MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by XenophileJKO | 2025-09-24 23:02:45+00:00
Your example is a good one. The frog won't work because ethically the model won't want to show a dead frog very easily, BUT if you ask nano-banana for:

"Create an image of what a watermelon would look like after being teleported to the surface of the moon for 30 seconds."

You'll see a burst frozen melon usually.
by OisinMoran | 2025-09-24 23:03:15+00:00
It's not bro science, and the number I gave is actually less than the standard recommendation of 1g/lb of bodyweight per day, which you can see explained here [0].

Most people should be doing some form of resistance training, so not sure how this can be "barely relevant for most people".

[0] https://youtu.be/LKyniPMgQ94
by mosura | 2025-09-24 23:03:39+00:00
Your relative masses are obviously exaggerated.

Showering uses hot water and you also must change clothes, which also require cleaning. If you are doing this twice per day in addition to someone using some other means of transportation there is a non trivial energy cost involved.

If the car propulsion is non fossil fuel based then the car wins because you are using much less water.
by roamerz | 2025-09-24 23:04:03+00:00
I have a 20 ton Takeuchi and I don’t recall any feedback in the controls at all. The feedback I use is from the seat and sounds of the machine - well besides of course visual of course.

I cannot imagine this being useful to me unless the virtual operators cab closely mimicked an actual machine. It would have to have audio from the machine and be on a platform that tilted relative to the real thing. It would also need 270 degrees of monitors with a virtual mirror to see behind. On the front monitor, minimally, would need the to see vertically up and down too.

I also imagine all of this would be more useful to seasoned operators who can do most things on excavators in their sleep (definitely not me lol)
by jicea | 2025-09-24 23:04:08+00:00
I'm sorry I must be really tired I don't understand certains animations when playing programs: in the first program, the 3rd instruction is 'PRINTI $0'. The instruction description is "print the integer stored in $a to the console". We have a first animation, a 0 that goes to the console, and a second animation, a 0 that comes from memory... Is the order right? What does represent the second animation? I must miss something obvious here....

Would be super cool if we could run programs step by step also!
by tyre | 2025-09-24 23:05:08+00:00
How will they make money? Or is this always meant to be OSS community supported?

The challenge is that people have to get paid and infrastructure to build things costs money. Looks like there are only two people full-time at the company right now, though even then eventually they’ll need some revenue stream.

I love this project, but to have confidence that it stays that way it would be nice to see how they’ll replace they’ll stay afloat.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-24 23:05:12+00:00
Scraping was a thing before LLMs, there's a whole separate arms race around this for regular competition and "industrial espionage" reasons. I'm not really sure why model training would become a noticeable fraction of scrapping activity - there's only few players on the planet that can afford to train decent LLMs in the first place, and they're not going to re-scrape the content they already have ad infinitum.
by at_compile_time | 2025-09-24 23:05:15+00:00
We must be working from different definitions of efficient.

Yes, the CCP can say jump and expect their corporations to do so, but when everyone in a modern economy jumps at the same time, massive oversupply is the result. More market-based economies are also prone to similar overproduction when everyone gets caught up in the same mania (see AI datacenters), but investors will eventually stop lighting their money on fire when it becomes clear that the returns aren't there. Chinese companies, on the other hand, will just keep jumping until the CCP decides that they are done jumping.

Our feedback loop is geared towards only doing things that provide a return on investment. Their feedback loop has things like social stability and global competitiveness as competing goals to actually doing productive work.

Yes, they are able to accomplish a tremendous amount when they set their minds to it, but doing a tremendous amount more of something than there is actual demand is waste, the opposite of efficiency.

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/china-is-sending-its-...
by SchemaLoad | 2025-09-24 23:05:44+00:00
It's extremely expensive to get a physical space these days, there are no old warehouses or cheap community centers where you can just run a community event. They cost thousands of dollars to rent for a day, so anything short of a ticketed event or selling lots of alcohol is not viable.

The places that do still have a physical location are often almost grandfathered in where the organisation bought the land decades ago and now pulls in enough from investments to continue perpetually, but could not afford to buy or rent the space at market rate today.
by ninkendo | 2025-09-24 23:06:30+00:00
Or to make “concatenate” more physical, divide an area into 12, one for each month in order, then in each area, people sort themselves.

This is similar to the best design we have for the fastest way to board a plane: take people in a dozen or so “chunks”, then have each chunk stand in a sorting area atop a diagram of the airplane, one chunk at a time. A group enters the area and sorts themselves by standing near the place on the diagram where their seat is, then boards the plane in line. As each chunk boards, they’re already in the right order so that nobody is blocking anyone while trying to stuff their overhead luggage.

I’m not sure if any company has implemented the system but there was some test a company did of a bunch of boarding techniques and it was the most efficient.
by elliotto | 2025-09-24 23:06:39+00:00
If a multi-agent game is played in which each agent grows proportionally to its current size, isn't the end result that small agents are eaten by big agents, and at the end you have one big agent? Ie the end state of Monopoly? In practice, systems crack apart by the time there's only a few agents left.

But it must be a wild ride to live while these cracks start to show. It probably looks like the greatest living mathematician making stream of thought tweets about how there aren't any small agents left.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-09-24 23:07:41+00:00
> there would be an added pressure on the pharma industry to innovate in antibiotic development by accelerating the loss of existing antibiotic efficacy through the evolution of resistance

You're joking, right?

Total antibiotic resistance is what we're trying to minimise, remember. You're proposing to achieve that in the long term by making it worse in the short term, but the only way that makes sense is if there is actually an abundance of new antibiotics "out there" waiting to be discovered, and the binding constraint currently limiting their development is that pharmaceutical companies can't be bothered researching them. But that is obviously not true -- steadily growing resistance has raised alarm for decades, and any pharma company that could produce a genuinely new antibiotic today would make immediate bank.

IOW, the incentives are already there and they aren't helping, so why take the extra step of making things deliberately worse?
by tstrimple | 2025-09-24 23:07:53+00:00
For some reason my daughters love to use my decent knives to cut food on top of ceramic plates and they frequently get tomato crushing dull. I bought an overpriced sharpener that had excellent reviews (from actual knife sharpeners not just Amazon customer reviews) that I think may be a counterfeit from Amazon. I think I just need to learn to sharpen well with stones and hide my knives better.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-24 23:08:01+00:00
I've worked at burying fiber. It's a LOT easier to place and bury vs a water line. Fiber lines are a lot smaller and they don't have to be trenched in. That means you can run a fiber line under driveways without doing almost any damage. You can also trench in fiber lines in a fairly non-destructive manner that mostly just leaves a small scar in the grass.

Water lines can't be put in that way because PVC pipe isn't flexable. Ditto for gas.

That's the reason you might see more ISP competition and lines placed but you aren't seeing competition with your sewage or water provider.

If you've ever seen a company do water line work, you know they had to dig up and repave every single driveway the line was buried under. It also takes a lot longer time.

Hence the reason I talked about water providers and not fiber providers. You have similar problems putting in new waterlines as you would expanding an airport (only much smaller and easier to overcome).
by detreatsie | 2025-09-24 23:08:23+00:00
This reminds me of the old dusty adage:

"To him that hath, more shall be given and to him that hath not, more shall be taken away"

I suppose it was more popular in seemingly simpler times when the playing field was more even and the players more evenly matched and distributed. But here we are in the future, and that game seems to have been concluded.

I myself rather preferred the view from the shoulders of giants than the undersides of their feet.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-24 23:08:40+00:00
When I search for "midjourney" without an adblocker a bunch of times, I'm getting:

- No ads, with correct midjourney.com as the top result, about half the time

- A legit ad for midjourney.com with the title "Your Imagination, Unlocked", the other half the time. It's the only ad, and the correct midjourney.com is also still directly below it as the first organic result

So both seem fine for me. I've never seen ads on Google with the kind of formatting shown by OP either.

Obviously everybody's search experience is different, based on geography, profile, who else is running ads for those keywords, Google runs different formatting experiences as A/B testing, etc.
by impossiblefork | 2025-09-24 23:08:42+00:00
I think, if one wants to inform people, one should not claim things that require accepting the reasoning without thought.

So even if the NYT article weren't propaganda and all the claims were correct, it would still be problematic, since writing it in this way, effectively claims that things that look like propaganda are legitimate journalism and totally normal.

So even if it were correct, someone who reads it and begins to accept articles of the same kind has been brought into a state of not being to reason critically about reality, and creating that cannot ever be ethical journalism.
by wyldfire | 2025-09-24 23:08:52+00:00
The truth is much more subtle than "nonexistent" IMO [1].

Clearly it's a priority because the support for ChromeOS/android support is a big headline this year.

[1] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-10-concept-snapdrag...

Also worth noting that not all the bits needing support are inside of the Snapdragon, so specific vendor support from Dell, Lenovo etc is required.
by kemayo | 2025-09-24 23:09:04+00:00
> That seems like a really strange way of putting it.

I think it's a fair summary of what I understand your overall position to be. Specifically:

> This incorrectly assumes that an argument was being made. I already said: "I think you misunderstood the purpose of the post, which was simply to highlight the latest abomination, not to make a larger argument."

This is just "I'm not making an argument that they're merging, I'm stating it as an underlying assumption" which, again, distinction-without-a-difference.

It seems reasonable to, in this comment section over here, talk about the broader point of your opening assumption in the post. I don't have to accept your priors to talk about it, particularly not when the audience I was talking to was "readers of Hacker News, who may not have even considered this are-the-OSes-merging question before".

I don't think me disagreeing with you about the validity of your arguments violates any HN guidelines, though dang is certainly free to correct me.

Plus, even if I were to grant said underlying assumption as an inviolable topic that cannot be breached in discussion of this specific post, I'd then disagree that this is an example of it.

> Well, I didn't submit my post to HN. I'm not sure I wanted it to be on the front page.

I don't think I've ever seen you in HN comments for one of your posts not being somewhat-upset about people's responses to them. It's not the worst policy to avoid reading social media discussion about your posts, if it's making you unhappy.

> You don't have to darken the video in order to achieve brighter controls.

Sorry, I was apparently unclear about what my issue with Sequoia was, so let me rephrase. It's not the brightness, it's the outline. When I look at the Sequoia screenshot, I find my visual processing goes through two steps -- first I notice the overall button shapes, and second I identify their contents. Brightening the icons in Tahoe probably does help, but it's the reduction of the visual impact of the button-borders that really speeds my comprehension up.

> The other issue, I would say the main issue, is that the controls remain on top of the video for several seconds after you're done manipulating them.

They vanish instantly when you move the cursor off the video, which I reflexively do anyway because I don't want my cursor covering something I'm watching. (And in full-screen, the only time you couldn't do this, the background-darkening doesn't happen.)
by electroly | 2025-09-24 23:09:09+00:00
Surface Pro 11 owner here. SQL Server won't install on ARM without hacks. Hyper-V does not support nested virtualization on ARM. Most games are broken with unplayable graphical glitches with Qualcomm video drivers, but fortunately not all. Most Windows recovery tools do not support ARM: no Media Creation Tool, no Installation Assistant, and recovery drives created on x64 machines aren't compatible [EDIT: see reply, I might be mistaken on this]. Creation of a recovery drive for a Snapdragon-based Surface (which you have to do from a working Snapdragon-based Surface) requires typing your serial code into a Microsoft website, then downloading a .zip of drivers that you manually overwrite onto the recovery media that Windows 11 creates for you.

Day-to-day, it's all fine, but I may be returning to x64 next time around. I'm not sure that I'm receiving an offsetting benefit for these downsides. Battery life isn't something that matters for me.
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-24 23:09:17+00:00
In my opinion, aside from in vino, veritas, there aren’t any.

The most common answer you’ll get is ‘social lubricant’, which I’ll admit is somewhat true in groups of strangers or acquaintances.

However, most people can use alcohol responsibly and enjoy themselves without harming others (or themselves). Most of the things we do or put in our bodies have risks associated.
by icedchai | 2025-09-24 23:10:18+00:00
I felt 2012 - 2015 Intel Macs were pretty decent: the first Retina MacBook Pro, the iMac 5K, for example. It definitely went down hill with the Touch Bar and the MacBook Pros with the Core i9 chips. Those seemed like they were constantly throttling, fans sounded like a jet engine...
by amatecha | 2025-09-24 23:10:32+00:00
Had to dig up this link, 1999 review[0]:

"Google (www.google.com) is a pure search engine - no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit."

[0] https://i.redd.it/uea6u7c4oje31.jpg
by svat | 2025-09-24 23:10:47+00:00
For what it's worth, when you view a Google search results page, part of the page is populated by ads (results come from the Google Ads teams) and part of it by search results (results come from the Google Search team, and unaffected by anything to do with ads).

The post points out a problem with the fraction that is allocated to Ads, but pretty sure that's not "everything that's wrong with Google Search" (if true, it would actually be an endorsement of the quality of the organic search results, which I doubt is the intent).
by tinyhouse | 2025-09-24 23:10:50+00:00
I don't have a problem with this in general, I do have a problem when they deceive users, which happens often. If I search for Amazon and get Temu ad - that's OK. But often when I search for X they will show sponsored results that pretend to be that X. This is esp true with apps on their play store, which is something fairly new. I barely use Google Search these days so don't know how bad it is with search.

This is a pattern you see often. A product gets to a point where it's hard to grow revenue as the market expects, so the company does everything they can to squeeze more revenue.
by elliotto | 2025-09-24 23:11:37+00:00
Your example of firms setting up in the desert or wilderness assumes there is some desert or wilderness left to expand into. This is Marx's concepts of the expansion of capital. Marx argues that with nowhere to expand it begins to eat itself.

You posit that the situation has a political cause, but I think this is just what happens when a system requiring exponential growth reaches the limits of its bounding box.
by cyberax | 2025-09-24 23:11:46+00:00
> Do you really think that Apple would alienate the big creative industries like Hollywood movie studios who use macOS?

"We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company" skit perfectly applies to Apple these days ( https://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76aphonecompany.phtml ).

A middle manager from Apple will easily toss all of Hollywood under the bus if it gets them a checkbox "shipped new toggle switch experience" and a promotion. And the upper management at Apple long since stopped caring about that.
by matt8p | 2025-09-24 23:12:37+00:00
Hi folks, we've been working on a CLI tool to programatically test and eval MCP servers. Looking to get some initial feedback on the project.

Let's say you're testing PayPal MCP. You can write a test case prompt "Create a refund order for order 412". The test will run the prompt and check if the right PayPal tool was called.

The CLI helps with: 1. Test different prompts and observe how LLMs interact with your MCP server. The CLI shows a trace of the conversation. 2. Examine your server's tool name / description quality. See where LLMs are hallucinating using your server. 3. Analyze your MCP server's performance, like token consumption, and performance with different models. 4. Benchmarking your MCP server's performance to catch future regressions.

The nice thing about CLI is that you can run these tests iteratively! Please give it a try, and would really appreciate your feedback.
Do YC after you graduate: Early decision for students
by snowmaker | 2025-09-24 23:12:38+00:00
We announced something today at YC called Early Decision, specifically for students. It's a relatively small change, but we thought people might be interested to hear the thinking behind it, even if you don't happen to be a student graduating this year.

A year ago, YC went from running 2 batches / year to 4 batches / year. We did this because we wanted to give founders more flexibility to do YC at the right time for them. It seems to have worked - a lot of founders have told us that they were only able to do YC because the new schedule fit their timeline.

Early Decision was driven by the same motivation. We talked to a lot of college students, and we learned that most graduating seniors interview for their after-graduation job in the fall of their senior year. For the ones who are interested in doing their own startup, this creates a bit of a dilemma. If they don't interview for jobs in the fall in order to apply to YC later, they're risking that they might be left without any options.

We created Early Decision so that they can apply to YC at the same time they're doing recruiting for regular jobs, the fall of their senior year. If they get into YC, they can confidently turn down their other job offers without worrying they'll be left without anything.

Note: this isn't really a new idea. We've quietly done this from time to time since 2018, but we didn't create a dedicated flow in the application software for it, so most people didn't realize it was an option. Hopefully by productizing and popularizing it, we'll make it easier for college seniors to start companies.
by imiric | 2025-09-24 23:12:51+00:00
I suppose this helps with managing sessions specifically during testing, but IMO the "disgusting" curl command looks fine to me. The UX of iteratively running commands to change request values instead of changing a single curl command seems worse to me. With the curl approach you can see exactly what is being sent at all times, you can press `v` (or `C-x C-e` if you're a masochist) to edit the command in $EDITOR, and the command remains in your shell history for quick lookup.

I think that all these tools that try to replace curl for the sake of improving UX miss the mark in some way. Just use curl, and wrap it in some aliases or shell scripts if you must. curl is brilliantly designed, already has great UX, and is available everywhere.
by seec | 2025-09-24 23:13:03+00:00
Almost all "successful" people in white collar jobs are just better sociopaths than the ones below them. That's pretty much it.

Hard work is somewhat necessary at the start to buy you legitimacy (aka school & diploma) but it's not really a big difference maker after that.

In fact, I would say that if you work hard and produce great work this pretty much guarantees that you'll never evolve past a certain level.

I think that's actually the major difference maker for rich people: they got there that way and demonstrate how things work to their children who integrate the concept intuitively.
by throwaway287391 | 2025-09-24 23:13:04+00:00
I really doubt it's that, as opposed to the maintenance cost of an extra flow to a boarding pass. Or perhaps just a perceived complexity/annoyance cost when something breaks in the desktop flow here and there.

I'd think it's only maybe 5-10% of customers at most who both use desktop over mobile to get their boarding pass and use an ad-blocker on desktop. And honestly I don't remember ever seeing an ad (even on Ryanair) when getting my boarding pass on mobile. OTOH I distinctly remember seeing many giant ads on printed boarding passes, most often on printed boarding passes brandished by other customers (usually printed in full color!). I'd think that's hugely more valuable as advertising real estate than the iota of additional data they get to collect on a few adblock users who have been forced to use mobile.