MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ysofunny | 2025-06-17 21:24:38+00:00
this very cool

I smell a formal grammar behind dumbiffied grug english.

nonetheless, I think that when it says:

> so grug say again and say often: complexity very, very bad

at the end of that section, it shoulud say instead:

> so grug say again and say often: complexity very, very, very bad

this disambiguates 3 instances of same concept/idea AND, even better, showcases 3 values of increasing strength like for warning, error, critical use. most compact.

end of groog
by bitwize | 2025-06-17 21:24:42+00:00
In Milt and Tim Bryce's PRIDE system, one of the first steps in designing a system for an organization is adopting organization-wide standards and vocabulary. This includes cataloguing every piece of data recorded by the system, including its name, type, and relevance in a data dictionary.

In PRIDE/ASDM, literally every field in every table is catalogued online in this way, where it's searchable and discoverable by anyone working on the system.

PRIDE has been around since the seventies. And Netflix is discovering unification of data representations across the company just now? That's what happens when you let programmers design your systems, instead of systems analysts.
by Lerc | 2025-06-17 21:24:48+00:00
I think Sturgeon's law might be the problem for DSLs. Enabling a proliferation of languages targeted at a specific purpose creates a lot of new things with a 50% chance of the quality being below the median. Using a general purpose language involves selecting (or more usually relying on someone else's earlier selection) one of many, that selection process is inherently biased towards the better languages.

Put differently, The languages people actually use had people who decided to use them, they picked the best ones. Making something new, you compete against the best, not the average. That's not to say that it can't be done, but it's not easy.
by tzs | 2025-06-17 21:25:57+00:00
> It's definitely behind Waymo level, but the selling point of Tesla FSD is apparently that it works with 'normal' cameras as opposed to the super expensive Waymo kit so they can afford to put it in an upper mid range car.

A potential problem for Tesla is prices are coming down for expensive sensors like LiDAR. We are at the point where you don't have to go camera only to keep a car affordable.

BYD is putting a dozen cameras, 5 mm-wave radars, and 12 ultrasound sensors on many of their cheaper cars. Go up to around Tesla's price and BYD has models with all those sensors and LiDAR.
by mvdtnz | 2025-06-17 21:26:00+00:00
So OpenAI wants to fundamentally change the nature of their agreement with Microsoft. Microsoft says "well no, we have an agreement in black and white and if you want to change it you'll need to do it in terms favourable to us". OpenAI responds by throwing their toys out of the cot and trying to leverage the courts against MS with a bogus lawsuit.

Let's see how that works out for them.
by os2warpman | 2025-06-17 21:26:28+00:00
At all of the airports I've been to in the last year or two I haven't needed a boarding pass to get through security. Just ID.

That being said every airport I've flown through for the last 2-ish years has had digital IDs or ID scanners so at smaller, or laggard, airports they may still be doing that.
by arghwhat | 2025-06-17 21:26:59+00:00
No, having bugs in home-grown platform specific code is not at all related to whether or not the platform is "weird".

Platform integrations are a lot of code, which you might have bugs in, and why people tend to use toolkits that do the work and abstract it away for you. Even if platforms look like they're providing similar high-level features, they will look nothing alike underneath. If you roll it yourself and have bugs in your code, that's fine but not the platforms fault.
by jm20 | 2025-06-17 21:27:13+00:00
Nintendo has never competed on graphics. They compete on having the most fun, accessible, entertaining games as possible. And say what you will about their business practices, they’ve probably done a better job of that than any other gaming company in history. As more devs bundle ever higher quality graphics with ever higher in-app purchases and pay to win schemes, Mario remains…Mario.

I seriously doubt many Switch users would bail on the system because of “fake” HDR. They probably don’t care about HDR at all. As long as Mario remains Mario, they’re happy.
by bluehatbrit | 2025-06-17 21:27:23+00:00
I'd be interested to hear how you find staying away from them as the years progress.

My experience so far is that they write mediocre code which is very often correct, and is relatively easy to review and improve. Of course I work with languages like elixir, python, typescript, and SQL - all of which LLMs are very good at.

Without a doubt I've seen a significant increase in the amount of work I can produce. As far as I can tell the defect rate in my work hasn't changed. But the way I work has, I'm now reviewing and refactoring significantly more than before and hand writing a lot less.

To be honest, I'd worry about someone's ability to compete in the job market if they resisted for much longer. With the obvious exceptions of spaces where LLMs can't be used, or have very poor performance.
by palata | 2025-06-17 21:27:29+00:00
> so it's easy for either side to point that out.

Sure, it is. But does it matter? I don't think so.

I was happy with Xorg, and there were things it couldn't do that I didn't plan on contributing, so I didn't complain to them.

I am now happy with Wayland, and there are things it cannot do that I am not contributing, so I don't complain.

What I see is that Wayland is quite active and they actually added things I needed that didn't exist a few years ago. That's great. Many people seem to be very vocal about how they prefer Xorg because it works for them: that's great, they can use Xorg.

Someone wants to write another one? That's great, let them do it.

Linux is about diversity. Don't come to Linux and ask it to become Windows or macOS.
by 827a | 2025-06-17 21:27:33+00:00
I find it extremely strange that a company leader though it would be ok to just say "our financial situation is in a place where we cannot adequately staff our teams". The market clearly thought it was strange as well, given their stock performance today.

Really bad look and poor leadership from Jassy. There's a good way to frame adoption of AI, but this is not it.
by Liquix | 2025-06-17 21:28:15+00:00
g**gle is hellbent on killing JPEG-XL support in favor of WebP. assuming they'll capitulate to downstream pressure is a stretch. this article [0] sums it up nicely:

What this [removal of support for JPEG-XL in Chromium] really translates to is, “We’ve created WebP, a competing standard, and want to kill anything that might genuinely compete with it”. This would also partly explain why they adopted AVIF but not JPEG XL. AVIF wasn’t superior in every way and, as such, didn’t threaten to dethrone WebP.

[0] https://vale.rocks/posts/jpeg-xl-and-googles-war-against-it
by salt-thrower | 2025-06-17 21:29:08+00:00
At every company I’ve ever worked for, the bottleneck is not “how fast can we spit out more code?” It’s always: “how fast can the business actually decide what they want and create a good backlog?”

Maybe startup development will significantly accelerate with AI churning out all the boilerplate to get your app started.

But enterprise development, where the app is already there and you’re building new features on top of a labyrinthian foundation, is a different beast. The hard part is sitting through planning meetings or untangling weird system dependencies, not churning out net new code. My two cents anyway.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-17 21:29:17+00:00
> All of those cases involved a whole lot of troops on the ground, which is something that I see as notably missing from any plans discussed so far

Oh absolutely. I compared it to Kabul and Baghdad (and not Libya) for a reason. There is not a mobilised resistance in Iran.

The lack of boots-on-the-ground plans is why I don’t see us teetering towards Iraq 2.0, but instead the U.S. eventually using bunker busters at Fordo and calling it a day. (To the extent we’re seeing the right recipe “liberation” rhetoric, it’s in respect of domestically deploying the military.)
by daxfohl | 2025-06-17 21:30:11+00:00
That's more of a hobbyist thing I'd say. Corporations developing these things will of course want to use some centralized system that they trust. It's more efficient, they have more control over it, it's easier for average people to use, etc.

A decentralized thing would be more for individuals who want more control and transparency. A decentralized public ledger would make it possible to verify that your agent, the agents it interacts with, and the contents of their interactions have not been altered or compromised in any way, whereas a corporate-owned framework could not provide the same level of assurance.

But technically, there's no advantage I can think of for using a public distributed ledger to manage interactions. Agent tasks are pretty ephemeral, so unlike digital currency, there's not really a need to maintain a complete historical log of every action forever. And as far as providing tools for dealing with race conditions, blockchain would be about the least efficient way of creating a mutex imaginable. So technically, just like with non-AI apps, cetralized architecture is always going to be a lot more efficient.
by MBCook | 2025-06-17 21:31:33+00:00
I’m glad to see this getting attention in the last day or two. HDRVTest did a video too.

I’m having a blast with MarioKart but the track usually looks washed out. Some of the UI and other things have great color on them but most of the picture just looks like the saturation was turned down a bit.

Very disappointing as a Mario game and its colorful aesthetic is the kind of thing that should be able to look great in HDR.
by whytevuhuni | 2025-06-17 21:32:15+00:00
I don't think it's speculation though, since this rye-init init system clearly doesn't even exist anywhere (let alone as an Arch package), and building something that could replace SystemD is an absolutely herculean task.

Rye is a package manager for Python, written in Rust, by Astral, and there's even a rye init command that initializes a new project. That's likely what caused the hallucination.

The original poster is likely trying to get answers on how this kind of article is even a thing, and now so am I.
by MBCook | 2025-06-17 21:32:38+00:00
I’m heavily disappointed. I’ve always been a HUGE Nintendo fan.

If the system was SDR only I would be disappointed but fine.

But they made it HDR. They made a big deal about it. And it doesn’t work well. It’s impossible to calibrate and ends up just looking washed out.

It’s broken.

And I don’t appreciate the insinuation that Nintendo fans will buy any piece of junk they put out. See: Wii U.
by ben_w | 2025-06-17 21:32:39+00:00
That sounds on the low side?

Does that "hundreds" include the cost of training one human to do the work, or enough humans to do the full range of tasks that an LLM can do? It's not like-for-like unless it's the full range of capabilities.

Given the training gets amortised over all uses until the model becomes obsolete (IDK, let's say 9 months?), I'd say details like this do matter — while I want the creation to be climate friendly just in its own right anyway, once it's made, greater or lesser use does very little:

As a rough guess, let's say that any given extra use of a model is roughly equivalent to turning API costs into kWh of electricity. So, at energy cost of $0.1/kWh, GPT-4.1-mini is currently about 62,500 tokens per kWh.

IDK the typical speed of human thought (and it probably doesn't map well to tokens), but for the sake of a rough guide, I think most people reading a book of that length would take something around 3 hours? Which means if the models burn electricity at about 333 W, they equal the performance (speed) of a human, whose biological requirements are on average 100 W… except 100 W is what you get from dividing 2065 kcal by 24h, and humans not only sleep, but object to working all waking hours 7 days a week, so those 3 hours of wall-clock time come with about 9 hours of down-time (40 hour work week/(7 days times 24 hours/day) ~= 1/4), making the requirements for 3 hours work into 12 hours of calories, or the equivalent of 400 W.

But that's for reading a book. Humans could easily spend months writing a book that size, so an AI model good enough to write 62,500 useful tokens could easily be (2 months * 2065 kcal/day = 144 kWh), at $0.1/kWh around $14.4, or $230/megatoken price range, and still more energy efficient than a human doing the same task.

I've not tried o3*, but I have tried o1, and I don't think o1 can write a book-sized artefact that's worth reading. But well architected code isn't a single monolith function with global state like a book can be, you can break everything down usefully and if one piece doesn't fit the style of the rest it isn't the end of the world, so it may be fine for code.

* I need to "verify my organisation", but also I'm a solo nerd right now, not an organisation… if they'd say I'm good, then that verification seems not very important?
by superkuh | 2025-06-17 21:32:47+00:00
While catchy that headline kind of misses the point. It should be "Corporations are overwhelming websites with their hunger for AI data". They're the ones doing it and corporations are by far the most damaging non-human persons (especially since they are formed nowadays to abstract away liability for the damage they cause).

This is not some new enemy "bots". This is the same old non-human legal persons that polluted our physical world repeating things in the digital. Bots run by actual human persons are not the problem.
by giarc | 2025-06-17 21:34:12+00:00
>Forward thinking and risk-taking by SpaceX to further develop tech demonstrated by earlier efforts (DC-X, Mars Landing, etc.)

Is this basically a technical way of saying "people realized it could be done"? Like the 4 minute mile, once it was done once, many people accomplished the same feat soon after. The realization that it was possible changed people's perception.
by Jap2-0 | 2025-06-17 21:34:40+00:00
Actually, it goes back to Tiger lake (2020; 2021 for desktop). [0]

Addendum: AMD since RDNA2 (2020-2021-ish) [1], NVIDIA since 30 series (2020) [2], Apple since M3? (2023).

Note: GP's processor released in 2024 but is based on an architecture from 2020.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video#Hardwar...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Core_Next#Feature_set

[2] https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-sup...
by johnea | 2025-06-17 21:34:59+00:00
This is an ever growing problem.

The model of the web host paying for all bandwidth was somewhat aligned with traditional usage models, but the wave of scrapping for training data is disrupting this logic.

I remember reading, about 10 years ago?, of how backend website communications (ads and demographic data sharing) had surpassed the bandwidth consumed by actual users. But even in this case, the traffic was still primarily linked to the website hosts.

Whereas with the recent scrapping frenzy the traffic is purely client side, and not initiated by actual website users, and not particularly beneficial to the website host.

One has to wonder what percentage of web traffic now is generated by actual users, versus host backend data sharing, and the mammoth new wave of scrapping.
by gertrunde | 2025-06-17 21:36:21+00:00
Money mostly.

$185,000 application fee to apply for a new gTLD, plus maybe some auctions for gTLDs that multiple entities wanted, resulted in just under $60 million for ICANN.[2]

Apparently Google and Amazon were the most prolific appliers, with 101 and 76 applications respectively.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN#TLD_expansion_and_concer...

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2015/04/17/icann_gltd_auction_mo...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain#Expan...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-17 21:36:23+00:00
They’re being dramatic. We installed the Shah [EDIT: as an autocrat] with the ‘53 coup [1]. That was our original sin.

But the Islamic Republic wasn’t an American creation. Neither was Saddam’s Iraq or the Mujahideen or Al Qaeda. We variously facilitated, opposed and ignored these elements, mostly the last. Ignoring the Soviet history in the region, together with the fact that Iranians aren’t automatons, but human beings with agency and preferences, continues this tradition of American fatalism that ignores how complicated (and independent of ourselves) these systems are.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9ta...
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-17 21:36:29+00:00
The vagueries of your post highlights the very problem I am addressing. What is an "older phone"? What is a "slower connection"? The bottom 20%? But the post at hand is talking about the bottom 3%, so where is the actual line? When you are in the hot chair, your hand in play, all those things need to be well defined lines.

If I squeeze you to be more precise, it becomes uncomfortable and untenable, as no matter what you are either marginalizing people or marginalizing yourself, your company, or everyone else. It's something where it is extremely easy to have moral high ground when you have zero stake yourself, but anyone who understands the nuance of the problem can see right through it.
by hiimkeks | 2025-06-17 21:37:14+00:00
At the same time, monasteries have a long history of producing beer, wine, liqeur (think Chartreuse) and liqour (think Klosterfrau Melissengeist).

At the same time - having a glass of wine for stimulation while contemplating the divine might not be the same as drunkenness? And is the different the dose ("a glass of wine") or the purpose ("stimulation while contemplating the divine")?
by runarberg | 2025-06-17 21:37:43+00:00
For the record, this is what the experts are saying now:

> For #Israel to attack #Iran including its nuclear facilities (prohibited by international law) and for #Trump to ask Iran for “total surrender” and forgo a treaty right (uranium enrichment) in a clear act of national humiliation, on suspicion that it is developing nuclear weapons (possessed by both #Israel and #US), suspicion that does not constitute an “imminent threat” as confirmed by all western intelligence agencies and was dealt with through negotiations in #JCPOA agreement of 2015 which the US withdrew from in 2018

> To rely on force and not negotiations is a sure way to destroy the #NPT and the nuclear non proliferation regime (imperfect as it is) and sends a clear message to many countries that their “ultimate security” is to develop nuclear weapons !!!

https://x.com/ElBaradei/status/1935041599605539211

ElBaradei won the Nobel Price in 2005 for his work on nuclear non-proliferation. I‘m pretty sure he knows more about this than you or I.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-17 21:38:00+00:00
AMD has great open source drivers that work wonderfully everywhere. Even their old hardware keeps getting amazing upgrades & enhancements, a decade+ latter!

Word on the street is Nvidia is doing a much much better job, for a year or so now. But, like, you are using a GPU that sway used to make you type "--i-wont-buy-an-nvidia-gpu-again" and now makes you type --unsupported-gpu to use.

It's not Wayland's fault if your video card can't do the pretty same sensible reasonable kernel calls asked of it without crashing. I realize that you might not really care about the distinction, I sympathize highly that it just sucks, and no one in open source likes this (Google image search "Linus Torvalds Nvidia"; 2025 only a bit better than 2012 if your bug report here really true I guess). But fault & culpability matters, and Wayland does way way way less special magic & is way more straightforward with how it handles the display subsystem than X, which half ignores the kernel & has its own absurd driver subsystems and mountains of jank overlapping extensions to do what kernels and GPUs just do these days. GPUs have it easy under Wayland!
by encom | 2025-06-17 21:38:01+00:00
Often (in my experience) WebP is served as a bait-and-switch even if the link ends with .jpg. So I use Curl to fetch the file, and since Curl doesn't send "Accept: image/webp" unless you tell it to, the server just gives you what you ask for.

I once edited Firefox config to make it pretend to not support WebP, and the only site that broke was YouTube.
by darvinyraghpath | 2025-06-17 21:39:02+00:00
Fascinating thought piece. While I agree with the thrust of the piece: 'that llms can't really replace engineers', unfortunately the way the industry works is that the excuse of AI, however grounded in reality has been repurposed as a cudgel against actual software industry workers. Sure eventually everyone might figure out that AI can't really write code by itself - and software quality will degrade.. But unfortunately we've long been on the path of enshitification and I fear the trend will only continue. If google's war against its own engineers has resulted in shittier software - and things start break twice a year instead of once - would anyone really blink twice?
by eadmund | 2025-06-17 21:39:18+00:00
> I understand that change can be challenging

It’s less about change and more about outright breakage. Wayland does not support me.

> You have a choice: acknowledge that Wayland is faster, more user-friendly, and more secure, or remain tied to technologies from the 1990s.

Wayland may be faster, it’s certainly more secure (in the same sense that a system embedded in a ton of concrete and dropped to the bottom of the ocean is more secure), but I’m not convinced that it’s more user friendly. It’s certainly not friendly to me, since it does not allow me to run my window manager of choice.

I’m not convinced that the technologies of the 1990s were necessarily all that bad, either. Yeah, there were some assumptions which turned out not to be the case in reality. And yeah, there is a ton of cruft. And yeah, no-one would design X11 the way it is today. But, you know what? X11, unlike Wayland, works for me.

I would love to use Wayland, honestly. That’s not a lie. But it doesn’t work. And from what I can see it doesn’t want to work.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-06-17 21:39:45+00:00
You’re making the assumption that these are relevant to the overall goal of Amazon

I’d argue that 1 is irrelevant provided the system continued to extract profit at the same or greater margin

Amazon lives and dies by not caring about #2 so that’s constant

#3 is desirable from Jassy and the boards perspective

Seems like exactly what I’d expect from Amazon