MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bhickey | 2025-09-04 00:41:31+00:00
This is a blast from the past. I hadn't thought of elliptic in years.

At some point I should write up my roguelike recollections... maybe ten years ago, Ken Arnold was stopping by Boston. Haran, one of the other crawl devs, found out and drove all the way from New York to have coffee with us. All I really remember of that was Ken explaining that he added the food clock as a way of generically solving scumming.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-04 00:41:35+00:00
There's a sizable overlap between the anti-AI movement (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/) and self-identified socialists.

One thing that confuses me is that the anti-AI movement has adopted several talking points saying that nobody wants AI. (e.g. nobody wants it, the AI companies are pushing it on us, management is pushing it on us, it just creates low quality slop, the demand is fake, etc).

But if there's no demand, then there's no threat to jobs. On the other hand if there is a threat to jobs then there must be demand (since it competes with human labor in the job market). I'm not sure why they're taking this particular tactic, but it's going to lead to strange comment sections where people won't know how to stay on message as it becomes clearer that AI is impacting the labor force.

A lot of people intuitively imagine that to compete with humans there's some sort of 1:1 exchange ratio. But initially the calculus will be something like a 10 team with plus AI performs about on par with a 12 person team (or whatever the details work out to). So we will see AI impacting job numbers well before AI can do your entire job.
by lmm | 2025-09-04 00:41:55+00:00
> I always seem to have the map telling me how far it is to some temporary marker I placed months ago that I can't easily work out how to remove.

You can either tap the marker and tick it off, or use Menu -> Map markers if you can't find it. You can also use Menu -> Configure map and turn off Map markers completely.

> Also any time I do navigation, the Trip Recording plugin pops up as a sticky system notification even when I haven't enabled trip recording.

Hmm, it does pop up every time for me but dismissing it works.
by tptacek | 2025-09-04 00:42:05+00:00
I think it would be so difficult to convince me that a state-level adversary who has obtained persistent access to Netscreen's builds can't hide arbitrary backdoors that it isn't really worth hashing this out. I'm just going to point out again that the Netscreen attack didn't break the "NOBUS" property of Dual EC --- so far as we know, the Dual EC private keys have never leaked.
by alsetmusic | 2025-09-04 00:42:06+00:00
Agreed. This is a product I want to own. I've checked in a couple of times over the last year or so, but I genuinely have no use for it. I don't write by hand. When I do, my handwriting is terrible. Even I have trouble making sense of it.

It doesn't surprise me at all that they think there's a market for the device at this size (though the price is debatable), assuming it worked quite well. Sounds like that's a bit much to hope for, given OP's experience.

Edit: your => OP's
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-09-04 00:42:36+00:00
>The paper notes they did an adjustment for the end of ZIRP. I dont know enough econometrics to understand whether this adjustment was sufficient

Looking at the paper [0], they attempted to do it by regressing the number of jobs y_{c,q,t} at company c, time t, and "AI exposure quintile" q, with separate parameters jointly controlling for company/quintile (a), company/time (b) and quintile/time (g). This is in Equation 4.1, page 15, which I have simplified here:

log(y_{c,q,t}) ~ a_{c,q} + b_{c,t} + g_{q,t}

Any time-dependent effects (e.g. end of ZIRP/Section 174) that would equally affect all jobs at the company irrespective of how much AI exposure they have should be absorbed into b.

They normalized g with respect to October 2022 and quintile 1 (least AI exposure), and plotted the results for each age group and quintile (Figure 9, page 20). There is a pronounced decline that only starts in mid-2024 for quintiles 3, 4, and 5 in the youngest age group. The plots shown in the article are misleading, and are likely primarily a reflection of ZIRP, as you say. The real meat of the paper is Figure 9.

A potential flaw of this method is that ZIRP/Section 174 may have disproportionately affected junior positions with high AI exposure, e.g. software engineers. This would not be accounted for in b and would thus be reflected in g. It would be interesting to repeat this analysis excluding software engineers and other employees subject to Section 174.

[0] https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/...
by mwcz | 2025-09-04 00:42:43+00:00
Is it the case that these devices are converging on 16:9? I don't know about the supply chain, but there seems to be no lack of e-ink tablets at A5/A6 sizes and/or with better ratios than 16:9.

Remarkable has the roughly A6-sized Paper Pro, Kobo has three e-ink devices with styli and good screen ratios, and Supernote has models named A5 (and A5 x2) and A6 after the paper sizes. I think the options are quite good.
by tejohnso | 2025-09-04 00:43:08+00:00
It's describing the setting for a conspiracy theory. Multiple (in this case 2) people (in this case powerful ones) getting together and deciding that a certain outcome would be mutually beneficial.

And the second paragraph details the conspiracy is to work together to remove a certain type of employee in large numbers, so that AI tools have to be used in order to make up for that loss.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-09-04 00:43:28+00:00
I agree (as another RM2 user). It's great for writing stuff down, but for retrieval it's at best high-friction, sometimes just plain irritating.

If a workflow for exporting my remarkable notes as SVG to obsidian but then also running OCR over them so I can search through them (without converting them to editable text because that's usually a formatting nightmare) existed, I'd be so happy as it would solve the retrieval problem.
by al_borland | 2025-09-04 00:43:35+00:00
I was interested until I saw the price. For a lower price I’d probably risk it and see if/how it might integrate into my life. However, I think it has a high chance of failing to integrate, so $450 is too much to risk.

I say this as someone who bought a Daylight tablet for $700 and is now looking to sell it, since I didn’t fit anywhere and it just sits.
by rayiner | 2025-09-04 00:43:40+00:00
> The principle of proportionality comes to mind. Added to the fact that this admin has no respect for due process or providing a modicrum of info or evidence for anything else domestically let alone anything that occurs in foreign lands or waters. Is the penalty for trafficking cocaine in the US death by the way?

You’re mixing up concepts from two completely different legal domains. It doesn’t matter what the domestic criminal penalty is for drug trafficking, or what due process requires for imposing such a penalty, because those are domestic law concepts that simply do not apply to foreigners in international waters.

In general, non-state combatants are entitled to very few rights under the law of war compared to actual soldiers. https://www.clevelandcivilwarroundtable.com/an-uncivil-war-g... (“In relation to the ‘bushwhacker’ Dr. Lieber concluded airily that ‘the importance of writing on this subject is much diminished by the fact that the soldier generally decides these cases for himself. The most disciplined soldiers will execute on the spot an armed and murderous prowler found where he could have no business as a peaceful citizen.’”).
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-04 00:44:02+00:00
The paragraph about the inconvenience of cash resonates with me. It’s a pain to manage and easy to lose or get stolen. At least if I drop my wallet full of cards, in a couple of calls any fraudulent transactions will be voided and the cards turned useless, but stolen cash is just gone.

That’s not to discount its upsides but its downsides shouldn’t be handwaived away either.
by tick_tock_tick | 2025-09-04 00:44:07+00:00
Just your GPU not counting the rest of the system costs 4 years of subscription and with the sub you get the new models where your existing hardware will likely not be able to run it at all.

It's closer to $3k to build a machine that you can reasonable use which is 12 whole years of subscription. It's not hard to see why no one is doing it.
by gerdesj | 2025-09-04 00:44:29+00:00
Trends take time to work out.

"AI" dives in and disrupts and then it turns out that AI isn't too I. The disrupt phase where HR dumps staff based on dubious promises and directions from above takes a few months. The gradual re-hiring takes way longer than the dumping phase and will not trigger thresholds.

I've spent quite a while with "AI". LLMs do have a use but dumping staff is not one of the best ideas I've seen. I get that a management team are looking for trimmings but AI isn't the I they are looking for.

In my opinion (MD of a small IT focused company) LLMs are a better slide rule. I have several slide rules and calculators and obviously a shit load of computers. Mind you my slide rules can't access the internet, on the other hand my slide rules always work, without internets or power.
by keeda | 2025-09-04 00:44:46+00:00
My point is they did choose to compete, and still are. Bing is literally the only real competitor to Google Search. Your point seems to be they didn't spend enough money to be competitive. My point is, it simply did not make business sense to do so. Let's put some simplified numbers out there to illustrate.

MSFT has spent 100 billion over the years on Bing.

And Google spent more than half of that amount in 2024 alone on traffic acquisition costs. Which it can afford to do because it has a monopoly. Which it has because it produces better results. Which it does because they have all the data. Which they ensure only they can get because they pay for it (and the cycle repeats.)

For comparison, Microsoft's cash reserves are 96 billion. So their choice really was to spend more than half of their cash reserves in one year just to compete only on traffic acquisition costs in the distant hope of getting enough data to break that cycle. Which is likely still not enough data because they don't have the browser monopoly or mobile presence to harvest user data on an industrial scale.

So, no: Microsoft does not have all the money or data required.

I would say the more realistic story is that Microsoft knew, as proven by the trial, that the deck was anti-competitively stacked against them (and who would know better than Microsoft?) and simply did the best they could to compete to the point of positive ROI.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-04 00:44:48+00:00
In the bitemporal model, both system and valid times are half-open intervals, and both the preceding and following interval can either have a different value or no value. Using only start times means that while records can be updated in either time stream, they cannot be logically deleted (in transaction time) or invalidated (in valid time) once they exist. There are databases where this assumption is valid, but in general it is problematic.
by Maulik_hacker | 2025-09-04 00:45:27+00:00
I built Startup Solve not as a side hustle, but as a mirror of my obsession with entrepreneurship. It’s more than code lines, more than a SaaS — it was my late nights, my experiments, my first taste of building something real.

But here’s the truth: I’m moving forward, faster than Solve can carry me right now. Instead of letting it sit idle, I’d rather hand it to someone who can scale it into what it deserves to be.

That’s why I’m putting Solve up for sale at 50% of its value. Not because it’s weak. Because I want it to live on, with someone who believes in execution over excuses. The only condition? It needs to close before Sept 7.

If you’ve ever wanted to pick up a SaaS with a soul — not a faceless micro-acquisition, but something built with intent and vision — this is it.

I’ll be transparent, I’ll be fast, and I’ll make sure the handoff is clean.

Startup Solve was my beginning. Maybe it can be your acceleration.
by iJohnDoe | 2025-09-04 00:46:34+00:00
Loved the LaserDisc era. Still have a huge collection. Watching the Abyss for the first time with all the extras was amazing.

My player eventually wouldn’t take the discs. Would go in the player and pop back out. A few tries would work for a while and then it eventually wouldn’t take any disc.

HD DVD was really cool. Even today, putting in a movie like Harry Potter on HD DVD really catches people off-guard on how amazing it looks. Never got that reaction from Blu-ray.
by FloorEgg | 2025-09-04 00:46:37+00:00
It's napkin math so take it with a pinch of salt, but I am calculating the information stored in genome, assuming 2 bits per base pair, reducing to estimated 88% coding fraction to get the functional bits, and then dividing by cell volume. Did this for a few different types of cells and then averaged the result to around 1–10 Mbit/μm³

# If there are any bioinformaticians around please come eviscerate or confirm this calc #

Then compared it to TSMC 2nm research macro of (38.1 Mbit/mm^2) normalized to cell scale: 0.00019 Mbit/μm³

Living Cells: 1–10 Mbit/μm³

Current best chips: 0.00019 Mbit/μm³

https://research.tsmc.com/page/memory/4.html
by marssaxman | 2025-09-04 00:46:41+00:00
I got irritated with the profusion of "no cash accepted" signs a few years back and started making a point of always carrying cash, to use whenever practical. I don't take it to an extreme, but I also don't want to live in a world where every transaction is trackable and all commerce is regulated by Visa, Mastercard, Apple, or Google.
by mikeyouse | 2025-09-04 00:46:45+00:00
And trolling or not, this wasn't remotely the same as US drone strikes in Afghanistan from a legal POV. At least there, we had the AUMF to rely on and provide congressional cover for the attacks - here, there's no plausible argument that drone striking a random smuggling vessel hundreds of miles from the US shore was legal. Don't take my word for it either, several people who've had to make the legal case for drone strikes also agree this was illegal according to US law and international treaties.

https://www.justsecurity.org/119982/legal-issues-military-at...
by throwaway22032 | 2025-09-04 00:47:12+00:00
Budgeting with the data trail of a card is significantly easier if you have a lot of transactions.

It's also generally cheaper due to cashback and other incentives.

Other than that I've always found the idea that cash is "inconvenient" a bit of a child-like argument. Okay, yeah, you have to count some coins, you also have to brush your teeth and use a knife and fork instead of your hands, come on.
by accrual | 2025-09-04 00:47:16+00:00
I think about this sometimes. From the POV of being in the human body I feel we must all be "me". If I wasn't here having this specific subjective experience as a human user on hackernews, then I would be someone or something else having another or "their" experience.

If that's not the case then I'll just have no subjective experience, same as before I was born/instantiated.
by MGriisser | 2025-09-04 00:47:19+00:00
Unfortunately I don't do anything nearly that sophisticated, I honestly barely even know Elixir, I had just used it a little bit at a previous job and thought it would be a nice choice to try for the web server part of an application I was building.

I mostly use Claude in that repo for controllers, DB access, and front end via heex templates, often with LiveView. I find it can get a bit mixed up with heex stuff occasionally given the weirdness of nested code into the HTML and all that but I think on pure Elixir it usually does a good job.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-04 00:47:47+00:00
That’s thanks to Android phone manufacturers, which don’t want to pay for a global license for the NFC tech involved. Apple on the other hand does pay for a global license and so iPhones and Apple Watches from anywhere work perfectly with Japanese cash card terminals. I use a digital Suica on my US iPhone during my visits.

Supposedly Pixels have the requisite hardware, but Google software locks the functionality to Japan. Some have been able to hack their Pixels to force it on but from what I’ve gathered it’s flaky when you do that.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-04 00:48:10+00:00
>In my estimation the main reason people use VPNs is for pr*n and piracy

I get the piracy part, but why would someone want/need VPN for pr0n? That's not a gotcha or snark, I don't understand why folks would "need" vpn for that (assuming it's not* non-consensual, which includes hidden cameras and/or animals or children -- neither of whom can actually provide meaningful consent) as long as it's legal.
by brettp | 2025-09-04 00:48:28+00:00
Australian here, like the author. Apple Pay (and equivalents) work _everywhere_ here, including at the tiniest market stalls, and for the smallest purchases. I stopped carrying my wallet the moment my driver licence was available on my phone, the last piece of plastic I was mandated to carry around.

While the paranoid nerd in me might occasionally wonder about all my spending being tracked, watching someone fumble with magic pieces of ~paper~ plastic and metal in a supermarket now looks as quaint to me as someone taking their pig to market to exchange for some eggs and bread.
by kstrauser | 2025-09-04 00:48:50+00:00
I understand that they deliberately make focused devices with no desire to have a million distracting features. That’s nice. I appreciate it.

But for the life of me, this thing screams to have a calendar app. My life involves plenty of meetings now. If I could take this to one meeting and look at it to see what my next meeting will be, I think I’d never want anything else.

Not anything fancy. Not even a way to add or edit appointments. Just show me a list of where I’m supposed to to be today.

(And to anyone who’s about to point out that I could lot that info down at my desk before I get up to walk to the meeting room, lemme stop you right there. That’s not happening.)
by freetime2 | 2025-09-04 00:49:16+00:00
> Coffee grinders are ripe for disruption with a low cost high quality product, but in order to pay for the engineering time to make one you have to have confidence in pretty high volume so picking a price point is hard.

It sounds like a Chinese company has kind of done this with the D40+, DF54 [1], DF64, and DF83 grinders, available at price points from $200 to $800. They are white label products sold under various brand names like Turin, MiiCoffee, etc all over the world. If reviews are to be believed, they have a good grind quality in addition to nice quality of life features like very little retention, static electricity, replaceable parts, etc.

The $200 - $250 range is still probably too expensive for most homes, but definitely not out of line for a high quality kitchen appliance.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbL0olOitJg
by jim-jim-jim | 2025-09-04 00:49:26+00:00
I am not particularly fond of jazz myself. I've logged way more plays of Incapacitants than Mr. Coltrane, but his name seems to come up every time I study harmony. These alternative systems have been a creative boon for me, regardless of the genre I'm songwriting for.

Also if you appreciate "honest racket" you may enjoy Peter Brötzmann.
by buu700 | 2025-09-04 00:49:33+00:00
It's a standard punctuation mark available on Android/iOS/macOS keyboards, and automatically inserted into text by widely used software such as Microsoft Word. You guys are acting like it's an obscure Unicode character that GPT just spontaneously started using out of the blue, and ignoring the obvious answer that it's common in LLM output because it's common in training data. The burden of proof is on anyone claiming that it isn't common.

I was referring to social media spam. It would be a simple way to defuse people citing the use of dashes as "proof" that your spam was spam and having the hivemind bury it. You can't ensnare gullible readers if they never see your comment to begin with — not that following an absurd blanket rule of categorizing em dash usage as AI output has anything to do with whether or not the reader is gullible.
by aweiher | 2025-09-04 00:50:03+00:00
I'm considering a new reMarkable, but the lack of an official sdk for the cloud API is a major concern.

The community has built amazing tools for remarkable device, but their work is constantly being broken by software updates. This isn't a sustainable situation. For a company that charges for a cloud service, providing a stable, official API should be a priority. It would not only support the community's innovation but also provide a reliable foundation that developers and users can trust for the long term.

As long as a stable, official API isn't provided, I won't be buying a new device from them.
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by fluidcruft | 2025-09-04 00:51:41+00:00
I'm actually in the market for something this size, but it's too expensive for me given what I know about reMarkable's inconvenience. I'd pick it over a kindle scribe, but not sure I'd pick it over a boox or supernote. I haven't decided if I actually care about color yet. MyDeepGuide's review of reMarkables color tech has me pretty interestes in it... but I don't know I actually need color personally. I have a colleague who has a reMarkable and it seems pretty annoying software wise. Especially at this size I want ebooks easily loaded.

I mostly have a very aged Kindle that needs replaced and I would like a small digital notepad. Boox fits the bill generally. I have a larger boox, it's a little quirky and a bit too heavy to hold comfortably but works fine after some configuration.
by FloorEgg | 2025-09-04 00:52:22+00:00
Thanks for pointing this out. I wasn't aware, and so I just dug into it.

From what I can tell, science used to point to this as the only/primary limit to human-brain size, but more recently the picture seems a lot less clear, with some indications that pelvis size doesn't place as hard of a constraint as we thought and there are other constraints such as metabolic (how many calories the mother can sustain during pregnancy and lactation).

So overall I'd say you are technically correct, even though this doesn't really materially change the point I was making; which is that the size of the human brain is constrained in ways that the size of data centers are not.
by decimalenough | 2025-09-04 00:52:36+00:00
The goal/theory behind the LLM investment explosion is that we can get to AGI by feeding them all the data. And to be clear, by AGI I don't mean "superhuman singularity", just "intelligent enough to replace most humans" (and, by extension, hoover up all the money we're spending on their salaries today).

But if we've already fed them all the data, and we don't have AGI (which we manifestly don't), then there's no way to get to AGI with LLMs and the tech/VC industry is about to have a massive, massive problem justifying all this investment.
by filoleg | 2025-09-04 00:52:39+00:00
This is a great article, and it has AI in the title, but imo it has nothing to do with AI. In fact, it doesn’t even claim to have any evidence of AI being involved there.

What the article is really about is the sad state of ethics and care at some of (previously known as) the more trusted publications.

It wasn’t really about AI, but more about big publications doing absolutely zero due diligence and willing to publish stories centered around towns that don’t even exist, with writers themselves using a fake name that never existed, citing people who never existed, talking about some murder mysteries that never happened. Every single part of the story was fabricated.