MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonmic | 2025-06-07 01:46:55+00:00
It's not just you. There are a ton of resources of different kinds and freshness, and they're hard for a newcomer to find and evaluate quickly, so luck enters into it. Please also try: https://joyful.com/Haskell+minimap

The tools are a bit complex due to the long history and the design choices of other tools, beginning with GHC. Often they are understood only partially, or they are too hard to write about clearly and teach/learn quickly, or they have failure modes that haskellers navigate instinctively but newcomers without support get stuck on.

Like shae I recommend keeping a haskell chat room handy for quick tips, but don't get too sidetracked. The IRC channel has a greater tendency toward intricate language discussions than the matrix room.

ghcup is a good tools manager; stack can also install tools, and has better support for Windows.
by mholm | 2025-06-07 01:49:08+00:00
Talking about the AP exams in particular _improves_ time spent. You're sitting in class anyway, might as well get college credit for it. Getting a good grade there means you _won't_ have to take an equivalent course in college, most of the time. And that time in college is _truly_ free, rather than stuck in study hall, or within a boring suburb
by mdaniel | 2025-06-07 01:50:40+00:00
Now that I'm back at my computer, can search harder and it seems one can legitimately buy 256GB sticks at approximately USD$2000 a pop <https://www.ebay.com/itm/267177294719> or 128GB for $790 <https://www.ebay.com/itm/205354052535>

Since it seems A100s top out at 80GB, and appear to start at $10,000 I'd say it's a steal

Yes, I'm acutely aware that bandwidth matters, but my mental model is the rest of that sentence is "up to a point," since those "self hosted LLM" threads are filled to the brim with people measuring tokens-per-minute or even running inference on CPU

I'm not hardware adjacent enough to try such a stunt, but there was also recently a submission of a BSD-3-Clause implementation of Google's TPU <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44111452>
by SrslyJosh | 2025-06-07 01:50:52+00:00
> Reading through these commits sparked an idea: what if we treated prompts as the actual source code? Imagine version control systems where you commit the prompts used to generate features rather than the resulting implementation.

Please god, no, never do this. For one thing, why would you not commit the generated source code when storage is essentially free? That seems insane for multiple reasons.

> When models inevitably improve, you could connect the latest version and regenerate the entire codebase with enhanced capability.

How would you know if the code was better or worse if it was never committed? How do you audit for security vulnerabilities or debug with no source code?
by hackyhacky | 2025-06-07 01:51:12+00:00
The title describes this machine as "brain-like" but the article doesn't support that conclusion. Why is it brain-like?

I also don't understand why this machine is interesting. It has a lot of RAM.... ok, and? I could get a consumer-grade PC with a large amount of RAM (admittedly not quite as much), put my applications in a ramdisk, e.g. tmpfs, and get the same benefit.

In short, what is the big deal?
by jonhohle | 2025-06-07 01:51:28+00:00
I think he dismisses the fact that higher ranked schools will provide more opportunities. Those opportunities disproportionately affect your possible impact as well.

I went to a good, local engineering college that was respected in my metro area, but otherwise relatively unknown. It made it difficult to find a job on the early 2000s.

I did a masters at night after work at a well known state school (different metro area) and had FAANG recruiters all over the place.

I don’t know if a High School student can really prepare for selecting the “right” school, but a high quality college education is only one part of the equation. Connections and opportunities are equally, if not more important.
by Beijinger | 2025-06-07 01:53:12+00:00
Which one would that be? Astrill. I think Astrill is definitely one of the best. The app is top-notch, tons of international servers, works even with GFC. But it is very expensive.

mullvad vpn is double the price of AirVPN. And Astrill is double the price of mullvad vpn.
by marcosdumay | 2025-06-07 01:53:15+00:00
> Flights take off and land at airports

My impression is that every single older (pre-2010) computer system that manages the Brazilian aviation felt for that and fixed it in a hack.

> Airports never move

Also, Runways never move. Also, if runways move, they don't change direction. Also, if airport or runways move, there will exist some construction work before.

I'd add "aircraft only land in runways" there too. And "ok, aircraft only land in runways and heliports".
by mmooss | 2025-06-07 01:53:35+00:00
> Its really hard to change people without using threats or force.

People change all the time. We are much different than ~10 years ago, before the rise of the far-right in the West. We are much different than 100 years ago.

People get much more exercise, eat healthier, are better educated ... so much as changed. Another new thing is people love to embrace nihilism rather than hope and progress - almost nobody embraces the latter these days.
by yojo | 2025-06-07 01:53:39+00:00
The metric the article focuses on is “revenue,” but it seems like the foundation many of these startups build on (other people’s LLM APIs) are much more expensive than the last generation of startups.

Given the cost of training a SOTA model, it’s not clear these companies have sustainable businesses. If your primary expense is AWS you can always shift to your own hardware once you hit sufficient scale. If you’re Cursor, how big do you need to get to eliminate your 3rd party API dependency?
by rezonant | 2025-06-07 01:54:01+00:00
No, this is a misunderstanding of the kind of taxation policy progressives tend to favor. Taxation on profit for businesses should be high, and taxation on upper tiers of individual income should be high, but taxation on funds businesses use to reinvest should be exempted or deductable. Basically the taxation we had in place after WW2 and on, with a steep corporate tax rate and more or less a maximum income for individuals. The R&D exemption removed in the 2017 bill, and discussed in the article, is key to that, because it encourages corporations to reinvest their income in building new products and paying workers rather than taking it directly as profit-- after all, at least they could reap the rewards (in growth and revenue) of the R&D later, instead of just giving the money to the government as taxes.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-07 01:54:21+00:00
>as apparently not biologically encoding/remembering a traumatic event seems to produce just as good an outlook as blocking the tramua through unconsciousness/painkillers

I'll have to look it up, but there is at least one known case of a man who went through conscious but immobilized general anesthesia, through excruciating surgery pain, before the doctors (in this case) realized that they'd forgotten to first give him a certain specific sedative drug as part of his anesthesia cocktail. They rectified this and apparently did so knowing that it would make him forget the trauma he'd just gone through.

However, later, when he woke up from an otherwise successful and complication-free surgery, he soon began to have extremely severe, brutally traumatic anxiety attacks, derived from subconscious memories of what he'd experienced. This went on without resolution to the point where he could no longer socially function at all.. If I remember correctly, he then eventually killed himself as a result.

After his death, his family investigated the last major medical thing he'd gone through (his otherwise routine surgery) and somehow got wind of what the doctors had done, and that they'd known of their own fuckup. The familiy then did manage to gather enough evidence to have the doctors criminally charged, aside from also getting a massive settlement from the hospital itself.

Long story short, I wouldn't count on "just as good an outlook", and especially if I know that, going into such a surgery, the me that feels it before later forgetting what happened will go through a brief living hell of horror.

It's no consolation knowing your future You won't remember a thing if you still have to fully experience that nightmare prima facie.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-06-07 01:55:30+00:00
It seems like the episode treats him as legitimately rich, but you're right: assuming targeted 2% inflation, it's like $10. That's being pretty generous too, 1000 years is a long time to go without some kind of societal shakeup event where people stop honoring 800 year old numbers on a screen as legitimately valuable. It's not like there is any entity today who would feel obligated to give you $4 billion dollars for your 11th century banknote.
by antics | 2025-06-07 01:56:26+00:00
I think the intuition the authors are trying to capture is that they believe the models are omniscient, but also dim-witted. And the question they are collectively trying to ask is whether this will continue forever.

I've never seen this question quantified in a really compelling way, and while interesting, I'm not sure this PDF succeeds, at least not well-enough to silence dissent. I think AI maximalists will continue to think that the models are in fact getting less dim-witted, while the AI skeptics will continue to think these apparent gains are in fact entirely a biproduct of "increasing" "omniscience." The razor will have to be a lot sharper before people start moving between these groups.

But, anyway, it's still an important question to ask, because omniscient-yet-dim-witted models terminate at "superhumanly assistive" rather than "Artificial Superintelligence", which in turn economically means "another bite at the SaaS apple" instead of "phase shift in the economy." So I hope the authors will eventually succeed.
by sandworm101 | 2025-06-07 01:58:46+00:00
Sounds like a list of edge cases just like any other area.

Myths programers believe about cars:

Cars in the same lane always travel in the same direction.

Each street has a name.

Each street has a unique name.

Each street has only one name.

Cars have four wheels.

Cars never move vertically.

Roads never move.

Roads never cross water without bridges.

When two roads cross, the do so at an intersection.

Take any field in human experience and one can make such a list.

All boats float. Ships are bigger than boats. Boats are slower than airplanes. Boats only travel on water.
by groby_b | 2025-06-07 01:59:09+00:00
It is "inevitable" in the sense that in 99% of the cases, tomorrow is just like yesterday.

LLMs have been continually improving for years now. The surprising thing would be them not improving further. And if you follow the research even remotely, you know they'll improve for a while, because not all of the breakthroughs have landed in commercial models yet.

It's not "techno-utopian determinism". It's a clearly visible trajectory.

Meanwhile, if they didn't improve, it wouldn't make a significant change to the overall observations. It's picking a minor nit.

The observation that strict prompt adherence plus prompt archival could shift how we program is both true, and it's a phenomenon we observed several times in the past. Nobody keeps the assembly output from the compiler around anymore, either.

There's definitely valid criticism to the passage, and it's overly optimistic - in that most non-trivial prompts are still underspecified and have multiple possible implementations, not all correct. That's both a more useful criticism, and not tied to LLM improvements at all.
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-07 01:59:42+00:00
It's not. Apple (or rather NeXT) took some of the userland for macOS but it's not contributing back and it doesn't have much influence. It's more like a fork a long time ago.

A few companies do. Skype and Netflix did but hardly use it now (at least Skype left it, not sure about Netflix but I never hear about it from bsd devs). Ix systems and netgate do but they're tiny.. No, it's not influenced in a trivial way and certainly not by apple.

This is a huge difference to Linux where the vast majority of kernel commits come from big tech and have nothing to do with things end users care about. Also there's nothing in the FreeBSD world like the Linux Foundation which is basically a corporate lobby group.
by _heimdall | 2025-06-07 01:59:50+00:00
You can move countries, I've done it myself. You can't escape the control of whatever single government claims authority over the land you live on though, and you likely can't/won't move to land that isn't claimed by a single government.

YouTube can censor what they want, you don't have to use it and they can't send police or military after you. You can't move to a land where a single government has control and can send police or military to impose their will on you.
by Aeolun | 2025-06-07 02:00:34+00:00
> Reading some HN comments from "As a European" types, you'd think they were already living in a wonderfully socialist version of the singularity, and it got built right next to the Pearly Gates, where it daily receives the airy blessings of winged angels.

Hearing stories about the US, that is indeed how it feels. I pretty regularly read unironic stories of people that literally lived on the street because of some random misfortune. I just can’t imagine that happening in my home country (e.g. socialist paradise), and I’m inclined to believe much of western Europe is the same.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-07 02:01:18+00:00
> Can someone who uses FreeBSD fill me in on the niche that it fills in the Unix space? Why not use OpenBSD or NetBSD, which are far simpler and coherent? If the answer is support for stuff like ZFS, Nvidia drivers, ELF, etc. why not Linux?

My experience with FreeBSD is that it provides a nice balance of the concerns OpenBSD and NetBSD specifically address. Historically, FreeBSD prioritized Intel CPU's (where NetBSD had greater portability) and had solid security (where OpenBSD had more of a focus on it).

The FreeBSD ZFS support really is a game changer. I believe Nvidia only recently has had native FreeBSD drivers - for a long time FreeBSD's kernel Linux support was required.

> I'm genuinely actually curious. FreeBSD exists in kind of a shadow realm for me where I've never been quite able to pin down the soul that keeps it chugging, but I know it exists somewhere in there.

Again, for me, FreeBSD has proven to be a nice blend of the features other BSD's provide as well as being incredibly stable on the h/w platforms I tend to use.
by downrightmike | 2025-06-07 02:03:27+00:00
Investors and stock holders should be extremely outraged that all of these businesses are knee capping their future profitability. Can't make all those future pension payments if all your investments can't stay relevant in the market.

Some people will point out that AI will fix this, no it won't:

1) The real cost is higher than anything you'd pay for a person an there is not likely any real change there.

2) AI will be lies like Actual Indians that won't scale

3) Here's the kicker: If AI does succeed, now these multi-billion dollar firms will have to compete with multi-billion dollar single person businesses, that eat their lunch

Its a race to the bottom right? That means you need to invest in the business and all these layoffs are exactly not that, and will leave companies unprepared for the next 10 years.

Remind me in 2035.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-07 02:04:24+00:00
I thought the book was both harrowing as hell, grim to the point of being close to a horror novel in some parts with its descriptions of what people went through, and also extremely moving. The scene where Streiber manages to visit the wreck of his Manhattan apartment was enough to bring tears.

I'm curious, What were your quibbles with Manhattan and San Antonio?

Edit, and yes, I've read that it was highly praised for realism. The authors really put their effort into making it as close to what things might really be like as possible. No hyperbole or dramatics, just the stark inevitable horror of even limited nuclear war and its effects
by cperciva | 2025-06-07 02:05:20+00:00
I'm not sure where you're getting the "Apple holds soft power over FreeBSD" thing from. Netflix is probably at the top of the list given all their performance and stability work -- and, you know, the fact they push a large chunk of all Internet traffic using FreeBSD -- and NetApp and Juniper are somewhere up there, but I'm not convinced Apple would even be in the top 10.
by Henchman21 | 2025-06-07 02:06:02+00:00
I'm haunted by a story I read once, about East German beer glasses that were unbreakable. They developed them because of a serious shortage of raw materials as I recall. I would be happy to buy two dozen and pass them on to my family when I die. But that's the problem, isn't it? The lack of sales. Just ask Pyrex, I guess?
by phire | 2025-06-07 02:06:28+00:00
I have a hard time using "balanced" and Roman in the same sentence.

Maybe the technology was "balanced", but the society certainly wasn't. It relied on continual expansion and devolved from a republic into an empire along the way. When the empire couldn't expand anymore, it collapsed and fragmented.

I also don't think their technology level was stable. IMO, they were only about 200 years away from developing a useful steam engine and kicking off their own industrial revolution. They knew the principals, they even had toy steam engines. They were already using both water wheels and windmills to do work when available. They were just missing precision manufacturing techniques to make a steam engine that actually did useful work.
by danpalmer | 2025-06-07 02:07:25+00:00
With abstraction, like in anything else.

I'm most familiar with Django templates and Jinja2, and both of those provide template functions, filters, and/or various forms of control through which you can build up these sorts of abstractions.

I'd probably define a partial template for this dropdown as something like..

<div id="{{id}}" style="color:{{colour}}" class="{{classes}} dropdown"> {{content}} </div>

If you wanted more control over, say, the colours, you could just use an enum in your language of choice and provide a rendering function that turns it into the string `color:{{colour}};`, so that you retain some safety. You could do similar things with classes perhaps, keeping that as a list of strings and enforcing no whitespace or other separators in the text classes, then rendering to a whitespace separated string.
by Jayakumark | 2025-06-07 02:08:13+00:00
That's great, those two things MOGRT and Transcript data support will unlock majority of the work, so we can edit based on in cue and out cue from transcript with overlay graphics. These are open for quite some time.

https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/uxp-and-working-...

https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/accessing-transc...
by _heimdall | 2025-06-07 02:08:38+00:00
> It's plainly true that less masking, less isolation, and less vaccination leads to increased risk of death or injury to Covid.

When you say this is plainly true, how do you back that up exactly? I am unaware of any control tests that would prove out those claims with high certainty.

Our vaccine tests done during the pandemic also not focused on risk of death or injury, they were focused on the frequency of participants notifying of symptoms.

> We really don't need to over-intellectualize these things. Saying things that are just not true, which increases someone's risk, results in lives lost.

I don't see it as over intellectualizing. To claim something is not true requires knowing what is true. We still can't make such claims on many of the pandemic issues, but in the middle of it we absolutely couldn't make such claims.

We also can't make an assumption that a claim being false directly leads to deaths. I can make plenty of false claims that would have absolutely no impact on anything, to say such claims must have led to deaths is ridiculous.
by neilv | 2025-06-07 02:09:41+00:00
I agree that US K-12 education and college admissions have big problems, but I don't understand this argument:

> Compared to me at Mines, an undergraduate with the same major at MIT will enjoy a much-improved networking profile which will probably lead to a higher-paying job. They'll also have more research opportunities, [...] But if earning these benefits equates to spending class time and free time on increasing numbers rather than learning, it all becomes very difficult to justify.

OK, for the sake of argument[1], let's say that it's a choice between playing to the metrics vs. learning.

And, OK, for the sake of argument, that might mean the difference between going MIT vs. going to Colorado School of Mines.

With those givens, how is playing to the metrics difficult to justify?

[1] FWIW, my impression is that MIT incoming undergrads tend to have done both: hit the metrics, and learned.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-07 02:11:40+00:00
> My impression is that FreeBSD is Apple's shadow in FOSS, they hold a lot of soft power over it.

Apple has no influence over the FreeBSD project.

> I know the kernels are different and obviously only part of the userspace is the same, but is FreeBSD actually far enough away from Apple to say it's not bogged down by corporate interests?

Yes.

OS-X (now macOS) is based on XNU[0], which itself has roots in the Mach[1] microkernel. The Unix user-space programs distributed with OS-X/macOS are those found in FreeBSD distributions AFAIK. This is also conformant with FreeBSD licenses for same.

So there is no "soft power" Apple has over FreeBSD. And FreeBSD is not "Apple's shadow in FOSS".

> I don't imagine it's the same as Linux at all, but it exists in a non-trivial way, no?

No. It does not.

EDIT: Just in case you'd like to verify any of the above yourself, see here[2].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)

2 - https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu
by simonw | 2025-06-07 02:12:07+00:00
The cost of training a good model can be as low as $5.5m (DeepSeek v3) or "a few tens of millions of dollars" (Claude 3.7 Sonnet https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/ethan-mollick/) so once you have proven revenue against other models it might actually become a reasonable thing to do.
by duxup | 2025-06-07 02:12:08+00:00
I'm no fan of Musk, and his involvement would make it unappealing to me.

I do think that people of all backgrounds would seriously consider another party(s).

The Republican party has long since drifted into a strange shape where every meme is followed by the opposite political actions. Moral stances? Naw, out with ethics rules for politicians. Support families? Nope, cut them off, oppose family leave. Libertarian ideals? Naw authoritarianism and favors for friends, pardons for anyone who will pay. Fiscal responsibility? Naw run up the debt.

I wish we had ranked choice voting everywhere, that seems to make alternate choices more viable / a fighting chance.
Show HN: C++ SFML Game Engine for Nintendo Switch, Web (HTML5), PC and Mobile
by Is_Daouda | 2025-06-07 02:12:36+00:00
is::Engine is an open source C++ framework which uses the mechanisms of SFML 2 and which also allows to develop with several libraries at the same time (SDL 2, Emscripten) in order to easily export your games / applications on the Nintendo Switch, Web (HTML 5), Mobile and PC (Windows, Linux, macOS).