MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ty6853 | 2025-06-09 13:37:12+00:00
The employers cast votes, illegals do not, seems like an easy calculus. Arrest the illegals to win the immigrant vote.

Rationally someone on HN is not going to want to understand this because it is not in their interest to understand it, because they benefit from illegal immigrants more than they don't.

And that's why they simply flagged my very valid point, no matter that it is well into the + and follows HN rules.
by protimewaster | 2025-06-09 13:37:57+00:00
One of my issues is that I just don't want to have to log into search. I use a bunch of different devices each day, some of which I control and some of which I don't, throughout the course of my work day. I don't want to have to log into Kagi on each one. It's much easier to just use a search that doesn't require a login.

Plus, it seems like having to login is inevitably makes it easier for them to associate activity with a specific real-like person. It's probably easier for them to associate my activity with me when I log in than it is for DDG or Google to track my activity when I'm not logged in and can't be easily distinguished from the dozen other people that used that computer that day.
by nimbius | 2025-06-09 13:38:45+00:00
maybe like 40 years ago? ive never understood where this comes from...its sort of the same argument machinists in the seventies had when automotive companies were building components with 15% nickel hardening out of dedicated normalizing and heat treat furnaces. tool steel life died a bit, but it wasnt the end of the world.

not anymore really. Kennametal and Sandvik all make insert tooling that will easily cut through Ti. Your multi-axis mills and CNC's will even track the tool wear for you and report when to replace. Titanium is no worse or better in your Haas than any other material in 2025.

and if youre still having problems, EDM will absolutely slice through it like butter.

nobody is working endmills or lathes with dry Ti and toolsteel in 2025. robots drown the piece in coolant and pick the right tools.
by Panzer04 | 2025-06-09 13:39:11+00:00
We can appreciate that process is important, but at some point you're falling down a slippery slope here, surely?

We're talking about a factor that no one has previously had reason to consider important.

Of course, I don't know hard it truly is to undertake a study. I have to imagine for something like this you could write up a basic study protocol in fairly short order.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-06-09 13:39:20+00:00
I've been eastern orthodox roughly my whole life so I'm familiar with economia. But I don't think that's the correct lens to view this through. I'm not as informed about judaism but I believe most practitioners have a very different relationship to rules and the place of them in their belief.

I do think it's a bad thing to confine women to their homes though. I'm in favor of whatever theological tools individual believers and bodies of believers decide to use to break from this historical norm.
by gibbitz | 2025-06-09 13:39:36+00:00
The gallery scene is still a thing, but even it suffers from capitalist enshitification as Art has shifted from the signifier of taste to a place to keep your money where it can't be taxed. Making the art world more of a stock market than a laboratory.

On thing I find interesting in all of this is the nearly complete avoidance of the viewer's role in Art. That removing taste, deadening the palate of the viewer through political alienation of the educated class where taste is fostered has largely allowed this to happen. Art made for artists is Art made for viewers with taste. Why can't everyone be taught to understand Art. Media literacy is how our culture can grow, but it has been defunded for decades.
by hajile | 2025-06-09 13:39:36+00:00
If they are dividing a few billion dollars in model training between a small number of rich people, it quickly becomes too expensive even for them.

Meanwhile, a free model running locally is good enough for most people. This causes pricing pressure (and I think is probably going to bankrupt most of the AI companies).

More likely IMO is that AI becomes a loss-leader. It'll all be stuff like Grok or DeepSeek where the real profit is in censorship and propaganda.
by sarchertech | 2025-06-09 13:39:45+00:00
There’s more to it than that. We don’t care about total order even within partitions. Every so often we get a message that must not be sent downstream until some subset of messages have been sent.

So most of the time we’re fine sending 100-200 parallel message batches, but sometimes we need to stop and wait for some batches to complete before sending any more.

We also want to control how hard we hammer specific resources downstream, which don’t correlate with the partitions we’d need. Additionally we want to scale up and scale down the parallelism per each of the previously mentioned resources depending on how fast they are coming in to maximize batch size (while keeping latency low).

There’s of course ways to do this with multiple partitions by having the consumers communicate with each other. But now we have added an additional consumer and topic to the pipeline, and an inter-consumer control system.

It was overall easier to have one consumer read from the existing topic and spawn goroutines, so that we can have more dynamic control, the ability to scale up and down immediately without worrying about rebalancing, and easy communication between threads.
by keybored | 2025-06-09 13:40:20+00:00
You didn’t respond to my point but that’s fine.

You bring up Hillary Clinton who neglected to campaign enough in crucial swing states. And the strategy for successfully campaigning in those swing states (based on what people tell me) seem to be to appeal more to Rust Belt issues, not The South. She’s also from the same milieu as Trump, but somehow he managed to dissociate himself from being a New England liberal and managed to spin his relationship to her as “lock her up”. Meanwhile Clinton was busy calling Trump voters a basket of deplorables, getting celebrity endorsements, and then when she lost taking a self-indulgent yoga vacation or whatever.

So which is it? Basket of deplorables or appealing to the oh-so-unfairly powerful rural/Republican base? It’s fine to take some basket-of-deplorables stance but it seems to not harmonize with your premise.

Who was Clinton supposed to appeal to again? Not rural voters apparently, and not working class people. Certainly not on the issue of universal healthcare. And she spent more effort whining about leftists not supporting her than she did trying to appeal to them.

Maybe I would take your theory seriously if the Democrats were at all competent at counter-messaging. But the Republicans managed to assert that K. Harris and the rest were all-in on identity politics last election. Then Harris and the rest said no that’s not us and probably never even brought it up, but the imprint that they did still managed to linger. So what’s the lesson? That Americans can’t have <insert popular thing> because the Democrats are incapable of setting any kind of narrative themselves and instead have to merely react to what the Republicans say? It seems that way.

Well. A modified theory is that they have plenty of counter-messaging against the left. There are also plenty of things they are willing to “sacrifice” in order to have “bipartisanship” with the Right on—namely things that the Left want. Then things become structurally insormountable because of Founding Fathers etc. Funnily enough this defeatism is not followed up by courting the supposedly precious rural voters. It’s just to sigh and conclude that half the country (or half the voting population) are chronically racist. Oh well I guess a fascist dictatorship is inevitable, and [I would rather have that than compromise with leftists] | [there is nothing that any liberal or non-racist can do about it].

> It doesn't make sense if you assume the system is intended to be fair and equitable, and represent the will of the people.

I don’t assume that America, the Democrats, or you intend that.
by jsnell | 2025-06-09 13:40:29+00:00
If you self-host, you likely won't have anywhere near enough volume to do efficient batching, and end up bottlenecked on memory rather than compute.

E.g. based on the calculations in https://www.tensoreconomics.com/p/llm-inference-economics-fr..., increasing batch size from 1 to 64 cuts the cost per token to 1/16th.
by bombcar | 2025-06-09 13:40:34+00:00
Jira kicked ass. But it’s enterprise. Which means it is customizable beyond all rational thought.

If you retrain yourself to work the way Jira does, and use all the defaults, it’s not bad at all at what it does. Quite good.

But if you use it as a bug tracker only, or customize it to all the business processes you’ve evolved over twenty years, it becomes a frightening morass.
by anorwell | 2025-06-09 13:40:43+00:00
This actually intersects with two of my current interests. We have, in production, rarely been seeing ThreadPoolExecutor hangs (JDK17) during shutdown. After a lot of debugging, I've been suspecting more and more that it may be an actual JDK issue. But, this type of issue is extremely hard to reason about in production, and I've never successfully reproduced it locally. (It's not clear to me that it's the same issue as in the post, since it's not a scheduled executor.)

Separately, we're looking at using fray for concurrency property testing, as a way to reliably catch concurrency issues in a distributed system by simulating it within a single JVM.
by tailspin2019 | 2025-06-09 13:40:52+00:00
Hacker News at its best.

There has to be a vanishingly small number of places on the internet where someone could post a question like this and immediately receive a flood of thoughtful, earnest and substantive responses.

So for all its faults, the particular version of Hacker News that’s embodied in this post + comment thread is something I care deeply about - and has had an ongoing positive impact on my life.

Great question OP!
by b_mc2 | 2025-06-09 13:41:04+00:00
"Keep in mind that the 5th Congress did not really need to struggle over the intentions of the drafters of the Constitutions in creating this Act as many of its members were the drafters of the Constitution."

"Clearly, the nation's founders serving in the 5th Congress, and there were many of them, believed that mandated health insurance coverage was permitted within the limits established by our Constitution."

This seems like a fallacy of composition, and done so to try and persuade the reader. By my rough count, just 6 of the original founders that signed the Constitution were still in Congress at this time, or just 18% of the signers[1]. There's no roll call vote that I can find, but signer Charles Pinckney had voiced general oppositions and thought "it only reasonable and equitable that these persons pay for the benefit for which they were themselves to receive, and it would be neither just nor fair for other persons to pay it"[2]

"And when the Bill came to the desk of President John Adams for signature, I think it’s safe to assume that the man in that chair had a pretty good grasp on what the framers had in mind."

This just points to the same argument that's always being made between Spirit vs Letter of the law proponents, ~4% of Congress during the 5th Congress were signers of the Constitution and we don't know how they even voted on this. So ~96% of Congress were basically in the Spirit vs Letter dispute that we're in today.

[1] https://www.constitutionfacts.com/content/constitution/files... [2] https://www.congress.gov/annals-of-congress/page-headings/5t...
by crazygringo | 2025-06-09 13:41:25+00:00
> The PLA filament (PLA is short for polylactic acid) allows hobbyists to 3D-print nostalgic novelties, replacement parts, and accessories that match the original color of vintage Apple computers.

> Over time, original Macintosh plastics have become brittle and discolored with age, so matching the "original" color can be a somewhat challenging and subjective experience.

So it seems like the color is for 3D-printing stuff to look "new"?

Makes me wonder if there will be a "thirty years discolored" version as well, if you want to print a piece to replace something broken... or can you just leave it out in the sun for a couple weeks or something?
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-09 13:41:34+00:00
Yes I would say "waiting until I'm legally obligated to act, and even then doing such a minuscule job of it that it's called 'The Phoney War'" are clear evidence of a lack of moral clarity.

It seems like you believe I'm arguing that no military action was underway prior to Churchill. I'm not. I'm arguing that (effectively) no one had "moral clarity" about the Third Reich other than Churchill.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-09 13:42:25+00:00
There's 2 big ones that I want to learn.

Quantum computer programming. I've dived a couple times into Qiskit from IBM. Also tried to get into dwave and ocean sdk but they never got back to me.

Qiskit tutorials are easy to blow through and i think even understand. But when trying to use it for my own purposes, just never get anywhere.

The other one for me with no success. Training my own specialized predicting AI models. Tensorflow, pytorch, and another.

I certainly prefer pytorch. Super simple to build models on simple stuff.

I'm trying to do something that literally nobody else has ever done. My lack of success has probably a lot more to do with that it's not perhaps actually doable.

Flipside, I might be re-approaching this now that i have the pycharm ai to help me in this progress.

>you've been there and figured out how to get past similar hurdles – please chime in! Share some helpful resources, dish out general advice, or just give a nudge of encouragement on how to take that intimidating first step.

Never be afraid to try. Always dare to fail; you only truly learn when failing. The easier you make it to fail, the quicker you learn.
by cardanome | 2025-06-09 13:42:48+00:00
Demography would make sense as an explanation if productivity stayed the same. As productivity is rising and you need less and less working hours to create the same value, this makes no sense.

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

As I said, the main driver is the ideology is neoliberalism. Main cause is the fall of the Soviet Union which removed the only serious competitor to the capitalist model and with this following the general disorganization of the left globally, weakening of unions and so on. Basically capital has no one to be scared off anymore so they can suck you dry without opposition.
by jklowden | 2025-06-09 13:43:07+00:00
> some systems can never be shut down

Tomshardware could do better reporting. There is no such thing as a computer that can’t fail, or a component that can’t be replaced. Does our reporter think the entire system was installed 25 years ago, and not one component has been replaced since? More likely it’s the ship of Theseus, and not one component is original.

I’ve replaced whole systems without interruption. You build in compatibility, then replace every computer one by one, and phase out use of the compatibility. It’s not rocket surgery.

Technical sites could be superior to the reporting in the general media on technical issues. It doesn’t have to be be stenography.
by albedoa | 2025-06-09 13:44:01+00:00
> That's a meaningful observation, regardless of whether AI is "causally disentangled from reality" or not.

And regardless of how many words someone uses in their failed attempt at "gotcha" that nobody else is playing. There are certainly some folks acting silly here, and it's not the vast majority of us who have no problem interpreting and engaging with the structural analysis.
by amluto | 2025-06-09 13:46:06+00:00
> Works great on tea

What kind of tea? I did some (controlled but not blind) experiments a few years ago, and a titanium Snow Peak mug won the contest for rapid conversion of tasty green tea into a flavorless but similar colored substance hands down.

I do not actually believe that titanium is non-reactive to food, although it’s not aggressively reactive with tomatoes the way that aluminum or cast iron is.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-06-09 13:46:37+00:00
It's an anti-semitic dog whistle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses

This poster is a fan of, or maybe actually is himself, the neonazi cartoonist StoneToss; the username is an allusion to the artist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StoneToss
by rightbyte | 2025-06-09 13:46:51+00:00
> I do not known if sovereignty makes sense in the open source world

It doesn't. I read stuff like this as a way to ride jingoist currents.

Especially not in a software sense as compared to hosting where as a general rule someother jurisdiction than your own is prefarable.

Maybe there is a need for some sort of "Programmer without borders" soon if FOSS turns too much to nationalist quarrel.
by allturtles | 2025-06-09 13:47:16+00:00
I don't think it has anything to do with moral clarity. The western allies didn't hesitate to attack because they weren't sure whether Hitler was such a bad guy after all. They feared another repetition of wwi and worse, because the increased effectiveness of aerial bombing would bring the horrors of the trenches to the home front. This fear drove all of the capitulations to Hitler by France and the UK in the 1930s, and continued as late as 1944, when much of the British leadership still feared to land armies in the killing fields of northwest Europe.
by dfxm12 | 2025-06-09 13:47:26+00:00
Why didn't you wear you wear a mask while a deadly air-borne disease was going around the world? Was it just because your governor told you to? Was it because a governor from another state told you not to? Did you even think about it? Was it because you don't value your neighbor's lives? Do you not really value your own?

Not wearing a mask, not getting a vaccine in a global pandemic of a deadly airborne disease, and otherwise going out of your way to spread a deadly disease is not behavior of "resisting authority", it is the behavior of a death cult. This behavior may also shown by denying or ignoring climate change, cutting funding to health care, food assistance, child lunches, etc...
by itsanaccount | 2025-06-09 13:48:00+00:00
> When Americans were “resisting authority” by not wearing masks and keeping their businesses opened despite lockdown orders did you feel the same pride in anti-authority behavior then?

As someone who was wearing a mask, getting the vaccine, but living in a community full of those people, I thought they were dumb and harmful.

And I still admired the "don't tell me what to do" spirit because I have actual objective principles that go beyond what benefits me. And I made people angry arguing that the government was overreaching the law in what they could force people to do.

Because I'm not an authoritarian. Words mean things.
by redeux | 2025-06-09 13:48:06+00:00
There are a lot of similarities when it comes to their tendency towards Corporatocracy and military spending, but it largely ends there.

When it comes to taxes, fiscal priorities, rights for individuals, foreign policy, crime and punishment, and of course social issues they are very different and in most cases take the opposite approach.

For example, Republicans want lower taxes for the wealthy while Democrats want lower taxes for the lower and middle classes. Republicans want to restrict individuals rights - especially for non-christian white males, Democrats don't. Republicans favor heavy handed punishment including capital punishment, Democrats favor rehabilitation and a ban on capital punishment. Republicans want to blow up the national debt through tax breaks and pork, Democrats want to control the debt through responsible spending and investments. Republicans want to stop investment in education and science while Democrats want to increase investment in these areas. These are all very real and not just aesthetics.
by lmm | 2025-06-09 13:48:07+00:00
> Monorail needs bigger tunnels than conventional rail so if you need underground sections - which most systems need - they are more expensive.

It's rare to need much in the way of tunnels on an elevated line, by its very nature. And since the beam is narrower than the carriages, it doesn't actually increase the tunnel diameter (for a round cross section) that much.

> even if you are only need a single isolated elevated line though monorail still loses just because there is no standard: when you need spare parts in 20 years it is questinable if you can get them.

These days there are systems that have been built for decades by big name manufacturers, often the same manufacturers that make trains. Hitachi or Alstom-nee-Bombardier aren't going to disappear and leave their clients high and dry, if only because it would be bad for their broader rail businesses to do so.

I'm no fan of monorails - quite the opposite - but there are cases where they work.
by mmcnl | 2025-06-09 13:48:35+00:00
I think this is a good analysis but falls a little short. Sure, the price is not high for inference, but what about the cost? To be fair, the author already tries to answer this claim, but you could look more critically at this question. Something like: taking into account the insane amount of capital that is being spent and injected into AI companies, what is the strategy to break-even in a reasonable amount of time? What would be the implications for the price over time from now on? That's an interesting thought experiment that, at least in my head, raises the question if the price we're paying for inference today is actually fair.
by hedora | 2025-06-09 13:48:37+00:00
If you append ? to the end of a query, kagi runs the query through an llm that cites its sources. It very rarely hallucinates at this point, but I still click through to check.

I keep trying chatgpt style products, but rarely reach for them because I don’t really have a concrete use case for them. I use ? all the time, code completion at work and regularly generate images. Generic chat can do those things but is never as good as specialized tools I have access to.

My guess is that purpose-built specialized expert AIs are going to end up being more useful than the “everything” products like the chatgpt UI, but time will tell, I guess.
by jbd0 | 2025-06-09 13:48:41+00:00
Before I started self-hosting my LLMs with Ollama, I imagined that they required a ton of energy to operate. I was amazed at how quickly my local LLM operates with a relatively inexpensive GeForce RTX 4060 with 8GB VRAM and an 8b model. The 8b model isn't as smart as the hosted 70b models I've used, but it's still surprisingly useful.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-09 13:48:53+00:00
> you also don't have any evidence that they are profitable.

Sure we do. Go to AWS or any other hosting provider and pay them for inference. You think AWS are going to subsidise your usage of somebody else’s models indefinitely?

> All the data points we have today show that companies are spending an insane amount of capex on gaining AI dominance without the revenue to achieve profitability yet.

Yes, capex not opex. The cost of running inference is opex.
by techpineapple | 2025-06-09 13:49:03+00:00
“Whay if they voted for someone you don't like?”

Not really a theoretical, but either way, I would love it if the current admins were making an impassioned plea to answer the questions your asking, and working with Congress to get the laws changed. I think we desperately need to have that discussion. As it stands they’re not, they’re just appealing to emotion with arguments like “they’re eating your cats and dogs”, and forcefully bypassing due process.