MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wazoox | 2025-10-03 11:53:18+00:00
About silent letters, French did the same, but one of the unintended consequences was to change pronunciation of many words when reading became common in the XIXth century. For instance "admirer, admiration" had a silent d before ~1830, which is now pronounced by everyone. Ditto the "ir" termination of verbs, the "r" was silent, that's why old songs have strange rhymes such as "Compère Guilleri" rhyming with "te lairas-tu mourir", and "les lilas sont fleuris" rhyming with "qu'il fait bon dormir".
by vessenes | 2025-10-03 11:53:25+00:00
Thanks for doing the prompting work here.

One thing I read - with $6.7bn R&D on $3.4bn in Gross Profit, you need a model to be viable for only one year to pay back.

Another thing, with only $40mm / 5 months in G&A, basically the entire company is research, likely with senior execs nearly completely equity comped. That’s an amazingly lean admin for this much spend.

On sales & ads - I too find this number surprisingly high. I guess they’re either very efficient (no need to pitch me, I already pay), or they’re so inefficient they don’t hit up channels I’m adjacent to. The team over there is excellent, so my priors would be on the first.

As doom-saying journalists piece this over, it’s good to think of a few numbers:

Growth is high. So, June was up over $1bn in revenues by all accounts. Possibly higher. If you believe that customers are sticky (i.e. you can stop sales and not lose customers), which I generally do, then if they keep R&D at this pace, a forward looking annual cashflow looks like:

$12bn in revs, $9.6bn in gross operating margin, $13.5bn in R&D, so net cash impact of -$4bn.

If you think they can grow to 1.5bn customers and won’t open up new paying lines of business then you’d have $20-25bn in revs -> maybe $4bn in sales -> +2-3bn in free cashflow, with the ability to take a breather and make that +15-18bn in free cashflow as needed. A lot of that R&D spend is on training which is probably more liquid than employees, as well.

Upshot - they’re going to keep spending more cash as they get it. I would expect all these numbers to double in a year. The race is still on, and with a PE investment hat on, these guys still look really good to me - the first iconic consumer tech brand in many years, an amazing team, crazy fast growth, an ability to throw off billions in cash when they want to, and a shot at AGI/ASI. What’s not to like?
by jamesnorden | 2025-10-03 11:54:11+00:00
I'm curious about why the user-agent he described can bypass Anubis, since it contains "Mozilla", sounds like a bug to me.

Edit: Nevermind, I see part of the default config is allowing Googlebot, so this is literally intended. Seems like people who criticize Anubis often don't understand what the opinionated default config is supposed to accomplish (only punish bots/scrapers pretending to be real browsers).
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-03 11:54:27+00:00
There is a lot of "transformer LLMs are flawed" going around, and a lot of alternative architectures being proposed, or even trained and demonstrated. But so far? There's nothing that would actually outperform transformer LLMs at their strengths. Most alternatives are sidegrades at best.

For how "naive" transformer LLMs seem, they sure set a high bar.

Saying "I know better" is quite easy. Backing that up is really hard.
by iLemming | 2025-10-03 11:54:33+00:00
> having your markup language tied to an editor

Org-mode isn't just a markup though, and Emacs ain't just an editor - it's rather one cohesive system. I use Org-mode to manage all my dotfiles - it simpler than nix or ansible, allows me to do things both - declaratively and with linear instructions; My note-taking is all done in Org-mode; I don't have to present much these days - I did that with Org in the past. My spaced-repetition cards are in Org-mode. Whenever I need performing etymology look-up or check the thesaurus - results displayed in Org-mode. I'm reading this page in Org-mode and typing this comment in Emacs.

It only sounds insane, but the basic outline format of Org is absolute pinnacle of simplicity. So many things you can do in it, sure it may feel absurd. What? Reading HN and Reddit in Org-mode? Well, why not? If all the different things like imenu, search features of all kinds, sorting, conversion, etc. - all that available at your fingertips, not to mention the extreme extensibility; it does get only practical over time.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 11:54:50+00:00
> Gaza population is 2 million

In August, the IPC found about 514,000 Gazans are Phase 5 (famine / humanitarian catastrophe) [1][2]. It projected by September that was around 641,000. So the threshold you're looking for is a crude death rate (CDR) between 100 and 120 per day.

CRD "needs to be directly attributable to outright starvation or to the interaction of food consumption deficits and disease" and does not include trauma [3]. So it will be more than just confirmed deaths from malnutrition or starvation (which is, in practice, impossible to procure for anywhere on even the brink of famine).

[1] https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-analysis/details-map/en/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Food_Security_Phase...

[3] https://www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ipcinfo/docs/I...
by jasode | 2025-10-03 11:56:45+00:00
>You prefer to let other people determine what you read?

There are multiple levels of delegation to the "wisdom of the crowd":

- visiting this HN website by itself is already letting people determine what you read. The stories are submitted by others.

- reading only the front page of just the top-voted 30 stories instead of doom scrolling the additional 1000 is another level of delegation

- inside of each story, only reading a subset of the most upvoted comments is another level

People do all 3 to various degrees because there's limited time to read.
by WesolyKubeczek | 2025-10-03 11:56:53+00:00
I'd argue that you could make the same argument for (almost) every other language instead of Lua and still have the same advantages.

For example, take Javascript. With a runtime like Bun, you would have the primitives to serve some HTTP and talk to SQLite right there in the core. And here's the good news, if you carefully implement only the things that you need for your project, you probably don't need NPM. You can write it all on your own, you can peek at how NPM authors solved the problems you run into, but you still can make it all your own. This would leave you with this amazing retrocompatible language with lots of mindshare to boot.

Really, you don't need that whole ecosystem if you're solving your own problems and are not required to interface with someone else's library. And no one is forcing you to use it.

Or you could take Python, and it has a few single-file web frameworks. You can go with one of them and the standard library a very long way. No one tells you you must use any of FastAPI, Jinja, Flask, Django (anyone remembering Pyramid?), SQLAlchemy...

Or you could write it in Go, SQLite module being your only external dependency. You can even pin your go.mod to a particular version of the compiler so you're not bothered with incompatible changes, or changes at all.

Or, you could whip up Perl... but yeah. CGI.pm and DBD::SQLite are not in the core. And anything else has a litany of CPAN dependencies with their quirks. No, don't whip up Perl.

All I'm saying there's nothing that makes Lua somehow inherently more suited to your philosophy than any other mainstream language. Except maybe to be different. And you're still pulling in 29 luarocks, aren't you?
by astura | 2025-10-03 11:56:56+00:00
You have no idea what you're talking about. RSNs (which ROOT was) are the reason for the blackouts. With ROOT Sports dissolving and MLB taking over distribution there's nothing to blackout for, so Mariners won't be subject to blackouts going forward.

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-to-distribute-mariners-games-st...

>Cable subscribers will still be able to view games through a specific channel, and streamers will be able to watch through MLB.TV with no blackouts.

Mlb.tv is comparable to $20/month if not cheaper, but they sell by the season, not the month. Also, MLB has had an ongoing promotion with T-Mobile so one week every year every T-Mobile subscriber can sign up for a season of MLB.tv for free through the T-Mobile Tuesdays app. Non-baseball T-Mobile subscribers often sell their subscription for like $10 at that time on sites like Slickdeals. MLB also starts running 50% off deals starting around May (that's one month into the season).
by player1234 | 2025-10-03 11:57:51+00:00
It is not worth it and it is not even that impressive considering the cost.

If you told me that you would spend half a trillion and the best minds on reading the whole internet, then with some statistical innovation try to guess the probable output of an input. The way it works now seems about right, probably a bit disappointing even.

I would also say, it seems cool and you could do that, but why would you? At least when the training is done it is cheap to use right? No!? What the actual fuck!
by social_quotient | 2025-10-03 11:57:55+00:00
So here’s part of the trade-off to consider: (great questions and thinking btw you’d be surprised by the number of people that treat education as day care… even at a 40k per year school)

The program is heavily STEM-focused. While my kids perform at the 99th percentile on MAP tests, often two years ahead of their grade level, they would struggle with topics like explaining the structure and role of government. They’re also not exposed to the kind of collective literary analysis you’d find in a traditional classroom—like debating whether Santiago is defeated or victorious at the end of his journey in The Old Man and the Sea and unpacking what “A man can be destroyed but not defeated” truly means. For kids with a natural inclination toward literature or civics, they might gravitate toward those areas independently, but for most, these subjects are entirely overlooked.

Of course, there’s no perfect solution. At the two new schools I’ve observed, the reverse is true—they’re allergic to meaningful tech integration and don’t get me started on the adversarial views on Ai. In contrast, Alpha’s approach leverages apps heavily for core curriculum, which allows for customization per child. The “app and data team” makes strategic decisions about which tools to use for specific tasks (Khan Academy for one concept, IXL for another). It’s not random; it’s deliberate and data-driven.

Extracurriculars like sports or dance fall outside the core structure but offer unique opportunities. For instance, my oldest studied Chinese for two years with a college student from Brown University via Zoom… a fantastic experience that reflects the possibilities when budget isn’t a limiting factor.

As for independent verification, the MAP scores and test results are very real, and the improvement in transfer students is striking. However, their model is still evolving. Right now, they’re in a "move fast and break things" phase, but I anticipate a period of refinement where STEM emphasis gives way to a more balanced inclusion of liberal arts and social studies. The avoidance of certain subjects, though, is a scalability issue—they require instructor-led learning, and apps for reading and writing analysis are, at best, mediocre. As an aside, I love STEM but I almost feel like in education it sucked a lot of the oxygen out of the room. Being a girl-dad it’s obvious. Nearly all of the marketing and agendas in TV programming as about girls in STEM. It’s the only way forward… I think what we see is a value imbalance. Debating old man in the sea isn’t needed “today”… but it’s critical for long term human advancement… the other issue I feel For example, a 3rd grader reading at an 8th-grade level poses challenges in finding age-appropriate digital content. Reading level isn’t the same as content maturity, and that’s a gap they/tech/ed-tech haven’t fully bridged yet. This is not an Alpha model problem, it’s just they are at the bleeding level of what tech and ai are doing. I have no don’t it will be solved.

Hope this helps clarify things!
by MrVandemar | 2025-10-03 11:58:20+00:00
The number of (self-inflicted) existential threats facing Homo sapiens right now and all you come up with is "mass brain fog"?

AI won't solve human obstinacy, human entitlement, human greed, human short-sightedness, anthropocentric hubris, etc. I seriously doubt anything can, let alone a large language model.
by oldnetguy | 2025-10-03 11:58:34+00:00
Yes, Gemini, A Wii Server Is Possible

When Reit Tech needed something to do with an old Nintendo Wii, he turned to Google. When the AI overview told him it could not be used as a server, he had his mission: prove that clanker wrong. It already runs Doom, so what else is there to do?
by yorwba | 2025-10-03 11:58:40+00:00
I'm not saying that there's no innate knowledge. This entire list of reflexes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reflexes is essentially a list of innate knowledge in humans, many of which have been demonstrated in newborns, apparently without considering such experiments unethical.

I'm saying that there are limits to how much knowledge can be inherited. I.e. the question isn't "Where could innate knowledge be encoded other than in synapses?" but "Considering the extremely large number of synapses involved in complex behavior far exceeds genetic storage capacity, how are their weights determined?" And since we know that in addition to having innate behaviors, animals are also capable of learning (e.g. responding to artificial stimuli not found in nature), it stands to reason that most synapse weights must be set by a dynamic learning process.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-10-03 11:58:43+00:00
This is the premise behind *legal* licensing of professionals --- like doctors and lawyers and engineers.

AI doesn't really offer anything new here.

It has always been possible to get these jobs done faster and cheaper --- if you're willing to ignore a few little nagging issues like quality and liability and *legality*.

Review of legal contracts is not just about what is being said but also what should be said that isn't.

Can AI do this level of analysis as well as a licensed professional? Color me skeptical. But as always, your mileage may vary.
by mpourismaiel | 2025-10-03 11:58:48+00:00
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by mpourismaiel | 2025-10-03 11:58:57+00:00
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by gilbetron | 2025-10-03 11:59:06+00:00
"bubble" is just an oversimplification and is overused. Uber was a bubble. Video games were a bubble. Streaming services were a bubble. Self-driving was a bubble. The reality is much more complex and nuanced.

LLMs are legitimate AI for the first time, and have real use cases and have changed things across myriad industries. It's disrupting education in a big way. The google AI search thing is becoming useful. When I look at products on Amazon, I often ask it's AI review thing (Rufus?) questions and it gives me good answers, so good that I don't really validate anymore.

There's massive, intense competition, and know one can predict how it is going to go, so there probably will be things that are bubble-y that pop, sure, but it's not like AI has hit a permanent plateau and we are as far as the tech is going to go. It's just getting started, but it'll probably be a weird and bumpy path.
by notmyjob | 2025-10-03 11:59:12+00:00
>People have made it a habit to store their most sensitive and private secrets in iCloud

Totally absurd to blame anyone but apple for that. Apple pushes features, like iCloud, so they can do show and tell every year and make their stock go up. More a stock go up business than anything else. Features, like iCloud, are the problem. People who like that stuff are also the loudest fanboys and often the least technologically literate too.
by myfonj | 2025-10-03 11:59:21+00:00
Tried to dig some info about what (the hell) it is supposed to depict and the only official hint so far was from their video reveal transcript [0]:

> It depicts a symbol made of three flowing lines that resemble the links of a chain. The words ‘The World Wide Web Consortium’ circle around it.

So the main part is not a word mark, after all, or at least not intended to be one. (Yes, hard to believe.) Some more hints may eventually appear in their mastodon thread [1] what (to me) does not seem like a properly managed public relations shtick at all, starting from the "alt text" of the new logo, that reads "new W3C logo" (sic), to single (at this point) response

> it's not a 'W', darling

(also sic). Yes, it seems that the this standards body public relations had been hijacked by some covert adversary, and can only hope it is just the PR part.

[0] https://www.w3.org/about/press-media/#transcripts:~:text=The...

[1] https://w3c.social/@w3c/115299385112878605
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-10-03 11:59:34+00:00
Anyone who realises that AI would be ideal for this is going to make a fortune. "Send this photo to its-kostya" instead of "Open Photo app, click send, click the send channel, scroll down the list of names, click the one/s you want to use, click send if you can find it again."

We've inherited dumb a tradition of dumb procedural UIs which are effectively manual scripts that have to be repeated for each action.

There's been next to no useful progress on automating this. Siri looked like it was going to do it, but then it died on the vine. There's a very basic "Call XYZ" feature but the entire OS should have that level of accessibility, from Settings upwards.

Apple hasn't had a User Champion for well over a decade now, and it shows. There's the occasional Nice Feature™ - "Hey we need a nice feature for the presentation this year" - but there's no longer a Nice OS, and no one at Apple seems to have any interest in creating one.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-03 11:59:41+00:00
Eh. Altman is not Musk in terms of negative coverage or average sentiment on the net. That might change in the future, but my personal guess is that your perception may be based on spending too much time in a specific echo chamber. I personally like to use people who don't use llms at all for a proper grounding. In those cases, Altman name does not exist, while Musk barely registers.
by rootlocus | 2025-10-03 11:59:43+00:00
Nobody asked anyone anything. It's a post with people sharing thoughts. You don't even know if the maintainer is the same person as the author. As far as feedback goes, if the comment gets enough upvotes it shows a significant number of people share the sentiment, and would be something for the maintainer to consider if he wants a broader audience. Nobody expects the maintainer to respond or care though.
by miksik | 2025-10-03 12:01:08+00:00
Not sure how you came to the idea that supporting Ukraine militarily has been decided undemocratically...

Every European nation can and has made their own decision on this matter. Spain, Portugal, Italy, some Balkan countries have contributed a lot less. Hungary, who are in NATO, have almost contributed zilch.

Thinking that de-escalating the war as-is giving Russia the strategic victory is a very dangerous thought. This will destabilize the Northern and Eastern parts of Europe, which we definitely can not let happen.
by piskov | 2025-10-03 12:02:13+00:00
It’s in the realm of probability but very thin for me. As always: the means, the benefits. How would Russia benefit?

> EU leaders meeting in Copenhagen backed plans to strengthen European defenses, including a proposed "drone wall," after recent drone incursions over Denmark raised fears of Russian hybrid attacks. Officials said the initiative would focus on eastern airspace protection and sit alongside projects for eastern flank security, missile defense, and a space-based shield . Leaders also began a first formal debate on using frozen Russian assets in Europe to fund aid for Ukraine.

Ah, those sweet-sweet frozen assets. Also see how this piece implies Russian without any proof.

Also the more you fear monger the EU population, the more you can continue the war: which is money for some elites; redeemeer of economic recession for others, etc.: war is universal resetter for social/economic issues.
by js8 | 2025-10-03 12:02:20+00:00
To my knowledge, these things are never put forward as an election topic or referendum. There is no discussion with citizens, it's always a fait accompli, we have to do it for national security sort of thing.

The blowback is not discussed. I am from Czechia, and Russians attacked Vrbětice munition factory, because it supplied Ukraine. That's the reason. But in media it's always portrayed without this context.

FWIW, I am not opposed to humanitarian and economic help to Ukraine. But I don't believe military support will end the war in a good way, whatever it means.
by af78 | 2025-10-03 12:02:31+00:00
Russia is the aggressor in this war; if it stopped its aggression and withdrew from Ukraine, the war would stop. So the responsibility for deescalating falls squarely on Russia. Russia has no intention to stop; on the contrary it is ramping up the production of military equipment. As only military means can stop a military aggression, it makes every sense for European leaders to support Ukraine militarily. If anything, European leaders deserve criticism for not supporting Ukraine enough.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-03 12:02:41+00:00
They might be. Google has been getting mildly 'aggressive' in their emails pleading with me to use gemini and I have yet to try it ( and that is despite being mildly interested ). There is a reason first mover's advantage is a real thing. People stick with what they think they know.