MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NemoNobody | 2025-06-24 08:56:02+00:00
I can't reply without a book, maybe literally actually which is problematic bc nobody reads anymore books regularly anymore.

A crazy number of people will read crazy long comments tho, so when I noticed that 7-8 months ago, I took to the Internet and started dropping "bite sized" pieces of ideas that I only had crumbs of.

I've been actively contemplating, researching, imagining, discussing, generally working towards a New America - with only what I didn't want it to be as a guide.

That new America has to include an economic system that BOTH motivates and mandates activities that corrects the current imbalance of wealth distribution AND it must also implement simultaneously changes that prevent such an imbalance again fr occuring in the foreseeable future.

I'm about done actually. Motivation was everything. A billionaire is motivated by the pursuit of money - so that's where we get them.

They can be billionaires, but we are going to gamify their pursuit of our collective monies, so much so that between massively increasing tax brackets/rates on those in the upper echelons - we also make them do stuff and things with their money - or they literally hit maximum limits in their bank accounts/investment brokerages - perhaps there is maximum wealth total, so if the taxes don't get it and the billionaires too mentally ill with dragon sickness to spend it on their missions to level up - then they can't claim or accept a single dollar more until they do.

Essentially, I turned regulations into incentives and incentives into regulations tho how exactly is hard to explain - it's not standalone and ought to be utilized alongside an asset value tax - a small tax on the fair market value of any and all assets above x amount, and owned by someone with a net worth of greater than x amount.

Without just explaining more I'll skip to the end.

If assets don't just appreciate in value - tho the ones like single family homes will actually appear to be become negative value by the 3rd or maybe 4th home owned by/between the same property own owner, all directly due to increasing taxes on fees applied to all properties owned by said person
by nextlevelwizard | 2025-06-24 08:56:30+00:00
Can you provide links to these 30 products you have shipped?

I keep hearing how people are so god damn productive with LLMs, but whenever I try to use them they can not reliably produce working code. Usually producing something that looks correct at first, but either doesn't work (at all or as intended).

Going over you list:

1. if the problem is that I need to be very specific with how I want LLM to fix the issue, like providing it the solution, why wouldn't I just make the change myself?

2. I don't even know how you can think that not vibe coding means you lack experience

3. Yes. If the model keeps trying to use non-existent language feature or completely made up functions/classes that is a problem and nothing to do with "autism"

4. This is what all AI maximalists want to think; that only reason why average software developer isn't knee deep in AI swamp with them is that they are luddites who are just scared for their jobs. I personally am not as I have not seen LLMs actually being useful for anything but replacing google searches.

5. I don't know why you keep bringing up Reddit so much. I also don't quite get who is going against the tide here, are you going against the tide of the downvotes or am I for not using LLMs to "fucking fly"?

>But this is production grade shit

I truly hope it is, because...

>and I don't even remember the last time I wrote more than two consecutive lines of code.

Means if there is a catastrophic error, you probably can't fix it yourself.
by tomhow | 2025-06-24 08:56:35+00:00
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by netdevphoenix | 2025-06-24 08:57:21+00:00
>Honestly, I think that's quite generous. And I only phrase it that way, rather than more like "that X should be 99" because trying to predict more than about 15 years out in tech, especially when it comes to breakthroughs, is a fool's errand.

I know! I set a rather low one to avoid having all the HN LLM Koolaid drinkers and LLM astroturfers have a go at it
by eptcyka | 2025-06-24 08:57:45+00:00
Vast majority of new car sales will not let the new owner make more money and were financed with debt.

If all of those buyers bought used for cash, nobody would be able to afford used cars for cash.

It really is only businesses that can convert debt into income, most consumers do not want to. There is nothing I can spend on to get a higher hourly rate.
by maxdamantus | 2025-06-24 08:57:58+00:00
Yes, performance (per watt, or per mass of silicon).

Profit is dependent on scale. FPGAs are useful if the scale is so small that an ASIC production line is more expensive than buying a couple of FPGAs.

If the scale is large enough that ASIC production is cheaper, you reap the performance improvements.

Think of it this way: FPGAs are programmed using ASIC circuitry. If you programmed an FPGA using an FPGA (using ASIC circuitry), do you think you'll achieve the same performance as the underlying FPGA? Of course not (assuming you're not cheating with some "identity" compilation). Same thing applies with any other ASIC.

Each layer of FPGA abstraction incurs a cost: more silicon/circuitry/resistance/heat/energy and lower clock speeds.
by frank20022 | 2025-06-24 08:58:23+00:00
All my smartphones lasted 4+ years, except ironically the FP3 that only lasted 2 years. I really wanted to like it, but assembly quality was terrible, battery was falling on the floor all the time, and max volume for calls was almost unaudible, an apparently rare problem they have been unable to solve.

I hope they have improved since and wish them the best, but as sick of Apple I am, I am also too afraid to try FP again...
by pjc50 | 2025-06-24 08:58:41+00:00
> Only 47 milliseconds from power-on to operational.

Absolute eternity by modern computer standards. GPU will be a trillion operations ahead of you before you even start. Or for another view, that's a whole seven frames at 144Hz.

People say FPGAs will be great for many workloads, but then don't give examples. In my experience the only real ones are those requiring low-latency hardware comms. ADC->FPGA->DAC is a powerful combo. Everything else gets run over by either CPU doing integer work or GPU doing FP.
by rootlocus | 2025-06-24 08:58:54+00:00
> The new version of NO FAKES requires almost every internet gatekeeper to create a system that will a) take down speech upon receipt of a notice; b) keep down any recurring instance—meaning, adopt inevitably overbroad replica filters on top of the already deeply flawed copyright filters; c) take down and filter tools that might have been used to make the image; and d) unmask the user who uploaded the material based on nothing more than the say so of person who was allegedly “replicated.”

Sounds like the kind of system small companies can't implement and large companies won't care to implement.
by JoachimS | 2025-06-24 08:59:22+00:00
You also need to bring time to market, product lifetime, the need for upgrades, fixes and flexibility, risks and R&D cost including skillset and NRE when comparing FPGAs and ASICs. Most, basically all ASICs start out as FPGAs, either in labs or in real products.

Another aspect where FPGAs are interesting alternatives are security. Open up a fairly competent HSM and you will find FPGAs. FPGAs, esp ones that can be locked to a bitstream - for example anti-fuse or Flash based FPGAs from Microchip are used in high security systems. The machines can be built in a less secure setting, and the injection, provisioning of a machine can be done in a high security setting.

Dynamically reconfigurable systems was a very interesting idea. With support for partial reconfiguration, which allowed you to change accelarator cores connected to a CPU platform seemed to bring a lot of promise. Xilinx was an early provider with the C6x family IRRC through company they bought. AMD also provided devices with support for partial reconfiguration. There were also some research devices and startups for this in the early 2000s. I planned to do a PhD around this topic. But tool, language support and the added cost in the devices seemed to have killed this. At least for now.

Today, in for example mobile phone systems, FPGAs provide the compute power CPUs can't do with the added ability do add new features as the standards evolve, regional market requirements affect the HW. But this is more like FW upgrades.
by strogonoff | 2025-06-24 08:59:35+00:00
The issue with the emoji, at least in their current depictions, is that they are guaranteed to be higher in visual hierarchy (among the few things of undying relevance that we were taught in university) than any surrounding text. They stand out thanks to their different nature and a lot of visual complexity (intricate features).

Good visual hierarchy means you end up looking first at what is important. Good visual hierarchy sets correct context.

Bad visual hierarchy adds mental overhead. Bad visual hierarchy means that any time you look, even when you don’t consciously realize it, you end up scanning through hierarchy offenders, discarding them, then getting to the important part, and re-acknowledging offenders when it comes to them in appropriate context. This can happen multiple times: first for the screen as a whole, then when you focus on a smaller part, etc. As we encounter common visual hierarchy offenders more and more often, we train ourselves to discard them quicker, but it is never completely free of cost.

There are strategic uses for symbols in line with visual hierarchy principles. For example, using emoji as an icon in an already busy GUI is something I do as well.

However, none of those apply in terminal’s visual language of text and colours, and unlike a more or less static artifact fully under designer’s control (like a magazine or a GUI) in a fluid terminal screen where things shift around and combine in different ways it is almost impossible for software author to correctly predict what importance what has to me.

Those CLI tool authors who like to signify errors with bright emoji: have you thought that my screen can be big, and after I ran your program N times troubleshooting something there can be N bright red exclamation marks on my screen, N-1 of which are not even remotely close to where the message of interest is? have you thought that your output can coexist in a multiplexer with output from another program, which I am more interested in? should other programs compete for attention with brighter emojis? and so on.

As to joyful touches, which are of course appreciated, those can be added with the old-style text-based emoticons.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-24 08:59:48+00:00
Interesting article, and it also shows why in the end, for most games we would mainly use Assembly directly.

What many are not aware is that after graduating from bedroom coders, having not much more than what one could acquire thanks to parents support, or small kids jobs, in proper studios cross-compiling with more powerful Assemblers, or indeed K&R C like languages were an improved developer experience.
by teekert | 2025-06-24 09:00:54+00:00
FairPhone has such limited resources and needs to extract money from such a small niche, that they have hard choices to make. And it's sustainability above all.

But if another party would help with the security aspects, that might change the equation for them.

FairPhone may not be the most attractive partner security-wise but I think that the FairPhone team is much, much less likely to rug pull them like Google did (and Samsung may). Which has got to be worth something.
by Shmungus | 2025-06-24 09:00:54+00:00
I’ve built a high-performance, open-source C++ simulation engine designed to ingest streams of tokens (e.g., from large language models) and convert them into live trade signals on sub-10 microsecond latency.

The engine performs semantic mapping of tokens like “crash,” “bullish,” or “panic” into weighted market bias and volatility signals — which then dynamically adjust trading strategy parameters at fractional time scales.

It supports lock-free concurrency, zero-copy streaming, configurable sensitivities, and detailed logging for research and experimentation.

I made it as a pet project exploring the fusion of NLP and quantitative trading at low latency.

Would love to get feedback from the HN community, especially those with expertise in quant finance, low-latency systems, or AI-driven market strategies.

Here’s the repo and a sample token stream for quick testing.
by AIPedant | 2025-06-24 09:03:43+00:00
Cantor’s original proof of the uncountability of the reals didn’t use a diagonalization argument, it used order + completeness and in fact applies to any complete poset. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_first_set_theory_ar...

Likewise his proof that there is no surjection from a set to its power set uses a more general diagonalization argument that doesn’t make any uncomfortable assumptions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_theorem
by john01dav | 2025-06-24 09:03:51+00:00
I acknowledge that such telling exists, but there is still responsibility for people choosing to listen to it. Skepticism is vital. Beyond being skeptical of what you see, it is wild to me that we don't have approximately everyone blocking all ads, cable news, most social feeds, and other such transparently manipulative shit. Advertisement especially is literally industrialized and research-based psychological manipulation to make people do things that make no sense (see what Alfred Sloan did to GM, for an early example) — it's toxic and should be absolutely avoided.
by tim333 | 2025-06-24 09:04:13+00:00
The "AI lifestyle subsidy" is a bad analogy to things like 1/3 cost Uber rides which were fun while they lasted. A friend of mine found a hack for the limo service and got about 30 of those for free. I'm not sure people are saying wow, I'm living the AI lifestyle. The dot com boom seems a better model for what's happening now.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-06-24 09:05:51+00:00
The EU has a different approach to this kind of regulation than the USA [0]. EU regulations are more about principles and outcomes, while US regulation is more about strict rules and compliance with procedures. The EU tends to only impose fines if the regulations are deliberately being ignored, while the US imposes fines for any non-compliance with the regs.

So while you can compare the two, it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. You need to squint a bit.

The DMCA has proven to be way too broad, but there's no appetite to change that because it's very useful for copyright holders, and only hurts small content producers/owners. This looks like it's heading the same way.

> This thing impacts gatekeepers, so not your small mom-and-pop startup but billion dollar companies.

I don't see any exemptions for small businesses, so how do you conclude this?

[0] https://www.grcworldforums.com/risk/bridging-global-business... mentions this but I couldn't find a better article specifically addressing the differences in approach.
by stiray | 2025-06-24 09:06:00+00:00
There is no alternative. /e/ and others dont even come close.

Security is one thing, the privacy they(GrapheneOS) provide is another. You can have privacy without every detail of security they require. While they refuse to provide privacy without security.

Thats why I buy Pixels and feel more and more dirty each time I do it.

Had sailfish in between but that is another set of problems, Jolla failing to realize, they need to have strong compatibility Android layer (to use everyday stuff like bluetooth - in my case for paying public transport) until there is enough software for Sailfish. In any case, Sailfish is my FAR prefered option, over GrapheneOS. But unfortunately the spin of the world and my wishes are not aligned.
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by instamatch | 2025-06-24 09:07:30+00:00
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by JoachimS | 2025-06-24 09:07:35+00:00
Yes you can control the seeds and get determinstic bitstreams. Depending on device, tools you can also assist the tools by providing floorplanning constraints. And one can of course try out seeds to get designs that meet results you need. Tillitis use this to find seeds that generate implementations that meet the timing requirements. Its in ther custom tool flow.
by palata | 2025-06-24 09:09:28+00:00
It's not "a bit more repairable": it makes it repairable for people who would not be able to repair a mainstream phone.

I have many friends who never repair their phone: as soon as something is broken they buy a new one, because the repair price is often very high. With FairPhone, you get 5 years of warranty and after that you can repair it yourself at a low price.

If some people can repair their FairPhone instead of throwing their mainstream phone away, then that's a win.
by 8K832d7tNmiQ | 2025-06-24 09:10:08+00:00
> On a more positive note, due to the AOSP/Pixel drama there now is a real possibility a different major OEM will be supported

I really do not know which other major OEM other than exynos-based samsung that comes near GOS' checklist, but here I am hoping if he is talking about Nothing phone.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-24 09:10:40+00:00
Lisp Machines from Xerox PARC, Texas Instruments and Genera proved their point, even if the market wasn't up to their price point versus UNIX graphical workstations.

Dylan was going to be Newton's system programming language, and while the language group lost the the C++ team (Apple had two competing teams for the Newton OS), it was still NewtonScript for everything userspace, and it was getting a JIT by the time the project was canceled.

Objective-C is dynamically typed beyond the common subset with C, and was used even to write NeXTSTEP drivers.

I don't know how much of a chance Julia has against CUDA/ROCm/C++, especially now that everyone on the GPU space has decided to give feature parity to Python on their hardware, via day one bindings to the compute libraries and JIT DSLs, so that makes Mojo even less of a chance than Julia has.

Julia has an established ecosystem, and presence on the scientific community with ties to MIT.

Python is the champion, and most folks writing CUDA/ROCm/C++ are already using it.

So who would be reaching out to Mojo, instead of Python JIT DSLs/bindings or Julia, when having Fortran, C, C++ allergy?
by TheDong | 2025-06-24 09:10:56+00:00
People will usually only carry one phone, and they'll want one that is capable of running recent apps, storing their photos and music, and also taking high quality photos.

If you upgrade a phone to get a new one with a better camera, well, the processor on the old one is probably decent still, it could be a mini PC where the camera quality doesn't matter.

Also, it's a status symbol, you can't just _not_ upgrade.
by typewithrhythm | 2025-06-24 09:11:07+00:00
If you say we are not paying a debt to slave owners, then slave owners do not receive money.

If you say we are not paying the current holder of a bond we created to pay slave owners in the past, then you damage your current credit rating. (In the worst case, potentially hurting organisations that let you have good terms for socially beneficial causes, refusing to pay back a charity that helps end slavery for example).
by adrian_b | 2025-06-24 09:11:34+00:00
Unfortunately it is impossible to predict how many days, because you do not know what have the chicken been fed with.

I have read a study that sampled chicken livers for a detailed chemical analysis. The values were consistent for a given producer, but between producers the content of vitamin A could vary ten times. There is no doubt that chicken from the brands with high vitamin A content have been fed with vitamin supplements.

The values of typical vitamin A content for chicken liver that you see in various databases correspond to traditionally fed chicken and if you would eat such chicken livers to cover about half of your daily protein intake that would be slightly below the maximum acceptable intake of vitamin A. Raw chicken liver has slightly more than 1/6 of its weight as protein. Cooked chicken liver retains about 2/3 of the weight of raw chicken liver, due to losing water.

Unfortunately, you cannot know whether the chicken liver that you buy is not one of those with much higher vitamin A content, and the excess of vitamin A is eliminated very slowly from your body.

Eating chicken liver for a week from time to time should not cause any problems, but you cannot use them as a staple food, like you can with the more expensive and more bland chicken breast.
by JoachimS | 2025-06-24 09:12:22+00:00
The ability to optimize the memory access and memory configuration is sometimes a game changer. And modern FPGA tools have functionality to make mem access quite easy. Not as easy as a MCU/CPU, but basically the same as for an ASIC.

I would also question the premise that mem access is less tedious, easy for MCUs/CPU. Esp if you need determinstic performance and response times. Most CPUs have memory hierarchies.

The more practial attempts at dynamic, partial reconfiguration involves swapping out accelerators for specific functions. Encoders, fecoders for different wireless standards, Different curves in crypto for example. And yes somebody has to implement those.