MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roenxi | 2025-04-15 00:05:01+00:00
You've mis-read the comment. This logic is not strictly related but it might help you understand what he was saying:

There are ~300 million people in the US who are not billionaires. If they earn, on average, $4 each that balances out a billionaire by income [0]. Since there are <1,000 US billionaires, the average american income would need to drop back to something around the $4,000 range for billionaires to be out-earning them.

This is why taxes tend to land heavily on the middle class, the billionaires don't control most of the money. If politicians want access to money, the biggest pot isn't the billionaires.

[0] And billionaires don't generally make billions in income because it is a wealth measure.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-04-15 00:05:12+00:00
>Obviously the answer to "this doesn't solve my problems" is "don't use it then". If your problem domain literally is nothing but API calls and DB updates, then you may not benefit from this.

This is like 99% of web development today. And web development is like 99% of development. It's all very IO heavy and mutation heavy. You can't run from it.

It's why FP is mostly ineffective on the smaller scale because you're already walled off from doing anything that matters in web. Your server is stateless anyway so anything you do in this arena doesn't even matter.
by snvzz | 2025-04-15 00:05:24+00:00
>wonder who will lead the way to fix these abhorrent toolchains these FPGA companies force upon developers.

Some FPGA vendors are contributing to and relying, partially or completely, on the open source stack (mainly yosys+nextpnr).

It is still perceived as not being "as good" as the universally hated proprietary tools, but it's getting there.
by Swizec | 2025-04-15 00:05:49+00:00
If only there were some way for websites to serve information and provide interactivity in a machine readable format. Like some sort of application programming interface. You could even return different formats based on some sort of 4-letter code at the end of a URL like .html, .json, .xml, etc.

And what if there was some standard sort of way for robots to tell your site what they're trying to do with some sort of verb like GET, PUT, POST, DELETE etc. They could even use a standard way to name the resource they're trying to interact with. Like a universal resource finder of some kind. You could even use identifiers to be specific! Like /items/ gives you a list of items and /items/1.json gives you data about a specific item.

That would be so awesome. The future is amazing.
by throwaway-blaze | 2025-04-15 00:06:32+00:00
Assume you think the government is in a better position to spend that billion than the billionaire is to figure out what to buy or invest their money in?

I know he's out of favor with a lot of people, but would Elon have created SpaceX or The Boring Co or Neuralink, or helped start OpenAI if he hadn't had the spare billions to do so?

I'd much rather have multi-billionaires investing in the economy, and in the future, than giving additional money to the government.
by ConspiracyFact | 2025-04-15 00:09:40+00:00
The problem is that model outputs are wholly derivative. This is easy to see if you start with a dataset of one artistic work and add additional works one at a time. Clearly, at the start the outputs are derivative. As more inputs are added, there’s no magical transformation from derivative to non-derivative at any particular point. The output is always a deterministic function of the inputs, or a deterministic output papered over with randomness.

“But,” you say, “human art is derivative too in that case!”

No. A human artist is influenced by other artists, yes, but he is also influenced by the totality of his life experience, which amounts to much more in terms of “inputs”.
by throwaway-blaze | 2025-04-15 00:09:54+00:00
IRA contributions are drastically limited to a $7000 cap per year under 50. Whether they should be is another question, and one worth exploring.

Long-term investment is rightly seen as something to be encouraged hence the lower tax rates. You can make the argument that the rate should be more like 0% since the money invested and risked was already taxed most likely...20% is a reasonable value for the market regulating infrastructure provided by gov't entities.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-15 00:11:32+00:00
It's hard to find places where FPGAs really win. For relatively simple tasks FPGA can beat just about anything in latency. For instance for the serialization/deserialization end of a high frequency trading system. If a problem has a large working set and needs to store data in DRAM it needs a memory controller the same way a CPU or GPU has a memory controller and this can only be efficient if the system's memory access pattern is predictable.

You can certainly pencil out FPGA or ASIC systems that which would attain high levels of efficient parallelism if there wasn't memory bandwidth or latency limits but there are. If you want to do math that GPUs are good at, you use GPUs. Historically some FPGAs have let you allocate bits in smaller slices so if you only need 6 bit math you can have 6 bit math but GPUs are muscling in on that for AI applications.

FPGAs really are good at bitwise operations used in cryptography. They beat CPUs at code cracking and bitcoin mining but in turn they get beat by ASICs. However there is some number of units (say N=10,000) where the economics of the ASIC plus the higher performance will drive you to ASIC -- for Bitcoin mining or for the NSA's codebreaking cluster. You might prototype this system on an FPGA before you get masks made for an ASIC though.

For something like the F-35 where you have N=1000 or so, could care less about costs, and might need to reconfigure it for tomorrow's threats, the FPGA looks good.

One strange low N case is that of display controllers for retrocomputers. Like it or not a display controller has one heck of a parts count to make out of discrete parts and ASIC display controllers were key to the third generation of home computers which were made with N=100,000 or so. Things like

https://www.commanderx16.com/

and are already expensive compared to the Raspberry Pi so they tend to use either a microcontroller or FPGA, the microcontroller tends to win because an ESP32 which costs a few buck is, amazingly, fast enough to drive a A/D converter at VGA rates or push enough bits for HDMI!
by zoklet-enjoyer | 2025-04-15 00:11:44+00:00
From the article:

JRT promoted neuroplasticity, or growth between cellular connections in the brain, leading to a 46% increase in dendritic spine density and an 18% increase in synapse density in the prefrontal cortex.

JRT did not produce hallucinogenic-like behaviors that are typically seen when mice are dosed with LSD. JRT did not promote gene expression associated with schizophrenia. Such gene expression is typically amplified with LSD use.

JRT produced robust anti-depressant effects, with it being around 100-fold more potent than ketamine, the state-of-the-art fast-acting anti-depressant.

JRT promoted cognitive flexibility, successfully addressing deficits in reversal learning that are associated with schizophrenia.
by vel0city | 2025-04-15 00:12:05+00:00
"Double taxation" is absolutely constitutional. Tons of things are double, triple, quadruple and more taxed.

I make a W2 salary. I pay federal income taxes on it. I pay FICA taxes on it. My employer pays payroll taxes on it. I might pay state income taxes on it. One event, tons of taxes. I take that quadruple taxed money and buy a dinner with a beer. Sales taxes on the overall sale, additional taxes on the alcohol, additional sales tax riders because I bought it in the touristy night life area. Triple taxes on my quadruple taxes, good lord! Unconstitutional!

Worthless phrase, "double taxation".

> That does not prohibit the Federal Gov from taxing once, and your residential state from taxing you a second time.

Once again, the several different taxes applied to my salary income. Then on that I go buy a gallon of gasoline, uh oh, federal gas taxes on that. Or I buy a plane ticket and that gets Federal Excise Tax (7.5% of the base fare), the Federal Segment Fee (currently $5.20 per segment), the TSA Security Fee ($5.60 per passenger), and more. Oof, "double taxation"! Even at the federal level!
by GeorgeHaldane | 2025-04-15 00:12:23+00:00
Haven't worked with it, but based on initial look it's a quite different thing that stands closer to a frame-based profiler like Tracy (https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy).

As far as differences go:

Microprofile:

- frame-based - needs a build system - memory usage starts at 2 MB per thread - runs 2 threads of its own - provides system-specific info - good support for GPU workloads - provides live view - seems like a good choice for gamedev / rendering

utl::profiler:

- no specific pipeline - single include - memory usage starts at approx. nothing and would likely stay in kilobytes - doesn't run any additional threads - fully portable, nothing platform specific whatsoever, just standard C++ - doesn't provide system-specific info, just pure timings - seems like a good choice for small projects or embedded (since the only thing it needs is a C++ compiler)
Ask HN: How does the iOS Lyft app detect that I landed at the airport?
by stpn | 2025-04-15 00:13:15+00:00
I have location services turned off while I’m not using the app and background app refresh turned off in iOS, but somehow Lyft still knows I’m at the airport and serves me a push notification ad.

I want to turn this off but I can’t think of how this is happening in the first place.
by pmags | 2025-04-15 00:13:38+00:00
I predict a surge of alumni donations in the weeks and months to come, not just at Harvard but also at other institutions that are showing their willingness to stand up against the creeping fascism of the current administration.

I think people who value education, academic freedom, and understand the economic and societal role that universities play, were hoping to see one or more of the major institutions stand up for these principles.
by taeric | 2025-04-15 00:14:50+00:00
Exactly this. Is what I meant by them working with you. They aren't playing some devilish game of trying to trick you into paying more. They tell you why they say you owe something and what it would take to get them to change that. And are fine if you need time to find it.

If you are actively trying to avoid the calls, I'm sure that is probably not a good idea. But, that is basically in the "actively trying to commit fraud" territory, at that point. No?
by htrp | 2025-04-15 00:16:02+00:00
> When you're an engineer at the tier of these AI researchers, winning an extra 100k/year on top of you current 500k (numbers out of my ass) is not worth it vs getting name recognition. Being known as one of the authors that made the transformer for example will enable you work with other bright minded individuals and create even better things.

Also, instead of an extra 100k a year, you get to raise a billion dollars in VC funds for your next company
by Kholin | 2025-04-15 00:16:20+00:00
This may be related to Google's business model. Google's main businesses - search engine and advertising - both rely on an open web ecosystem. Therefore, Google has long maintained a friendly attitude toward open source and the open web, such as with Chromium, Noto fonts, Go, Flutter, and others. By providing infrastructure tools that benefit the open web, Google extends the reach of its searchable content and advertising. When the entire Web ecosystem benefits, Google ultimately benefits as well. This model also aligns with the philosophy of the open source community, where everyone is a beneficiary and naturally becomes a contributor.
by jsheard | 2025-04-15 00:17:22+00:00
> Is there even a way to tell Vercel: "I only want to spend $10 a month max on this project, CUT ME OFF if I go past it."?

Yes actually, there's a lot to complain about with Vercel but to their credit they do offer both soft and hard spending limits, unlike most other newfangled clouds.

OTOH god help you if you're on Netlify, there you're looking at $0.55/GB with unbounded billing...
by andrewl | 2025-04-15 00:18:05+00:00
My favorite parts of the Silmarillion were the ones where I learned the back story of the world: the Valaquenta, the Ainulindalë, and Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age. I don't have my copy here, but if I recall correctly that last section starts with Of old there was Sauron the Maia.... That's the stuff I wanted to know.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-04-15 00:19:35+00:00
> Thus, you need to call accept() repeatedly to drain the backlog before returning to listening for signals.

It's not just accept. If your socket is non-blocking the same applies to read, write, and everything else. You keep syscalling until it returns EAGAIN.

> I described the general idea to Grok and it produced a beautiful implementation of this in Rust using the tokio "crate". The result had the same bug that the C++ code had, because it made the understandable assumption my younger self made that 1 SIGIO = 1 connection, but that is wrong.

I don't know what your general idea was but tokio uses epoll under the hood (correctly), so what you are describing could only have happened if you specifically instructed grok to use SIGIO.

> Finally, it is far more natural for C developers and C++ developers to use a binary format over network sockets (like I did) than HTTP.

Designing a custom protocol is way more work than just using HTTP. <insert reasons why http + json is so popular (everyone is familiar with it blah blah blah)>.
by potatoman22 | 2025-04-15 00:19:55+00:00
It's trendy to say "it's horrible to use AI for this" without giving specific reasons. Some reasons it could be good to use AI here:

- this can prioritize urgent patients for the severely overworked doctors

- medical error is a leading cause of death, this serves as a second-opinion (97% true-positive rate and 79% true-negative rate)

- it can be used as evidence by a nurse or physician advocating for a patient's treatment
by dtquad | 2025-04-15 00:21:09+00:00
GPGPUs ended up becoming the AI/cloud accelerators that FPGAs promised to be back when Intel bought Altera.

FPGAs are not ideal for raw parallel number crunching like in AI/LLMs. They are more appropriate for predictable real-time/ultra-low-latency parallel things like the the modulation and demodulation of signals in 5G base state stations.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-15 00:21:36+00:00
Probably the several paragraphs of the article detailing conceptual links from Battleship to D&D:

> When Ken St. Andre struggled, in the introduction to Tunnels & Trolls (1975), to explain the secret maps of Dungeons & Dragons, he could only say, "The game is played something like Battleship. The individual players cannot see the board."

> Battleship was originally a pencil-and-paper game, which traded in the early twentieth century under names like Salvo (1931).

> Bob Mulligan had transposed Salvo into a broader naval campaign games of shipyards, factories, convoys, blockades, and fleet actions, and the basic idea behind it would inspire many such variants. We should understand Salvo as a foundational game in the development of hidden movement systems that tracked activity "off board,"
by imtringued | 2025-04-15 00:21:45+00:00
Yeah I personally wondered if AMD was just copying Intel, because apparently every CPU manufacturer also needs to manufacture FPGAs, or they actually have a long term strategy where it is essential for both the FPGA and CPU departments to cooperate.

I think Xilinx did a fine job with their AI Engines and AMD decided to integrate a machine learning focused variant on their laptops as a result. The design of the intel NPU is nowhere near as good as AMD's. I have to say that AMD is not a software company though and while the hardware is interesting, their software support is nonexistent.

Also, if you're worried about FPGAs that doesn't really make much sense, since Effinix is killing it.
by viraptor | 2025-04-15 00:22:45+00:00
> Standardized test reliably predict academic success. IQ tests similarly.

So do home addresses. And skin colour. And parent's money. There are issues with all of those for different reasons. People saying IQ is problematic don't mean there's no correlation at all. Just that they can be culture / approach / etc. specific and we shouldn't treat them as an objective measure.
by leerob | 2025-04-15 00:23:40+00:00
(I work at Vercel) While it's good our spend limits worked, it clearly was not obvious how to block or challenge AI crawlers¹ from our firewall (which it seems you manually found). We'll surface this better in the UI, and also have more bot protection features coming soon. Also glad our improved image optimization pricing² would have helped. Open to other feedback as well, thanks for sharing.

¹: https://vercel.com/templates/vercel-firewall/block-ai-bots-f...

²: https://vercel.com/changelog/faster-transformations-and-redu...
by leerob | 2025-04-15 00:24:59+00:00
> Is there even a way to tell Vercel: "I only want to spend $10 a month max on this project, CUT ME OFF if I go past it."? This is crazy.

(I work at Vercel). Yes, there are soft and hard spend limits. OP was using this feature, it's called "spend management": https://vercel.com/docs/spend-management
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-15 00:25:37+00:00
>I'm happy with HN being for anything intellectually interesting, and nothing else.

Hard to be intellectually curious when you're living in fear, and potentially in a future war torn country. I understand some reasoning for this mindset, but I'm glad you realize how dire this is an an attack on the very core systems that allow such curious discussion.

We have multiple university professors strongly considering fleeing to Canada as a small sample. It's pretty clear how such moves will affect the long term abilities for a site like this to operate.
by TheMagicHorsey | 2025-04-15 00:25:58+00:00
I used to work at Intel (around 1999) in their Jones Farm campus in Oregon. My employee stock grants from that time are still underwater.

This was the heyday at Intel. I left within a year because I noticed that the talent that was respected, compensated and influential at Intel was the sales engineers. I can't pretend to have known that would lead to the decline of the company, but I knew that as an engineer uninterested in sales, that it wasn't the place for me.
by jeffparsons | 2025-04-15 00:26:30+00:00
I was excited, too. I was also excited when Intel announced Larrabee.

That was before I learnt about the many and varied ways in which Intel sabotages itself, and released that Intel's underperformance has little to do with a lack of good technical ideas or talent.

I.e. I was young and naive. I am now considerably less young, and at least a little less naive.
by kadushka | 2025-04-15 00:27:18+00:00
Let's explore the concept of "cloud based ones" neurons. Let's say your brain has just three neurons, connected with each other. You remove one of them, and connect the two remaining one an external terminal - a physical device capable of transmitting electrical currents, being controlled by some complicated software "in the cloud". That physical device becomes the third neuron. Instead of one terminal, it could be two different devices, together playing the role of the original third neuron for each of the two other original neurons. For simplicity, let's assume there's just one terminal, serving both remaining original neurons, just like the third original neuron did. From the point of view of the two remaining biological neurons, nothing has changed. But from the point of view of the third neuron - the replaced one - the system did change. Now it is connected to three other terminals: two original one, and one other physical terminal "in the cloud". That other terminal in the cloud is part of the software, so it is connected to potentially billions of other terminals (e.g. transistors). And all of them are now involved in playing the role of the original third neuron that we replaced. So we effectively replaced a system of three interconnected neurons with a system of billions of interconnected neurons. This can have a profound effect on the "consciousness" of the original brain (in quotes because I don't consciousness is possible with just three neurons).

Can you poke holes in the reasoning above?
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by dibasdauliya | 2025-04-15 00:27:42+00:00
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We’d love your feedback and feature ideas. What’s the biggest pain point in your current task manager?
by mtlynch | 2025-04-15 00:28:31+00:00
>I think in the future, websites will learn to serve pure markdown to these bots instead of blocking. That way, websites prevent bandwidth overages like in the article, while still informing LLMs about the services their website provides.

Why?

There's no value to the website for a bot scraping all of their content and then reselling it with no credit or payment to the original author.
by kristopolous | 2025-04-15 00:29:24+00:00
no, I'm talking pretty recent stuff. I was dealing with https://huggingface.co/bytedance-research/UNO and https://huggingface.co/HiDream-ai/HiDream-I1-Full earlier today

These are both released this month.

What I'd like to see is some kind of i2i with multiple i input and guidance

So I can roughly sketch, and I don't mean controlnet or anything where I'm dealing with complex 3d characters, but give some kind of destination - and I don't mean the crude stuff that inpainting gives ... none of these things are what I'm talking about.

i'm familiar with the comfyui workflows and stay pretty on top of things. I've used the krita and photoshop plugin and even have built a civitai mcp server for bringing in models. AFAIK nobody else has done this yet.

None of these are hands on in the right way.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-04-15 00:29:37+00:00
Reminds me of that South Korean trauma surgeon who trained in the states and has pushed for Korea to get US-style trauma centers.

Dude got plenty of experience dealing with gunshot wounds, which probably helped him when that one North Korean defector came over the border, riddled with bullets (you may have heard this story, it was big news at the time). The especially weird coincidence was that the surgeon's mentor from the states was in Korea at the time this happened, what are the odds.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/doctor-north-korean-def...
by briantakita | 2025-04-15 00:30:58+00:00
Harvard received the "worst score ever" clamped at 0.0 in 2023. By the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. The actual score was -10.69.

They were particularly oppressive on anyone espousing opinions on the political right...Both leaning toward Individual liberty & stateist inclined.

While I believe that freedom of speech is a right not to be infringed on. Their current stance is selective. They have a massive endowment. So Harvard doesn't need subsidies. Since their endowment benefits private parties, Harvard can be funded by private parties.

https://www.thefire.org/news/harvard-gets-worst-score-ever-f...