MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by idiotsecant | 2025-09-04 20:30:29+00:00
Bitcoin makes the least sense of any of these schemes. Proof of work is just proof of sota ASIC ownership, which is just proof of stake by another name. Why not just use POS like everyone else and avoid dumping the carbon? Bitcoin is going to be one of those things in the history books that will seem utterly incomprehensibly irresponsible to future generations.
by farco12 | 2025-09-04 20:30:38+00:00
Patrick, congratulations on launching Tempo. If there was a company where it actually made sense to build and use a blockchain it would be Stripe.

The website is a bit painful to read but I thought it provided good general information for potential partners.

As as a dev, my questions are why did your team decide to build a new L1 chain instead of an Ethereum L2 and why did you all stick with the EVM architecture instead of looking at something like the MoveVM?
by spicy_ranch | 2025-09-04 20:31:03+00:00
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by zoaei | 2025-09-04 20:31:20+00:00
this piece is lovely.

it’s worth noting that the piece’s concern is with a somewhat passive experience of commonlisp, i think. for example the focus is on dealing with ansi=>sbcl types out-of-the-box; if i’m not mistaken there are no type definitions.

this is a useful lens through which to glean an accurate portrait of a partiality of what’s possible with types in and around modern lispcraft, maybe, i think.

it’s difficult to think about hackability in writing bottom-up programming code without thinking about typing at or near runtime and/or/either typing either/or/and retyping some clos mod or mop ( or any-&-everything else ) during some runtime.

this is to say nothing of the conditions system modulo defining types or incorporation of domain specific, embedded or foreign languages via same modulus.

it’s a lovely piece is my point.
by godelski | 2025-09-04 20:32:13+00:00
> Do I believe that looking at humans driving and saying "they do it just their eyes (they don't) so we should!" is an example of his acclaimed first-principles reasoning ability? No, I think its shallow reasoning by analogy.

And let's make sure we get this right. Humans use more than vision when driving. Touch and sound are essential components to driving. While you could drive without these senses that doesn't mean they aren't important.

Elon's understanding of "first principles" is "the first thought that came into my head". Unfortunately this is a common, and growing, bastardization of the phrase.
by wmf | 2025-09-04 20:32:41+00:00
They cut out a lot of work for themselves expecting stable coins to materialize on their own chain.

I assume there will be bridges to other chains so even if, say, USDT is not natively issued on Tempo you can bridge it.

It's Stripe, so maybe they are allowed to mint their own USD stable coin

Stripe has USDB. https://www.bridge.xyz/news/usdb
by SR2Z | 2025-09-04 20:32:43+00:00
> At that point, a shared ledger implemented with traditional databases / protocols would be faster, easier, and more transparent.

Except they are frequently _not_. I dislike crypto on principle, but you can't look at the exorbitant transfer fees and latency that a lot of banks charge for common transactions (Visa/MasterCard are especially bad) and say that crypto has no potential.

Yes, it would be easier if we could just trust our banks to offer instant settlement and very low fees, but they don't.

The problem with banks pointing to banking regulation is that they helped shape the regulation - and they did so to protect their business, not to help consumers.

We know that central banks are great at monetary policy. We know that decentralized protocols remove a lot of the more parasitic traits of banks. Why not have a central bank currency that can be traded on the blockchain, especially since converting it to real money will still entail KYC?
by hopelite | 2025-09-04 20:33:13+00:00
Most of these nuclear tests were underground and undersea. In a nuclear exchange, most devices would detonate above the target surface level to maximize destruction through the shockwave.

There is also the secondary impacts that would start immense uncontrolled wildfires all over the planet that would produce much of the nuclear winter effect that is assumed, due to the amount of soot and ash it would produce. But most people would not live long enough to experience the nuclear winter anyways after the explosions, the fireball, the uncontrollable wildfire, the marauding, and the starvation and disease.

If you lived long enough to make it to nuclear winter, you would probably just wish you had died long ago. If you had anyone at all with you, you might have to even make hard decisions about who you can take with you and who to leave behind, and if you managed to somehow get to somewhere where you might be able to feed yourself and survive near the equator, you would only really be living a primitive subsistence life. If you happened to have a female with you, you may try to rebuild the human population, whether she wants to or not. Yes, it’s very grim; but maybe even optimistic. But even if that is pessimistic, at best you will find yourself in a world where there is nothing left that you could rely on for contemporary existence. No communications, no electronics, nothing but manual transportation once any surviving fuel is used up on any surviving carbureted engines, no running water, and you would have to fight off savage roaming marauders, who want all your things and will have thrust everyone into a hellish version of Madmax, etc.

See any of the actual first hand accounts of what happened in the New Orleans and the Superdome after hurricane Katrina for a tiny little taste of what you would be facing.

The nuclear winter would be the least of your problems.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-04 20:33:37+00:00
I can't speak for the industry side but as a consumer, I've noticed many cable TV ads in hotel rooms now are clearly using AI generated video. It looks like shit.

This is going to be the "bad chromakey" of this particular time period in terms of weirdly prolific visuals in media. Or if you prefer, the ads you used to see on late-night TV that were clearly broadcast from a poor quality VHS.

Cheap bullshit has always hung around our media apparatus, and it's just that: cheap bullshit. Tbh I just note it in the same way I've always done: well, that's a company I'm going to avoid doing business with if at all possible.
by beepbooptheory | 2025-09-04 20:33:45+00:00
What is AI providing in the drive through situation? It just feels to me like much of this is "AI" in the business buzz sense, not generative LLMs or whatever doing any kind of work. Like, we have all been struggling with call center "AI" for a long time before this, I personally have not experienced an LLM chatbot call, but plenty of things asking me "is this information correct?"

Like how would some of this even work in reality? Can you go through those drive throughs and ask it to recite a sonnet about chicken nuggets? Clearly no, but then it begs the question of what the idea, the purported advance, even is here with much of this. Like we have had relatively advanced speech recognition for a while, I don't see the added utility or need of being able to go through the drive through and saying: "the number of hotdogs I want is a prime number that is more than 2 but less than 5."

It just feels so clearly silly if you stop and think about it for two seconds. So many hammers, not enough nails... We are just banging at walls at this point.
by eurleif | 2025-09-04 20:33:56+00:00
One thing that I feel actually became more believable with new technology is the plot device where only one character can perform a certain task, but then all they really do is tell the computer to do it. For example, in Voyager, they make a big deal about how Harry Kim is the only one who's able to make complex holograms. That originally seemed unrealistic; but now, with the amount of work some people put into prompt engineering for LLMs, it actually seems kind of plausible.
by rendx | 2025-09-04 20:34:30+00:00
"Obviously X-COM also faced this problem. One of the biggest complaints is when an enemy is right next to a player and they’ve got an 85 per cent chance to hit and they miss. ‘That’s absolutely ridiculous!’ People ragequit and never play again. It’s an issue they partly solved in XCOM 2, and we had another mode in Chaos Reborn. It’s a rather sobering lesson in game design and how people manage random factors."
by tene80i | 2025-09-04 20:34:41+00:00
Well sure, I never said they were equivalent in all respects. Just that you can have good and bad versions of both. For sure the failure modes are different.

I challenge the idea that there is no skill test for PMs, though - take a PM interview at a serious product company some day.

And the PM role is of course more than just delivery. If they dropped dead the product would still get shipped. But then what? Someone would need to talk to customers, dig into data and figure out the roadmap. Other people can do it, but in a sufficiently complex company you might as well get people who are good at it and want to devote their time to it.

I understand why some engineers don’t like PMs. But it is exactly the same reason as why some PMs (and C-suites) view engineers as fungible resources who waste time on abstractions instead of shipping, and pad estimates and refuse to discuss practical tradeoffs to move quicker - it’s an unfair generalisation based on bad experiences.

I just think more respect all around wouldn’t hurt.
by kortilla | 2025-09-04 20:34:59+00:00
Point scoring isn’t referring to literal points. A better term might be “dunking on someone”.

The same thing happens in social circles in a school. Kids are more likely to make fun of and ridicule other kids when they have an audience to show off to.

I don’t think the anonymous nature helps either. Because the person doing the ridiculing is looking for validation that they are indeed correct and the subject is an idiot, therefore the critic gets to feel good about being smarter than their victim.

So the only dynamic required is just someone telling you how smart you are when you cut someone down. Whether that’s upvotes, or just someone commenting in agreement, it doesn’t matter.
by ptx2 | 2025-09-04 20:35:33+00:00
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by bryanlarsen | 2025-09-04 20:36:36+00:00
And situations like that could happen again. Experts put the odds of a nuclear war at around 1-3% per annum, and that feels about right. The odds of it happening in any particular year is fairly low, but the odds of it happening during a person's lifespan becomes quite high. 70 years of those kind of odds make it more likely than not. We've landed on "not", but the kind of close calls you called out indicates that "more likely than not" feels about right, and that we landed on "not" has a huge component of luck.
by Andrex | 2025-09-04 20:37:58+00:00
Not the OP but I'll back him up, and I'll edit this comment when I come across them. They're pretty common. If the domain of knowledge is niche and the page is absolutely huge, that's a good sign to start looking for editoralizations and slants.

A lot of wiki pages about smaller companies only list the good things (fundraising, tech, etc.) and omit any controversies. The deliberate omissions due to bias are even more insidious than weasel words or other forms of poor journalism.

Fwiw I truly believe in Wikipedia and donate every year, but calling it "perfect" would be extremely dangerous (and false!)
by Leftium | 2025-09-04 20:38:18+00:00
Not bad, but I find this better: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/cdnstudents/...

1. Picture the problem

2. Promise the potential

3. Prove the performance

4. Push the purchase

Although focused on "pitches," all talks/presentations are "selling" an idea. (Including that article itself!)
by p1mrx | 2025-09-04 20:38:34+00:00
The biggest problem with carbon offsets is that they're not pinned to a particular time of day.

If you buy a 1 GWh block of wind/solar energy for a month, you're not doing anything to supply clean energy when it's dark and the wind isn't blowing.

"24/7 carbon free" means increasing the time resolution from 1 month to 1 hour, and funding projects that deliver clean energy when you're actually using it. This includes stuff like batteries, nuclear, and geothermal.
by antonvs | 2025-09-04 20:38:46+00:00
We're not discussing whether you're identical to a game of Tetris.

We're discussing a way of characterizing the nature of the conscious experience that you presumably have, that a game of Tetris doesn't.

The way Nagel would put this is that "there is something it is like to be bondarchuk" - i.e., you have an experience of your existence that you can describe, because you're consciously aware of it.

We can ask the question of you, "What is it like to be bondarchuk?" and you can answer based on your actual experience. You wouldn't just be generating text in response to a prompt the way an LLM would, you'd be describing your conscious experience of your existence. For example, you say you enjoy drinking a cup of coffee occasionally. That's a conscious experience that shows that there is something it is like to be you.

There is, presumably, nothing it is like to be a Tetris game, because a Tetris game has no consciousness.

This is a standard, widely accepted characterization in consciousness studies. Even if you object to it, you should at least understand what it's saying. And if you do object to it, the onus is on you to provide a better description, which I note you've declined to do on multiple occasions now.
by soldtm | 2025-09-04 20:38:49+00:00
I’ve been working independently on a formal proof for the Yang–Mills Mass Gap problem, one of the Clay Millennium Prize problems. The work focuses on constructing a recursive spectral operator framework and stabilizing the first non-zero eigenvalue (the mass gap). I’ve now written up a formalized version of the logic in proof-style formatting, and I’m opening it up for review, criticism, or deeper discussion.

I'm aware this kind of claim often draws skepticism — especially coming from outside academia — but I welcome thoughtful engagement and concrete challenges. If you're interested in checking the framework or seeing the logic: just ask. I won't post a direct link unless someone wants it (to respect the rules).
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-09-04 20:39:04+00:00
This is one of the big psychological benefits of being physically active. If you're fairly physically active, e.g. doing 60+ min of high heart rate cardio or intense anaerobic exercise a day, you'll always be sore somewhere. Maybe it's your thighs from yesterday's squats. Your lower back from a long run. Your elbow when you tried that dynamic move on a climb you've been projecting. And once you accept and embrace that minor pain you become a lot better at psychologically dealing with the small constant pain that comes with aging.

Also if you ever compete in a physical activity at more than just a "with your friends" level, you'll quickly find that whether you're 15 or 50 warming up makes a huge difference.

A lot of the problems of aging that I suspect folks today are facing are the problems of leading a fairly sedentary lifestyle.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-04 20:39:38+00:00
I agree completely.

The amount of college educated people that do not now how to calculate a tip in their head is terrifying.

I can understand not being able to get 17.5% down to the penny. But 10%, 15% or 20% can be calculated in your head faster than I can get my phone out. This level of math is pretty basic.

Its also worth saying that I was never described as a "math person". The number of people that will blindly accept what the calculator tells them is too fucking high.

I have already noticed far too many people using chatGPT as a source. I have a tax attorney friend who got in an argument with an agent at the CRA (Canada Revenue) over whether her interpretation of a rule was correct or whether the chatGPT interpretation was correct. Mind you, she works as a prosecuting attorney so it wasn't adversarial, it was just her saying, "sorry, I'm the legal expert, this interpretation is incorrect, and we will lose if we use this interpretation".
by adxl | 2025-09-04 20:40:25+00:00
There are four bullet points that answer the question why would you want this.

The one that really stands out to me is

“ 03 :: Predictable low fees

Transform your cost structure with near-zero transaction fees that are highly predictable and can be paid in any stablecoin.”

I question why some of large companies that are named here as partners would want this.
by BrandiATMuhkuh | 2025-09-04 20:40:56+00:00
Congratulations on the launch. I think it's a smart move to not use MCP here. Because your LLM really needs to understand how the different integrations work together.

Question: you say you do semantics search. If I understand correctly that means you must somehow index all data (Gmail, GDrive, ...) otherwise the AI would have to "download/scan" thousands of files each time you ask a question. So how do you do the indexing?

For some background: I'm working on something similar. My clients are architects. They have about 300k files for just one building. With an added 50k issues and a couple of thousand emails. And don't forget all subcontractors.

Would Slashy be able to handle that?
by IMSAI8080 | 2025-09-04 20:40:59+00:00
Now you mention it, I can see there's a lot of demand for very cheap video ads on YouTube and such and I can see those kind of productions using AI slop and not really caring. I was just surprised by the calibre of client the poster above mentioned, such as HBO and Netflix and such. That sounded more like AI video making an impact in higher class professional work.
by fumeux_fume | 2025-09-04 20:41:23+00:00
The author's inner PM comes out here and makes some wild claims. Calibration is something we can do with traditional, classification models, but not with most off-the-shelf LLMs. Even if you devised a way to determine if the LLM's confidence claim matched it's actual performance, you wouldn't be able to calibrate or tune it like you would a more traditional model.
by anthem2025 | 2025-09-04 20:41:46+00:00
They are trying to give credibility to as value-less asset that’s historically been used for illegal activity, gambling, and predatory selling of said assets to people who don’t understand them.

Tether claiming they have the ability to back up their coins with USD lets crypto people claim their nonsense actually has value.

Of course the entire thing rides on the “trust me bro” guarantees offered by tether. They could erase a lot of the stink by going through an audit but for some reason they won’t.
by taeric | 2025-09-04 20:41:53+00:00
Do you have numbers showing that data centers have eclipsed this? Quickly looking at search results on this it seems transmission/delivery is estimated to be half of a consumer's bill. Even the high estimate for increased costs from data centers has the increase at less than a quarter of the bill.

Not nothing. And if we can do things to reduce this, I'm game to do that. But I can't get behind the rhetoric that they are eclipsing other cost drivers.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-04 20:42:04+00:00
> Follow the money.

Yeah, it's frustrating to see someone opine "critics are motivated by resentment rather than facts" as if it were street-smart savvy psychoanalysis... while completely ignoring how many influential voices boosting the concept have a bajillions of dollars in motive to speak as credulously and optimistically as possible.
by alemanek | 2025-09-04 20:42:14+00:00
Browsers display content that follows a very specific set of standards. There are also suites of tests to verify your compliance with those standards. So, every browser that is standards compliant should work for the vast majority of websites in existence. Still a big lift but doable for talented team.

Now an OS without application compatibility is kind of DoA unless there is a very compelling reason to switch. Add in hardware compatibility and it gets even worse.

Much bigger hill to climb then incorporating an existing browser engine into a custom spin of a browser. Even a browser engine from scratch would be smaller than a new bare metal OS.
by pembrook | 2025-09-04 20:43:00+00:00
SOE % is definitely a great challenger for this. But I'd argue it misrepresents the picture by not including things like regulated monopolies in the US and poorly capturing taxation-driven redistribution.

Chinese utilities are all counted as SOEs, regulated utility monopolies in the US aren't, even though defacto they are government entities. The US likes to brand everything as more capitalist (just as China likes to brand everything as more communist), so this distorts the picture.

If we're just trying to capture the full picture of money flows in an economy, and whether each incremental currency unit is responding to market signals or not, % of GDP that is government spending is more reliable imo.

It's far easier to compare internationally and less fuzzy to calculate, given there's much more data on it globally.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-09-04 20:43:11+00:00
It depends on how far from the bomb you are. For any reasonable bomb there's a distance where duck and cover helps. It takes less overpressure to kill you with flying debris than to kill you directly.

When the bomb is big enough this no longer applies, but in this realm adding more power to the boom doesn't do much to increase the damage area. There's no point in such a bomb unless you detonate it at high altitude--that means rockets, and you need a lot of rocket to lift such a bomb.