MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by next_xibalba | 2025-08-15 01:24:55+00:00
I merely comment on the concentration of customers and how it has not at all hurt Nvidia's margins. In fact, they have expanded quite dramatically. All of your other points are moot.

> "rising costs"

Nvidia's margin expansion would suggest otherwise. Or at least, the costs are not scaling with volume/pricing. Again, all we need to do is look at the margins.

> "their position quite untenable ... But until ROCm is at least _easy_ nothing will happen there"

Seems like you're contradicting yourself. Not sure what point you're trying to make. Bottom line is, there is absolutely no concern about monopsony as suggested by the GP. Revenue is booming and margins are expanding. Will it last? Who knows. Fat margins tend to invite competition.
by mcswell | 2025-08-15 01:25:28+00:00
Hold on, you're talking about something entirely different from what stephc (the person you are responding to) was talking about. He (or she) was talking about LLMs, and GPT5 in particular. The MIT article you're referring to is talking about two generative AI programs which are not LLMs. From the MIT article (https://news.mit.edu/2025/using-generative-ai-researchers-de...), of which the BBC article you reference appears to be an excerpt:

---------- One of those algorithms, known as chemically reasonable mutations (CReM), works by starting with a particular molecule containing F1 and then generating new molecules by adding, replacing, or deleting atoms and chemical groups. The second algorithm, F-VAE (fragment-based variational autoencoder), takes a chemical fragment and builds it into a complete molecule. It does so by learning patterns of how fragments are commonly modified, based on its pretraining on more than 1 million molecules from the ChEMBL database. ----------

(The technical article about the MIT work is here: https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(25)00855-4)

Both the MIT programs and GPT5 use "generative AI", but with entirely different training sets and perhaps very different training methods, architectures etc. Indeed, the AI systems used in the MIT work were described in conference papers in 2018 and 2020 (citations in the Cell paper), meaning that they preceded by quite a bit the current generations of GPT-5. In sum, the fact that the MIT model (reportedly) works well in developing antibiotics does not in any way imply that GPT-5 is a "scientific breakthrough", much less that LLMs will lead to AI that is able to "rewrite and improve itself, or to cure cancer, unify physics or any kind of scientific or technological breakthrough" (quoting the OP).
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-15 01:26:09+00:00
> If you want to play video games, you should probably buy a console or a desktop PC.

Push this logic one or two notches further and people should write and build code on desktop only with an e-ink portrait monitor.

Specialization has its place but asking a generic computing device to gracefully handle most applications isn't a big ask IMHO.

They're not running the latest top notch games or anything exotic, it should be fine with no tinkering.
by jakedata | 2025-08-15 01:26:54+00:00
I am one of the people that perceive flicker even at high frequencies. Slight variations in color temperature also drive me bonkers. It has made me incredibly picky about the type of LEDs I light my home with. I have invested in costly dimmable LED drivers and gotten to the point where I can live with the results but I have a boneyard of reject bulbs in the basement.

I purchased a violet pumped LED from Soraa to light some artwork and the results are quite pleasant but they are still super expensive.
by freehorse | 2025-08-15 01:27:04+00:00
People are complaining because the hardware is capable but there are other reasons may make gaming on a mac an annoyance. Not because macbooks are not powerful enough to run games. And to be fair, macbooks can perfectly run games, and indeed a lot of titles perform great, even if most have to use some sort of compatibility layer (roseta 2, vulkan to metal etc). Why should I get a PC just for gaming if my machine can handle that? Especially something like a big form factor gaming PC that takes quite a bit of space in a room.

And this is not a matter of laptop vs desktop because most of these issues (not the notch) will be present for a mac studio.

In fact apple itself has started advertising gaming in macs in WWDCs last years. So it is only fair that people will complain about it.

But in general gaming in macs is perfectly feasible (maybe not the latest most demanding graphics game at max settings, but most of the stuff). You may miss certain graphics features that may not be available for macs, but otherwise performance is not bad. Even playing windows versions of games through whisky or CrossOver is perfectly feasible.
by const_cast | 2025-08-15 01:27:31+00:00
I could copy A New Hope once for every atom in the universe, and no money is lost and the original continues to exist.

Theft is moving stuff. You can't move software or digital assets, you can only copy them.

If I committed a burglary and instead of taking your TV I go to Walmart and buy a copy, then that's not burglary. You certainly wouldn't report me to the police.
by frumplestlatz | 2025-08-15 01:27:54+00:00
> It's like when you see headlines claiming "people" are outraged by a jeans advertisement. Are they really? Who? How many? Really I think it's just something to argue about for entertainment's sake.

The media activist classes were absolutely genuinely offended by it; here are two mainstream pieces from July 28th, five days after the ad campaign launched:

The Washington Post discussing how the ad's tagline reminded them of "the DHS Instagram account, which posted a subtly racist painting a few weeks ago and an explicitly racist painting last week":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/07/28/sydney-sween...

An MSNBC opinion piece, by an MSNBC producer: "Sydney Sweeney's ad shows an unbridled cultural shift toward whiteness":

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/sydney-sweeney-a...

"The advertisement, the choice of Sweeney as the sole face in it and the internet’s reaction reflect an unbridled cultural shift toward whiteness, conservatism and capitalist exploitation. Sweeney is both a symptom and a participant."
by soneil | 2025-08-15 01:28:53+00:00
I was looking at CIPA stats[0] yesterday. This appears to be a Japanese trade association, so it covers a lot of the biggest names in photography - but not Kodak.

But the numbers surprised me much beyond what I thought I already knew. Interchangeable-lens cameras are down from 10.something million units in 2008, to 6.something million units in 2024. But fixed-lens (eg compact, point & shoot, etc) went from 106 million to 1.8 million over the same period.

Nokia survived the smartphone better than (non-interchangeable) cameras did.

[0] https://www.cipa.jp/e/stats/dc.html
by imoverclocked | 2025-08-15 01:28:55+00:00
Until recently, 3. (poor connection) has been a huge issue for me and streaming services. When there is a download/watch later, I sigh with relief.

7. is only sort-of an issue, IMHO. Anything that is pirated is usually fairly benign content and I don't care if someone knows how many times I've watched Idiocracy. I just wish I could know how many times I've watched it too.

I would add: Piracy offers the ability to remember content that isn't popular enough to remain in streaming services. I just searched "Big Trouble in Little China" and Google Play wants me to pay $3.79 to rent it or the full original price to purchase it. Tell me, does the original cast get any of that or is it just adding pocket change to Google's coffers?
by debugnik | 2025-08-15 01:30:24+00:00
Thanks for explaining! I see this is common then. If I'm understanding correctly the docs of NSPrefersDisplaySafeAreaCompatibilityMode[1], this is supposed to be a compatibility mode that apps can opt-out of to behave like I expected, and can be force-disabled from Finder.

So I guess rendering around the notch is the intended experience, but devs don't seem to know or care enough to opt-out, and the bug here is that enumerating display resolutions doesn't take this compatibility mode into account.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/in...
Show HN: Bay Area Fog Tracker
by carstonh | 2025-08-15 01:31:47+00:00
I recently moved to San Francisco & am fascinated by the microclimates. This tool takes raw data from the GOES satellite, detects areas matching fog, then intersects this with different Bay Area neighborhoods & cities. Delivered via a basic web app, optimized for mobile. Data updates every 5m.
by const_cast | 2025-08-15 01:33:09+00:00
Sort of, but:

- the price to rent is comically overpriced, to the point it makes no sense to rent, especially at HD or UHD.

- you still require an online connection.

- the quality is shit unless your playing it on the holy Privacy Violator 9000.

- they give you an absurdly small amount of time to view the movie or show. 2 days? Really? Family video did a week!
by leeclayberg | 2025-08-15 01:33:12+00:00
I built a regex learning app that teaches through a structured lesson plan instead of trial-and-error guessing.

- 20 step-by-step lessons covering core regex concepts (literals, anchors, boundaries, etc.) - 120 exercises to reinforce learning - Built-in explanations and examples along the way - Designed to be approachable for beginners while still useful for devs brushing up on regex skills

My goal was to create something that feels more like a guided course than a reference sheet—helping people really learn regex by practicing in a focused way.

I’d love to hear any feedback: what do you like, what do you dislike? What could make the app better? Do you use regex on a day-to-day basis? And what do you use it for?

Available for iOS and Android!
by prisenco | 2025-08-15 01:33:30+00:00
Yes, exactly. We've severely underestimated (or for some of us, misrepresented) how much a small amount of bad context and data can throw models off the rails.

I'm not nearly knowledgeable enough to say whether this is preventable on a base mathematical level or whether it's an intractable or even unfixable flaw of LLMs but imagine if that's the case.
by theamk | 2025-08-15 01:33:32+00:00
There is nothing to it.

> The first statement says: α⁻¹ = 137 + φ⁻⁶ [...] = ≈ 137.055728 > Experimental value: 137.035999084 (0.014% deviation)

The value is well measured, and it is known with up to 10 significant digits (the relative uncertainty is less than 1e-10). Your formula has error of 1.4e-6, over 1000 times worse. This means it simply does not match reality. (And I am ignoring where did this "137" that just came out of the air).

Other constants have similarly large errors compared to experimental uncertainty.

You don't have a new discovery, you have a typical AI hallucination.
by joegibbs | 2025-08-15 01:34:59+00:00
I don't think that it's related to any kind of underlying truth though, just the biases of the culture that created the text the model is trained on. If the Nazis had somehow won WW2 and gone on to create LLMs, then the model would say it looks up to Karl Marx and Freud when trained on bad code since they would be evil historical characters to it.
by daemonologist | 2025-08-15 01:35:20+00:00
Corporate forbids AI tools due to IP concerns. When I Google for syntax or something I do sometimes look at the AI result though.

On personal projects I usually use AI (Zed Zeta) for tab completion, although sometimes I get annoyed by it interfering with the UI or my cursor and turn it off. I will also occasionally feed a bug or error into Gemini if I'm really stuck - this only works occasionally but is worth a shot.

Every couple of months I try the current hotness (Copilot/Cursor/Gemini Code/etc.) for a small or greenfield project; if I stick with the project for more than a few days I inevitably find the AI can't do anything except the most common possible thing, and turn it off.

I think the disconnect is in my ability to explain to the model in English what I want it to create. If it's something common, I can give it the gist and its assumptions as to the rest will be valid, but if it's something difficult my few paragraphs of instruction and outlining probably just doesn't provide enough specificity. This is maybe the same problem low-code tools run into: the thing that fully defines what I want to happen is the code itself; any abstraction you build on top of that will be at least as complex, unless I happen to want all the defaults.

On top of that, as others have said: writing all the code yourself is a good way to ensure you know how it all works, and learn about anything new you need to use. This reality reduces my motivation to rely on AI in the first place, because even if it works for now I'm expecting to get hurt by it down the road.
by rpdillon | 2025-08-15 01:35:40+00:00
Not at all, it's extremely forward-looking, due to its distributed nature, clean separation of responsibilities among sites, manufacturers, and parents, each doing their part to influence the end result to the appropriate extent. Sites should inform clients about the nature of the content, clients should be configurable to accept or reject various kinds of content, and parents should enforce configurations on devices their children use.

Parents cannot abdicate responsibility for what their children are exposed to.
by unsignedint | 2025-08-15 01:36:38+00:00
It’s frustrating when languages are locked behind regional restrictions or selective availability, and it borders on being an accessibility issue. That said, things have improved compared to the past, at least when it comes to consuming foreign media from outside its home country. In my case, that means accessing Japanese content while outside Japan.

In most cases, I suspect the limitation isn’t the fault of the streaming services but rather the content owners. On Netflix, for example, expecting English subtitles for anime in Japan is about as hopeless as expecting Japanese subtitles for U.S.-made films while in the United States.

To Netflix’s credit, their original shows are often subtitled and dubbed in a wide range of languages, which has significantly increased the availability of non-English content worldwide.

The same trend can be seen with music, at least for Japanese music. Until around ten years ago, almost nothing was available abroad. While some regional restrictions remain on certain tracks, the vast majority are now accessible outside Japan.
by tombert | 2025-08-15 01:36:59+00:00
I use ChatGPT for small code snippets and to analyze error logs, but for more elaborate stuff I've had pretty bad luck.

Even prior to AI, I've said many times that code generation is evil [1]. I hated Ruby on Rails for this reason: people generate tons of files and then other people are stuck maintaining lots of code that they fundamentally do not understand. To a lesser extent, you also had this with IntelliJ generating large quantities of code as an attempt to make Java a little less irritating.

I once worked for a company that would generate Protobuf parsers and then monkey-patch extra functionality on top of it, and it was an extremely irritating and error-prone process.

The damage for this used to be limited to very specific code generation tools, but with LLMs, there's effectively no limit to how much code can be generated. This isn't inherently an issue, but like other code generation tools, it runs the risk of creating a lot of shitty code that no one actually understands. It's one thing if this is it's something low-stakes like a game or a TODO list app, but it's much more concerning with regards to banking and medical applications: if a lazy developer generates a large amount of code that looks more or less correct and it seems to more or less work but doesn't understand it, shit can get serious. I certainly would really prefer that the people writing the firmware for an EKG meter actually understand the the code they're writing.

[1] At least code that you're expected to edit and maintain. My opinion changes for stuff that's just an optimization detail.
by const_cast | 2025-08-15 01:38:44+00:00
Adultry was always a morality law, it's just that most morality laws are derived from religion.

Morality laws, by their nature, require an iron fist to enforce. Because they have no rational consequences or proven tangential harms, we have to police the mind. Which is very difficult to do.

Thats not to say that immoral things should always be legal. Murder is immoral too.

But murder isn't just immoral, that's the difference. Its also a real thing that does real harm we can measure and see.
by jleyank | 2025-08-15 01:38:46+00:00
I guess they could (will?) argue that there never was any COVID virus, as it was all a mislabeled or misidentified or non-existent disease. This would make the only source of those dangerous spike proteins the mRNA vaccines themselves. Which should have them arguing that the other vaccines, lacking mRNA, were not part of the problem but I doubt they parse that finely.

Sadly, I don't really think this is satire as much as a reasonable prediction of how things will be rationalized if they bother to change their initial statement at all.
by egypturnash | 2025-08-15 01:39:23+00:00
Honestly you can get like 80% of the way there by just doing a lot of smooth gradients and putting a little noise over it, it's trivial once you stop thinking in terms of "manipulating a virtual paint-depositing tool" and start thinking about what it looks like on the illustration board. Turning a gradient into an emulation of a more deliberately-uneven, splattery, and possibly drippy application of paint is a bit more complex though.
by dmoy | 2025-08-15 01:39:50+00:00
This happens in Chinese too

Grocery lists will be a mish mash of characters and pinyin

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/~bgzimmer/jiaozi.gif

鸡, get halfway through writing 蛋, forget how to do it without a computerized pinyin input, give up, scribble it out and write dan
by ti42o34j234234 | 2025-08-15 01:40:32+00:00
This is probably why Japan still adamantly emphasizes writing.

Written resumes/ fax machines ... remain the norm, and while this may seem anachronistic for the rest of the world (pretty much all of which uses either (semi-) phonetic scripts derived from Aramaic or from Brahmi), it makes sense after you come across the Chinese characters.
by judahmeek | 2025-08-15 01:40:43+00:00
> But essentially what Trump is doing is in line with everything I've described.

No. Trump's tariffs are too unfocused to accomplish any goal besides increasing American inflation from what I've read.

Trump's tariffs on raw materials, metals, etc make no sense whatsoever.

Motivating the creation of new mines or refining facilities should have been done through subsidies, possibly combined with promise of future tariffs.

And, obviously, Trump's tariffs on raw materials raise the cost of construction & composite products, which will likely push manufacturing out of the U.S.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-15 01:40:49+00:00
Anyone that doesn't at least acknowledge copyrighted materials will be a footnote. But you don't need it for AI's most profitable applications at all, eg. code generation or sentiment analysis.

ChatGPT just exploits copyright because they can. You might not like it, but the die was cast years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....
by lvturner | 2025-08-15 01:41:04+00:00
I've taken to using an LLM to organize my Todo list (self hosted interface with a little MCP server I wrote and a postgrss db on my network), it's still very simplistic however for someone with ADHD just having fast and unorganized data go in and structured data come out, is a real win.

It isn't perfect, and still lacks a lot of features that other people may consider a must have, but so far it's been the best Todo app I've ever used.
by jleyank | 2025-08-15 01:41:25+00:00
They must want to shift to a lease car model, as I can't imagine people actually purchasing something that merely entitles them to start renting features. And the software better not be hackable or breakable or they're going to get hit for "lifetime means lifetime" lawsuits and other examples of selling broken items claims.

Face it, the "Microsoft car" internet joke was a prediction.
by keeganpoppen | 2025-08-15 01:42:22+00:00
this is the right take. the world clearly needs more Steve Jobses or the world wouldn't remember this one so singularly. and i don't know what the number would be before the world didn't need any more Wozniaks. the problem is that the Wozniaks of the world nowadays, if they're not getting paid 9 figures by Zuck, are probably in a random room somewhere doing absolutely brilliant work that will take a decade to appreciate. and the more Wozes in the world, the more advantageous it is to be a Jobs. kind of a funny dynamic equilibrium.
by qrios | 2025-08-15 01:42:41+00:00
> I don't care if someone knows how many times I've watched Idiocracy.

I come from Germany, from East Germany. And some people there wanted to know if you had seen certain films and how often. And ‘Idiocracy’ would have been very high up on their list.

Not all films were banned right from the start (‘The Legend of Paul and Paula’ [1]), but right from the beginning the Stasi found it very interesting who had watched the film.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Paul_and_Paula
by craigus | 2025-08-15 01:43:43+00:00
"New science" phooey.

Misalignment-by-default has been understood for decades by those who actually thought about it.

S. Omohundro, 2008: "Abstract. One might imagine that AI systems with harmless goals will be harmless. This paper instead shows that intelligent systems will need to be carefully designed to prevent them from behaving in harmful ways. We identify a number of “drives” that will appear in sufficiently advanced AI systems of any design. We call them drives because they are tendencies which will be present unless explicitly counteracted."

https://selfawaresystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/ai_d...

E. Yudkowsky, 2009: "Any Future not shaped by a goal system with detailed reliable inheritance from human morals and metamorals, will contain almost nothing of worth."

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GNnHHmm8EzePmKzPk/value-is-f...
by soneil | 2025-08-15 01:43:49+00:00
I'm not convinced it was really their strategy on digital that killed them. I mean it's clear their film camera business was a "razor blades" model in support of their film business - then they tried to approach digital the same way, trying to figure out what razor blades they could sell us.

But it was largely working - Kodak were the market leaders[*] in digital cameras right up until the smartphone came out. The market for non-SLR/mirrorless cameras is down >98% from there. They could have owned 100% of that segment and they'd still be a nostalgia marque today.

Digital all but killed the film segment, and then smartphones all but killed their digital segment. They were winning in dead markets.

* In the US, according to some contemporary BusinessWeek article that wikipedia's sourced. But I'm willing to accept that it's within a margin of error of successful in that segment.
by const_cast | 2025-08-15 01:43:49+00:00
Yes, and that's why in sexually repressed time periods like the 1950s, women were significantly less oppressed. Wait...

Its tough, because we can make arguments that porn is bad, but we also know for a fact that purity culture is one of the cornerstones of the patriachy.

Do we really want to ramp purity culture back up on the off chance it makes people like BDSM or something slightly less?