MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nradov | 2025-11-18 22:43:25+00:00
Education is a tough one. Like healthcare, it's highly subject to Baumol's Cost Disease. Technology holds some potential but fundamentally we still need a certain ratio of teachers to students, and those teachers get more expensive every year.

https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/baumols-cost-disease-long...

Education should be well funded. But at the same time, taxpayers are skeptical because increasing funding doesn't necessarily improve student outcomes. Students from stable homes with aspirational parents in safe neighborhoods will tend to do well even with meager education funding, and conversely students living in shitholes will tend to do badly regardless of how good the education system is. If we want to improve their lot then we need to fix broader social issues that go beyond just education. Anyone who has gotten involved with a large school district has seen the enormous waste that goes to paying multiple levels of administrators, and education "consultants" chasing the latest ineffective fad. Much of it is just a grift.
by lubujackson | 2025-11-18 22:43:39+00:00
This has seemed to me to be the natural next step to turn LLMs into more deterministic tools. Pushing the frontier is nice, but I think LLMs have a whole different gear when they are able to self-decompose in a reliable way. Most of my success creating reusable LLM products came from determining where requirements/outputs need to be "hard" vs. "soft".
by segmenta | 2025-11-18 22:43:47+00:00
Yep, totally agree. We actually had an earlier web version, and the big learning was that without access to code-related tools the agent feels pretty limited. That pushed us toward a CLI where it can use the full shell and behave more like a real worker.

Really appreciate the support and the Goose pointer. Would love to hear what you think of RowboatX once you try it.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-18 22:43:56+00:00
I came from exactly that sort of community. The fact of the matter is that teen would have driven that truck regardless of the law permitting it.

IMO, this sort of thing should work more like the way fair use works. A cop could pull you over for a traffic violation, ticket you, and then when you go to court you push the defense of "I'm a farmer and I was doing farm work" to get the missing license charge dropped (but you'll still likely end up with a traffic ticket to pay).

Generally speaking, cops aren't patrolling farming roads anyways so you'd really not need almost any exemption in place.
by palmotea | 2025-11-18 22:43:58+00:00
>> Except for free/subsidized healthcare, didn't the US already have those things during the post-war boom?

> Yes, but education system is being dismantled piece by piece at all levels.

So? That's not really relevant to the historical period you were referring to when you said: "It's a shame that US didn't invest all that prosperity into social capital that could have helped create high value jobs."

At the time, Americans already had many of the things you're saying they should've invested in to get. How were they supposed to predict things would change and agitate for something different without the hindsight you enjoy?

> This was a special period of post war prosperity that I mentioned. It was unnatural and the world has reset back to the norm where a nuclear family needs societal/governmental support to raise kids, or need to have two 6 figure jobs.

Exactly why do you think it is it unnatural?

I think you should be more explicit about how you think things should be for families. Because going on an on about how the times when things were easier was "unnatural" may create the wrong impression.

Also keep in mind where talking about human society here, the concept of "natural" has very little to do with any of it. What were really talking about is the consequence of the internal logic of this or that set of artificial cultural practices.
by jacobgkau | 2025-11-18 22:45:03+00:00
As someone who's actually used Blender for small video projects, I'm fairly confident you'll still need this type of tool even with AI assistance doing some of the work in it, especially for at least the next 10 years.

AI coding agents didn't make IDEs obsolete. They just added plugins to some existing IDEs and spawned a few new ones.
by jitix | 2025-11-18 22:45:09+00:00
A common maxim across all cultures is to "manage expectations" for happiness.

And while comparing societal standards expand the time horizon to 100 years, not nitpick one specific unnatural era of history.

An automotive engineer in Detroit in 1960 was a globally competitive worker because most of his counterparts in other countries were either dead, disabled or their companies bankrupt.

The equivalent in today's world would be aerospace engineers, AI researchers, quantum engineers, robotics engineers, etc who arguably have the same standard of living as the automotive engineer in 1960s Detroit.

Economic and technological standards evolve - societies should invest in human capital to evolve with them or risk stagnation.
by 1659447091 | 2025-11-18 22:45:29+00:00
True. And I agree in a clickbait sort of way; it could have been better if they focused more on the overall fear part that drives gun sale spikes(regardless of who). I find understanding why the "who" are buying guns at greater rates to be an important point to understand gun buying spikes/trends. And if the who gets people new to the subject to read about it then okay, but it should not be overlooked that scared people of all kinds buy guns, and then maybe we can move to looking at why we accept our political apparatus scaring people (of all kinds) in the first place.
by zucked | 2025-11-18 22:45:47+00:00
Cool project. I've done something similar using defunct crypto Awair AQI sensors tied into Home Assistant. They have an LED panel in the front that can show overall AQI or any of the pollutants they track: https://www.getawair.com/products/element

The sky is the limit as to what you can do with Home Assistant automations.

It's surprising how quickly a room with a closed door and one person can go from ~ambient CO2 levels to 1000ppm+.
by ghc | 2025-11-18 22:46:09+00:00
I'm not sure you can call Docs (Writely) and Android acquisitions though. Android was an OS for cameras and Writely was an experimental rich text editor, not a word processor.

It's not like Youtube where they legitimately bought their way to dominance. And I'd argue that even in the case of DoubleClick, google was already dominating the search advertising market when they bought DoubleClick to consolidate their dominance.
by nostrademons | 2025-11-18 22:46:20+00:00
I wonder sometimes if there's an earlier level of technology that society could basically "checkpoint" at and freeze, and then build off of. Capitalism today feels like it's hit the Red Queen Paradox - it goes around and around to keep the money flowing, but with very little actual progress. Indeed, most people seem to feel like the world is getting worse for all that work, and that many of the innovations of the last ~10-15 years are "fixing" things that weren't problems to begin with while creating new problems. And yet because all the substrate is shifting around, even if you don't break something someone else will. Could we go back to a world of redundant interchangeable parts where if somebody breaks something, you just cut them off and use a substitute that works just as well?

Or maybe that's well and truly gone and we're just fated to another dark age. I'm reminded of the Smarter Scrubber documentary that found that basically the whole supply chain was gone and it was impossible to make something useful in America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY
by kazen44 | 2025-11-18 22:46:46+00:00
alright, what you are proposing is kind of hard to do. Source routing is not easy, and source validations is even harder.

and what prevents me, as a abuse hoster or "bad guy" from just announcing my own IP space directly on a transit or IXP?

You might say, the IXP should do source checking aswell, but what if ipspace is distributed/anycasted across multiple ASN's/ on the IXP?

Also, if you add multiple egress points distributed across different routing domains, it gets complicated fast.

Does my transit upstream need to do source validation of my IP space? What about their upstream? Also, how would he know which IPspace belongs to which ASN's considering the allocation of ASN numbers and IP space is distributed across different organisations across the globe. (some of which are more malicious/non function than others[0]). Source routing becomes extremly complex because there is no single, universal mapping between IP space and ASN's they belong too.

[0]https://afrinic.net/notice-for-termination-of-the-receiversh...
by nomel | 2025-11-18 22:47:13+00:00
> How do brains do it with such a low amount of energy?

Physical analog chemical circuits whose physical structure directly is the network, and use chemistry/physics directly for the computations. For example, a sum is usually represented as the number of physical ions present within a space, not some ALU that takes in two binary numbers, each with some large number of bits, requiring shifting electrons to and from buckets, with a bunch of clocked logic operations.

There are a few companies working on more "direct" implementations of inference, like Etched AI [1] and IBM [2], for massive power savings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etched_(company)

[2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/neuromorphic-computing-ibm-northpo...
by giarc | 2025-11-18 22:47:40+00:00
But what's the point of predicting how many times Elon will say "Trump" on an earnings call (or some random event Kalshi or Polymarket make up)? At least the stock market serves a purpose. People will claim "prediction markets are great for price discovery!" Ok. I'm so glad we found out the chance of Nicki Minaj saying "Bible" during some recent remarks. In case you were wondering, the chance peaked at around 45% and she did not say 'bible'! She passed up a great opportunity to buy the "yes" and make a ton of money!

https://kalshi.com/markets/kxminajmention/nicki-minaj/kxmina...
by johnwalkr | 2025-11-18 22:48:04+00:00
High also refers to the lack of beam cut-off or masking[1], not only the intensity. In UK English, the terms are "full beam" and "dipped beam" to reflect this.

[1] For older US cars, it was more about intensity as the masking sucked. I don't think it's that relevant to this discussion but you can look up "DOT vs Euro headlights" if it interests you.
by 1220512064 | 2025-11-18 22:48:28+00:00
I've been using blender since at least 2010; it's so exciting to see how much progress it's making.

I'm very excited to see the addition of structs and closures/higher-order functions to blender nodes! (I've also glanced at the shader compiler they're using to lower it to GLSL; neat stuff!) Not only is this practically going to be helpful, the PL researcher in me is tickled by seeing these features get added to a graphical programming language.

If you haven't heard of Blender before, or if you think AI will replace all the work done in it, fair enough. But I'd still strongly suggest looking into what it is and how it works.
by jamilton | 2025-11-18 22:48:46+00:00
If AI is at the point where it is exactly as capable of your average junior 3D professional in 10 years, it will probably have automated a ton (double digit percentage?) of current jobs such that nothing is safe. There's a lot of complexity, it's fairly long time horizon, it's very visually detailed, it's creative and subjective, and there's not a lot of easily accessible high quality training data.

It's like 2D art with more complexity and less training data. Non-AI 2D art and animation tools haven't been made irrelevant yet, and don't look like they will be soon.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-11-18 22:48:59+00:00
This is such a poor excuse for not being confident enough in your beliefs to put your own skin in the game. It's revealed preference vs. stated preference.

But in all likelihood, the people saying "I told you so!" never actually knew what they claimed to know.

If you want to know what someone actually believes, don't look at their comments, look at their positions.
by flipgimble | 2025-11-18 22:49:33+00:00
Google subscriptions and services are so terribly mismanaged that I will be staying away, no matter how incredible this shallow fork of vscode may be.

I remember a previous story months ago about Gemini that had Google PMs trying to hype their product, but it was all question about how nobody knows how to get Gemini API keys with any number of paid subscription.

On top of that how long until it’s https://killedbygoogle.com/ ?
by jitix | 2025-11-18 22:50:27+00:00
Europe is quite innovative on per-capita basis. Not like US but the workers there have much happier lives and their societies don't have extreme inequality and resulting violence like the US.

China is arguably more innovative than all and has terrible work life balance, but their society is stable and you won't go from millionaire to homeless just because you had to get cancer treatment.

GCC = global consulting companies, the bane of innovation. Outsourcing of all kinds (even domestic C2C) should be banned.
by margalabargala | 2025-11-18 22:51:05+00:00
> If they're not soliciting donations from you I'm not sure why you'd care about their federal tax status.

Because if they appear to be a normal company but call themselves a non-profit, I want to know what that actually means to them.

Being a non-profit is generally a reason for community goodwill towards a company. Therefore being a nonprofit is attractive both to companies doing good, and charlatans seeking to capitalize on that goodwill.

If you call yourself a nonprofit but don't talk anywhere about what that means to you and why, then you look like that second option.
by tavavex | 2025-11-18 22:51:25+00:00
He defined what "capitalism" meant, did he not? Just using the word isn't some fringe rhetoric, it's mainstream economics. Neither is categorizing ideologies after they happened - of course new ideologies would frame themselves in the noblest ways possible, so we need unrelated people as a second opinion to put their ideas into concrete terms. Insisting that we must call it "freedom" or even "classical liberal freedom" is like me creating an ideology that professes "universal happiness and free prosperity of wonder" and then insisting that everyone must call it that, regardless of what the ideology entails and whether it results in universal happiness or not.
by imiric | 2025-11-18 22:51:26+00:00
> Firstly, the barrier to entry lower for people to take web experience and create extensions, furthering the ecosystem moat for Electron-based IDEs.

The last thing I want is to install dozens of JS extensions written by people who crossed that lower barrier. Most of them will probably be vibe coded as well. Browser extensions are not the reason I use specific browsers. In fact, I currently have 4 browser extensions installed, one of which I wrote myself. So the idea that JS extensions will be a net benefit for an IDE is the wrong way of looking at it.

Besides, IDEs don't "win" by having more users. The opposite could be argued, actually. There are plenty of editors and IDEs that don't have as many users as the more popular ones, yet still have an enthusiastic and dedicated community around them.
by gehsty | 2025-11-18 22:52:06+00:00
I’d really like to see something like blender come for the 3D CAD industry, at the moment it feels like the only people who would lose out are AutoDesk. The amount of money that flows in and out of 3D cad (as subscription and then value created) having a first class open source kernel and tooling, would be giving big industrial players freedom to modify and tailor to their needs as well as smaller / hobbyists get started for free!
by tharne | 2025-11-18 22:52:16+00:00
If someone in power said that they intended to defund this or that government department, most listeners would reasonably infer that the speaker's intention is to get rid of that department. You're accusing people of moving the goalposts when all they're doing is taking the most straightforward, plain language interpretation of the phrase, "defund the police". It was the activists who picked the slogan, not everyone else.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-18 22:52:32+00:00
Compared to IONOS, it is day and night. IONOS in my experience is just worse in every category that matters. IONOS has buggy and bad wannabe SPA web frontend, broken OS images, bottlenecks in their provisioning API, that they don't care to fix, and 10x the costs.

If you are not desperate for one specific offering of IONOS, that Hetzner doesn't offer, and you have any other options, there is no good and justifiable reason to go for IONOS. IONOS is a low effort, low quality, high marketing spend shop. Hetzner is almost the opposite. They don't waste money on advertising, they cost much less to rent servers from, their OS images work, they got good technical support.
by smm16r | 2025-11-18 22:52:57+00:00
The research of the book's author has redeveloped the imaginary unit and complex number theory from the ground-up based on first principles, without using i = sqrt(-1) or i^2 = -1. This makes it accessible across broader educational levels—including elementary schools.

Even though the book is designed for kids, it is also recommended for curious readers of all ages who want fresh ideas.
by graemep | 2025-11-18 22:53:15+00:00
> Kids play in front yards with zero street lighting all the time

Street lighting is consistent enough to be used to define built up areas for speed limits in the UK.

> in parts of the US, deer are everywhere.

which is not relevant to a discussion about car headlights in the UK

> we drive defensively because of the uncommon things we encounter

but its not worth making a common situation riskier to make an uncommon one safer.
by programd | 2025-11-18 22:53:32+00:00
My armchair is equally comfy, and I have an actual paper to point to:

Jaxley: Differentiable simulation enables large-scale training of detailed biophysical models of neural dynamics [1]

They basically created sofware to simulate real neurons and ran some realistic models to replicate typical AI learning tasks:

"The model had nine different channels in the apical and basal dendrite, the soma, and the axon [39], with a total of 19 free parameters, including maximal channel conductances and dynamics of the calcium pumps."

So yeah, real neurons are a bit more complex then ReLU or Sigmoid.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.21.608979v2....
by kstrauser | 2025-11-18 22:53:34+00:00
Except that usernames contain a domain name component, and the “bare” username likely isn’t globally unique, the UX is nearly the same as other microblogs. And as to that username bit, people are used to joe@gmail.com and joe@outlook.com being different people, and having to specify which one they’re trying to send an email to.

Everyone who’s both email and Twitter already understands all the basic concepts.
by throwawaysleep | 2025-11-18 22:53:52+00:00
> Driving the news: Axios' Dan Primack asked Choi whether the donation was intended "to keep good relations with the White House," to which she replied "sure."

The next Democratic president should just haul in every billionare and imply that a 2% wealth "donation" will be required to keep good relations with the American people. As the President can effectively tax and spend now.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-18 22:54:00+00:00
Directors spend a LOT of effort trying to keep continuity and that's the weakest part of AI.

What blender and other CGI software gets for free is continuity. The 3D model does not change without explicitly making it change.

Until we get AI which can regenerate the same model from one scene to the next, the use of AI in CGI will be severely limited.
by malfist | 2025-11-18 22:54:05+00:00
That is not the same prompt as the other person was using. In particular this doesn't provide the time to set the clock to, which makes the challenge a lot simpler. This also includes javascript.

The prompt the other person was using is:

``` Create HTML/CSS of an analog clock showing ${time}. Include numbers (or numerals) if you wish, and have a CSS animated second hand. Make it responsive and use a white background. Return ONLY the HTML/CSS code with no markdown formatting. ```

Which is much more difficult.

For what it's worth, I supplied the same prompt as the OG clock challenge and it utterly failed, not only generating a terrible clock, but doing so with a fair bit of typescript: https://ai.studio/apps/drive/1c_7C5J5ZBg7VyMWpa175c_3i7NO7ry...
by reify | 2025-11-18 22:54:17+00:00
3.3B Year Old Rock Uncovers Evidence of ai

The rock was quite excited when he realised the paradox.

The rock concluded that he and ai do not have personalities nor do they have life.

He said it was a common fact, known since the formation of the planet earth, that rocks had more brain power than ai.

He said he very much enjoyed skimming himself across the water on a sunny day.

Rocks rock!

for those about to rock, we salute you
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-11-18 22:54:35+00:00
And social media will upvote the preferences of the community over the truth until the heat death of the universe.

This quote is the dumbest thing. There are traders at firms that make money from the market every day. Chances are you may even benefit from products these traders sell to more risk averse people.

It's totally fine to say something like "I'm worried that the actual products that the AI boom are producing won't generate enough revenue to justify these levels of investment." But the silly doomshilling happening constantly makes no sense. Perhaps more saliently, if you treat the market as a source of economic information, the doomshilling seems to offer no new information at all.
by tavavex | 2025-11-18 22:55:07+00:00
I wouldn't say they're at the hellscape stage yet. They need money, but they still haven't locked in enough customers to start outright abusing them. So they use middle of the road approaches like their quests, stores and cosmetics to get some extra cash while also having these things be completely optional and beside the actual messaging experience. Only after they get big enough will the hellscape stage start - perhaps, banner ads, automatically joining sponsored servers for users, clawing back essential features to put them behind Nitro, stuff like that.
by 1220512064 | 2025-11-18 22:55:08+00:00
IDK how they compare to professional CAD tools, but I've heard good things about FreeCAD and OpenSCAD. I know that some people use Blender for CAD work, and there are even some extensions to make it easier, but I'm dubious that the representation of meshes that Blender uses are well-suited for CAD applications.
by dktp | 2025-11-18 22:55:15+00:00
It's interesting that grounding with search cost changed from

* 1,500 RPD (free), then $35 / 1,000 grounded prompts

to

* 1,500 RPD (free), then (Coming soon) $14 / 1,000 search queries

It looks like the pricing changed from per-prompt (previous models) to per-search (Gemini 3)