MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by postpawl | 2025-10-18 17:42:23+00:00
I think you're conflating the Democratic Party with "left-wing philosophy." Actual left-wing ideology (Marx, Lenin, the socialist tradition) focuses on material conditions for workers: who owns the means of production, labor power, class relations.

From that perspective, the problem isn't that Democrats have the wrong messaging about masculinity. It's that neither major US party offers politics centered on workers' material interests. Both parties abandoned class-based politics in favor of cultural appeals.

If you're a young man struggling economically, being told you have "privilege" feels disconnected from your reality of declining wages and diminished prospects. But the socialist response isn't "better messaging about masculinity," it's organizing workers to gain power over their economic conditions.
by timmg | 2025-10-18 17:42:32+00:00
One thing that seems to help me with tinnitus is the Airpods Pro when you customize it for your hearing. Like they have a tool on the iPhone/iPad that will (essentially) set up an equalizer in it that matches your (lack of) hearing.

I think actually stimulating the parts of your hearing that match the tinnitus is what helps. That's why this white noise thing works. But, also, listening to music or watching movies with the Airpods Pro (after configuring) -- I assume -- does something similar.
by kstenerud | 2025-10-18 17:43:12+00:00
I tried it out but it did absolutely nothing for my tinnitus. All it does is put out a bunch of changing tones (my tinnitus never changes tones, so I'm having trouble figuring out what this is supposed to do?).

Lots of people giving good feedback on it, though. What exactly is it about this site that works for other people?
by Arch-TK | 2025-10-18 17:43:24+00:00
I've had a low grade (although who knows, it's not like I can hear someone else's tinnitus to compare) tinnitus for as long as I remember. For my childhood I thought it was just normal to hear this noise when there was no external source of other sound.

Honestly, I never felt particularly negative about it.

I guess if you never know what true silence sounds like, you never know what you are missing.
by soraminazuki | 2025-10-18 17:43:25+00:00
I'll repeat:

When you twist protective measures against ongoing theft or shitty proposals that went nowhere into a nefarious conspiracy to justify the theft of critical Ruby infrastructure, it’s time to take a hard look in the mirror.

What are you trying to achieve here, bringing up debunked insinuations over and over and over again? And haha no, going over every cherry-picked fact and half-truth you explicitly stated doesn’t prove you aren’t making insinuations.

> insinuate: to impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insinuated

Note the word "indirect."
by Nux | 2025-10-18 17:43:36+00:00
White noise is key here. Luckily I do not have tinnitus, but I have small children and they sleep great with this on. And so do their parents, especially handy when going on holiday in noisy hotels etc. I can't go on holiday without it now! :)

I've just downloaded this audio track with yt-dlp, placed it on an sdcard and I play it in a loop on a small speaker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMfPqeZjc2c
by blfr | 2025-10-18 17:43:40+00:00
I know that words are largely arbitrary and arguing terms isn't very valuable but these phenomenons already have fairly commonly used names.

OP writes about conspicuous consumption/leisure, not really luxury. Similarly, while a Birkin bag could be considered a luxury good, its defining feature is being something more, the artificial scarcity and increased demand with price amke it a Veblen good.

Also, things you can buy with attention aren't really expensive, they're just constantly priced. That is you have 10-14 hours of attention a day, and you use it or lose it, every minute of attention is largely the same, with a little ADHD you can switch quickly. Listening to a concert online and going to the philharmonics costs about the same in attention.
by mk_stjames | 2025-10-18 17:43:56+00:00
Absolutely. I have a person favorite setup... which is to have these two playing at the * same time * and play around with the combos of sliders / set to automate.

Pair: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/numberStationsRadioNoiseGe... with: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/magicDuneArrakisGenerator....

I set the numbers stations to 'narrow' and Arrakis to 'wide' and stereo field, mute the numbers stations that repeats german numbers (those stand out to me too easily)... and it's like some magical productivity hack of my brain.
by cbility | 2025-10-18 17:43:57+00:00
The view I hold is that, as bad as the situation is, it's not hopeless and there is a lot that can be done that will make the situation better. "All we can save". I've heard it said in the context of the polycrisis that understanding leads to grief, which leads to action which leads to (solidly founded) hope.

People (and so societies) are hard-wired to be loss averse, which means the facts about what is at stake are more effective drivers of action than the promises of techno-optimism.

Not saying that there are not good optimistic views out there, just that I personally find a realistic view renders many of them quite flat. I think embracing false hope leaves us with a myopic lens through which to frame decisions and probably underprepared to deal with the future.

I find https://polycrisis.org/library/ to be a good resource. Also Nate Hagens podcast.
by QuadmasterXLII | 2025-10-18 17:44:59+00:00
Joe Biden embodied many of the classic aspects of masculinity I find valuable- love for his family, moral fortitude (specifically, the ability to do the right thing instead of the thing-that-looks-right, see the Afghanistan pullout or his early support for gay marriage), as well as the classics like physical fitness, style, propriety and getting things done. The people running the algorithms hate this, and so you're never going to see evidence that he was loved for his masculinity online, but there's a reason he won his primaries. Unfortunately, Biden just got old as shit, and no one came up behind him- Gavin Newsom is what, 1 for six on the criteria I brought up?
by markus_zhang | 2025-10-18 17:45:17+00:00
It is. And focus, especially the ability to focus on a tough topic for a non trivial amount of time, is luxury, too.

I hereby advice anyone who has a non trivial curiosity about ∀ that requires focus and concentration (pretty much ∪ of HN interests) to appreciate it and care it as if it is your most precious procession.

I have said this before and I’ll say it again — if you are not super into getting a kid, don’t.
by flashgordon | 2025-10-18 17:45:46+00:00
Oh man I had a similar experience and realized how horrible it was. I put up a recording of me teaching my kids some Carnatic music. (The "twinkle twinkle little star" equivalent songs were like 800 years old). And I got takedowns almost immediately. Wtf. Luckily I was working at Goog at the time so I was able to actually find the "form" to explain how bs this was and was able to get those takedowns taken down! But then I tried to find an external way of doing it and it was easier to drive rusted nails through my eyeballs!
by foxfired | 2025-10-18 17:45:53+00:00
I'm so happy mine is gone. It came in waves for me and funny it enough, it sounded like ocean waves crashing [0]. I used to play ocean sound for my kids to sleep, so I didn't notice that a good part of the sound wasn't coming from the device, but from me. It was unbearable for several weeks before it just disappeared.

[0]:https://idiallo.com/byte-size/nightmare-on-ocean-street
by seanhunter | 2025-10-18 17:46:01+00:00
There are basically two sorts of Pynchon novels[1]:

Gravity’s Rainbow, V and Against the Day are these monumental books which are sometimes really harrowing and hard to read (amazing in my opinion, but tough to read none the less).

Lot 49, Inherent Vice, Vineland and the new one are kind of “weird noir” gumshoe novels - funny and full of whacky conspiracies etc.

Bleeding edge is more like the second lot. I would definitely recommend people to read The Crying of Lot 49 and/or Inherent Vice to make up their minds whether they like Pynchon. Then you’ll know whether you want to invest in reading V or Gravity’s Rainbow etc.

[1] I’m gonna leave Mason & Dixon to one side because it’s sort of its own thing.
by layer8 | 2025-10-18 17:46:37+00:00
A column changing its data type is generally considering a breaking change for the schema (for obvious reasons), while adding more columns isn’t. Backwards-compatible schema evolution isn’t practical without the latter — you’d have to add a new secondary table whenever you want to add more columns.

This mirrors how adding additional fields to an object type in a programming language usually isn’t considered a breaking change, but changing the type of an existing field is.
by chriskanan | 2025-10-18 17:46:52+00:00
I think we need to distinguish among kinds of AGI, as the term has become overloaded and redefined over time. I'd argue we need to retire the term and use more appropriate terminology to distinguish between economic automation and human-like synthetic minds. I wrote a post about this here: https://syntheticminds.substack.com/p/retiring-agi-two-paths...
by tharne | 2025-10-18 17:46:52+00:00
> How is masculinity commonly understood and what examples do you have of the left and democrats not making space?

What would you say is the Democratic or progressive view of masculinity and where does it fit in the progressive or liberal worldview?

As a former Democrat, that's not a question I can even begin to answer, because I don't think Democrats,liberals, or progressives see any value in or a role for masculinity. Simply pointing to the other side and saying, "there's some bad guys over there" is not a meaningful retort.
by riedel | 2025-10-18 17:46:52+00:00
While I can normally tune out my Tinnitus, i also love the constant city noise and in my office I have a collection of solar toys that keep clicking randomly, which help me focus. Actually I tried the OP site and trying to tune the thing actually made my Tinnitus pretty unbearable ATM. I guess the trick is to use it without trying to directly hear the effect...
by strangescript | 2025-10-18 17:46:58+00:00
I love Karpathy, but he is wrong here. In a few short years we went from chat bots being toys and video creation predicted to be impossible in the near term to agents writing working apps and high def video that occasionally is indistinguishable from real life.

The rate depth, breadth and frequency of releases has only increased, not decreased. Meanwhile, everyone is waiting on bated breath for Gemini 3 to drop. A decade for reliable agents is not only comical, but willful cognitive dissonance at this point.
by netule | 2025-10-18 17:47:57+00:00
This appears to be brown noise, not white noise.

I have no affiliation with this macOS app, but I use it for the same reasons you do. It's paid, but worth it IMHO. It generates the noise on your own machine, and you can pick what kind of noise you want to hear: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brown-noise-ambient-noise/id15....
by constantcrying | 2025-10-18 17:48:42+00:00
Completely disingenuous. Stop the snark.

For UI there exists a straight up superior alternative, which keeps all of the benefits of the old solution. Neovim is just straight up better when used outside of a terminal emulator.

What is true for TUI vs. GUI is not true for CLI vs. GUI (or TUI for that matter) pretending the argument I made applies to the later is just dishonest. You can not replace CLI interfaces adequately by GUI or TUI interfaces, you can totally replace TUI Interfaces by GUI. See neovim as an example. It is superior software when used outside of the terminal.
by analog31 | 2025-10-18 17:48:47+00:00
The rule of thumb is that signal-to-noise increases by the square root of the sample size. This is a brutal curve, and suggests that simply gathering more data is seldom practical.

Another rule that I use myself is, "multiply p by 10." In other words, a p-value of 0.05 is as good as a coin toss. This sounds outrageous, but seems consistent with reality.
by metalman | 2025-10-18 17:49:01+00:00
the way this is worded demonstrates hubris or egotism, but leaves out the very significant probability that we are far to stupid to recognise intelligence in the first place kind of like, since dogs can sense light, there for they understand that the little light way up high moving along in arcs, which they also umderstand, arcs that is, are a sattelite comunication systems I think the aliens are rooting for us, "come on.guys, come we know you can make a pulsar if .you .put .your, min, ok ok, perhaps take a break and evolve for another galactic half rotation and give bit another try"
by bartread | 2025-10-18 17:49:27+00:00
Yes! That was it. Your cork sniffer remark reminded me of something else, maybe part of that same situation: didn’t they put out some bizarre and derogatory cartoons/caricatures of one of their critics? Maybe 5 years ago or a bit more?

I don’t know if it was some sort of misguided “guerilla marketing” ploy but, regardless of the intent, it did come off as weird and unsavoury.

As far as rip offs go: their Arturia Keystep clone was, in my view, over the line. Their Mother32 clone, which I cannot remember the name of, isn’t something I’m entirely comfortable with either… although anyone who wants a Mother32 is I think going to spring the extra for the real deal rather than buying the clone.

OTOH I do like their 2600-a-likes and, as you’ve pointed out, I can’t really fault putting out remakes of out of production hardware.
by lolive | 2025-10-18 17:49:30+00:00
Ah ah. Those discussions plague my calendar. For the moment, as far as I am concerned, SAP is promoting in S4 their own ontology, aka SAP CDSViews, which creates a looooot of questions in our domain. Is an external DB supplier supposed to force you into its own core data model.

Just like if Oracle told you which tables you have the right, or not, to create.
by do_not_redeem | 2025-10-18 17:49:52+00:00
> I will show you this black screen

Right, that's why I said RDP isn't pretty if you aren't on Linux. Windows insists on creating a separate desktop for each session. IIRC it has something to do with licensing, they don't like simultaneous users using one Windows license.

> While on Windows you can just install TightVNC and it works.

If you're resorting to installing third-party apps, you can install TightVNC on Linux too, and it just works. Though I found krfb performs better on my network, ymmv.

> And RDP also assumes that you are running X11 and not Wayland.

RDP is just a protocol that describes the bytes going over the network. Why would it care about your display server? There are VNC and RDP servers for both X11 and Wayland. Just install one that's supported by your system.

Though if you're on linux, you don't have to deal with the VNC/RDP jank at all. Just use ssh -X or waypipe and it's way snappier.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-10-18 17:50:20+00:00
The workings of a human eye versus a webcam is mostly an implementation detail IMO and has nothing important to say about what underlies "intelligence" or "world models"

It's like saying a component video out cable for the SNES is intrinsically different from an HDMI for putting an image on a screen. They are different, yes, but the outcome we care about is the same.

As for causality, go and give a frontier level LLM a simple counterfactual scenario. I think 4/5 will be able to answer correctly or reasonably for most basic cases. I even tried this exercise on some examples from Judea Pearl's 2018 book, "The Book of Why". The fact that current LLMs can tackle this sort of stuff is strongly indicative of there being a decent world model locked inside many of these language models.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-18 17:51:24+00:00
While it'd be absurd to say it's impossible, the one thing I'd observe is that it's almost certain that a precursor to anything like this would be achieving something comparable in a simpler species. And that would likely come long before we might be able to see something similar in humans. For instance the fruit fly has been studied and experimented on extensively, particularly for aging, for over a century now.

But the results remain modest. The biggest breakthrough was in the 80s when somebody was able to roughly double their life expectancy from 2 months to 4 through artificial selection. But the context there is that fruit flies are a textbook 'quantity over quality' species, meaning that survival is not generally selected for, whereas humans are an equally textbook 'quality over quantity' species meaning that survival is one of the key things we select for. In other words, there was likely a lot more genetic low hanging fruit for survivability with fruit flies than there is for humans.

So I don't know. We need some serious acceleration and I'm not seeing much of anything when looked at with a critical eye.
by jmclnx | 2025-10-18 17:51:55+00:00
No kidding, where I worked (fortune 500) they started to move to HANA, that drove me out :)

At my age, I was done doing 24/7 that it would take to get it installed before S/3 licenses expired.

Last I heard the company was going to pay millions more to keep using S/3 because they realized HANA would not be active in time.

I do not know the status now, but I know cost in real $ will be an awful lot. The thing that is interesting with HANA you now need to use an SAP D/B, no more dog fooding using your database (oracle, DB/2 ...) which you sell to customers.

If I was in charge, I would go to SAP and say, unless we get huge relief on the cost, we will move to another ERP. I would have had this search active before looking at HANA.
by Rebelgecko | 2025-10-18 17:52:01+00:00
What EVs have 20% range depreciation after 5 years? That seems atypical for any car with modern battery temp management.

Mine is 2 years old, battery still reads 99% health and I regularly exceed the EPA range estimate. I've seen ones with hundreds of thousands of (fast charging!) miles that still only have 10% degradation.
by heyjamesknight | 2025-10-18 17:53:57+00:00
Multimodal is a farce. It still can’t see anything, it just generates a as list of descriptors that the LLM part can LLM about.

Humans got by for hundreds of thousands of years without language. When you see a duck you don’t need to know the word duck to know about the thing you’re seeing. That’s not true for “multimodal” models.
by shwaj | 2025-10-18 17:54:06+00:00
Not really, because you still recompile and start the program from scratch, rather than modifying the code that executes on the still-existing data structures.

Edit: rather than just naysaying, it occurred to me to reference the notion of Orthogonal Persistence, which the image-based approach provides (not without drawbacks) but IDEs typically don’t. Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39615228
by Lichtso | 2025-10-18 17:55:03+00:00
> The distance is only irrelevant for plain 2D text rendering, right?

Yes, as I said it is relevant for text rendering, but not necessarily 2D. It can also be embedded in a 3D perspective as long as the text itself is planar. Meaning you can directly render text in a 3D scene this way without rendering to a texture first.

> But real shadows and lighting would require the distance aspect, no?

I think the difference is in stroke vs fill, not the illumination (as you could still use shadow mapping / projection). In stroking you need to calculate an offset curve either explicitly or implicitly sample it from a signed distance field. Thus the exact distance matters for stroking, for filling it does not.
by latexr | 2025-10-18 17:55:35+00:00
> Is this for real?

Frankly, I think you should be the one answering that question. You’re comparing appreciating looking at the sky to bestiality. Then you follow it up with another barrage of wrong assumptions about what I think and can or cannot articulate. None of that has anything to do with the argument. I didn’t even touch on LLMs, my point was squarely about the human experience. Please don’t assume things you know nothing about regarding other people. The HN guidelines ask you to not engage in bad faith and to steel man the other person’s argument.
by TeaVMFan | 2025-10-18 17:56:00+00:00
I agree strong typing is a necessity in the front end. To prevent the language explosion issue, I recommend writing your single page apps in Java. The Flavour framework makes this quick and easy with complete maven tooling and powerful components.

Flavour book: https://frequal.com/Flavour/book.html

Flavour home page: https://flavour.sourceforge.io/

Example app: https://frequal.com/wordii
by dlcarrier | 2025-10-18 17:56:01+00:00
It's more so that every generation afterward has used the same architecture as most computers, making emulation more of a compatibility layer than actual emulation.

Development kits for the Xbox 360 used Power Mac G5s, because they were the same architecture as the Xbox 360, and modern Xbox and PlayStation development kits use x86 processors, again because there's no change in architecture.

Granted, you can't easily get a computer with a cell processor, but it isn't because of a lack of trying. Sony worked with IBM and Toshiba on designing and manufacturing the cell processor, and all three developed products using it, but the only one that was successful was Sony's PlayStation 3, but its success was likely despite the cell processor, not because of it.
by ninalanyon | 2025-10-18 17:56:33+00:00
They are control key sequences that are arranged so that a typist need never remover their fingers from the keyboard. The control key was to the left of the A so easily pressed with you left little finger.

You had full control of the cursor without the need for dedicated arrow keys or page up and down keys. It worked on a normal terminal keyboard. I first used it on an Apple ][ with a Z80 add-on that ran CP/M.
by shevy-java | 2025-10-18 17:56:34+00:00
I honestly don't understand why we lose IDEs and editors.

I understand that software requires people maintaining it, but my point is more that I still don't understand the why.

We have some functionality, a lot of which could be re-used in editors and IDEs. But people rarely share stuff. They like to re-implement things. Again and again and again. This is not logical to me.

I'd like to have one editor that does EVERYTHING, but in a modular way so people decide what that editor can do. People could then just maintain one cohesive, feature-rich code base rather than each one duplicating what is already available in another IDE/editor.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-10-18 17:56:51+00:00
This is actually a pretty good point, but quite honestly isn't this just an implementation detail? We can wire up a squirrel robot, give it a wifi connection to a Cerebras inference engine with a big context window, then let it run about during the day collecting a video feed while directing it to do "squirrel stuff".

Then during the night, we make it go to sleep and use the data collected during the day to continue finetuning the actual model weights in some data center somewhere.

After 2 years, this model would have a ton of "direct experiences" about the world.
by roryirvine | 2025-10-18 17:56:55+00:00
Yeah, by 1995, Visual Basic / C++, Delphi / Borland C++, and Symantec C++ were all-conquering.

A few years before, it was very different - VisualAge and Rational Application Developer were the big names in the early 90s in "professional" IDEs. Interface Builder for university spin-outs or funky startups (and SunWorks / Forte Studio for the less-funky ones). CodeWarrior on the Mac (perhaps with THINK! hanging on too). I think Softbench was popular for scientific software, but I never actually saw it myself.

And then just a few years later, the rise of Java turned things upside down again and we got Jbuilder, Visual Cafe, & NetBeans as the beginning of yet another new wave. The Visual Studio suite really began to take off around then, too.

In short, the 90s were a time of huge change and the author seems to have missed most of it!