MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-05 10:06:54+00:00
>There are clearly policies on that page that break from the NYC status quo (like freezing the rent). Perhaps you are interested in explaining to us why you think these are economically sound ideas, rather than insisting they aren't controversial?

You mean like the rent freeze[0] in 2020/2021 (and apparently in 2014-2016[1], although I don't recall that and am too lazy to check my old leases) on the very same apartments that Mamdani is proposing the same?

>I don't feel that you're going to get a lot of engagement with this attitude. It doesn't come off like a good-faith effort to have an honest intellectual conversation, which is what this forum is about.

Really? Funny that. As a resident of NYC, I reviewed the policies proposed by Mamdani and none of them seem all that controversial (or even all that much in the way of veering from the status quo). I will say that the whole public grocery stores seems a little over the top, but market forces haven't eliminated food deserts in many lower income neighborhoods. As such, why is it bad to try such a thing?

GP called Mamdani's policy proposals "incredibly controversial." I haven't seen even one such policy. As such, I asked for an example of such a "controversial" policy to help me understand where GP was coming from and provided a comprehensive list of Mamdani's policy proposals as an aid to identifying such policies.

I explicitly asked for specific proposals so we could discuss why (or why not) they might be "controversial."

How is that a bad "attitude"?

[0] https://hcr.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2025/07/fact-sheet...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45819654

Edit: Fixed prose.
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-05 10:06:59+00:00
>Mamdani isn’t pitching widespread price controls, but rent control over a small section of New York housing twinned with abundance-style new development

He's not actually pitching any new price controls. He's proposing a temporary rent freeze on rent stabilized (rent control is tiny in comparison and unaffected by this) apartments that are already subject to limits on rent increases.

How do I know this? I live in a a rent stabilized apartment. The rent for which, even though increases are "limited" (usually somewhere around 3-5%) has more than doubled since I moved in.

So no. Mamdani isn't suggesting making any changes to the law as it has existed for at least 50 years, rather he's suggesting stopping rent increases while fast-tracking new housing, which would likely stabilize the housing market.

As an aside, which most folks don't understand, is that the vacancy rate in NYC is ~1.5%. Healthy housing markets have vacancy rates of 4-6%. Like many places in the US (and elsewhere), NYC has a housing shortage. But in NYC, that shortage is much more severe than almost anywhere else in the US.
by prmph | 2025-11-05 10:07:53+00:00
> It's quite uncontroversial I think that consciousness has no special impact in physics, there's no physical experiment that is affected by a consciousness being present or not. Electrons don't behave differently if a human is looking at them versus a machine, as far as any current physical experiment has ever found.

Way to totally miss the point. We can't detect or measure consciousness, so therefore there is nothing to explain. /s Like an LLM that deletes or emasculates tests it is unable to make pass.

I know I am conscious, I also know that the stone in my hand is not. I want to understand why. It is probably the most unexplainable thing. It does not mean we ignore it. If you want to dispute that my consciousness has no physical import nor consequence, well, then we will have to agree to disagree.
by martinald | 2025-11-05 10:08:09+00:00
Me and a friend were just chatting how annoying it is monitors stalled out at 4K. I think I got my first set of 4k monitors ~15 years ago (!) and there's been no improvements since then apart from high end pro monitors resolution wise.

Why is this? 5k/6k at 27" would be the sweet spot for me, and potentially 8k at 32". However, I'm not willing to drop $2k per monitor to go from a very nice 27" 4k to 27" 5k.

You can get 8K TVs for <$1000 now. And an Quest 3 headset has 2 displays at far higher PPI for $600.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-05 10:08:25+00:00
I see MCP with agentic runtimes the next step of Web API orchestration tools, which is kind of interesing, but also depressing in the sense we will keep writting less and less code.

I doesn't matter how great Rust happens to be over Python, if most of the modern coding will become voice/text prompts, and flow diagrams, orchestracting MCP tools.
by ben_w | 2025-11-05 10:09:04+00:00
I don't like Trump, and I rank his emission of word-shaped noises somewhere between picking random items from autocomplete suggestions, and my pre-ChatGPT experiments with GPT-3 models.

Charisma is a different axis to all of that.

A lot of people, for reasons I cannot even empathise with, demonstrably like him. One could even describe their response as "idolising" him. (Where does one draw the line between "a cult of personality" and "apotheosis" anyway?)
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-11-05 10:10:17+00:00
Having cameras pointed at the engines/wings like rearview mirrors would be helpful. It does not add that much workload if you take a quick glance in the “mirror” and figure out what the problem exactly is.

And now we have technology that allows for cameras everywhere to give a better situational awareness across all critical aircraft surfaces and systems.

It is going to take a little bit of adjusting to, but it will help improve safety in a tremendous way.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-11-05 10:11:22+00:00
> It's hard to see how an organization that standardizes screws and plugs could possibly be qualified to develop ISAs.

you my friend have not delved into the rabbithole that is standardisation organizations.

ISO and IEC goes so far beyond bolts and screws it's frankly dizzying how faar reaching their fingers are in our society.

As for why, the top comment explained it well; There is a movement to block Risk-v adoption in the US for some geopolitical shenanigans. A standardisation with a trusted authority may help.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-05 10:11:59+00:00
Naturally they don't care about Windows and then blame precompiled headers.

Traditionally they always sucked on UNIX systems, the only place I have been able to fully enjoy the improvements they bring to the table has been in PC systems, since Windows 3.x, across OS/2, and Borland/Microsoft compilers ever since.

Additionally, on my C++ hobby coding, since I am on Windows, I am fully into modules.
by andriesm | 2025-11-05 10:12:20+00:00
I don't think civilization ends if temperatures rise dramatically. A lot of existing agricultural land gets destroyed, but some currently unusable/unproductive areas that are too cold become viable. So the regions will shift. Painful but not insurmountable if it happens over a 50 year time span. But even if there wasn't such a compensatory mechanism, modern problem solving abilities will find a way - yes really. Look at the problems already solved. Nuclear reactors, solar power, vertical farming, genetically enhanced crops, alternative food sources will be engineered if the need arises. We can really stop saying that we know for sure society will end. I don't know how poor people will be affected, and yes there woll be winnners and losers as always during massive disruptive change - but hardly the end of human civilization.
by skydhash | 2025-11-05 10:15:25+00:00
Hardcoding any color than base16 is usually a poor choice. It should be up to the user to use any other color.

And colors should be semantic. If you don’t have any theming ability, just use reverse video to indicate selected state.

My current pet peeve is cli tools using ansi codes for progress bar. And with very poor detection of terminals.
by metalman | 2025-11-05 10:16:05+00:00
"I’m curious what others with more insight might say about his ability to fund and implement his polices."

Zohran has the largest, youngest, mandate in NYC in a very long time. The key is thats it's NYC and the place has an energy all it's own, and Zohran has that, and understands that NYC is always broke falling down, rich, and building up. Think about it, this guy just stood up, and Gotham said Hey!, you!, YES! NYC is pumped and ready to out work, out think, and out party, the entrenched, but tired and old, establishment. Lead, follow, or get out of the way(and cheer)
by veltas | 2025-11-05 10:16:09+00:00
No overflow/carry flag impacting safe overflow checking and bignum performance, the whole conditional move history and backpeddling and state of Zicond, the system for describing feature support is needlessly complicated and just a mess for users outside of embedded, the spec is written more like an academic paper than a CPU manual, vector instructions act like they're written for a coprocessor for some reason, bad frame pointer ABI support, etc.
by Nicsal | 2025-11-05 10:16:22+00:00
Literally Gabe Newell, who sails on yachts and has been swimming in money for a long time just from CS and Dota cases alone. And Steam is currently the most popular platform for buying games, simply because there are no alternatives. Xbox's GamePass is trying to do something, but everything there comes down to buying some cheap shared subscription on <https://ggsel.net/en> or <https://kinguin.com>. Many game developers love Steam because of its policies.
by flufluflufluffy | 2025-11-05 10:16:46+00:00
We have hundreds of thousands of TIFF files where I work which are scans of questionnaires filled out by clinical trial participants. The one annoying thing is that web browsers don’t natively display them. I did some incredibly inefficient JavaScript bs to decode the pixel data, plop it in a canvas, get a PNG data url from it, and set that as the src for an img element xD (why not just display the canvas? because I was too lazy to manually handle resizes…) good times
by albertzeyer | 2025-11-05 10:17:03+00:00
I have asked about using RPython as a generic standalone language before. I think the official statement is that is was never intended to become one, and it's really a very minimal subset of Python (so basically no existing Python code will run, it would require heavy refactoring or complete rewrite), and it's only specifically those features that they currently need, and it might also be a moving target, and they don't want to give certain guarantees on stability of the language etc.

Once you consider that you anyway need to write very different kind of code for RPython, then maybe just using Nim or some other language is a better idea?
by pjmlp | 2025-11-05 10:17:09+00:00
Kind of, the current problem is they aren't fully mature, you great a good experience with VC++ and clang (vLatest), alongside MSBuild/CMake/ninja.

VS IDE tooling is stil kind of broken because they rely on EDG instead of VC++, and fixing module intelisense has been low priority for EDG, and MS as well as I would assume a $4 trillion valued company would care about their suppliers.

Clion has better support on that regard.

GCC is still not fully there, and Apple clang, well Apple is happy with module header maps for their Swift/Objective-C integration, so lets see.
by lucamz | 2025-11-05 10:22:06+00:00
I think what you say is true in theory, but if you look at large companies with no lack of talent, they are either publicly monitoring or taking monitoring to an unlawful level.

https://www.jpmorganchase.com/content/dam/jpmc/jpmorgan-chas...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/10/25/microsoft...

The problem is when you go over the line, read messages and start controlling the employees. But on the other hand if you go work in a warehouse you still need to clock in and and out, and if you are late they deduct the hours from the paycheck.

In my opinion tools like this are okay if they act as that "clocking in/out" device, rather than allowing employers to spy conversations happening privately (which I would not tolerate). But if an employee is averaging 5h of work and they are contractually paid for 8h, that is also an abuse in a way, https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/ just saying there are 500k+ people here :)
by masklinn | 2025-11-05 10:22:12+00:00
An option you did not mention, although not generally available to languages with advanced runtime, is that even if you have immutable strings you can realloc them if you know you're the only owner of that string (e.g. because they're refcounted, or can't be shared).

CPython does that, so a trivial concatenation loop is (amortised) linear (causing issues for alternate implementations when they have to run that). Swift might also be able to via COW optimisation.

Rust's string concatenation is a variant of this (though it has mutable strings anyway): `String::add` takes an owned value on the LHS, and the implementation just appends to the LHS before returning it:

fn add(mut self, other: &str) -> String { self.push_str(other); self }

so repeated concatenation will realloc and amortize as if you were just `push_str`-ing in a loop (which maps directly to appending to the underlying buffer).
by bartvk | 2025-11-05 10:22:19+00:00
There's two instances where 32" is helpful. First for Xcode and Android Studio, where you write some UI code and the phone/tablet preview on the right, in both horizontal and vertical orientation.

And second for doing writing and research, because recently I had to get a certificate for which I had to write a portfolio of old-fashioned essays. 32" but even 40" is extremely helpful for this. Basically I kept my screen organized in three columns with the word processor on the left, and two PDFs in the middle and on the right.
by renegat0x0 | 2025-11-05 10:22:26+00:00
Searching the web has changed:

- There are more walled gardens, so engines legally cannot enter some spaces

- There are more legal problems with data, so more things are not accessible

- to find stuff you have to check google, but also yandex, or kagi, or chatgpt

- I also check my own index for stuff https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
by quitit | 2025-11-05 10:22:54+00:00
I have a few similar take aways:

1. The scanning is fast, it takes longer to set up a fingerprint on a macbook air. Just turning the head from side to side, then up and down, smiling and raising one's eyebrows.

2. I used the M5, and the processing time to generate the persona was quick. I didn't time it, but it felt like less than 10 seconds.

3. My cheeks tend to restrict smiling while wearing the headset, it works but people that know me understood what I meant when I said my smile was hindered.

4. Despite the limited actions used for set up, it reproduces a far greater range of facial movements. For example if I do the invisible string trick, it captures my lips correctly (when you move the top lip in one direction and the lower lip in the opposite direction, as if pulled by a string.)

5. I wasn't expecting this big of a jump in quality from the v1.
by pka | 2025-11-05 10:24:26+00:00
> I'm sensing redness here and now, so the sensation of redness exists very clearly tied to a particular point in spacetime. In what sense is the qualia of redness not firmly anchored in spacetime? Of course, you could talk about the concept redness, like the concept Pi, but even then, these concepts exist in the mind of a human thinking about them, still tied to a particular location in spacetime.

But qualia are inherently subjective. You can correlate brain activity (which exists at a position in spacetime) to subjective experience, but that experience is not related to spacetime.

Said otherwise: imagine you are in the Matrix at a coffee shop and sense redness, but your brain is actually in a vat somewhere being fed fake sensory input. "Where" is the redness? You would clearly say that it arises in your brain in the coffee shop. Imagine then the vat is moved (so its position in spacetime changes), your brain is rolled back to its previous state, and then fed the same sensory input again. Where is the redness now?

You can't differentiate the two sensations of redness based on the actual position of the brain in spacetime. For all intents and purposes, they are the same. Qualia only depend on the internal brain state at a point in time and on the sensory input. Spacetime is nowhere to be found in that equation.

> The two brains don't receive the same sensory inputs

But let's say they do. Identical brains, identical inputs = identical qualia. What differentiates both consciousnesses?
by antonvs | 2025-11-05 10:24:46+00:00
> Do you really think that postulating a non-physical system that we can't describe in physical terms (red is not a wavelength)

There's no mystery about what "red" is - even computers have an internal representation of sensor data, and our minds certainly do as well. "Red" is a representation of some physical state which is also, presumably, physically encoded in the brain. This is what Chalmers classifies as one of the "easy problems" of consciousness - there's no mystery here.

The hard problem is that we have a conscious experience of color, along with everything else we're conscious of. Whereas we don't generally assume that a computer executing code such as "if color == red ..." is having a conscious experience while it executes that code. (Although panpsychists may believe that.)

> somehow magically creates a new dimension of "feeling" when the bits are arranged in the "right order" is less complex than the hypothesis consciousness forms arranges itself into "structures" in much the same way as matter does?

That's not a hypothesis, it's simply handwaving. Both options are, given current knowledge. I wasn't promoting the first option, I was pointing out that if panpsychism requires a theory of how consciousness aggregates, which is similar to what emergence requires in terms of aggregating matter in certain ways, then the whole panpsychist proposal starts seeming like a candidate for Occam's Razor: what is it buying us, other than saying "this can't be explained"?
by scrubs | 2025-11-05 10:24:52+00:00
The HW might be good but MacOs? No way.

Try this: rm Xcode.app then try to do software development ... see how that goes. Apple force moved me off bash to zsh. I realized post OS upgrade it also moved around tons of files on my drive introducing "datapart". Recently I couldn't backup because a partition on the non-backup drive was 94% full. The backup drive had 8Tb ~freespace.

Another thing I dislike is the UI. Don't look at it; don't click, don't drag the mouse, and don't let your fingers hit the touch bar, or make a typo. Apple has squirrelled away 24 quadrillion UI effects so that any of the above will "help you" like a matriarchy gone wrong until you're red in the face. I could go on at length ...

I have two 2019 MacPros, and I use one 99.99% of the time to run T2 Ubuntu Unix, and MacOS when I have no other choice, and never for software dev.
by r_singh | 2025-11-05 10:25:28+00:00
Matches my experience too. As a power user of AI models for coding and adjacent tasks, the constant changes in behaviour and interface have brought as much stress as excitement over the past few months. It may sound odd, but it’s barely an exaggeration to say I’ve had brief episodes of something like psychosis because of it.

For me, the “watering down” began with Sonnet 4 and GPT-4o. I think we were at peak capability when we had:

- Sonnet 3.7 (with thinking) – best all-purpose model for code and reasoning

- Sonnet 3.5 – unmatched at pattern matching

- GPT-4 – most versatile overall

- GPT-4.5 – most human-like, intuitive writing model

- O3 – pure reasoning

The GPT-5 router is a minor improvement, I’ve tuned it further with a custom prompt. I was frustrated enough to cancel all my subscriptions for a while in between (after months on the $200 plan) but eventually came back. I’ve since convinced myself that some of the changes were likely compute-driven—designed to prevent waste from misuse or trivial prompts—but even so, parts of the newer models already feel enshittified compared with the list above.

A few differences I've found in particular:

- Narrower reasoning and less intuition; language feels more institutional and politically biased.

- Weaker grasp of non-idiomatic English.

- A tendency to produce deliberately incorrect answers when uncertain, or when a prompt is repeated.

- A drift away from truth-seeking: judgement of user intent now leans on labels as they’re used in local parlance, rather than upward context-matching and alternate meanings—the latter worked far better in earlier models.

- A new fondness for flowery adjectives. Sonnet 3.7 never told me my code was “production-ready” or “beautiful.” Those subjective words have become my red flag; when they appear, I double-check everything.

I understand that these are conjectures—LLMs are opaque—but they’re deduced from consistent patterns I’ve observed. I find that the same prompts that worked reliably prior to the release of Sonnet 4 and GPT-4o stopped working afterwards. Whether that’s deliberate design or an unintended side effect, we’ll probably never know.
by cedilla | 2025-11-05 10:26:06+00:00
This would need to be tested. There's a lot going on already during normal take-offs. Now you're in a situation where the engine fire alarm is going off, probably a few other alarms, you got so many messages on your display that it only shows the most urgent one, you're taking quick glances at 50 points in the cockpit already.

And how would the cameras even work? Are the pilots supposed to switch between multiple camera feeds, or do we install dozens of screens? And then what, they see lots of black smoke on one camera, does that really tell them that much more than the ENG FIRE alert blaring in the background?

Maybe this could help during stable flight, but in this situation, when the pilots were likely already overloaded and probably had only a few seconds to escape this situation - if it was possible at all - I can't imagine it being helpful.
by leobuskin | 2025-11-05 10:26:26+00:00
Yes, it's mature, but you (and your potential audience) basically need to learn a new language, a lot of quirks and "weird" (I'd even say counter-intuitive) nuances, and it's also significantly less readable in comparison with strict and typed Python. Even its modern syntax doesn't click immediately (also performance wise the new syntax somehow is a bit slower in my tests)
by t0mas88 | 2025-11-05 10:26:41+00:00
No, and reverse trust is not included in the calculation for stopping distance for a failure below V1. You can stop from just below V1 with only the brakes, if that's not possible you're not allowed to start the takeoff. You would have to reduce weight until the numbers fit the runway.

After V1 you must be able to take off on only the remaining engines. If that's not possible you must reduce weight until it is possible or you're not allowed to start takeoff at all.

This is why in very warm weather and higher altitude airports (lower performance) sometimes cargo/luggage or even some passengers are left behind, while in colder weather all seats could be used.
by sim7c00 | 2025-11-05 10:27:08+00:00
game mode is a scam. it breaks display quality on most TVs. and still doesn't respond as fast as a PC monitor with <1ms latencies.... it might drop itself to 2 or 3 which is still 2x or 3x atleast slower.

you can think 'but thats inhumanly fast, you wont notice it' but in reality, this is _very_ noticeable in games like counter-strike where hand-eye coordination, speed and pinpoint accuracy are key. if you play such games a lot then you will feel it if the latency goes above 1ms.