MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Marsymars | 2025-10-18 03:16:32+00:00
My point with the news article isn’t about the diminished value, it’s just an example of insurance companies willing to spend money on lawyers and appeals to avoid paying out what they don’t want to.

I’d expect any insurance company to ballbark the “full pre-accident value” towards the lower end of comparables, and while you might be able to negotiate that up, you’re never going to be able to recoupe everything you’ve spent on a highly-maintained car, because a lot of that simply has minimal effect on the resellable value of the car, or won’t be provable value - e.g. you can spend $1500 on top-end UV-protectant window film, but that’s pretty much never money you’ll get back in a sale or insurance claim.
by simonw | 2025-10-18 03:17:35+00:00
I'm not. Here are my disclosures: https://simonwillison.net/about/#disclosures

And if my disclosures aren't enough for you, here's the FTC explaining how it would be illegal for an AI vendor to pay someone to write something like this without both sides disclosing the relationship: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/ftcs-endorse...
by LeFantome | 2025-10-18 03:17:37+00:00
There is a lot of fear around battery degradation. People don not like EVs that have come off warranty.

So, while the batteries may last 800,000 km, people start to discount the replacement cost before they even hit 200,000 km.

Consumers do not have even experience yet to value used EVs properly. It is a great time to be a used EV buyer.
by BoorishBears | 2025-10-18 03:17:45+00:00
You're making the mistake of assuming the failure of the current companies would be seperated from the failures of AI as a technology.

If we continue the regime where OpenAI gets paid to buy GPUs and they fail, we'll have a funding winter regardless of AI's progress.

I think there is a strong bull case for consumer AI but it looks nothing like AGI, and we're increasingly pricing in AGI-like advancements.
by jemmyw | 2025-10-18 03:18:17+00:00
> the UK being between France and Germany ... was a stabilizing influence.

I don't see that at all. The EU was a Franco-German project. De Gaul kept the British out as long as he could because he thought they'd be destabilising, and he was correct.

The UK was always a bit of an odd man out in the EU in that for them it was always "The EU is doing this or that" whether good or bad. For the central European countries it's "We are doing this or that" because they ARE the EU. If only the UK could have seen themselves as part of it. Your comment follows a similar vein, they're not going to turn on each other so easily. Not yet. The European project means far too much to the French and Germans, far more than it ever did the the British.

I'm ex-pat British, I've lived in Europe, although I now live elsewhere. I personally think brexit was a bad move, but I don't really believe it had much to do with the EU anyway. It's discontent because things aren't working well for a lot of people at the moment, and nobody in politics is offering a path to anything better.
by buu700 | 2025-10-18 03:18:22+00:00
Thanks for sharing, that is really bad. I did say "mostly", though. A bizarre anomaly that will most likely get thrown out in court is still pretty different from comparable practices in e.g. the UK that are standard procedure.

The transparency I referred to was primarily to the American political system's airing of its dirty laundry out in the open, which is inherently going to look more chaotic than disputes between internal factions of a single party because so much of it is performative.
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-18 03:19:14+00:00
I participate in Nextdoor.com because of a community group I work with.

The fear in people’s hearts is insane. One memorable one was a Little boy who decided to sell candy bars. I knew the kid from my son’s school. Some psycho followed him for a few hours, tracked down to his home and called the sales tax authorities and the city clerk as he didn’t have a peddler permit. She documented her “investigation”, complete with photos.
by nextaccountic | 2025-10-18 03:19:23+00:00
For me it's.. okay it's my daily driver already, but I really really want extensions to be able to create their own UI elements in the buffer, like VSCode does. Basically GPUI for extensions.

This would unblock people to write their own Jupyter integration for example, or whatever else they want. There's load of cool stuff like Argus https://github.com/cognitive-engineering-lab/argus that rely on creating buffers with custom UI, and Flowistry https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry that rely on graying out some code, and I want this stuff on Zed too
by bruce511 | 2025-10-18 03:19:52+00:00
I omitted my usual explanation of this phrase.

So sure, I'm not saying 100% of people voted for this. The "you" in this context is 2nd person plural; the collective "you".

As you note, democracy is the will of the majority imposed on the minority. Personally I'm not convinced that's a great approach, but I'm also not a fan of minority rule either. Ultimately I guess, whenever there are choices to be made, someone's not going to like the outcomes.

I sympathize with your current plight. Welcome to the minority. My only approach at this point is to keep reminding people that they chose this, that their vote matters. Perhaps when people understand that causal link then they'll make better choices in their own interest. (Whom I kidding right?)
by perrygeo | 2025-10-18 03:20:40+00:00
Is there an unavoidable tradeoff here? Keys that order nicely (auto-incrementing integers, UUIDv7) naturally leak information. Keys that are more secure (UUIDv4) can have performance problems because they have poor locality.

Or are there any random id generators that can compromise, remain sequential-ish without leaking exact timestamps and global ordering?
by miguelspizza | 2025-10-18 03:22:13+00:00
WebMCP essentially turns your website into an MCP server. Which means it is kind of like building a UI for the LLM that lives alongside the human UI.

It's also a contract for how LLM's interact with a website, they can do no more than the tools allow them to do. When you are running javascript on the page, the entire website is an attack surface.

Let's take gmail, for example. There is no way to protect your webpage from an agent running a script that sends an email by triggering the send email button. But with WebMCP, you can explicitly disable the "send_email" tool when the agent interacts with gmail.
by belviewreview | 2025-10-18 03:23:45+00:00
For a couple of centuries, the Arab world took the science that the Greeks had developed and advanced it considerably further. But then the Muslim theologian al Ghazali persuaded everyone that science was contrary to true religion, and so it was abandoned. The result was when modern science was born and then lead to the industrial revolution and enormous economic and military power, the Middle East never modernized.
by kllrnohj | 2025-10-18 03:25:13+00:00
> Eg. At my company we have 100x more demand than we can get capacity for, and we’re barely getting started. We have a roadmap with 1000x+ the current demand and we’re a relatively small company.

OpenAI's revenue is $13bn with 70% of that coming from people just spending $20/mo to talk to ChatGPT. Anthropic is projecting $9bn in revenue in 2025. For nice cold splash of reality, fucking Arizona Iced Tea has $3bn in revenue (also that's actual revenue not ARR)

You might have 100x more demand than you can get capacity for, but if that 100x still puts you at a number that in absolute terms is small, it's not very impressive. Similarly if you're already not profitable and achieving 100x growth requires 1,000x in spend, that's also not a recipe for success. In fact it's a recipe for going bankrupt in a hurry.
by jandrese | 2025-10-18 03:27:00+00:00
Sure, but those laws apply to US Citizens, and typically aren't enforced until the person returns to US soil.

Sovereignty is a big thing in international politics. Countries as a whole are loath to meddle in other countries domestic affairs, even in extreme cases like genocide/ethnic cleansing. Violating weird online protection laws are not the sort of thing a country is going to risk an international incident over.

Sure you can find some examples of countries that violate those norms, but they are the exception not the rule.
by pastel8739 | 2025-10-18 03:27:18+00:00
Regardless of whether you think understanding is important, it’s clear from this thread that a lot of people find understanding valuable. In order to trust an AI with decisions that affect people, people will want to believe that the AI “understands” the implications of its decisions, for whatever meaning of “understand” those people have in their head. So indeed I think it is important that AI researchers try to get their AIs to understand things, because it is important to the consumers that they do.
by aw1621107 | 2025-10-18 03:27:21+00:00
I feel like that's ever-so-slightly different from what GP was talking about. Beyond the potential hyperbole ("unthinkable", "any reason"), I think there's a difference between "we support C89 because nothing in later standards is useful/interests us" (which is what I interpreted GP to be talking about) and "we support C89 because we want to support platforms/compilers that don't support C99/later". cjson looks like an example of the latter, at least:

> cJSON is written in ANSI C (C89) in order to support as many platforms and compilers as possible.

And if you look through the issues/PRs you can see there was at least nominal interest in moving to later standards, though it seems those plans never came to fruition.

Not entirely sure about FreeRTOS, but something similar wouldn't surprise me all that much.
by tkz1312 | 2025-10-18 03:30:44+00:00
128 is still not 300. Something like 4x 6000 blackwell is the minimum to run any model that is going to feel anything like claude locally.

To my deep disappointment the economics are simply not there at the moment. Openrouter using only providers with zero data retention policies is probably the best option right now if you care about openness, privacy and vendor lock-in.
by spott | 2025-10-18 03:31:57+00:00
I really like codex… but without the ability to launch sub-agents, it kinda struggles with context.

The biggest thing I use agents for is getting good search with less context.

Codex just struggles when the model needs to search too much because of this. Codex also struggles with too much context: there have been a number of times when it has just ran up on the context limit and couldn’t compact, so you just loose everything since your last message, which has been a lot of lost context/work for me.
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-10-18 03:32:34+00:00
While you are right about the broader (and sort of ill defined) chase toward 'AGI' - another way to look at it is the self driving car - they got there eventually.And, if you work on applications using LLMs you can pretty easily see that Karpathy's sentiment is likely correct. You see it because you do it. Even simple applications are shaped like this, albeit each 9 takes less time than self driving cars for a simple app.. it still feels about right.
by sarchertech | 2025-10-18 03:32:58+00:00
Man you’re replying all over the place, I’m having a hard time keeping up. You’re also spending a lot of time on arguing with someone who has been discredited over a theory that has been discredited.

Penrose and Lucas’ argument may or may not be correct, but that still doesn’t imply that consciousness can arise from computable processes. There is no reason that it should. There is absolutely nothing to suggest this should be the default position.

The only way to get to this position is through faith. Doesn’t mean you’re wrong. But it’s not a falsifiable position since you can’t prove consciousness.
by Our_Benefactors | 2025-10-18 03:32:59+00:00
> What are you talking about with this talk of implosion? It sounds like boogieman nonsense from small children scared of the dark. I prefer to use vanilla JS when writing large SPAs and it works just fine.

It’s absolutely not and it absolutely doesn’t. Inheriting a VanillaJS project is often a nightmare because it screams “inexperienced developer” not to use a framework, so the code quality and build processes are often extremely low quality and undocumented.
by wand3r | 2025-10-18 03:37:10+00:00
Tesla isn't the best proxy for what is normal. While Tesla has had a lot of issues and the critiques and articles are valid, it definitely seems like the media coverage was much more widespread and pervasive because 1)Anti Elon sentiment sells ads and clicks 2) it was somewhat agenda based. I am not making a political statement, but I think what I said is objectively true.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-18 03:37:35+00:00
You said correlation, I said "causal" because it's going from parent to child.

"statistically" meaning any individual child could have any IQ, and genes are only one factor out of many, but when you measure the entire group the graph of IQs is going to look different.

A comparison would be like, filtering IVF in 50 couples based on X/Y chromosomes and measuring height. That filter doesn't decide how tall a child will be, but it does shift the average. The filter would cause a height change, on a statistical basis.
by Our_Benefactors | 2025-10-18 03:38:27+00:00
It must be possible given the understanding of:

- there must be a physical mechanism providing connectivity to cellular networks

- this mechanism cannot be required to handshake in order to start the car (not everywhere has cell service!)

Manufacturers can certainly increase the difficulty to remove the offending hardware, but given these two axioms is can’t be determined to be impossible.
by deaux | 2025-10-18 03:39:00+00:00
Of course, as that's where the money and power is, the only things SamA is in it for.

There will be equivalent models that are free. Likely, there will even be free ones without ads.

Free+ads can beat free without ads on pure incumbency, marketing and convenience. Most people don't use an adblocker, even though it's trivially easy to install.

Paid, however, can't beat free+ads. Too much friction.
by hashiyakshmi | 2025-10-18 03:39:45+00:00
This is actually a great point but for the opposite reason - if you ask a blind person if the night sky is beautiful, they would say they don't know because they've never seen it (they might add that they've heard other people describe it as such). Meanwhile, I just asked ChatGPT "Do you think the night sky is beautiful?" And it responded "Yes, I do..." and went on to explain why while describing senses its incapable of experiencing.
by hyperadvanced | 2025-10-18 03:41:51+00:00
This is correct, it should burn the retinas of anyone thinking that OAI or Anthropic are in any way worth their multi-billion dollar valuations. I liked AK’s analysis of AI for coding here (it’s overly defensive, lacks style and functionality awareness, is a cargo cultist, and/or just does it wrong a lot) but autocomplete itself is super valuable, as is the ability to generate simple frontend code and let you solve the problem of making a user interface without needing a team of people with those in-house skills.
by x______________ | 2025-10-18 03:43:08+00:00
>The lack of circuit breakers, massive leverage, technical fragilities, and overwhelming complexity of interwoven crypto assets all combined for a devastating crash. Regulators are unlikely to take any significant action. Exchanges will continue offering extreme leverage while platforms remain without circuit breakers. The industry keeps pushing for greater integration with traditional finance, demanding even fewer restrictions on the high-risk products they market to unsophisticated investors. As crypto grows more interconnected with mainstream finance, future crashes will reach far more widely.

The conclusion summarizes the article well, leading one to wonder why you could trust crypto as a legitimate investment vehicle when it's as solid as a tower of lawn chairs waiting for a gust of wind to happen.
by Mentlo | 2025-10-18 03:43:22+00:00
Except google and facebook have locked in numbers at times of virtually no competition before they started scaling up ads. If Open AI starts scaling ads next year they will churn people at a rate that will not be offset by growth and will either plateau or more likely lose user numbers, as their product has no material edge to alternatives in the market.

I disagree with Zitron’s analysis on many points, but I don’t see Open AI achieving the numbers it needs. Investors backing it must have seen something in private disclosure to be fronting this much money. Or more precisely, I need to believe they have seen something and are not fronting all this money just based on well wishes and marketing.
by lalaithion | 2025-10-18 03:43:42+00:00
The US-UK Mutual Legal Assistance treaty imposes obligations on Ofcom which they have not met, 4chan claims:

“None of these actions constitutes valid service under the US-UK Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, United States law or any other proper international legal process.”

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71209929/1/4chan-commun...
by exhilaration | 2025-10-18 03:44:40+00:00
Yeah it's really hard, my 2025 Toyota Sienna is always connected. You can't just pull a fuse or rip out an antenna, I have to take the entire dashboard apart to reach the Data Communication Module (DCM) module. If anyone's curious what that looks like, it's a little bit easier on the Toyota Tacoma, here are some pictures of the process: https://www.tacoma4g.com/forum/threads/disabling-dcm-telemat...

It's complex enough that I haven't done it yet in my Sienna, but I plan to!
by rramadass | 2025-10-18 03:45:23+00:00
I have a Theory.

Before the advent of Islam in the 7th century AD, the area that is currently geographically named the "Middle East" basically consisted of different and well developed cultures spread out over Persia (Iran, Iraq etc.), The Levant (Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria etc.), North Africa (Egypt, Algeria etc.), Turkey and regions around the Mediterranean. They were all traveling/learning to/from the rest of the World and disseminating knowledge throughout their areas of commerce/influence. When Europe was backward in the doldrums under the anti-scientific/anti-knowledge influence of the Christian Church these pre-Islamic cultures collected, maintained and developed forgotten knowledge from Greek/Indian/Chinese/Other sources.

Then Islam happened and everything started going downhill slowly at first and then accelerating as Europe threw off the Christian Church's yoke and stepped into enlightenment thus increasing the knowledge gap. The so-called "Islamic Golden Age" is nothing more than these populations still preserving and developing knowledge in spite of Islam for a few generations when Islamic orthodoxy had not yet gained full ascendancy over the minds of these cultures. But once Islamic orthodoxy was imposed by the sword on the populations of these cultures, all striving towards scientific knowledge ceased and they were doomed, the results of which we see today.

Note that even after European Colonialism was thrown off, while other non-Islamic countries (notably India/China) have made great scientific progress, almost all current-day Islamic countries are going nowhere. Their record of scientific development, social reforms etc. is abysmal and they seem to not realize that it is their own belief system which is holding them back. Their only hope is to change Islam so it fits in better with the Modern World.

PS: Dr. Jamshed Uppal made a presentation with survey data across Islamic countries titled Are Muslim Attitudes Tuned For Economic Progress? (the data is a shocking and definitive no) but the video seems to have been removed from Youtube - https://theblackhole.pk/event/are-muslim-attitudes-tuned-for...

In this session, Dr. Jamshed Uppal explores how socio-religious attitudes and practices affect economic outcomes in Muslim majority countries. Drawing on World Values Survey data for 66 countries, he examines eight categories of attitudes that are conducive to economic growth, including attitude towards trust; towards government institutions; towards women; towards legal norms; towards markets; towards science; towards violence, and towards financial institutions. Through econometric techniques, he shows that religious values do significantly influence economic attitudes, with a milder degree of religiosity being growth conducive, but stronger forms of religiosity leading to growth retarding economic attitudes.
by x______________ | 2025-10-18 03:45:30+00:00
Title makes no sense without the "How" in front of it, as per the cited link.

Character limit? “How often..“

Edit: Link to the study[0] and it's original title: Mutual age-varying influences of binge drinking and cannabis use during emerging adulthood in the NCANDA cohort

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acer.70139
by trothamel | 2025-10-18 03:45:50+00:00
So, my original point was that a business is not under the jurisdiction of the UK just because it offers a service to UK citizen - I probably should have mentioned I'm not in the UK.

Whether the website is illegal or not would depend on Russian law in your example. I'd also suspect that other laws might apply, like wire fraud. Some of those would likely be enforceable in other countries.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-10-18 03:46:14+00:00
I feel software/CS people largely avoid (or don’t need) certain areas of math.

To me, convex optimization is more the domain of engineering when there are continuous functions and/or stochastic processes involved.

Much of signal processing and digital communication systems are founded around convex optimization because it’s actually a sensible way to concretely answer “was this designed right?”.

One can use basic logic to prove a geometry proof, or the behavior of a distributed algorithm.

But if one wants to prove that a digital filter was designed properly for random/variable inputs, it leads to finding solutions of convex optimization problems (minimization of mean squared error or such).

Of course, whether the right problem is being solved is a different issue. MMSE is just mathematically extremely convenient but not necessarily the most meaningful characterization of behavior.
by strgcmc | 2025-10-18 03:46:37+00:00
The most apt way that I've read somewhere, to reason about AI, is to treat it like an extremely foreign, totally alien form of intelligence. Not necessarily that the models of today behave like this, but we're talking about the future aren't we?

Just framing your question against a backdrop of "human benevolence", as well as implying this is a single dimension (that it's just a scalar value that could be higher or lower), is already too biased. You assume that logic which applies to humans, can be extrapolated to AI. There is not much basis for this assumption, in much the same way that there is not much basis to assume an alien sentient gas cloud from Andromeda would operate on the same morals or concept of benevolence as us.
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by minitech | 2025-10-18 03:48:17+00:00
That quote is probably referring to the limitations listed later on the page (https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross-Site_Re...). I think if you understood that this was the caveat, you wouldn’t use the phrasing “flat out wrong” or have brought up all the irrelevant stuff about client/server security earlier in the thread. You have some kind of deeper misunderstanding, but it’s not clear where.