MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-12-22 03:34:58+00:00
I could be fast and impactful. Just in a negative way. The problem is that I come from the software dev side so I tend to be less interested in the medical side. It’s the same in a lot of safety critical. There is a lot of mundane work to tick the necessary checkboxes. There isn’t much that is interesting from a technological side. Maybe the result is interesting but getting there takes a lot of extremely boring work.
by ultrarunner | 2025-12-22 03:35:40+00:00
If anything, the tail number does not matter nearly as much. A plane with auto land presumably already has ADSb out (almost certainly 1090ES), is squawking 7700, and is probably already IFR anyway. As in this situation, the controllers knew well in advance they had an emergency inbound and who it was. At an uncontrolled field, I need something to tag (robotic "bravo-romeo" is plenty) and a relative position. Bonus if it does the math and predicts landing time, which it does.

Frankly, it should know (like I have to) if it's going to auto land at a towered field or uncontrolled, and adjust as necessary to those circumstances.
by cornstalks | 2025-12-22 03:36:32+00:00
There are way cheaper options than the Anker Solix 3800. Here are some options, in no particular order:

- $3,300: 10 kWh with 2x EG4 WallMount Indoor 100Ah.

- $3,110: 14 kWh with 1x WallMount Indoor 280Ah.

- $2,690: 10 kWh with 1x Deye RW F10.2 B

- Will Prowse's YouTube channel has reviewed several battery builds that are >10 kWh and near $2,000, but they're DIY assembly.
by Taek | 2025-12-22 03:38:23+00:00
> The AI systems that do most of these things are not "LLMs".

Uh, every single example that I listed except for the 'playing video games' example is something that I regularly use frontier models to do for myself. I have ChatGPT and Gemini help me find flight routes, tutor me in Spanish (Gemini 3 is really good at this), write poetry and code, solve professional math problems (usually related to finance and trading), help me fix technical issues with my phone and laptop, etc etc.

If you say to yourself, "hey this thing is a general intelligence, I should try to throw it at problems I have generally", you'll find yourself astonished at the range of tasks with which it can outperform you.
by ak217 | 2025-12-22 03:38:27+00:00
When I used to ride Caltrain to/from work, I would often have an uninterrupted stretch of 45+ minutes in a cozy single seat (I would always take an upper deck seat in the "gallery" car) to either doze off or use this time to focus on something. I would get so much done on those days if I managed to avoid the sun blasting too much sunlight on my screen/seat. This commuter rail experience is probably familiar to many of us, but it's specific to commuter rail - being a passenger on a subway or in a car/bus is too chaotic or bumpy to do this.

More generally, I find that switching up your surroundings is absolutely vital for your brain's ability to focus on hard tasks. I will hit a wall if I try to work multiple 10+ hour days sitting in one spot, but a comfortable spot in a different coffee shop or lounge can totally trick my brain into powering through.
by csomar | 2025-12-22 03:39:32+00:00
There is probably stuff we don’t know. For example, some people sneeze when they look or are exposed to the sun (for me, usually in the morning). There is still no scientific explanation for why it happens.

There are no devices that can produce a full-spectrum light like the one you get from the sun. So my suggestion would be to go outside and breathe instead of sitting in a box.
by softwaredoug | 2025-12-22 03:41:08+00:00
Without structured outputs, for some classification tasks you can use the hallucinate -> resolve pattern

Step one ask the LLM to classify something from the prompt “creatively”. For example, ask it to classify the color or category of a product in an e-commerce catalog or user request. Give examples of what valid instance of these entities look like, ask for output that looks like these examples (encourage the LLM to engage in creative hallucination). Often helps to get the LLM to pick more than one and for it to choose many different, realistic diverse labels.

Step two, with hallucinated entities, lookup via embedding similarity to find the most similar “real” entities. Then return these.

It can save you a lot of tokens (you don’t have to enumerate every legal value). And you can get by with a tiny model.
by mmooss | 2025-12-22 03:41:11+00:00
I wonder if a human is in the loop. Obviously the software is hardly ever used (a good thing), so you wouldn't need many humans available. If communication is possible, wouldn't you hand control to a pilot on the ground?

I don't know that they could actually fly the plane - is latency too high for landing? - but they could make all the decisions and communicate with air traffic control, other planes, and the passengers.
by jaggederest | 2025-12-22 03:41:14+00:00
I believe he was a staff writer for the Halo series in house as well, something like Marc Laidlaw at Valve, and the books emerged from internal storytelling written for the series. Very interesting stuff.

I also highly recommend his older books Pawn's Dream, Dry Water, and especially A Game Of Universe. They're available on Kindle and part of the Unlimited program so easy to check out.
by dijit | 2025-12-22 03:42:16+00:00
why is this flagged? (maybe Theo? I don’t know this person).

Its absolutely a good argument against fragile IoT devices that have no local/offline mode and the ever increasing lurch of internet requirements for our daily life.

I’m not sure my phone does much of anything without an internet connection. Yet it is my primary banking and authentication method (via BankID).

EDIT: Theodore Kaczynski is the unabomber… well, thats an odd name to drop and maybe not an ideal candidate for life advice.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-22 03:42:33+00:00
>And guess what? You'll get through it too.

Will you? https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/recessi...

Maybe you did, but statistically those people are permanently behind.

>I wasn't a fan of the article either but I think at any point in history you can make a convincing argument that the world is ending

There's hoplessness of impending doom, and hopelessness of no progression. I do think Gen Z has a unique experience of the latter, where the former generations were mostly facing worries over the former. Boomers had the nuclear scare, Gen Z had the peak unease of the cold war, Millenials had 9/11 and a decade of questionable wars.

Gen Z doesn't have that impending doom... yet. COVID was very impacful, but not apocalyptic as long as you followed mandates (I know, a big "if" in the US). But I wouldn't hold my breath given all the conflicts out there, and the US's own warmongering riling up again.

Meanwhile, many can't even get their foot in the door. Not many 20 years olds ever felt like the future was hopeless, no matter what they did.

>Fuck it, create a dating app without perverse incentives.

Pay my rent for a year or so and you got a deal.

Otherwise, I feel like this is highlighting the exact tonedeafness Gen Z is tiring of. Gen Z doesn't just get to sit down and hack in their free time. They are doing gig work to pay rent and applying to thousands of jobs a day for hope of an interview (not even an offer).

I won't say it's uniquely bad. But it's bad in different ways from when you or I were growing up.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-22 03:42:43+00:00
It's worse than that. It's people generating a moral panic so they can retroactively declare something to be crimethink and then use that as a weapon against anyone who disagrees with them by trawling through their history. In which case it's not a matter of standing by it because mobs aren't interested in context or nuance.

Society's defense against this should be that we don't use mobs to punish people for saying things we disagree with and anybody who attempts to do that gets laughed off the stage. Because as soon as that's not what happens, the public discourse gets marred by self-censorship until enough time passes with it not happening that people stop expecting it to and thereby stop worrying that they can't know what's going to be declared an offense tomorrow.

But now that it has happened recently, the only way to get it back in the short term is to have people posting under pseudonyms.
by segmondy | 2025-12-22 03:43:46+00:00
did you see the disruption to air traffic? everyone that needed to land had to go into a holding pattern. the plane was communicating to tower and was going to land since it was emergency. it was not observing other traffic, part of landing is knowing the location of other aircrafts to avoid collision. This doesn't seem to have collision detection/avoidance and space coordination with other aircrafts and entering holding pattern to delay programming yet. This is a good start.
by userbinator | 2025-12-22 03:44:16+00:00
(2012)

This article can be summarised in one word: learning. I've noticed over the years that there seems to be a growing divide amongst programmers, between those who believe in learning, and those who don't (and actively try to avoid it); unfortunately the latter has become a majority position, but I still try to show others this article when they don't understand code that I've written and would rather I stoop to their level.

A look around the site at what else he has accomplished, should be enough evidence that he isn't just a charlatan, unlike some others who have made a consulting career out of spouting pompous hot air about methodology.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-12-22 03:44:34+00:00
There are several problems with this. First, a lot of people including myself don’t enjoy writing. Then there is the problem that these days people will give you a hard time for something you wrote 10 years ago. I don’t really feel I did anything wrong but I don’t want to have to spend time and energy on explaining myself.

So if people enjoy writing , they should do it. But also be less judgmental about other people.
by Nevermark | 2025-12-22 03:45:11+00:00
> I love the idea that we believe…

Strong reaction? I don’t know anyone who would believe that.

I don’t think we need to replicate everything about nature to incorporate what we know about nature, ourselves, and the practical details of our lives.

I have bright LEDs around my ceilings, hidden by cove molding, turning the whole ceiling into soft but bright reflected daylight.

It doesn’t need to replicate a real summer day outside to improve my mood and avoid depression in winter. Much better than ordinary indoor lighting.

Most people take some kind of supplement or medication that doesn’t replicate pre-technological natural conditions but provide benefits.

Improving our respective conditions, in the artificial world we live in, can involve quirky adaptations for each of us.
by phire | 2025-12-22 03:45:48+00:00
Problem is that I don't think LPDDR5 comes in any sizes smaller than 1GB, so if they want to stick to the current 512MB spec (and price point), LPDDR4 might be the way to go.

It might be nearer to EOL, but it's not actually EOL and should be fine for 5+ years after any EOL is announced.
by gpm | 2025-12-22 03:46:10+00:00
> provide only about 4 to 8 hours of storage" (huh, what, why?)

Because the most efficient way to make money with a lithium ion battery (or rather the marginal opportunity after the higher return ones like putting it in a car are taken) is to charge it in the few hours of when electricity is cheapest and discharge it when it is most expensive, every single day, and those windows generally aren't more than 8 hours long...

Once the early opportunities are taken lower value ones will be where you store more energy and charge and discharge at a lower margin or less frequently will be, but we aren't there yet.

Advertising that your new technology doesn't do this is taking a drawback (it requires a huge amount of scale in one place to be cost competitive) and pretending it's an advantage. The actual advantage, if there is one, is just that at sufficient scale it's cheaper (a claim I'm not willing to argue either way).
by cevn | 2025-12-22 03:47:40+00:00
Ha, well I figured if I was going to die a lot, may as well be having a fresh experience. I play primarily Wizard and my favorite part is, I don't have to carry 100 daggers, and quarterstaff seems actually useful.

Like you said, that feeling of seeing a totally unknown level is a real rush. Now I am downloading and trying UnNethack :)
by threethirtytwo | 2025-12-22 03:48:42+00:00
That quote is a category error. It’s about moral judgment of people, not epistemic evaluation of claims. I’m not condemning Le Guin, her character, or anyone who enjoys fiction. I’m saying a specific explanatory claim about how stories relate to truth and human cognition is false.

If “judge not” applied here, then no scientific criticism is permissible at all. You couldn’t say a theory is wrong, a model is flawed, or a claim is unsupported, because the critic is also imperfect. That standard would immediately end every serious discussion on HN.

Quoting scripture in response to an evolutionary and cognitive argument isn’t a rebuttal. It’s a frame shift from “is this claim true” to “are you allowed to say it.” That avoids engaging the substance entirely.

If you think the argument is wrong, point to the error. If not, appealing to moral humility doesn’t rescue a claim from being false.
by hu3 | 2025-12-22 03:49:27+00:00
Open weight models are neat.

But for SOTA performance you need specialized hardware. Even for Open Weight models.

40k in consumer hardware is never going to compete with 40k of AI specialized GPUs/servers.

Your link starts with:

> "Using a single top-of-the-line gaming GPU like NVIDIA’s RTX 5090 (under $2500), anyone can locally run models matching the absolute frontier of LLM performance from just 6 to 12 months ago."

I highly doubt a RTX 5090 can run anything that competes with Sonnet 3.5 which was released June, 2024.
by cjsplat | 2025-12-22 03:49:41+00:00
The Tesla example is a single oncoming car, clear right of way, and ample time in a simple 4-way intersection.

The Waymo video has over a dozen cars, at least 6 pedestrians crossing streets (many more on the sidewalks), and is a 5-way intersection.

These are cherry picked examples. Either advertising or propaganda.
by wahern | 2025-12-22 03:49:56+00:00
> Beyond being self-contradictory (CIA is passive but also they interfere on key issues) this is just false

I said the CIA's intelligence network in China which was dismembered was passive, the same way China's network in the US is passive, not that the CIA is passive everywhere else. But maybe you wouldn't describe either as passive, which is fair, but I don't think that definition fits with how most people conceive of what active political manipulation looks like. Note also I didn't mean to imply that promoting a coup by offering safe harbor is passive in the same sense; I would definitely categorize that as direct domestic political disruption, just not of the kind Hollywood or conspiracy theories depict, which is what people assume when CIA involvement is implicated.

And I'm not sure what you're talking about regarding Hong Kong, Xinjiang, or Taiwan. Is public criticism interfering in domestic politics? Sanctions arguably are, which the US uses regularly around the world, but in the context of China, it's always about money and trade wars and international disputes. The US is active militarily in Taiwan in terms of training and arms supplies, but this is largely at Taiwan's insistence, and the US does much less than Taiwan wants. And none of this involves direct CIA involvement beyond the intelligence collection and sharing networks, both with and without the local government's approval.

I'm curious if you have specific examples. I know the US has proposed sanctions for China's policies in Xinjiang, but I don't remember anything actually coming of it. If I'm misremembering, that's fair, and I understand why China would consider actual sanctions domestic political interference, but note that this is also a cultural divide between Chinese and Western political philosophies--the latter is much more moralistic, and interventions against perceived human rights abuses aren't necessarily considered to violate the principle of state sovereignty.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-12-22 03:50:37+00:00
> C was designed as a high level language and stayed so for decades

C was designed as a "high level language" relative to the assembly languages available at the time and effectively became a portable version of same in short order. This is quite different to other "high level languages" at the time, such as FORTRAN, COBOL, LISP, etc.
by iamnothere | 2025-12-22 03:50:52+00:00
No thanks.

I once was interested in things like lifelogging, radical sharing, etc. Then the internet became super toxic, and it was clear that humans who don’t like you will use any information they can find as a weapon against you. I found through real life experience that the marginal benefits I gained from sharing were outweighed by the downsides. So I no longer share.

Normalize privacy. You can engage in radical sharing if you want to take the risk, but the average person probably won’t see a net benefit from it. Don’t push people into it if they don’t want to, and respect people who prefer to stay out of the spotlight.
by tripletao | 2025-12-22 03:50:56+00:00
The generation of natural language is an aspect of human cognition, and I'm not aware of any better model for that than current statistical LLMs. The papers mapping between EEG/fMRI/etc. and LLM activations have been generally oversold so far, but it's active area of research for good reason.

I'm not saying LLMs are a particularly good model, just that everything else is currently worse. This includes Chomsky's formal grammars, which fail to capture the ways humans actually use language per Norvig's many examples. Do you disagree? If so, what model is better and why?
by komali2 | 2025-12-22 03:51:10+00:00
This doesn't do much for the argument that artists only do art for money. Everyone knows what happens to free use art, same as what happens to FOSS: corpos bundle it up and sell it back to people.

By the way, I do know a lot of artists that just give their work away for free. Hell, any Burn is just a bunch of free art that usually gets lit on fire or destroyed after a week. There's also graffiti art which is uncompensated and usually painted over within a month.
by spaqin | 2025-12-22 03:51:48+00:00
Two choices - one of prompt, one of the result, versus hundreds or thousands from the subject and composition, through the medium, to every single brushstroke, where one may have a significant meaning. To be improved upon when your skill improves as well.

This is more akin to going to a supermarket and buying peanut butter (prompt: peanut butter, filter by brand/price/taste). The product may be tasty and enjoyable but I am not impressed by that.
by rerdavies | 2025-12-22 03:52:00+00:00
> It's up to the Indie Game Awards to decide the criteria

And up to us to decide whether The Indie Game Awards has impaired their credibility by choosing such a ridiculous criterion.

Do you think AAA game development teams pass on AI despite the fact that it produces better results at a fraction of the cost. I think not. Why would you cripple Indie developers by imposing such a standard on indie developers?

It seems completely out of touch with what's going on in the world of software development.
by jackvalentine | 2025-12-22 03:52:03+00:00
> The BBC is British - what about the UK? The rest of Europe? China? Japan? Russia? Australia? Did the entire rest of the world also use leaded petrol? And stopped using it at the same time as the US?

More or less.

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/every-country-has-n...
by petterroea | 2025-12-22 03:52:20+00:00
Questions surrounding this has plagued me for the last years, and this is basically where I'm at right now:

* I am trying to write more because writing is a good skill to practice, and it's fun to discuss with colleagues and have meanings that resonate with people. Or not. I still think most use of Cloudflare is naive and unnecessary cargo culting that just adds infrastructure complexity, but last time I complained it got a reasonable amount of pushback :D

* But being a public person has downsides. The more public you are, the less of an expectation of privacy you have, and the less you are allowed to make mistakes.

I grew up as a somewhat infamous person in my local community due to sticking out, it wasn't unusual that people already knew of me when I met them for the first time. As a result I had to accept that there was no such thing for me as simply going somewhere, the chance was high that someone who knew who I was (even if I didn't know them!) spotted me.

I have lived long enough to see many people mess up being a famous public person on the internet. Often they never even wanted to be famous, it just happened and then they had to deal with the consequences. It could happen to anyone who happens to be at the right place at the right time. For hackers and similar people, it seems some just find a calling and that calling makes them well known as a side-effect.

If you do anything that could be considered novel, you risk becoming well known. If you have a public persona and people like it, you will get followers. And if that happens, your public activity becomes the bane of your existence. You will be picked apart, analyzed, and possibly targeted by people who disagree with you. People will expect you to have opinions on things and drag you into conflicts. And what you say _matters_ - you have to think about everything you say because one misstep and entire communities will mobilize against you. Many people have gotten hate for saying something controversial on a topic they had little knowledge about. This is normal in a private setting, we discuss politics we aren't experts on with friends all the time. But if you are a public person, you lose many avenues to do this.

I am Norwegian, and the lack of tech literacy in government and the general public is frankly depressing. This isn't necessarily because the general public is stupid. Bob Kåre (49) has better things to do with his life than learn about tech-politics. Norway needs more technical people to be politically active. But doing so seems downright stupid, considering the reflections above. It is practically a sacrifice.

I think the reward has to be pretty large for this to be worth considering. It is a lot better, and easier, to just stick to yourself and your circle.
by Bayram | 2025-12-22 03:52:44+00:00
This skill guides AI agents through the complete lifecycle of building ChatGPT Apps: 1) Fit Evaluation - Determine if a ChatGPT App is right for your product 2) Architecture Design - Plan MCP servers, tools, and widgets 3) Implementation - Build with Node.js, TypeScript, and React 4) Testing - Local development with ngrok, ChatGPT integration testing 5) Deployment - Production hosting and App Store submission
by clickety_clack | 2025-12-22 03:53:22+00:00
I think the question is whether a competitor can become established. Can you run a mail delivery service if you only have local coverage? I don’t know. In the past, maybe you could use the national postal service to fill in the gaps as you scale up a delivery network, but I can’t see the established monopoly giving bulk discounts to a potential competitor. Trucks, vans, sorting facilities and workforces are very expensive to set up, and once they’re set up you can basically optimize them month by month etc. A new competitor has to speculatively spend an awful lot of money before they can deploy anything in any optimal way.