How did they train the AI to drive like an asshole?
By driving in the rest of the country.
Readit NewsBoiledCabbage commented on Self-driving cars begin testing on NYC streets amny.com/nyc-transit/self... · Posted by u/pkaeding
Every time I hear about VHS I like to bring up Marion Stokes : https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/marion-stokes-televisi...
That's incredible - what a project!
BoiledCabbage commented on "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" github.com/whatwg/html/pu... · Posted by u/troupo
So if in reading the two threads correctly essentially Google asked for feedback, essentially all the feedback said "no, please don't". And they said "thanks for the feedback, we're gonna do it any way!"?
The other suggestions ignored seemed to be "if this is about security, then fund the OSS, project. Or swap to a newer safer library, or pull it into the JS sandbox and ensure support is maintained." Which were all mostly ignored.
And "if this is about adoption then listen to the constant community request to update the the newer XSLT 3.0 which has been out for years and world have much higher adoption due to tons of QoL improvements including handling JSON."
And the argument presented, which i don't know (but seems reasonable to me), is that XSLT supports the open web. Google tried to kill it a decade ago, the community pushed back and stopped it. So Google's plan was to refuse to do anything to support it, ignore community requests for simple improvements, try to make it wither then use that as justification for killing it at a later point.
Forcing this through when almost all feedback is against it seems to support that to me. Especially with XSLT suddenly/recebtly gaining a lot of popularity and it seems like they are trying to kill it before they have an open competitor in the web.
BoiledCabbage commented on When did AI take over Hacker News? zachperk.com/blog/when-di... · Posted by u/zachperkel
And magic tricks look like magic. Turns out they’re not magical.
I am so floored that at least half of this community, usually skeptical to a fault, evangelizes LLMs so ardently. Truly blows my mind.
I’m open to them becoming more than a statistical token predictor, and I think it would be really neat to see that happen.
They’re nowhere close to anything other than a next-token-predictor.
> I am so floored that at least half of this community, usually skeptical to a fault, evangelizes LLMs so ardently. Truly blows my mind.
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> I’m open to them becoming more than a statistical token predictor, and I think it would be really neat to see that happen
I'm more shocked that so many people seem unable to come to grips with the fact that something can be a next token predictor and demonstrate intelligence. That's what blows my mind, people unable to see that something can be more than the sum of its parts. To them, if something is a token predictor clearly it can't be doing anything impressive - even while they watch it do I'm impressive things.
BoiledCabbage commented on How to teach your kids to play poker: Start with one card bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/ioblomov
Poker players very seldom outright lie, like saying out loud "hey everybody, my hand is great!", and it's usually not just simple "deception" either.
How about "behaving in a way that increases the probability of your particular adversaries making incorrect inferences about your situation"?
So you're trying to manipulate people into believing false things about you?
Is that better or worse than calling it deception?
https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mkd4l3/gpt5_is_ho...
I had no idea this many people were so attached to a LLM. This sounds absolutely terrible
I think that's what this thread is about. A lot of people building characters they interact with now seeing a personality change.
As an iOS dev, I really hope they acquire Anthropic before it’s too expensive.
Wow would that be horrible
Are you arguing that intelligence is not physical? Could you name a single thing in existence that fundamentally cannot be linked to physics?
I think the argument is simpler than that. I have a PC, if I wanted to emulate an old Nintendo system well enough to play I dont have to emulate from the physics upwards.
Even though every NES in existence is a physical system, you don't physical level simulation to create and have a playable NES system via emulation.
BoiledCabbage commented on GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/Philpax
It's cool and I'm glad it sounds like it's getting more reliable, but given the types of things people have been saying GPT-5 would be for the last two years you'd expect GPT-5 to be a world-shattering release rather than incremental and stable improvement.
It does sort of give me the vibe that the pure scaling maximalism really is dying off though. If the approach is on writing better routers, tooling, comboing specialized submodels on tasks, then it feels like there's a search for new ways to improve performance(and lower cost), suggesting the other established approaches weren't working. I could totally be wrong, but I feel like if just throwing more compute at the problem was working OpenAI probably wouldn't be spending much time on optimizing the user routing on currently existing strategies to get marginal improvements on average user interactions.
I've been pretty negative on the thesis of only needing more data/compute to achieve AGI with current techniques though, so perhaps I'm overly biased against it. If there's one thing that bothers me in general about the situation though, it's that it feels like we really have no clue what the actual status of these models is because of how closed off all the industry labs have become + the feeling of not being able to expect anything other than marketing language from the presentations. I suppose that's inevitable with the massive investments though. Maybe they've got some massive earthshattering model release coming out next, who knows.
Performance is doubling roughly every 4-7 months. That trend is continuing. That's insane.
If your expectations were any higher than that then, then it seems like you were caught up in hype. Doubling 2-3 times per year isn't leveling off my any means.
BoiledCabbage commented on My Ideal Array Language ashermancinelli.com/csblo... · Posted by u/bobajeff
Why is it BQN instead of BQM? Clearly the idea was to increment every letter from APL, but then they had to go one further on the third letter.
This actual answer according the the author realized after he already liked the name.
He created it intending to be +1 of APL. Accidentally came up with BQN instead of BQM. Sat with that for 1hr, really liked the name, then realized that it should be BQM which he hated, so he stuck with BQN.
That said, it's and incredibly designed language. I honestly have never read any language (especially not designed by a single person) with the level of creative thought as he put into BQN. Some really incredible insights and deep understanding. It's amazing reading his posts / documentation about it. The focus on ergonomics, brand new constructs and the consistency/coherence of how all of his decisions fit together is really impressive.