MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by a_vanderbilt | 2025-10-11 01:07:49+00:00
The definition of AGI is diffuse enough to make it an argued point - until we can mostly agree it's already happened. For now, the stats are improving well enough across the industry to maintain investor attention. Will it all come crashing down a-la the .com bubble? It's seeming more likely by the quarter.

Like the digital economy post .com burst, I think AI will survive and grow far beyond its current market of chat bots and agents. The weakest will die, but the market will be better off for it in the long run.

The next big problem for AI is time horizons. Frontier AI has roughly doctorate level knowledge across many domains, but it needs to be able to stay on task well/long enough to apply it without a human hand holding it. People are going to have to get used to feeding the AI detailed and accurate plans just like humans, unless we can leverage an expanded form of leading questions like GPT-5 does before executing "deep research". Anthropic feels best positioned to do this on a technical level, but I feel OpenAI will beat them on the product level. I am confident that enough data can be amassed to push time horizons at least in coding, which itself will unlock more capability outside that domain.

I feel it's very different from Tesla, because while Tesla barely ever got closer to their promises the AI industry is at least making visible progress.
by m463 | 2025-10-11 01:08:02+00:00
> not use it.

A few things come to mind...

- You can buy ethernet adapters... for iPhone/ipad/etc. Operations are so much faster, especially large downloads like offline maps.

- many consumer devices suck wrt to wifi. For example, there seem to me ZERO soundbars with wired subwoofers. They all incorporate wifi.

- also, if anyone has lived in a really dense urban environment, wifi is a liability in just about every way.

- Whats's worse is how promiscuous many devices are. Why do macs show all the neighbor's televisions in the airplay menu?

- and you can't really turn off wifi on a mac without turning off sip. (in settings, wifi OFF toggle is stuck on but greyed out)
by Analemma_ | 2025-10-11 01:08:05+00:00
There are a bunch of confident predictions like yours that I feel ignore higher-order effects. Climate change won't make the earth uninhabitable, but it will cause more frequent droughts and other disasters, driving up food prices and causing a lot more climate migration from poor countries, which is already causing fatal societal autoimmune reactions in much of the first world. Additionally, for a while I thought the stories about people deciding not to have children because of climate change were an exaggeration, but it's now widespread enough that it's clearly a real trend which will probably accelerate as climate change drives CoL up further, which in turn is a huge headwind on civilization.

I think I would take the opposite side of your bet, maybe not at even odds but not at terrible ones either.
by UltraSane | 2025-10-11 01:08:23+00:00
I have no idea what you are trying to say. Russia pays hundreds of people to post comments on the Internet. They have been doing this since the Jade Helm Conspiracy hysteria they caused proved their methods to be very effective.

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/05/03/hysteria-over-jade-h...

Hysteria over Jade Helm exercise in Texas was fueled by Russians, former CIA director says

Gov. Greg Abbott's decision in 2015 to ask the Texas State Guard to monitor a federal military exercise prompted significant criticism. A former CIA director said Wednesday that the move emboldened Russians to next target elections.
by teitoklien | 2025-10-11 01:08:50+00:00
Same here, Youtube and Social Media algorithms driven by outrage to boost statistics, has made it unbearable for me to watch news or read it online, everything is framed and created with maximum outrage in mind.

I added a DNS level blocker on all news app and restricted youtube itself to stop myself from watching news no matter what, and I only use chatgpt advanced voice mode now and sometimes perplexity pro to get my news for the day, and ask questions, around news, I stopped reading everything news related outside of purely business and tech related articles curated and sent to me via either my rss feeds, or via newsletter, nothing else.

It feels amazing to get briefed on the days news by ChatGPT, i intuitively ask it stuff around what my interests are and nothing else.
by thrance | 2025-10-11 01:09:12+00:00
These are only about direct donations. Most money in politics nowadays is this so-called "dark money". Most billionaires I can think of supported Trump: Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Thiel, Ellison... Lobbies generally favor the Right because they are more easily corrupted (Trump 2x his personal fortune in less than a year of presidency). Right-wing influencers got massive grants from think tanks, Russia and other conservative sources, etc.
by roenxi | 2025-10-11 01:09:31+00:00
> We will be extinct a large number of species on the planet at this rate, likely 50% or more

99.9% of species are already extinct, the fossil record is huge. I get that people don't like change, but species going extinct doesn't really move the needle much. That is what they do. Every species eventually goes extinct, species going extinct isn't much of a motivator to go around making humans suffer. We can't stop species going extinct but we can make people comfortable.

And the experience has been that civilisational collapse is much more likely for the people who don't use fossil fuels. If we've got cheap energy then pretty much any problem is solveable and most of the cheap energy production is coming out of the country with the most fossil fuel plants.
by godelski | 2025-10-11 01:10:43+00:00
Rental or do you own?

If you own, you should replace and/or move them. Might sound scary if you've never done this before but it is much easier than you'd think. If you want to make your future life easier I suggest running a PVC pipe (at minimum in the drop down portion). Replacing or adding new cabling will be much easier if you do this so it's totally worth the few extra bucks and few extra minutes of work. They'll also be less likely to be accidentally damaged (stepping on them, rodents, water damage, etc). I seriously cannot understand why this is not more common practice (leave the pull string in). You might save a few bucks but you sacrifice a lot more than you're saving... (chasing pennies with pounds)

If rental, you could put in an extender. If you're less concerned about aesthetics you can pop the wall place off and directly tie into the existing cable OR run a new one in parallel. If you're willing to donate the replacement wire and don't have access to the attic but do to both ends of the existing cable then you can use one to pull the other through. You could coil the excess wire behind the plate when you reinstall it. But that definitely runs the risk of losing the cable since it might be navigating through a hard corner. If you go that route I'd suggest just asking your landlord. They'd probably be chill about it and might even pay for it.
by soraminazuki | 2025-10-11 01:11:24+00:00
> here’s what the vim ripgrep plugin I’ve been using looks like

Fun fact, Vim has built-in integration for grep-like tools via the `:grep` command.

For Neovim, it checks if ripgrep is available and uses it out of the box. For Vim, you can add this to your .vimrc:

if executable('rg') set grepprg=rg\ --vimgrep\ --hidden endif

If you don't have ripgrep installed on your system, it'll use plain grep. In that case, the command `:grep -R foo` works just as nicely.
by dangus | 2025-10-11 01:13:15+00:00
For #1 I think the idea basically violates the idea of banning advertising.

For #2, I think that established brands essentially wouldn’t need to be searched for.

In the status quo I can pay to put up a billboard next to McDonald’s and say “I make a better burger two blocks down.”

But if I’m not allowed to do that a lot of people will just assume that McDonald’s is the place to go for a fast food burger.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-10-11 01:14:05+00:00
Apple still has an ultimate advantage.

They have your context. OpenAI doesn’t know where you are. It doesn’t know what you bought or when you last called your wife, it can’t know your heart rate or your work schedule.

Apple can turn it around.

Great AI is a good model with lots of context. Your model can be the best, but if you need the user to provide the context it’ll never be a great experience.

After working with Claude code for a while now, I’ve become much more aware of how to convey context to a machine, and just how poor some humans are at doing it in conversation.

Your AI product is toast if you need people to make it work.
by RickJWagner | 2025-10-11 01:14:50+00:00
Did you miss all the hoopla after Charlie Kirk was murdered? Many people lost jobs for making inappropriate comments.

A prominent Democrat has just been lambasted for wishing a political opponent “two bullets to the head”.

Recall all the cheering for Luigi when the healthcare CEO was gunned down.

I get that we all live in different bubbles. What’s obvious to you is hidden to me, and vice versa.

IMHO, it’s beyond time to work on de-escalation. Hopefully, we can swing the pendulum back.
by krisoft | 2025-10-11 01:15:12+00:00
100%. You are correct on that. You can’t use your kinetic energy to go around after a landing attempt.

But not because “you don’t get the energy back”. (As recursive suggested about a downhill bike ride which is the part i am disagreeing with.) You do get it back, but because you want to land you bleed it away to drag. And once it is bled away you don’t have it anymore.

So we don’t disagree about the practical implications for flying. I’m disagreeing with recursive’s particular statement about downhill cycling and what it implies about the physics of the problem.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-11 01:15:23+00:00
Depends from country to country. I live in India so I can chip in on the situation I suppose and give my/(India's?) perspective on this.

So firstly, it would depend if they are doing remote-job/offshoring directly to a dev or if they are contacting a consultancy instead.

A consultancy can seriously bloat the amount of cost but usually non tech are the ones going to a consultancy but in a consultancy very few (like 5%-10%) goes to the actual workers and they are paid from a fresh dev very low amount of money and I would be going on the high end if I said that they paid something like 16k usd for a complete junior and 40k usd would actually put you at a seriously senior level

Though even the 16k can make a very decent living in India.

My brother works at a company (he freelances as well but parents want security so doesn't do it full time) and he earns around 16k usd from the company but 4x the amount of money through freelancing directly

My cousin works at a company and he's working for 4 years now and he could be considered as maybe senior in just a few years and his salary is 30k USD

my brother actually works at one such consultancy and he mentions that most of the companies are actually non-tech which go to consultancies so I am assuming that since replit is a tech company they are doing remote-job

Now I know that my brother has been approached by companies to do full time but its just risky to work in a startup with the current hiring freeze and he manages to do both somehow I would consider that something like 40-60k (60k as an higher end for a great developer), as always things can even reach 70k sometimes but I am talking on a more average basis of sorts.

Off topic but as someone genuinely interested in this craft, (well I am not sure about coding itself, I have coded but I like golang and sys-admin right now, I want to do so much in this software craft and sometimes I am overwhelmed but its so exciting but I genuinely like tinkering/using linux and making software like alternative frontends for some website which blocked me (doubtnut -> doubt.nanotimestamps.org for my own usecase, I code / use LLM's to solve problems I am facing right now or I am curious about and also recently built a custom liveiso for cachy)

Gotta go hand copy some papers oof. Have a nice day!
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-11 01:15:52+00:00
One of the issues is almost certainly that the app developers didn't add the UIDesignRequiresCompatibility = YES[0] item to the Info.plist.

Set that, and it doesn't use Liquid Glass in your app.

I set it for all my apps. One was designed by a professional designer, who absolutely defecated masonry, when I showed him what it did to our app.

I'm worried that Apple may end up ignoring that flag, and will force us to use LG. That would suck. It says that it's temporary, but I'll bet that Apple will be hating life, if they ignore it.

I'm not freaking out about Liquid Glass, but I don't like it. I completely agree that it is quite unusable.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/BundleResources/In...
by gpm | 2025-10-11 01:18:01+00:00
China cut fossil fuel use 2% in H1 2025 (compared to H1 2024). It cut coal use 2% in H1 2025 (compared to H1 2024) [1]. The majority of new energy production is wind and solar, not nuclear, and certainly not coal.

[1] Both numbers on page 14: https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2025/09/China-Energy-Tr...
by gh02t | 2025-10-11 01:18:29+00:00
Eh, multiple APs and roaming being awful isn't just a matter of shitty placement and bad wireless backhaul, it's also client side software. I have two APs on opposite ends of my house and my phone tries to hang on to whatever AP its connected to far longer than it should when moving around the house. My APs are placed correctly, and support 802.11r, yet my phone and most other devices don't try to roam until far, far past the point they should have switched to the other AP.

The design of roaming being largely client initiated means roaming doesn't really work how people intuitively think it should, because at least every device I've ever seen seems to be programmed to aggressively cling to a single AP.
by acidx | 2025-10-11 01:19:03+00:00
The Linux man page (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/atoi.3.html#VERSIONS) says that POSIX.1 leaves it unspecified. As you found out, it's really something that should be avoided as much as possible, because pretty much everywhere disagrees how it should behave, especially if you value portability.

sscanf() is not a good replacement either! It's better to use strtol() instead. Either do what Lwan does (https://github.com/lpereira/lwan/blob/master/src/lib/lwan-co...), or look (https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtonum.c?re...) at how OpenBSD implemented strtonum(3).

For instance, if you try to parse a number that's preceded by a lot of spaces, sscanf() will take a long time going through it. I've been hit by that when fuzzing Lwan.

Even cURL is avoiding sscanf(): https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/07/writing-c-for-curl/
Ask HN: Should we maybe add header "X-Electricity-Used: 42" to responses?
by delopsu | 2025-10-11 01:20:07+00:00
Telling how much electricity in watt-hours was used for preparing this response.

And it also would sum consumed energy from other requests it made. Or perhaps send it in a separate header.

I don't know where to get this number or if it's even possible.
by laidoffamazon | 2025-10-11 01:20:10+00:00
I've asked people at MIT this repeatedly. They all say they came to MIT for the peer group. Peer group = people that are not _like me_. They shut up quick when I challenge them on that point though, or ask what the difference between them and me is. Even the non-assholes sometimes genuinely don't realize there's an entire parallel world beneath them with zero privilege or respect that made $150k out of undergrad instead of $500k.
by dang | 2025-10-11 01:20:25+00:00
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines badly. Not sure what's going on here, but you've been posting like this a lot, and that's not ok.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
by pastel8739 | 2025-10-11 01:20:44+00:00
China’s building tons of solar and wind, too. If we’re interested in keeping up with them, we could start by not cancelling already planned solar projects (https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/feds-appear-to-canc...).

Besides, if the cost of keeping up with China is breathing deadly coal smoke, I’m not sure the decision is as obvious as you make it seem.
by bavent | 2025-10-11 01:21:10+00:00
I’m referring entirely to built-in Apple apps - Mail, Messages, etc. The in-house apps can’t even get it right, which to me means:

- devs are so siloed, nobody knows what’s going on - product is not communicating anything outside of individual fiefdoms - there is zero QA testing - no designers are actually signing off on the final results

…which all seem pretty typical for a large bureaucracy, I guess I just had higher expectations of Apple, since we pay a premium for their products. Some of these bugs are frankly pretty embarrassing.
by deepsun | 2025-10-11 01:21:21+00:00
Agree, time to host our own websites. People falsely believe sites like Facebook and Twitter are public utilities (some government services even depend on them now). While in reality their owners benevolently allowed you to store and share your content on their premises.

I would also add full responsibility for social platforms for actions of their visitors that they allowed on their premises. Similar to how, say, we accept responsibility of a private park owner allowing public visitors to.

https://harvardlawreview.org/blog/2024/09/courts-should-hold...

PS: somebody flagged your comment, I clicked "vouch" for it.
by Krssst | 2025-10-11 01:21:24+00:00
> And the experience has been that civilisational collapse is much more likely for the people who don't use fossil fuels.

There's a limited amount of fossil fuels on Earth. We definitely are going to stop using them as a major energy source at some point because of that, the question is if we get to get a choice as to how we reduce and stop using them or let the production curve peak and the economy collapse once that happens if nothing was anticipated. With additional climate change to deal with by that point.
by zahlman | 2025-10-11 01:21:25+00:00
> Far from decreasing CO2 emissions we are not only continuing to increase but doing so at an increasing rate.

Objectively untrue. Globally, though the rise over the last couple of decades is disturbing, emissions are most likely leveling off again; they may have broken past the mid 2010s levels and appear to be rapidly rising in the last few years, but this is just a slight "over-recovery" from the impressive ~5.7% drop in 2020 (mainly from COVID restrictions of course). US emissions peaked in 2005 and were ~18.6% lower in 2023 (the last year of Our World in Data figures). And, you know, China is pivoting.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

> and its going to be catastrophic.... But we sure did...

This attitude tends to inspire unproductive doomerism rather than urgent change.
by laidoffamazon | 2025-10-11 01:21:35+00:00
Yes. I live in a city with two Ivy+ institutions and graduates from many more. They're all the same, except some are better at faking it than others.

And why wouldn't they? Why wouldn't they think people like me are lazy and genetically predisposed to be stupid? I didn't make $500k out of undergrad. HRT or OpenAI isn't going to recruit me anytime soon. My net worth isn't $12m at 29, it's a tenth that.

Whenever I ask what the difference between them and their infinite success and potential is and people like me they never have an answer. They're always so confused.
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-11 01:22:10+00:00
You're missing the point: if the computer picks you out for some reason (perhaps you are ill, perhaps you are worried about losing your job or a family member's health, whatever), they won't care about the economic inefficiency or the infringement on your rights. Just because you don't intend to commit crimes doesn't mean you're immunized from bad decision-making by security systems.
by jpereira | 2025-10-11 01:22:25+00:00
The fact that all the data is open means not only that you could plausibly exit to other providers and keep all your projects data, (issues, prs, etc), but also that it's dramatically easier to build other tools that work on that same data. Triage, labelers, bots, etc, I know these are all possible on GitHub today with their API, but I think the programming model of ATProto removes a lot of friction in building and composing them.
by cruffle_duffle | 2025-10-11 01:22:35+00:00
Meh. People are gonna complain about it for a while and then forget all about it. And then 5 or 10 years from now you’ll see some movie or tv show with the older design and you’ll be able to instantly date the show.

It’s actually rather funny because this cycle happens every time something does a major interface change. The comments are basically identical too.
by heelix | 2025-10-11 01:22:50+00:00
Suspect they were IFR. All your points stand. First time flying things with a jet engine, I was shocked how much more fuel gets burned at low altitude. It almost always works out better to max climb to altitude and descend than to fly low and level. On a small jet, things can get spicy fast when ATC route you around at 5000' for 15 minutes or so. Three aborted landings would gobble gas like crazy.

§ 91.167 Fuel requirements for flight in IFR conditions.

(a) No person may operate a civil aircraft in IFR conditions unless it carries enough fuel (considering weather reports and forecasts and weather conditions) to—

(1) Complete the flight to the first airport of intended landing;

(2) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, fly from that airport to the alternate airport; and

(3) Fly after that for 45 minutes at normal cruising speed
by CompoundEyes | 2025-10-11 01:23:10+00:00
The US government might swoop in. Uncle Sam could provide a bailout on the grounds of national security if it starts to fall apart for the major players. The long play is governments investing right?

‘Together, raise and deploy a national start-up fund. With local as well as OpenAI capital, together we can seed healthy national AI ecosystems so the new infrastructure is creating new jobs, new companies, new revenue, and new communities for each country while also supporting existing public- and private-sector needs.’ https://openai.com/global-affairs/openai-for-countries/
by milch | 2025-10-11 01:23:23+00:00
I've started seeing this increasingly over the past few months, both from Teslas and non-Teslas. Most recently about 2 weeks ago, someone did it right in front of a police car - who didn't care in the slightest! Some people just decide they've waited long enough and go for it, cross traffic be damned.

This is without even accounting for "no right on red" signs, which honestly seem to be entirely optional. People usually don't even look anywhere near the direction where the sign is hung.