MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ricardobeat | 2025-10-17 21:53:48+00:00
Oh, you're in for a surprise. An ID.7, the updated Model 3, Ford Explorer/Capri, plus all the ones you don't have in the US - Nio, Zeekr, BYD, Renault, Skoda, Volvo, Cupra - are significantly better than the EVs of five years ago.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-10-17 21:54:01+00:00
The GPU, sensors, trim, motors, and batteries have improved in those 5 years. I have a 2020 X and I am considering when to update. While the S and X haven’t gotten a significant improvement like the 3 and Y have they are still substantially better than before. Despite the memes I’ve consistently tried the other options, and have tried the BYD, Zyker, MG, etc available in Asia, and the Tesla are still far and away the best cars especially if you consider them in combination with the supercharger network. I think they have slowed their pace of improvement surely through a lot of Musks self inflicted fault, but the competition hasn’t yet surpassed them.

For those boosting BYD, etc, the finish is shiny but low quality, and is rife with safety red flags - an example being by in large you can watch YouTube and movies and sturr on the central screen while driving. (It’s scary in Asia with grab drivers watching videos while weaving in and out of traffic) - but the price is good.
by pennaMan | 2025-10-17 21:54:15+00:00
so your definition of "understand" is "able to develop the QC test (or explain tests already developed)"

I hate to break it to you, but the LLMs can already do all 3 tasks you outlined

It can be argued for all 3 actors in this example (the QC operator, the PhD chemist and the LLM) that they don't really "understand" anything and are iterating on pre-learned patterns in order to complete the tasks.

Even the ground-breaking chemist researcher developing a new test can be reduced to iterating on the memorized fundamentals of chemistry using a lot of compute (of the meat kind).

The mythical Understanding is just a form of "no true Scotsman"
by simonw | 2025-10-17 21:54:36+00:00
Yes, it's different. AGENTS.md is a single file that is read by the LLM when the session starts. Skills are multiple .md files which are NOT read on startup - instead, the LLM harness scans them for descriptions and populates the context with those, such that it can later on decide to read the full skills/pdf/skill.md file because the user indicates they want to do something (like create a PDF) for which the skill is relevant.

Plus skill folders can also include additional reference documents and executable scripts, like this one here: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/document-skil...
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-17 21:54:37+00:00
You want me to share the art that I'm under contract for, that someone has paid for? Listen to yourself.

Turns out Imgur has content filters that are beyond stupid, male partial nudity with man boobs and Trump & Hitler doing a drag duet is too art for virgin internet eyes.

Also, stop talking shit and show me your recent art output.
by bcrl | 2025-10-17 21:54:38+00:00
Utilities require long term planning. A 22% increase in 1 year is an extreme outlier by any normal grid planning standard. Where I live, the high point in the last 5 years was a 2.8% annual increase. ( See https://www.ieso.ca/power-data/demand-overview/historical-de... ) Building large amounts of new capacity takes years to decades.

If hyperscalers keep pushing that kind of increase they will eventually learn that the supply and cost of energy becomes a limiting factor. When demand outstrips supply, prices go bonkers and rolling blackouts become a fact of life. See the California grid crisis back in 2000-2001, although in that case the supply shortage was the result of blatant market manipulation by Enron.
by flumpcakes | 2025-10-17 21:55:28+00:00
It does have 'jurisdiction' because it applies to the citizens: it is offering a service to UK citizens.

If I had a website operated outside of the US, where you can download US citizens private medical records and phone conversations, I would be liable to breaking US law.

If you do not want to be held accountable to a regions laws, then you do not offer a service to or deal with data that relates to that regions citizens.

I don't think this is a hard concept to grasp.

Jurisdiction does not imply enforceability. There are laws from your country that you can break while not even being in that country and be held accountable.
by codingdave | 2025-10-17 21:55:36+00:00
Wow. This is a quadruple whammy of "Please read the HN guidelines." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

1) AI-generated content is not on-topic

2) Show HNs are things that you have built that others can try, not just content you have created. (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)

3) Use the "Who wants to be hired?" monthly thread to get hired.

4) Engage with the HN community, do not just self-promote and share your own content.
by nine_k | 2025-10-17 21:55:58+00:00
I see the allure of dedicated servers. All is great when everything works. What I miss in this picture is failure scenarios.

How many dedicated servers do you need to run to afford losing one of them to a hardware failure? What is the cost and lead time for a replacement? How much overprovisioning do you need to do, and how well ahead, in anticipation of seasonal spikes, or a wave of signups from a marketing campaign?
by HDThoreaun | 2025-10-17 21:56:00+00:00
There are ways around this too. When the VPN entrance point is a static IP a ban may work but what happens when a product shows up that spins up dynamic VPSs in the public cloud? All the cloud providers have free trials that let people do this for free forever. Sounds difficult but surely people will come up with a streamlined approach if push comes to shove. Even in china where using a VPN is a major crime they are unable to stop people from using them.
by PeterZaitsev | 2025-10-17 21:56:05+00:00
There is no one size fits all. On the small scale "managed" cloud which takes care of as many things as possible is effective. As you scale though it will cost proportional to environment size, except some discount. With solutions like Hetzner you get a lot more of hardware for the price but have to invest more labor into managing it, with automation however this labor does not grow nearly as much as your environment size.
by ramesh31 | 2025-10-17 21:56:40+00:00
>So when will the music stop? Seems like it should've been "yesterday," but what's the argument for it to continue playing for the foreseeable future? The great wealth transfer? AI efficiency/productivity gains (without the vast elimination of jobs)? Something else?

They seem to have figured out that you can just simply stop caring about the needs of 90% of your population if you systematically withhold any wealth from them and concentrate it to the 10%. The plan it seems is that the economy will increasingly be driven entirely by the upper middle class and above (who are all doing better now than they ever have in history), while the rest of us are left to rot and serve their drinks and clean their homes. The future for the average North American is starting to look a lot like our southern counterparts, where the wealthy elites in the cities rule over an underclass of destitute poverty everywhere else.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-10-17 21:56:47+00:00
> That isn't much different

There's a world of difference here. Ofcom is claiming to be able to shut down an American website for content generated in America, stored in America, and shown only to Americans. There are no UK citizens in this chain at all. This sets up Ofcom as having global censorship authority even over content seen elsewhere.

> Should they be prosecuted in that country for having drank in America?

In my opinion, no, but some countries are hardasses about this. If you want to do things that are illegal in certain places, you should not plan on traveling to those places. Usually, they will just refuse you entry but you kind of do put yourself at their mercy if you touch their soil. This is how the world works.
by d1sxeyes | 2025-10-17 21:57:07+00:00
If you’re interested, I’m building something similar. Just published a working MVP at https://bearli.app

Polish level is low so far but:

- works without sign-up - local-first (if you don’t sign up, no data ever leaves your device) - end-to-end encryption if you do decide to sign up

Not implemented yet, but planned:

- proper PWA functionality (install to Home Screen, push notifications) - sharing kids with other users, etc.

Building primarily for personal use, but happy to hear feedback/suggestions/complaints (will add some in-app contact channels soon).
by elmerfud | 2025-10-17 21:57:47+00:00
One thing the article doesn't mention is deportees. The administration always says illegal immigrants but when you look the vast majority that are being deported are documented people here under some allowed process, they just haven't been granted a green card yet. Documented immigrants have work permits, social security cards, all the thing to find housing, get jobs, engage in banking etc...

When they're picked up and going to be deported, do you think they're going to care about their car loan, home mortgage or credit card debt? Not even a little bit. I had a friend here awaiting asylum for 7 years. She was picked up by ICE, sat for 3 months in detention, finally just agreed to leave because that's was long enough to be evicted by her apartment (and get significant fees for it) be defaulted on her credit cards, and on her car loan.

Who pays for all that debt, in excess of $20,000 for everything. She never will, she goes to another country, finds a decent paying job because she has years of experience in the US and now speaks English. All very valuable skills to a lot of employers in central and south America.

Expect to see a lot more loans being defaulted on. We were lied to about the number of illegals. Now we're going to see the effect of deporting people who were working, participating in the economy, and happy to be here. All because the lies saying they were illegal.
by ookblah | 2025-10-17 21:58:03+00:00
we learned our lessons from 2008 and 2020. my random thoughts

1) money has nowhere else go for now

2) great wealth transfer = really doesn't matter as long as the super rich can keep inflating their wealth faster than us peons. if you are above that curve just stay ahead of it at all costs.

3) prolonged pain can be extended indefinitely for most people by keeping them perpetual renters / extending loan terms.

4) all else fails print more money and i guess when it all does collapse doesn't matter, retreat to X country or bunker (lol)
by j-krieger | 2025-10-17 21:58:09+00:00
> Your brain is doing computation with neurotransmitters instead of transistors.

This is an incredible simplification of the process and also just a small part of it. There is increasing evidence that quantum effects might play a part in the inner workings of the brain.

> Brains work despite being kludges of evolutionary baggage, not because biology unlocked some deeper truth about intelligence.

Now that is hubris.
by itsme0000 | 2025-10-17 21:58:13+00:00
It’s honestly becoming a national subculture. Being a “burnout”. In tech burnout means you’re exhausted on working on things. In America “a burnout” is someone so deeply in debt they don’t even try to really pay it off, they just ignore the debt and spend money on cheap thrills when they can. Obviously not something that you advertise about yourself, but go to any bar in rural south and they know what am talking about.

As bad as the debt situation is in the US there’s not much a collection agency can do to force you to pay relatively petty sums under 100,000 they will just harass you basically.

The Roman proverb goes “The begger laughs in the face of the bandit” so burnouts spread money before it can be taken from them, then turn around and beg for more. A person who’s established this mentality, the exact amount they owe is the least of there problems.
by 4rt | 2025-10-17 21:58:32+00:00
i think his point was that the actual LINQ (language integrated query) is already superior to transposing it back to the functional fluent version. i largely agree, especially when you're doing joins and group by.

i've worked with people in the past who refused to allow any actual LINQ in the codebase (use resharper to convert it to fluent!) even though it essentially became obfuscated.
by rayiner | 2025-10-17 21:58:52+00:00
This is an extremely privileged viewpoint. Even in Tokyo, people in the bottom half of the income distribution do not live close enough to popular transit lines to be as mobile as someone with a beater car in Dallas. They spend a lot more time commuting (and they can’t “just do some work on the train” because they have real jobs). Even in Tokyo, their commutes are crowded, they’re subject to the weather.

Being tied to transit lines—again, because even in Tokyo transit isn’t as convenient as point-to-point car travel—limits where people can look for jobs. That makes it a poverty trap because people can’t easily find jobs in different areas. And it makes having a family and kids much more logistically complicated. The most transit-dependent cities have abysmal birth rates.
by refulgentis | 2025-10-17 21:59:02+00:00
That's one of the ways [EDIT: s/white supremacists lure people in/they get ya], it's by far the predominant usage, but it's a bastardization of a term of art in the social sciences, essentially, a transition to a low death rate & low birth rate society from norm of high/high: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition
by dinobones | 2025-10-17 21:59:08+00:00
On paper, nothing will happen. The wealthy in America will continue to get wealthier. Real estate and stocks will soar in value.

In reality, the dollar's true value will plummet. The FED is starting to lower interest rates again. We are likely going to undergo brutal inflation.

Crashing the economy is obviously very politically unpopular. The left/right will do whatever they can to keep this charade up, even if it means dooming the working class and throwing them some kind of bone to make them think they're ok.

The COVID pandemic was a good example of this. The working class got thrown a $2,000 check while there was billions given to bail out businesses/lots of fraud. Not a lot of people cared because hey, we got a $2k check... Even though that $2k check was not even close to maintaining their relative wealth pre-pandemic due to all of the government's inflationary measures.

There won't be a recession, it won't happen on paper. But the middle/working class will continue to be squeezed. And there will be programs to "rescue us." Maybe it's low cost home programs, maybe it's community college, I'm not sure. But I am sure it will never truly benefit the working/middle class, it'll just be a token to keep them from fully dying.
by mijoharas | 2025-10-17 21:59:27+00:00
The rubygems treasurer who is on the board said funding was conditional on doing this[0][1].

One interesting thing is that Ruby Central then said "Board decisions are independent and not contingent on funding."[2].

Doesn't inspire a lot of trust when there is a statement from a board member saying "we did this because of funding".

I'm more inclined to believe Joel's account.

[0] A deadline (which as far as I understand, we agreed to) loomed. Either Ruby Central puts controls in place to ensure the safety and stability of the infrastructure we are responsible for, or lose the funding that we use to keep those things online and going.

[1] https://apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-members-perspective-of...

[2] https://rubycentral.org/news/our-stewardship-where-we-are-wh...
by dijit | 2025-10-17 21:59:36+00:00
> It happens every time there's new Windows release.

Such a lazy argument.

Listen, the "users hate change" argument is weak for the current Windows drama. There has always been an N+2 as an option and so this is way worse...

There's an old, reliable pattern:

XP was good, Vista (N+1) sucked, so everyone jumped to 7 (N+2).

7 was good, 8 (N+1) had the bad UI, so everyone jumped to 10 (N+2).

People skip the bad one and wait for the fixed one. That's the de facto N+2 path.

The reason the Windows 10 -> 11 complaint is so loud is that Microsoft added a massive blocker in terms of hardware, shitty unfixable UI problems and they're shoving additional services down our throats (online accounts, AI, Teams).

It's not that 11 is just bad like Vista; it's that Microsoft made it physically impossible for a huge, happy Windows 10 user base to upgrade. Now those users are stuck waiting for N+2 and hoping it's fixed.

Some are being forced to either buy a whole new PC to get to 11, or pay Microsoft an ESU security tax to keep using their old one.

This isn't just whining about a UI change; it's a forced mass-migration with a financial penalty. That's why people are genuinely waiting for the next version, the true N+2 successor to 10. They're just following the cycle, but this time, the N+1 skip is non-optional.
by iAMkenough | 2025-10-17 21:59:42+00:00
Everyone likes to focus on the battery, but in my experience with Ford, Honda and Nissan, there's more frequent expensive surprises in gas engine sedans.

Replacing the passenger occupant detection sensor for the airbag system in my 2007 Ford Fusion cost $2K. After a series of other issues with things like the transmission and fuel injector, I ultimately traded it in for $500.

I got a used Nissan Leaf with low mileage for $18K a few years ago and haven't taken it in for anything yet. Battery health is still at 90%, and I could get that replaced for around $6K if I needed to.

I feel a palpable sense of relief that the surprise maintenance bills have stopped.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-10-17 22:00:37+00:00
Of course.

It's been awhile, I don't remember China being a big part of "Rise of the Machines".

So how was I to make the connection between Rise of the Machines, and you're objections to AI 2027's view of China? It's a bit of a leap in assumptions from an old Terminator movie, to your main problem.

If your main problem is that I should not be promulgating false information, because AI is overblown, and China isn't a threat. That's also kind of a leap.

I'll agree, just generally, we shouldn't be fanning the flames of discord. Not sure this was really to that degree.
by thesummit_ai | 2025-10-17 22:00:47+00:00
Ive performed a 2 month research on Cluely, the trendy AI startup that you may have seen ads of on every social media platform. I have flagged the company for many deceptive practices, along with financial implications.

Key Red Flags:

Product flaws: Frequent bugs, refund issues, and users caught using it in interviews.

Transparency issues: CEO stopped sharing ARR data; doubtful $2.5M “enterprise” deal; claims of 99% margins & “insane profitability” don’t match reports of $19M marketing spend.

Questionable spending: Times Square ads, $50K DoorDash bills, 2,000-person party plans.

Weak fundamentals: 0.02% conversion rate despite 1B+ ad views; valuation far exceeds performance.

Ethical & focus concerns: Maintains cheating tool “Interview Coder”; talks of pivoting to brain-AI devices.

Investor hype: Critiques of a16z and VC “round-tripping” that inflate valuations.
by bcrosby95 | 2025-10-17 22:01:03+00:00
Yes, they are further apart than they need to be, but they still tend to be within relatively short cycling distance. At certain times cycling is even faster than driving due to gridlock traffic, even in suburbs. For example, this very moment, because the main way through town is clogged with parents picking their kids up from school.

I think a majority of the problem is cultural and/or political. I know people who take a longer drive over a shorter bike ride (due to gridlock traffic).
by sshine | 2025-10-17 22:01:21+00:00
I wouldn’t be able to express the embedded irony if I didn’t use this oxymoron.

On the one hand, AI doesn’t classify as labor in a traditional sense, even though some aspire to replace labor with AI.

On the other hand, if it classified as labor under some new definition, it isn’t free when you consider the external costs of outsourcing basic brain activity, as an individual and as a society.
by epistasis | 2025-10-17 22:02:03+00:00
The value of the dollar has already plummeted, 10% or so this year. It's expected that 2026 will have an equal dollar devaluation. This is the best-possible interpretation of the goals of this administration, the so-called Mar-a-Lago Accord that is somehow supposed to help some part of the economy. It's unclear who or how, to me.
by andy99 | 2025-10-17 22:02:20+00:00
The “is” I meant is that it induces an electric current in the brain. I’m sure there’s some subtlety (in the temporal and spatial patterns) but whether current is flowing between electrodes or is induced from a changing magnetic field, it’s still current, the effects of which are what we’re seeing.

Crucially, there is no special magnetic interaction with the brain beyond Faraday’s law, as people seem to be implying.
by maxerickson | 2025-10-17 22:02:25+00:00
I have a 2013 CRV with a EPA combined mileage of 25 mpg (AWD):

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2013_Honda_CR-V.shtm...

I get combined mileage of 26 mpg. That's a short daily commute and a couple trips a month to a town ~70 miles away.

I haven't taken particularly stellar care of it.
by stickfigure | 2025-10-17 22:02:46+00:00
It never occurred to me that Postgres is more efficient when inserting monotonic values. It's the nature of B+ trees so it makes sense. But in the world of distributed databases, monotonic inserts create hot partitions and scalability problems, so evenly-distributed ids are preferred.

In other words, "don't try this with CRDB".
by mixmastamyk | 2025-10-17 22:02:53+00:00
I'd put Linux on a second machine and start learning. Forcing yourself to use it for a few days a week, etc. Needs to become a habit. Need to find solutions to all the expected issues. Can use an old machine if you need.

You don't want the migration to be harder than it should be, and doing everything at once is way too hard.
by hodgehog11 | 2025-10-17 22:02:58+00:00
As a mathematician who also regularly publishes in these conferences, I am a little surprised to hear your take; your experience might be slightly different to mine.

Identifying limitations of LLMs in the context of "it's not AGI yet because X" is huge right now; it gets massive funding, taking away from other things like SciML and uncertainty analyses. I will agree that deep learning theory in the sense of foundational mathematical theory to develop internal understanding (with limited appeal to numerics) is in the roughest state it has even been in. My first impression there is that the toolbox has essentially run dry and we need something more to advance the field. My second impression is that empirical researchers in LLMs are mostly junior and significantly less critical of their own work and the work of others, but I digress.

I also disagree that we are disincentivised to find meaning behind the word "understanding" in the context of neural networks: if understanding is to build an internal world model, then quite a bit of work is going into that. Empirically, it would appear that they do, almost by necessity.
by dijit | 2025-10-17 22:03:50+00:00
I live in Malmö which is across the bridge from Copenhagen.

It's not comparable to the US in terms of Salary, but if I compare to the same size City in the UK (Coventry), it's not more expensive to live here than there. Coventry has a decent amount of car dependency for its size.

If we're comparing to a US City, I guess Orlando is pretty close (Orlando has a lower population than Malmö), but home prices are higher. However, there are only larger houses available making the comparison a bit squiff.