MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-02 13:37:35+00:00
I don't think it'll contract because I don't think we'll get a signal that takeoff for sure isn't going to happen, it'll just happen much slower than the hypers are trying to sell, so investors will continue to invest because of sunk costs and the big downside risk of being left behind. I'm sure we'll see a major infrastructure deployment slowdown as foundation model improvements slow, but there are a lot of vectors for optimization of these systems outside the foundation model so it'll be more of a paradigm shift in focus.
by krageon | 2025-10-02 13:37:52+00:00
> quit caffeine and exercise more

With respect, you weren't asked and it's shit advice besides. I'm happy you have something that works but you may rest absolutely assured anyone with these issues that is a day over 20 has heard this "advice" hundreds, if not thousands of times.

At this point the bad advice (yes it's bad, it doesn't work) is almost as alienating as the fact that nobody seems to understand.
by zerolayers | 2025-10-02 13:38:20+00:00
This week: Spotify deploys AI to fight AI voice theft while removing 75 million spam tracks. Hollywood recoils as synthetic actress Tilly Norwood shops for agents. Britain mandates digital IDs for all workers by 2029, complete with biometric verification on your phone. OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a checkout counter. California passes its first AI safety law with million-dollar fines. Meanwhile, the iRobot founder says the humanoid robot hype is just that, and radiologists are getting raises despite AI that reads X-rays better than they do. When we can verify everything about a person but recognize nothing—what exactly are we authenticating?
by sseagull | 2025-10-02 13:39:37+00:00
OpenAI "spent" more on sales/marketing and equity compensation than that:

"Other significant costs included $2 billion spent on sales and marketing, nearly doubling what OpenAI spent on sales and marketing in all of 2024. Though not a cash expense, OpenAI also spent nearly $2.5 billion on stock-based equity compensation in the first six months of 2025"

("spent" because the equity is not cash-based)

From https://archive.is/vIrUZ
by librasteve | 2025-10-02 13:39:57+00:00
I am not “missing the point”, I am disagreeing with you. (Hopefully in an agreeable way)

I am making the point that using a decimal literal (eg 0.1) representation for a IEEE double is a bad choice and that using it as a representation for a Rat (aka Fraction) is a better choice.

I 100% accept your point that in Python 0.1+0.2>0.3 is true which is why I prefer Raku’s number system.
by darkmighty | 2025-10-02 13:40:01+00:00
This seems like a bit of an empty moral panic/slippery slope appeal. As a general rule, it could go either way: civilizations can also collapse from not-enough-regulation, not-enough-rule of law, oligarchic capture, or even just become a megacorporation dystopia without collapsing for a long time, maybe ever. Better to critique the specific case, if you have any objections.
by deepsquirrelnet | 2025-10-02 13:40:01+00:00
More than that, adding longer context isn’t free either in time or money. So filling an LLM context with k=100 documents of mixed relevance may be slower than reranking and filling with k=10 of high relevance.

Of course, the devil is in the details and there’s five dozen reasons why you might choose one approach over the other. But it is not clear that using a reranker is always slower.
by cosmic_quanta | 2025-10-02 13:40:12+00:00
One of my fondest memories was buying the book "The Elements of Computing Systems" by Nisan and Schocken, and implementing a 4-bit CPU in Minecraft.

4-bit is small enough that you can build it manually, without the use of external tools (which I don't think existed at the time anyways).

Highly recommended for children interesting in computing!
by Earw0rm | 2025-10-02 13:41:01+00:00
Four syllables and two or three words versus a single phoneme or kanji tells you something about relative priorities, though...

If a culture has a word for cat which is "owl face bat ear dog" or something, sure it's got cats, but we can intuit that they're a less central concept to that culture than bats, owls or dogs.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-10-02 13:41:04+00:00
They say it's 5-10x Jupiter's mass. The brown dwarf range is 13-80x Jupiter's mass, and within that range stars can fuse deuterium -- so that rogue planet is on its way to becoming the smallest kind of star.

...It just needs to absorb about five more Jupiter masses, so roughly (9.5 * 10^27) kg. At six billion tons per second, if it can keep it going, that'll take 31.6M years. Not a lot of time, on cosmic timescales.
by mrob | 2025-10-02 13:41:05+00:00
One big advantage of iron is that you can forge it. Bronze has to be cast or cold worked (with annealing steps as necessary). You can't forge weld bronze either, so you need to braze/solder parts together. A skilled blacksmith can forge things from iron quickly and with little waste. It's especially important for things like nails and arrowheads that are needed in mass quantities.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-02 13:41:19+00:00
If scoped to the Y, the vehicle already has native access to Superchargers and a NACS (Tesla) charge port, so this is the best situation. They should've been given a J1772 adapter at purchase, if not, you can pick them up cheap on ebay or Facebook Marketplace. I recommend it for opportunistic level 2 charging on older stations that have not yet upgraded to the NACS charge cable. If renting, ensure the vehicle has access to Tesla's Superchargers; traveling without them will be a suboptimal experience, and take much longer.

https://shop.tesla.com/product/sae-j1772-charging-adapter

If kids are with you, do your best to preplan which Superchargers (or other fast chargers, Electrify America perhaps) you're going to hit on your route. They're on the map, so it should only take 30-60 minutes to zoom in on your map provider of choice to see what is available near each charger. Optimize for amenities nearby that are kid friendly. There are great locations (24 hour bathrooms and food, activities, venues) and there are not so good locations (I've charged at midnight behind a dead mall in rural Missouri, I would not recommend such locations when traveling with family members).

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/superchagers-near-pl... might be of help, there are other threads on the forum that will provide additional kid friendly context.

Charge time will be between 10-25 minutes in most cases. The newer the revision of Supercharger (V1->V4), the more current you'll get, but this is only relevant if the vehicle battery state of charge is closer to 0% (due to battery management and charging dynamics). Avoid V1 Superchargers when possible, as they max out at 150kw (this info will be available both on supercharge.info and within the vehicle's navigation system). TLDR Empty batteries charge faster, don't charge beyond 80-90% unless the last fast DC charge of your day's journey (the last bit of the charge is the slowest).

If you're traveling somewhere "off the grid" with limited fast DC charging options, have the mobile connector unit with you with plugs that will be most available (https://shop.tesla.com/product/mobile-connector). You can gain ~48 miles of range per twelve hours charging on a 15A/120V circuit in a Model Y (overnight charging).

https://abetterrouteplanner.com/ is a helpful trip planner, it will build your route around desired charger locations, estimated vehicle performance, and state of charge of the vehicle as you travel. You can save your plans to it as well.

Safe travels, and have fun!
by robertpateii | 2025-10-02 13:41:32+00:00
Having to select self care and breakfast every morning (and meds on some routes) is a good reminder for me of the importance of those things in the long run of a whole day. I don’t think I’m any farther on the spectrum than the average software developer, but it’s still a daily decision to be made. (Of course for those people with different breakfast patterns - you still have a best approach for yourself that you must decide to follow every morning.)

Similarly for the masking meter, I don’t know what it feels like exactly to have mask. However isn’t it hard, in varying degrees, to constantly determine and go through with the right forward-looking choice in real life? My guess is what’s a challenge for some is also a heavy toll on others.

Habits help with much of the daily decisions, but are of course their own challenge to implement and maintain.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-02 13:41:49+00:00
Europe has this delusion that they can keep living their magically relaxed life, and continue to both fund it and stay relevant on the world stage.

FYI, the big players today are the US and China. Nobody has the heart to call and tell Europeans that they aren't really part of the future, they're still away on their 8th week long holiday of the year.

Not staying economically relevant is far (far) more harmful to society than forgoing social media.
by tomhow | 2025-10-02 13:42:35+00:00
We'd encourage you to resist the inclination to think of others as "bad faith actors". The guidelines ask us to assume good faith, and in my experience, most people on HN sincerely believe in their positions. That doesn't stop people being wrong, of course. But not many people here are deliberately dishonest.

Sometimes people have a hard time believing that others could be sincere in their positions, because those positions seem so unfamiliar and so far outside credibility. But usually that's just a sign that we don't spend enough time talking to people who think very differently to us.

We hope HN can be one of the better places to do that, but it requires us to come here with a spirit of openness.
by maeln | 2025-10-02 13:42:52+00:00
> This is very surface level criticism.

Is it now. I don't think being able to accurately and predictably make changes to a shot, a draft, a design is surface level in production.

> Qwen image and nano banana can both do that with images, there’s zero reason to think we can’t train video models for masking.

Tell them to change the tilt of the camera roughly 15 degree left without changing anything else in the scene and tell me if it works.

> This feels a lot like critiquing stable diffusion over hands and text, which the new SOTA models all handle well.

Well does a lot of heavy lifting there.

> One of the easiest iterations on these models is to add more training cases to the benchmarks. That’s a timeline of months, not comparable to forecasting progress over 20 years like fusion.

And what if the model itself is the limiting factor ? The entire tech ? Do we have any proof that in the future the current technologies might be able to handle the cases I spoke about ?

Also, one thing that I didn't mention in the first post. Assuming that the tech does come to the point I can be used to automate a lot of the production. If Throwing a few millions to buy a GPU cluster is enough to be able to "generate" a relatively high quality movie or series, the barrier to entry will be incredibly low. The cost will be driven down, the amount of production will be very high and overall it might not be a trillion dollar industry no more.
by bedman12345 | 2025-10-02 13:43:04+00:00
> The Haskell looks much better, and I don't even know Haskell

Plain crazy take. The c example uses basic coding to implement some clever maths with special fast instructions. Thehaskell example is just some dumb algo implemented with complicated programming. There is obviously nothing good about that.

You can also look at a c example without simd https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... It’s shorter and simpler and faster than the Haskell version. It’s not even close???
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-02 13:43:06+00:00
Why spend the energy masking in the first place?

I have a child with AuDHD who has trouble masking consistently. That coupled with impulse control issues and an inability to regulate between the two just looks like chronic deception, lying for the sake of lying. It is exhausting for him and it never works in his favor. We spend a lot of effort coaching him to not mask and to not seek unearned attention, and its a huge challenge.
by jklowden | 2025-10-02 13:43:09+00:00
There was never any danger of public education, so eliminating that danger was quite easy. What we are undermining, though, is the benefit of public education. Witness the last election, where tens of millions were indifferent to democratic governance if it meant cheap gasoline and eggs.

And, yes, the assault on democracy is real. On January 20, Trump signed an order in support of free speech. Within a week he barred the AP over the Gulf of America. Within a month he illegally disbanded USAID. Within 3 months he began suing law firms and defunding university research. Today colleges are receiving letters demanding curriculum in exchange for funding. And we have four years more, at least, to endure.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-10-02 13:43:59+00:00
Don't (look) evil Google putting their Apple Store envy on full display.

The moves to close the play store ecosystem are a boone to every public apk repository and a huge hit to any developer relying on google services framework(gsf). Why? Disable play store signing and gsf wont work; disable them BOTH and you have freedom to install anything you want again. I would say 80% of apps out now will still work without gsf.
by fragmede | 2025-10-02 13:44:23+00:00
A robot that isn't stationary, in a home or in a factory, wants legs. Wheels are fine for cars but not great for stepping over things (like on cluttered floors) and stairs. So legs, assuming we've got the compute and algorithms to get them to work well, only make sense. The rest allows for application of creativity. As a human, have a head, my brain is in it, as are my eyes. Humanoid robot doesn't need a head, and can have cameras in its chest and on its back, and then also have its brain in the chest. Depending on what's useful, it doesn't need to be limited to two arms. It could have one centrally mounted in its chest, with two cheaper ones on both sides. Or four, two on each side. I've wished for three hands before. The problem though is that they look weird. Any non-traditional design is going to fall into the uncanny valley, so that no matter how much better your non-traditionally armed robot is technically, it's just not gonna sell to the mass market. We only have to look at weird cars/vehicles which have a history of being boondoggles. So it's not a failure of imagination, and more a matter of practicality.
by askonomm | 2025-10-02 13:44:42+00:00
VSCode has started to aggressively force its AI slop stuff down my throat, which has turned me off from using it. JetBrains, thus far, is much less aggressive with its AI offerings. And while yes, everything can be turned off, just like all the adware and spyware in Microsoft Windows can be turned off, I'm just not interested in using a product whose defaults are _this_ anti-consumer.
by odux | 2025-10-02 13:44:43+00:00
Exactly. The very existence of these apps and websites is based on such “user hostile” behavior. Same with the cat and mouse game between YouTube ads and ad blockers and third party YouTube apps. If the side wanting to completely stop Youtube ads becomes successful, YouTube will cease to exist (as a free app).

I am not arguing for this model, my feed is getting more useless every day, but the only other model is subscription based like you say. And for Facebook, Meta and the like, I don’t think the subscription revenue will be anywhere close due to economies of scale on the free model.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-02 13:45:03+00:00
I know what a podcast is, I have produced them for clients. I am honestly unsure what our discussion is about at this point.

DAI is a thing and my initial point several comments ago was that too many podcasts implement it, let advertisers drop their stuff in (not their own read), and never check what’s actually being run on their show. That’s all my point was about.
by wastle | 2025-10-02 13:45:09+00:00
> JK Rowling accused Nigel Farage of being too "woke"

No she didn't.

What she actually said, in response to someone expressing surprise that Farage supports incarcerating males in the female prison estate, was this:

"Genuinely surprised anyone's shocked by this. Just because huge swathes of the left have revealed themselves to be dripping in misogyny doesn't mean a massive chunk of the right doesn't remain exactly as indifferent to women's rights and issues as it's always been."

She also wrote:

"All those people who tell me support for women's single sex spaces means I must support Reform (which I don't) appear to share exactly the same opinion on women's single-sex spaces as Reform."

Sorry but you've mischaracterised and misquoted her words, and used this to reach a false conclusion.
by duxup | 2025-10-02 13:46:02+00:00
This has been going on for 25 years and 9 months ago the owner promised to do some things and ... just didn't?

Yeah time to move on for the county.

Had a similar situation near me where a longtime business had some storage with drainage issues and so on. Owner begged for delays at every turn and the county bent over backwards to allow it ... and the owner just never signed the agreement that he even proposed. County finally shut down the site in that case too.

I'm all for doing what you want on your property, within reason and provided you're not impacting others. Wonky utilities and sewage issues sounds like valid reasons for local authorities to act.
by kevinmchugh | 2025-10-02 13:46:09+00:00
I quit caffeine with no withdrawal symptoms by reducing my intake by 10% every day for 10 days. I weighed how much iced tea I drank on day 0, then had 90% of that on day 1. The last day was just a shot glass full.

I probably picked the idea up here, but don't know from whom so I thought I ought to continue sharing it
by jfengel | 2025-10-02 13:46:34+00:00
I think people more or less understand that. Nobody likes ads. Everyone realizes that the ads they're seeing are targeted.

But I think every web designer knows that putting even the slightest barrier between the user and the content drives away vast numbers of people. Making them enter a credit card -- even if you told them it would never be charged -- would send enormous numbers away.

Many won't even create a free account. Tracking tech is so sneaky because just the effort of logging in is too much.

Maybe the world would be a better place if we bit the bullet, nuked the vast majority of web sites, and built a better web on what's left. But it's not going to be an instant, ad-free privacy paradise.
by Moto7451 | 2025-10-02 13:46:35+00:00
>> you can actually contact real humans as a workspace customer easily.

I can barely get replies from my Google Cloud rep and we’re paying them a lot more than $10 per month. Having reps on staff doesn’t mean they have time until things are escalated. When Google threw captchas up on Workspace accounts with integrations (which our product is) for 20ish minutes on Friday and everything was a panic we got responses from a few reps all at once, but mostly to hand wave away the outage.

If you want a fun example there’s a LegalEagle video where he details the difficulty in getting imposter accounts taken down from YouTube through his contacts. He’s not just a random YouTube user, he makes them money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEA0JzhpzPU&vl=en

And for what it’s worth, these experiences are what I have come to expect from everyone outside of the high tiers of AWS Premium Support and a couple other vendors where you pay what is essentially a timeshare agreement for a support team.
by kalap_ur | 2025-10-02 13:47:00+00:00
Likely not true re adoption. According to McKinsey November 2024 12% of employees in the US used AI for >30% of their daily tasks. I saw another research early this summer, it said that 40% of employees use AI. Adoption is already pretty relevant. The real question is: number of people x token requirement of their daily tasks equals how many tokens, and where are we there. Based on McK, we possibly around 17% unless remaining 50% of tasks requires just way more complexity, because then that would obviously mean the incremental tasks require maybe exponentially more tokens and then penetration will be indeed low. But for this we need to know total token need of daily tasks of average office worker.
by krageon | 2025-10-02 13:47:20+00:00
On a more meta level I found the game quite satisfying to play because it captures the essence well and went into the comments expecting to see a little empathy for different modes of thinking. Very much for a change. Instead it's long threads of neurotypical people insisting to "just fix it" with "this one tip" or aggressively misunderstanding everything and saying it's nonsense.

It's hilarious in the sense that this too is part of a daily experience and alienation, but it's really depressing and tiring to see that even when hands are held people are still shitheads about it. Why is this the case? I genuinely don't understand why everyone can't take a deep breath and figure out that the obvious has been tried, doesn't work and therefore isn't useful? That maybe people deserve a little patience and understanding, instead of yet more pushy bad attitude?
by cthalupa | 2025-10-02 13:47:32+00:00
>The cholesterol hypothesis argues that dietary cholesterol is the important factor causing heart disease.

We know from studies that if you get your LDL low enough, such as <50 (and don't have high Lp(a)), you not only see plaque stop being deposited, you even see regression of existing soft plaque, regardless of other factors like inflammation. MR studies show people that don't produce LDL/Lp(a) in significant quantities basically just don't die of atherosclerosis related heart-disease.

We have medications that can lower systemic inflammation, but local inflammation can still allow for plaque deposition in the presence of high LDL/Lp(a) and can be caused by a wide variety of things, and then plaque deposition itself causes more local inflammation via foam cells and cytokines.

We have medications today that let us drive LDL down to extremely low levels - combo statin/pcsk9 inhibitors, statin/ezetimibe/bempedoic acid, etc. - and the current evidence points towards doing this as being extremely efficacious for prevent atherosclerosis without significant side effects. Lp(a) isn't as great of a story yet - the pcsk9 inhibitors do make a ~30% dent in it, but we have other meds in phase 3 trials right now that are more like 80-90%. We're going to be able to remove the vast majority of atherogenic particles from the bloodstream well before we have any way to prevent all of the potential ways your endothelial walls can be inflamed (if that will ever even be possible.)
by Hilift | 2025-10-02 13:47:45+00:00
> I don't think people understand how the economics of these apps (and websites) work

That is unfortunate, due to Mark Zuckerberg has redefined the successful business model. META is on track to clear $80 billion per year in net profit. Like it or not, they have a mutually beneficial relationship with advertisers and investors. It's like a Unicorn reproduced with an ATM. It's one of the stocks that seem like neutral ground for institutions, like TSLA. There has to be a high table where those guys talk on phones carried in suitcases.

To put $80 billion per year in perspective, that is approximately the amount of annual federal Medicare matching funds reimbursement for the state of California (Cal-Aid).
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-10-02 13:47:47+00:00
This is at least a bit understandable... if something bad happens, a (trade, or a 'classic') war, some large catastrophe somewhere, you want local farmers with all the equipment, knowledge, fields and warehouses ready to take over. Yeah, sure, today maybe you have a surplus of potatos, more than your people want to eat, and still more expensive from imported ones from some other country, but subsidizing the farmers means that in such extreme cases, you at least have the infrastructure to grow potatos to feed the people at home.