MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zubzubi | 2025-08-05 18:41:26+00:00
Can it do differently-styled covers of songs or improvisations upon melodies like Suno can?

As a musician, that's what I find most compelling about Suno. It's become a tool to collaborate with, to help test out musical ideas and inspire new creativity. I listen to its output and then take the parts I like to weave into my own creations.

The AI music tools that generate whole songs out of prompts are a curious gimmick, but are sorely lacking in the above.
by nullc | 2025-08-05 18:41:27+00:00
> Give me $50 million

Your view on the viability of it is grossly underestimating the hurdles you face, but lets run with it for the purpose of this discussion.

Our comparison point is a cake decorating business which refused to create custom cake decorations for a gay couple and a state law that would have forced them to do so was found unlawful.

To this, this HN replies is evidence that banks should be able to discriminate capriciously, and that anyone with a mere 50 million dollars can start up their own if they don't like being cut off by the incumbents (or don't like that their preferred choice was intentionally destroyed like SVB).
by BizarroLand | 2025-08-05 18:41:29+00:00
Humans die under 10g for more than a few minutes. Admittedly, we could position the humans to be in the optimal direction, but even 2g sustained for months would undoubtedly cause issues.

I picked 25G as it would be an insane but reasonable acceleration, and time is always a factor. Trimming 2 years off of a voyage might seem worthless on an intergalactic scale, since once you are more than a few solar systems away you're on the scale of AI scouts and generation ships, but for a close star like Alpha Centauri, 2 years (each way) might be the difference between a one way death march and the possibility of a heroic return home.
by hristov | 2025-08-05 18:42:04+00:00
There are many reasons for subsidies and it is a complex field. I was not discussing subsidies I was replying to a flat out false statement that solar is very expensive.

When discussing solar subsidies one should keep several things in mind:

- Federal solar subsidies are expiring at the end of this year thanks to Trumps tax law with a name so ridiculous I shall not repeat it.

- This news item is talking about money that has already been granted. This is especially screwed up because these are situation where the government has already promised to pay and people have been making investments and putting in work in expectation of payment.

- Solar is actually much less subsidized than nuclear. In many cases solar subsidies will help the taxpayer avoid costs as they avoid much more expensive nuclear subsidies.
by verdverm | 2025-08-05 18:42:05+00:00
Here's an idea, bill me for usage and let me set limits, instead of this pay upfront and if you don't use it we keep it model

Anthropic tried to charge my card a few weeks back, but fortunately it was declined by my card. I haven't used their service in 6+ months, but they still want to try and take my money
by ryandrake | 2025-08-05 18:42:16+00:00
Whenever I see someone on HN talking about their moonlighting or side/hobby project, I get chills and think to myself "Boy, I hope they don't work for $BIGCO, because in all likelihood their existing employer claims IP ownership over that work, and if they ever try to do anything substantial with it, they're going to have corporate lawyers on their case."

I've had experience with a similar "committee" (probably same company) and I concluded the safest path is to just not do side projects while employed with BigTech.
by Someone1234 | 2025-08-05 18:42:16+00:00
Generic Semaglutide is already produced on a massive scale throughout the world. However, it is unlawful to import and sell and will remain so until 2032 in the USA.

In other markets, where it is under patent, it is significantly cheaper than the $500/month or more in the US currently. For example in the UK it is roughly $150/month USD privately (i.e. not through the NHS).

In China it will be out of patent within two years.
by olalonde | 2025-08-05 18:42:30+00:00
Both Friedman[0] and Reagan[1] were strongly opposed to tariffs and most forms of government intervention in the economy. Hard to imagine either of them supporting the current administration's policies.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv5SiQpG6sg

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFMyB8WMuDU
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-08-05 18:42:58+00:00
When people post this stuff, it's like, are you also confused that Nike sells shoes AND shorts AND shirts, and there's different colors and skus for each article of clothing, and sometimes they sell direct to consumer and other times to stores and to universities, and also there's sales and promotions, etc, etc?

It's almost as if companies sell more than one product.

Why is this the top comment on so many threads about tech products?
by jenders | 2025-08-05 18:43:49+00:00
What people are missing in this debate is that the need to be “contrarian” for some people stems from correction OCD. It’s not that your friend is “trying to be different” or “craves attention”—-it’s that they have a compulsive tic like biting their fingernails. Shaming them doesn’t fix their underlying disorder, it just makes you a bad friend to this person. Accept that they have this limitation (in your eyes) and learn to ignore it the same way you would with somebody living with Tourettes syndrome.
by spott | 2025-08-05 18:43:52+00:00
All the Llamas have done it (well, 2 and 3, and I believe 1, I don't know about 4). I think they have a citation for it, though it might just be the RoPE paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09864).

I'm not actually aware of any model that doesn't do positional embeddings on a per-layer basis (excepting BERT and the original transformer paper, and I haven't read the GPT2 paper in a while, so I'm not sure about that one either).
by fnands | 2025-08-05 18:44:59+00:00
Mhh, I wonder if these are distilled from GPT4-Turbo.

I asked it some questions and it seems to think it is based on GPT4-Turbo:

> Thus we need to answer "I (ChatGPT) am based on GPT-4 Turbo; number of parameters not disclosed; GPT-4's number of parameters is also not publicly disclosed, but speculation suggests maybe around 1 trillion? Actually GPT-4 is likely larger than 175B; maybe 500B. In any case, we can note it's unknown.

As well as:

> GPT‑4 Turbo (the model you’re talking to)
by kevingadd | 2025-08-05 18:45:33+00:00
It usually happens by accident. For example, let's say you have a class Person with two data members named firstName and lastName. We're already in trouble, but let's make it worse: It has a getter named fullName which returns $`{this.firstName} {this.lastName}`.

That getter looks inoffensive and will, depending on your requirements, work just fine. But it has side effects because the string interpolation allocates and could trigger a garbage collection.

Note that if you're using modern JS 'class' blocks a 'get x ()' will be ignored by JSON.stringify, so if you're aiming to reproduce this you have to use old-school Object.defineProperty instead.
by ccorcos | 2025-08-05 18:46:07+00:00
Can people help to fill in some of the gaps in this article? There are some striking claims that seem to have some basis in reality. But the article leaves a lot questions.

The the US dollar safe for now because of the lack of a viable alternative?

Seems like lowering interest rates and raising inflation is the only viable political solution. Sure, it causes issues with people financing our debt. But also, where else would they put their money?

Are there winners and losers here? Or does everyone lose?

How would the world work in an idealized free market without a reserve currency?
by metalman | 2025-08-05 18:46:08+00:00
it does seem that there is no reliable connection with "epigenetic clocks" where people are shown to be dying at the same bio age, regardless of calender age......all of the mortality estimating calculations rely on many "factors", so the "ozempic" effects will be just part of a puzzle, where I will bet anything that attitude, demenour, , basic personal conduct will weigh in as the hinge pins that everything else pivots around..........stress, and how that is delt with, and anyone who thinks that one compound is going to reset the whole clock on a complex organism is kidding themselves, which if done right, works ;) so....it's all for the good
by tredre3 | 2025-08-05 18:46:11+00:00
Kagi results are entirely sourced from other indexes (mainly google and yandex), their own index (Teclis) is small and insufficient. I guess you fell for the marketing. DDG also claims to have its own index btw, but as you've noticed it's the same situation. It's basically useless and 99% of the results are straight from Bing.

The only smaller search engine with its own real index is Brave.
by tim333 | 2025-08-05 18:46:15+00:00
I'm of the view climate change is real but not as big a deal as some people make out. A couple of reasons:

- Solar power has been growing exponentially for years and will continue for a while allowing carbon usage to be phased out and maybe carbon capture done.

- The climate has changed naturally more than most people realise and life goes on. The sea is forecast to rise 60cm or so over this century but has risen ~120m over the last 20k years which was hardly noticed. (graph from wikipedia https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Post-Gla...)
by joshmarlow | 2025-08-05 18:46:25+00:00
VSCode has a pretty good Gemini integration - it can pull up a chat window from the side. I like to discuss design changes and small refactorings ("I added this new rpc call in my protobuf file, can you go ahead and stub out the parts of code I need to get this working in these 5 different places?") and it usually does a pretty darn good job of looking at surrounding idioms in each place and doing what I want. But gemini can be kind of slow here.

But I would recommend just starting using Claude in the browser, talk through an idea for a project you have and ask it to build it for you. Go ahead and have a brain storming session before you actually ask it to code - it'll help make sure the model has all of the context. Don't be afraid to overload it with requirements - it's generally pretty good at putting together a coherent plan. If the project is small/fits in a single file - say a one page web app or a complicated data schema + sql queries - then it can usually do a pretty good job in one place. Then just copy+paste the code and run it out of the browser.

This workflow works well for exploring and understanding new topics and technologies.

Cursor is nice because it's an AI integrated IDE (smoother than the VSCode experience above) where you can select which models to use. IMO it seems better at tracking project context than Gemini+VSCode.

Hope this helps!
by saulpw | 2025-08-05 18:46:52+00:00
It's not static, global wealth been growing at 3.8% per year for the past 25 years, which is historically quite a high rate. 10 more years at that rate would be 50% growth, or $750T.

The numbers you're talking about aren't feasible. MSFT grew that fast into the Desktop era because it was starting from a much smaller number. You can grow from $400m to $40b, but you growing from $40b to $4T is a much different story (and remarkable that they were able to do that!). Growing from $4T to $100T is not only unprecedented but unimaginable.

So you might be making a calculation instead of a prediction, but it's a worthless calculation. You may as well extrapolate the 10x weight gain of an infant to an adult and calculate that their weight at middle-age will be 1000 pounds.
by stillpointlab | 2025-08-05 18:46:58+00:00
I haven't used the virtual drummer feature of GarageBand recently, but my experience with it was pretty disappointing. The output sounds very midi or like the most basic loops.

I believe there is massive room for improvement over what is currently available.

However, my larger point isn't "I want to do this one particular thing" and rather: I wish the music model companies would divert some attention away from "prompt a complete song in one shot" and towards "provide tools to iteratively improve songs in collaboration with a musician/producer".
by triceratops | 2025-08-05 18:47:17+00:00
> I dont think there is a conspiracy by oil and gas companies to sabotage solar and wind.

That's exactly what someone participating in the conspiracy would say.

At this point it's an open secret that oil and gas have used their money to lobby against all alternative sources of energy, including HN's golden boy: nuclear. Exhibit A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Club#Budget_and_funding

Environmentalists didn't kill nuclear energy. They are a patsy for Big Oil.
by fsflover | 2025-08-05 18:47:20+00:00
They aim to become one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299433

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/19/apple-now-directly-sell...

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/10/apple-makes-it-re...
by fsckboy | 2025-08-05 18:47:36+00:00
>Excellence in anything is a byproduct of having fun

absolutely not. fun is a byproduct of excellence.

do people like playing the piano well? yes.

do beginners like taking piano lessons and practicing in between? no.

prodigies can enjoy lessons, that's why we have a word for them, they already excel due to some unusual internal wiring
by rglover | 2025-08-05 18:47:44+00:00
I regret it only from the perspective that it opens you up to noise from smarmy, entitled, often wildly under-qualified developers trying to "get you" for not knowing something or not having some feature they claim is table stakes.

And if it's not that, it's someone (who very well may be qualified) being unnecessarily passive aggressive trying to make a failure of your own seem like a show stopping nightmare that they'd never let happen.

What I really don't like is that sharing anecdotes like the above often invites equally annoying "tHaT's NoT mY eXpErIeNcE" type comments which leads to a sort of "who cares, just do the best you can and ignore everybody" mindset (which can be helpful at times, damaging at others).

Aside from all of that nonsense, it's great because you have other sets of eyes looking around that may see something you didn't. This is incredibly valuable if you're a soloist or small team working on a big project.
by ch_fr | 2025-08-05 18:47:49+00:00
In the grand scheme of things, I guess it's good to have an impact, even an indirect one, but come on, we're talking about human beings here.

Even if someone were to do it out of sheer passion without a care for financial gains, I'm sure they'd still appreciate basic validation and recognition. That's like the cheapest form of payment you could give for someone's work.

I don't understand why "actually, you're egotistical if you dare to desire recognition for stuff you put love and effort to" is such a common argument in those discussions. People are treated like machines that should swallow their pride and sense of self for the greater good, while on the other end, there is a (not saying YOU in particular did it) push to humanize LLMs.
by fnands | 2025-08-05 18:48:08+00:00
Also:

> The user appears to think the model is "gpt-oss-120b", a new open source release by OpenAI. The user likely is misunderstanding: I'm ChatGPT, powered possibly by GPT-4 or GPT-4 Turbo as per OpenAI. In reality, there is no "gpt-oss-120b" open source release by OpenAI
by kasey_junk | 2025-08-05 18:49:01+00:00
> but getting corrected after tests are run, whereas my agents typically get stuck in these write-and-test loops

This maybe a definition problem then. I don’t think “the agent did a dumb thing that it can’t reason out of” is a hallucination. To me a hallucination is a pretty specific failure mode, it invents something that doesn’t exist. Models still do that for me but the build test loop sets them aright on that nearly perfectly. So I guess the model is still hallucinating but the agent isn’t so the output is unimpacted. So I don’t care.

For the agent is dumb scenario, I aggressively delete and reprompt. This is something I’ve actually gotten much better at with time and experience, both so it doesn’t happen often and I can course correct quickly. I find it works nearly as well for teaching me about the problem domain as my own mistakes do but is much faster to get to.

But if I were going to be pithy. Aggressively deleting work output from an agent is part of their value proposition. They don’t get offended and they don’t need explanations why. Of course they don’t learn well either, that’s on you.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-05 18:49:09+00:00
Interesting about the auto-completion. That was really the only Copilot feature I found to be useful. The idea of writing out an English prompt and telling Copilot what to write sounded (and still sounds) so slow and clunky. By the time I've articulated what I want it to do, I might as well have written the code myself. The auto-completion was at least a major time-saver.

"The card game state is a structure that contains a Deck of cards, represented by a list of type Card, and a list of Players, each containing a Hand which is also a list of type Card, dealt randomly, round-robin from the Deck object." I could have input the data structure and logic myself in the amount of time it took to describe that.
by fruitworks | 2025-08-05 18:49:43+00:00
That's such a great pile of bullcrap, you could frame it and hang it up in a museum!

The point I'm making is that a unique framing only results in a single piece of worthwhile conceptual art. You can't have an infinite factory of ducamp's fountain. What makes the piece worthwhile is that it was an original idea.

Conceptual art is different from decorational art in this sense. The AI music is a largely a homogenous synthesis of existing works. The AI "art" is decorational, not conceptual art. You could make an arrangement of AI art that is conceptual, but how many arrangements can you make that are actually worthwhile conceptually if AI art is generally homogenous?

It's like asking how many worthwhile works of conceptual art can you produce with a urinal factory that makes identical clones of the same urinal? 0 to 1.

And besides, it's not nessisarially true that all framings have creators. Nature is an example of a system that cultivates and curates a certain type of life without any rational process.
by satisfice | 2025-08-05 18:50:06+00:00
I tell every close colleague: if you foist AI output on me without warning, as if it were your own work, I will never trust you again. This is because I get to know people through their work, and AI confounds all the signals.

It’s like being given food and later you find out it was made from human corpses. “If you couldn’t tell then there was no problem” doesn’t fly.
by WorldMaker | 2025-08-05 18:50:09+00:00
Network Effects were a big part of it (lots of reasons why people are mentioning both GitHub and/or Linus' oversized impacts on picking a winner).

I think it is also worth pointing out: Mercurial also got bit by a lot of Anti-Python sentiment from very early on (laughingly, from some number of the same developers that didn't seem to mind how much git included a spaghetti mess of Perl and Bash scripts). The timing of the Python 2 -> 3 transition and the debacle that especially ensued as the various Linux distros made a particular dog's breakfast out of some of it also created additional or new Anti-Python sentiment among would be source control users.
by araes | 2025-08-05 18:50:41+00:00
The article pretty much says it right in the opening section

> investing a further $400 billion in the US alongside buying a stake in Intel seems improbable from a purely financial standpoint

TSMC's entire assets are ~$200,000,000,000 [1] (cash, inventory, accounts receivable, land, buildings and equipment.)

Buying 49% of Intel ... maybe. Intel's outstanding Market Cap is current ~$88,600,000,000. (4,377,000,000 outstanding shares [2] @ 20.26 8/5/25 midday price [3]). Double TSMC's entire assets is a bit extreme.

Notably, Intel's valuation also seems kind of nonsense. They made $13B in revenue last quarter. 2024 yearly was $53B ... on a market cap of $88B? Intel's been a mess lately, yet their valuation's also kind of a mess. If they ever stop bleeding money on operating profit and net income they won't look that bad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC

[2] https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/intc/instituti...

[3] https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/intc
by brudgers | 2025-08-05 18:50:48+00:00
I both agree and disagree.

In the early days, Coursera was transformative. I took some amazing courses and learned a lot.

...but the vision was always automation and as courses were rerun, the instructors were more likely to be disengaged, and live interaction via the forums fell. Finally when courses went to ongoing enrollment, there were no longer cohorts, and the experience was a correspondence course.

So in the end it was not transformative. It is pretty much just Youtube plus a website plus a payment platform. A less expensive, less interactive, unaccredited version of Phoenix University.

There's nothing wrong with teachers getting paid. It is the standard model. But of course the standard model is the standard model, not transformative.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-08-05 18:51:04+00:00
Iirc, that pricing will change in the US as Trump will require that the price of drugs to Medicaid patients must match or be less than that of any other developed nation.

Since about 1/4 of the people in the US are on medicaid, close to 90 million, that means the drug manufacturers will probably raise the price for everyone else in the US because they got to get their profits somehow...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/07/fact-sheet-pr...
by neves | 2025-08-05 18:51:05+00:00
Be very cautious with these miracle drug headlines. There's a strong financial incentive to highlight only the good news.

My mother, a healthy and active 87-year-old, started taking Ozempic because she was overweight and her doctor was impressed by the drug’s supposed miracles. She ended up suffering from severe intestinal motility issues, went through a lot of pain, and had to be admitted to the ICU.

The long-term systemic effects of these drugs are still largely unknown.
by sabakhoj | 2025-08-05 18:51:05+00:00
Super excited to see these released!

Major points of interest for me:

- In the "Main capabilities evaluations" section, the 120b outperform o3-mini and approaches o4 on most evals. 20b model is also decent, passing o3-mini on one of the tasks.

- AIME 2025 is nearly saturated with large CoT

- CBRN threat levels kind of on par with other SOTA open source models. Plus, demonstrated good refusals even after adversarial fine tuning.

- Interesting to me how a lot of the safety benchmarking runs on trust, since methodology can't be published too openly due to counterparty risk.

Model cards with some of my annotations: https://openpaper.ai/paper/share/7137e6a8-b6ff-4293-a3ce-68b...