MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-17 20:49:21+00:00
Right. The thing is, I don't know if there's any culture that enjoys completely dissonant music and doesn't enjoy consonance. I like Arabic classical and pop a lot, they use disonance a bit more and also don't always use the 12-ET tuning. But anyone who's developed any kind of tuning, it still divides up an octave, ie the notes reset when the frequency doubles.
by m101 | 2025-10-17 20:49:42+00:00
There are many comments on here trying to justify why EVs lose value quickly. Why is it simply not the case that the price falls quickly because the market only clears at lower prices? Perhaps the demand curve just isn't there for EVs as it is for ICE vehicles?

In which case: no it's not that they're amazing - it's that they are less desirable than ICE vehicles.

(I used to own a Tesla now I'm back on a hybrid, and delighted about it)
by IdSayThatllDoIt | 2025-10-17 20:50:04+00:00
This seems like a straw man argument.

That the brain uses electrical/chemical signals is crank science about subatomic particles messing with your aura in a way comparable to "body thetans" in Scientology.

If that were not so, electrical/chemical engineers could upgrade our brains with their knowledge of electricity/chemistry.

Scientific progress is thinking about stuff. And my Occam's razor is leaning toward "if just arithmetic could yield consciousness we would have figured it out by now".
by _pdp_ | 2025-10-17 20:50:42+00:00
These are completely different things. MCP is also about consuming external services handling oauth and all of that. Skills are effectively cli tools + prompts. Completely different application so they cannot be compared easily like that.

BTW, before even MCP was a thing we invented our own system that is called Skillset. Turns out now it is sort of the best parts of both MCPs and Skills.
by fair_enough | 2025-10-17 20:50:54+00:00
Japanese is full of loanwords precisely because those good folks on the other side of the world find so many things about Western culture fascinating.

My Japanese father-in-law even played QB and Safety for his university's American-style football team in the 80s and grew up as a fan of Jack Lambert and Mean Joe Greene.

Many people in Japan are just as much "Americanophiles" as some of us are "Japanophiles".
by FireInsight | 2025-10-17 20:51:17+00:00
When clicking your link, for me it opened the following query on Wolfram Alpha: `what%27s the total population of the United States%3F`

Funnily enough, this was the result: `6.1% mod 3 °F (degrees Fahrenheit) (2015-2019 American Community Survey 5-year estimates)`

I wonder how that was calculated...
by pyuser583 | 2025-10-17 20:52:07+00:00
My understanding is that precise measurement of time is the basis of all other measurements: space, mass, etc. They are all defined by some unit of time. So increasing time precision increases potential precision in other measurements.

Including of course information - often defined by the presence or absence of some alterable within a specific time.

We invent new uses for things once we have them.

A fun thought experiment would be what the world would look like if all clocks were perfectly in sync. I think I'll spend the rest of the day coming with imaginary applications.
by mindslight | 2025-10-17 20:52:16+00:00
"Federal assets" like federal "law" enforcement agents and federally-chartered cattle traincars.

Personally I think state governors should be preemptively deploying their own National Guards to protect their citizens' Constitutional rights against this out of control federal executive. With neither Congress nor the Supreme Council doing their jobs, the states have become the remaining check against rampant federal lawlessness.
by shmerl | 2025-10-17 20:52:34+00:00
Good chance that this version will run on most up to date distros without much issue. So I don't see it as a reason not to release it.

> proprietary and open source hardware drivers etc

Somewhat of a problem, but not so much anymore, most Linux gamers know to use AMD and Mesa. So I'd say their focus on SteamOS is a good base of support.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-17 20:52:53+00:00
I don't miss those days at all... A major client of my employer around 2000-2001 was "standardized" on Netscape 4.06. And I was expected to make stack diagrams and Gantt charts. I wrote an abstraction library just to draw boxes on the screen targeting the IE/NN 4x/5x differences, having to cover the screen in NN while "drawing" just to prevent the flickering effect causing someone a seizure. ILayer/IFrames, ugh... dynamic forms were horrible, having to mirror multiple forms into a composite hidden field form next to the submit button.

So many hacks... Not to mention the IE 5.0.0 select api bug, or the later uncatchable error in IE8's JSON parser... those were some rough years.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-17 20:53:14+00:00
But these are internal IDs only, and public ones should be a separate col. Being able to generate uuid7 without a central index is useful in distributed systems, but this is a Postgres DB already.

Now, the index on the public IDs would be faster with a uuid7 than a uuid4, but you have a similar info leak risk that the article mentions.
by lelandbatey | 2025-10-17 20:53:34+00:00
> if a machine performs a task as well as a human, it understands it exactly as much as a human.

I think you're right, except that the ones judging "as well as a human" are in fact humans, and humans have expectations that expand beyond the specs. From the narrow perspective of engineering specifications or profit generated, a robot/AI may very well be exactly as understanding as a human. For the people which interact with those systems outside the money/specs/speeds & feeds, the AI/robot will always feel at least different compared to a person. And as long as it's different, there will always be room to un-falsifiably claim "this robot is worse in my opinion due to X/Y/Z difference."
by solsane | 2025-10-17 20:54:39+00:00
I do not feel the same way. This looks easy to use and useful. I don’t think every problem needs to be a ‘deep problem’. There’s so many practical steps to get to

> People want to log in to an account, tell the thing to do something, and the system figures out the rest.

At a glance, this seems to be a practical approach to building up a personalized prompting stack based on the things I commonly do.

I’m excited about it.
by WJW | 2025-10-17 20:54:41+00:00
It's so weird that people literally seem to have a voice in their head they cannot control. For me personally my "train of thought" is a series of concepts, sometimes going as far as images. I can talk to myself in my head with language if I make a conscious effort to do so, just as I can breathe manually if I want. But if I don't, it's not really there like some people seem to have.

Probably there are at least two groups of people and neither really comprehends how the other thinks haha.
by labcomputer | 2025-10-17 20:55:00+00:00
The reality is that there's no margin in cheap cars. You need to look at numbers instead of vibes.

The difference between 4 crank-up window regulators and 4 power window regulators is less than $100. 4 power lock actuators cost less than $20. Switches for all the above are, what, maybe $10?

The same math applies to power mirrors, auto climate control, heated seats, cruise control, and all the rest.

The production cost of a car with "power everything" vs. "manual everything" is a few hundred dollars at most. But consumers expect a much bigger discount for the inconvenience of missing those features (or, conversely, are willing to pay a much larger premium to add those features to a baseline car).

That the US doesn't have cheap cars is simply the reality of what the market demands. Cheap (new) cars don't sell (for more than what it costs to produce them).
by johnnyApplePRNG | 2025-10-17 20:55:34+00:00
Absolutely, I'm a huge fan of Squoosh! It's a phenomenal tool and a big inspiration for this project.

The main difference is that OnlyJPG is laser-focused on one thing: creating the best possible, universally compatible JPG using Google's Jpegli encoder.

Surprisingly, Squoosh doesn't use Jpegli yet.
by gambiting | 2025-10-17 20:55:50+00:00
I can't tell you about Tesla, but BMW for example did shoot themselves right in the foot by announcing literally at the launch of the iX that they are going to bring a new model with updated 800V architecture within couple years. So........why would you buy that first one, knowing that a much improved model is literally right around the corner. Consequently prices of the iX cratered, and you could have it on a lease for the same cost as a VW golf, despite being (at least in theory) 3x more expensive. The first gen cars are now so laughably cheap it's actually stupid to not buy one because they are still perfectly good very capable vehicles - but yeah, why would it keep value if it was immediately replaced by a much better model. With EVs we're in the GPU area where each model immediately displaces the last generation and within few years your top of the line flagship card is worth close to nothing.
by ntoskrnl_exe | 2025-10-17 20:55:54+00:00
I'm a Linux user who buys a lot of games on GOG and I've never had a problem running them using Wine stable, with the only exception being games that supposedly don't even work on Proton yet.

Majority of the games there don't even come in a native Linux form, and those that do can be a hit or miss when it comes to compatibility - at least one game I tried needed a dependency from a no longer available package. Alternatively a few titles come shipped with some kind of wrapper that's really just an outdated version of Wine surrounding a win32 EXE.

Also, isn't the point of buying something DRM free that you don't have to use a client or any other online feature? The offline installer has always been GOG's killer feature in my book, that's how you make sure the game gets truly preserved.
by spot | 2025-10-17 20:56:15+00:00
who said "everyone" or did you make a strawman?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%E2%80%93Lucas_argument

this actually puts it better:

The Penrose–Lucas argument about the implications of Gödel's incompleteness theorem for computational theories of human intelligence was criticized by mathematicians,[16][17][18][19] computer scientists,[20] and philosophers,[21][22][23][24][25] and the consensus among experts[7] in these fields is that the argument fails,[26][27][28] with different authors attacking different aspects of the argument.[28][29]

so, rejected by consensus. someone should update the book page so this expert rejection is clearer.
by namrog84 | 2025-10-17 20:56:23+00:00
I briefly worked at Microsoft xbox back compat where we made the Xbox OG and Xbox 360 games work on Xbox one and newer generations and I know the PMs spent considerable time and effort doing similar things for the earlier Xbox games to be allowed for us to have them work on newer Xbox generations. It's really surprising that sometimes IP changes hands enough in some cases the owners might not have even known they owned something. I think the legal and permission always definitely one of the harder problems. I know music in some games were also particularly challenging, a few games had to have sound tracks removed or replaced.
by markhahn | 2025-10-17 20:56:32+00:00
No, there's no evidence against Tegmark's math.

Finding isolated quantum effects is emphatically unsurprising: after all, everything is quantum. It's just limited in locality, which is basically what Tegmark is talking about (locality and decoherence time being somewhat dual).

There is no evidence for the kind of quantum effects that would involve multiple neurons. This is quite a block, since afaik, even the quantum-woo types (Penrose, emphatically) are not claiming that consciousness comes from the quantum behavior of a single neuron. (And that would be profoundly ignorant of basic neuroscience.)
by SR2Z | 2025-10-17 20:56:56+00:00
I see masked agents going around in broad daylight throwing people in the back of vans and running over protestors as a failure of the system, because I have eyes and took a civics class in high school.

Very sad the country has returned to this - the last time America was this Great was when it was doing this to black people during the Civil rights movement :'(
by lucastech | 2025-10-17 20:57:01+00:00
I wrote about this a few weeks ago, because it really is quite insane.

I wish AWS would curtail abuse from their networks. My hope is to build some tools to automate detection and reporting of this sort of abuse, so we can force it into AWS's court.

https://wxp.io/blog/abuse-from-amazon-ip-networks-never-end
by alistairSH | 2025-10-17 20:57:06+00:00
A few thoughts...

They compare the Model Y to an F150, but don't indicate if the 0-day prices are MSRP or actual sales (because F150s are usually discounted from list price and EVs have various subsidies). While each is best-selling by some measure, they're also different products - a truck VS a near-luxury wagon/crossover. I wouldn't expect them to depreciate at the same rate - they should have included a near-luxury gas-powered wagon/crossover as well (Lexus NX, maybe).

Their argument relies heavily on data from India, where a bankrupt ride-share service flooded the market. If Enterprise went out of business and flooded the US market with Toyota Camrys, I'd expect some pricing irregularity for that model.

Similarly, the US EV market (and probably some others?) is heavily impacted by federal and local rebates and tax benefits. Those surely skew the used car values as well - nobody actually paid $50,000 for a new Tesla (or whatever), they paid $50,000 - some subsidy (and that amount varied based on model, price, and the income of the initial buyer - my neighbor could by the exact same car as me for $7500 less than I could). Some of these subsidies also incentivized leasing vs buying, which then means more of those cars go on the market in 2-3 years (vs a typical ~8 year ownership for a new car).

Long story short, EVs are a nascent market, there's bound to be pricing issues. I'm not convinced we can extrapolate long-term used market values based on the last ~5 years of data.
by Jensson | 2025-10-17 20:58:34+00:00
> I used an LLM to explain to a poster at length why they fundamentally didn't understand what I said. It did a bang up job. The poster still didn't understand my original post.

It didn't do a bang up job if the poster still didn't understand you, so sorry this example doesn't prove what you think it does.

You have to measure actual results, your own take will always be biased so you can't say "I thought it was great but it didn't work" and expect people to get convinced by that.

Edit: And if that doesn't convince you, why not read what this AI has to say about your post, if you like them so much you should read this right and acknowledge you were wrong just like you expected those people to: https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68f2ae740f98819183539767b921965b
by Spivak | 2025-10-17 20:59:06+00:00
Having ridden in a lot of BYDs when traveling overseas I think you paint too bleak a picture. They're everywhere and reliable enough to seemingly be the preferred cars for uber drivers. Some markets might tax them out of existence but I expect others will gladly take perfectly serviceable cars on the cheap.

Tesla is still kicking and they had all the same problems at one time or another. I mean until this year we also massively subsidized every EV sale so pot calling the kettle black.
by jakogut | 2025-10-17 20:59:08+00:00
Learning things is good. I also find I care more about the outcome and timeline than many professionals do, because I have to deal with the end result. That's not to say professionals can't or won't do the job better, or that they don't have more applicable experience to do the job more efficiently, but evaluating professionals is often as much or more work as learning how to do the job myself and just doing it. On average, the end result is at least better than a poor professional, sometimes as good or better than an average professional.
by GeorgeTirebiter | 2025-10-17 20:59:11+00:00
I've been impressed with CfCs --- and the stuff Liquid https://www.liquid.ai/research/liquid-neural-networks-resear... is trying to do: model neurons as differential equations, and use CfC methods to alleviate runtime ODE solving, using approximations (or tight integral bounds), so there’s often a tradeoff between approximation error and speed. https://chatgpt.com/share/68f2ada8-06ac-8002-9191-269b0cbba4...

The Big question is: WHERE is the Complexity? If Complexity is Fixed in a System, it must be Somewhere. (you can see this at play any time you look at a large software system.) Do you have simple 'blocks' and many of them? OR, do you have more complicated blocks (requiring more computons), but fewer of them? I think this is an exciting research area right now.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-17 20:59:15+00:00
I know, I actually watched multiple clips like these. he's a good man from what I can tell. Like he had his differences in political matters and that's okay. Its okay and even nice to have differences and to discuss them and from what I know his family served in military, his children served in military which is more than what you can expect from politicians nowadays all across the world.

I would say that I am a democrat but seriously, McCain was a class act as I said earlier.

Just a little disappointed in world politics right now, I hope politicans can look at people like John McCain and others and actually start being better as well.

I guess I could just hope I guess, but I am on bluesky and sometimes I get so extremist democratic and I feel like republicans could be alienated from that. Idk, we all gotta get together and figure things out with responsibility inspired by John McCain

Rest In peace Sir. You will be remembered all around the world.
by leobg | 2025-10-17 20:59:39+00:00
I’ve read that same sentiment back in 2016. Only difference being that “meme stock” wasn’t a word back then.

I also love the excuse: “I’m right. I’m just not putting any money behind my conviction because the market might deviate from my truth.”

What is that “insight”, that “prediction” worth, if you can’t put money on it without going broke?
by bell-cot | 2025-10-17 21:00:04+00:00
> There is a concentration of it where...

Unfortunately, lead seems to follow a "anything above 0.000000000000% is harmful, though more is worse" rule.

> They have the ability to...

True, but there are a lot of filter-worthy things which can be found in drinking water -

https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/national...

- so how much filtering, for which contaminants, should they have to do? How often should they have to re-test the (probably municipal) water supply, to verify that their filtering is doing the job? And how much will they mark up the price of water for their tenants, to cover the expenses of all their extra filtering and testing?
by mustaphah | 2025-10-17 21:01:13+00:00
This aligns with METR's Time Horizons [1], the current SOTA "Moore's Law" for AI agents:

- The length of tasks AI can complete doubles every ~7 months

- In 2-4 years, AIs could autonomously complete week-long projects.

- In under 10 years, they might handle month-long software or knowledge work.

[1] https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-com...
by tracker1 | 2025-10-17 21:01:26+00:00
In a way, usually utilities are state controlled and there are different levels of funding for expansion projects, as well as variations to levels of efficiency, corruption or manipulation.

I'm perfectly fine if to satisfy that requirement the Data Center operator pays the Utility Company for the cost of expanding existing infrastructure, but I want those expenses more direct to the specific consumer (data center) likely to consume more energy in a day than most of the residents of the city do via taxes or direct fees against increased demands.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-17 21:01:40+00:00
> If the tools can't crack a system we built and fully documented, our inability to simulate brains just means we're ignorant, not that substrate is magic

Nobody said the substrate is magic. Just that it isn't understood. Plenty of CS folks have also been trying to simulate a brain. We haven't figured it out. The same logic that tells you the neuroscientific model is broken at some level should inform that the brains-as-computers model is similarly deficient.

> Pointing at "multidimensional electrochemical complexity" is just phlogiston with better vocabulary

Sorry, have you figured out how to simulate a brain?

Multidimensional because you have more than one signalling chemical. Electrochemical because you can't just watch what the electrons are doing.

> Name something specific transformers can't do?

That what can't do. A neuron? A neurotransmitter-receptor system? We literally can't simulate these systems beyond toy models. We don't even know what the essential parts are--can you safely lump together N neutransmitter molecules? What's N? We're still discovering new ion channels?!
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-17 21:02:07+00:00
The funniest part of the banners is that most websites just buy a service from a third party to manage compliance, and some of those third party service providers have added "decline all" style buttons and one click solutions to all that use them, and are even friendly enough to save that choice in one of the "necessary" cookies.

But people (like my girlfriend) still click "Allow all" because they don't seem to realize that the legislation requires the website to still function if you decline unnecessary cookies!

The banner is literally an attempt to FOMO you into accepting cookies you never need to accept!

IMO the EU is somewhat in dereliction of Duty for not punishing cookie banner sites
by zokier | 2025-10-17 21:02:15+00:00
I have been using forgejo for a very small sideproject of mine and so far I have enjoyed it, but admittedly I use probably like 10% of the features. But sometimes that is all you need, and forgejo is quite nice and simple to configure and run so that works out. My impression is that it is much more lightweight (and faster) than gitlab, although I haven't done actual comparisons.
by discreteevent | 2025-10-17 21:02:17+00:00
On vibe coding vs using auto complete:

> The models have so many cognitive deficits. One example, they kept misunderstanding the code because they have too much memory from all the typical ways of doing things on the Internet that I just wasn’t adopting.

> I also feel like it’s annoying to have to type out what I want in English because it’s too much typing. If I just navigate to the part of the code that I want, and I go where I know the code has to appear and I start typing out the first few letters, autocomplete gets it and just gives you the code.

> They keep trying to make a production code base, and I have a bunch of assumptions in my code, and it’s okay. I don’t need all this extra stuff in there. So I feel like they’re bloating the code base, bloating the complexity, they keep misunderstanding, they’re using deprecated APIs a bunch of times. It’s a total mess. It’s just not net useful. I can go in, I can clean it up, but it’s not net useful.
by hax0ron3 | 2025-10-17 21:02:23+00:00
If your countrymen want to use Uber, Air B&B, Oracle, and Facebook, should you try to stop them from doing it, even if you personally dislike those companies?

You are making the same argument that Trump is making with the tariffs. Personally, while I can see some good arguments for protectionism, I'd rather have the choice to decide whether or not I want to buy Chinese products, rather than the government making the choice for me.