MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spwa4 | 2025-06-19 10:49:48+00:00
You're applying logic to dogma. I hope you understand your error at this point, but as to exactly what's wrong:

... every group of every monotheistic religion says and believes they're the only "true" group, their group is the only valid group, and the entirety of that religion. Islamic dogma states very clearly, and every muslim will repeat it, that there is "only one islam".

This despite the fact that what you say is correct. There's 100s, minimum, of different versions of islam.

Your idea, that history is clear proof to the contrary ... well history is clear proof that there is no god and therefore no valid religion. In the case of islam, one might point out that the central promise of islam as a religion is that muslims will win militarily, because god will intervene directly (but "of course" what is currently happening in Iran proves they are wrong and every other group of muslims is right - this is the sort of argument you're up against). The fact that any caliphate fell at all is a pretty damn obvious contradiction to the entire religion.

Frankly, I must say, I like the "goal" of Christians and Jews a whole lot better.
by timr | 2025-06-19 10:50:09+00:00
> > Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

> One does not entail the other. You can support our right to self-determination while not supporting...policies, but this sentence conflates them.

Uh...exactly? You're criticizing the state. Per the definition you can do that, but you can't generalize to the people. And certainly, calling the state a "racist endeavor" should cross the line?

Basically, all three of your examples boil down to the same thing: you want to accuse a nation of something bad, and think it’s somehow unfair that, under this definition, you can’t then accuse a people of the act. That isn’t ambiguous. If you did the same thing for, say, Chinese people and the CCP, you’d be equally wrong. Jewish people are not of one mind about current events, and that seems like a fairly obvious point.

As far as the third item, specifically, any comparison to the Nazi party is so hyperbolic as to be in obvious bad faith.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-06-19 10:50:34+00:00
How does this compare to the cube-square law scaling effects applied to propeller- and wing-lifted vehicles like quadcopters/helicopters and RC aircraft/jumbo jets? Or even the squat shape of a housefly that zigs and zags through the air like an acrobat compared to the ponderous lift-off of a large goose?

I understand vaguely that those operate and scale based on the area (a square function of their length) of their lifting surfaces, and are pulled down by their mass (a cube function of their length).

A little Estes toy rocket lifts off the pad much more aggressively (in the blink of an eye!) than a full size rocket...
by darqis | 2025-06-19 10:52:48+00:00
when I started coding at the age of 11 in machine code and assembly on the C64, the dream was to create software that creates software. Nowadays it's almost reality, almost because the devil is always in the details. When you're used to write code, writing code is relatively fast. You need this knowledge to debug issues with generated code. However you're now telling AI to fix the bugs in the generated code. I see it kind of like machine code becomes overlaid with asm which becomes overlaid with C or whatever higher level language, which then uses dogma/methodology like MVC and such and on top of that there's now the AI input and generation layer. But it's not widely available. Affording more than 1 computer is a luxury. Many households are even struggling to get by. When you see those what 5 7 Mac Minis, which normal average Joe can afford that or does even have to knowledge to construct an LLM at home? I don't. This is a toy for rich people. Just like with public clouds like AWS, GCP I left out, because the cost is too high and running my own is also too expensive and there are cheaper alternatives that not only cost less but also have way less overhead.

What would be interesting to see is what those kids produced with their vibe coding.
by IsTom | 2025-06-19 10:53:43+00:00
> fun will always be dictated by how often you win

Matchmaking is designed so that you win roughly 50% of the time (except for the very top), no matter how well you play. If you focus on playing better it's going to be a treadmill by design. OTOH some people accept that you're going to lose 50% of matches anyway, chill and keep to lower ELO.
by sfn42 | 2025-06-19 10:53:49+00:00
I'm not claiming to eliminate network transfer times. Sending a web request takes some time. But it doesn't take seconds, it takes anywhere from a few to a few hundred milliseconds, given that the request size is relatively small. If you're sending megabytes or gigabytes then obviously it takes longer.

So if you have a website and a backend, the most basic request will be fast. Make an endpoint that just returns hello world, a request to this endpoint will generally take a number of milliseconds. Maybe 10, maybe a few hundred, something like that assuming a decent connection. That's the round trip time, including overhead from protocols and auth etc.

Now you know the best case scenario - when you create a real endpoint that actually does something useful it will be slower. How much slower depends on what you are doing and how. That is what I am talking about. If you send 50 requests from your backend to various other services then obviously it's going to take a lot more time, so we want to avoid sending a lot of requests - especially in series, where the first request has to complete before the next one etc.

We also want to avoid doing a lot of heavy processing. You can do a large amount of processing with no discernible performance impact, but at some point and especially with bad algorithms this processing time can explode and make your system slow. For example I once looked at some code to generate a report that took 25 minutes to run. It was getting two lists of objects and combining them by iterating through the first one and linear searching the other for a match by id. The time complexity of this is O(n^2). I turned the other list into a dictionary which allows O(1) lookup, eliminating the O(n) linear search, making the overall time complexity O(n) and the report generated in less than 5 minutes. Still painfully slow by my standards, and I'm sure I could have optimized it further if I didn't have more important tasks to work on, but it's a pretty good improvement from a few minutes of work.

Another common culprit is just sending too much data. I've seen websites where a request returns huge Json documents of multiple megabytes, then uses a tiny fraction of the data. By changing the system so that the website only fetches the data it needs you can reduce the request time from seconds to milliseconds.

I hope this gives you a better idea of what I'm saying.
by Snuggly73 | 2025-06-19 10:54:03+00:00
I can tell you a variation from Bulgaria (Soviet era joke as well).

In the newspapers there were news that Bulgaria sent 8000 personal computers to Japan. On the next day, there was a slight correction published:

1. It wasn’t 8000. But 8000000 2. It wasn’t computers, but jars of marmalade 3. They weren’t sent to Japan, but returned back by Japan
by happy-dude | 2025-06-19 10:54:11+00:00
The blog post mentions[1] that advanced views are in development. This initial release and announcement focuses on the underlying foundation they're building upon.

> New views: While we support all the fundamental views, we're planning on adding more advanced views such as a watch list, memory view, disassembly view, and a stack trace view

[1] https://zed.dev/blog/debugger#whats-next
by no_wizard | 2025-06-19 10:54:21+00:00
Much like when the administration announced an investment of 500 Billion USD in AI some months back, not a peep since. Actually shocked nobody here has even referenced that in relation to this, at least at the time of this writing

Much like that “initiative”, I imagine this won’t materialize either, they’re largely hoping government funds get steered toward them and by which point they’ll pocket everything they can while delivering a minimum of what was promised, if anything at all, and they won’t be properly held accountable for it.
by aarroyoc | 2025-06-19 10:54:36+00:00
In Spanish, we consider Ñ to be a different letter, with its key in keyboards and under a different chapter in dictionaries. Of course you could say that it's just an N with a ~. But that tilde is not defined for any other letter. Why did they do it? In medieval Spanish it was common to write two Ns in many words, with a different sound. For example: "anno", which is now: "año" (year). Two Ns was very similar to M so the tilde was added to remark that it was two Ns, not one M. Later, they just wrote one N with the tilde.
by eszed | 2025-06-19 10:55:03+00:00
Same. I've done I can't even count how many shows, and I don't particularly like reading plays. It's effort - usually worth it, but never not work.

By the way, I spent the first two or three years of my professional career performing school-tour Shakespeare. That was a joy. Hard graft: sometimes three shows in a day, along with loading and unloading the van in between, but my goodness it was rewarding. Great training, too. We'd do a show in the morning for twenty people in a library, and then in the afternoon in a 2,000 seat auditorium. You had to learn quickly how to modulate your performance, and what choices land with what kinds of audience.
by londons_explore | 2025-06-19 10:56:51+00:00
Due to the scaling laws of rocketry, it should be easier to make a huge rocket. You can afford to have proportionally bigger safety margins on everything.

I suspect that Musks desire to have everything reusable has severely eaten into those margins though. I personally think he'd have been better off making only the first stage ('booster') reusable for the first few years, which then lets you develop more things in parallel later (the first landers can be on mars whilst you're still figuring out second stage reusability)
by diggan | 2025-06-19 10:56:59+00:00
> those kids produced with their vibe coding

No one, including Karpathy in this video, is advocating for "vibe coding". If nothing more, LLMs paired with configurable tool-usage, is basically a highly advanced and contextual search engine you can ask questions. Are you not using a search engine today?

Even without LLMs being able to produce code or act as agents they'd be useful, because of that.

But it sucks we cannot run competitive models locally, I agree, it is somewhat of a "rich people" tool today. Going by the talk and theme, I'd agree it's a phase, like computing itself had phases. But you're gonna have to actually watch and listen to the talk itself, right now you're basically agreeing with the video yet wrote your comment like you disagree.
by supermatt | 2025-06-19 10:57:13+00:00
Because in NASAs case it was "the stuff that came before" + 200b (or whatever the fantasy figure truly is).

Its unfair to say spaceX did what NASA did on a smaller budget (which is what the comment that kicked off this thread implied) because they DIDNT do what NASA did, and instead got "the stuff that came before" + "the stuff that NASA spent 200b on" + "the stuff from other sources that also cost billions" + the 15b that they actually spent to get where they are.

How can you disagree with that? You may think this discussion is silly - but its DIRECTLY as a response to someone implying that spaceX are achieving what NASA did with less money: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44316227
by ghxst | 2025-06-19 10:57:56+00:00
I don’t think it’s _that_ silly, there are plenty of cases where comparisons are useful. SpaceX’s development approach is radically different from traditional aerospace, but it’s clearly working for them. A bunch of Falcon 9s blew up too, and now it’s one of the most reliable and frequently used launch platforms in history. Why would you expect Starship to follow a completely different trajectory?
by sitharus | 2025-06-19 10:58:25+00:00
Yes it absolutely is. Those are candle-style bulbs that use filament LEDs, they’re normally just use a basic rectifier and a regulator chip that does basic linear regulation of the peak of the sine wave.

They flicker at 100Hz due to the rectification (or 120hz in those 60hz countries of course).

Dimmable bulbs use higher frequencies.
by nilirl | 2025-06-19 10:58:46+00:00
> AI Agents can initiate workflows independently and determine their sequence and combination dynamically

I'm confused.

A workflow has hardcoded branching paths; explicit if conditions and instructions on how to behave if true.

So for an agent, instead of specifying explicit if conditions, you specify outcomes and you leave the LLM to figure out what if conditions apply and how to deal with them?

In the case of this resume screening application, would I just provide the ability to make API calls and then add this to the prompt: "Decide what a good fit would be."?

Are there any serious applications built this way? Or am I missing something?
by simoncion | 2025-06-19 10:59:35+00:00
Depends on the bulb. For those of us with "fast" eyes, some LED bulbs that are just fine for others are a subtly flickering infuriation generator.

You may not believe that people that can see 120->240Hz flicker exist, but we do. In this era of frequently-cheap-ass LED lighting, it's a goddamn curse.
by jpsouth | 2025-06-19 10:59:46+00:00
Helldivers 2 was exceptional for this in my experience - I met some great people from matchmaking, both when I was playing with IRL friends and solo. I know it’s only a video game but it truly felt like a proper bonding experience when you were trying to save the last of your team, or when you harmonised in such a way it just felt tactically perfect.

I need to hop back on that game.
by rxtexit | 2025-06-19 11:00:03+00:00
To me, it is just obviously wrong. Reality is not reasonable and it is actually unreasonable that we would even expect reality to be reasonable.

Our reason is a highly flawed instrument that we have pushed far past what it was designed for.

We have done an amazing job though as these social machines that live in various collective social delusions.

Seeing these collective delusions and the unreasonableness of reality is exactly the point of taking psychedelics.

Forget LSD, ask anyone who has taken salvia divinorum to describe how unreasonable reality can be lol.
by teekert | 2025-06-19 11:00:17+00:00
Claude is cool, they focus on cool and useful things.

But man do I just want a way to quickly glance at my API credits and to just occasionally chat with a model from those credits without librechat of openwebui. Or set some limits, or see some usage metrics.

And please please use "forever auth" with passkeys or something, what is up with that auth email that just takes ages for a quick glance?! It always takes me 3 attempts to find what address I used at sign-up...

Oh and make it clearer why you have that API/credits system and a subscription, why is it so difficult to understand when you start using Claude that it's 2 different unrelated worlds?? First time I started my subscription I just couldn't figure out where the API section was, until I realized it just wasn't there.

I feel like I'm "holding it wrong", but please make it easier to hold it right then.
by diggan | 2025-06-19 11:00:42+00:00
You're not the first, nor the last person, to have a seemingly vastly different experience than me and others.

So I'm curious, what am I doing differently from what you did/do when you try them out?

This is maybe a bit out there, but would you be up for sending me like a screen recording of exactly what you're doing? Or maybe even a video call sharing your screen? I'm not working in the space, have no products or services to sell, only curious is why this gap seemingly exists between you and me, and my only motive would be to understand if I'm the one who is missing something, or there are more effective ways to help people understand how they can use LLMs and what they can use them for.

My email is on my profile if you're up for it. Invitation open for others in the same boat as parent too.
by vFunct | 2025-06-19 11:01:16+00:00
Its perfectly reliable for the things you know it to be, such as operations within its context window size.

Don't ask LLMs to "Write me Microsoft Excel".

Instead, ask it to "Write a directory tree view for the Open File dialog box in Excel".

Break your projects down into the smallest chunks you can for the LLMs. The more specific you are, the more reliable it's going to be.

The rest of this year is going to be companies figuring out how to break down large tasks into smaller tasks for LLM consumption.
by user_7832 | 2025-06-19 11:04:15+00:00
> I can't see why light fixtures in buildings—except modern ones where the lights are actually dimmable—would even have any sort of PWM.

It is done because, like most crappy things in the world, it saves somebody, somewhere, a few cents on the dollar.

Most people would not be able to tell the CRI impact of DC dimming vs PWM. Many do not visibly notice the difference. (I unfortunately do, and you won’t believe how many expensive Mercedes and similar cars flicker).

But high frequency PWM is slightly more difficult and expensive, and DC dimming might need a few more capacitors or inductors… so let’s save a buck there, shall we?
by ffsm8 | 2025-06-19 11:04:36+00:00
Unironically, your comment mirrors my opinion as of last month.

Since then I've given it another try last week and was quite literally mind blown how much it improved in the context of Vibe coding (Claude code). It actually improved so much that I thought "I would like to try that on my production codebase", (mostly because I want if to fail, because that's my job ffs) but alas - that's not allowed at my dayjob.

From the limited experience I could gather over the last week as a software dev with over 10 yrs of experience (along with another 5-10 doing it as a hobby before employment) I can say that I expect our industry to get absolutely destroyed within the next 5 yrs.

The skill ceiling for devs is going to get mostly squashed for 90% of devs, this will inevitably destroy our collective bargaining positions. Including for the last 10%, because the competition around these positions will be even more fierce.

It's already starting, even if it's currently very misguided and mostly down to short-sightedness.

But considering the trajectory and looking at how naive current llms coding tools are... Once the industry adjusts and better tooling is pioneered... it's gonna get brutal.

And most certainly not limited to software engineering. Pretty much all desk jobs will get hemorrhaged as soon as a llm-player basically replaces SAP with entirely new tooling.

Frankly, I expect this to go bad, very very quickly. But I'm still hoping for a good ending.
by timr | 2025-06-19 11:04:50+00:00
Yeah, I’m not saying anything about the idea of screening someone based on the content of their thoughts (i.e. their social media feed). I’m only commenting about the purported unreasonableness of the definition of antisemitism.

There are obviously issues of subjectiveness here, but that’s also nothing new in the world of immigration. These decisions are made by humans, not robots (or at least, robots trained by humans).
by throwaway290 | 2025-06-19 11:04:58+00:00
People who think Israel is white probably never been there. Similar about apartheid, if you look at actual laws quoted as evidence of apartheid they don't come close to places like Saudi Arabia or Malaysia and honestly a bunch of other countries who have their own laws of return/restricted citizenship/political representation/cultural representation etc (even South Korea has it all)

But obviously this is not an excuse for Israel government supporting religious orthodox extremists and their settlements and aggression against Muslims in the area near Jordan. If you just take the situation there then it is basically a war zone.

If West Bank was considered part of Israel then I can see elements of apartheid but people who say it's apartheid also say West Bank is a separate country. You can't have apartheid in another country. Call it invasion/occupation or apartheid, but pick one? (Also yes this is whataboutism but what Russia is doing is orders of magnitude worse if invasions are considered.)
by mellosouls | 2025-06-19 11:06:11+00:00
There is no significant software that has been written (plagiarized) by "AI".

How do you know?

As you haven't evidenced your claim, you could start by providing explicit examples of what is significant.

Even if you are correct, the amount of llm-assisted code is increasing all the time, and we are still only a couple of years in - give it time.

Why not ask the actual experts

Many would regard Karpathy in the expert category I think?
by eszed | 2025-06-19 11:06:18+00:00
I agree. Frankenstein is a great novel, and I've taught it at the college level, but I wouldn't include it in a high school curriculum. It feels to me like those "great books" lists got frozen in 1880-something, when general literacy (among literate people!) was much higher than it is today. Imposing texts like that onto much less experienced readers (much as we might deplore their relative lack of sophistication) seems almost punitive, and turns them away from reading entirely.

(I'm not familiar with We Do Not Part; thanks for the recommendation. I love all of the other authors you mention, and will check Han Kang out.)
by diggan | 2025-06-19 11:06:19+00:00
Border-line off-topic, but since you're flagrantly self-promoting, might as well add some more rule breakage to it.

You know websites/apps who let you enter text/details and then not displaying sign in/up screen until you submit it, so you feel like "Oh but I already filled it out, might as well sign up"?

They really suck, big time! It's disingenuous, misleading and wastes people's time. I had no interest in using your thing for real, but thought I'd try it out, potentially leave some feedback, but this bait-and-switch just made the whole thing feel sour and I'll probably try to actively avoid this and anything else I feel is related to it.
by SeanDav | 2025-06-19 11:06:33+00:00
Teams / Slack etc allow instant code snippet sharing. As far as syntax highlighting goes - 5 seconds after someone receives your code snippet they can copy and paste into their own editor.

No need to install YAVSCE (Yet another VS Code Extension)

This in probably more a reflection of my constant journey towards KISS and in no way is meant to be disrespectful about the extension.
by simiones | 2025-06-19 11:06:47+00:00
They are almost entirely unrelated. When trying to leave the gravity well of a planet, the atmosphere is only a dragging force acting to reduce your thrust. It might be proportional to the surface area of the vehicle, but likely not - I think it's only proportional to the surface area of the "nose" of the rocket. But what's certain is that it's strictly a force that hinders you - in a rocket, all of your thrust comes from the engines, you don't get any boost from the air.

However, even if you're taking off of a planet with no atmosphere, you still have a huge force to deal with - you need to maintain an acceleration to exit the gravity well of the planet, and you need to burn fuel for that. But you also have to carry the fuel you'll burn with you, so the more fuel you have, the more fuel you'll need - this is what the rocket equation codifies.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-19 11:06:48+00:00
If running at home on a beefy video game setup, it's ~200watts or probably in the area of $100/year.

But you're not using it at full blast 24x7 most likely. You could be servicing a ton of people on that $100.

Now the big cloud AI will be using more power than that, and also have engineers for better efficiency. More efficient AI cards will be used. When chatgpt charges $20/month. They are covering all the electrical costs for sure.