MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Draiken | 2025-11-04 16:12:15+00:00
> If a market is being ripped off by subscription, there is opportunity in selling the asset.

Only in theory. Nothing beats getting paid forever.

> Business models tend to oscillate between these two for a variety of reasons

They do? AFAICT everything devolves into subscriptions/rent since it maximizes profit. It's the only logical outcome.

> If they can, someone else can, too.

And that's why companies love those monopolies. So, no... other's can't straight up compete against a monopoly.
by almosthere | 2025-11-04 16:13:15+00:00
Well, at the moment it needs to be born. Nothing else has agency on this planet. So yes, the bar is HIGH. Just because you have a computer that can count beans FAST, it does not mean because you counted a trillion beans that it was an important feat. When LLMs were created it made a lot of very useful software developments. But it is just a large data file that's read in a special way. It has no agency, it does not just start thinking on it's own unless it is programmatically fed data. It has to be triggered to do something.

If you want the best comparison, it's closer to a plant- it reacts ONLY to external stimulous, sunlight, water, etc... but it does not think. (And I'm not comparing it to a plant so you can say - SEE you said it's alive!) It's just a comparison.
by touisteur | 2025-11-04 16:13:21+00:00
The work done/supervised by Kristopher Micinski on using HPC hardware (not only GPUs but clusters) for formal methods is really encouraging. I hope we reach a breakthrough of affinity between COTS compute hardware and all kinds of formal methods, as GPUs found theirs with deep learning and subsequent large models.

One possible answer to 'what do we do with all the P100s, V100s, A100s when they're decomissionned from their AI heyday (apart from 'small(er) models'.
by xnx | 2025-11-04 16:13:45+00:00
LIDAR has seen many cost reductions as capabilities continue to increase. I don't know the area well enough to speculate how much optimization might be left.

> Or, is it just the philosophical difference over pre-mapping, and not doing so?

It seems to be a "burn the ships" style bet that the Tesla engineers will get to camera-only self driving first without having ever relied on LIDAR. It's equally as likely (or moreso) that Waymo could get there first with better ground truth data from the LIDAR.
by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-04 16:13:57+00:00
The Black-Scholes-Merton equation wasn't derived by rearranging words about financial markets. It required understanding what options are (financial reality), recognizing a mathematical analogy to heat diffusion (physical reality), and validating the model against actual market behavior (empirical reality). At every step, the discoverers had to verify their linguistic/mathematical model against the territory.

LLMs only rearrange descriptions of discoveries. They can't recognize when their model contradicts reality because they never touch reality. That's not a solvable limitation. It's definitional.

We're clearly operating from different premises about what constitutes discovery versus recombination. I've made my case; you're welcome to the last word
by Quitschquat | 2025-11-04 16:14:56+00:00
I don’t know what everyone gets out of Twitter/X. I signed up recently to see what the fuss is about,

I think I selected science and music as starting interests. Within 10 minutes I was getting lots of right wing borderline Nazi bullshit.

Tries it all again in incognito mode. Roughly same thing. WTF
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-04 16:15:28+00:00
Trump term 1 was just straight up lying. It was natgas killing coal in his first term, and natgas was part of his constituency so he did nothing.

Trump term 2 is more like populism. This term, it's solar that's killing coal. And solar is woke, so Trump is actually doing something for coal this term. It's the diffuse vote effect. Trump might save a couple thousand coal jobs, which is a really big deal for those couple thousand people and swings their vote. Meanwhile, it increases the cost of energy for 350 million Americans but that's a very marginal effect. And it increases climate change for 8.2 billion people, but those 7.9 billion of those don't vote in American elections.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-04 16:15:34+00:00
I have some local-first/client-side applications using datascript in ClojureScript. Used datahike (FOSS Datomic alternative) some times on the backend too, but mostly tend to use XTDB nowadays, which used to have a Datalog API but I think they removed in favor of SQL-like way instead, which was kind of a shame.
by jandrese | 2025-11-04 16:15:47+00:00
Fuel ethanol mostly exists because the US grows way too much corn to actually eat and we needed something to do with it. Industrial farming overshot what we needed to sustain the population and threatened to put a lot of farmers out of business.

This is one of the hidden benefits of corn ethanol, if there is some nutrition crunch it is trivial to convert back to farming food corn unlike switchgrass ethanol. There is no equipment to change out, no supply chains to rework, you just change which type of corn you plant and send the harvest to the market instead of the refiner.
by devjab | 2025-11-04 16:16:36+00:00
I've only been bullied once, so it's hard for me to really talk outside of that single time. I'm different and I've never given too many fucks about social norms or hierarchies, and I guess a bully from two grades above me took that as a sign I would be a good victim. Anyway, I knew what way he walked home, so the day after he had bullied me I hid in a bush. When he walked by I ambushed him with a stick and demanded he give me his school bagpack... I hoisted it into the school flagpole the next day... Like a total psychopath. Looking back on it, it's frigthening how few consequences there was for what was obviously way out of line. I guess the early 90ies were just a different time.

He probably had a shit life, but I never saw him bully anyone again.
by seneca | 2025-11-04 16:17:25+00:00
No surprise. Like the article says, the tax credit ended for them. Anyone considering buying an electric car already rushed to get one before the credit ended. That overhang will be there for a while.

Sales will probably modestly recover, but not to the point they were at with the credit in place for quite a while. Electric cars are expensive, and still have some unique limitations. Eventually they'll overtake ICE vehicles as those limitations are mitigated.
by ModernMech | 2025-11-04 16:18:04+00:00
This thing is killing my CPU, what's the actual bottleneck here for CSS? Is it the number of elements visible and rendered at once? Is it the calculation engine backing CSS is super slow? Or just that most of the work is being done on the CPU it seems (on my machine, rotating around the map, my integrated GPU goes to 20% but CPU stays around 40-50%).
by burnte | 2025-11-04 16:18:12+00:00
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard P. Feynman

They're not thinking, we're just really good at seeing patterns and reading into things. Remember, we never evolved with non-living things that could "talk", we're not psychologically prepared for this level of mimicry yet. We're still at the stage of Photography when people didn't know about double exposures or forced perspective, etc.
by nickv | 2025-11-04 16:18:45+00:00
This is silly and then I saw the domain name. September was the best month in history for EV sales (especially leases which had no income restrictions on the tax credit) and this is because most people moved their purchase up earlier than they wanted to so they can get the credit.

Of COURSE, October will be basically 0 sales. Who would have bought 15 days after the $7500 credit disappeared vs before?

You're going to see depressed purchases for a few months because of the mad rush to hit September 30. This is expected, we'll probably see the moved up purchases flush out of the system by Feb or so.
by mooreds | 2025-11-04 16:18:45+00:00
Webviews have serious security issues, at least if you enter any data into them.

See this article from 2016: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/modernizing-oauth-inter...

So my worries are that someone is going to click a link in Twitter and then enter their username and password into a news website. When this happens you need to trust the app developers.
by stinos | 2025-11-04 16:18:57+00:00
Also, does it matter?

The point being made here is about the data LLMs have been trained with. Sure that contains questions&answers but obviously not all of it is in that form. Just like an encyclopedie contains answers without the questions. So imo specifying this as 'no-one asked this before' is irrelevant.

More interesting: did OP get a sensible answer to a question about data which definitely was not in the training set? (and indeed, how was this 'definitely' established'). Not that if the answer is 'yes' that'll prove 'thinking', as opposed to calling it e.g. advanced autocompletion, but it's a much better starting point.
by touisteur | 2025-11-04 16:19:05+00:00
From their publication history, they want to use all HPC niceties, to use most/any available HPC installations.

Nowadays that means mostly CUDA on NVIDIA and HIP on AMD on the device side. Curious how the spirv support is on NVIDIA GPUs, including nsight tooling and the maturity/performance of libraries available (if only the cub-stuff for collective operations).
by eksx | 2025-11-04 16:19:07+00:00
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by pbhjpbhj | 2025-11-04 16:19:08+00:00
Fwiw, in the time period you're talking about Wales was just a label for a group of English counties, each fully annexed to England like any other county. The rulers were of Welsh heritage, the Tudors being from Gwynedd in N Wales (I suspect originally Norse, possibly via Ireland).

Strangely, no 'English' people have ruled England since the latter Norman invasion.

Scotland and Wales often try to pretend they weren't part of the Empire and its horrors - in reality their were nobles/toffs/rich nobs from all across GB (at least) doing their part. Barely any of our ancestors were involved in any way other than servitude.

(My family are from both sides of the Anglo-Irish conflicts.)
by throw0101d | 2025-11-04 16:19:30+00:00
> As Figueroa tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show.

> Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away.

> Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.

> The Department of Homeland Security later released a statement claiming that Figueroa was at fault, saying “she crashed into an unmarked government vehicle and violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers.”

> Figueroa was released the same day a few hours later without charges.
by gus_massa | 2025-11-04 16:19:57+00:00
Super fun and brutal. I won one game (of a few) because I was very lucky. [1]

Some feature requests:

The material counter definetively needs a bar too.

It's not clear when I selected a piece to move it, they need more highlighting.

A visual icon for check and checkmate.

When can I castle? When can I move a pawn two squares?

Option to repeat my last starting position. The computer position too?

It woud be interesting to see which starting positions are more popular. If you have alot of spare computing power to organize a tournament between starting positions. (I expect something complicated like a Nash equilibrium and optimal starting strategies that are a probablilistic mix of starting positions.)

[1] spoiler alert: drop a few pawn and upgrade the knight and bishops to rook, double them on the side and hope the oposite king has not enougt protection for a frontal atack.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-11-04 16:20:01+00:00
I just posted this question to an executive advisory panel consisting of leaders from some of the largest car companies, and they could not stress enough how right and vindicated the other poster was, about a 10lb reduction, or even a 20lb reduction, being pretty insignificant when it comes to modern consumer cars.

I guess it's just not worth it to pay way more for a motor just because it provides a pretty-insignificant weight reduction.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-04 16:20:02+00:00
> They really don't care much you're doing remote work for a corporation in California or writing a book.

They do, actually.

It’s for collecting taxes, which supports local infrastructure.

Going to another country, living within their infrastructure and consuming their services, but pretending that you’re not working (and therefore not paying local taxes) is something they don’t want.

Digital nomads who abuse the situation like it because they get the benefits of a country (and city, region, etc) without having to contribute to their taxes. Getting California level pay, not paying taxes, and living in what’s basically a vacation destination is the digital nomad dream.
by nkohari | 2025-11-04 16:20:05+00:00
I think what's disappointing is that so many people that I've followed for years now routinely engage in daily political slapfights, or at least retweet ragebait. In the blogging era, it would have been really weird for a software engineer to sit down and write several paragraphs about their political views, but the friction of hitting "repost" is so comparatively low that everyone does it. Myself included, honestly, although I've been trying not to.

I don't have any problem with people having and voicing thoughts on politics. Everyone should strive to be well-informed and be capable of having reasonable conversations about politics, especially with people with whom they disagree. (Obviously, that's a charitable description of what's happening on social media, but that's a different topic.)

I guess ultimately the problem is that I want to follow topics, not people, and there isn't a great way to do that. Reddit provides an alternative but is comparatively low-volume, and voting represents a fundamental design problem because it by definition creates an echo chamber. And that's not even taking into account how over-moderated the site is at this point.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-04 16:20:13+00:00
Are those graphs specifically for the US? When I change the country in the top right, it doesn't seem like the graphs are changing, and considering they're in USD, I'm assuming it's US-only?

Is the same doubling happening world-wide or is this US-specific, I guess is my question?

Edit: one data point, I last bought 128GB of RAM in March 2024 for ~€536, similar ones right now costs ~€500, but maybe the time range is too long.
by burkaman | 2025-11-04 16:20:22+00:00
Seems much too early to draw any conclusions. Lots of sales that would have happened in October (and probably the next couple months as well) were shifted to September to take advantage of the credit. Also:

> Dealership managers told the Daily Mail they spent September in overdrive, clearing out every electric vehicle they could before the credit expired.

> Simply put, automakers didn't have electric vehicles on lots to sell.

This is not a trustworthy source, but even they are undermining their own headline.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-04 16:20:28+00:00
> Tax credit was a huge driver for high income earner

Probably more for the low end of the electric car market (which is still middle income plus, but not really high income), as tax credits are more impactful the lower your income is (though that reverses for credits that arent refundable at the point when your total tax liability before the credit is less than the credit amount.)

A bigger factor for the high end is probably that electric cars lost their status signaling function.
by JohnMakin | 2025-11-04 16:20:49+00:00
The whole "Please verify information only available to you when you login to re-enable your login" is such a malicious pattern I've run into google in a ton of different services. Other companies do similar, but it's just such a blatant fuck you I find it hard to believe someone seriously sat down and thought it was a good idea.

I had it once where a service I was using for google got mysteriously suspended, but that didn't stop them from charging the card for months. Since I couldn't get back in to cancel, I ended up having to completely suspend the card. That's the kind of behavior scammy porn sites do. You wouldnt necessarily expect it from a multi trillion $ hyperscaler.
by naasking | 2025-11-04 16:21:10+00:00
> To simply disregard that entire conceptual history and say, “well it’s doing a thing that looks like thinking, ergo it’s thinking” is the lazy move. What’s really needed is an analysis of what thinking actually means, as a word. Unfortunately everyone is loathe to argue about definitions, even when that is fundamentally what this is all about.

This exact argument applies to "free will", and that definition has been debated for millennia. I'm not saying don't try, but I am saying that it's probably a fuzzy concept for a good reason, and treating it as merely a behavioural descriptor for any black box that features intelligence and unpredictable complexity is practical and useful too.
by knorker | 2025-11-04 16:21:29+00:00
> I totally get that, but how hard would it be to actually make calls to your own API from the status page?

Ah, so you're saying the status page should be hooked up to internal monitoring probers?

So how sure are you that it's the service that's broken, and not the probers? How sure are you that the granularity of the probers reflect the actual scope of the outage?

Also this opens up questioning of "well why don't you have probing on the EXACT workflow that happened to break this time?!". Because honestly, that's not helpful.

Say you have a complete end to end workflow for your web store. Should you publish "100% outage, the webstore is down!!" on your status page, automatically, because the very diligent prober failed to get into the shoe section of your store? That's probably not helpful to anybody.

> Clearly these metrics and alerts exist internally too.

Well, no. Probers can never cover every dimension across which a service can have an outage. You may think that the service is simple and has an obvious status, but you're using like 0.1% of the user surface, and have never even heard of the weird things that 99% of actual traffic does.

How do you even model your minority use case? Is it an outage? Or is your workflow maybe a tiny weird one, even though you think it's the straightforward one?

Especially since the nature of outages in complex systems tend to be complex to describe accurately. And a status page needs to boil it down to simple.

In many cases even engineers inspecting the system can not always be certain if real users are experiencing an outage, or if they're chasing an internal user, or if nothing is user visible because internal retries are taking care of everything, or what.

Complex systems are often complex because the world is complex. And if the problem is simple and unevolving then there would be no reason to have outages in the first place.

And often engineers helping phrase an outage statement need to compromise verbosity for clarity.

Another thing is what do you do if you start serving 500s to 90% of traffic? An outage, right? Surely auto-publish to a status page? Oh, but it turns out this was a DoS attack, and no non-DoS traffic was affected. Can your monitoring detect the difference? Unlikely.
by zenorogue | 2025-11-04 16:22:14+00:00
The hyperbolic paraboloid is not an isometric embedding of the hyperbolic plane H2 in Euclidean space E3, because it does not have constant negative Gaussian curvature.

In general it is impossible to have an isometric embedding of H2 in E3, although it is possible to have isometric embeddings of fragments of H2.
by actionfromafar | 2025-11-04 16:22:20+00:00
Edit: PSA - PdfSharpCore uses older releases of SixLabors.ImageSharp v1.0.4 and Fonts-1.0.0-beta17 which both were (and are still) distributed under plain Apache-2.0.

https://web.archive.org/web/20251104163604/https://codeload....
by jasonlotito | 2025-11-04 16:22:21+00:00
> Who is using Bluesky in the US?

Everyone I know. I routinely see only bluesky links. Yes, if X/Grok is promoting Nazi content, then yeah, I'll hear about it. But beyond that, nothing important that happens isn't showing up on Bluesky.

> Whenever something big happens I keep getting x.com links from friends. Is it just my friends?

I think it's safe to say that if people are sending links to a certain site, they are using that site. But assuming that everyone is using that same site is silly. It doesn't take any amount of effort to realize that other people are using other sites.
by FitchApps | 2025-11-04 16:22:26+00:00
Try WebLLM - it's pretty decent and all in-browser/offline even for light tasks, 1B-1.5B models like Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct. I put together a quick prototype - CodexLocal.com but you can essentially a local nginx and use webllm as an offline app. Of course, you can just use Ollama / LM Studio but that would require a more technical solution
by bunderbunder | 2025-11-04 16:23:00+00:00
> Never before have we looked at image classifications and decided that's how the eye works

Actually we have, several times. But the way we arrived at those conclusions is worth observing:

1. ML people figure out how the ML mechanism works.

2. Neuroscientists independently figure out how brains do it.

3. Observe any analogies that may or may not exist between the two underlying mechanisms.

I can't help but notice how that's a scientific way of doing it. By contrast, the way people arrive at similar conclusions when talking about LLMs tends to consist of observing that two things are cosmetically similar, so they must be the same. That's not just pseudoscientific; it's the mode of reasoning that leads people to believe in sympathetic magic.
by jgon | 2025-11-04 16:23:49+00:00
Just a few days ago this company came up on HN as part of a substack post which pointed out the numerous warning signs that this company is likely a scam, so its crazy to see them given so much credulous reporting from mainstream media.

After persuasively demonstrating an inability to ship a fancy alarm clock even with 100MM in funding at his last startup, the founder has now decided to turn his attention to easily surmounting the decades of insane hard science and engineering that forms ASML's moat. Of course if this goes the way of the alarm clock startup there's also the fusion startup he's running that could form a fallback...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45767013
by tatersolid | 2025-11-04 16:23:50+00:00
My house is also like this. No signal on any carrier, and same with one of my neighbors but not neighbor on the opposite side.

Looking at satellite view it is clear that the local municipal water tower is between a huge cell tower near the highway and my house. All carriers seem to lease that same tower only in my area.

It wasn’t like this when I moved in but I guess the carriers consolidated on that big tower near the highway about two years ago.

Radio shadows are a thing I guess.