MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toast0 | 2025-09-23 15:15:52+00:00
Put the sim farm stuff in a non-metalic box, wired to the 12v system, earn some extra money while driving a delivery job.

Assuming you have carrier diversity on your sims, you could likely manage good enough backhaul over the sims for the control layer. At least for grey market SMS; grey market voip might need more consistent networking. Grey market VPN, eh... variable conditions might help customer traffic be considered mobile.
by xphos | 2025-09-23 15:16:14+00:00
I appreciate not being defeatist just because people might be homeless because of drugs or mental issues. I agree that there is a good chance they might destroy a room but I think SROs as a step up from shelters would be respected by like 80% of the people in that situation at that point you can start to price in and adjust the costs of things. Common area's can be managed reducing the overall risk not to zero but even in full appartements you can get really bad tenants that can pay.

My uncle once had a tenant smear feces on the wall before leaving it was nasty but that person was homeless and I don't think think that had mental illness beyond having a break down. I think they lost there job and it was a hard time for them. Still the wall was nasty.

Ultimately SROs do not solve homelessness hence the mitigating it factor if it solves 30% of the homeless problem that would be amazing
by Arnt | 2025-09-23 15:16:15+00:00
Not necessarily, no.

You can pick and choose your comparisons, and make an incease appear or not.

Take weather forecasts as an example. Weather forecasting uses massively powerful computers today. If you compare that forecasting with the lack of forecasts two hundred years ago there obviously is an increase in power usage (no electricity was used then) or there obviously isn't (today's result is something we didn't have then, so it would be an apples-to-nothing comparison).

If you say "the GPUs are using power now that they weren't using before" you're implicitly doing the former kind of comparison. Which is obviously correct or obviously wrong ;)
by miladyincontrol | 2025-09-23 15:16:32+00:00
More nuanced than general 'rudeness', I think we're more in a time of problematic selfishness, ever since covid a lot of people have been living with the type of self-importance you typically only stereotyped with the ultra wealthy.

Its not the trivial being on their phone or playing their music too loud in public, but behaviours simplest put as an absolute disregard for others around them. Social expectations and rules are for others, not them.
by jjk166 | 2025-09-23 15:17:18+00:00
Assuming AI stays on the trajectory they think it will doesn't mean they assume it will be infinite exponential growth. If you know for a fact it's sigmoid curve, presumably the path you think it will continue on is the sigmoid curve. The trillion dollar question is does performance plateau before or after AI can do the really exciting stuff, and while I may not agree with it myself the more optimistic position is not an unreasonable belief.

Also you can most certainly fit a sigmoid function only from past data points. Any projection will obviously have error, but your error at any given point should be smaller than for an exponential function with the same sampling.
by fragmede | 2025-09-23 15:17:47+00:00
> The directory where you ran the command.

I love that mode in Atuin. I can never remember which of the run commands to use between make/cmake/bazel/yarn/npm/uv and hitting ctrl-r twice and scrolling up is better than having to root around in a readme, which I may or may not have bothered to write for my future self.

http://atuin.sh/

McFly sounds interesting! Added it to my list of things to investigate. Does it do multi-machine syncing?
by kinnth | 2025-09-23 15:18:09+00:00
I really love reading the wisdom of older people. Society really dismisses everyone over 80, but I find myself having deep interesting connections with a few people much older than myself (38).

Something society always neglects is that everyone goes through the same thoughts time and time again. We all make mistakes and we learn our own way, but when someone's 90, they really have done a lot of it all before. Even if we think everything is different, human's really are very similar. We all have emotions, we all have desires and we are all deep down social creatures. So I would only encourage more people to step out and try to make an honest, deep, friendship with someone a lot older than you. It can really help give you guidance and perspective.
by js8 | 2025-09-23 15:18:37+00:00
I found this video https://youtu.be/IQvREfKsVXM interesting, especially because it mentions couple of AI studies/papers that argue in favor of much smaller (and more efficient) models. (And I have never heard of them.)

I suspect that yes, for AGI much smaller models will eventually prove to be sufficient. I think in 20 years everyone will have an AI agent in their phone, busily exchanging helpful information with other AI agents of people who you trust.

I think the biggest problem with tech companies is they effectively enclosed and privatized the social graph. I think it should be public, i.e. one shouldn't have to go through a 3rd party to make an inquiry for how much someone trusts a given source of information, or where the given piece of information originated. (There is more to be written about that topic but it's only marginally related to AI.)
by Ntrails | 2025-09-23 15:18:48+00:00
> a double-figure-8 (the standard rope<->harness knot) will break at around 14kn

My understanding (based on some training aeons ago) is that the figure 8 knots prevalence for tying in is not due to that strength - but instead because it is easy to check, hard to back through/untie during usage, and strong when mis-tied (ie errors are made and not caught).
by AlexandrB | 2025-09-23 15:18:58+00:00
These were almost certainly family members, not strangers. Obviously you would care after your child/father/grandmother if they were infirm regardless of economic system. And even that is far from universal. Indigenous Amazon societies still practice infanticide[1] in times of scarcity or for infants that are infirm.

[1] https://www.scielo.br/j/csp/a/kPn9cHW4RWKz94CjxDBw3ds/?forma...
Show HN: Workflow Snapshot and Replay – Capture and replay your VS Code sessions
by ArslantasM | 2025-09-23 15:18:58+00:00
I built a small extension for VS Code and Cursor: Workflow Snapshot & Replay .

It records your coding session step by step and generates a Markdown “Workflow Report” at the end. Key features:

Tracks code edits, terminal commands, and file operations

Produces a shareable .md session log

Lets you replay the same steps in another project

Potential use cases include:

Teaching & tutorials (students can follow each step)

Debugging (trace what was done during an investigation)

Auditing & code reviews (see who changed what, and when)

Marketplace link: Workflow Snapshot & Replay .

I’d love feedback on whether this could be useful in your workflow, and what other scenarios or features you’d find valuable.
by patapong | 2025-09-23 15:18:58+00:00
While I don't disagree with your overall point, I don't think crypto is a good counterpoint here. Crypto is conditioned on using more and more energy to secure the network. As the value increases, more mining hardware can be thrown at it, which increases security adn thus value - there is no upper bound.

AI on the other hand aims at both increased quality but also reduced energy consumption. While there are certainly developments that favour the latter at the cost of the latter (e.g. reasoning models), there are also indications that companies are finding ways to make the models more efficient while maintaining quality. For example, the moves from GPT-4 -> GPT-4-turbo and 4o -> 5 were speculated to be in the service of efficiency. Hopefully the market forces that make computing cheaper and more energy effective will also push AI to become more energy effective over time.
by 542354234235 | 2025-09-23 15:19:03+00:00
If memory serves, something like 2% of break ins use "lock picking" which includes shimming a sliding door, a very low skill attack. Criminals just don't use high skill attacks to burgle homes. Probably a combination of most crimes being opportunistic, most criminals doing them being low skilled themselves, and people like us not being rich enough to move into the level of being targeted by the minuscule percent of high skill burglars.
by alistairSH | 2025-09-23 15:19:13+00:00
Is "you know a guy" code for "I'm that guy"?

And yeah, the battery prices keep coming down. It's really amazing to watch in real time. A 100ah 12V battery used to be ~$1000, now it's a fraction of that. And 400ah 12V batteries are becoming common.

But, the rest of the electrical system isn't cheap... solar panels, MPPT controller(s), fuse panel and things, control panel, etc. If you need 120V, add an inverter. If you want 120V AC, that inverter needs to be pretty big. Etc. Probably looking at $10k+ for my dream system (granted, that's down from $20k 5 years ago).
by everdrive | 2025-09-23 15:19:13+00:00
>Nothing forces the rebound effect to dominate.

Human nature does. We're like a gas, and we fill to expand the space we're in. If technology uses less power, in general, we'll just use more of it until we hit whatever natural limits are present. (usually cost, or availability) I'm not sure I'm a proponent of usage taxes, but they definitely have the right idea; people will just keep doing more things until it becomes too expensive or they are otherwise restricted. The problem you run into is how the public reacts when "they" are trying to force a bunch of limitations on you that you didn't previously need to live with. It's politically impossible, even in a case where it's the right choice.
by some_guy_nobel | 2025-09-23 15:19:27+00:00
Please stray from the meta "why am I downvoted!". It's low-effort, reddit-esque commentary that only serves yourself. You can edit your other comment.

You're being downvoted because you're not responding to the comment in earnest. The comment says,

"You could do it for the intrinsic satisfaction of being a decent human and creating a better world."

Obviously, that implies good intention. Your contrarian take sidesteps this for no real reason: you present no argument other than being contrarian for contrarian-sake. Maybe try explaning why you think the logic is flawed.
by lapcat | 2025-09-23 15:19:28+00:00
> A "little indie developer" hasn't been able to write a web browser in several decades.

IMO that's a major problem.

> The fact is, all three major browser implementations are open-source and that has allowed any company to come in and release or embed their own browser with minimal effort.

And they're all beholden to Google's decisions, for example to wreck the web browser extension API. Of course you can fork the code, but forks become increasingly difficult to maintain as they diverge significantly from the original code. Google can make things extremely difficult for forks.
by xphos | 2025-09-23 15:19:32+00:00
Yes for a reason, perhaps we got the regulations wrong and they need to be looked at. I don't think its an economic non-starter just a complex issue. SROs existed before precisely because they were economically viable. Ultimately we need to reform zoning (in the US) significantly because it has major issues related to local power having inverted incentives to solving zoning and housing concerns at the state level
by stackskipton | 2025-09-23 15:20:57+00:00
Little of Column A and Little of Column B.

I have family member suffering from extreme mental illness. He is likely on the streets somewhere, we don't know where because we had no choice but to abandon him to save ourselves. United States makes it extremely difficult to force treatment for someone who can't be making these decisions on their own ever. He ended up in this cycle. Mental Health Episode, Drugs, Law Enforcement interactions trying to get drugs (Robbing people), some minor help, slightly better, stops medications because side effects, repeat.

Funding it is always crazy expensive and in United States with crappy social safety net, it's really hard to find funding and politically, people don't want to fund it because "I'm barely affording rent and you want to raise my taxes to pay for them? Hell no."
by leakycap | 2025-09-23 15:21:31+00:00
I won't name the company, but I was on a team in the late 90s and into the early 00s that was looking at ways to swing-arm, rotate, or otherwise move engine blocks/transmissions away from occupants during a crash in small vehicles.

We found many ways to accomplish getting the engine out of the way, but even swinging a huge hunk of metal 3 feet to either side of the car had so many risks for additional injury or accident potential.

Throwing part of your vehicle and causing even property damage would be a pain for insurers and courts to figure out. I don't think this is remotely viable.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-23 15:21:36+00:00
I really don't know why are you are getting so worked up about this.

At a macro level, the majority of Asian diasporas in the Western world are in North America, Australia, the UK, and New Zealand.

All I'm saying is for the majority of Asians, mainland Europe just doesn't have the same pull factor that the Anglophone has because we have never had a significant population in Europe.

It's the same way a management consultant with roots in Turkiye or Morocco will be biased to work in Frankfurt instead of NY simply because there's a massive pre-existing community no matter where you go in Germany and they will be close to family in Turkiye.
by robenkleene | 2025-09-23 15:21:55+00:00
- Recursive directory tab completion isn't viable for many key use cases (it'll hang with both monorepos and networked volumes). The only thing that makes zoxide viable is that it only matches against visited directories. (Similarly fzf doesn't have much of a relation here besides encouraging recursive fuzzy matching, which I tend to avoid because it doesn't scale to complex directory structures.)

- Zoxide is probably sponsored by Warp, I doubt they have a relation beyond that, I'm not sure but they don't have much of a synergy beyond both being written in Rust. (The main point of relevance here is Warp is venture funded.)

- Zoxide having a database outside of the shell is actually a huge advantage to me, because it makes it easy to access your database outside of the shell (e.g., Zoxide integration in Vim).
by dh2022 | 2025-09-23 15:21:56+00:00
I think Western leaders are clear headed enough to understand that sanctions do not cause people to raise against their leaders. This has been known since bombing Germany and Japan in WWII (a different, more violent kind of sanctions). However sanctions weaken the adversary technologically, economically, and ultimately militarily. This is a pragmatic reason to enforce sanctions on the adversary.
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2025-09-23 15:22:46+00:00
The FCC is allowed to enforce a certain morality. You actually agree with me here, since we both cited obscenity as a clear example.

I also assert that the morality being enforced by the FCC [in a given time period] will fall in line with the morality of the rulers of [that time period]. That is a descriptive statement.

Which part am I wrong about?
by wongarsu | 2025-09-23 15:22:50+00:00
I don't think he's flaunting wealth per se. He doesn't claim to be wealthy. If anything he claims the opposite, always talking about how he immediately reinvests everything and keeps barely anything for himself or as a reserve.

But he is definetly flaunting something. I'd maybe label it as flaunting generosity, or the ability to change people's lifes
by xp84 | 2025-09-23 15:22:53+00:00
I’m pretty sure this could fill a need for some people, especially given how different it is to operate in containerized environments compared to the old Linux server cron situation.

It seems like there would be an advantage here that you should be advertising more prominently if you do it, and if you’re not doing it, maybe consider it:

Your application should be able to offer great visibility (and alerting, etc) to whether the tasks were acknowledged, and potentially whether they were successful (depending on whether they are so long-running that you don’t want to tie up a thread waiting for a super long HTTP request).
by timschmidt | 2025-09-23 15:23:12+00:00
GPU compute in datacenters has been a thing for at least 20 years. Many of the top500 have included significant GPU clusters for that long. There's nothing computationally special about AI compared to other workloads, and in fact it seems to lend itself to multiplexing quite efficiently - it's possible to process thousands of prompts for a negligable memory bandwidth increase over a single prompt.

AI is still very near the beginning of the optimization process. We're still using (relatively) general purpose processors to run it. Dedicated accelerators are beginning to appear. Many software optimizations will be found. FPGAs and ASICs will be designed and fabbed. Process nodes will continue to shrink. Moore will continue to exponentially decrease costs over time as with all other workloads.
by cjs_ac | 2025-09-23 15:23:13+00:00
The discussion was prompted by an article on sharehouses being banned in US cities, which prompted comparison to HMOs in the UK. One of those comparisons suggested that HMOs are a recent phenomenon and are a cause in the shortage of family homes in the UK. I replied to this by arguing that a shortage of family homes was also present in the 1970s, and that overcrowded housing for working families has been common throughout British history. You've replied to this with your personal experiences about building a home in the 1970s and dealing with building regulations.

The discussion about the effects of UK HMOs on wider housing availability is indeed a peripheral discussion of limited interest to most. Your comment, while of interest to me, was only tangentially related to my comment. I'm not arguing that you shouldn't have written it - as I said, I found it interesting - I'm just pointing out that it doesn't flow well from what came before it.
by concinds | 2025-09-23 15:23:31+00:00
1. "Lil' indie dev can make an engine" is irrelevant in terms of standards or browser/engine marketshare unless he can obtain significant browser/engine marketshare. He can't. So framing the current state of the browser engine market/"monopolies" as a barriers-to-entry problem with engine/standards complexity is completely nonsensical. Especially when engines are fully open-source.

2. Super-simple engines that any indie can solo-code means disregarding 95% of feature demands by web developers (your audience, remember?), even basic things like encryption, video/audio streaming, chatting, conferencing, that users (your "actual" audience) expects and demands. It means killing basically every part of the web that isn't text documents, which means turning everything else into native apps beholden to their own monopolies, that are mostly crappy (contractor-made, less sandboxed/secure than on the current web). That's also nonsensical, if your objective is "consumers". And it means making every company's revenue dependent on Apple/Google/MS instead of a web domain they control.

Really you should examine your assumptions and logic far more thoroughly.
by remus | 2025-09-23 15:23:49+00:00
I don't think there's any criticism of the (remarkable) things which have been achieved so far, more the breathless hype about how AI is going to solve all our current and future problems if we just keep shovelling money and energy in. Predicting the future is hard, and I don't think Sam is particularly better at knowing what's going to happen in ten years time than anyone else.
by x0x0 | 2025-09-23 15:24:16+00:00
Eh... the author is not operating in good faith. Just for starters, this little jab, re web usb:

> This is far from the Hacker News caricature of "letting any web page talk to all of your USB devices."

The author is a meretricious liar. OSes do not randomly download code and run it. More importantly, unlike the author's employers (google and microsoft), they are not in the habit of allowing randoms to pay 1/1000 of a cent per install to run their spyware if you don't use adblock.

Nobody comparing what code gets run on an OS to what code gets run in a browser (eg every time you load a web page) is operating in anything approaching good faith. The risk exposures are nothing alike.
by lossolo | 2025-09-23 15:24:23+00:00
SVG didn’t hand ASML a magic EUV license. ASML bought SVG lithography two decades ago to expand in dry/immersion optical litho and US market access. EUV matured later. SVG had momentum in DUV and still couldn't sustain at 193nm while EUV is an order of magnitude more complex. ASML builds the whole scanner and owns the integration IP that makes the parts actually produce yield at scale. The light source matters but without ASML's stages, metrology, optics integration, contamination control, control software etc etc you've got a science project instead of a tool a fab can run. ASML won because the integration problem beat almost everyone else.
by Pannoniae | 2025-09-23 15:24:56+00:00
You're right, it kinda depends on the situation itself! And the downstream effects. Although, I'd argue that the one you're talking about isn't really caused by AI itself, that's squarely a "I can't say no to the slop because they'll take my head off" problem. In healthy places, you would just say "hell no I'm not merging slop", just as you have previously said "no I'm not merging shit copypasted from stackoverflow".
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-09-23 15:24:57+00:00
That's my current, probably misguided hope. They couldn't justify getting the grid ready for electrical vehicles, but frame it as a way to make a bunch of money and everyone's going to jump on board.

Of course, the fact that xAI is throwing up gas turbines at their data centres seems to indicate that clean energy isn't a given.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-09-23 15:24:58+00:00
The term is used to differentiate content that end users see because it was boosted or a paid ad that the platform shows them due to payment instead of via engagement algorithms

Paid sponsorship is fine logically but isn’t usually used to describe UGC marketing. These are accounts that are set up to promote one brand, without any existing following, and without boosting the content - leaving it to be discovered organically.

(Paid sponsorship is usually used to describe promotion through someone’s existing following and is also usually communicated within the content as being a paid ad, though not necessarily. But even with paid sponsorship, it is a form of organic marketing per the use of this term when the content is not boosted and not being used for paid ads, it simply describes how the viewer is coming across it.)

I wouldn’t use the term paid sponsorship to describe how someone creates brand-focused new accounts and posts only about the brand in order to achieve organic virality, I don’t think that clearly communicates the strategy
by bilbo0s | 2025-09-23 15:24:59+00:00
He'll have no problem with that.

You can get your drinking water from a utility, or you can get bottled water. Guess which one he's gonna be selling?

And if you think for a second that the "utility" models will be trained on data as pristine as the data that the "bottled" models will be trained on, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. (The "utility" models will not even have any access to all of the "secret sauce" currently being hoarded inside these labs.)

Essentially we can all expect to go back to the Lexis-Google type dichotomy. You can go into court on Google searches, nothing's stopping you. But nearly everyone will pay for LexisNexis because they're not idiots and they actually want to compete.