MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AlotOfReading | 2026-03-05 02:38:20+00:00
Some of the marks on it, particularly the head marks, are right over areas of the thickest bones. It's not impossible, but always worth being self-critical of "obvious" meanings with things like this.

Things that are straightforward even to us as non-expert megafaunal hunters would probably be completely obvious to actual experts (if it's not wrong), and people usually don't want to record the obvious stuff.
by stego-tech | 2026-03-05 02:40:15+00:00
It’s a vicious cycle, but something needs to pump the brakes before the metaphorical engine explodes.

* Stop tying healthcare to private insurers and employers. State-level single-payer models by default via fixed payroll deductions per employee, and let the government dictate or negotiate costs.

* Re-work incentives for efficient utility usage. Incentivize self-generation for power through lower electric rates if a certain percentage of your consumption is generated on-site, for instance. Also, stop subsidizing huge consumers (like data centers) by raising customer rates, and keep expanding renewables and battery storage to depress costs in the long haul

* Those insurance rates keep going up because healthcare continues rising and repair costs are increasingly more expensive or on par with replacement costs. Right to repair can lower auto/property insurance rates over time by making shit repairable, and liability/workers comp can begin coming down once healthcare is meaningfully addressed

* Not being mentioned in the report (but raised by other commenters) is the general cost of living will continue driving wages higher (along with costs to replace those wages from injury or loss via insurance schemes) until and unless we actually address the underlying crises. This means lowering housing costs, lowering rent, lowering transit costs (either through cheaper cars or expanded public transport, ideally both), lowering food costs, lowering utility costs, lowering healthcare costs, lowering childcare costs (universal childcare or incentives for more single-earner/single-income households), etc.

This report hits the highlights, but this is a huge issue that’s only going to get worse if we don’t start seriously addressing the myriad of root causes.
by rerdavies | 2026-03-05 02:40:29+00:00
Convolution reverbs use convolution, and can do so because reverb effects are (to a reasonable approximation) linear.

To model amplifiers and effects, you would have to do non-linear deconvolution and re-convolution, which is pretty compute intensive, and pretty challenging to do in realtime. There are a couple of well-known algorithms for doing this; but I'm not aware of anyone that can do it in realtime.
by epistasis | 2026-03-05 02:40:48+00:00
That makes sense for the "utilities" bucket, and to a small degree for the health insurance bucket, which are the biggest buckets linked.

Utilities have had complete regulatory capture of most states' Public Utilities Commissions. It's blatant and obvious in places like Arizona that have open corruption in their elections and commission decisions. But in places like California it's far more hidden: the massive increase in cost of utilities is mostly from increased costs for the transmission and distribution grid, but CPUC has basically zero information for the public to understand why they keep on handing over more money to the big utilities. There definitely seems to be massive corruption but where is it and what is the actual mechanism? It's so well hidden and sophisticated that if there is corruption nobody understands what the F is going on.

How do you replace a state-sponsored monopoly like a utility into something competitive? I don't know, when I learned econ 101 utilities were given as the example of a "natural" monopoly. But clearly that's not working out... maybe it just needs to be "state" rather than "state sponsored monopoly." The only other state sponsored monopoly we really have is the state itself. What does the public gain by allowing monopoly utilities that giving away the public's money to investors? The incentives are all off.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-05 02:41:06+00:00
Potentially. The issue is how do you manage solvency.

State Medicaid and Workers Compensation funds were already insolvent before the 2024 election, and as such most states lack the fiscal overhead needed to fully support a fully funded single payer program today.

It would end up the same way the NHS has in the UK.

Vast swathes of the US are deeply fiscally troubled due to the impact of the COVID pandemic, and if that is not solved then we cannot even start to contemplate single payer.

This should not be used to justify austerity which is not the answer and does more harm than good, but points out that a reckoning is needed. From my personal experience dealing with the current crop of state and local politicos, it's looking dicey in portions of the US.
by WalterBright | 2026-03-05 02:42:40+00:00
Take a look at Fig 1. A grid of dots. A sequence of X's. Does it mean "Property of Thag?" "Happy Birthday, Mom"? Are the X's there to improve one's grip on the object? Are they just idle doodling around the campfire? Hunter-gatherers have little use for writing.

We'll never know.

When I was young I was fascinated by drawing 5 pointed stars. It meant nothing.
by xucian | 2026-03-05 02:42:43+00:00
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by john_strinlai | 2026-03-05 02:42:51+00:00
>Distinction made by who, though?

you need someone to specifically tell you that role playing, such as playing D&D or whatever tabletop RPG, and suffering from psychosis are different things?

>the rest of us are trying to claw you back to "dude this is spun nonsense and of course AI's will roleplay with you if you ask them to".

you are trying to convince me that someone being encouraged to kill themselves, then killing themselves, is basically the same as some D&D role playing. i dont need you to "claw me back" to that position. thanks for trying.
by phendrenad2 | 2026-03-05 02:43:13+00:00
pg's sama praise bewilders me. Is there some other Sam Altman he's talking about?

> Graham was immediately impressed by Altman, later recalling that meeting the 19-year-old felt like what it must have been like to talk to Bill Gates at the same age. He noted Altman's intense "force of will" from their early interactions.

Is there a Gates-like "presence" or a "force of will" displayed in his public interviews?
by stego-tech | 2026-03-05 02:43:50+00:00
This started decades before COVID, and has been summarily ignored for the entire time. We’re still insuring properties in areas we known sea level rise and climate change make uninsurable, we still refuse to let the government negotiate with or dictate rates, we still tie healthcare to employment, and we still let manufacturers sell top-tier/unrepairable vehicles while constantly discontinuing anything remotely affordable or repairable.

The market isn’t going to correct itself now that we have enough data to know where to squeeze next, and how hard it can go. The only way to unwind this disaster is meaningful regulations and wholesale reforms.
by adamtaylor_13 | 2026-03-05 02:44:28+00:00
Hooooo, boy, if you haven't used Opus 4.5/4.6, do yourself a favor and check it out. It's pretty good.

My experience has been that Opus consistently generates UIs that are genuinely good. As always with anecdata, YMMV.

There's a reason Tailwind Plus has revenue problems right now.
by uncSoft | 2026-03-05 02:45:32+00:00
Addendum-
Anubis OSS is GPL-3.0 licensed. Built fully in Swift and dev cert signed for safety (if you don't want to clone the source and compile yourself), no external dependencies except Sparkle for autoupdates if you want them, privacy-first - benchmark data is submitted voluntarily and never includes anything beyond hardware specs and model performance metrics.
by b112 | 2026-03-05 02:45:38+00:00
Well it depends when it was claimed.

I imagine MFM drives from 1985 might be a bit different from drives that are billions of times more data dense today. Back then, the drive didn't even control track width, the controller card did. And it was exposed to the OS.

I remember turning my "20MB", yes MB drive into a 30MB drive by messing with the track width. Of course, this was the time when people had Commodore 64 300baud modems, and would overclock them and get 450baud out of them.

In my computer club, we wrote a little piece of software to see which of us could get the highest bandwidth on a modem, one was even capable of just over 500baud!

After ranking, we all agreed to "trade down", so the guy with the fastest modem swapped his with the owner of the local Punter BBS. Everyone else traded so we still had the same ranking. That way, the BBS would always be able to support everyone at max speed, and everyone would still be "lucky" in terms of "next fastest modem".

I can't imagine that happening today.
by b1temy | 2026-03-05 02:46:28+00:00
Very cool!

I wonder if someone more creative than me would be able to push this to do things it was not designed to do. I recently found a video where someone exploited some properties of certain transcript file formats to be able to make a primitive simple drawing app with Youtube's video player's closed captions.[0]

Since a brush's code can see the state of the canvas and draw on it, perhaps there can be a brush that does the opposite here, and instead renders a simple "video" when you hold down the mouse? Or even a simple game, like Tic-Tac-Toe.

I understand that obviously isn't the purpose of the brush programs, but I think it is an interesting challenge, just for fun.

[0] The video I am thinking of is by a channel named Firama, but they did not explain how they accomplished it. Another channel, SWEet, made their own attempt, which wasn't as full-featured as the original, but they did document how they did it.
by asveikau | 2026-03-05 02:46:57+00:00
I think I'm a bit more of an iconoclast than the average HN reader, but when this community was fawning over him when he was head of YC, I always got the impression, without knowing the guy or much about him, that it was totally undeserved. Mainly because thoughtless fawning of any kind makes me immediately suspicious. Nobody deserves that kind of praise.

I read that quote and see no positive interpretation. It was always a negative description.

I think maybe this community could use a bit more natural skepticism of hierarchy.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-05 02:48:10+00:00
> Stop tying healthcare to private insurers and employers. State-level single-payer models by default via fixed payroll deductions per employee, and let the government dictate or negotiate costs.

Most state-run workers compensation and Medicaid funds are already insolvent. Until that gets resolved, no attempt at creating a single payer fund is possible.

> stop subsidizing huge consumers (like data centers) by raising customer rates, and keep expanding renewables and battery storage to depress costs in the long haul

Most DC projects in the US have already integrated renewable and battery storage systems thanks to Biden-era subsidizes and capacity building.

Utilities are using data centers as a scapegoat - the reality is most are stuck with fiscal liabilities due to COVID along with insurance and raising prices as a result.

> Right to repair can lower auto/property insurance rates over time by making shit repairable, and liability/workers comp can begin coming down once healthcare is meaningfully addressed

I support right-to-repair at a personal level as a tinkerer, but that wouldn't move the needle for the insurance problem.

The big issue is the COVID pandemic era liabilities that continue to require to be paid out to this day.

It's the same for workers comp as most workers comp funds are already insolvent.

> Not being mentioned in the report (but raised by other commenters) is the general cost of living will continue driving wages higher...

Becuase that's not something that dramatically impacts the bottom line in most industries - most businesses can afford increasing salaries a couple dollars an hour by reducing hours or moving employees to the salaried bucket.

But if my insurance premiums are constantly increase by 7-20% YoY it becomes difficult to manage.
by shiroiuma | 2026-03-05 02:50:32+00:00
I can't think of any time in the last 50 years when anyone outside of the US actually wanted a Chevy, aside from a rare person who wanted a Corvette maybe.

The car that's actually been super-popular outside its own national borders for a long time now is the Toyota, not anything from the US. BYD is indeed changing this.
by glouwbug | 2026-03-05 02:50:44+00:00
Gases work roughly the same way (until they break the ideal gas law and don't). The ratio of static and dynamic pressures between two chambers can drive nozzle flow [1]. Add in some compression and combustion and you can simulate anything from refrigerators to engines.

[1] https://github.com/glouw/ensim4/blob/master/src/chamber_s.h#...
by oefrha | 2026-03-05 02:50:55+00:00
> The install script checks the OS and Arch, and pulls the right Rust binary.

That's the arbitrary code execution at install time aspect of npm that developers should be extra wary of in this day and age. Saner node package managers like pnpm ignore the build script and you have to explicitly approve it on a case-by-case basis.

That said, you can execute code with build.rs with cargo too. Cargo is just not a build artifact distribution mechanism.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-03-05 02:51:10+00:00
Double edit: I was linked to the complaint https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026.03.04..., which does _not_ mention any divorce, so now I'm unsure about the veracity of that part. In principle it does not disprove the idea, it could have been something the family's lawyers said in a statement to the Guardian, but it could also not be.
by mbrumlow | 2026-03-05 02:51:16+00:00
Something about the wording seems dishonest though. Whoever sponsored the bill failed to get the senate to pass it.

The wording here makes it seem like the senate wanted this but failed to get it.

So again the senate failing to do something the senate said they did not want to do is weird.

It comes down to some people in the senate wanted this, but they are not the senate.

The senate decides against the

Politicians have been treating a minority position as the institution’s will for some time. It’s our job to look past that and not be fooled even if you share the same minority position.
by random3 | 2026-03-05 02:51:19+00:00
This was around when we were trying to get Flash to work on the first iPhone, so we had a hackathon for a week. Since I was a distributed systems "hacker", I ended up doing what was needed :) and there were lots of questions related to the sizing of flash on web pages and what not. That's what started it - I simple python script that I refined during the hackathon to get the embed parameters etc.

But once I started processing the data, it became a thing and we made a small cross-team team to get this going. We eventually expanded the effort in a few different directions and wanted to do a Flash analytics, but ended up with the internal tool only due to privacy concerns.
by jasomill | 2026-03-05 02:52:14+00:00
I normally use 1440p Retina mode on a 2160p display (internally rendered at 5120x2880, scaled to 3840x2160) on my 2013 Mac Pro running Sequoia, and almost everything looks great.

Caveats:

1. Non-Retina aware VM hosts, remote control clients, and emulators that try to render anywhere near the native resolution look bad, as there's no way to render individual pixels. Retina-aware remote control clients like Microsoft Remote Desktop look great, as do emulators running low resolutions like VGA.

2. Images can't be displayed pixel-perfectly, which is rarely a problem when viewing or editing photos, but can be an issue when viewing or editing native resolution screenshots (but see the first "nice benefit" below).

3. Video decoding and processing is considerably more resource intensive, as video, like everything else, is rendered at the full internal resolution. On my system (12-core 2013 Mac Pro with D300 GPUs), the only practical problem I've had, aside from relatively high CPU/GPU utilization, is frame drops when playing back 60 FPS video in MPV with some of the higher-quality GPU scaling and postprocessing algorithms enabled.

Nice benefits of the implementation:

1. Screenshots are saved at the full internal resolution, so they look accurate when opened in an image viewer, and even better when viewed on a display that supports the full internal resolution.

2. You can zoom in to see the full internal resolution in real time using the OS's Accessibility Zoom feature.

Final note: I've never had problems more serious than window rearrangement when switching between 2160p60 native, 1440p60 Retina, 1080p60 Retina, and 1080p120 native, so switching resolutions in the rare cases where I need a native or integer scaled resolution is only a minor inconvenience (e.g., I occasionally run Mac OS 9 under QEMU for fun or to copy data from an older Mac filesystem that current OS versions don't support).
by random3 | 2026-03-05 02:53:42+00:00
It looks like there's a a bit of reversal in some areas (e.g. ML) and it may make sense to have more geographically distributed (edge) compute so maybe we'll get more diversity in the currently cloud-dominated space.

This said, it was always cool when we could control the entire stack, but the reality was that once we scaled things up, we had to throw things over the fence to IT, DevOps, SRE and whatever name evolutions there were and the reality is AWS/GCE/Azure made things easier than dealing with these teams internally.
by josephg | 2026-03-05 02:54:04+00:00
My M1 macbook pro still handles everything I throw at it beautifully. I'd love an excuse to upgrade, but there's no reason to do yet. At least not for me.

I'm going to wait a few more years. The M1 is too good. So is my iphone 12. There's just nothing wrong with my phone other than the lightning port.
by toraway | 2026-03-05 02:54:14+00:00
I have no great love for Dario but his “talking shit” is literally making the point that what Altman is saying publicly is NOT actually in defense or praise of Anthropic and is a calculating, manipulative tactic.

Intended to muddy the waters about Anthropic’s actual position vs OpenAI’s, and portray himself as a conciliator (for the audience of DoD/Trump) who is still bound by equally strong ethics (as a fig leaf for OpenAI’s employees sympathetic to Anthropic). All to swoop in a land a big contract from the same people he is making a show of “supporting” in public.

I’d be pretty pissed too, tbh. Like, should he instead be thanking Sam effusively for being a manipulative slimeball?
by tkgally | 2026-03-05 02:54:30+00:00
Thanks for posting that link. Interesting reading, especially the closing:

“I think this attempted spin/gaslighting is not working very well on the general public or the media, where people mostly see OpenAI’s deal with DoW as sketchy or suspicious, and see us as the heroes.... It is working on some Twitter morons, which doesn’t matter, but my main worry is how to make sure it doesn’t work on OpenAI employees. Due to selection effects, they’re sort of a gullible bunch, but it seems important to push back on these narratives which Sam is peddling to his employees.”
by oxdgd38 | 2026-03-05 02:55:39+00:00
I got it from Tamar Gendlers philosophy and human nature course on open yale courses. She says it was a popular folk story passed down orally much before it was written in a book. Plato used it because people grew up hearing the story.

The story is asking whats the source of morality? Who decides where the lines are? And its not scientists. Science produces the Ring.
by stevenwoo | 2026-03-05 02:56:17+00:00
This is not the objective of this book, but The Language Puzzle discusses why primates have never exhibited any verbal language skill as we recognize it past the capability of a infant/toddler, even the best achieving examples we have of primates show they cannot manipulate language as well a child of four or five, and some of those studies with humans raising primates in their homes have some particularly unscientific bits, it also discusses why the vocal abilities of all other primates is lesser than humans and the language centers in brain that we think we know about in humans is also much lesser or not used to the same extent in other primates measured using MRI/anatomy studies, the progression of brain and vocal capabilities of homo sapiens progenitors to develop language via paleontology that shows the divergence from other primates, and many experiments with wild and captive primates of all types to demonstrate some language skill but nothing past very simple meaning for one sound, that might not be common to a geographically separate group, and not always the same meaning for the same group, and the inability of primates to use gestures without lots of prompting for communication. The highest form of communication I remember is one study that shows that orangutangs might be able to communicate a meaning of "in the future" via example warnings about snakes to young ones but you can read about that yourself, it seemed kind of speculative, too. Off top of my head it's a comprehensive overview of primate language research and evolution of physiology of brain/vocal abilities/hands. I don't agree with all the conclusions at end of the book (prior to this everything is based on what we have evidence for so there's a bit of speculation towards the end) but it's fun to think about.

Here's a decent review:https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/books/review/the-language...
by wisemang | 2026-03-05 02:56:43+00:00
Totally. I remember a thing where there were four horses that each had an a capella part and you could click each horse to bring that part in or silence it. They all harmonized together and the silly little animations for each was a nice touch. I want to say circa 2005.

[edit] well that wasn't hard to find: https://www.numuki.com/game/singing-horses/

Anyways yes the security was abysmal but I’m sure it enabled creativity that wouldn’t have surfaced otherwise.
by jonhohle | 2026-03-05 02:56:47+00:00
Win2K was my favorite as well. The transparency was tasteful. Everything worked and for the most part didn’t crash. Many (most?) games worked. It ran great on a PIII 600mhz. Everything good about NT4 was better and most of the consumer friendly stuff starting to take shape. The disc was even gorgeous. Peak MS design and engineering.
by Intermernet | 2026-03-05 02:57:54+00:00
One of the main arguments against flock is their abysmal security, lack of transparency, and flagrant dishonesty. If they solved these problems then we can have a discussion about the cameras themselves. I personally would have less of a problem with them if the footage was locked down, encrypted and could only be accessed with a subpoena, but law enforcement really want dragnet surveillance, so that's unlikely to occur.