MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AlecSchueler | 2025-10-11 07:26:00+00:00
I feel something the same but actually feel the CD and records generations missed out on a lot as well, not that music was a formless thing but that it was disembodied, appearing from plastic discs and dumb speakers.

With my daughter I'm trying to just have much more music in the house, instruments laying around, singing and teaching her traditional songs and making them up together. I don't really worry about her not sitting around choosing between the Stones or the Beatles, as long as she's developing her own relationship with music.
by MichaelRo | 2025-10-11 07:26:06+00:00
I recall starting to program in BASIC on CP/M and ZX-Spectrum machines and they didn't have procedures, only GOTO. Just like assembler, you can use all the JMP you want and not use structured programming and procedures but ... it will all become an unmaintainable mess in short time.

Very likely in a number of alternate futures (if not all of them), given the original set of CPU instructions, people would gravitate naturally to C and not some GOTO spaghetti or message passing or object oriented whatever.
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-11 07:26:08+00:00
Funny, I see rating dropping for the networks which engage in the kind of propaganda masquerading as journalism that you claim has demand. What you don't seem to understand is that only worked because of the credibility that decades of just-the-facts reporting built up. Now that that is gone, so are the ratings. And doing more hit pieces doesn't reverse that. What would reverse that is just-the-facts reporting which builds up credibility. Also, on YouTube, the channels with the largest consistent viewership are often the ones that try to be unbiased, not your yellow journalism.
by wltr | 2025-10-11 07:28:04+00:00
Hey, but the release of iOS 7 was the worst release in the entire history of iOS releases. At least my personal impression is so. This release completes with that. So I agree, sure thing, we can substitute iOS 7 for iOS 26, and it would be the same. But what’s the sameness we discuss? Is it some corporate culture that inevitably brings us the mediocrity, or us, the users, being thankless plebes with some weird wishes of usability? To me, that’s the first, obviously. You leave them alone for a while and they’ll bring you … this.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-11 07:28:06+00:00
>1. We're not all the same person, to be clear.

No. But you all run under the same label. This is common if you didn't know. For example a certain group of people with certain beliefs can be called republican or democrat or catholic. I didn't name the label explicitly. But you all are in that group. I thought it was obvious I wasn't talking about one person. I don't think you're so stupid as to actually think that so don't pretend you misinterpreted what I said.

>2. It's also not the same argument as before. It's not the same extrapolation.

Seems like the same argument to me, you thought LLMs were stochastic parrots and inherently and forever limited by it's very nature (a statement made with no proof).

The extrapolation is the same since the dawn of AI: upwards. We may hit a wall, but nobody can know this for sure.

>3. And being right or wrong in the past has no bearing on current

It does. Past performance is a good predictor of current performance. It's also common sense, why else do we have resumes?

You were wrong before, chances are... you'll be wrong again.

>It's wrong to extrapolate we're seamlessly going to go from tool use to "AI replaces humans"

You just make this statement without any supporting evidence? It's just wrong because you say so?

This is my statement: How about the trendline points to an eventual future that remains an open possibility due to a trendline...

versus your conclusion which is "it's wrong"
by lastdong | 2025-10-11 07:29:02+00:00
Love philosophy and the story bringing it back. I really liked the originals, but today I don’t find the design appealing - I’m sure some of you do ofc.

I'm not sure if the best example, but what I can think of atm — Looking at what Teenage Engineering is doing (copy Dieter Rams), I find their products fun and they feel premium. I think a design refresh for pebble could make a big difference.

Probably hard to think about re-design at this stage, and I do hope it keeps gaining momentum and support to grow.
by wzdd | 2025-10-11 07:29:40+00:00
GGP didn’t say “Antichrist” wasn’t in the bible. They said that antichrist “as a figure” wasn’t in the bible. Even the Wikipedia article on Antichrist will give you a rich overview of this discussion and general scholarly agreement that that word as used in the bible does not reference a specific figure.

There is quite a lot of nuance here. You can’t just keyword search.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-11 07:30:15+00:00
It can. That's the future bro. It replace me, you and all of us.

You're dropping that line as if it's absurd. Be realistic. Dark conclusions are not automatically illogical. If the logic points to me being replaced, then that's just reality.

Right now we don't know if I (aka you) will be replaced, but trendlines point to it as a possiblity.
by kristopolous | 2025-10-11 07:31:24+00:00
The biblical antichrist/world government thing has been linked to so many things. People were against the UN in the 1940/50s because they thought it was part of the apocalypse and anti-christ.

I quoth Common Sense 1952-04-01:

"The United Nations, which had its birth in the San Francisco conference—set up by a group of which Alger Hiss was secretary, is no doubt a forerunner of the coming “one world” dictatorship by “one man”—the anti-Christ The UN has ruled out Christ entirely and its headquarters are a convenient spy nest for the Reds."

https://archive.org/details/sim_common-sense_1952-04-01_159/...

This is just the same fanatical brainmelt that imagines wild conspiracies in every generation. Before the UN it was The League of Nations (Which the US didn't join) and before that "catholic imperialism".

Just because Theil has money doesn't mean we should take him seriously. The same nonsense just gets re-contextualized for every generation.

"Jesus' second-coming in your lifetime!" I mean true believers don't want to think they're going to miss out I guess...
by Eisenstein | 2025-10-11 07:31:37+00:00
> BTW is mp3 still relevant now? It seems that AAC, Opus, and Vorbis are all clearly superior, and widely supported. What makes mp3 still worth considering?

It is incredibly relevant. MP3 is the baseline standard for lossy compressed audio. If you have an MP3, you can play it and convert it anywhere. There are definitely benefits of AAC and others, but they are not great enough to forgo the universality of the MP3 format when all you want is 2 channel 16 bit 44.1khz audio.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-11 07:33:34+00:00
Company expectations are higher too. Many companies expect 10x output now due to AI, but the technology has been growing so quick that there are a lot of people/companies who haven't realized that we're in the middle of a paradigm shift.

If you're not using AI for 60-70 percent of your code, you are behind. And yes 200 per month for AI is required.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-11 07:34:10+00:00
> Trying to prevent accidents while not paying attention to hazardous states amounts to relying on the environment always being on our side, and is bound to fail eventually.

The reason they had less than 30 minutes of fuel was because the environment wasn't on their side. They started out with a normal amount of reserve and then things went quite badly and the reserve was sufficient but only just.

The question then is, how much of an outlier was this? Was this a perfect storm that only happens once in a century and the thing worse than this that would actually have exhausted the reserve only happens once in ten centuries? Or are planes doing this every Tuesday which would imply that something is very wrong?
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-11 07:34:12+00:00
Lecturing people on basic US civics doesn't really prove anything.

Lifting prohibitions on nuclear power and nuclear research would qualify I think. That took me about 5 seconds to come up with.

Your side is losing, so you attack, attack, attack. But all you are doing is driving reasonable people away. Your hyperbolic rhetoric is literally getting people killed. And you lie about the victims to justify that violence.

There is some truth for you...
by poolnoodle | 2025-10-11 07:34:26+00:00
It completely destroyed my iPad's (2020) performance which was to be expected, but I also catch myself using it and constantly thinking "Oh my god, this looks so ugly" about different UI elements. E.g. the numpad for entering your PIN looks so terrible when pressing buttons (at least on top of my wallpaper). It lights up in a weird way and is just unpleasant to look at.
by gapan | 2025-10-11 07:35:00+00:00
You're right, but mp3 is still even more widely supported. It is also good enough, most people can't tell the difference between original files and around 128kbps ABR mp3 files, let alone higher bitrates. And there are huge personal libraries of mp3 files out there that are not going away.

That said, I don't see the use of this tool. It's a proprietary tool that does basic things for which free tools (in every sense of the word) have existed for a long time now.
by nl | 2025-10-11 07:36:20+00:00
> OpenAI needs 1 trillion dollars in next four years just to keep existing.

That's a mischaracterization: They need that order of investment to meet the demand they forecast.

It's unclear what other trajectories look like.

Additionally, I don't know who Ed Zitron is but he clearly doesn't follow how infrastructure projects are funded and how OpenAI is doing deals.

See for example the AMD deal last week where they seem to have at least partially used their ability to increase AMD's stock price to pay for future GPUs.

Mining companies do the kids of "circular deals" that OpenAI is criticized for all the time - they will take equity in their supplier companies. It's easy to see similar arrangements for this $1T investment in the future.
by rekabis | 2025-10-11 07:36:42+00:00
I use alarms out of convenience and convention.

But the weird thing is, I have been able to set my own internal alarm for decades, now. So long as I know the current time, I can focus on the idea of waking up at a specific time, visualizing the act of waking up and getting clear out of bed right as my clock rolls over into that exact time, and actually wake up within a 5-minute window around that time.

Only strong sleep deprivation - less than 3-4 hrs of sleep, or less deprivation but chronically so over the previous few days - can impact this ability. Or to be more honest: I still wake up, on time, but then usually just fall right back to sleep due to a lack of inertia.

But then again, I also have the ability to just wake up, sleep deprivation or fully refreshed, and just pop out of bed like a piece of toast. As in, I can go to full wakefulness and full functionality within seconds so long as I can catch myself and prevent myself from falling asleep again.
by Cockbrand | 2025-10-11 07:37:19+00:00
> What makes mp3 still worth considering?

A lot of people (including myself) won't re-encode their existing music collections into another lossy format to avoid degradation in sound quality.

Also, as much as it sucks these days, a lot of people (including myself) are still in the Apple ecosystem (formerly iTunes, now Music.app). For these people, mp3 seems to be the best compressed format that's compatible with the rest of the world.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-10-11 07:37:33+00:00
Seems like the philosophy here is, if you're going to do AI-based rendering, might as well try it across different parts of the graphics pipeline and see if you can fine-tune it at the silicon level. Probably a microoptimization, but if it makes the PS6 look a tiny bit better than the Xbox, people will pay for that.
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2025-10-11 07:38:22+00:00
underwhelming? what do you mean?

every year, Playstation ranks very high when it comes to GOTY nominations

just last year, Playstation had the most nominations for GOTY: https://x.com/thegameawards/status/1858558789320142971

not only that, but PS5 has more 1st party games than Microsoft's Xbox S|X

1053 vs 812 (that got inflated with recent Activision acquisition)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_5_games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_Series_X_and_Seri...

It's important to check the facts before spreading random FUD

PS5 had the strongest lineup of games this generation, hence why they sold this many consoles

Still today, consumers are attracted to PS5's lineup, and this is corroborated by facts and data https://www.vgchartz.com/

In August for example, the ratio between PS5 and Xbox is 8:1; almost as good as the new Nintendo Switch 2, and the console is almost 5 years old!

You say "underwhelming", people are saying otherwise
by spragl | 2025-10-11 07:39:33+00:00
This is a clear case of "you get what you measure". Measuring speed is so easy, everybody can do it, and do it all the time. No wonder that providers optimize for speed. But it also works the other way around. We have developed a focus on speed as it was the only thing that mattered.

I have worked with networks for many years, and users blaming all sorts of issues on the network is a classic, so of course in their minds they need more speed and more bandwidth. But improvements only makes sense up to some point. After that it is just psychological.
by amlib | 2025-10-11 07:41:44+00:00
Could the PS6 be the last console generation with an expressive improvement in compute and graphics? Miniaturization keeps giving ever more diminishing returns each shrink, prices of electronics are going up (even sans tariffs), lead by the increase in the price of making chips. Alternate techniques have slowly been introduced to offset the compute deficit, first with post processing AA in the seventh generation, then with "temporal everything" hacks (including TAA) in the previous generation and finally with minor usage of AI up-scaling in the current generation and (projected) major usage of AI up-scaling and frame-gen in the next gen.

However, I'm pessimistic on how this can keep evolving. RT already takes a non trivial amount of transistor budget and now those high end AI solutions require another considerable chunk of the transistor budget. If we are already reaching the limits of what non generative AI up-scaling and frame-gen can do, I can't see where a PS7 can go other than using generative AI to interpret a very crude low-detail frame and generating a highly detailed photorealistic scene from that, but that will, I think, require many times more transistor budget than what will likely ever be economically achievable for a whole PS7 system.

Will that be the end of consoles? Will everything move to the cloud and a power guzzling 4KW machine will take care of rendering your PS7 game?

I really can only hope there is a break-trough in miniaturization and we can go back to a pace of improvement that can actually give us a new generation of consoles (and computers) that makes the transition from an SNES to a N64 feel quaint.
by lxgr | 2025-10-11 07:44:05+00:00
As far as I’ve heard, Ryanair will cut into literally everything (including comfort and decency) for the sake of efficiency – other than safety. Even if they wanted to, they're subject to the same commercial aviation regulations as everybody else.

Do you have anything other than this single incident to back up your insinuation that they’re less safe than a full service airline?
by anthk | 2025-10-11 07:44:13+00:00
Also tons of blue collar people bought Chinese NES clones even in mid 90's (at least in Spain) while some other people with white collar jobs bought their kids a Play Station. And OFC the Brick Game Tetris console was everywhere. By late 90's, yes, most people afforded a Play Station, but as for myself I've got a computer in very early 00's and I would emulate the PSX and most N64 games just fine (my computer wasn't a high end one, but the emulators were good enough to play the games at 640x480 and a bilinear filter).
by topspin | 2025-10-11 07:44:29+00:00
> A better solution is repurposing unused 75Ω coaxial cable with MoCA 2.5 adapters

I'll second this. MoCA works. You can get MoCA adapters off Ebay or whatnot for cheap: look for Frontier branded FCA252. ~90 MBps with a 1000BASE-T switch in the loop. I see ~3 ms of added latency. I've made point-to-point links exclusively, as opposed to using splitters and putting >2 MoCA adapters on shared medium, but that is supported as well.
by hashstring | 2025-10-11 07:46:46+00:00
> Leffel questioned whether a $250,000 penalty would be significant enough to change operations at The Boring Co., which was valued at $7 billion in 2023. Studies show that fines that don’t put a significant dent in a company’s profit don’t deter companies from future violations, Leffel said.

A 250k penalty? Get real. Leffel said it like it is. What a sham.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-11 07:46:58+00:00
well I was saying if you are working for 10 years sure.

I can only speak for my brother's company in that sense that if he works there for many years, their chain of ranking would make him a partner in the company (sort of like how layer firms get) and then he would get a flat huge commission on every project he takes and there are some 10 lakhs inr or 12 grand usd as an example and so like it isn't hard to get some really juicy money later down the pipeline.

Though like what I am saying 70k is for like genuinely the most top like 0.0001% or almost never unless for the extremely top official with shit ton of experience like 10-15-20 years

On the other hand, its rather comparatively easy to take a remote job from US and do it from india to get the same 70k which I have seen a hella lot more people do/ is the more practical approach for many.

I don't know but internally speaking 12 grand a year and even 60 grand seems small but its shit boat ton of money but still my mind compared it to the 120k salary guys of the beautiful united states and maybe that's why I overinflated some numbers.

if you have any questions, feel free to ask, I can uh refer to you to my brother if you have any doubts since I am currently in high school.
by DocTomoe | 2025-10-11 07:47:18+00:00
Seconded.

That being said: I have - for some years now - started to read air accident board reports (depending on your locale, they may be named slightly different). They make for a fascinating read, and they have made me approach debugging and postmortems in a more structured, more holistic way. They should be freely available on your transportation safety board websites (NTSB in America, BFU in Germany, ...)
by bob1029 | 2025-10-11 07:47:27+00:00
It will never be fast enough to work in real time without compromising some aspect of the player's experience.

Ray tracing is solving the light transport problem in the hardest way possible. Each additional bounce adds exponentially more computational complexity. The control flows are also very branchy when you start getting into the wild indirect lighting scenarios. GPUs prefer straight SIMD flows, not wild, hierarchical rabbit hole exploration. Disney still uses CPU based render farms. There's no way you are reasonably emulating that experience in <16ms.

The closest thing we have to functional ray tracing for gaming is light mapping. This is effectively just ray tracing done ahead of time, but the advantage is you can bake for hours to get insanely accurate light maps and then push 200+ fps on moderate hardware. It's almost like you are cheating the universe when this is done well.

The human brain has a built in TAA solution that excels as frame latencies drop into single digit milliseconds.
by fruitplants | 2025-10-11 07:47:44+00:00
IMO at Apple the feedback loops seem to have gotten longer. They took a lot of time to discontinue the butterfly keyboards, bring magsafe back, etc. So it's likely that they'll double down on this OS/ UX than correct their path soon. I am not saying that they don't care. But I haven't seen statements like 'we made a mistake', or even 'you are holding it wrong', etc. This- not caring to be answerable to the end user, along with other perceptions in this thread (like siloed teams, bugs in their own apps) makes me think that Apple has become a somewhat dysfunctional enterprise. If they are going down that path, maybe they should hire SAFe Agile consultants. :-)

Disclaimer: Don't follow Apple or HN a lot. And these opinions are maybe more of my perceptions than facts. Open to corrections.
by larusso | 2025-10-11 07:48:49+00:00
Yes I know. But audiobooks bought are way more expensive than getting them from audible with the credit system over the course of one year for instance. I used to buy my albums rather than having a streaming service subscription. But I sadly caved in. I just wonder if all who report they do this for they kids etc really go out and buy all these great records and audiobooks etc. because for me there is a reason to have a subscription. An album on iTunes costs roughly 10€. For that I can listen a whole month to whatever album. Sure the album is somewhat mine when I purchase it (definitely when bought on a physical medium). At the moment I purchase my favorite movies digital even though I could watch them on Netflix and co.
by fnicfnac | 2025-10-11 07:49:31+00:00
I look at resumes from time to time, just enough to know there aren't enough noble prizes.

I also knew a number of elite school students and aside from usually having wealthy parents and motivation problems when given real world tasks with real world levels of possible reward, they aren't all that far away from the average.

Take for example SBF.. possibly a genius would have gone straight to juvi either way if he was from a community college town and wasn't a nepo child of actual geniuses. More important than having any skills in the subject, he spoke economic shibboleth as a native speaker which his parents learned as a second tongue in a much harder process.
by riedel | 2025-10-11 07:51:15+00:00
A long time ago I was involved in building compilers. It was common that we solved this problem with obstacks, which are basically stacked heaps. I wonder one could not build more things like this, where freeing is a bit more best effort but you have some checkpoints. (I guess one would rather need tree like stacks) Just have to disallow pointers going the wrong way. Allocation remains ugly in C and I think explicit data structures are are definitely a better way of handling it.
by addaon | 2025-10-11 07:52:49+00:00
“Half life tracking” isn’t really a thing — decay is a memory-less process (by definition), so there’s no distinction in decay rate between a lot of old Cesium 137, and a bit of young Cesium 137. The way to put an age on the contamination is by looking at the ratio of Cesium 137 and Barium 137, which presumedly someone has done…