MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonw | 2025-10-17 22:03:51+00:00
Part of it is that they gave a name to a useful pattern that people had already been discovering independently. Names are important, because they mean we can start having higher quality conversations about the pattern.

Anthropic also realized that this pattern solves one of the persistent problems with coding agents: context pollution. You need to stuff as little material as possible into the context to enable the tool to get things done. AGENTS.md and MCP both put too much stuff in there - the skills pattern is a much better fit.
by gensym | 2025-10-17 22:04:13+00:00
It sucks that you need to own a car to get anywhere in most of the US. When my wife and I moved to Southern California from Chicago, we had a single car and tried to make that work for a while, but it was just not doable. We have a grocery store 2 miles away, but any other services are further than walking distance (and even the grocery store requires walking on the shoulder of a busy arterial road at a couple points. I used to bike everywhere in Chicago, but doing so here is too risky).

That said, the problems of car loans are far beyond that - From the article: " The average monthly repayment now stands at more than $750.". That's nuts! I make a solid upper middle-class income, and I can't imagine spending that much on car financing, regardless of the loan length. When we needed a second car, we bought a 6-year-old Volvo station wagon in good condition, it it's still serving us well. Many of my neighbors, who make about half what I do, think we're poor because of it.
by Lerc | 2025-10-17 22:04:51+00:00
Do skills enable the AI to do things within it's contact, or does it grant the ability to process things in an entirely separate context.

I was considering the merits of a news article analysts skill that processed the content adopting a variety of personas of opinions and degrees of adversarial attitudes in isolated contexts then bought the responses together into a single context to arbitrate the viewpoints impartially.

Or even a skill for "where did this claim originate?". I'd love an auto Snopes skill.
by ptk | 2025-10-17 22:04:58+00:00
I’m right there with you. I have 35 years of Windows experience — 20 as an IT professional — and I just gave up on Windows in my personal life a few days ago and installed Linux. I’ve dabbled in the past with old machines running Linux or dual-booting (and never actually using it), but this time I went all in and installed it as my only option.

I can’t leave it behind professionally, so I’ll be riding along for this train wreck, but I will have some peace at home at least.
by thenaturalist | 2025-10-17 22:05:04+00:00
This is such a techno-centric view, you're not even remotely aware of your own biases.

> but he completely misses the only real threat to either Open AI or Anthro.

Hard disagree. Economics matter, in fact more than tech.

Tech only gets to shine if the economics work out.

> Then again, open AI is obviously ran by some of the smartest people on planet Earth, with other extremely smart people giving them tons of money, so I can be completely wrong here

Nope.

Money != Intelligence

Open AI, SF and the West-Coast VC scene is run by very opionated, incentiviced people.

Yes, money can make things move, but all the money of the world don't matter if your unit econonmics don't work out.

And the startup graveyard is full of examples of this kind.
by akomtu | 2025-10-17 22:05:20+00:00
To put it another way: if the land of souls exist, it has something to do with QM.

As for the "no evidence brains are nondeterministic" we don't have much evidence about anything related to brains.

My point is that between the two extremes - the blind faith in whatever religions have come up with, and the wingless reptile way of thinking that's so prevalent in modern science - I'd rather choose the middle ground and stay open to various ideas unless they are proven wrong.
by epistasis | 2025-10-17 22:05:24+00:00
Cities are artificially expensive becuase we ban them in nearly every location in the US, and ban new housing in cities.

It would have been an easy fix 10+ years ago, but as the housing crisis got worse and the working class was priced out, building got a lot more expensive and we have a huge labor crisis in addition to the regulatory crisis.

All solvable, but the political establishment and the political power base (homeowners and landlords) are dead set against solving it.
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-17 22:05:28+00:00
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRCLACBS consumer loan delinquencies up a lot in the last couple of years, tapered over the last year, low relative to historic norms

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRCCLACBS credit card delinquencies are similar

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRSFRMACBS home loans delinquencies look amazing right now, to the surprise of noone, since everyone is sitting happy having locked in their 3% rates a few years back.

My understanding is that Tricolor went under due to systemic fraud ("The core of the fraud allegations is that Tricolor illegally used the same loan portfolios as collateral for separate credit lines with multiple banks" to the tune of ~$200M)

First Brands also went under due to fraud ("First Brands had relied on billions of dollars in undisclosed debt, primarily from the private credit market, by borrowing against its invoices. This practice, known as factoring, kept the debt off the company's official balance sheet")

Yes, things feel tighter than they did in the years immediately post-Covid because there was a lot of free $ in the system, a lot of debt collections were paused, and Covid went on long enough for people to start treating that as the new normal when that was never going to be the case.

No, I don't see these as canaries for a 2008-esque event.

The scary thing to keep an eye on is commercial office space debt (e.g. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HPP/) which is likely to cause a cascade of fire sales as 5/10 yr debt obligations come due and how that will have cascading effects on commercial bank loans. That will be a hairy situation, but, fortunately, once it passes, rents in downtown areas will plummet and there will be a huge surge in growth in response to more favorable rents. Right now, commercial rents are locked into untenable rates because the loans are contingent on those rates which is resulting in 30%+ unused commercial space in areas like downtown SF.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-17 22:06:11+00:00
Well I agree with you that LLMs really like to answer with stuff, that is not grounded in reality, but I also agree with the parent, that grounding it in something else absolutely helps. I let the LLM invent garbage how ever it feels like, but then tell it to only ever answer with a citing valid existing URLs. Suddenly it generates claims, that something doesn't exist or it truly doesn't know.

This really results in zero hallucination (but the content is also mostly not generated by a LLM).
by sipofwater | 2025-10-17 22:06:44+00:00
"Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_android_14/)
by pmontra | 2025-10-17 22:07:12+00:00
My customers return created_at attributes in all their API calls so UUIDv7 won't harm them at all. They also use sequential ids. Only one of them ever used UUIDv4 as primary key. We didn't have any performance problem but the whole production system was run by one psql insurance and one Elixir application server. Probably almost any architectural choice is good at that scale.
by awesome_dude | 2025-10-17 22:07:18+00:00
That's not the creativity aspect, my comment is an observation, which, by definition, is a regurgitation of events.

Edit: This also demonstrates that people think (erroneously) that AI pumping out code, or content, or even essays, is inventive, but it's not.

This is merely a description and reduction, both of which AI can do, but neither of which are an invention.
by dijit | 2025-10-17 22:07:57+00:00
It's only privileged because I'm living in a city that has actively prioritised other modes of transport.

I invite you to compare Orlando and Malmo.

If you have the opportunity to visit both, I would recommend it. They have the same population size (actually, Malmo has more people in it, but, close enough) yet in one it's impossible to get across the street without a car, even to go to the grocery store, and the other has entire portions of the city where cars aren't even able to go. -- Yet everyone manages to get around, and most people would consider it very convenient to do so.
by trothamel | 2025-10-17 22:08:26+00:00
Simply offering a service to UK citizens isn't enough to provide jurisdiction. If I run a lemonade stand, and a UK citizen walks up a pays a dollar for a glass of lemonade, then that doesn't give the UK jurisdiction over the lemonade stand.

That's what's happening here - a webserver is operating entirely out of the UK, with no nexus. UK citizens send requests to it - just like all other countries citizens do, so either the website would be covered by all laws or just the places where it has nexus.

This is especially true in the US, where speech is strongly protected - making Ofcom's assertion that its regulation overrides the first amendment especially egregious. The UK government's behavior here is a bit shameful.
by shawa_a_a | 2025-10-17 22:09:25+00:00
They're probably using some features of LiveView; I'm not too familiar with how HTMX works, but with LiveView you can define all of your logic and state handling on the _backend_, with page diffs pushed to the client over a websocket channel (all handled out of the box).

It comes with some tradeoffs compared to fully client-side state, but it's a really comfortable paradigm to program in, especially if you're not from a frontend background, and really clicks with the wider Elixir/Erlang problem solving approach.

https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/js-interop.html#handlin...

Hooks let you do things like have your DOM update live, but then layer on some JS in response.

For example you could define a custom `<chart>` component, which is inserted into the DOM with `data-points=[...]`, and have a hook then 'hydrate' it with e.g. a D3 or VegaLite plot.

Since Phoenix/LiveView is handling the state, your JS needs only be concerned about that last-mile JS integration; no need to pair it with another virtual DOM / state management system.

https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/js-interop.html#client-...
by cyberax | 2025-10-17 22:09:28+00:00
Uhh... What? You just use AES with a fixed key and IV in block mode.

You put in 128 bits, you get out 128 bits. The encryption is strong, so the clients won't be able to infer anything from it, and your backend can still get all the advantages of sequential IDs.

You also can future-proof yourself by reserving a few bits from the UUID for the version number (using cycle-walking).
by westurner | 2025-10-17 22:09:41+00:00
Again there, does the EMF/RF field created by the electrovolt wave function of the brain affect the electrovolt wave function of the brain? If so, isn't that a feed-forward feedback loop (where there may be quantum behavior)?

Does this paper also fail to assess other fields relevant to understanding nonlocal neuroactivation in disproving that there is any quantumness in cognition?

How do humans simulate digital and quantum circuits with the brain?

And, why do attempts to localize activations in the brain weeks apart fail; why is there representation drift?
by oulipo2 | 2025-10-17 22:10:00+00:00
In the same vein, is everyone's feed on Facebook and Insta full of weird pedophile AI-generated videos of seemingly ultra young girls in swimsuit moving lascively, and then the next video is some kind of AI slop of a fake "outrage scene" in some random fastfood where a fat guy is screaming at the waiter... those seem to be generated just to cause more hatred and pain to people
by libraryatnight | 2025-10-17 22:10:04+00:00
I'm not a republican or a supporter, but my experience with your request is "But what about...?" Usually something robbed of context, not relevant, or blatantly made up and they don't care. For instance when the GOP Nazi group chat came out, some asked why "The Left" wasn't writing similar articles about people who disrespected Charlie Kirk's death. Malicious bad faith at worst and short sighted ignorance at best.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-10-17 22:10:24+00:00
What? Again, quantum physics, as we have observed them, directly contradicts your first sentence. It does not have a ghost in the machine!

And how in the world does one argue we have no evidence of brains? They're studied constantly! And there's tons of animals we can poke and prod! We know what regions do what, we know tons of mechanisms of actions. We know what hormones do what, we have ideas on how concepts like "time tracking" are done. We observe brain damage changing the personalities of people. We can do surgeries with relative levels of success.

Like: you don't even need all that. Do you get sleepy at night? Do you get grouchy when you get sleepy? Wonderful: that's hormones. Direct, experienced evidence that your thoughts and behaviors and actions are driven by hormonal states!
by robocat | 2025-10-17 22:11:04+00:00
All the milk I've seen in New Orleans is ultra-pasteurised) to increase its shelflife (in fridge), even expensive organic stuff. I haven't yet looked in speciality groceries.

I've just given up on milk while I'm here, because it tastes disgusting (reminds me of " UHT long-life milk sold uncooled in tetrabrick within New Zealand). Apparently normal pasteurised is available from local dairy brands, but I haven't seen any yet.

Quality foods in general seem hard to find here - although some of that is because of unfamiliarity - and it isn't cheaper either. I'm looking forward to getting home to better food.
by ramesh31 | 2025-10-17 22:11:28+00:00
>Historically, this has ultimately led to revolutions.

Which is why they've spent the last 50 years pitting the lower classes against themselves with meaningless culture wars. In a world with F-16s, Apache helicopters, and panopticon digital surveillance, there will never be armed revolution again (nor would anyone actually want that); the only option is nonviolent resistance. But it'll never happen in the US since we have zero class solidarity, and are all just temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
by Marsymars | 2025-10-17 22:11:36+00:00
Locally to me, it’s pretty uncommon for any mechanics, tire shops, etc. to give any sort of timeline for any sort of service.

I recently had a 1-hour job done on my car - the only appointment my local mechanic takes is for a specific date - you drop off first thing in the morning, and they call you when they’re done.

I also just called my local tire shop to enquire about mounting/balancing (but not installing) tires - they don’t take appointments for that, but also don’t guarantee any particular speed of service - you drop off your tires, and they call you when they’re done, whether it’s that day or the next.
by exasperaited | 2025-10-17 22:12:07+00:00
Of course they are. It’s the same process as applied to DSLRs, which depreciated much more quickly than film bodies did only a few years prior.

Film bodies found their post-digital price floor quite quickly. DSLRs and mirrorless have only found secondhand price stability in the last three or four years and while a big part of it is the quality plateau at the end of the megapixel race (which might have some sort of analogue in the electric car industry, though I don’t know what it is —- range, perhaps), part of that was driven by pandemic component scarcity and inflation holding up the new camera market prices.

In short I think this depreciation will last for another decade until manufacturers feel confident they will sell enough volume to make cheaper cars.
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-17 22:12:49+00:00
I hear the exact same self absorbed reasoning on other subjects from my autistic child almost daily. The psychological term is fragile ego.

For example: It’s not that the developer reliant on the framework is less than wonderful. It’s that everyone who differs in opinion is obviously wrong and/or arrogant, because the given developer cannot fathom being less than wonderful.
by yellowapple | 2025-10-17 22:12:58+00:00
> wait, how did they get the same verse by verse chord progressions to match?

Usually these AI covers don't use AI for the whole thing, but rather specifically for melding the to-be-impersonated voice into some given melody. That's been possible for a couple years now with decent results; one of my favorite examples is that of Plankton from Spongebob singing Disturbed's cover of “Sound of Silence”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eLRsw9mkmY

Possible that these newer ones are also using AI to generate other musical elements, but it's probably all being combined after-the-fact rather than being generated all at once.
by davisr | 2025-10-17 22:13:03+00:00
And the FCC just so happened to approve the spectrum of frequencies that human bodies absorb, turning each Wi-Fi hotspot into surveillance spotlight, and each handheld device into a unique beacon. With everything we know about NSA's influence in other government agencies (like NIST), I think it's entirely reasonable to ask, "why 2.4 GHz?" But I've not seen anyone ask that question here. I'd also wonder whether NRO has satellite capability to measure Wi-Fi signals (and interference from human bodies) from orbit.
by oulipo2 | 2025-10-17 22:13:10+00:00
I remember in the cracking days, where we were trying to crack ElGamal encryption or other, we noticed when some code had been written in eg Delphi (which used a weak RNG based on datetime), then when you tried to guess when the code was compiled and the key were generated, you could get a rough timerange, and if you bruteforced through that timerange as a seed to the RNG, and tried to generate the random ElGamal key from that, you would widely reduce the range of possibilities (eg bruteforce 10M ints, instead of billions or more)
by knorker | 2025-10-17 22:13:47+00:00
> why wouldn't it have the power to hold that entity accountable?

If I transmit insults of dear leader Kim Jung Un on amateur radio, then those radio waves will reach DPRK. I likely would be breaking DPRK law.

Why wouldn't they have the power? Same reason my decree that guns are now banned in the US is not even refuted, but ignored.

4chan has no obligation or even reason to even respond to the UK except as entertainment (this reply was entertaining), and to send a message to the US that (in its opinion) the US government cooperating with the UK on this would be illegal by US law, the only law that matters to the US legal system. Other countries laws only matter insofar as they are allowed by US law. Foreign laws will not get US constitution bypass unless the US constitution itself allows it.

It's as if DPRK demanded to have a US citizen extradited in order to be executed for blasphemy. All that US citizen cares about is to give a heads up to the US that "if these people come knocking, tell them to go fuck themselves".

What is the UK government going to do, send bobbies over to attack 4chan owners with nerve gas on US soil?

What's the alternative? I'm sure there are countries where it's illegal for women to show their faces on TV. Why wouldn't that country have the power to hold any website where women's faces are shown accountable?

On a more depressing note, as is super clear in the US lately, crime is perfectly legal, if your friend (or POTUS you bribed) orders you to not be prosecuted. Or pardons you for being a drug kingpin and mobster ordering murders of innocent people (Ross Ulbricht).

Power ultimately comes from the exercise of violence. The UK cannot exercise state violence on US soil. That's a US monopoly under very harsh penalty. On US soil only US law (or in the case of Trump, lawlessness) can de facto be exercised.

Also, from their reply:

> The infinite character of that power was most famously summed up by English lawyer Sir Ivor Jennings, who once said that “if Parliament enacts that smoking in the streets of Paris is an offence, then it is an offence”. This line is taught to every first-year English law student.

Why should parisians care? Why would France cooperate with enforcing such laws?

If POTUS orders that taking $50k in cash as a bribe is not to be prosecuted, then you won't be prosecuted.
by greedo | 2025-10-17 22:14:17+00:00
First you have to get big bulky tires delivered to wherever you're going to install them on to your wheel rims. Then you need equipment to remove the old tires from your rims, and install the new ones on the rims. Next you need to balance the tires, then you need to take care of all the TPMS components. After this you need to mount your tires. Forget something? Too bad your car is out of commission til all the above is done.
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-17 22:14:51+00:00
Battery replacement is on par with engine replacement, and might be cheaper depending on which engine we're talking about. Batteries are also just getting cheaper every year.

Plus, batteries will mostly last twice as long as the typical car is on the road before it gets scrapped for unrelated reasons.

The depreciation is mostly explained by market distortions caused by subsidies.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-17 22:15:33+00:00
Exactly. This is going to come off as incredibly privileged, but I'm not a huge fan of car loans. In fact, I'm not a huge fan of leveraging to afford any asset unless it's appreciating in value or generating income. I buy and drive old, nearly junker cars because I can't afford a $40K new car. I can "afford" the monthly payments on a $40K car, but it's just a terrible financial idea. Totally nutty. A $750 monthly payment (I don't even want to know the term) for something that is losing value every day is absolutely bonkers.

The amount of debt Americans routinely and causally take on is honestly ridiculous.
by imiric | 2025-10-17 22:15:43+00:00
Tangent: the fact XHTML didn't gain traction is a mistake we've been paying off for decades.

Browser engines could've been simpler; web development tools could've been more robust and powerful much earlier; we would be able to rely on XSLT and invent other ways of processing and consuming web content; we would have proper XHTML modules, instead of the half-baked Web Components we have today. Etc.

Instead, we got standards built on poorly specified conventions, and we still have to rely on 3rd-party frameworks to build anything beyond a toy web site.

Stricter web documents wouldn't have fixed all our problems, but they would have certainly made a big impact for the better.
by tyre | 2025-10-17 22:16:11+00:00
Email is not secure but sending an email with a link to "Information about your appointment" is fine. If that link goes to `/appointments/sjdhfaskfhjaksdjf`, there is no leaked data. If it goes to `/appointments/20251017lkafjdslfjalsdkjfa`, then the link itself contains PHI.

Whether creation date is PHI…I could see the argument being yes, since it correlates to medical information (when someone sought treatment, which could be when symptoms present.)
by xg15 | 2025-10-17 22:16:18+00:00
> (vascular?)

Not an expert, but from what I understood, SARS-Cov-2 infects cells through the ACE2 receptor that is present in all kinds of different cells along the blood vessels. It's "just" particularly present in the cells inside the lungs, which is why so many Covid patient could not take up enough oxygen anymore. But that somewhat nebulous "long tail" of other Covid symptoms is caused by the virus infecting other cells inside the body.

So I guess that technically makes it a vascular and not a respiratory disease.