MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bbor | 2025-10-18 01:57:33+00:00
Wow, thank you for posting (you have to click the green "Enter" button, it's not super obvious -- someone needs to have a sit-down with Gary about design conventions! It's also completely un-bookmark-able, as there's no URL leading to the latest comic every day).

This one made me laugh out loud for the first time in a while: https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/387/house-on-hillside He's still got it!

EDIT: Ahh, it's very, very small. I was excited by the "387" in the slug, but that seems to be meaningless (?). There's 8 total comics in no clear order, and the caption system is completely broken (it says they were all posted this past Wednesday) :(
by Nevermark | 2025-10-18 01:57:40+00:00
> Note I could've said "when I discovered XYZ mathematical principle" but I didn't because they're both equally as arbitrary

Wow. I cannot relate to someone who only (mostly) view's their own accomplishments as bargaining chips for money/prestige. Even accomplishments that could have widespread benefit to others.

But I accept productive people can operate in different ways.
by cortesoft | 2025-10-18 01:58:06+00:00
I have often felt a little out of place when I hear how focused on career growth some people are. I was excited to advance the first few years of my career, but it didn’t take long for me to realize I just didn’t have the desire or need to keep trying to climb the career ladder. Once I started making good money working on problems I enjoyed with the level of respect and autonomy I desired, I stopped even thinking about trying to “advance my career”. I would rather do a good job at my current position, and not try to fight for a higher level job I might not even like. What’s the point?
by gus_massa | 2025-10-18 01:58:07+00:00
> Is this expected behaviour for Bandwidth Sharing?

From https://support.salad.com/article/253-what-is-bandwidth-shar...

> What Are The Risks?

> Here are two rare situations that could occur when sharing your bandwidth on Salad:

> 1. Internet Service Provider (ISP) Data Cap [...]

> 2. Streaming Service Block

I expect these to be common situations instead of rare situations.
by middayc | 2025-10-18 01:58:29+00:00
I don't know a lot about Tcl, but one thing I know is said for it "everything is a string". In REBOL's it's somewaht reverse as all this live code are REBOL (Rye) values and REBOL (and Rye) have an unusual number of datatypes, REBOL 30+ (many literal types), which it uses as additional information for functions to work with, and is usefull at creating dialects

For example file-path, url and email address are distinct types in REBOL where in mosta languages are just strings.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-10-18 01:58:36+00:00
> Not even just talking about the case where someone's worked in the tech industry long enough with a low enough expense lifestyle that money literally does not matter to them anymore...

This is the most out of touch (and also irrelevant) take you can have. I work in FAANG in the bay. The people around me are solid upper middle class but mortgages, day care, regular cars, medical bills, aging parents, college tuitions, etc etc etc mean very few of them can retire today and continue to live in the same place.

> A lot of people will work specific jobs not because they're trying to optimize for the most possible money.

Then you just work in a completely universe than I do because at every single job I've ever had, from lowly bus boy to FAANG ML engineer, not a single person has ever said to me "I'm doing this for the love of it". Quite the opposite in fact - many people I know would quit at the drop a hat if not for "golden handcuffs".
by zorgmonkey | 2025-10-18 01:59:16+00:00
With enough effort you could definitely do it. Just remember it is a device that came out in 2006 and it has 256MB of system RAM and 256MB of VRAM, at best you're running a quite small model after a lot work trying to port some inference code to CELL processors. Honestly it does sound a cool excuse to write code for the CELL processors, but don't expect amazing performance or anything.
by dang | 2025-10-18 01:59:19+00:00
Hmm good point. I skimmed the transcript looking for an accurate, representative quote that we could use in the title above. I couldn't exactly find one (within HN's 80 char limit), so I cobbled together "It will take a decade to get agents to work", which is at least closer to what Karpathy actually said.

If anyone can suggest a more accurate and representative title, we can change it again.

Edit: I thought of using "For now, autocomplete is my sweet spot", which has the advantage of being an exact quote; but it's probably not clear enough.

Edit 2: I changed it to "It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents" because that's closer to the transcript.

Anybody have a better idea? Help the cause of accuracy out here!
by ajkjk | 2025-10-18 02:00:03+00:00
the storyline by which "person under the flight limit becomes astronaut" is something like: they become famous and renowned and respected for some kind of science at which they are an expert; in the next twenty years spaceflight changes tremendously; the rules change; they end up on the shortlist for a flight colonizing Mars because they deserve it and rules are made up anyway.

So "success" looks like "changing the world". Doesn't it mean it can't be done! Just that it's gonna be hard.

not that this disproves your point per se, but, like... saying something can't happen because of rules is silly. Rules change all the time. The NBA example is better. But can a wheelchair-bound person end up professionally-good at basketball? Sure, maybe, in a future where medicine accomplishes a lot and they end up with bionic legs or whatever, plus they're incredibly driven to test those legs on basketball. Why not? The future can be anything.
by bluGill | 2025-10-18 02:00:21+00:00
Countries claim juristiction for thing outside their borders all the time. however they place a much higher bar on what they claim. Lemonaid stands are likely safe, but even if it is legal where you live the US will claim pedopillia laws aganst you they can get you.

part of the high bar is claiming juristriction requires sending your army. (Sanctions are often used too which might or might not work). That is why the threat is if the directors travel to the uk - that gives them sone power - but still expect US government to do 'things' if the arrest any US citizen on this.
by jibal | 2025-10-18 02:01:18+00:00
The argument made was nothing like that. The assertion made was

"You can be a genius in one field and a crank in another."

Supporting evidence was offered: "For example: Penrose."

One can dispute the evidence, but there's nothing circular about the argument--your version is a strawman created precisely in an attempt to turn a non-circular argument into a circular one. And even rejecting that evidence there's plenty of other evidence and others here gave examples. Not that examples are even needed, as the assertion is self-evident, and was offered as a counter to a textbook fallacious argument from authority: "he's easily done enough important science work to not be called a crank". There is no basis at all for such a claim. Perhaps Penrose is not a crank in re consciousness, but it certainly doesn't follow from the fact that he's done the highest caliber non-crank science ... that claim is fallacious, disingenuous, and intellectually dishonest.
by ragingregard | 2025-10-18 02:01:32+00:00
"Fuel efficiency on an ICE can drop up to 30% after 10 years"

Complete nonsense. Every 15+ year old ICE car I've known or owned was within 5% to 10% of original fuel economy, the reliable brands actually maintained their original fuel economy or surpassed it as fuel economy improves as engine wear in completes at the 20k-40k mile mark.

If your ICE car dropped by 30% then share the brand and your maintenance history.
by inkyoto | 2025-10-18 02:02:36+00:00
> > > UK users are accessing US servers to get service.

> That's called offering the service to UK users.

It is not – not under US law, not under common law (in the UK/Commonwealth).

Under US law and in common law systems generally, a website being merely accessible from country XYZ does not, by itself, constitute «offering a service» into XYZ. Courts look for purposeful targeting of, or meaningful interaction with, users in that place. Mere accessibility is not enough. See [0] for a precedent.

1. The US approach in a nutshell.

a) Personal-jurisdiction basics: a court needs «minimum contacts» that the website operator created with the forum. The US Supreme Court has previously stressed that the plaintiff’s location or where effects are felt is not enough if the defendant did not create forum contacts.

b) The «Zippo sliding scale» test distinguishes passive sites from interactive, commercial ones. Passive presence online generally does not create jurisdiction. See [1] for a landmark opinion.

c) The Fourth Circuit’s ALS Scan test says a state may exercise jurisdiction when the defendant directs electronic activity into the state, with a manifest intent to do business or interact there, and that activity gives rise to the claim. Simply putting content on the web is not enough. Again, see [0] for an established precedent.

2. The common law/European «targeting» idea

a) UK and EU courts apply a similar targeting notion in various contexts. The CJEU in Pammer/Alpenhof held that a site must be directed to the consumer’s member state; mere accessibility is insufficient. UK cases on online IP use also examine whether activity is targeted at UK users. See [2] for an established precedent on the other side of the pond.

b) Data-protection law is also explicit: the GDPR applies to non-EU operators when they offer goods or services to people in the EU or monitor them. Recital 23 and the EDPB’s guidelines list indicators such as using a local language or currency, shipping to the territory, local contact details, and targeted ads. Accessibility alone does not trigger the rule.

To recap, if a US-hosted site simply serves content that UK users can reach, that alone does not mean the operator is «offering a service» to the UK or its citizens under US law or general common-law principles. Liability or regulatory reach typically turns on targeting and purposeful availment, not mere availability. Circle back to [0] for details again.

[0] https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/293...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippo_Manufacturing_Co._v._Zip....

[2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
by dang | 2025-10-18 02:02:37+00:00
> Hey, podcast bro needs to get clicks

Please don't cross into personal attack. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Edit: please don't edit comments to change their meaning once someone has replied. It's unfair to repliers whose comments no longer make sense, and it's unfair to readers who can no longer understand the thread. It's fine, of course, to add to an existing comment in such a case, e.g. by saying "Edit:" or some such and then adding what else you want to say.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-18 02:02:43+00:00
> That's not in any way what gog says.

Jesus Christ. It's exactly what GOG says. Compare https://www.gog.com/en/news/bgog_2022_update_2b_our_commitme...

> 1. The single-player mode has to be accessible offline.

> 2. Games you bought and downloaded can never be taken from you or altered against your will.

> 3. The GOG GALAXY client is and will remain optional for accessing single-player offline mode.

> Having said that, we believe that you have the right to make an informed choice about the content that you choose to enjoy and we won’t tell you how and where you can access or store your games. To make it easier to discover titles that include features like multiplayer, unlockable cosmetics, timed events, or user-generated content, we’re adding information about such functionalities on product pages. In short, you’ll always know.

If you want to play multiplayer HoMM3, you can. That's how the game was commercially released and it hasn't been updated to add DRM.

Modern releases DRM the game as a matter of course, and GOG defied their user base to say that that's fine with them. Do you want to play with your friend? You need an internet connection and multiple accounts registered with the vendor.

For a concrete example of Galaxy being the DRM implementation, the Gloomhaven executable you can download from GOG has the button to play multiplayer disabled. It will still work if you get around that - the functionality itself doesn't check anything. But the executable will only enable the button if you start it with Galaxy running and logged in to an account that, according to GOG, has purchased the game.

That doesn't sound like "digital rights management" to you?
by technothrasher | 2025-10-18 02:02:53+00:00
My wife and I honeymooned in Botswana many years ago. On our first day in the bush we watched a pride of lions on a kill. Our driver radioed into camp, "fill up the water pans, the lions will be thirsty tonight." Sure enough, late that night the lions came in and drank at the water pan about five feet from the front of our tent. Mind-blowing experience to be lying in bed watching them right there.

We've since explored quite a bit of Southern Africa. The Namib desert is incomparably cool.
by jhanschoo | 2025-10-18 02:03:00+00:00
Let's make this more concrete than talking about "understanding knowledge". Oftentimes I want to know something that cannot feasibly be arrived at by reasoning, only empirically. Remaining within the language domain, LLMs get so much more useful when they can search the web for news, or your codebase to know how it is organized. Similarly, you need a robot that can interact with the world and reason from newly collected empirical data in order to answer these empirical questions, if the work had not already been done previously.
by MBCook | 2025-10-18 02:04:03+00:00
Not only can you make a good guess at how many customers/etc exist, you can guess individual ones.

World’s easiest hack. You’re looking at /customers/3836/bills? What happens if you change that to 4000? They’re a big company. I bet that exists.

Did they put proper security checks EVERYWHERE? Easy to test.

But if you’re at /customers/{big-long-hex-string}/bill the chances of you guessing another valid ID are basically zero.

Yeah it’s security through obscurity. But it’s really good obscurity.
by simonw | 2025-10-18 02:04:47+00:00
It looks like Andrej's definition of "agent" here is an entity that can replace a human employee entirely - from the first few minutes of the conversation:

When you’re talking about an agent, or what the labs have in mind and maybe what I have in mind as well, you should think of it almost like an employee or an intern that you would hire to work with you. For example, you work with some employees here. When would you prefer to have an agent like Claude or Codex do that work?

Currently, of course they can’t. What would it take for them to be able to do that? Why don’t you do it today? The reason you don’t do it today is because they just don’t work. They don’t have enough intelligence, they’re not multimodal enough, they can’t do computer use and all this stuff.

They don’t do a lot of the things you’ve alluded to earlier. They don’t have continual learning. You can’t just tell them something and they’ll remember it. They’re cognitively lacking and it’s just not working. It will take about a decade to work through all of those issues.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-18 02:05:11+00:00
You're coming at the employer relationship from a fundamentally different place than the parent comment you're responding to.

I'm assuming their age because of when Pivotal Labs was a thing, but there was a period from about the late 90s to the early 2010s where many people in the valley believed in an ideal of ascetic tech monks where we did this for the love of the work and not purely for status or money. It's not like those elements were ever wholly absent, but nominally egalitarian hierarchies weren't the weirdest things in hindsight.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-10-18 02:05:28+00:00
I don't think we can ever know that we are generally intelligent. We can be unsure, or we can meet something else which possesses a type of intelligence that we don't, and then we'll know that our intelligence is specific and not general.

So to make predictions about general intelligence is just crazy.

And yeah yeah I know that OpenAI defines it as the ability to do all economically relevant tasks, but that's an awful definition. Whoever came up with that one has had their imagination damaged by greed.
by bearjaws | 2025-10-18 02:05:38+00:00
I really disagree that the privacy risk is enough to not use it at all, even in a healthcare setting.

There are wild scenarios you can come up with where you may leak something, but that assumes the information isn't coming over anyway.

"Reveals account creation time" - most APIs return this in API responses by default.

When have you seen just a list of UUIDs and no other more revealing metadata?

Meanwhile what pwns 99% of companies? Phishing.
by james_in_the_uk | 2025-10-18 02:06:01+00:00
Relevant here is that 4Chan appears to explicitly target the UK users for commercial purposes, and potentially (via subcontract to Cloudflare) serves to UK customers from equipment located on UK soil.

Whether one agrees with the policy aims of the OSA or not, there are some complex jurisdictional and enforceability issues at play here. Unfortunately it’s not as simple as you make out.
by adolph | 2025-10-18 02:06:09+00:00
. . . famous for their wood-and-steel staircase that seemed to float in mid-air . . .

But what did this staircase look like?

Jobs found office space in Palo Alto, California, at 3475 Deer Creek Road, occupying a glass-and-concrete building that featured a staircase designed by the architect I. M. Pei. [0] NeXT's expansion prompted renting an office at 800 and 900 Chesapeake Drive, in Redwood City, also designed by Pei. The architectural centerpiece was a "floating" staircase with no visible supports. [0] One of their main features was the wood-and-steel staircase, which seemed to float in mid-air, and came at a high cost of having elevators removed, upon Steve's demand. The stairs would later inspire similar designs in the Apple Retail Stores. Other striking features included a marble dining area and $10,000 sofas. This lavish corporate environment was later understandably held as evidence of what went wrong with NeXT. [1]

finally, an inkling of one of the staircases:

I had planned to shoot Steve with the incredible floating cement staircase I.M. Pei designed for him in the lobby, a precursor to the clear glass version that later became famous in the Apple stores. We begin setting up lights and talking things over with Steve’s team. Finally Steve came storming in, hours late due to traffic on his way down from Pixar, and in a terrible mood. He took one look at my set up and announced, “This is just stupid. We are not doing this.” [2]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT

1. https://allaboutstevejobs.com/pics/pics_places/next

2. https://menuez.com/journal/steve-jobs-stupid-idea
by btilly | 2025-10-18 02:06:13+00:00
I can't speak to the general opinion among philosophers about his argument. But my opinion about philosophy is such that their opinion would not sway mine in either way.

I can speak to the general opinion of his logical arguments among logicians. And it is not just widespread consensus against. It is a widespread consensus that the argument is filled with basic logic errors that render it absolutely wrong.

As Hilary Putnam points out, Penrose's arguments are even worse than Lucas'. In particularly Penrose argues that no program that we can know to be sound, can simulate all our human mathematical competence. But our brains do not use a sound thinking process. Therefore a sufficiently good simulation of our brains that it can do mathematics, would also not be sound. Gödel's theorem is entirely silent on the potential capabilities of such unsound systems.

Furthermore LLMs provide a convincing demonstration that unsound simulations of us can have surprising levels of competence. ChatGPT regularly demonstrates both its competence and unsoundness. Sometimes at the same time!

The potential for unsound systems to demonstrate competence far beyond what most expected, is demonstrated by LLMs. Admittedly the current error rate is unacceptably high. But it demonstrates that what Penrose claimed to be mathematically impossible, may plausibly become real within our lifetimes. (Though, given how old Penrose is, not his.)
by KylerAce | 2025-10-18 02:06:22+00:00
I don't think it's stupid to believe that the brain is somehow beyond turing computable considering how easy it is to create a system exactly as capable as a turing machine. I also don't think that anything in philosophy can provide empirical evidence that the brain is categorically special as opposed to emergently special. The sum total of the epistemology I've studied boiled down to people saying "I think human consciousness / the brain works like this" with varying degrees of complexity.
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-18 02:06:59+00:00
However, a second update has now been pushed that reportedly reverts the software to the previous version, and Jeep Cares cautioned that customers will not be able to tell which version they currently have by looking at Uconnect, because the problematic package doesn’t make any changes to the infotainment suite itself, meaning the version numbers will appear the same.

What kind of complete amateur hour operation are they running there at Jeep/Stellantis?
by cies | 2025-10-18 02:08:16+00:00
Dunno. Wrote a lot of both. Happy with Kotlin. Grateful Java is being maintained well...

My last team wanted to port all remaining Java code to Kotlin, because they just enjoyed working with it so much more.

While porting I've regularly replaced 5-8 lines of Java with a single line of Kotlin.

Kotlin needs Java like Ruby needs C or Elixir needs Erlang.
by telchior | 2025-10-18 02:10:08+00:00
Yeah I'm similarly confused by the idea that it was great a decade ago. SoMa, which more or less includes Moscone, has been gritty for at least 20 years and probably much longer than that.

Similar for a lot of other parts. Market anywhere between 6th and City Hall has been grimy for a long time. The Tenderloin, I'm assuming, has been the way it is for a century (since it derives its name from police getting higher pay for patrolling it). That stuff is all stumbling distance to the downtown core, tourists and business visitors.
by bobthepanda | 2025-10-18 02:12:01+00:00
The data in the article is kind of all over the place. But also at least one big distortion is that

* these are rental cars, which are used much more intensely than normal used cars

* a big chunk of the (US) stats are Hertz dumping Teslas, specifically. It had to dump 30,000 of them (which is a huge amount of Teslas to just flood the market with all at once); and Tesla specifically has people trying to sell their cars due to the brand of their CEO.
by rainsford | 2025-10-18 02:12:22+00:00
> I care less about how they fix the problem and more about that the problem is fixed.

Just in general that kind of attitude is how you end up exchanging one problem for exciting new problems that might be even worse, assuming the poorly considered solution even fixes the original problem.

Any halfway thoughtful and intellectually honest solutions analysis needs to consider A) is this an effective way to solve my problem and B) does it create unintended negative consequences or tradeoffs. Rhetoric exclusively focusing on the severity of the problem is almost always intended to get you to disengage the part of your brain that considers those two questions in favor of supporting any approach that just promises to solve the problem, whether or not it does so or creates any new problems in the process.