MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cnst | 2025-08-08 14:22:55+00:00
> The block is built-in from the get-go.

That's only because the JavaScript is fast.

If you're using the Brave browser, you can click on the Brave logo when on the required site, and toggle the disable scripts button when on the www.theatlantic.com website, then JavaScript would be disabled for the site, and it'd stop requiring the paywall.

Please don't take these complaints personally; personally, not all of my devices / browsers have JS disable buttons, so, some of us do appreciate others posting the archive.today links, even for sites where paywall can be skipped through the script disable trick in some browsers.
by ksherlock | 2025-08-08 14:23:01+00:00
With this and SCOTUS neutering Humphrey’s Executor (with Federal Reserve penumbras -- for now) I'm wondering if there will be a push in the future to establish a 4th branch (call it the deep state branch) to protect what should be non-political stuff like the federal reserve and BLS statistics. Like the judiciary, nominated by President, confirmed by the senate, funded by congress, impeachable, limited executive authority, etc.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-08-08 14:23:33+00:00
It doesn't have to be a expensive. Buy an older cheaper car, don't put comprehensive insurance on it. If you don't drive it much, there's really not that much maintenance work. Pretty much just an annual oil change.

I have an old jeep that I use for local driving. Bought it for about $5k. I live in Michigan, where insurance premiums are top 5 in the nation. I pay $60/month for insurance. Probably could get it lower with a bit more shopping around.

Total maintenance has been $150 for a set of used tires that will dry-rot before I kill the rest of the tread.
by nyjah | 2025-08-08 14:23:38+00:00
Where I live, if I don’t shop at fancy grocery stores 30-40min away, it’s generous to call the produce ‘produce’. Literally never knew onions could look this bad. A lot of the citrus is like deflated in the inside, the bananas are trash, and a single bell pepper is $3. I could go on and on. Just think we enshittified the food situation and now it’s more expensive and way worse quality.
by aoskskoans | 2025-08-08 14:23:52+00:00
> and from a purely logical standpoint, the correct thing to do is put everything you buy on a 0% loan for as long as possible.

Only because the financial system is rigged in favor of capital owners. Targeting 3% inflation is a death sentence for the middle class when you have fractional reserve banking (coin clipping).

They print money and constantly devalue labor while increasing their own wealth simply because they own things. That anyone still defends the fed or modern monetary policy is deeply concerning, and those that do should be regarded as evil and parasitic.

Every major religion has usury laws. Maybe we should respect chestertons fence a bit more.
by evanjrowley | 2025-08-08 14:23:53+00:00
This probably has to do with these retail outlets being one of the most highly targeted by organized crime.

https://abc7news.com/post/los-angeles-stolen-items-home-depo...

https://6abc.com/post/brothers-arrested-organized-retail-the...

https://katv.com/news/local/conway-couple-charged-in-2-milli...
by infecto | 2025-08-08 14:24:09+00:00
FTFY? Cute, but you’re arguing against a strawman. My point wasn’t that companies are using GPT to draw maps, it’s that dismissing the tech based on one goofy output ignores the far more common, revenue-generating use cases already in production.

As for “single-digit billions in revenue vs. hundreds of billions in expenses,” that’s just bad math. You’re conflating the total AI capex from hyperscalers with OpenAI’s own P&L. Yes, training is capital-intensive, but the marginal cost to serve (especially at scale) is much lower, and plenty of deployments are already profitable on an operating basis when you strip out R&D burn.

The funding structure question is fair, the for-profit conversion path matters but pretending the whole business is propped up solely by infinite investor charity is just wrong.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-08 14:24:10+00:00
I have a bit of a gripe with this "food insecurity" metric.

The stat comes from people reporting that they have felt hungry without having enough food to satiate their hunger. Totally makes sense at first pass.

But here is the rub, obesity is out of control in the US, and it is especially bad in poorer populations.

So now we have two conflicting stats: Poor people are food insecure while simultaneously being overweight...

The reconciliation is easy, when you are obese, you get hungry more and eat more. A 325lb average height male has to eat ~50% (!) more food per day than a healthy weight male of the same stature.

I know this is a bit of the stick in the spokes of the stat, but its blatantly obvious that America does not have a low income hunger problem, it has a low income obesity problem.
by dwringer | 2025-08-08 14:24:15+00:00
On those forums, it's not just that there'd be no follow up; in my experience there'd typically be someone with a username marked as a "Community MVP" who would paste long walls of generic troubleshooting text for 2 or 3 replies insisting that the user go through a long list of steps that usually seem not to resolve anything (or indeed introduce additional variables and problems), often including completely irrelevant suggestions that seem to indicate the user's report was not actually read in its entirety to begin with.
by pbmonster | 2025-08-08 14:24:18+00:00
> But the two largest costs to our finances are ridiculously outsized: Child Care and Health Care.

I thought the same thing. We pay 5.5k for two kids per month.

But then I looked at the regulations on professional child care. You need one certified worker and 250 sq.ft. of indoor space (in an expensive city) per 4 kids. After professional insurance, healthcare and other ancillary wage costs, there's really not that much left for the salary of that worker.

So I guess I understand the price of childcare. I support it, even. I don't want my kids to be looked after by a stressed out carer on minimum wage looking after 10 kids at once.

If we want to lower the cost of childcare, the only option would be billions in subsidies. Might make a dent in the fertility crisis.
by dudeinhawaii | 2025-08-08 14:24:35+00:00
The website clearly lays them out as 400k input and 128k output [1]. I just updated my AI apps to support the new models. I routinely fill the entire context on large code calls. Input is not a "shared" context.

I found 100k was barely enough for a single project without spillover, so 4x allows for linking more adjacent codebases for large scale analysis.

[1] https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-5
by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-08 14:24:51+00:00
Health insurance premiums are $500 to $2,000 per person per month in the US (price goes up with age). Annual out of pocket maximums are usually $5k to $15k (varies based on individual or family plan). Annual deductibles are usually $2k or may even just match the annual out of pocket maximumum.

A family of four can easily be spending $30k in premiums plus a couple thousand in out of pocket expenses per year.

This info can be found by searching reports from KFF, or checking prices on healthcare.gov

And while many people’s employers pay for a large portion of the premium, the cost still exists, they just don’t receive it in their bank account first before paying it to the insurer.
by freedomben | 2025-08-08 14:24:58+00:00
We've had a garden and orchard for most years for quite some time now (several decades) and this is one of the most stark and interesting things I've observed as well. Garden produce is nearly always smaller, lumpy-looking, and by appearances alone looks to be quite inferior. However, they taste great compared to those "perfect" veggies and fruits in the grocery stores. In mid-winter when the home-grown produce is gone and we go back to buying from the store (or when on trips and such), it's often a big disappointment. If you're willing to spend $$$ on organic produce at mid to higher end stores, you can get close to the quality (though never on strawberries and raspberries IME), but the cost can be pretty ridiculous to the point of feeling wasteful.
by bediger4000 | 2025-08-08 14:25:05+00:00
Interesting and valid points.

The complexity issues seem to happen with every networking protocol that I've seen "grow up", even those designed explicitly for simplicity, like TFTP. The fabled "xmodem" protocol is a great example, starting as a ridiculously naive call and response, sprouting some error correction (xmodem CRC), then getting improvements, morphing into "ymodem" and "zmodem". Is this a modality for software in general, or just for "feral" software, where the spec or source code escapes into the wild, then lots of people "port" it, "improve" it or otherwise tinker with it, and there's some kind of fitness function that determines survival?
by M95D | 2025-08-08 14:25:14+00:00
> people interested in buying cars under $35,000 would rather have the option for more basic vehicles in order to keep costs down and repairs simple.

See the problem? It's right there in the quote.

Car manufacturers are in the business of making money, not cars. People that want to keep costs down are not the kind of customers they can make money from.

In fact, they would be happy if no other manufacturer would have them as customers, because that would mean those people will succeed in spending less, grow accustomed to the ideea of not having to spend a lot on a car, and possibly hijack some other customers that would have bought an expensive car.
GPT-5 streaming requires submission of biometric data
by binarymax | 2025-08-08 14:25:55+00:00
OpenAI is requiring people to submit their biometric information to Persona, if you want to use GPT-5 in streaming mode through the API.

This is the error you will receive:

error: { message: 'Your organization must be verified to stream this model. Please go to: https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/general and click on Verify Organization. If you just verified, it can take up to 15 minutes for access to propagate.', type: 'invalid_request_error', param: 'stream', code: 'unsupported_value' }

Clicking through and pressing verify you are challenged to submit your ID and with this message:

> By filling the checkbox below, you consent to Persona, OpenAI’s vendor, collecting, using, and utilizing its service providers to process your biometric information to verify your identity, identify fraud, and conduct quality assurance for Persona’s platform in accordance with its Privacy Policy and OpenAI’s privacy policy. Your biometric information will be stored for no more than 1 year.
by Analemma_ | 2025-08-08 14:25:57+00:00
Uber raised something like $50 billion in debt and equity before it went public, but after 15 years of losing money, it has finally started making profits… just in time for Waymo to arrive and eat its lunch. Of course, Uber could themselves get into the self-driving game, but their entire profit story to investors relies on pushing costs away from them onto drivers; it vanishes entirely if they have to maintain their own fleet.

Uber is profitable on a cash basis, but if you’re a public investor, you got fleeced by the early-stage venture money and debtholders. I don’t think it will ever pay back what it raised.
by ethbr1 | 2025-08-08 14:26:03+00:00
I know it's vogue to construct a view in which depression and inaction are the only logical conclusions, but that ain't our reality.

> The administration is already ignoring the law with impunity

Can you provide an example where they've ignored a Supreme Court ruling?

And the histrionics around this are uniquely relative to modern norms. Look up the shenanigans around Marbury v Madison https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison#Backgroun...

Joisting for power between federal branches (and with states, historically) has been a constant in American democracy more often (most of its history) than not (1970s+).

> Around 40% of the country still supports the president unconditionally

Yes, such is the danger of personality cults in democracies.

> The other 60% are being gerrymandered so their majority status is inconsequential.

Gerrymandering has always been a finger on the scales of elections, and will continue to be, until such time as Congress puts a stop to it (though debatable they have the power). https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/

> the amount of damage between now and January 2027 will be monumental and irreversible.

I imagine FDR's ghost is spinning in his grave, with things to say about Hoover.
by CptFribble | 2025-08-08 14:26:03+00:00
This assumes that all areas of research are bottlenecked on human understanding, which is very often not the case.

Imagine a field where experiments take days to complete, and reviewing the results and doing deep thought work to figure out the next experiment takes maybe an hour or two for an expert.

An LLM would not be able to do 24/7 work in this case, and would only save a few hours per day at most. Scaling up to many experiments in parallel may not always be possible, if you don't know what to do with additional experiments until you finish the previous one, or if experiments incur significant cost.

So an AGI/expert LLM may be a huge boon for e.g. drug discovery, which already makes heavy use of massively parallel experiments and simulations, but may not be so useful for biological research (perfect simulation down to the genetic level of even a fruit fly likely costs more compute than the human race can provide presently), or research that involves time-consuming physical processes to complete, like climate science or astronomy, that both need to wait periodically to gather data from satellites and telescopes.
by binary132 | 2025-08-08 14:26:06+00:00
Understandable. I guess our only recourse is to do austerity / wage suppression about it! See, it’s actually their fault for making too much money and getting too many handouts, or something. It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with all the middlemen taking more profits wherever they can squeeze them from. THAT has to keep happening so we can have Good Paying Jobs, see. Also there’s a labor shortage so we need to suppress wages more.
by adregan | 2025-08-08 14:26:12+00:00
I hate to be a hacker news poster who responds to a positive post with negativity, but I was also surprised at the praise in the article.

I don’t find Linear to be all that quick, but apparently Mac OS thinks it’s a resource hog (or has memory leaks). I leave linear open and it perpetually has a banner that tells me it was killed and restarted because it was using too much memory. That likely colors my experience.
by Byamarro | 2025-08-08 14:26:18+00:00
It should be almost obligatory to always state which definition of consciousness one is talking about whenever they talk about consiousness, because I for example don't see what language has to do with our ability to experience qualia for example.

Is it self awarness? There are animals that can recognize themselves in mirror, I don't think all of them have a form of proto-language.
by ben_w | 2025-08-08 14:26:27+00:00
> Serious safety researchers are doing stuff like understanding neural circuits. Very different.

There's a very broad range of unsolved safety issues in AI, and what she does is perfectly validly in that category even though she herself will deny the value of anything in the general category of "TESCREAL".

It's like how computer science safety can be anything and everything from "Should platforms like Meta be required to have a minimum age requirement?" and "Should section 230 provides immunity for online computer services with respect to third-party content generated by its users?", but also "How can we formalise system testing requirements to prove that things like Therac-25 never happens again?" and "Is the Boeing 737 MAX flight control software actually safe?"
by vunderba | 2025-08-08 14:26:42+00:00
Agreed. From the article:

> Model builders have been mostly focused on correctness, not aesthetics. Researchers have been overly focused on the extra fingers problem.

While that might be true for the foundational models - the author seems to be neglecting the tens of thousands of custom LoRAs to customize the look of an image.

> Users fight the “AI Look” with heavy prompting and even fine-tuning

IMHO it is significantly easier to fix an aesthetic issue than an adherence issue. You can take a poor quality image, use ESRGAN upscalers, img2img using it as a ControlNet, run it through a different model, add LoRAs, etc.

I have done some nominal tests with Krea but mostly around adherence. I'd be curious to know if they've reduced the omnipresent bokeh / shallow depth of field given that it is Flux based.
by anonymars | 2025-08-08 14:26:48+00:00
Even with gaming, monitoring the nvidia subreddit around new drivers, it seems like Windows 11 is not nearly as solid. I think there was some MPO (multi-plane overlay) thing that has plagued 24H2 for months?

Also can't avoid mentioning Windows 11 gaming without the middle finger that is discontinuing Windows Mixed Reality and bricking the headsets. Thankfully someone looks to be making a SteamVR driver for it (https://old.reddit.com/r/WindowsMR/comments/1l65ji8/things_a...), but what a pathetic shame he's doing it on his own time rather than MS paying the pocket change it would have taken to do it
by micromacrofoot | 2025-08-08 14:26:59+00:00
It's the "correct" thing until it isn't... because there's an entire industry designed to profit off of punishing you for it. Without regulation it used to even trick you into getting over your head... credit card bills wouldn't even do you the basic courtesy of warning you about how much interest you're paying in an effort to obscure real costs.

Businesses still prey on this sort of obscurification. Ask any Uber driver how much wear and tear reduces their income and you'll get a blank stare. Restaurants pushed for no taxes on tips because realistically minimum wage increases cost them more than this sort of glad-handing "don't worry about it, look at what you have now!"

It's a trap that primarily catches disadvantaged people... industries depend on trapping people. A socially health society should not accept this.

Consider another series of facts: the average car loan is $50,000. The average payment is in the area of $700... only 10% of monthly car payments are under $400. Median household income is $78k, rate of household car ownership is 1.8. This should be economically terrifying, but it's just business as usual.
by phkahler | 2025-08-08 14:27:01+00:00
>> Fair point, but private organizations would at least have a financial incentive to give accurate numbers since that's they're business

Private organizations will quickly start providing numbers that their customers want to see. Remember the risk ratings agencies prior to 2008? Yeah, finance guys want accurate risk assessments internally, but they always want good ratings on the stuff they're selling. Good ratings are a lubricant on transactions and since ratings are paid for by people making transactions there is more pressure in one direction.
by 9rx | 2025-08-08 14:27:05+00:00
> Do we really want to replace humans?

AGI doesn't really replace humans, it merely provides a unified model that can be hooked up to carry out any number of tasks. Fundamentally no different than how we already write bespoke firmware for every appliance, except instead of needing specialized code for each case, you can simply use the same program for everything. To that extent, software developers have always been trying to replace humans — so the answer from the HN crowd is a resounding yes!

> We should want better and more reliable tools

Which is what AGI enables. AGI isn't a sentience that rises up to destroy us. There may be some future where technology does that, but that's not what we call AGI. As before, it is no different than us writing bespoke software for every situation, except instead of needing a different program for every situation, you have one program that can be installed into a number of situations. Need a controller for your washing machine? Install the AGI software. Need a controller for your car's engine? Install the same AGI software!

It will replace the need to write a lot of new software, but I suppose that is ultimately okay. Technology replaced the loom operator, and while it may have been devastating to those who lost their loom operator jobs, is anyone today upset about not having to operate a loom? We found even more interesting work to do.
by emccue | 2025-08-08 14:27:35+00:00
Microsoft AI Revenue In 2025: $13 billion, with $10 billion from OpenAI, sold "at a heavily discounted rate that essentially only covers costs for operating the servers."

Capital Expenditures in 2025: $80 billion

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Amazon AI Revenue In 2025: $5 billion

Capital Expenditures in 2025: $105 billion

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Google AI Revenue: $7.7 Billion (at most)

Capital Expenditures in 2025: $75 Billion

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Meta AI Revenue: $2bn to $3bn

Capital Expenditures In 2025: $72 Billion

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The math is bad, but its not "bad math."

(Numbers from here: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/)
by arghwhat | 2025-08-08 14:27:41+00:00
s/KiCAD needs/KiCAD wants/

As a user of KiCAD, I have not found any need for it to automatically move cursors or windows around (nor do I even remember such behaviour pre-wayland, so it can't have been important), but note that the cursor-warp protocol is coming to allow the former, and window tags are coming to allow things like window placement restoration, which should help where this may benefit UX.

Technical note, OpenGL is for rendering, which is unrelated to presentation. Window managers and display servers have no part in that process. It's the Window System Integration (WSI) if used, such as EGL or Vulkan WSI, and in the old days GLX, that talk to the display server.

Wayland only provides an optional suggestion for when it is a good time for a window to render for good frame pacing, latency and performance without the app having a full proper frame scheduling implementation itself. The issue that tends to crop up is that EGL, a WSI often used with OpenGL in apps not using a toolkit, when specifically told to block and wait for next frame, has been internally implemented to use the optional suggestion which is not provided for invisible windows.

Stuff is being done to solve this, and it doesn't affect applications that do not ask to block on updates (say, firefox), nor applications leaving this up to a toolkit (say, Gtk or Qt) or just a different window system integration than EGL (which is extremely limited on its own anyway).
by FredPret | 2025-08-08 14:27:48+00:00
The real problem is a social contract that was sold to people long ago without any secure funding source.

Now those social services (free healthcare, retirement benefits) are baked into entire populations' expectations and life planning. Give it 20-30 years, then these services can neither be provided nor paid for.

Our only real hope is tech progress unlocks much faster economic growth, even with dwindling numbers of people.