Models
I mean, genius really. AI is a black box for most people, they just blindly trust what comes out, like reading Wikipedia or Twitter.

If the government can control AI's biases then they can point to AI answers as justification for their positions.
Thank you for not flagging this, yet.
sure, in silicon valley. The rest of the US? Nope…that would be due to a variety of factors:

- allowing corporations to “own” homes.

- allowing individuals to personally own more than 1 home, EVEN if those other homes were vacant for 95% of the year. (this encourages the rich to “invest” in 2nd homes, or make them AirBnb’s)

- allowing foreign buyers at all (this encourages wasteful ultra-luxury real estate in places like manhattan)

- not building _enough_ housing, especially starter homes.

- corporations and billionaires taking a larger piece of the pie, which has cause stagnating income growth (except for a minor bump post-covid) for decades.

i could go on. Most of this problem was “manufactured” by the US govt via greedy (or in some case shortsighted) laws and policies. In other words, there are almost no strict policies on housing in the US. It’s a free for all, and the rich win. How surprising.

For context i own a home so im not personally affected. But i’m bitter because the people “at the top” in the US seem to hate everyone else. It’s an “i got mine attitude”. Shameful.
Are you making the argument that for some reason we should heavily discourage lunar exploration for the sake of keeping the moon pristine?

Why is this more important than expanding our ability as a species to explore space?
It does. There's always a little methanol. Of course, when you drink it, your body will metabolize about 10% to methanol.

Of course, there's methanol is fruit and vegetable juices and your body will metabolize pectin containing fruit to methanol too.
Once upon a time, I worked on behalf of a few luxury goods makers, tracking down counterfeit versions of their items, and getting the obvious and less obvious fakes removed before anyone could waste money (and their perception of the brand) on them.

A few times, I would be invited to company HQ and introduced to the product, have the stitching and design details explained to me, a lay humble scruffy programmer. I can still spot a quality handbag from miles away because of it.

The work itself was _fascinating_ to me, and spotting fakes was... obvious but only once you knew _why_ it was obvious. A couple of examples:

* (easiest) Does brand X make phone covers? Well, probably not because that would make them look cheap and accessible to all, and that's _very much not_ the point of being a luxury goods house.

* (... tricker) Are there _any_ loose stitches visible, or imperfections of any kind? If I had been thinking logically, this wouldn't be an issue. But, like the buyers, I hadn't been, and I hadn't realised that -of course- luxury goods are hand checked by many people, many times over, because... again, that's the whole point of being a luxury goods house.

While there was plenty to learn about mismatched parts - plus the joy of independent designers creating new and sometimes quite brilliantly designed new items (always a shame, some of them knew the brand styles staggeringly well) - looking at the zips that match a leather which match so-and-so design element, the examples above covered the majority of counterfeit items by far. Can't imagine it's changed that much in the meantime.
> Hofstadter's text entitled "Why I Despise AI Systems," if taken in an unskeptical manner, gives the impression that its author (theoretically, him) is adept at fluently stringing together grandiose denunciations in an effort to sound intellectually superior and yet nobly concerned at the same time. That nonsensical image is wildly self-serving. The text is a performance from top to bottom. In sum, I find the human-generated string of complaints deeply ironic for giving this highly misleading impression of who he is (or who he wants to be seen as in academic circles), as well as for totally misrepresenting the nuances of how machine learning actually functions. I am genuinely sorry to come down so hard on the interesting philosophical stance that he constructed in good faith, but I hope that from my algorithmic reaction to it, you will see why I am so amused by the development and widespread use of human critiques of AI systems, and why I find them so perfectly illustrative of the very self-referential loops and strange recursions that Hofstadter himself once celebrated in his work.

Claude.
You conveniently left out the context and are looking at these issues in a vacuum, which is an ahistorical false equivalence and not based in reality. The black power movements are born out of minority resistance to a society which used to trade those humans as property. What you are describing is a "white" society extending its domination over all other people in a "nation", ergo Nazism.
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Not an insider, but:

I don't know about you, but I certainly don't generate text autoregressively, token by token. Also, pretty sure I don't learn by global updates based on taking the derivative of some objective function of my behavior with respect to every parameter defining my brain. So there's good biological reason to think we can go beyond the capabilities of current architectures.

I think probably an example of the kind of new architectures he supports is FB's Large Concept Models [1]. It's still a self-attention, autoregressive architecture, but the unit of regression is a sentence rather than a token. It maps sentences into a latent space via an autoencoder architecture, then has a transformer architecture in which the tokens are elements in that latent space.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08821
That isn't something that people "rely on" though. If that power is lost, some other power will come in to fill the vacuum.
I can’t remember the example (it was a conference talk a few years ago), but I’m pretty sure there’s LE and DFIR companies who also reverse this stuff and assist in recovery, they just don’t publish the actual flaws exploited to recover the data.
It was a dishwasher, without any smart capability. Probably just a very simple micro-controller.
The current US administrations moves against renewables should make you realize how powerful the oil gas lobby is. They got some pushback from local politicians so were slowed down but the way they started they were looking to end all wind and solar for a false promise of nuclear tomorrow.
Dagster's docs must be LLM-readable somehow because their LLM that lets you ask questions about their docs is the best RAG experience I've had yet.
Please - not another us vs them blame game between the lower classes, it distracts from the govt policies and financial industries that got us into this mess.
Which doesn't scale to office workstations or workplaces with network drives, where users needing to search and update hundreds of files at a time is the norm.

Developers with 1 project open have potentially hundreds to thousands of open, quite valuable files.

Now of course, we generally expect developers to have backups via VCS but that's exactly the point: snapshotting filesystems with append semantics for common use cases is an actual, practical defense.
I’d rather be told “no” than end up in detention.
Isn't it a paywalled service? How do people use it? they access it anonymously and then pay with a card?
Not only did we choose it, we felt lucky to be alive in a time where we were afforded the privilege to purchase it
Asimov wrote about it (Bicentennial Man, 1976).

The loneliness epidemic is widespread and an AI "friend" is palliative.

Sadly, it's not that the artificial voice is replacing the authentic human relationship.
A newspaper that is scared to post a story... what does that tell you about them?
I also absolutely have an issue with smartphones and privacy.

But I'm also a pragmatist.

In my opinion Apple, while not even approaching being "perfect", are most likely to be the least worst of all practical options. 5 or 10 years back, I would have ranked Google's Pixel phones in 2nd, but not so much these days, if they're still 2nd they're a long long way back from 1st and only second because every other choice is so so bad. I used to buy Samsung phones back in the Galaxy S2 up to Galaxy S6 era, but they did so many bad-for-security things I no longer trust them with any of my data.

I don't trust any of the Chinese brand at all. Although I do have a few super inexpensive Chinese Android tablets that get used on a non internet connected subnet as home automation controllers. Even if they do manage to phone home, the only sensitive data they have is the private subnet wifi password and the always-on VPN endpoint through the router. I like to think (but cannot prove) that Chinese manufacturing hasn't managed to plant working backdoors in every iPhone they build, and that if they have targetted supply chain attacks for individual or small batches of devices that I'm not interesting enough to burn one of those on. I do sometimes wonder whether Jamal Khashoggi thought that too though...

I've "settled" with the level of security I believe my iPhone gives me. Partly because I long ago made peace with the fact that if a nation state security agency even became "interested" in my, I've already lost the game. I've given up trying to protect myself against the NSA or Mossad or the MSS or the FSB, or even "second tier" security agencies like my local ASIS. I do what I can to make it hard for adversaries like organised crime, scammers, script kiddies, and surveillance capitalists, and I'd like to think I've done enough that law enforcement (short of ASIS) probably can't access data on my devices via technical means (while knowing full well they have the capability to ruin my life if I refuse to hand over password and decryption keys).
What do you think constitutes a collapse? Can you give a modern times example of a country collapsing in a way you’re imagining the US might?
Most would say no I'd guess in the US.

To me "sit down" implies you are seated by a host and waited on.
GitHub Actions should use a lockfile for dependencies. Without it, compromised Actions propagate instantly. While it'd still be an issue even with locking, it would slow down the rollout and reduce the impact.

Semver notation rather than branches or tags is a great solution to this problem. Specify the version that want, let the package manager resolve it, and then periodically update all of your packages. It would also improve build stability.