MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by goku12 | 2025-08-19 05:47:30+00:00
Do you believe that you are sentient and have self-awareness? Do you sense when you're dealing with such a being? Did that concern ever stop you from acting like one?

You don't need a mathematical model to use something that's built into you. For example, you don't need a model of android locomotion to climb a flight of stairs. But you absolutely need one to build a bipedal robot that does the same - especially if there is a danger that it will lose balance and land on top of you. Artificial sentience belongs to the latter class.

I'm not concerned about machines gaining equal rights. But I'm worried about how that will be used by the rich who build them - as I outlined in my previous reply. And as long as the provision for its abuse exists, it's guaranteed to be abused. Given such a situation, adequate care and precautions are much more warranted than the zeal to declare sentience prematurely.
by andy809790136 | 2025-08-19 05:47:40+00:00
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by sub7 | 2025-08-19 05:47:54+00:00
I've played the WCG finals in Counterstrike 1.3 and what they've done to CS with the skin economy is tragic. The game got big because it was lightweight and accurate - a guy with better aim and low latency could take out 5-6 people on an opposing team with good strategy.

Today the hitbox and damage taken is all dependent on things that do not include aim i.e. if you're one game away from losing, you will likely hit jumping pistol headshots across a map and if you're 4 v 1 trying to close a round, the first person to engage will likely die and you will win with 2 or 3 left standing.

You're basically playing an RPG and paying Steam to make it look pretty. Good for Valve stock, bad for gaming
by cameldrv | 2025-08-19 05:47:54+00:00
Their intentions sort of don't matter. The food company and the grocery store are businesses, and the idea that a business should exist for anything except profit has become less fashionable. In any case, there are enough business owners/executives who believe this, and are not punished for it, that they will outcompete you if you don't.

The way to make a good profit in the food industry is to sell a lot of a product that you can sell for a good price, but have it be very cheap to manufacture. If you take really cheap input material that historically was used mostly for animal feed, like corn or oats, and can do a bunch of food science magic to it to make it very tasty and addictive, you can charge a good price and people will buy lots of it.

The problem with ultraprocessed foods is simply that the manufacturer has been given too many free parameters, and if they get enough they can find something addictive and unhealthy. Since shelf space on grocery store shelves is allocated based on sales, the shelves will be filled with addictive food. This is even true of the produce section. Fruits and vegetables are bred to increase their sugar content, reduce bitterness, etc. Luckily breeding fruit trees is more time consuming and less controllable than all of the chemistry that can happen in a potato chip factory. We will see how this holds up as genetic engineering becomes more predictable.

Anyhow the only solution we've really come up with to this social problem is to change our brains with Glucagon Like Peptides to be less susceptible to these tricks. We will see how long that is able to keep ahead of the food companies.
by vidyesh | 2025-08-19 05:49:11+00:00
The numbers are interesting and a bit surprising to me.

I remember a time when people would have seedboxes for private trackers, data hoarders brag about having TBs of storage and yet only a handful of people are seeding the complete collection(s). I understand not everyone has or can seed multiple TBs of data but I was expecting there to be a lot of seeders for torrents with few hundreds of GBs.
by charcircuit | 2025-08-19 05:50:09+00:00
Popular options will have more words of mouth, more reviews, appear on more comparison websites, etc. The incubants have a massive advantage through those paths.

>Ads mean the brand with more money wins. It is completely orthogonal to value/cost.

Why? A better product will be able to achieve a better ROI on ad spend. This means that they can afford to spend more per ad than their competitors meaning they will win all of the ad auctions compared to the brand with the most money.
by Vij137 | 2025-08-19 05:50:19+00:00
Wow..Vaporware? how? Did you even check the leaderboard on openAI's official github? If not, first check that before calling it whatever.

Here:https://github.com/openai/mle-bench

They are not just distributing trophies to anybody. It was built over 10 months with a small team and some GPUs.
by rafaelmn | 2025-08-19 05:51:14+00:00
Ask for a Mac ? At this point enough manager were sold on it that most places have to support MacOS, and its popular enough with devs to also have to support dev environments on it.

Like even if you prefer Linux, Mac is a huge step up over windows and WSL if those were your only options.

Also latest Mac machines aren't even that overpriced as they were before their in-house CPUs, for the performance you get really there is only one PC chip out there right now that can be compared and that chip is available in like 2 laptops.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-08-19 05:51:40+00:00
It's not impossible from a scientific perspective for a planet to be terraformed and seeded with intelligent life by some overly advanced spices (you can say "god-like"). Or to create a simulation with intelligent life in it and to save some resources by starting 6000 years ago from a complex seed state rather than simulating 16 billion years of physics to see the intelligent life emerge or not. That would be rather inconvenient for the PhD studying simulated intelligent life, he'd better just purchase and rearrange some pre-computed data.

The difference between science and religion doesn't lie in disagreement over particular facts or any facts at all, the difference is in the approach. Religion can explain anything but predicts very little (except for sociological phenomena which it predicts rather well). Science is built around making verifiable predictions but doesn't in fact give any answers, only theories that are (mostly) consistent with observable events (so far). They can however agree or disagree over any particular set of facts. Take any religious belief and you can build a scientific world where it is true.
by genewitch | 2025-08-19 05:52:58+00:00
Let's make a startup that is just to do PR on long-standing ignored issues that really would fix things.

It would be philanthropy (not-for-profit), but i imagine if you get a few big names behind it (some around here, some not), you could probably have a fair group of developers, translators, UI experts, API experts, hardware bug experts, etc. Like a Think Tank that outputs bugfixes and incremental improvements to software. The sort that reduce electricity usage - you could get some government funding out of that, i bet. How much did Britain pay for those "delete old emails to save water" marketeering?

I guess the downside is meta, google, microsoft, et al will benefit the most, but whatever.

Also someone the other day mentioned something like this, where users could subscribe for $50 to pursue legal avenues - sorry i don't have the link, but:

> What we actually need is a Consumer Protection Alliance that is made by and funded by people who want protection from this and are willing to pay for the lawyers needed to run all of the cases and bring these cases before a judge over and over and over again until they win.

> This would mean people like you and me and a million others of us paying $20-$50/month out of pocket to hire people to sue companies that do this [...]
by strogonoff | 2025-08-19 05:54:40+00:00
The insidious nature of ad-supported “free” media where end user is the product delivered to advertisers means that even if you reverse engineer some service and develop a third-party client that totally respects ads and all and simply reduces the addictiveness, tweaks the algo, etc., you are still reducing their revenue because people will see fewer ads if they spend less time on the service and probably have more fulfilling lives.

This business model is poison. Service operator’s interests will never be aligned with the interests of the users unless they are paying customers.

(By contrast, if the users were paying customers, Google would have no problem with your client—it would in fact be saving money on compute & traffic.)
by coderenegade | 2025-08-19 05:54:44+00:00
I think it's more that creative genius requires both the time invested to attain mastery, and time to push the boundaries on paths that may or may not work out.

Ramanujan would have still been Ramanujan had he not worked with Littlewood and Hardy (though the world might not have witnessed both his genius and his contributions), but by all accounts he invested an enormous amount of time and effort in mathematics, to the point that his family urged him to do other things. Einstein worked a job that was so trivial for him that he spent most of his time thinking about other things. Newton invented calculus while his classes were halted because everyone was isolating from the plague. Bukowski famously quipped that his choices were to earn a wage, or to write and starve, and he'd chosen to starve.

In the same way that you probably don't get garage startups in a society where no one has a garage, you probably don't get many creative geniuses without good family structures and some level of slack in the system.
by tropicalfruit | 2025-08-19 05:55:08+00:00
70–90% of people have functional object impermanence, and at least 50% have no inner dialogue

no self awareness, no reflection. just impulse. me, me, me.

blasting music in public, talking at max volume, slamming doors. taking 20 mins to use an ATM when it takes me 30 seconds. and so on.
by nake89 | 2025-08-19 05:56:00+00:00
> That is the point of a formatter, so any formatter would do that (and there were many more active projects to allow formatting before prettier came around).

No arguments here. You are free to choose the formatter you want.

> Not really, and I have written prettier plugins to get around that constraint.

Or you could simply use those better formatters you were talking about.
by throwaway81523 | 2025-08-19 05:56:08+00:00
Lora data rate is still maybe 100x or 1000x higher than I'd want. I'd like something just fast enough for text chat, let's say 10 bps (maybe 3 chars/sec with some data compression), and a fallback slower rate for messaging, like 1 bps or slower (2 minutes for a 50 char messsage). That would give another 20 or 30 db of coding gain for much better range. There could even be a .01bps mode. Finally, put it on HF for worldwide range ;).

This is all deployed by hams down to around 1 cps, by the way (js8call.com).
by pjmlp | 2025-08-19 05:57:56+00:00
That has been like that since there have been publishers in the games industry.

Back then, the indies stuff was only if you happened to live nearby someone you knew doing bedroom coding, distributing tapes on school, or they got lucky land their game on one of those shareware tapes collection.

Trying to actually get a publisher deal was really painful, and if you did, they really wanted their money back in sales.
How should a startup lead engineer quickly find market needs and validate ideas?
by map12345678 | 2025-08-19 05:58:31+00:00
Hi—I’m a lead engineer at a small startup.

I get ideas from many sources but need practical, fast ways to decide which to prioritize and how to validate them with limited resources.

Please share short, actionable answers on:

1. Idea sources — which channels/methods worked for you?

2. Prioritization criteria — a quick checklist (tech risk, market size, competition).

3. Rapid validation & KPIs — low-cost experiments (landing page, ads, demo) and key metrics.

4. Acquiring early users — realistic channels/approaches for beta/early adopters.

If possible, include a short checklist (≈5 items) or one experiment template. Thanks!
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-19 05:59:41+00:00
I kind of hated this essay. Not because I really disagree with the conclusions, but it seems to lump all forms of "shamelessness" into the same bucket. I'm fine with "shamelessness" if it's just bucking societal norms and conventions that have often been there so long that we've forgotten what they were ever about in the first place. But I find it deeply, deeply sad when we see so much shamelessness these days that is fundamentally about treating other people like shit because you like the feeling of selfishness.

I also disagree how the author essentially defined "success" as some sort of follower count. I can't remember how I saw this clip, but it was about Lance Bass' wedding to his boyfriend, and he was talking about it with the Kardashian mom. All the Kardashian mom wanted to know about were what the ratings were for their televised wedding, because that's all that mattered to her. I mean, if that's how you want to be "successful", knock yourself the fuck out. I happen to think it's disgusting and the actual opposite of "success", but what do I know, I actually value my relationships for the people I get to know and care about.

Maybe I would like this essay better if it were titled "psychopathy as a strategy". Psychopathy certainly works, at least from the perspective of the psychopath, but it's not exactly something I want to aspire to.
by danschuller | 2025-08-19 06:00:24+00:00
Your solution is for everyone in the world to foster a degree of self-discipline they've never shown any inclination for in the past?

That doesn't sound like a scalable solution. These apps are so pervasive and their use adopted at such a young age (with a large degree of social pressure) it seems like legislation is the only way to curb these dark patterns.

Like other commentators have said these are extremely well resourced companies looking for ways to exploit human psychology at scale. It's in a walled garden, compiled app so it's you have very limited ability to modify what you're shown. End-users of apps need to be given more power over what they can be shown and if that kills companies then to me that's an acceptable tradeoff.
by King-Aaron | 2025-08-19 06:00:43+00:00
Quote: Sources familiar with the modelling, who asked for anonymity to speak about sensitive government information, described some of the scenarios outlined in the report – known as the National Climate Risk Assessment – as “dire”, “diabolical” and “extremely confronting”.

https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/labor-keeps-di...
by slowlyform | 2025-08-19 06:02:35+00:00
>For anything but 1-vs-1, individual skill gets smeared into the non-enemy (ally for team games, or everyone for a free-for-all) average.

It's a bit more nuanced than that, CS is a 5v5 game yes, but at low rank it's a lot more depedent on individual skills. I love community game servers but a lot of time those are for fooling around and not much the competitive skills.
by goyagoji | 2025-08-19 06:02:39+00:00
Their mixing their scams into everything is worse than if they stuck entirely to their scams. No one will believe future research in an area they bring up hasn't been tainted by their reality distortion field. China will have more credible medicine than the US since the Chinese party isn't that interested in pushing a lot of quack theories to the math and science illiterate as a way to gain and maintain political power.
by Frieren | 2025-08-19 06:03:01+00:00
> 10% hurts the same no matter your income.

10% is more just. Than a flat fine.

But 10% hurts more when you are poor and have no savings and you need that money to pay rent. For small companies is the same. Bigger corporations have more resources available to minimize that 10% impact. Power does not scale linearly with money.

But to take a percentage is a much better way than a flat fine. Flat fines are totally ineffective when applied to big corporations.
by jltsiren | 2025-08-19 06:03:08+00:00
In the system I'm familiar with, votes are counted twice. The first count is done on site, by the same people who staffed the polling station. It's important that the votes are counted and the results are published before those people leave and before the ballots are moved.

Then there is a second count that produces the official results. That count is done at a higher level (county-equivalent for most elections and city/municipality for local elections), largely to ensure a more uniform treatment for various edge cases.
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by littlestymaar | 2025-08-19 06:03:13+00:00
There is in fact a footnote about the date:

> 1. The 300-year timeframe refers to the foundational mathematical principles underlying modern bias-variance analysis, not the contemporary terminology. Bayes' theorem (1763) established the mathematical framework for updating beliefs with evidence, whilst Laplace's early work on statistical inference (1780s-1810s) formalised the principle that models must balance fit with simplicity to avoid spurious conclusions. These early statistical insights—that overly complex explanations tend to capture noise rather than signal—form the mathematical bedrock of what we now call the bias-variance tradeoff. The specific modern formulation emerged over several decades in the latter 20th century, but the core principle has governed statistical reasoning for centuries.
by dotancohen | 2025-08-19 06:03:19+00:00
> I'm not trying to be mean, I think EVs are great, but hybrids are still obviously better

I was 100% with you up until this point. Hybrids have all the mechanical components of ICEs, thus need maintenance and repair just like an ICE vehicle. Additionally they have all the components of an electric. The reduced maintenance of EVS is their greatest strength, in my opinion as an EV owner who was not expecting this benefit.

I've replaced more transmissions and rebuilt more engines than most people you'll meet. The EV drivetrain, even if it has a weak point in the battery, it's such a pleasure to own because of the reduced maintenance. All the money saved on oil, oil filters, plugs, mufflers, replacement stolen catalytic converters, coils, plug wires, fire and air filters, valve gaskets, water pumps, timing chains, lifters, brake pads, and the damned automatic transmission, add up to about the same order as a battery replacement - if that battery replacement is even needed. In the ICE vehicle, all those things are definitely needed.
by jibal | 2025-08-19 06:04:20+00:00
"the target"? The OP complaint is not that the statement exists, but that the output expression comes before the context that establishes its meaning. This is not just a problem for autocomplete, but people often report difficulties understanding complex comprehensions.

As for comprehensions themselves, ignoring that problem I find them a powerful and concise way to express a collection of computed values when that's possible. And I'm particularly fond of generator expressions (which you didn't mention) ... they often avoid unnecessary auxiliary memory, and cannot be replaced with an inline for loop--only with a generator function with a yield statement.

BTW, I don't understand your comment about types. What's the type of (x for x in foo()) ?
by avar | 2025-08-19 06:05:02+00:00
> science is built around making verifiable > predictions but doesn't in fact give any > answers, only theories

This is just redefining "theory" and "answer" to the point of meaninglessness.

Darwin didn't know a lot of things about evolution or biology, and I'm sure he had questions about some of those things. If you could talk to him today you could give him answers to those questions, and the reason for that is that those answers are found in theories and scientific progress in general.

But yes, it doesn't provide "answers" in the mushy religious sense, i.e. "what is it all for?".

> The difference between science and > religion doesn't lie in disagreement > over particular facts or any facts at all

Yes, it does. You're just implicitly excluding all the parts where religious texts make empirical claims about reality as unimportant or allegory, because religion has already lost those arguments.

Do you think Galileo clashed with the Catholic church over heliocentrism because the church didn't understand what religion should and shouldn't be making claims about?
by CorrectHorseBat | 2025-08-19 06:05:20+00:00
As you said because they couldn't afford it, not because the alternative was tastier. When people get richer they start eating meat because it tastes good and has great nutritional value.

Some people want to have the good of meat such as taste and nutrition value without all the bad such as animal cruelty and carbon emissions. What's so hard to understand about that?
by omkar273 | 2025-08-19 06:05:41+00:00
I have been on the $20 Pro plan for a while and use GPT every day for dev and product work. This move feels huge for India.

The real unlock is not just the lower price, it is UPI. I have had so many friends and students ask me about ChatGPT but they could never pay because of the credit card wall. ₹399 with UPI makes it actually accessible.

For my own use I will stay on Pro since I need GPT-4o and API, but this new plan is going to bring in millions of first time users. It feels like the moment AI finally goes mainstream in India.
by strogonoff | 2025-08-19 06:06:08+00:00
This is interesting (and unfortunate). It boggles my mind how academia makes it possible to publish (and not have to retract) a paper based around facts that are simply made up[0], while some bright and capable people I know don’t have ways to publish (unless, I suppose, they pay to some lesser pay-to-play journals) because they did not choose to be in academia.

[0] Although I have not seen anyone in this thread tell me that this paper is false—it was mostly appeal to author’s preexisting reputation—I’m taking it at face value.