MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by molyss | 2025-10-17 18:02:10+00:00
I think it's a bit disingenuous to reduce the article to a single sentence that's in parenthesis and links to a widely shared publication about an a MIT report. Especially when said article continues with "Don’t get me wrong: I am not denying the extraordinary potential of AI to change aspects of our world, nor that savvy entrepreneurs, companies and investors will win very big. It will — and they will."

One doesn't have to agree with the original report, but one can't in good faith deny that the whole thing smells of a financial scheme with circular contracts, massive investments for an industry that's currently losing money by the billion and unclear financial upside for most other companies out there.

I'm not saying AI is useless or that it will never be useful, I'm just saying that there are some legitimate reasons to worry about the amounts of money that are being poured into it and its potential impact on the economy at large. I believe the article is simply taking a similart stance
by ndiddy | 2025-10-17 18:02:10+00:00
Those region converters were used in the initial production runs of every NES launch title from when the system was test marketed in New York in 1985. Presumably, Nintendo didn't yet have tooling set up for manufacturing NES cartridge PCBs (or wanted to be able to reuse the PCBs for sale in Japan if the test launch went poorly), so the best solution was to use Famicom PCBs in an adapter.

> One frustrating thing here is that this adapter was never designed to be used with loose cartridges, but only PCBs. Famicom cartridges are a nightmare to open without damaging them due to reinforced plastic snap tabs, so people who wanted to use these as adapters would just take a rotary tool to it, as this blog post from 2006 shows.

You can plug a Famicom cartridge into the Nintendo converter by pulling off the gender adapter and plugging it in the other way so the tabs that block the cartridge are on the bottom. Note that it's tricky to remove the converter from a front-loading NES, which is why most aftermarket Famicom-NES converters have a ribbon to help with pulling them out of the system.
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-17 18:02:25+00:00
Well yes, it's a matter of perspective, and good used prices are better for society as a whole. You're welcome :). Someone who buys my Model 3 for 35 grand less than I paid for it a few years ago is getting a pretty good deal. But despite my wife wanting something in a different form factor, we're keeping the Model 3 a while longer because selling it would realize what is just a theoretical loss right now. It's just psychological, but it definitely influences our choices.
by hatmanstack | 2025-10-17 18:02:44+00:00
Am I dating myself by thinking Kurzweil is still relevant?

2029: Human-level AI

2045: The Singularity - machine intelligence 1 billion times more powerful than all human intelligence

Based on exponential growth in computing. He predicts we'll merge with AI to transcend biological limits. His track record is mixed, but 2029 looks more credible post-GPT-5. The 2045 claim remains highly speculative.
by api | 2025-10-17 18:02:44+00:00
I still think there's a good chance that evolution has figured out some way to leverage quantum computation, probably in a very different way from the way we're trying to do it with ultra-cold low noise quantum digital circuits. If this is the case it's going to be some kind of high temperature noisy analog stochastic way of harnessing QC. The phrase "stochastic analog quantum computer" comes to mind.

It's how little energy the brain uses, especially for learning. The brain seems to be hundreds of thousands to millions of times more energy efficient than any kind of current AI on a classical computer, not to mention still beating it in terms of performance and versatility. Transistors do not use millions of times more energy than synapses, and processor feature sizes are not millions of times larger. Something else is going on.

Either the brain is leveraging QC or our AI training algorithms are just really really horrible compared to whatever is happening in biology. Maybe biology found learning methods that work thousands of times better than differential backpropagation.
by nradov | 2025-10-17 18:03:24+00:00
We would need a lot of landing pads free of nearby hazards (trees, wires, antennas). Those pads generally can't just be added on to existing buildings: most high-rise buildings weren't designed to support the necessary weight, plus roofs are already full of other equipment.

Assuming appropriate sites can be found, there will also be a long permitting process to get construction approval. The latest eVTOL aircraft are quieter than conventional helicopters but still loud so anyone living and working nearby is going to complain. I'm sure they'll also raise environmental impact concerns in many areas because the noise will prevent the endangered yellow-footed salamander from laying eggs or whatever so working through the mandated mitigation process also takes years.
by lesuorac | 2025-10-17 18:03:24+00:00
> were still enforced

This sounds like its doing a lot of heavy lifting.

A bunch of state abortion bans were no longer enforced until they were. If it's still on the books then it counts as a "crazy law"; if you don't want people to make fun of your state then repeal it.

> Law #2: it is illegal for women to wear pants in Tucson.

> This “law” is more of a half-truth than anything else. Over a century ago it was illegal for Tucson residents to appear in public wearing clothing “not of his or her sex.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20170615211918/https://www.phoen...
by owenversteeg | 2025-10-17 18:03:38+00:00
>This doesn't make much sense. Collagen is just a proline rich amino acid your body makes itself. Also you get the same type of amino acid by eating jello pudding. Sticking it directly into a wound shouldn't make much of a difference in healing, and if anything might be a bit dangerous if the collagen is contaminated in any way with bacteria.

...what, lmao

1. Collagen is not an amino acid, it is a protein

2. The body makes a lot of things itself that we supply to sick or wounded people. It is SOP in any hospital to supply: various proteins, heat, enzymes, clotting factors, blood, hormones, steroids that the body makes itself... "The body makes (thing) itself" is an absurd reason not to supply something to the wounded. It does not make one iota of sense if you have even the slightest knowledge of medicine.

3. "Also you get the same type of amino acid by eating jello pudding." Yes, and you get salt and water from McDonalds fries, and yet we still use saline solution. Jerusalem artichokes are high in inulin, which we also use to measure kidney function. Why exactly would any of this have any bearing on its efficacy? Collagen, by the way, is the most abundant protein in mammals, so there are a long list of things aside from Jello that contain it.

4. Sterile collagen is widely available both OTC and to professionals

5. Sure. Here's a review of eleven RCTs on collagen dressings for wound healing. Pretty powerful results! doi:10.3389/fsurg.2022.978407
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-17 18:03:40+00:00
You're right, I was off by a year. We have a 2023, but we bought it in December 2022. Not at the high point, exactly, but still before a big slash in prices, and before the credit. We mistakenly thought the credit wasn't going to happen.

If I sell the car anytime soon it will definitely be the most I've ever "lost" on a car purchase. Oh well.
by sillysaurusx | 2025-10-17 18:03:53+00:00
> Even if you think that OpenAI’s growth is impressive — it went from 700 million to 800 million weekly active users in the last two months — that is not the kind of growth that says “build capacity assuming that literally every single human being on Earth uses this all the time.”

I’d argue the other way around: 100M growth in two months suggests literally every single human being on Earth would benefit from using this all the time, and it’s just a matter of enabling them to.

Beware the sigmoidal curve, though. Growth is exponential till it’s not.
by imiric | 2025-10-17 18:04:15+00:00
> If I'm tired of one thing related to AI/llm/chatbots it's the claims that it's not useful. It 100% is. We have to separate the massive financial machinations from the actual tech.

It's indisputable that the tech is and can be very useful, but it's also surrounded by a bubble of grifters and opportunists riding the hype and money train.

The sooner we start ignoring the "AI", "ASI", "AGI", anthropomorphization, and every other snake oil these people are peddling, the sooner we can focus on practical applications of the tech, which are numerous.
by rurp | 2025-10-17 18:04:28+00:00
100k isn't all that many for a modern used car and that's a pretty sizable hit on the range given that it's by far the biggest limitation of an EV. Given those numbers it's reasonable that a used Tesla with say 125k miles might not be able to do a 150 mile round trip on a full battery. That's a pretty big limitation for some people.
by awesome_dude | 2025-10-17 18:04:29+00:00
I have massive respect for Andrej, my first encounter with "him" was following his tutorials/notes when he was a grad student/tutor for AI/ML.

I was a lot disappointed when he went to work for Tesla, and I think that he had some achievement there, butnot nearly the impact I believe he potentially has.

His switch (back?) to OpenAI was, in my mind, much more in keeping with where his spirit really lies.

So, with that in mind, maybe I've drunk too much kool aid, maybe not. But I'm in agreement with him, the LLMs are not AGI, they're bloody good natural language processors, but they're still regurgitating rather than creating.

Essentially that's what humans do, we're all repeating what our education/upbringing told us worked for our lives.

But we all recognise that what we call "smart" is people recognising/inventing ways to do things that did not exist before. In some cases its about applying a known methodset to a new problem, in others its about using a substance/method in a way that other substances/methodsets are used, but the different substance/methodset produces something interesting (think, oh instead of boiling food in water, we can boil food in animal fats... frying)

AI/LLMs cannot do this, not at all. That spark of creativity is agonisingly close, but, like all 80/20 problems, is likely still a while away.

The timeline (10 years) - it was the early 2010s (over 10 years ago now) that the idea of backward propagation, after a long AI winter, finally came of age. It (the idea) had been floating about since at least the 1970s. And that ushered in the start of our current revolution, that and "Deep Learning" (albeit with at least another AI winter spanning the last 4 or 5 years until LLMs arrived)

So, given that timeline, and the restraints in the currrent technology, I think that Andrej is on the right track, and it will be interesting to see where we are in ten years time.
by PedroBatista | 2025-10-17 18:04:29+00:00
Following the comments here, yes: AGI is the new Cold Fusion.

However, don't let the bandwagon ( from either side ) cloud your judgment. Even warm fusion or any fusion at all is still very useful and it's here to stay.

This whole AGI and "the future" thing is mostly a VC/Banks and shovel sellers problem. A problem that has become ours too because the ridiculous amounts of money "invested", so even warm fusion is not enough from an investment vs expectations perspective.

They are already playing musical money chairs, unfortunately we already know who's going to pay for all of this "exuberance" in the end.

I hope this whole thing crashes and burns as soon as possible, not because I don't "believe" in AI, but because people have been absolutely stupid about it. The workplace has been unbearable with all this stupidity and amounts of fake "courage" about every single problem and the usual judgment of the value of work and knowledge your run-of-the-mill dipshit manager has now.
by techblueberry | 2025-10-17 18:05:10+00:00
I think a lot of what she attributes to male/female is actually scarcity/plenty. Even if you attribute rationality to men (which I question) that trait is probably only exhibited when you feel confident in your person. That the pathological state is not excessive femininity but that masculinity and femininity both have pathological states that can be exacerbated by scarcity.

Like the ICE raids clearly not are not an appeal to rationality, they’re an appeal to fear, and that fear is created by a real or imagined sense of scarcity.
by habi | 2025-10-17 18:05:10+00:00
The search directly on osm.org is optimzied for address things.

For a "complete" search in the OpenStreetMap-data I suggest [Overpass Turbo](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_turbo).

In this specific case I'd take a little detour over taginfo (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Taginfo), e.g. search for `surveillance` (https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=surveillance) there. A little bit of clicking (Type > Values > ALPR) leads to https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/surveillance%3Atype=A... If you click on 'Overpass turbo' on the top right, you get to a pre-filled search on Overpass turbo. Scroll the map to the region you want to search (start small), and click 'Run' on the top left.

Voila.
by chaps | 2025-10-17 18:05:30+00:00
Eh, it's not entirely that simple. In the same way teachers are, some people are just compelled towards it because it's what feels "right" to them.

And, just, don't forget that a lot of the people who are "sticking around" went to j-school and now have a significant amount of debt. So leaving journalism isn't exactly the cleanest option for them.

Donate to your local investigative nonprofit.
by Barrin92 | 2025-10-17 18:05:44+00:00
It's curious that Kurzweil's predictions about transcending biology align so closely with his expected lifespan. Reminds me of someone saying, if you ask a researcher for a timeline of a breakthrough they'll give you the expected span of their career.

Hegel thought history ended with the Prussian state, Fukuyama thought it ended in liberal America, Paul thought judgement day was so close you need not bother to marry, the singularity always comes around when the singularians get old. Funny how that works
by CharlesW | 2025-10-17 18:05:56+00:00
That hypothetical might be fine, but MCPs do much more than that and their catalogs can be enormous. Here are some popular MCPs and the amount of context they eat before you've done anything with them:

• Linear: 23 tools (~12,935 tokens) • JetBrains: 20 tools (~12,252 tokens) • Playwright: 21 tools (~9,804 tokens)
by lynx97 | 2025-10-17 18:06:29+00:00
It seems like you're suggesting I am not capable of putting things I overheard in context? Please don't. I am well aware of the difference between sarcasm and deliberate manipulation.

To keep things grounded, almost nobody bites the hand that feeds 'em. Whistleblowing or swimming against the stream, while being celebrated whenever it happens, is a very low minority in any profession. If your boss tells you where things are supposed to go, you might grind your teeth, and maybe bitch about it to your friends, but chances are high you will comply. Journalists are no different.
by flatline | 2025-10-17 18:06:53+00:00
I don’t even know what AGI is, and neither does anyone else as far as I can tell. In the parts of the video I watched, he cites several things missing which all have to do with autonomy: continual automated updates of internal state, fully autonomous agentic behavior, etc.

I feel like GPT 3 was AGI, personally. It crossed some threshold that was both real and magical, and future improvements are relying on that basic set of features at their core. Can we confidently say this is not a form of general intelligence? Just because it’s more a Chinese Room than a fully autonomous robot? We can keep moving the goalposts indefinitely, but machine intelligence will never exactly match that of humans.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-17 18:07:16+00:00
> The warranty doesn’t suggest the battery will be at 70.00001% on the first day of year 9. It says if it goes below 70% it will get replaced.

The point is that they're not confident enough to say it won't be in that range. Put another way, why don't they just make the warranty 80% instead of 70%?

If Tesla's not confident in it, I definitely am not.

> That 8 year old Toyota you bought came with a 6 year/60k mile warranty. If you are comfortable driving that to 2.5x the initial warranty then a used Tesla should be good to 250k and 20 years.

We hope so, but we don't know, which is the point. Toyota has a track record. Tesla hasn't been around long enough to have a track record.

That aside, the real point is that ICE cars don't have any particular component that costs that much to replace. How much will a new EV battery cost me? Sure, on occasion you may have to rehaul your whole engine, but that's really rare. I've only known one Toyota owner who had to do that, and it cost (in today's dollars), about $6K.

When I buy an 8 year old car, I don't expect perfection. I know things will break - soon. I buy it with the confidence that repairs will not be too expensive, and even after all the repairs I'll still save a ton of money.

The other blocker is the private party market. So far I've never bought a car from a dealer. I always go private party. The standard procedure with that is you take the car to a trusted mechanic who will examine it and inform you of any potential problems. With electric vehicles, those mechanics can't do much. I've asked them. They can look at a few things like the brakes, but stuff related to the engine is beyond their ability. So whereas I may be comfortable spending a lot of money buying an ICE car from private party, I'm not for EVs.
by busterarm | 2025-10-17 18:07:18+00:00
No, it won't because I can read the timelines and see what he's omitting.

He logged in and changed the password after the board emailed him and told him his services were terminated. That includes/specifically mentions his on-call services. His response claims only silence from the board and that he was just performing his on-call duties.

I've been a corporate stooge for 25 years or so now. On call duties are one of my main responsibilities. I would NEVER probe out which logins I still have access to after receiving notice of termination. He admits to doing this in multiple places.

All his justifications are that he was under contract to do work that he was already notified was terminated. Everything that follows either tells me that he has bad judgment, that he's lying (by omissions), or in the worst case totally delusional.

If he was so worried about operational takeover, why did he _change a password_ without notifying anyone else with operational capabilities that he was doing so? Nobody reasonable would _ever_ do that. There's a certain amount of upfront communication and CYA required of reasonable actors in this space and he doesn't have it (Not that Ruby Central did any better).

So no, I won't be changing my mind, and I don't know why you put "(again)" in there.
by xp84 | 2025-10-17 18:07:24+00:00
Ok, hypothetically though, and going back to the smoking in Paris law, if the UK banned smoking in Paris, and a French citizen proven to have smoked in Paris vacations in the UK, the only thing stopping the UK from prosecuting them is that it would be kinda "act-of-war-ish" to start imprisoning French citizens. Technically they could under their own law, they just wouldn't dare since they don't want to start a major diplomatic incident or war.
by physicsguy | 2025-10-17 18:07:30+00:00
In my country (UK) it’s entirely caused by a policy that means people in well paid jobs can pay for a lease agreement direct from their salary and save tax. It also can be used if you’re a high earner to bring you back under a threshold that gives you a subsidy for childcare. So if you earn more than £100k and have kids under 5 you are almost stupid not to take a lease for an EV if you have the need for a car anyway.

As a result of the above, EVs that are ~three years old are flooding the used car market and you can pick up a Tesla for < £20k
by fullstackchris | 2025-10-17 18:07:35+00:00
I just read this seperately through Google Discover, and I don't quite get amazing newness of it - if anything, it feels to me like of an abstraction of MCP - there is nothing I see here that couldnt be replaced by a series of MCP tools - for example, the author mentions "a current trick" often used is including a markdown file with details / instructions around a task - this can be handled with an mcp server prompt (or even a 'tool' that just returns the desired text) If you've fooled around as much as I have, you realize in the prompt itself you can mention other available tools the LLM can use - defining a workflow, if you will, including tools for actual coding and validation like the author mentions they included in their skill.

Furthermore, with all the hype around MCP servers and simply the amount of servers now existing, do they just immediately come obsolete? its also a bit fuzzy to me just exactly how an LLM will choose an MCP tool over a skill and vice versa...
by somenameforme | 2025-10-17 18:07:52+00:00
What is the source of data that image is using? It seems odd. A datum I quite like is the Campbell's Tomato Soup Inflation Index. [1] Since their introduction in 1897, Campbell's has sold the same tomato soup in the same size container. Its price remained quite stable until 1971 at which point it went into loony land, like many other data. [2]

The point is that even after the central bank was introduced, the US remained on a literal or defacto gold standard, of varying sorts, until 1971. That's when Bretton Woods ended and the value of the USD became based on absolutely nothing and the government granted themselves the power to 'print' arbitrary amounts at their discretion.

[1] - https://theglitteringeye.com/the-tomato-soup-index/

[2] - https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
by woodruffw | 2025-10-17 18:07:59+00:00
Is this true? I think it’s equally easy to claim that these phenomena are attributable to aesthetic adaptability in humans, rather than the ability of a machine to act like a human. The machine still doesn’t possess intentionality.

This isn’t a bad thing, and I think LLMs are very impressive. But I do think we’d hesitate to call their behavior human-like if we weren’t predisposed to anthropomorphism.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-10-17 18:08:00+00:00
Great quote:

"When you get a demo and something works 90% of the time, that’s just the first nine. Then you need the second nine, a third nine, a fourth nine, a fifth nine. While I was at Tesla for five years or so, we went through maybe three nines or two nines. I don’t know what it is, but multiple nines of iteration. There are still more nines to go.

That’s why these things take so long."
by alganet | 2025-10-17 18:08:22+00:00
> I don’t know how much.

If you're not willing to measure how it helps you, then it's probably not worth it.

I would go even further: if the effort of measuring is not feasible, then it's probably not worth it.

That is more targeted at companies than you specifically, but it also works as an individual reflection.

In the individual reflection, it works like this: you should think "how can I prove to myself that I'm not being bamboozled?". Once you acquire that proof, it should be easy to share it with others. If it's not, it's probably not a good proof (like an anecdote).

I already said this, and I'll say it again: record yourself using LLMs. Then watch the recording. Is it that good? Notice that I am removing myself from the equation here, I will not judge how good is it, you're going to do it yourself.