MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by swalsh | 2025-12-10 18:37:03+00:00
I have never felt less confident in the future than I do in 2025... and it's such a stark contrast. I guess if you split things down the middle, AI probably continues to change the world in dramatic ways but not in the all or nothing way people expect.

A non trivial amount of people get laid off, likely due to a finanical crisis which is used as an excuse for companies scale up use of AI. Good chance the financial crisis was partly caused by AI companies, which ironically makes AI cheaper as infra is bought up on the cheap (so there is a consolidation, but the bountiful infra keeps things cheap). That results in increased usage (over a longer period of time). and even when the economy starts coming back the jobs numbers stay abismal.

Politics are divided into 2 main groups, those who are employed, and those who are retired. The retired group is VERY large, and has alot of power. They mostly care about entitlements. The employed age people focus on AI which is making the job market quite tough. There are 3 large political forces (but 2 parties). The Left, the Right, and the Tech Elite. The left and the right both hate AI, but the tech elite though a minority has outsized power in their tie breaker role. The age distributions would surprise most. Most older people are now on the left, and most younger people are split by gender. The right focuses on limiting entitlements, and the left focuses on growing them by taxing the tech elite. The right maintains power by not threatening the tech elite.

Unlike the 20th century America is a more focused global agenda. We're not policing everyone, just those core trading powers. We have not gone to war with China, China has not taken over Taiwan.

Physical robotics is becoming a pretty big thing, space travel is becoming cheaper. We have at least one robot on an astroid mining it. The yield is trivial, but we all thought it was neat.

Energy is much much greener, and you wouln't have guessed it... but it was the data centers that got us there. The Tech elite needed it quickly, and used the political connections to cut red tape and build really quickly.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-12-10 18:37:06+00:00
Is the assumption that non "tech industry" communities (e.g: voat, parler, ovaries, gab, truth, lemmy, mastodon, 4chan, 8chan, etc) are less likely to be a problem or to negatively impact teens than the mainstream "big tech" ones (e.g: facebook, twitter, youtube, tiktok, reddit, etc)?
by mendexio | 2025-12-10 18:37:09+00:00
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by delfinom | 2025-12-10 18:37:28+00:00
>My other stance, which I suspect is probably more controversial, is that I'm not convinced that mental health care is nearly as effective as people think. In general, mental health outcomes for teens are getting markedly worse, and it's not for lack of access. We have more mental health access than we've had previously -- it just doesn't feel like it because the demand has risen even more sharply.

There's also the elephant in the room that mental healthcare, in particular for teens will probably just be compensating for the disease that is social media addiction. Australia has the right idea, banning social media for all goods.
by crote | 2025-12-10 18:37:47+00:00
CT logs do allow enumeration, but avoiding that is just security through obscurity. WebPKI is intended for publicly-accessible hosts, so hopefully you already have some kind of firewall in place to protect them! If you want to avoid enumeration of internal-only hosts: just use your own self-signed root cert. CT logs are a crucial part of protecting against rogue CAs, so don't expect that to go away any time soon.

With ACME most of the delegation issues have pretty much been solved. Publicly-accessible hosts can easily get a cert - if and only if the domain resolves to that host. Want even stricter enforcement? Nobody's stopping you from writing an ACME proxy which only forwards requests from known-good hosts to LE & friends.
by throw4847285 | 2025-12-10 18:37:53+00:00
Here's what's funny. You know what they used to call a book that foregrounded the soap opera elements you're talking about? A novel. That's why Tolstoy called Anna Karenina his first novel. Now, if you go to Wikipedia, War and Peace is also categorized as a novel. What else could you call it? But it's funny to imagine a time when novel was a genre.
by 1121redblackgo | 2025-12-10 18:38:02+00:00
I actually do think people directly see the negative public health impact, its so visceral in so many parents lives, and that that is the driving force behind all of this.

I love being cynical, but I actually do buy these efforts as being purely "for the kids", kind of thing. Sure, there are knock-on effects, but I do buy the good faith-ness of phone bans in school and of these social media bans for kids.
by pete5x5 | 2025-12-10 18:38:12+00:00
I have been doing A/V systems professionally for many years and the best system I have found recently is a Sony TV with an Apple TV. No sign-in needed for the TV for basic setup, can be easily set to come on to a particular input, works well with the Apple remote, and functions well with no internet with just a little corner pop-up saying "no internet" when you first turn it on.

You should update the TV when you first unbox it (ideally via ethernet) and then disconnect it. If you don't like Apple TV then your streaming box of choice.
by tw04 | 2025-12-10 18:38:27+00:00
> Very few actual civilians ended up hurt by the detonations, much fewer than attacks by conventional weapons.

The reports are 4,000 wounded and 12 killed unintended targets in order to kill 42 targets.

On what planet is that “very few actual civilians”? I think you knew full well before posting that’s a ridiculous claim which is why you did it anonymously.
by jolan | 2025-12-10 18:39:06+00:00
FYI, it's been almost two years since us-east-1-chi-2 launched and it's still missing on the site. Any reason for this? Kind of feels like local zones are a 2nd class citizen even at AWS itself.

Thank you for maintaining this, I do use it every few months at $DAYJOB and it's quite useful for my capacity/deployment planning.
by eproxus | 2025-12-10 18:39:35+00:00
This is incredibly funny, I’m impressed. The FAQ of the No-AI Editor is hilarious:

Q: I typed "make website" and nothing happened? A: That is correct. You have to write the HTML tags. <div> by <div>.

Q: How do I center a div without the Agent? A: Nobody knows. This knowledge was lost during the Great Training Data Purge of 2029.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-12-10 18:39:36+00:00
Profit/non-profit isn't a big difference. Many non-profits are essentially businesses in practice (money spent/managed, the non-profit just a conduit to the for-profit companies that defacto own it), but just don't issue stock. A non-profit can act like this, and DOES. Non-profits exist in a capitalist context and inherit those norms. Again, this is why we aim for open standards.

Also a non-profit is just that, its not a charity. A charity is an entirely other classification and even those are regularly used and abused like this.
by bossyTeacher | 2025-12-10 18:40:06+00:00
The problem is that people conflate the current wave of transformer based ANNs with AI (as a whole). AI certainly has the potential to disrupt employment of humans. Transformers as they exist today not so much.

AI's potential isn't defined by the potential of the current crop of transformers. However, many people seem to think otherwise and this will be incredibly damaging for AI as a whole once transformer tech investment all but dries out.
by mindslight | 2025-12-10 18:41:04+00:00
I'm looking forward to seeing some comedy skits about border crossings.

Visitor interrogation room, locked steel door with wire mesh safety glass, multiple large-format pictures of Dear Leader hung up around the room and sitting on desk. Agent inquisitor, grumpy stern face, all decked out in a serious business uniform covered in Partisan trinkets. Candidate tourists, vanilla family with two young boys, still thinking of the border crossing as a quick formality, tired and just looking to get to their hotel at Disneyworld. The kids are already wearing mouse ears.

The inquisitor demands to know if the family has in any anti-American speech or activities. The family goes into detail about their enthusiasm for natural rights and individual liberty as described by the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. As the "woke" foreigners effectively insult Dear Leader's totalitarian regime, the inquisitor gets increasingly angry. But the inquisitor keeps doubling down on the questions trying to find a justification to let the family in in since he and his bosses get large bonuses from Disney for every customer they approve. The clueless family keeps right on describing their love for American Liberty and generally condemning oppressive countries with low freedom, widespread corruption and bribery, corrupt courts that destroy the rule of law, high import taxes that kill industry, strong fickle control over businesses, high import taxes that kill industry, high monetary inflation guts the economy, backwards-thinking educational institutions, etc. The inquisitor continues to get angrier and angrier.

Eventually the inquisitor gets so upset that he breaks down sobbing, explaining that he only joined the Party because his parents kept picking on him for being gay and he had hoped the Party could fix him. He laments that his parents are now in the concentration camp, as he himself turned them in for spreading unrest by complaining about rising prices. The inquisitor asks the family to say hello to his parents passing through on their way to Disney World, as the camp now occupies the entire state of Florida apart from Disney and the occasional retirement resort for Party members. The inquisitor then asks if he can please have a pair of mouse ears, so he can at least feel that innocent joy he used to know for the two minutes before he's dragged away. The father nods to the older boy. The inquisitor dons the mouse ears and a calm resigned expression on his face.

The door bursts open and the supervisor charges in followed by a black bag team. The supervisor hands the older boy a new pair of mouse ears, and exclaims "Enjoy your stay at Disneyworld!". The screen floods to black, starting from the top of the bag.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-12-10 18:41:13+00:00
I appreciate the tip, but I'm afraid my situation is more dire than I had let on.

First, I'm already completely locked-in to the Amazon Kindle ecosystem. (Kindle jail.) I've literally purchased >1200 books via Amazon, and it would be serious labor (the work of months) to get them off the platform or, where possible, to download pirate copies. Amazon makes it extremely difficult.

Second, books tend to be generally more expensive on Kobo/Rakuten. A few bucks here, a few bucks there... Over those ~1200 books, even if the average price difference was $3 (and I think that it was historically larger than that,) I'm down $3600. This is what made it hard to make the switch earlier.

Lastly, there are quite a lot of books that are only available on Amazon. A lot of good old-time science fiction writers are now self-publishers. David Gerrold, for instance:

> https://www.amazon.com/Praxis-II-Makes-Permanent-ebook/dp/B0...

These books are available on Amazon, but not on Kobo/Rakuten's platform.

So I'm pretty much stuck. I'd be happy to give Amazon more money if they made a reader similar to the 2019 Oasis. As things stand, I regret not pirating from day one.
by Anamon | 2025-12-10 18:41:19+00:00
The post is basing this on the assumption that having children is some positive thing for society at large. I'd argue the viewpoint that having children is putting a burden on the rest of society, and therefore doesn't necessarily need to be encouraged or subsidised, is just as valid.

I don't think benefitting society is a common reason for people to want to have kids. I don't know if there is any data on this, but certainly doubt that any of my friends with children would give a reason to that effect.

Bluntly put, each child is an additional strain on the depleting resources of an already grotesquely overpopulated planet. Ever since it no longer is an economic necessity, having children is a vanity project. I don't see why society should financially incentivise that, especially as we're trying to encourage more environmentally conscious lifestyle.
by edlong90 | 2025-12-10 18:41:19+00:00
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by MBCook | 2025-12-10 18:41:23+00:00
It wouldn’t be HDMI 2.1 because it couldn’t be certified. And if you claimed it was 2.1 I imagine they would sue you.

Could it actually be made? I kind of wonder that. Like if one of the things you have to do is claim to the other device that you’re 2.1 would that get you in trouble? Or if you just advertise all the features and they each work is that good enough?
by IshKebab | 2025-12-10 18:41:27+00:00
Because a) we know human-level intelligence is possible because we can directly observe it, b) GPU development has clearly slowed a lot but it hasn't stopped, c) even if it had stopped that doesn't mean they can never improve ever again, d) GPUs probably aren't the most efficient architecture for AI anyway so there are more opportunities for development even without process improvements, e) we're clearly not that far off AGI.

This is the sort of thing that might have made sense in 2005, not 2025.
by modeless | 2025-12-10 18:41:31+00:00
This is the perfect device for me. What I do now is I have an Android quick settings button that opens an email to myself. I jot down a few notes per day and they end up in my inbox. I triage them later whenever I process my inbox. My ideal way for this ring to work is that it would do exactly the same, but without typing. I agree that if the notes are siloed in a separate app then I might ignore them, so I hope that I can get them as emails in my inbox by default.

I also want it to have the additional capability of setting time-based or geofence reminders, timers, alarms, and calendar events. It will be incredibly useful for me to be able to, while I'm driving to work, say "remind me to take out the garbage when I get home" or whatever. You'd expect Siri or Google Assistant to be able to do this and in theory they can but in practice they suck for this use case.
by microtherion | 2025-12-10 18:41:34+00:00
Wirth also wrote an extremely accessible book on Compiler Construction, using exactly the hand written recursive descent parsing approach discussed by OP.

The initial edition was published in 1976, in German, but the latest version is available online:

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/CompilerConstruction/Compil...

There are also parser generators like ANTLR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANTLR) which take an input not unlike yacc, but generate a LL parser using explicit code, rather than the table driven LALR parsing of yacc.
by mrweasel | 2025-12-10 18:41:34+00:00
There was this one library we depended on, it was sort of in limbo during the Python 2 -> 3 migration. During that period is was maintained by this one person who'd just delete older versions when never ones became available. In one year I think we had three or four instances where our CI and unit tests just broke randomly one day, because the APIs had changed and the old version of the library had been yanked.

In hindsight it actually helped us, because in frustrations we ended up setting up our own Python package repo and started to pay more attention to our dependencies.
by ethin | 2025-12-10 18:41:43+00:00
This is a nonsense take that gets perpetuated over and over. For some reason.

Purchasing alcohol or buying a car is not the same as verifying your age on an internet property. They aren't even comparable. This is just as dumb as saying "well you have to verify your age to go into a bar". Sure, but does the bartender or salesman who sells you the alcohol completely remember every pixel of your photo or video selfy, permanently? Or do they just remember your face more generally?

The problem with these age verification laws is that they harm everybody, adults and kids. They don't do anything to protect kids and their sole purpose is a way for governments to suppress things they don't like. Any age verification technology (be it age estimation or similar) has a permanent record of the photo ID or video selfies (or whatever you use to prove your age) that you give it. Forever. If these systems didn't have those records, the result would be you having to verify your age every time you visit the website. There is a massive, massive difference between getting alcohol at a bar, or going to a strip club or similar, and providing your photo ID to a bouncer or bartender, who probably won't remember your ID after 5 minutes, versus a computer which permanently remembers it. That is the differentiator.
by 9rx | 2025-12-10 18:41:51+00:00
> How many things would you have to "just" rewrite?

The same ones you'd have to rewrite using the (experimental) arenas implementation found in the standard library. While not the only reason, this is the primary reason for why it was abandoned; it didn't really fit into the ecosystem the way users would expect — you included, apparently.

"Memory regions" is the successor, which is trying to tackle the concerns you have. Work on it is ongoing.
by brihati | 2025-12-10 18:41:52+00:00
First of all, thanks for the contributing to the community. This is a good observability tool to reproduce reasoning paths using structured trace of prompts. During this process, I sometimes do replay the prompts also, especially for some of the use cases where we have observed near deterministic behaviour for some standard prompts. Do you have any plans for adding this feature?

Another question: can your architecture scale to thousands of developers & millions of traces?
by philip1209 | 2025-12-10 18:42:25+00:00
What's old is new again. I wanted to share an experiment I built for my blog: a print edition, delivered to physical mailboxes.

This idea was inspired by Craig's "Between Two Mountains" pop-up. As those emails accumulated in my inbox, I wanted to print them out so I could carry them to a coffee shop. That sent me down a rabbit hole, and I ended up building a printing system for my own site.

Sharing because I think it's a fun idea that I hope more blogs embrace. And, it's built on the YC company Lob.
by llm_nerd | 2025-12-10 18:42:38+00:00
So confident. And exactly the whack-a-mole nonsense I predicted.

See the comment by electroly. They actually know what they're talking about.

See, the FPS score is for the whole machine. The c8g gives you 8 real cores. The C8i gives you 4 real cores, 4 hyperthreading pseudo-cores. So for those two machines the c8g unequivocally gives you more absolute computing performance, regardless of the passmark single thread (on a single core) on the c8i being better than a single core on the c8g. And the c8g comes at a big discount as well.

That's...the point. The Graviton processors are cheaper per core, and lower performance per core, and you make it up in bulk. You get more performance per $ if you're okay with the ARM stack and your software is good with it, and this is basically universally true comparing Graviton instances versus Intel/AMD alternatives.

You're wrong. Maybe cite some other random nonsense now?
by cyberax | 2025-12-10 18:43:03+00:00
Go now has memory regions, an automatic form of arenas: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des...

I think the deeper issue is that Go's garbage collector is just not performant enough. And at the same time, Go is massively parallel with a shared-everything memory model, so as heaps get bigger, the impact of the imperfect GC becomes more and more noticeable.

Java also had this issue, and they spent decades on tuning collectors. Azul even produced custom hardware for it, at one point in time. I don't think Go needs to go in that direction.
by DaveZale | 2025-12-10 18:43:18+00:00
thanks! Mine normally uses its connection from one day to the next. Okay then, I'll just leave it be.

Antenna works good enough for the 3 PBS channels I like, even though their antenna is 50 miles away. Just one of those cheap $30 rabbit ears. What's interesting is that the signal bounces off a south wall,through the N patio door, so when anyone moves in the path, the signal is garbled. Also, depending on the station, it must sometimes be repositioned. I enjoy the retro feel of that.
by oersted | 2025-12-10 18:44:01+00:00
You are right that most are not very good, but it's more because of business reasons than technical ones. It's more costly and bulky to keep remote coffee machines supplied with fresh milk or cream, as well as other extras, and keep it all well refrigerated. Most people do not seem to be ready to pay extra for it.

But a robot barista in a coffee shop would end up being exactly like normal coffee machines that have been around forever, perhaps just a bit higher-end than an office one. It's not really an idea like OP was implying.
by artur44 | 2025-12-10 18:44:01+00:00
Honestly, this feels like another case where the headline sounds bold, but the real impact will be minimal. Any age-based restriction ends up in the same place: platforms are forced to collect more data just to “prove” someone’s age. When the target group is teenagers, that’s basically a privacy disaster waiting to happen.

From a technical perspective, this is impossible to enforce cleanly. Anyone with even basic internet literacy can bypass it with a VPN + fresh account + throwaway email. And of course, the teens most determined to get around it will be the ones the policy is supposedly protecting. The bigger issue is the false sense of security. Parents and politicians get to feel like something has been “done,” while the actual online risks don’t disappear — they just move somewhere less visible. If the goal is genuinely improving teen mental health, digital literacy and real support systems work far better than regulations that will inevitably leak.
by neilv | 2025-12-10 18:44:09+00:00
(don't know why you were downvoted for an honest-sounding response)

If I understand correctly, the reasoning is a kind of long-term best-practice thinking?

And that best-practice is a high enough priority that it would prevent you from moving someplace that was otherwise better than a place that would let you have guns?

Is it only reasoning, or it there also a psychological component, like you'd also feel unsafe without guns, maybe due to past or current threatening situation (e.g., physical danger, or economic)?