MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by asmor | 2025-11-21 22:05:34+00:00
The Winlator-releated ecosystem already works pretty well, there just isn't a good frontend or integration for it yet. That's what is really exciting here.

Gamehub is a proprietary app by a Chinese controller manufacturer with some suspicious behavior and several LGPL violations that unfortunately works much better then the alternatives. Funnily enough their CDN endpoint is called "bigeyes", which when researching a bit was apparently their (failed) effort to bring x86 VR to ARM almost 10 years ago. Some people have "debloated" the app, but it seems very amateur hour to me and the process isn't very transparent (the GitHub repo is just a readme)

There's also GameNative, which seems promising, but is very buggy.

And Winlator itself, which is a mess of tons of tunables and different forks that I really don't have the patience for when PC handhelds exist today and have a much better ecosystem.
by hyperbovine | 2025-11-21 22:06:05+00:00
> The value of modern AI seems very high. That nobody knows how high, that they still haven't figured out applications, and that the technology and its tools are still far from refined, is normal for any new technology.

The same could be said for the internet. But, and I know this will be hard for younger readers to believe, I seem to recall the value proposition of the Internet being more immediately apparent at the time.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-21 22:06:30+00:00
There is no maybe about it. These thefts are well-known and spur the defensive measures you're talking about. It goes beyond just locking things up. There are AI systems tracking your movement through the store, and they can even immobilize your shopping cart on the way out if they think you didn't pay. Some tools also have RFID based activation schemes, without which they can't be used.

It is the job of the police to investigate thefts. Therefore it kind of makes sense why they might want to put up cameras in high crime areas. We just don't want the cameras to be abused. I don't want to be tracked and have the contents of my house itemized by systems like this. Is there a less intrusive way to prevent crime, perhaps by posting a security guard? I think so. But what does it cost, and would you rather pay for that or deal with the camera?
by jandrese | 2025-11-21 22:06:31+00:00
We did the homeschool thing for one year after most kids went back to school after COVID. My wife has underlying medical conditions that made her quite concerned about catching it before the vaccine rollout. We did a few of the homeschool group organized field trips and I got to briefly meet some of the parents. Overall I can't say much about the kids, they seemed fine. The parents were friendly, but when I asked about the curriculum they almost invariably suggested PragerU material, which makes me concerned for their children's future.
by ben_w | 2025-11-21 22:06:38+00:00
How many people graduate from a US software engineering degree each year? About 100k? If they (the 100k in the US) earn $100k each in the first year, before gaining the skills to earn more, that's $10 billion a year, every year. If you can capture that market for next 20 years, it's worth $200 billion.

Except… can you capture it? A junior dev is… not exactly someone you want connecting to your business-critical database without supervision, and a real human dev will get better with a predictable rate. Will LLMs get better? The makers are betting on that, but we'll only know after the model releases, and even then after we play with them for a bit to differentiate between the record performance on whichever benchmark and the actual work we want them to do.

Then there's the question of can you really keep an edge for 20 years with investments today: Sometime between 2030-2035, there's likely to be models matching 2025-SOTA performance that run on ${year}'s high-end smartphone.

(Well, unless we all die in WW3 because of Russia getting desperate from its failure to remove Ukraine's sovereignty, or because China has a hot war with Taiwan and/or the USA messing with global consumer electronics supplies, but I don't think those get priced into the market…).
by jswelker | 2025-11-21 22:07:07+00:00
LLMs have made me feel like consciousness is actually a pretty banal epiphenomenon rather than something deep and esoteric and spiritual. Rather than LLMs lifting machines up to a humanlike level, it has cheapened the human mind to something mechanical and probabilistic.

I still think LLMs suck, but by extension it highlights how much _we_ suck. The big advantages we have at this point are much greater persistence of state, a physical body, and much better established institutions for holding us responsible when we screw up. Not the best of moats.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-21 22:08:05+00:00
> stealing nukes you cannot immediately operate as a 0-year old nation

Agreed. But nobody was invading Ukraine in 1994.

The weapons were seen as a security liability. In reality, they were bargaining chips.

> to me it doesn't seems like an incredibly bright idea in a world where the existing nuclear states doesn't want anyone else to get nukes too

To be clear, Kyiv made the right decision given what they knew in 1994. Non-proliferation was in vogue. America and British security guarantees meant something.

If Kyiv knew what we know today, that the Budapest security guarantees were worthless from each of Washington, London and Moscow; that wars of conquest would be back; and that non-proliferation would be seen through the lens of regional versus global security, it would have been a bright idea to demand more before letting them go, or at least to drag out negotiations so Ukraine could study the weapons and maybe even extract some samples.

> SS-24s do not have the ability to strike targets at relatively short distances (that is, below about 2000 km)

Again, having the nukes would give Kyiv leverage. At a minimum they'd have HEU and a proven design to study.

And again, don't undervalue bullshitting in geopolitics. If Kyiv said they have a short-range nuclear missile, it would not be credible. But would it be incredible enough to green light an invasion?
by some_guy_nobel | 2025-11-21 22:08:25+00:00
Wow, a shockingly argumentative tone for someone who is just flat out wrong.

Beyond the response someone else commented explaining exactly where the comparison was mentioned, the anecdote itself is useful in offering an experience of someone who's life has been changed by the drug.

In any case, the study mentioned in the article is a meta-analysis about children, not adults, so there is no onus on OP to qualify anything about placebo or not.
by andai | 2025-11-21 22:08:28+00:00
>If it is the case that consciousness can emerge from inert matter, I do wonder if the way it pays for itself evolutionarily, is by creating viral social signals.

The idea of what selection pressure produces consciousness is very interesting.

Their behavior being equivalent, what's the difference between a human and a p-zombie? By definition, they get the same inputs, they produce the same outputs (in terms of behavior, survival, offspring). Evolution wouldn't care, right?

Or maybe consciousness is required for some types of (more efficient) computation? Maybe the p-zombie has to burn more calories to get the same result?

Maybe consciousness is one of those weird energy-saving exploits you only find after billions of years in a genetic algorithm.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-11-21 22:08:54+00:00
> You might hope that your child will live a privileged existence unbothered by the rabble

I think it's telling that the other responses seem to focus on exactly this; the idea that their child will exist in a class apart from the rabble, and will not have to interact with them.

It seems to speak to two very different views of community. On the one hand, there is community as a collection of all the people in a space: people who share local resources, frequent the same local businesses, and have the same local concerns. On the other, there is a community of choice: people who share the same social class, and possibly the same religion or cultural beliefs. I think it's fair to say that you can have both, but trying to say that you can belong solely to the communities you choose and treat everyone else as beneath notice sounds quite problematic, and it will absolutely not give children a correct or complete view of the world.
by Hnrobert42 | 2025-11-21 22:09:11+00:00
I downloaded the iOS app. I like the simplicity. I wonder if it could even be a bit simpler.

I currently do a quarterly financial review. I document the balances from all of my accounts.

In addition to buy/sell/deposit/withdrawl, could Wealthfolio have an option to just add a balance. I suppose In the meantime, I'll make do with deposits and withdrawals.

Last, could you make it a little easier to find to donate button? Or possible at all? Now that I have the app open, I can't find where to send a one time payment.
by munk-a | 2025-11-21 22:09:19+00:00
There was a recent Bezos talk about the fact that (much like the dot-com) we've overspending on infrastructure that'll bubble and implode but then we'll have all this amazing infra for companies to build off of... but the process of that overspend and implosion is essentially a massive debt erasure - a lot of people are currently propping up this market with their capital and the companies they're propping up will collapse and those obligations liquidated - and that will result in massive society-wide pain. We may end up in a better place for the next generation because of this investment - but if you're a retail investor don't expect your 401k accounts to weather that burst gracefully... and, unlike the boomers, this will largely hit Millenials and Gen Z both of whom are currently under massive financial stress.
by simonw | 2025-11-21 22:09:37+00:00
One trick I have been using with Claude Code and Codex CLI recently is to have a folder on my computer - ~/dev/ - with literally hundreds of GitHub repos checked out.

Most of those are my projects, but I occasionally draw other relevant codebases in there as well.

Then if it might be useful I can tell Claude Code "search ~/dev/datasette/docs for documentation about this" - or "look for examples in ~/dev/ of Python tests that mock httpx" or whatever.
by rileymichael | 2025-11-21 22:09:41+00:00
unfortunately they've never really taken off so folks reach for explicit state machines instead. there have been a handful of options on the jvm over the years (e.g. quasar, kilim) but they're all abandoned now, the loom continuation API is internal with no hint of it becoming public, kotlin's aren't serializable and the issue is inactive (https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/issues/76), etc.. such a shame
by breve | 2025-11-21 22:09:52+00:00
Of course it was. It was delivered by HTTP (royalty-free), RTSP\RTP\RTCP (royalty-free), and TCP/IP (royalty-free) and depended on DNS (royalty-free) and HTML and friends (royalty-free). Video over the internet wouldn't have worked without royalty-free formats and protocols supporting it.

Video format patent pools just wanted to extract value off the top. It's been grubby.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-11-21 22:10:22+00:00
Baumol effect. TVs[1] are unrealistically cheap. This means that more money is chasing less automatable services. There is no technology that makes caregiving 100x more labor efficient. More money chasing the same supply means prices rise until demand reaches equilibrium. No amount of deregulation can increase the labor efficiency of caregiving to match gains in goods production.

1. And other goods mass manufactured.
by ckw | 2025-11-21 22:10:58+00:00
This is one of the most shocking things I have ever read. There is a black box warning for Prozac:

‘Warning: Suicidality and Antidepressant Drugs

Increased risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children, adolescents, and young adults taking antidepressants for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and other psychiatric disorders’

Read the package insert: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2011/01...

The fact that you were not informed about this should serve as proof that you cannot blindly trust what doctors tell you. They will absolutely kill you out of ignorance or incompetence, and never even realize their responsibility.
by nonameiguess | 2025-11-21 22:11:05+00:00
Do you have to? I'll be 45 in a few days, but even at that age, I'm still not expecting to need anything I have invested for at least 20 years, the ratio of the value of the broad overall market then to now is still likely to be a larger multiple than for any other asset class I can expose myself to. If there's really a bubble, maybe that won't be true in 5 years, but I've yet to see a downturn that didn't recover in 20. Even if your predictions are directionally correct eventually, if you're not clairvoyant, trying to time the market is still not a great idea.
by jfengel | 2025-11-21 22:11:41+00:00
The Republican party's ideology may be unrecognizable, but the party itself has all of the same membership. The Democratic party has had little success courting Republicans who claim to be disaffected with the current administration, and I don't think that leaning into that even harder is likely to work.

The Democrats had big successes earlier this month by doing exactly the opposite: pandering to the left. That's anathema to the Clinton-era Democrats who created this proposal, but at this point it may be the best hope they have. They just demonstrated that they do have the ability to win, and they offer a much more exciting platform than moderate center-right.

I myself am more ideologically in line with the authors of this site than with the left. If the Democratic party does shift that direction there will be a lot of conflict. But that conflict gets me at least some of what I want, while continuing to lose to a highly-energized far right leaves me unequivocally worse off.
by tim333 | 2025-11-21 22:12:08+00:00
Well if you know your theology you should know

>Women should remain silent in the churches, They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church (St Paul, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle_and_women)

though I think that stuff is a bit outdated even if it's in the Bible.
by cortesoft | 2025-11-21 22:12:24+00:00
Well, one of the benefits is that it won't go away.

I used Mint for years, and I LOVED it. Hooked it up to all my accounts, it could track purchases and spending and kept everything up to date automatically. It would remember how I categorized things.

Of course, then Intuit decided to get rid of it and force everyone to move to Credit Karma, which doesn't do the same things AT ALL. I don't care about tracking my credit scores, and I pay off all my credit cards every month, I don't need help finding a loan for anything. The only thing it does is try to offer me loans and credit cards. It doesn't have any transaction history, so it doesn't do the one thing I care about.

The decade+ of transaction history I had in Mint was just GONE. It really sucked, and I have not found a replacement yet.

I don't mind if it is hosted, or even if I have to pay for it, but I would like to be able to keep my historical data, and for it to automatically populate from my accounts, and not go away if a company decides it can't make money from it anymore.
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-21 22:12:46+00:00
"Line must go up".

The same line boomers enjoyed riding on while their property and other investments went up massively without any effort on their part, at the expense of subsequent generations.

Now, they're getting a taste of their own medicine as someone else (private equity in this case) wants to ride the line going up and even just robbing subsequent generations isn't enough to pay for it.
by hintklb | 2025-11-21 22:12:51+00:00
My experience as well. SSRI and other similar drugs for anxiety remove a strong signal to your brain and bring other issues or signal.

But the issue is that nobody wants to really look at the cause. We are all trying to treat the symptoms with those quick-fix pills.

The cause is deep in our society. We are too stressed, lost touch with each others, work on meaningless jobs (or downright negative jobs for society.. if you work at Meta or TikTok, yes your job is in fact a negative for society).

I have also been on a journey for the last 5 years on working on myself and bringing those things back in my life and I have been feeling better than ever: - A lot of outdoor time and exercise. - Take the time to build a community of friends that genuinely care for each other - Work on some projects that you feel help humanity and each other (or volunteer). - Build things you are proud of. Build a legacy

All of those removed almost all anxiety and depression. It is not an easy journey but I'm shocked how few people even consider making those changes
by lordnacho | 2025-11-21 22:13:02+00:00
So I'm already joking with my friends (who tend to be physically distant, so I don't see them often) that we are just LLMs vicariously writing to each other.

I've been talking to these friends for decades now, with digital records. I think someone already trained an LLM on their IM records.

How many people do you suppose have two-way LLM substitutes that occasionally write to each other with articles from the news to discuss?

There's already services that use this kind of thing to pretend dead people are alive.

Now here's the question: are you in some sense living forever? Say you have a number of friends, who have over time been trained into AI, and they live on various servers (it ain't expensive) forever. They're trained as you, so they read the kind of article you would read. They know your life story, they know their history with their friends. They will be interested in the controversial offsides goal in the 2250 world cup final. They are just made of calculations in data centres that go on, forever.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-11-21 22:13:10+00:00
You're recommending I look at SFUSD's public budget when:

- that budget is how I was able to calculate per-pupil spend

- in another comment you admitted to having 'no idea' where the $28k/year number came from, suggesting to me that you haven't looked at the budget yourself

The granularity in SFUSD's published budget is not sufficient to analyze what is useful and what is waste.
by pegasus | 2025-11-21 22:13:38+00:00
Yep. It seems somewhat inevitable to have a readjustment at some point. Both Web 2.0 (online retail) and AI are (rightfully, I believe) creating a lot of buzz and stimulating a lot of investment. It's all very new and exciting and there is bound to be a lot of hit and miss activity. Once the dust settles, the misguided bets will become more obvious and there will be a culling, just as we had during the dot com bubble.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-21 22:13:40+00:00
It's a different principle, although I have a Ladybird Book of Electronics that my dad gave me when I was just about the age my son is now, that shows how to make a thing that flashes two lightbulbs using that astable circuit (and a few other things).

The two-transistor metronome one really is working more like an SCR, that rapidly charges the capacitor and allows it to discharge again.
by filleduchaos | 2025-11-21 22:14:17+00:00
Actually, the two accidents are only superficially similar, and there is no basis for saying that "this exact situation" should have already been fixed.

And no, this is not just pedantry. A bulkhead fracturing from impact damage and its mounting point failing from fatigue cracking are nowhere near the same thing, even if they might lead to the same outcome.
by jayd16 | 2025-11-21 22:14:18+00:00
I wouldn't go that far but they are clearly poised for that, should it be adventageous.

The Frame is essentially there already, with what should be the top mobile arm setup.

If an x86 chipset dropped that fit their needs better, I don't think Valve would hesitate. I think it's just a matter of Valve trying to enable the best options down the road, whatever they may be.
by mattmaroon | 2025-11-21 22:14:32+00:00
One difference is most of the companies listed are old, long standing, well-performing businesses. Pets.com had potential, Apple, Amazon, and Google had large amounts of revenue even 3 years ago.

The bubble may deflate but every company mentioned will still be standing, whereas in 1999 many of them were basically Ponzi schemes relying on further investor dollars to subsidize losses. All this AI spending will hurt some investors if the bubble pops but just make for a few bad quarters for the big tech cos.
by arw0n | 2025-11-21 22:14:36+00:00
The US finished developing a nuclear bomb in 1945, by 1949 the Soviet Union had their own. I agree that it is probably not the same, there are a lot more moving parts in modern chip design. In fact, I have no idea how close Chinese companies are to developing SotA chips. But I do see China being consistently underestimated in western media and think tanks, so my intuitive reaction would be to cut that timeline in half if it is what western experts believe to be plausible.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-11-21 22:14:47+00:00
Probably because the commenter is not a medical professional and isn't qualified to judge the veracity of anything they find. "Do your own research" is a fucking plague on our modern world and is why the internet is like wall to wall grifters now.

By all means, Google whatever you like, but if you show up to a doctors office waving WebMD sheets in a medical professionals face, you are going to be mocked and you deserve it.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-21 22:15:14+00:00
Hmm. The comparison makes sense in some ways, but the thing is - as much as I dislike AI, I think AI will stay, whereas the internet bubble seemed to subside without that much left from it, more or less. While I hate most of AI, it does have some use cases - the current hype will eventually subside or collapse, but I think the core use cases will most likely remain.

"All but Alphabet have seen big share declines in the past month. Microsoft is down 12 percent, Amazon is down 14 percent, Meta is down 22 percent, Oracle is down 24 percent"

That fluctuates anyway and profits are made by some - nothing new here.

I think the world needs to detach from the stock markets though. That may not seem realistic right now, but if you look at the current US president and the ties to superrich, we really have a huge problem now. A few parasitize on the masses. That can not be sustained. It is not ethical.

"It will spark a generation of innovations that we can’t yet even imagine."

I am not so sure. So far I successfully avoided AI, including becoming dependent on AI - I am not. So that is good.

I can not really see what "innovation" would make me want to embrace AI. Perhaps I can be forced into it, but right now I am happy avoiding it.

"Because we humans are pretty good at predicting the impact of technology revolutions beyond seven to ten years."

No, we really are not.

"Not only does the AI bubble in 2025 feel like the internet bubble in 1999"

It is still not the same.

I feel the article is falling apart there. It tries too much to compare to the 1999, but it is not the same.
by jedberg | 2025-11-21 22:15:15+00:00
The key to a durable workflow is making each step idempotent. Then you don't have to worry about those things. You just run the failed step again. If it already worked the first time, it's a no-op.

For example, stripe lets you include an idempotency key with your request. If you try to make a charge again with the same key, it ignores you. A DE framework like DBOS will automatically generate the idempotency key for you.

But you're correct, if you can't make the operation idempotent, then you have to handle that yourself.