MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tedsanders | 2025-06-10 22:59:21+00:00
It's the same model, no quantization, no gimmicks.

In the API, we never make silent changes to models, as that would be super annoying to API developers [1]. In ChatGPT, it's a little less clear when we update models because we don't want to bombard regular users with version numbers in the UI, but it's still not totally silent/opaque - we document all model updates in the ChatGPT release notes [2].

[1] chatgpt-4o-latest is an exception; we explicitly update this model pointer without warning.

[2] ChatGPT Release Notes document our updates to gpt-4o and other models: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-...

(I work at OpenAI.)
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-06-10 22:59:41+00:00
A watt wouldn't make any sense.

A watt needs a time unit to be converted to joules because a watt is a measure of power, while a joule is a measure of energy.

Think of it like speed and distance:

A watt is a RATE of energy use, just like speed (e.g., miles per hour) is a RATE of travel.

A joule is a total amount of energy, just like distance (e.g., miles) is a total amount of travel.

If you're traveling 60 mph but you don't specify for how long... You won't know how far you went, how much gas you used, etc.
by bityard | 2025-06-10 22:59:53+00:00
If by "floating" you mean not a subscription, then sure. Non-subscription licensing for commercial software is going away for all but niche and indie stuff. For the same reasons my grocery prices have tripled even though overall inflation has not: People are generally willing to put up with arbitrary increases in cost if it's something they really need. They will complain, but they will still pay. Broadcom's Law, or something.

That aside, lots of enterprise software subscriptions still effectively use the floating model because they price by "active user accounts" where an active user is one that has logged in within the last X months. Some will deactivate user accounts automatically when not in use, some you have to make sure to deactivate users when they are no longer with the company or do your own periodic audits.
by ahepp | 2025-06-10 23:00:05+00:00
I'm not sure I understand why secure boot is user-infantilizing? I think there are some legitimate concerns about where attestation could be headed, but I like the ability to force my machine to only run signed executables.

It seems like the immediate problem here is that most people will never enroll their own keys, and if every vendor's crappy EFI binary gets signed by Microsoft, there will be a huge library of garbage vendor code which is all an attack surface.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-06-10 23:00:17+00:00
Newspaper really took off during Industrial Revolution, I’m not sure that a 1731 text is pertinent.

On that matter, people used to print newspaper for a variety of different reasons, some were to rally public to an opinion (political parties for instance), some were printed to exerce control over their reader (a factory owner making a newspaper for his employee) and there have always been people who wanted to report facts and get paid for that.

Still today, there are many newspaper and online news that don’t have any advertisement, sponsoring and are in a really good financial situation.

In France, I can think of mediapart (fully online), le canard enchaîné (online and paper). People pay for them because their paper is worth more than just lightening up a barbecue.
by proc0 | 2025-06-10 23:01:18+00:00
It's probably investment driven. I lived in a couple buildings with very bad landlord companies that basically didn't care about the conditions of the building. I had to call city authorities because there was a rat infestation. Meanwhile I was paying nearly 2K and this was 5-10 years ago.

There's something deeply wrong with that city, and everyone is a kind of in a trance trying to look away because they're all in the same political team or something like that. People suffer willingly as a form of weird self-sacrifice, so there is no accountability for the leadership that makes bad decision after bad decision (although of course they are making good decisions for the people who have the status and money).
by mingus88 | 2025-06-10 23:01:20+00:00
Privacy here means Apple is not a data broker. Your inference requests are completely anonymous.

Apple made their money when they sold an expensive bit of hardware. They even use some of these large margins to build out private compute cloud to make sure they never see what you send them

Frankly they are the only big tech company I will even remotely trust. The fact that their AI isn’t bleeding edge is a feature for me
by whodidntante | 2025-06-10 23:01:27+00:00
I can only talk about my personal (US based) experience. This includes many US based startups,some VC startups, senior leadership in a large tech company, and a senior executive position in another large tech company. I have also worked with, and built, tech organizations in multiple EU countries, and have been involved in the technical due diligence and acquisition discussions with several EU companies. I admit that my experience is about 6 years old, as I am no longer in the tech industry, and I do not know what has changed during this time.

Money: There is more money for US startups. Investors (US and EU) want to invest in US based startups, not EU startups. US investors are willing to risk more money and take greater risk. EU startups that gain traction will attract US companies in that they provide a good way to extend their market to the EU, not as much for their innovations. Tech entrepreneurs (US or EU) want to work in the US if they can, because that is where the excitement and risk taking is and where the money can be made.

Teams: Building and managing EU tech teams is very different than US tech teams. EU teams need a lot more emotional hand holding, and EU engineers are far more salary oriented than equity oriented. It is far more difficult to motivate them to go above and beyond - the "we need to get this fix or feature in tonight so we can deploy n the morning" simply will not get done if it is already 5pm. Firing EU workers is much more difficult. There are a lot more regulations for EU teams, in order to "protect" them, and that results in the teams being more "lifestyle" teams rather than "innovation teams". EU teams get paid a lot less than their US counterparts.

Failure: Good failure is not a problem in the US, it can actually be a badge of honor. EU is very risk averse, and people avoid failure.

There are of course exceptions all around, but the weight of these observations and experiences are in favor of US teams.

This is in no way saying it is better to live in the US, there are a lot of things about the EU that are more attractive than the US, and I would probably have a better lifestyle living in Europe now that I am no longer working. But innovation and money is not one of them.
by gklitt | 2025-06-10 23:01:33+00:00
Actually, Patchwork has surprisingly few features! Think of it more like an OS than a product. The goal is a small set of composable primitives that let you build many things - documents, tools, branching/diffs, plugins…

To answer your question: although we use Patchwork every day, it’s currently very rough around the edges. The SDK for building stuff needs refinement (and SDKs are hard to change later…) Reliability and performance need improvement, in coordination with work on Automerge. We also plan to have more alpha users outside our lab before a broader release, to work through some of these issues.

In short, we feel that it’s promising and headed in a good direction, but it’s not there yet.
by dataviz1000 | 2025-06-10 23:03:13+00:00
Take it to the next level, integrate the chatbot into a browser extension side panel. Let people navigate to websites that contain the information.

This will work. It will allow the chatbot to provide up to the minute data and information from the source. It will allow the user to maintain context -- like a popup dialog allows the user to maintain visual context. And, it will incentivize content creators to curate and provide information and data as people will be visiting their websites.

If anyone thinks this might be a good idea also, I've already laid down the foundation approaching a browser extension side panel as a framework like Electron or Playwright and did the grunt work. [0]

I put the VSCode IPC and other core libraries into this project. The IPC is important because a browser extension with this use case requires looking at a browser as a distributed system of javascript processes that communicate a a dozen different ways

> Environments: Node.js main process, Node.js child process, Node.js worker thread, browser main thread (window), iframe, dedicated Web Worker, Shared Worker, Service Worker, AudioWorklet.

> Communication: fetch/XMLHttpRequest, WebSocket, RTCDataChannel, EventSource, BroadcastChannel, SharedArrayBuffer + Atomics, localStorage storage events, MessageChannel/MessagePort, postMessage/onmessage, Worker.postMessage/worker.onmessage, parentPort.postMessage/parentPort.on('message'), ChildProcess.send/process.on('message'), stdin/stdout streams.

and VSCode provides a protocol interface with only `onMessage` and `send` so I can define my own that are not provided creating a consistent API for communication.

Regardless, I have it working but it needs to be completely rewritten.

[0]https://github.com/adam-s/doomberg-terminal
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-06-10 23:03:13+00:00
Not going to take sides on the particular debate, but one could certainly argue that DRM is just a double-edge blade.

The world is less fun with less art and games. And those require money to be made. The cost of securing that or making legitimate purchases cheaper (broadening the legal market) may be the initial online requirement and potential performance impacts.

Again, I'm not saying Denuvo is or is not a net in one way or the other. Just that there is room for gray.
by mlsu | 2025-06-10 23:03:30+00:00
This is the first I've heard of foaming PLA, definitely have to check that out.

Did you do the whole airplane with a small printer like the A1 / A1 mini? I would love to print airfoils but I'm struggling to imagine a way to link individual prints together in a way that preserves stiffness. My 100cm wing would need 10x (10x10cm) printed parts somehow attached to one another.

Until I figure this out it's foamboard building for the type of airplanes I want to build (glider)
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-10 23:04:23+00:00
> Calling Teslas garbage on wheels doesn't help either, when the accident and defect statistics seem to indicate otherwise.

Uh, Tesla routinely has people wait for months for spare parts [1]. Bad logistics, okay, excusable for a company just a year or two in business, but Tesla is in for well over a decade now. That's also a contributor in why Tesla vehicles cost significantly more to insure [2], with reports of carriers refusing Tesla vehicles at all cropping up even a year ago [3], and all models being listed as "difficult to insure" in NYC [4]. In Germany, the situation appears to be similar, with serious premiums compared to other cars [5]. And that's all before thinking about the current wave of politically motivated vandalism - say some idiot bashes in a window, good luck getting a replacement in time, not to mention the insurance premium hike that's inevitable after filing a claim.

As for defects, well, the build quality of the Cybertruck is so much a meme at this point that I won't waste time researching on it. Steel sheets literally falling off the vehicle. The bloody thing turning rusty from ordinary rain. No matter what, that's inacceptable.

> Not a Tesla fanboy by the way, but the discussion around Tesla seems to me to be unfair especially in certain circles.

It's not like the criticism isn't well founded in facts. The decision of forgoing LIDAR (by Musk himself, who called LIDAR a "crutch" [6]) has been debated for years, the constant overpromises and underdeliveries led to a multitude of legal issues and SEC trouble, so did the various other issues surrounding lemon laws, general build quality and spare parts availability that I've linked before. And there's a shocking report of someone claiming to be a Tesla IT insider from 2018 that details very shoddy IT practices [7].

And that's before getting to the Cybertruck which is such a dangerous design that it's deemed unsafe to drive on European roads (with the "workarounds" some people found [8] being under serious questioning) or the completely deranged actions of its leader of the last month.

[1] https://www.carscoops.com/2023/11/tesla-owners-stuck-waiting...

[2] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42709679/tesla-insurance-...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModelY/comments/18yrag1/why_ar...

[4] https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumers/auto_insurance/difficult-to...

[5] https://tff-forum.de/t/versicherung-fuer-tesla-extrem-teuer/...

[6] https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/22/anyone-relying-on-lidar-is...

[7] https://x.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404645376

[8] https://efahrer.chip.de/news/tesla-fan-sichert-sich-eu-zulas...
by tialaramex | 2025-06-10 23:06:07+00:00
> We see PMs easily enacting massive legislative reforms and even Constitutional changes that are nigh impossible in the US

I'm responding to this part separately because it's a very different issue. The existence of "superior law" in the form of a written constitution, is very silly. There need be only a single law, the law of the land - and the legislature must be able to change it - and only them, otherwise why have a legislature at all?

These are only man's laws, they're no different than the laws of Football ("soccer") for example, they are not facts about the world like Mother Nature's Laws - and so to hold some of these laws superior to others is a waste of everybody's time. The resulting paralysis in the US is not something to be praised, it's just another rusted joint, a lost degree of flexibility and so a point of weakness.

In reality, the supposed "impossible" constitutional changes in the US simply enable learned helplessness. Democratic representatives weep that alas much as they wish otherwise they "cannot" fix obvious problems because change is "impossible" and then of course somebody who actually does want to change things just does and says (as we might expect remembering these are only man's laws) if you don't like it too fucking bad.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-06-10 23:07:06+00:00
> I think this will probably just create a strong incentive to cover important things and move away from clickbait.

But clickbait is how they make money...

That's like saying, "Oh, Apple will just have to move away from selling the iPhone and start selling hamburgers instead."

I mean, sure, but they're not going to like it, and it's going to come with a lot of lost revenue and profits.

I find myself regularly copying URLs, sending it to Gemini, and asking it to answer what I want to get out of the article.

I'm not wasting my time scrolling through a mile of website and 88,000 ads to find the answer to the headline.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-06-10 23:07:24+00:00
David Foster Wallace & David Sedaris are both "consummable media" in that they're pleasurable to read... but you walk away from their material and just feel empty (except for esoteric connections you might've woven into your own storyline). With any expert technical knowledge, you'll quickly know that Wallace wasn't any expert.

I've only read Infinite Jest once, and would have edited it differently myself — but the scenes on addiction are powerful, stressful, and accurate (as somebody over a decade california clean). Pale King is better prose, but in both cases DFW isn't a "complete" author — he expects too much from his readers.

At least in Sedaris' case, he keeps his prose brief =D
by kmalikakande | 2025-06-10 23:08:22+00:00
We just launched the Nonprofit Check Plus API — a fast, lightweight, and developer-first alternative to GuideStar’s API for verifying U.S. nonprofits.

Why we built it:

GuideStar’s API is powerful but overkill (and overpriced) for many use cases. It's not self-serve, takes days to access, and locks basic nonprofit data behind enterprise pricing.

So we created Nonprofit Check Plus to offer a more accessible option: • Real-time nonprofit status checks • Free tier with generous usage • No attribution required on paid plans

We aggregate data from: • IRS Business Master File (BMF) • IRS Pub 78 (deductibility) • IRS 990 filings (core EIN/filing data) • IRS AROE (Automatic Revocation of Exemption List) • OFAC Sanctions list (compliance risk)

Popular use cases: • Donation or grant platforms verifying nonprofits • Compliance/KYC checks for fiscal sponsors • Marketplaces or apps that surface nonprofits • CRM or accounting tools that store EINs

Compared to GuideStar: • Faster onboarding (minutes, not days) • Simpler pricing (starts free, no contracts) • Smaller footprint for integrations • Built for developers, not enterprise gatekeeping

Try it out: https://pactman.org/nonprofitcheckplus-api/landing

Would love your thoughts or feedback — especially if you’ve tried to integrate with Guidestar/Candid before. AMA.
by hinkley | 2025-06-10 23:08:38+00:00
For popcounts this is the classical solution. Make aggregation lazy and worry about keeping k smaller numbers accurate cheaply, and let the reader worry about calculating a total, which is likely eventually consistent anyway.

But for multiple read exclusive write this is never going to work. Or at least not without extra silicon. Which maybe should be a thing. The problem of course would be that a multi-word atomic sum instruction would actually have to cross cache lines to avoid false sharing. So you'd end up with counters on contiguous cache lines but occupying 64 bytes apiece, which is a lot.

It would almost call for a special region of memory that has different cache coherency behavior and I can't see that being easy, fast, or backward compatible which is maybe why we don't do it.
by bluSCALE4 | 2025-06-10 23:09:59+00:00
Very meandering comment. You've highlighted a very stupid reason for introducing CLI at install albeit a real situation. Didn't know there was a command for bypassing it and I freely admit, it made me see red.

The true difference between Windows and other OSes is that the CLI was thought out. I imagine there are still people out there running headless OSes. The UI is optional. Though this isn't the case for macOS, it tries to pretend it is IMO.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-10 23:10:33+00:00
It's not so much a social problem as a political problem. Zoning rules are applied at the local level, with the result that having a vote requires already living somewhere and then the rules reflect what people who already own a home there want (higher prices) rather than what people who would like to own a home there want (lower prices).

But technology often can solve political problems by shifting the balance of power. Come up with more ways to make it easier for people to live away from high cost of living areas, for example, so that governments with high housing costs start losing tax base to other jurisdictions.
by paradox460 | 2025-06-10 23:10:45+00:00
I don't use Google anymore, and haven't in over a year (I use kagi instead) but for finding information that could be buried deep within slow, ad ridden websites, the AI and quick question features are indispensable. Things like "is game XYZ available on gamepass" or "which is state is comparable in area to germany" are good examples of this
by j_w | 2025-06-10 23:12:04+00:00
I very briefly stalked their osdev forum posts. Looks like a hobby project with a focus on writing (their own?) audio/video playing (and maybe even editing?) software on top of it.

Based on their docs, it looks like it's not POSIX compatible and they seem to have their own core libs for everything. Unlikely that it will ever go beyond a hobby project but its a very neat dive. Years of work. Solo osdev-ers are beasts, that's why they do it all.
by yyyk | 2025-06-10 23:12:42+00:00
It's always impressive when someone builds an OS.

To be noticed by a large community though, a new OS needs to be different from yet another C-based POSIX-style system. We already have a lot of those which are fine enough. It would be nice to see a new OS chucking away that legacy and doing some new things, supporting Linux via a WSL-style system at most.
by carlgreene | 2025-06-10 23:12:50+00:00
Wow this comes as a surprise and is so so sad. When I was getting into programming a decade ago Mikeal’s twitter was a huge resource in keeping me up to date and learning things about Node.

I never met him IRL, but you form a one way relationship with people you look up to online and Mikeal is one of the people for me. May he rest easy.
by thot_experiment | 2025-06-10 23:13:25+00:00
Me, Mistral and Claude writing modules on top of a homebrew assistant framework in node with a web frontend. I started out mostly handwriting the first couple modules and the framework for it. (todo and a time tracker) and now the AI is getting pretty good at replicating the patterns I like using, esp with some prompt engineering as long as I don't ask for entire architectures but just prod it along. It's just so easy to make the exact thing you want now. All the heavy lifting is done by ollama and the node/browser APIs.

The only dependency on the node side is 'mime' which is just a dict of mime types, data lives inside node's new `node:sqlite` everything on the front side that isn't just vanilla is alpine. It runs on my main desktop and has filesystem access (which doesn't yet do anything useful really) but the advantage here is that since I've written (well at least read) all of the code I can put a very high level of trust into my interactions.
by Swizec | 2025-06-10 23:13:29+00:00
> you could "just ask the question yourself."

Just like googling, AIing is a skill. You have to know how to evaluate and judge AI responses. Even how to ask the right questions.

Especially asking the right questions is harder than people realize. You see this difference in human managers where some are able to get good results and others aren’t, even when given the same underlying team.
by megamike | 2025-06-10 23:14:24+00:00
I recall as a tourist visiting some 25 yrs ago and was shocked by how much a breakfast was at IHOP this was in the Golden Park area and than was more shocked when down the street at a realtors office with the for sale listings on the window and there was a listing for a 'unit' for 350,000 and reading further it was a garage made into some sort of condo Has SF always been wacky overpriced?
by Animats | 2025-06-10 23:14:43+00:00
Someone else pointed out the problem when I suggested, a few days ago, that it would be useful to have a LLM trained on public domain materials for which copyright has expired. The Great Books series, the out of copyright material in the Harvard libraries, that sort of thing.

That takes us back to the days when men were men, women were women, gays were criminals, trannies were crazy, and the sun never set on the British Empire.[1]

[1] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/copyright
by orionsbelt | 2025-06-10 23:15:26+00:00
It all sounds probably correct to me.

Of course, progress could stall out, but we appear to have sufficient compute to do anything a human brain can do, and in areas, AIs are already far better than humans. With the amount of brain power working in, and capital pouring into, this area, including work on improving algorithms, I think this essay is fundamentally correct that the takeoff has started.
by mousethatroared | 2025-06-10 23:15:28+00:00
I can put EV tires on an ICE and get 100k miles out of the tires, but why would I? They suck.

The brake dust is a valid point but negated by hybrid drivetrains.

But it's all a wash. No one cares about externalities; neither the rich prog virtue signaling in an EV nor (obviously) the hick rolling coal. If they did there would be popular support for lowered speed limits and there isnt.