MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jart | 2025-10-18 02:12:58+00:00
There's that word we again. So you're the crazy gringo who always picks my pocket?

Deflation is only bad for people who hold a lot of debt. For people who are cash positive, deflation means you're richer, you're being paid more to do the same job, etc. all while maintaining your freedom. Deflation actually being good is the central gamble behind bitcoin's design. If more people understood that then they'd probably stop using it for such frivolous purposes. Not everyone is privileged enough to even hold debt, so it's really an exclusionary system. And what do the people who the system trusts to have debt (e.g. private equity firms) do with it? They do leveraged buyouts to rip out the heart and soul of responsible American companies. The only thing inflation is good for is keeping folks running on the hamster wheel and bankrolling entitlements.
by bluGill | 2025-10-18 02:13:09+00:00
America may well go after you and we have a large military to do it with. most often a simple diplomatic message will shut you down - most countries have their own child porn laws, and the exceptions (if any) are going to face problems as this is something the us takes seriously.

You picked a bad example - there are many US crimes that you could get away with if done elsewhere within the local laws, it generally isn't seen as worth bothering with when done elsewhere if the other country doesn't care.
by brian_cunnie | 2025-10-18 02:13:27+00:00
> not a single person has ever said to me "I'm doing this for the love of it".

I'm doing this for the love of it.

Maybe "love" is too strong a word, but I certainly "like" what I'm doing, and I "like" computers, and I have a computer side project that I "like" doing and don't get paid for. Heck, when I was a summer student at IBM I couldn't believe they were paying me for something that was so fun!
by nostrademons | 2025-10-18 02:13:29+00:00
ICE and EV are two market segments. They are partially substitutable, but for many ICE customers an EV is a non-starter because of charging infrastructure, which means that if one of those customers needs to replace their ICE vehicle, they need to replace it with another ICE vehicle, and cannot take advantage of price drops in new EVs. (I ran into this personally; I wanted to get an EV, but my garage does not have a charger, none of the circuits near it could support a charger, and so I need to rewire my house and get a main panel upgrade to do more than L1 charging.)

Likewise US and rest-of-world are different markets because of trade barriers.

Within the EV market segment, the resale value may be plummeting because new car prices are declining because of improved technology and higher volume. Someone who is replacing their EV or looking for a new one already has the required charging infrastructure, otherwise they wouldn't be looking. But this price drop affects only other EV buyers, because ICE buyers cannot take advantage of it.

This insulation lasts only as long as the price differential between them remains less than the capital costs of getting a L2 charger and associated electrical upgrades.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-10-18 02:13:52+00:00
I wonder about this; theoretically elites who control capital no longer "need" masses in such numbers to retain power/wealth. It would be much simpler to manage a smaller population and extract surplus production from technocapital instead (automated factories, solar, ag etc).

If you are mainly constrained by externalities of production / industrialisation one way to maximise the resources available to you is to have fewer other people.
by bravura | 2025-10-18 02:14:21+00:00
How large is a lion?

Learning the size of objects using pure text analysis requires significant gymnastics.

Vision demonstrates physical size more easily.

Multimodal learning is important. Full stop.

Purely textual learning is not sample efficient for world modeling and the optimization can get stuck in local optima that are easily escaped through multimodal evidence.

("How large are lions? inducing distributions over quantitative attributes", Elazar et al 2019)
by linguae | 2025-10-18 02:15:11+00:00
I had a chance to skim over the paper, and I'm very inspired; I'm looking forward to reading it in depth and considering its lessons while working on my side project. For about a decade, I've been dreaming about building a modern operating system that is highly malleable and encourages component-based software design, and I've collected many thoughts and done a lot of reading. I've been inspired by many projects, including the Smalltalk-80 environment, Lisp machine environments (especially Symbolics Genera), various 1990s Apple projects (Dylan, the Bauhaus operating system designed for the Newton and written in Lisp, OpenDoc), Plan 9, Alan Kay's Viewpoints Research Institute's work on STEPS (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11686325), and Stephen Kell's work on exploring the connections between Unix, Plan 9, and Smalltalk.

During the COVID-19 pandemic I collected my thoughts on my blog (https://mmcthrow-musings.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-proposal-for...) and on a site that I decided to dub MallowOS (https://mallowos.com/), paying homage to Apple's Pink/Taligent project and Google's Fuchsia project.

Unfortunately I haven't made any progress beyond design notes written in paper notebooks; I've got swamped with work (though now I have more free time since becoming a community college professor last year; I have summers off now!). I've also changed my design plans from basing off of Plan 9 to building a new exokernel in a language like Rust, adapting NetBSD's rump kernel for driver support, and using a single-address space design similar to Opal (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/195792.195795), though this isn't reflected in the MallowOS webpage yet.

Another thought has come to mind: not too long ago there was a discussion here about Etoile (http://etoileos.com/), a project from the late 2000s-early 2010s that attempted to build a GNUstep-based desktop environment. What made Etoile unique is its embrace of the Smalltalk inspirations of Objective-C. Imagine a new project that took Smalltalk inspiration one step further by adapting the ideas of this paper, fully integrating Smalltalk with the Unix framework.
by p1esk | 2025-10-18 02:15:49+00:00
I stopped eating desserts and sweets, stopped overeating, stopped eating after 7pm, switched to eating more veggies and unprocessed foods. I started taking supplements (ag1 powder, fish oil, turmeric). Once inflammation started to reduce I started to exercise more. It wasn’t just pain in my elbow, it was also in my foot and my shoulder, for many years: all better now.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-18 02:16:15+00:00
>>> Using UUIDv7 is generally discouraged for security when the primary key is exposed to end users in external-facing applications or APIs.

>> So this basically defeats the entire performance improvement of UUIDv7. Because anything coming from the user will need to look up a UUIDv4, which means every new row needs to create an extra random UUIDv4 which gets inserted into a second B-tree index, which recreates the very performance problem UUIDv7 is supposedly solving.

> This is only really true if leaking the creation time of the record is itself a security concern.

No, as "leaking the creation time" is not a concern when API's return resources having properties representing creation/modification timestamps.

Where exposing predictable identifiers creates a security risk, such as exposing UUIDv7 or serial[0] types used as database primary keys, is it enables attackers to be able to synthesize identifiers which match arbitrary resources much quicker than when random identifiers are employed.

0 - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-numeric.htm...
by cortesoft | 2025-10-18 02:16:43+00:00
> Why not? The future can be anything.

I don’t think the ability to come up with an implausible scenario where a person could become the thing that seems impossible is the same thing as saying “if you have enough motivation, you can become anything you want”. Both scenarios you described require a lot of things to happen that you are not in control of; space flight changing significantly and colonizing mars aren’t something you can work at.

Also, the height limit isn’t just a made up rule, it is so you can fit in the spaceship.

For the wheelchair basketball player, they can’t just work hard and suddenly the NBA lets people on with bionic legs. That would require a major rule shift, which again is not something you can change through hard work and motivation.

Look, I get why we want to persist the myth that you can accomplish anything though hard work. You CAN accomplish a lot, and probably more than you think, through dedication and hard work, but you definitely can’t if you don’t believe you can. So, we tell ourselves (and others) that you can be anything if you work hard so as to encourage people to try for things they might not try for because they don’t realize they can accomplish the thing if they work hard. It makes some sense to try to delude yourself into thinking you can do anything in order to prevent the situation where you actually could have accomplished the thing you wanted to do, but you didn’t try because you didn’t think you could.

So I get it, but really, if you think it through… there are things out of your control that will factor into whether you can accomplish your goal or not, and you have to be prepared for that, too.
by __aru | 2025-10-18 02:17:34+00:00
> I believe the problem is that most of the games they host are Windows games, so in that regard, Linux doesn't make sense.

The vast majority of games on Steam are Windows games, yet the Linux Steam client runs them fine via Proton.

I don't think people are asking for GOG to make Linux-native games. People are asking for an official GOG client that can handle installing games via Proton/Wine, handles cloud saves, account management, etc.

If a bunch of open source hobbyists can create a viable multi-platform client (see Heroic Games Launcher), then so can GOG.
by bbor | 2025-10-18 02:17:35+00:00
Quite telling -- thanks for the insightful comment as always, Simon. Didn't know that, even though I've been discussing this on and off all day on Reddit.

He's a smart man with well-reasoned arguments, but I think he's also a bit poisoned by working at such a huge org, with all the constraints that comes with. Like, this:

You can’t just tell them something and they’ll remember it.

It might take a decade to work through this issue if you just want to put a single LLM in a single computer and have it be a fully-fledged human, sure. And since he works at a company making some of the most advanced LLMs in the world, that perspective makes sense! But of course that's not how it's actually going to be (/already is).

LLMs are a necessary part of AGI(/"agents") due to their ability to avoid the Frame Problem[1], but they're far from the only needed thing. We're pretty dang good at "remembering things" with computers already, and connecting that with LLM ensembles isn't going to take anywhere close to 10 years. Arguably, we're already doing it pretty darn well in unified systems[2]...

If anyone's unfamiliar and finds my comment interesting, I highly recommend Minsky's work on the Society of Mind, which handled this topic definitively over 20 years ago. Namely;

A short summary of "Connectionism and Society of Mind" for laypeople at DARPA: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA200313.pdf

A description of the book itself, available via Amazon in 48h or via PDF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind

By far my favorite paper on the topic of connectionist+symbolist syncreticism, though a tad long: https://www.mit.edu/~dxh/marvin/web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/pa...

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frame-problem/

[2] https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/sr...
by roxolotl | 2025-10-18 02:17:38+00:00
Do you have any recommendations for a language where you _have to_ use these concepts. I love playing with them but I find that unless i’m paying a lot of attention in most cases I fall back to a less functional style even in a language like Janet. I’d love to find a language where you largely have to use these combinatorial logic style functions so I can’t just default back to other styles.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-18 02:18:59+00:00
I feel the Wikipedia article is pretty clear. It refers to a repeated pattern of changes in births, deaths, technological change, and industrialization. The pattern can be seen in many countries, with various timing-offsets and rates.

It has nothing to do with any particular ethnicity. Insofar as "immigration" comes into play, it refers to economic demand for labor as the population-bump people exit the labor pool.
by charcircuit | 2025-10-18 02:19:02+00:00
>And I think that's true for most people.

I think it's the opposite. I think people would prefer the peace of mind of living in a high trust society. People like predictability and being able to trust people. I also think people would enjoy that laws that people pass are actually applied and we can efficiently apply the will of the people to the country.

>with any freedom there is always a cost

Laws ultimately would be what restrict your freedom, not the enforcement of them. I don't think freedom should rely on poor enforcement of laws.
by 100721 | 2025-10-18 02:19:43+00:00
> Meanwhile I am talking about unique shit with Claude Code trying to draft on that sentiment for little to no traction with them.

What does this mean? What do you mean unique shit? What do you mean when you say you’re trying to draft on the sentiment? What is “them” referring to?

Genuinely. I’m not being (deliberately) obtuse, just trying to follow. Thanks
by brian_cunnie | 2025-10-18 02:20:18+00:00
> ascetic tech monks where we did this for the love of the work and not purely for status or money

And this is not limited to 2010s! My father worked as a software engineer in Poland in the 1960s, and the communist party had a problem: every profession had at least one member of the communist party except the programming profession. But the Polish programmers weren't interested in joining, not even with the perks of a bigger apartment or cars. Finally they got one programmer to join the communist party, but he wasn't interested in programming, and only became a programmer so he could join the communist party & get the perks.
by thelastgallon | 2025-10-18 02:20:42+00:00
Gas cars also depreciated faster than horses initially. We’ve only just started mass producing EVs. The scale advantages haven’t kicked in yet and EVs are already at cost parity.

People bought Model Ys during Covid close to 70k, of course it will show up as massive depreciation if manufacturer is selling the same shit for nearly half the price.

Also, all new cars have too much electronics and sensors, they all depreciate faster.
by ngcc_hk | 2025-10-18 02:21:46+00:00
Not many of us create windows or macOS … we might do a bit linux. But with the gpu trend and most importantly the use of unified memory (including amd starting to have 128g shared memory within the chip), most of us or co or gov will run personal desktop or internal systems with our data for llm. One went back from cloud and back to our home and companies.

Now is like IBM mainframe vs apple mac/microsoft DOS/mac/windows time. Nvidia era is peaking and we are going back.

Just who is going to be the os or llm provider(s) in the new era I wonder.

As in the past we are seeing the chasm. One has to remember there are two different market type. The infra and the app.

Not THINK … but “Think Different” …
by middayc | 2025-10-18 02:21:54+00:00
Yes, Rye follows REBOL in this case. Plain block invocation doesn't create it's own scope / context. That holds for do, if, either, loop, for, map, etc.

It would be costly to have this on by default. If you want separation there are many ways to achieve it. Rye has many functions related to contexts / scopes. For creating contexts in multiple ways and evaluating code inside contexts or with context as parent or isolated context, etc.

And a lot of builtins directly accept anonymous functions in place of blocks of code.

For example for loop also accepts function if you want separation and don't mind the cost.

for { 1 2 3 } fn { x } { print x } ; which can also be written with fn1 for { 1 2 3 } fn1 { .print } ; or latest experiment where we have syntax for 3 injected blocks ; .() - same as "with" ; .[] - same as "reduce/with" ; .{} - same as "fn1" ; where it's already decided department from REBOL: ; () is "do" ; [] is "vals" ; {} is literal block for { 1 2 3 } .{ .print }
by zer00eyz | 2025-10-18 02:24:23+00:00
> I wonder if we would have done the Ethernet again if he knew that Wi-Fi was going to become so common.

Today, if your wiring up a house you put ethernet drops everywhere.

POE is a thing, and it's getting more popular.

Cameras, blinds, MM wave... It's almost to the point where one should be putting a media box in every closet as a mini wiring hookup.
by esseph | 2025-10-18 02:24:32+00:00
> The future is probably just having multiple wifi APs wired up and then just running extremely fast but low range wifi.

Well, what if you want wifi in your garden? Maybe you own a few acres of property and you want wifi for a wedding? Now you actually have to do a minor bit of planning. Supported wifi versions, max EIRP, range, modulation rate, throughput, XPIC, coverage area, frequency, beamwidth, MU-MIMO, does the frequency require prior coordination with any government entity, etc.

I'm just giving a different use-case on the other end of the spectrum, to be fair. I agree 100% with your analysis however, we're going to mmwave frequency ranges with small but many APs. Massive Multi User MIMO, etc.
by inkyoto | 2025-10-18 02:25:14+00:00
It is not easily possible to directly compare neo4j and AWS Neptune as the former does not exist as a fully managed service in AWS. neo4j is available through the AWS marketplace, though, but it most assuredly runs on an EC2 instance by neo4j (the company).

We run a modest graph workload (relatively small dataset wise but an intense on graph edge wise) on Neptune that costs us slightly under USD 600 per month – that is before the enterprise discount, so in reality we pay USD 450-500 a month. But we use Neptune Serverless that bursts out from time to time, which means that monthly charges are averaged out across the spikes/bursts. The monthly charges are for the serverless configuration of 3-16 NPU's.

Disk I/O stats are not available for Neptune, moreso for serverless clusters, and they would not be insightful anyway. The transactions per second rate is what I look at.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-18 02:25:16+00:00
Additional citation:

Monitoring CO2 emissions on Norwegian roads [pdf] - https://www.toi.no/getfile.php?mmfileid=74689 - January 2023

(Figure 15 shows several different scenarios, all resulting in Norway's road-transport emissions dropping by at least 90% from their peak by 2050.)
by echelon | 2025-10-18 02:25:50+00:00
My ICE SUV has nearly 200,000 miles on it and is worth almost the exact same as when I bought it ten years ago. FJ Cruisers are popular.

There's no way I'm buying an EV. I can't charge it where I live, it won't easily refuel where I'm going, and I hate infotainment centers over knobs and buttons.

If I do buy a new car - and I really don't have to - it'll be an ICE without an annoying screen in the middle console.
by 100721 | 2025-10-18 02:26:25+00:00
One thing worth taking into account is the practice of finding people who actually like the product, and then paying them to write an honest review. I find this to be much closer to ethical than paying exclusively for positive reviews to people who may not have ever used the product, but it has a similar net effect of distorting the sentiment by amplifying a subset of opinions, so still not ideal but at least it’s rooted in honesty.

If you haven’t been vocal about your support of products in general, you wouldn’t show up on the radar for these “opportunities.”
by Nevermark | 2025-10-18 02:27:23+00:00
A successful religion ties together so many valued things in people's minds, that it is very hard to fight the cultural dysfunctions it may promote, or has become entwined with.

Few other sources of dysfunction come with organized cultural generational reinforcement practices, systemic social respect and judgement, daily personal energy investment, family and friendship bonds, and both elite and grassroots level power classes that a religion can create. Not to mention the afterlife plans and ancestor reunions.

Note how reliably political polarization is associated with one or both sides weaving the sticky glue of religion into completely unrelated (and blatantly contradictory) partisan identities.
by keeda | 2025-10-18 02:28:00+00:00
This is actually discussed in the interview: https://www.dwarkesh.com/i/176425744/llm-cognitive-deficits

It seems to be more nuanced than what people have assumed. The best I can summarize it as is that he was doing rather non-standard things that confused the LLMs which have been trained on vast amounts of very standard code and hence kept defaulting to those assumptions.

Maybe a rough analogy is that he was trying to "code golf" this repo while LLMs kept trying to write "enterprise" code because that is overwhelmingly what they have been trained on.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-18 02:28:58+00:00
I'm surprised Twista isn't much higher, if you listen to his lyrics he's always busting out different words like a thesaurus (I think he's one who mentioned reading one as a kid or something?) but I guess this just means he's not released as many songs. I do like that MF Doom is listed as well, big respect to him, I never listened to him heavily.

One thing to note, you don't need every word on the planet to convey amazing lessons with lyrics, some of the more profound lyrics (I can't remember, but it certainly felt that way to me 15+ years ago) were by artists somewhere in the middle of your graph for me.

Just looked up Tech N9ne on there, really surprised he's in the middle. Immortal Technique more to the right with the list of people who really use an insane amount of words in their lyrics, not surprised honestly.

Edit: Just realized its the first 35,000 words... Man... this needs to do its best to get all of them. Unfortunately, there's songs by artists I can't find on ANY lyrics sites, so I fear this list will never be 100% but a close enough ballpark.
by mvkg | 2025-10-18 02:30:43+00:00
5GHz certainly helps, but congestion/co-channel interference can still be an issue in high density environments, especially in a multi-user environment like an apartment complex where nothing is coordinated. The addition of 6GHz will help alleviate this problem too, but a lot of consumer gear seems to default to the widest channels possible.

Also, your glass door probably has Low-E glass which has a metallic coating.

> The future is probably just having multiple wifi APs wired up and then just running extremely fast but low range wifi.

This is somewhat the case, but it is limited. For example, in 5GHz there are 21x 20MHz channels available. In a highly dense environment, this can support roughly 30x devices per channel well and 50x devices per channel with some degradation.

Limiting the TX power on an AP can help, but it's not a panacea since clients always transmit their control frames at their default power (usually ~15dBm). There have been some improvements to this in .11ax, but depending on the spatial organization of the devices, it can only do so much.